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 vlad01
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| posted on August 23rd, 2013 at 02:14 PM |
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A good option is to fit the largest bars first.....then "turn them down" on a lathe if the spring rate needs to be altered. Its easy to remove
material, but you can't add to a torsion bar  
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wait? what...? you can do that?
wouldn't that compromise them?
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| posted on August 31st, 2013 at 03:20 PM |
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Hi
Still putting my bug back together, boy I hate doing the doors the most.
I thought I would post a photo of the reinforcement in my drivers door.
My friend John who used to own this car had a new drivers door fitted when the girlfriends father backed into it.
He bought a new door from VW, it was the last one that VW had in stock. It had no external mirror hole but an intrusion bar fitted inside, this door
is noticeably heavier than the passengers door.
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| posted on August 31st, 2013 at 08:10 PM |
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Doors back together, a word of caution, I tried to reuse the inner scrapers and long felts, total waste of time, bought new ones today from Vintage
and it all went together so easy and the windows wind up and down easily now
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| posted on September 1st, 2013 at 05:19 PM |
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posted by Craig Torrens
A good option is to fit the largest bars first.....then "turn them down" on a lathe if the spring rate needs to be altered. Its easy to remove
material, but you can't add to a torsion bar
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wait? what...? you can do that?
wouldn't that compromise them?
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I think that is the point! Torsion bars are not case hardend.
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 04:28 PM |
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Hi
Car is back on the road, I thought I would get a stock lid painted when the car was resprayed, I was lucky to find a 76 lid in the for sales on here,
thanks Pazzan.
I like it, I will keep the tail for speed events.
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 05:39 PM |
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you happy with the sit height ??
Cause it looks sweet
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 05:48 PM |
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Hi Barry
Thanks, that's where I think I will leave it height wise
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 06:04 PM |
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beautiful car saw it on Friday night 
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 06:11 PM |
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looks great
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 06:52 PM |
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Hi
Thanks guys, I forgot to say that all I had to do to fit a stock lid was to turn the air cleaner around 180 degrees.
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 07:16 PM |
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Love it Steve. Shit hot n shiny.
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 08:03 PM |
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Stock deck-lid does it for me, looks great Steve
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 09:22 PM |
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Noticed any change in your intake temp?
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 09:35 PM |
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Stock lid gives it a real sleeper look. Would love to see you scare a few young blokes in their flash cars.
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| posted on September 8th, 2013 at 09:39 PM |
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So how do the bigger torsions feel?
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| posted on September 9th, 2013 at 08:47 AM |
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Stevie u need to get that air filter out of the engine bay, or at the very least enclosed (not just so it's legal) so that it only sucks cool air
from outside the engine bay, that's exactly how I cracked my No.3 piston ringlands 8 years ago, summer is coming too.
Looks so much better with the stock lid
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| posted on September 9th, 2013 at 06:47 PM |
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Hi Guys
Thanks for kind words.
I haven't given it too much but the intake temps seem to be not much over ambient driving to Harrys the other night and out to coffee & cars on
Sunday.
I want to get Westy to make some sort of filter box that will suck air from the rear vents but not let water get sucked into the motor.
I would have gone the same way that you did on your car Jak but the reinforcing I put in the engine bay gets in the way, I will use the tail for any
speed events, its an easy swap over.
Torsion bars are on hold until some saw away ones arrive soon.
Steve
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| posted on September 10th, 2013 at 10:18 AM |
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like any standard bonnet scoop air box, mounted up to the vents with a soft foam seal will work well. small drain holes at the bottom and even drain
hoses if you like. Water wont get sucked in.
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| posted on September 10th, 2013 at 01:53 PM |
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Hi
That's the sort of thing I was thinking, but maybe go to a panel filter.
I went over to see George at Classic today to pickup a rear parcel shelf, its a 31° + day today, the inlet temps were 50° after shutting the car
down for a bit and it then back down to 40° after driving a bit.
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| posted on September 10th, 2013 at 03:07 PM |
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I would go for a Uni filter mounted in a box.
A bunch of us guys on another forum decided to test different filters after K&N ones weren't actually filtering dirt( had this problem myself)
We found uni-filters flowed faster and filtered better than OEM paper such as ryco an heaps better filtration again over the K&N
http://www.uniflow.com.au/index.html
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| posted on September 19th, 2013 at 06:49 PM |
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Hi
I've been a bit nervous about how my 2nd hand 930 CVs would handle Warwick, so I bought a set of German race prepped ones from http://hunterrivmasta.com.au.
They are made by GKN, have chromemolly cages and under sized balls.
Bob at Hunter Rivmasta is real gentleman, so if you need any driveline bits give him a call. He was $88 cheaper per joint than another Australian
supplier.
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| posted on September 29th, 2013 at 09:37 PM |
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Hi
Bit of pleasant surprise, after working all day on a massive landscaping project that I've been working on for a while, I decided to bite the bullet
and change the CVs tonight.
I was expecting to have to remove my rear trailing arms to get my axles out as I built reinforcing on my chassis forks and the CVs sit deep inside the
aluminium 944 trialling arms, well the extra splines on the SAW axles allowed me get the axles out.
As a bonus a found a self tapper lodged in a rear tyre, it hadn't gone deep enough to cause a puncture but it could have worked its way further in
over time, maybe at Warwick.
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| posted on October 9th, 2013 at 01:26 PM |
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Hi
I had a great weekend away at Warwick. I was lucky to win my bracket in the VW body other engine category, particularly after not being able to find
3rd gear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBJCeoy6CU&feature=share&list=UUhtqg6...
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| posted on October 9th, 2013 at 03:27 PM |
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Well done Steve but what does "dial in" mean on the printout?
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| posted on October 9th, 2013 at 07:38 PM |
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that's the wrong time sheet for the final Steve. And you didn't win! I lost! But missed gear beats red light in drags like paper beats rock.....
well done mate it was great to finally have a run with you. Now I can't wait till Wakefield again....
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| posted on October 9th, 2013 at 07:44 PM |
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Actually Yogie that is a terrible time sheet Steve put up! It was for a run he did against Barry Roberts in his Subi powered kombi. If you look at
the numbers the dial in is what you expected to run. The idea of braket racing is to beat the otehr guy to the line without going faster than your
dial in. As you can see from this time sheet both Barry and Steve red lighted as their reaction times are negative but Steve was not as bad as barry
so took the win. But you can also see that Steve "broke out" as he actually went faster than his dial in 8.631 against a dail in of 8.9, soooo a
double baddy, red light a a break out and yet still a win! You are good Carter!
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| posted on October 9th, 2013 at 11:18 PM |
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Hi Lou
It will be good to have a run around corners next time, it must be more arse than class for my win.
This is the time slip from the final, you can see my mph dropped as I rolled across the line
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| posted on October 10th, 2013 at 08:57 PM |
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I've watched the video a few times today and I have a brusie on the back of my head where I keep hitting myself! Looking at your numbers I think you
would have broken out if you had found third gear! You were 0.367 off your dial in and must have dropped 20mph in the last 100ft so had I not red
lighted and had you found third we would have had a cracker finish......
oh well there is always next year.
PS, I've re-routed my turbo cooling line and James and I are welding up a new return line to the radiator with a bleed up top and a feed at the
bottom. Watch out Wakefield!
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| posted on October 10th, 2013 at 09:44 PM |
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What does your car weigh Steve ?
I'm trying to understand why 204kw atw only gets you 8.6@84.84mph ??
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| posted on October 11th, 2013 at 08:32 AM |
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Hi
It weighed 1080 kg when it was engineered, I've fitted a few more things since then, I will get it reweighed.
Why doesn't it go quicker? It was going quicker every run as I was getting used to the car, I changed my dial in from 9.9, 9.7, 9.6, I was lucky not
to lose when I broke out, the people I ran against red lighted. My final run was looking good but I stuffed up 3rd
Hope your head gets better Lou. Can't wait to hear if the the cooling modes help.
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