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posted on February 10th, 2011 at 03:41 PM



Your going to need pushrods one inch thick!!! as my son would say, they are fully sick!!



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posted on February 10th, 2011 at 05:20 PM



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Your going to need pushrods one inch thick!!! as my son would say, they are fully sick!!


3/4" actually!

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posted on February 10th, 2011 at 06:33 PM



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Your going to need pushrods one inch thick!!! as my son would say, they are fully sick!!


3/4" actually!

The mind boggles!!! like to see the size of the recess in the lifters, do you have a valve spring compressor big enough? your valve seats are going to cop a pounding.!! I have built some pretty big & tuff 8.1 litre bigblock chev engines and your valve springs absolutely dwarf any motor I have ever put together! Somewhere in my workshop, I have an intake valve out of a ship, the valve stem is 18 inches long & your spring looks like it would suit it, are you sure your not having us on????:crazy: if this is for real, I just gotta see a pic of the assembled head, thats going to be one sick puppy!! cheers Frank




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posted on February 10th, 2011 at 09:48 PM



Hi All ! sorry to say that Dak-A-Tak racing will be staying home in Qld , would love to be there but this is year is a quite
one for me . Work on our house must come first .
Hope everyone has a safe race meeting and Portland track is looking fine with all it's new improvements .
Hope entrys are growing , get in now !!
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posted on February 11th, 2011 at 05:54 PM



hey anyone from QLD coming down the new england hw
to portland thats wants a coffee break around uralla send me a PM
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yes.gif posted on February 14th, 2011 at 07:30 AM



WPVW prep for Portland a little slow due to late arrival of parts ordered . Ben Fords' supercharged bug is repaired and will be ready to run at Portland with new 930 Porsche CV conversion .
The turbo oval has had the turbo serviced , fuel system flushed and methanol fuel added . The dyno session was not as successful as I had hoped with the engine erupting when coming on boost , climbing the rollers and then slipping the clutch . I will have to replace the clutch tuesday night .
The broken transmission from the WPVW turbo vee will be removed today and a new crownwheel and pinion fitted tomorrow .
see you all at Portland , have a safe trip ........




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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 07:36 AM



Wayne , Good to see that Ben's car is all fixed . Hope WPVW have a great race meeting in Portland .

VW Warwick event dvd will be available at VWMA stand or check with Craig .

CBB team had the new drag buggy out for some testing a Sydney track , How did you go ?
How about a picture Shane , should make a great addition to our drag car numbers !
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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 08:00 AM



Shane did have his new Drag buggy out at Sydney. He went out to get a feel for the car and see how it was going to behave. He was well prepared to take it easy and get acquainted as there are always things to look at when a new car & driver is making its debut. He should be making plenty of noise at Portland with the supercharged Buggy!

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Cant wait for Portland!!!!




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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 08:38 AM



That Buggy looks great Darren and Shane!
Best wishes for good results at portland!




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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 10:20 AM



The beast is not looking good for Portland, had a pair of custom made CV joint axles & they are still in Melbourne waiting to be heat treated, hate outsourcing work!! hate the excuses over the phone! but hey, cutting fresh splines is way out of my depth. Rhys & I will still turn up and still enjoy a crazy & great weekend. Anybody missed the deadline for entering a car? maybe can work something out cheers Frank
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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 03:57 PM



Best of luck to everyone competing. May good numbers and safe journeys be on the menu.
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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 07:30 PM



Good luck to everyone traveling down the hume. Im sure it will be a blast. Please keep all of us stay at homers informed over the weekend!!!:lol:



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posted on February 16th, 2011 at 08:22 PM



yippee we're off bright and earyl in the morning.



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posted on February 18th, 2011 at 07:58 AM



Westside team have made it safe and sound !
I'm a little nerves for Portland people becouse looks like the new g-string is out of the bag .:lol:
But does the crew have matching were ????

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posted on February 18th, 2011 at 08:08 AM



Ha Ha Ha...good on ya Pete, and thanks for sharing the secret pics.



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Have fun one and all and be safe
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posted on February 18th, 2011 at 07:24 PM



All the best guys!! Hope you're arriving safely.

I am dissappointed not to be there again - next year...

Please keep us updated - already looking forward to the next VWMA!!

Where will the heads up bracket land?!?!? :yes:




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posted on February 18th, 2011 at 08:17 PM
Well done Ian and Rose


Guys, you should have made a bet with me when you picked up the 54 in a thousand pieces from my place in December. If you told me you'd be driving the car in Portland I almost would've bet my 56 that you wouldn't be. I'm glad I didn't bet you.

Have a great time.

I'm amazed at your efforts. Well done.

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posted on February 19th, 2011 at 07:12 AM



Looks like the rain has passed over to the east.
Good luck everyone!

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Dave , stick with machining parts and building engines . The weather was shitty last night and the street meet was cancelled due to the rain . This morning the street parade has been canned due to the cold windy day ahead . It is not raining at the moment , but it looks real shitty outside , ROD .



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My son Rhys & myself got there 9.30am friday morning, set up the tent & BBQ , then raced off to the sand dunes for the dune buggy action. checked out some wild and wonderful buggies & also an ugly thing that had an engine in the front, but each to their own, the rains came as we were about to leave the dunes and a few were concerned about the steep hill one had to drive down to access the dunes, now to get back up it, it was now very slippery !!! the wolsburg T3 mobile with beach buggy on trailer was doing a nice waltz up the hill and only just slithered over the peek. a couple of klms up the road it died ( ran out of petrol)!! lucky I had packed my steel tow cable in the trusty chev, so hitched up the whole lot and towed it the 15 odd klms back to Portland & parked him right in front of a petrol bowser, I must say, we got some strange looks!! Friday night we were under chocos annexe sharing a few laughs and I must say, Doc is mad! he comes up with some bloody funny shit!! ask the guy about a battery drill. YOU WILL BE GOB SMACKED !!! The rain really set in and our old tent was not enjoying it, I raced into town & bought a tarp and slung that over the tent, about 10pm my son tells me that most of the bedding is awash. So in the pissing rain we pulled the whole lot apart, chucked it back in the chev and headed back to Geelong. Our first stop was the local car wash in Portland where we got a bit of shelter from the rain and got out of our drenched clothing and put some nice dry warm clothing. The wipers were going full blast for the whole 3 + hour trip home, the water wasnt running off the road and we spent most of the time aqua planing!! it was like driving with your hand brake partially on. Got up sat morning and the wind is so strong here in Geelong it would blow a dog off its leash!! hope it gets better for all those that have stuck it out and I wish them all the best and a safe trip back home. Shit they are a funny lot !!!!!!!!! cheers Frank



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posted on February 19th, 2011 at 09:32 PM



Well ? what updates . Yes there was action today with a late start , after a few showers .
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posted on February 19th, 2011 at 09:41 PM



weather cleared up for some racing thesarvo. Morgan said there was some good runs especialy the final. No real details on any vw's but!!



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Some real good racing yesterday-no rain at all.Weather turned out to be really good in the end.Andrew Ermel can't get the smile off his face,his PB,and I think there are quite a few very happy with what they have done.A really good turn out of non VW cars as well-and the Club here run a real professional show.
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posted on February 20th, 2011 at 06:58 AM



Any times that you can quote?
How fast did Andrew go, and what is the story, new combo?




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I hear there is a smoking quick white Mk1...
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David O'Connor won the quick 8 with a .001 RT on a 7.00 DI-think he ran 7.01.Andrew ran a 7.4 with a new crank to replace the broken one from Warwick,and he's tried a new cam with no other changes.The early white Golf was awesome.He got to the final,but just missed out to a VR6.
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Westi was in the final off quick 8 against David O'Conner but missed out . He said it was a real close race .
I think Rose made it through too aircooled final , Don't know results.
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