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 JVLR
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 07:05 PM |
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Iam glad your happy to help Craig!Please advise me what to do with my list of probs :PI have a pen and paper ready to go.....
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 07:20 PM |
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you will need more than a pen and paper  ....................:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 07:32 PM |
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Once again you have shown us your expertise Craig:thumbI thankyou:P
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 07:53 PM |
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:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah:blah.......................just get it on the track JVL and dispell the rumours.
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 08:51 PM |
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Rumours are?Dont concern yourself Craig:P
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:07 PM |
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Iam glad your happy to help Craig!Please advise me what to do with my list of probs :PI have a pen and paper ready to go.....
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I'm happy to help:
Don't waste money on yet another respray;
Install a factory BJ front end to get rid of the bumpsteer you admit to having on a straight track in your CADCAM front end; OR stiffen your existing
front suspenion to reduce bump-ster on suspension movement
Install a cheapo 2-litre Kombi gearbox and turn back the boost to keep it alive;
Use a simple computer (eg a Delco, Microtech, Haltech or MoTeC (I know of a very, very good Microtech tuner who does a lot on international work)
without any datalogging shite on it to confuse anyone.
Then, actually get your it onto a track and see if you can have more fun - or run quicker - than a street beetle with less than $4K invested in its
chassis/handling because having 300+bhp ain't no good if you can't get it to the track!
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by VWCOOL ]
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:16 PM |
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Iam glad your happy to help Craig!Please advise me what to do with my list of probs :PI have a pen and paper ready to go.....
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I'm happy to help:
Don't waste money on yet another respray;
Install a factory BJ front end to get rid of the bumpsteer you admit to having on a straight track in your CADCAM front end;
Install a cheapo 2-litre Kombi gearbox and turn back the boost to keep it alive;
Use a simple computer (eg a Delco, Microtech, Haltech or MoTeC (I know of a very, very good Microtech tuner who does a lot on international work)
without any datalogging shite on it to confuse anyone.
Then, actually get your it onto a track and see if you can have more fun - or run quicker - than a street beetle with less than $20K invested in it
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Wow! some good advice there:puke........Just as well you didnt ad your braking system!!!!!
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[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by JVLR ]
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:20 PM |
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I have a spare 36hp motor you could borrow for the event 
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:33 PM |
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I have a spare 36hp motor you could borrow for the event
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Thankyou!
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:35 PM |
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Just as well you didnt ad your braking system!!!!!
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by JVLR ]
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by JVLR ]
Why would I? You don't need them
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by VWCOOL ]
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:36 PM |
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:39 PM |
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Just as well you didnt ad your braking system!!!!!
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by JVLR ]
[ Edited on 21-6-2006 by JVLR ]
Why would I? You don't need them
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Thats correct:thumb
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:44 PM |
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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No, I changed my post. My car has less than $4k invested in its chassis. Who cares what the body looks like?!
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:47 PM |
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Yeah, you need to move first before you need to use brakes 
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 09:49 PM |
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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$20k or $4k, still about $140k in front of others, not that your counting JVL
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 11:01 PM |
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Yeah, you need to move first before you need to use brakes
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But i have Craig:P
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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No, I changed my post. My car has less than $4k invested in its chassis. Who cares what the body looks like?!
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I expected more from you VWCOOL!!!!Presentation goes along way...
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 11:09 PM |
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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$20k or $4k, still about $140k in front of others, not that your counting JVL
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Yeah got me on that one!If you got it spend it:P
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| posted on June 21st, 2006 at 11:38 PM |
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VWCOOL! you sound confused with your investment for a beetle chassis 20k or 4k are you fibbing?:o
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No, I changed my post. My car has less than $4k invested in its chassis. Who cares what the body looks like?!
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I expected more from you VWCOOL!!!!Presentation goes along way...
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Yeah, but I think a little rust under the window rubbers and some shopping trolley dents after more than a decade of regular use can be tolerated...
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 07:05 AM |
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OK I give up is it the Paint scheme, Brakes, turbo, front end, the EFI putor ???? or magazine coverage ??
Come on John
Whats stopping the car from going ???
we do want top see you run this machine
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 11:28 AM |
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Magazine coverage - you might be better aiming for bitumen, rather than paper at this stage
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 AM |
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Magazine coverage - you might be better aiming for bitumen, rather than paper at this stage
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You sound very cut Glenn.......
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 PM |
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OK I give up is it the Paint scheme, Brakes, turbo, front end, the EFI putor ???? or magazine coverage ??
Come on John
Whats stopping the car from going ???
we do want top see you run this machine
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Settle dave,its happening...
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 12:37 PM |
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Lay off.
Give JVL a break!
Each to their own.
Think about how many modifications are on JVLs car!
Now think of the fact that you go and bolt a standard reproduction part on a VW and it needs to be modified to fit.
Now think of what happens when you bolt a modified part on. If it just fits then you're lucky. But then you have to modify 3 other parts to make the
new part work with the existing parts.
Like the Torrens brothers I've followed a simple formula for modifying a beetle. The basic bolt-on formula that includes Weber, koni, sway bars, type
3 brakes etc fitted to an IRS pan has been followed for decades. Even this combo takes ages to sort out and get right.
I can't fathom how many head-scratching moments JVL would have trying to make his car work properly. Just about every component fitted has followed
no proven formula.
The car is a work of art and it has already made it to the track. That's more than I can say for the dozens of "Gunna"s who've said they're
building a bug to race.
I got my car on the road in 2001 and I think I've finally got it how I want it after 5 years. If we suggested that JVLs car has 10 times more
modified parts. I expect the development to take 50 years.
Keep up the good work JVL.
CYA CT
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 PM |
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So we need to wait until 2056..:cry.......maybe this car should be called 'Dak to the Future'......hehehehehe:P
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 02:55 PM |
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Magazine coverage - you might be better aiming for bitumen, rather than paper at this stage
[ Edited on 22-6-2006 by VWCOOL ]
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You sound very cut Glenn.......
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'Cut'? As in drunk?!
No.
But until you're a "Doer" you'll be a "Gunna". And gunnas don't get much magazine coverage!
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Give JVL a break!
Each to their own.
Think about how many modifications are on JVLs car!
Now think of the fact that you go and bolt a standard reproduction part on a VW and it needs to be modified to fit.
Now think of what happens when you bolt a modified part on. If it just fits then you're lucky. But then you have to modify 3 other parts to make the
new part work with the existing parts.
Like the Torrens brothers I've followed a simple formula for modifying a beetle. The basic bolt-on formula that includes Weber, koni, sway bars, type
3 brakes etc fitted to an IRS pan has been followed for decades. Even this combo takes ages to sort out and get right.
I can't fathom how many head-scratching moments JVL would have trying to make his car work properly. Just about every component fitted has followed
no proven formula.
The car is a work of art and it has already made it to the track. That's more than I can say for the dozens of "Gunna"s who've said they're
building a bug to race.
I got my car on the road in 2001 and I think I've finally got it how I want it after 5 years. If we suggested that JVLs car has 10 times more
modified parts. I expect the development to take 50 years.
Keep up the good work JVL.
CYA CT
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Thanks CT:thumb,....even F1,V8s,Indycars etc take time with development and thats with CADCAM!...Yes it has taken little longer then
expected and development will never finish with this car.
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 03:07 PM |
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Magazine coverage - you might be better aiming for bitumen, rather than paper at this stage
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You sound very cut Glenn.......
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'Cut'? As in drunk?!
No.
But until you're a "Doer" you'll be a "Gunna". And gunnas don't get much magazine coverage!
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Glenn,wtf with the mag coverage,ive never ask for it.Ive acheived something you will never acheive Glenn and thats building a proper
racecar(Doer)and been on a racetrack!..."Gunna" is a bloke like yourself that strive to put peoples acheivements below your own standards.
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 03:46 PM |
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2056 Craig? That's only if I was building it!
Hmm but then I'd be too old to drive and end up with "Lest we forget about the project" on my grave's head stone.
CYA CT
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| posted on June 22nd, 2006 at 06:31 PM |
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Yeah Get off his case,
Glen and Dave , never seen you on the track !!
Get a life.
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