| [ Total Views: 1609 | Total Replies: 24 | Thread Id: 64714 ] |
|
|
 BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on August 30th, 2007 at 10:10 PM |
|
|
Herbie goes to Speed on Tweed
Am running Herbie at Speed on Tweed next weekend- having not ran there before it should be interesting. I appear to be the only Beetle running this
year and am classed with 3 Cooper S's a 64 GT Cortina and a Hillman Imp. and given the speed of the Mini's am not expecting any big results... but
it will be fun.
If you are down for a lookie, pop past and say hi.
Peter
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
MattY-64
Seriously Crusin Dubber
Posts: 189
Threads: 49
Registered: October 4th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: Ipswich
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on August 31st, 2007 at 06:48 PM |
|
|
Best of luck Peter,
Give em a run for their money......
Matt.
|
|
|
ByronBug
Custom Title Time!
High Priestess of Unequaled Coolness & Flower Child
Posts: 1446
Threads: 150
Registered: September 24th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Byron Bay NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Purple
Mood: Bent
|
| posted on August 31st, 2007 at 08:54 PM |
|
|
Hi Pete...
I will be there...always go on the Friday night for a look when the cars are all on street display.
Will look out for you
Judy
[ Edited on 31-8-2007 by ByronBug ]
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
 |
|
|
vassy66T1
A.k.a.: Marcus Vass
Veteran Volks Folk
Wow ... are U reading this?
Posts: 2120
Threads: 76
Registered: June 4th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: Brisvegas
Theme: UltimaBB Streamlined2
Mood: Happy to own a VW
|
| posted on September 5th, 2007 at 07:17 PM |
|
|
It's a great weekend on the Tweed.
Have fun and enjoy what looks like a pretty interesting track to drive.
cheers
Marcus
|
|
|
fullnoise
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 964
Threads: 103
Registered: September 21st, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Middle of the road.
|
| posted on September 5th, 2007 at 10:14 PM |
|
|
RE Tweed on Speed
Give them heaps. Good luck.
Can you list the specs of your car?
Regards CT
esratrams
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 5th, 2007 at 10:40 PM |
|
|
Specs
CT,
Motorwise it is pretty stock - 1600tp with ported Scat heads and twin Kadrons, 009, dog house cooler. Motor is fairly healthy but have not had it
apart (yet) Recently rebuilt standard 1500 box. Am happy with the engine for the category of events I compete in (naturally I would like more- but
that will come).
Has just changed to a bj pan, with whiteline bars all round and cross drilled brakes etc. KYBs all round, extended shock towers - pan is fantastic and
the car now handles great. Has a steel half cage all Cams approved with full harnesses etc. Am running Falkens 14/195/50's though cant recall the
series - seem to be good tyres- have only done the recent Leyburn sprints with them and it rained for most, but they have to be better than my old
radials I was running last year.
It has a horn speaker under a front guard with a CD player in the glovebox that plays the Herbie theme when competing. It is so loud you can hear it
clearly for most of the lap, though with the helmet on I hardly hear it in the car, hence it is fairly popular with the spectators (even if they are
under 5)
Cheers
Peter
| Error |
| Sorry, you must be a registered user in order to download attachments. |
|
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
dangerous
A.k.a.: Dave Butler Muffin Man
23 Windows of Awesome
Posts: 5901
Threads: 178
Registered: January 6th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Gold Coast
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: 591
|
| posted on September 6th, 2007 at 06:59 AM |
|
|
I love that music!
| Quote: | Originally
posted by westi
That's mad Alan.
|
|
|
|
OZ Towdster
A.k.a.: Andrew Westwood
Custom Title Time!
Keen to finish some projects
Posts: 1921
Threads: 132
Registered: December 7th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: Alexandra Hills Brisbane QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Yellow
Mood: Having fun in our great land
|
| posted on September 6th, 2007 at 09:03 AM |
|
|
Good luck and keep it shiney side up
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
|
|
|
fullnoise
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 964
Threads: 103
Registered: September 21st, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Middle of the road.
|
| posted on September 6th, 2007 at 05:12 PM |
|
|
Hi Peter,
I think your car looks excellent.
By the sound of the specs its probably a very capable package that should surprise a few people (Especially with the herbie music).
Do you have the big adjustable whiteline bars or the small ones. I think my front is 16mm and my rear is 18mm. My big adjustable ones work better off
the car I found.
Have you got a good seat to hold you still?
Good luck. CT
esratrams
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 6th, 2007 at 10:25 PM |
|
|
CT,
The front bar is 16mm and rear 18- not sure on specifics as to what is big and what is small.
Have two race seats so its all nice and cosy.
I would like to upgrade the exhaust from the pea shooter extractor system it has now, but I dont want to lose the period look with the twin pipes.. do
you know of a system that would suit. Most that I see are the Fatboy style with the single side pipe.
Will post some photos when I get back.
Peter
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
fullnoise
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 964
Threads: 103
Registered: September 21st, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Middle of the road.
|
| posted on September 7th, 2007 at 10:51 AM |
|
|
Exhaust
That's a tough one.
There are after market systems that exit in the standard cut outs.
I think you can either go with a cheap one that's compact and doesn't flow well or sound good. Or you can go with an expensive one that flows well,
sounds good but uses about a kilometer of pipes and weighs a tonne.
I use a 1 5/8 berg/phoenix header which is great quality. It seals well and doesn't foul the apron at the number 2 header or at the flange. I cut it
back and welded up my own bends to a 2 inch straight through muffler just so it would tuck up under the body as much as possible for ground clearance
and so it didn't look too rude (aka fat boy style). Unfortunately it looks a bit tatty after having an altercation with the tramp bar I used to run,
then it broke one of the flange bolts and I dragged it around oran park raceway for a lap and a half scraping along the ground. Ather all that it
wasn't worth ceramic coating. Interestingly when the exhaust was dragging along 2/3 of the exhaust from the header was escaping without having to go
through the muffler so there was no restriction at all. The result was that the car didn't want to rev over 4500 which shows how important the
exhaust system is from the header back.
Col Mayman from Tammworth stumbled across a good exhaust guy who can make vw exhausts to suit your engine and application. Perhaps he could come up
with something. But you'd have to be pretty settled on your engine spec and commit to it for the long term.
God I waffle on sometimes!
esratrams
|
|
|
colin
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 984
Threads: 82
Registered: March 7th, 2007
Member Is Offline
Location: Tamworth
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 7th, 2007 at 12:30 PM |
|
|
Hi Peter.
As CT suggested i have come across a guy in Tamworth who can custom make an exhaust system to suit your motor spesc and specific application.He is a
genuine car lover and used to make systems for Formula Vee cars in Sydney.
Tamworth Muffler Man
02673939
Cheers Col
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 06:44 PM |
|
|
Made it ...
Well that was an interesting weekend- fantastic actually.
Didnt get off to the best of starts, backing the car off the trailer on the Friday I noticed the stereo didnt come on (and it always annoyingly does)
so took the car down to the street parade along with the FJ and couldnt believe how popular the parade and the car was. There were people
everywhere
Come Saturday - briezed through scrutineering though the officials have become so accustomed to the music they weren't going to pass it if the music
wouldnt play. I then pulled the CD player out and pulled it to pieces, but couldn't find anything obvious so off to the local Auto store and
purchased a new CD player and fitted it up without losing a run. Thankfully the new model was still compatable with the wiring plug and even the same
remote works, so now I have a spare. (I wouldn't think many people have had that sort of drama)
As for performance the car lacked a lot of power and sounded off - which I found to be that bloody exhaust that I spoke of earlier. When I put the
exhaust back on during the week, I didnt have the normal tin gaskets and used the paper style.. never again. I thought they were suspect so I bought a
couple at a VW place at Burleigh on the way down. It took a few runs to get everything sorted as had some other niggling things but as you can imagine
it started raining and I had a few runs in the wet.
Given the cars I was up against, I didnt have a chance of a place and my only opposition was my brother in the FJ (in a different class but that didnt
matter- it was family pride) I was chasing him all weekend and he was ahead by .5 sec, but the results were just posted and I beat him by .9 sec on
the last run... and now he is not answering when I want to skite.
Anyways the car went back on the trailer with nothing broken, dented or scratched (unlike many others) After the major work the car has had recently I
am still ironing out some issues, but am getting closer and hopefully by the next event at the Noosa Hillclimb it will be fully sorted.
Overall I had a great weekend, the car was well received - just wish I had more power...
Will post some pictures later tonight when I get the camera back.
Thanks for the support
Peter
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
Craig Torrens
A.k.a.: Craig Torrens
Scirocco Rare
6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion
Posts: 8040
Threads: 347
Registered: January 10th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Time to go Salt lake racing, and actually achieve a result.
|
| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 07:30 PM |
|
|
Congrats Peter, sounds like a great weekend.
When is the Noosa event?
I may fly up and watch.
Craig t
|
|
|
ByronBug
Custom Title Time!
High Priestess of Unequaled Coolness & Flower Child
Posts: 1446
Threads: 150
Registered: September 24th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Byron Bay NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Purple
Mood: Bent
|
| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 09:22 PM |
|
|
[size=4]Hey peter...went over to your car on friday night to say hello & you must have stepped away from it as no one was near it... ...so i missed you...theres always next time...Judy[/size]
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 10:37 PM |
|
|
Judy, sorry I missed you I wouldnt have been far - I had the FJ Holden racecar across the road so I was probably over with it. I didnt get to go
anywhere else, hope you had a good time ...
Craig,
Have attached a promo for the Hillclimb, Noosa is the week after the Aust Championships at Mt Cotton so they are trying to entice some of the big guns
to stay a bit longer and do Noosa - it is a great weekend, but I think Speed on Tweed is my new favourite (and closer to home)
Peter
| Error |
| Sorry, you must be a registered user in order to download attachments. |
|
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
vassy66T1
A.k.a.: Marcus Vass
Veteran Volks Folk
Wow ... are U reading this?
Posts: 2120
Threads: 76
Registered: June 4th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: Brisvegas
Theme: UltimaBB Streamlined2
Mood: Happy to own a VW
|
| posted on September 17th, 2007 at 08:39 PM |
|
|
Good on you for giving it a go Peter.
If you are going to be up at Warwick I wouldn't mind catching up to talk pan and handling setups.
cheers
Marcus
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 23rd, 2007 at 04:59 PM |
|
|
Photo
Pity I didnt get a video to hear the music, but it went ok.
| Error |
| Sorry, you must be a registered user in order to download attachments. |
|
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
Caroneten
Seriously Crusin Dubber
Posts: 135
Threads: 35
Registered: June 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Gatton
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Chillin
|
| posted on September 23rd, 2007 at 08:47 PM |
|
|
more power needed? maybe put right foot down hard and fast brissdubba, you might be getting slow considering your age you look in the photo.
|
|
|
Craig Torrens
A.k.a.: Craig Torrens
Scirocco Rare
6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion
Posts: 8040
Threads: 347
Registered: January 10th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Time to go Salt lake racing, and actually achieve a result.
|
| posted on September 23rd, 2007 at 09:29 PM |
|
|
needs more neg camber on the front 
|
|
|
VWCOOL
23 Windows of Awesome
Posts: 5158
Threads: 235
Registered: June 19th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: In the shed... Lake Macquarie NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: happy to help
|
| posted on September 23rd, 2007 at 10:24 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Craig Torrens
needs more neg camber on the front
|
Needs any/some/at-least-a-tiny-bit neg camber at the front! :P
Pay your debts, CxxT
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 24th, 2007 at 02:35 PM |
|
|
Thanks for the advice
Yep the Neg Camber was on the list of things to do and will be done by the next event. I was thinking 2degrees - would that be a good starting point.
The car gets trailered to events and only does limited street driving.
B.J (Caroneten) funny you should be giving advice, you would be the only bloke on the forum with a Tilt Tray powered baja.
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
ancientbugger
Custom Title Time!
Posts: 1986
Threads: 191
Registered: March 24th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: sunshine coast
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Yellow
|
| posted on September 24th, 2007 at 02:59 PM |
|
|
Looking forward to seeing it at Noosa!!
|
|
|
VWCOOL
23 Windows of Awesome
Posts: 5158
Threads: 235
Registered: June 19th, 2003
Member Is Offline
Location: In the shed... Lake Macquarie NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: happy to help
|
| posted on September 24th, 2007 at 04:10 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by BrisDubba
Yep the Neg Camber was on the list of things to do and will be done by the next event. I was thinking 2degrees - would that be a good starting point.
The car gets trailered to events and only does limited street driving.
|
yeah 2 deg, but you may need some 'worn' link pins to achieve that without binding of components. Try some caster, too
Pay your debts, CxxT
|
|
|
BrisDubba
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 877
Threads: 190
Registered: October 9th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Camphill, Brisbane
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on September 24th, 2007 at 05:57 PM |
|
|
BJ Front
Sorry VWCool but I dont know your first name -
I have changed the pan to a ball joint front/ swing rear.. so I shouldnt have any dramas getting the neg camber
VW Toys
64 Beetle - club car - Herbie
RSK 718 Porsche Spyder
76 Southern Cross Offroad racing buggy. "Manx Buggies"
77 Cobra Offroad racing buggy "RipOff"
68 Country Buggy KO200
64 Manx swb
70 Dual Cab kombi
74 Dual Cab kombi
74 Micro bus
|
|
|
