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 lou0060
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| posted on September 14th, 2015 at 08:34 PM |
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did you check they fit with those big brakes???? When I checked my new 944 arms and discs with the twin pot calipers they rubbed that why I got the
16" wheels??
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| posted on September 14th, 2015 at 09:25 PM |
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did you check they fit with those big brakes????
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That's the first thing I thought of as soon as I saw they were 15's....
Good luck with the Snowy's Steve.
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| posted on September 14th, 2015 at 09:57 PM |
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Hi
I did a bit of cheating, I had my calliper adaptor brackets milled down 2 mm so that the calliper sits closer to the rotor centre, it always needed to
move closer but I never had a reason before to do it.
I need to use an 8mm slip in spacer, they are only 6 inch wide and with my alloy arms they just fit inside the rear guards. Front will use 19 mm bolt
on spacers.
7s on the rear would have made for worse clearance, I tried Leighs 7inch Cookies and they were worse that the 6 inch one.
Funny thing is my 15 inch alloy 944 space saver spare clears the brakes fine.
Lou shoot us reminder before Warwick so that we dont forget your wheels.
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| posted on September 24th, 2015 at 09:04 PM |
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Hi
Pre Warwick dyno today, made 253 kw on 20 psi, we were ready to go for more and the MAP sensor shit itself, so train home from Gosford going back up
early in the morning with the trailer and another MAP of my sons drift car.
1 psi less boost and 8 more kW.
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| posted on September 24th, 2015 at 11:32 PM |
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at least there was a positive in that Steve
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 05:07 AM |
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got to look on the bright side
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 02:38 PM |
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OK new MAP fitted, old one was showing 3 bar with the motor off
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 03:39 PM |
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wow, you're going to be quick at Cooma 
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 04:01 PM |
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Hope so, combined with the 15 inch wheels and more kW it should pick up some time and kph, just hope it stays on the ground, I think I might put the
whale tail on again
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 05:22 PM |
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Great work Steve, you must be happy with that 
When you say picking up more KPH, I thought you went to a smaller rolling diameter tyres (15's) and I thought that was meant to be for the drags
only.
In the words of the great Pauline Hansen, 'Please Explain' 
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 06:30 PM |
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Hi Kev
Its so overgeared I will never run out of gears so running the 15s should lower the final drive enough to get into 5th on the 1000 I hope and that
will still be good for 299 kph which I dont I will reach.
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 08:57 PM |
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Here's hoping Steve.
Out of curiosity what's the dub weigh?
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| posted on September 25th, 2015 at 09:12 PM |
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1160, fat chick
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| posted on September 26th, 2015 at 06:31 PM |
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good number Stevo!!
glad we are running the 1/8 mile and not 1/4 next weekend otherwise wouldn't see you for the dust!!
Be interesting to see your numbers for the 1/8 and compare to last year.
might have to feed you up over the weekend to get the power to weight ratio level with me................. lol!
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 11:14 PM |
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I went down to Cooma and ran my Beetle at the Snowy Mountains 1000, it’s a bit like a drag race but only a single car at a time and at over 1000
metres on Cooma airport runway, it’s much longer than a traditional ¼ mile which is only 402.336 metres.
There was an amazing variety of cars running, even an electric Radical race car and a strong contingent of VWs. Wayne Penrose came down and ran his
beautiful Karmann Ghia for the 1st time and was awarded a trophy for fastest normally aspirated 4 cylinder.
This year I had a bit of completion in my class, I guy I work with ran his immaculate Datsun 1600 powered by a 350 kW SR20 engine, he was about 1.5
seconds quicker than me and took the class win, I came second. I finished at about 50th out of 135 cars.
This year I did few things to my car to make it run faster and I managed to go a bit quicker, last year my best time was 22.513 seconds @ 226 km/h,
this year I did 22.3247 @ 236.7 km/h, I had 4 runs, two where I went from 2nd gear to fifth gear one were my coolant overflow sprayed onto my ignition
coils and the one where I got my best time which wasn’t a very good run as it was late in the day and I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, so car
is going great, driver needs more time doing angry gear changes. Can’t wait till next year.
The VW/Audi times
SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470
SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327
STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637
STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247
GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235
MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880
KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159
KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367
TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065
MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783
WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953
MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311
GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867
DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414
MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 11:28 PM |
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I still like it better with the wing on.
Great work Steve
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on December 4th, 2015 at 07:51 AM |
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a video of my best run which was still up the shit https://youtu.be/wQS_nG_2E_k
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| posted on December 4th, 2015 at 09:04 AM |
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Good numbers and speed
236kmh in a beetle 
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| posted on December 4th, 2015 at 11:58 AM |
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Thanks car felt great even with 12 psi in the rear tyres.
Ive finally sorted my intake temp issue, I've been short circuiting my ice box so that ice water goes from the ice box and back to the cooler then
back to the ice box, didn't see intake temps over 40 all day, I taped up the radiator intake and it still ran cool, loving E85
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| posted on December 4th, 2015 at 08:58 PM |
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2nd in class, great work Steve!
Curious to hear your thoughts on running 15's compared to the 18's...
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| posted on December 4th, 2015 at 10:30 PM |
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Jeez that's fast,would not want to do that in a beetle,lol
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| posted on December 5th, 2015 at 09:01 AM |
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15s look ugly but weigh a lots less, so it has got to help acceleration, my car is very tall geared so it also helps with acceleration
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| posted on December 14th, 2015 at 12:51 PM |
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Stevie
I thought this was you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZ0EBQVNRY
but then I realised your skin tone is lighter
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| posted on December 14th, 2015 at 05:15 PM |
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very funny Jak, hes much younger than me as well, looks like one of Dicks wings
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| posted on December 15th, 2015 at 06:55 AM |
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the extension on the wing is pretty cool, & propbably very functional being much higher, needs bigger wheels like yours though
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| posted on December 26th, 2015 at 03:01 PM |
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Hi
This is a professional video of the Snowy Mountains 1000, I'm interviewed https://youtu.be/vw-HameNCl0
Steve
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| posted on December 26th, 2015 at 05:49 PM |
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I thoroughly enjoyed that. Love the shot of Glenn right at the end. :-)
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on December 26th, 2015 at 08:39 PM |
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Was a great vid Steve
You car looked stable at speed.
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| posted on December 26th, 2015 at 10:49 PM |
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Thanks guys
I think I can push the speed higher again, the car feels like Im doing 110 kph on the freeway
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| posted on February 20th, 2016 at 01:16 PM |
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Hi
I'm off to Sydney Motorsport Park soon for a twilight supersprint on the Gardener circuit, Rudi is running his STI as his bug is in pieces
Ive done some suspension improvements and I have about 70 more kilowatts since the last time I did a supersprint, should be fun.
videos tomorrow.
Steve
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