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 Dasdubber
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 posted on June 11th, 2009 at 04:44 PM |
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US Shop visit pics
Visited a heap of vw shops here in LA yesterday and today including Heads Up Performance. Roger Crawford took time to show me around his shop and let
me sit in on some dyno tuning which was extremely grateful for.
Roger asked me if I knew Dave Butler and after noting he thought Dave was a good bloke, I admitted I did in fact know him 
Anyway Dave, I thought you might consider this type of thing the closest thing to porn in vw terms? Not sure, but thought I'd post the pics up
anyway.
Cheers
Al
Roger at the helm...
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| posted on June 11th, 2009 at 04:54 PM |
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Roger's record setting super street ghia - saw this run 9's at Sacramento, and looking forward to seeing it run tomorrow night at Irwindale 1/8th
mile (maybe with nitrous on tap?)...so stay tuned.
Not sure why my camera went blurry on some of these pics.
Thanks again to Roger for showing me around and allowing me to take pics/vids of the dyno pull. Heads Up are having an open house on friday so I may
head back to chat some more!
AL
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| posted on June 11th, 2009 at 04:55 PM |
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thanks alan!
that's my kind of porn!!!!
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That's mad Alan.
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| posted on June 11th, 2009 at 04:55 PM |
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You tube vid - this engine was originally built back in the 80s and hasn't gone through many changes. Still vw heads, 82 x 88 old school combo, IDAs
etc. I think it was around 168hp (of course relative to dyno as they are all different).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naW56U1UtE8
Al
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| posted on June 11th, 2009 at 05:02 PM |
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Also visited FAT performance today - didn't get a chance to meet Ron or Greg, but had a quick chat to Mark and checked out his car (original style
cal looker with 2276cc) - will post a few pics at some stage. They were pretty busy so no pics etc.
Stopped by JayCee and had a chat to those guys as well - everyone seems to be pretty nice to a nosy Aussie!
Met Chip Foose at his shop today and went to a heap of other shops for resto stuff (not that interesting to drag folk).
Spoke to Shawn Geers on the phone and will stop by to say g'day to him tomorrow......busy week this week, and an even busier weekend with the shows.
I'll update the drag stuff in this section, but will put the other show stuff in the general section.
Al
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| posted on June 11th, 2009 at 08:25 PM |
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Sweet Al. Extremely envious! 
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| posted on June 12th, 2009 at 08:58 AM |
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Just got back from visiting Shawn Geers at his home workshop - here is a teaser of a few bits I managed to drool over.
Alan Fore's pro stock car
The engine out of the hayley's comet drag new beetle
Shawn's own engine project
Shawn's street car (ran mid 10s N/A).
More pics later maybe, just about to jump in the car to head to Irwindale - sorry to rub it in. Well worth the trip if anyone is considering doing
this at some stage. Its taken me 10 years to get here (been wanting to do it for a long time), but very happy we made it!
Al
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| posted on June 12th, 2009 at 10:13 AM |
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Awesome stuff Al, you are having a ball. I spoke to Jake Raby yesterday about my trip to work for him, i'm off to Road Atlanta for a race meet, got
three boxster/996 engines to build, 4 type 4 engines and i have been told i gotta drive Jakes new 911 a race prepped 996.
This is my Volkswagen, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me my Volkswagen is useless, without my Volkswagen, I am useless.
61 Karmann Ghia 2110cc type1 w Los Panchito's
66 Deluxe Beetle 2270 type 4
10 Subaru WRX Impreza
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| posted on June 12th, 2009 at 10:19 AM |
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Look forward to more pics and report from Irwindale Al'.
Thanks for sharing.
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That's mad Alan.
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| posted on June 13th, 2009 at 12:01 AM |
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thanks alan!
that's my kind of porn!!!!
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Dreaming of maybe one day seeing all this stuff.
How do you sleep at night knowing you get to see all this each day????
1954 Oval long term project going nowhere
1958 Beetle drag car project
1959 Beetle project I need to sell one day
1969 Squareback
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| posted on June 13th, 2009 at 08:35 AM |
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Mate, what an awesome trip  ......you lucky bastard!!!!
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| posted on June 13th, 2009 at 11:03 AM |
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I've got a woody , VW porn 
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| posted on June 13th, 2009 at 02:30 PM |
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gotta love the setup they have in that workshop..... i need a cold shower... lol
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 02:18 PM |
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Well after a massive four days I've finally got a bit of time before flying back to Oz to upload some pics, I'll put the shop visit pics in this
thread and then the Nick's diner meet, classic etc in the general section as they are non-drag specific.
Hope you like the pics, I had an absolute ball.
I am going to have to save some pennies (since I have spent them all here) for one of these JCL shifter setups, very very nice smooth bit of gear.
Shawn working away
[img]http://dasrestohaus.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6568&g2_serialNumber=1[/img]
This was the case and heads that Shawn had in his blue street car when it ran 10.50s (on the cover of hot vws) but since they since changed the class
rules and limited piston size to 94, and outlawed vacuum pumps....so he is working on a new combination (pictured above previously).
Al
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 02:38 PM |
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JayCee had an open house on Saturday - some cool race cars there and again and nice shop setup. Jack was a pretty quiet guy and said he is not racing
for now (his son and brother race still) - however still busy with the prep and tuning etc of other race cars.
All parts were on display on the work benches and photos were okay to take (I always check first!)
CNC machine
All the pics I took can be found here (don't want to upload every pic I took!)
http://dasrestohaus.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6572
Al
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 02:40 PM |
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Love it AL !! the yanks have been keeping Alan Fore's new pro stock car top secret , mate , so you have let cat out of the bag ( car is parked out
front for full view to everyone ! ! ) Glad you had a ripper time over there , this will keep you going strong for couple years ( did for me ) Nick's
burgers show looked like it had huge turn out too , with cars coming from as far as Canada.
GOOD ONE ALAN !!
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 02:55 PM |
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Yeah Pete, I ensured I asked Shawn if I could take some pictures and he was happy for me to do so. I wasn't going to post them on the US forums out
of respect though. He even put the engine out of the Hailey's Comet car onto the engine stand so I could take pics so he was a really friendly guy.
Nick's was huge - so many highlights, including Richie Webb's departure out of the driveway when he lit up the rears in his 9 second cab and whipped
it around a little too quick (to face the gutter), then back on it to whip it around the other way before straightening up and doing a good skid up
the street. Unfortunately cops showed up a little later which put an end to the burnouts for the rest of the night!
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 03:04 PM |
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Just a few pics from this place most people will know of...
A new Corvette was purchased just to donate its chassis/running gear for a current customers car (in the back ground)
Photo is a bit blurry but got to meet the man himself...
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 06:42 PM |
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alan im so jealous, looks like you had a great time, thanks for the pics..this wil give a few people a boost to get there cars finished i would think.
[size=6] BEING ASPIRATED FEELS GREAT BUT BEING BLOWN TAKES THING TO A WHOLE NEWLEVEL...[/size].
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| posted on June 16th, 2009 at 09:32 PM |
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Still jealous AL.......
[size=4] ACCEPT THAT SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE PIDGEON AND SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE STATUE[/size]
Alder Outlaws VW Racing - check it out on fb!!
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 06:45 AM |
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Top stuff Al
Good idea wearing the split t-shirt when meeting Foose. Would've brought back memories for him
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 07:02 AM |
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Any pictures of the inlet ports on Shawns NEW heads?
http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/albums/album685/P6120033.jpg
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 10:00 AM |
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Bugger, sorry Dave, no luck. That was the one day that I accidentally changed a setting on my camera and most images were blurry so I didn't take too
many pics. Unfortunately I didn't get any of the inlet side of the heads.
Al
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 10:02 AM |
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Well done Alan, we are all living vicariously through you......  |
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 09:13 PM |
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Looks like your having a blast Alan
Cheers
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| posted on June 17th, 2009 at 10:13 PM |
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I'm so jealous, looks like an awesome trip.
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