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 colin
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| posted on November 9th, 2012 at 07:05 PM |
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Just another update on the dyno results, the engine peaked at 143 foot pounds of torque at 5800rpm, with a nice flat torque curve.
Cheers Col
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| posted on November 9th, 2012 at 07:22 PM |
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Thats a awesome result.
In regards to the comments about filters and stacks. Socks will dissrupt the laminar flow around the edge of the bell mouth, so with socks it won't
matter which type of stack you use. If your using a thick bell mouth stack you should notice the difference with a sock vs K&N. I have always
thought that a too small K&N would have a similar affect to a sock, as the filter would result in very messy airflow around the bell mouth. The
thicker the lip on the stack the better, in theory anyway.
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| posted on November 9th, 2012 at 08:41 PM |
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109kW & 194Nm; pretty impressive numbers next season is going to look interesting especially if Craig T was setting good times with 115hp
Congrats; must be stoked with the work
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| posted on November 9th, 2012 at 08:59 PM |
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How much hp was your last combo colin
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| posted on November 9th, 2012 at 09:30 PM |
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109kW & 194Nm; pretty impressive numbers next season is going to look interesting especially if Craig T was setting good times with 115hp
Congrats; must be stoked with the work
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All my class records (Including 7 state titles and 6 Australian titles) were set with 111.6hp running the very small pulley. I didn't have the power,
so I just had to drive hard !!
It must be a real buzz to race a VW with the amount of power Colin has. 
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| posted on November 10th, 2012 at 03:38 PM |
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How much hp was your last combo colin
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For the 2011 racing season,and couple of events i attended this year i had 121.9rwhp and 113 foot pounds of torque to play with.
I am looking forward to the 2013 racing season, as Nathan will have his green injected car, Glen with his refreshened Pobjoy rocket, and off course
the man to beat Heath, in his Durie inspired car. I,d love to see Greg Ward get stuck into the sports sedan class again too.
It,s a real buzz racing with your mates in Beetles cheering each other to go faster and push the limits a little more.
Hopefully my driving talent can keep up with my car.
Cheers Col
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| posted on November 15th, 2012 at 05:36 PM |
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Great numbers Col, best i ever had out of my 1998 was 126hp atw with e8 haltech go get em
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| posted on November 15th, 2012 at 06:15 PM |
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Nice work Col!!!! What hapened to you and Larry at Warwick???? I was expecting to see you guys there
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| posted on November 16th, 2012 at 07:13 PM |
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Nice work Col!!!! What hapened to you and Larry at Warwick???? I was expecting to see you guys there
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Yes both Larry and i were a little bummed as we couldn,t make Warwick this year.
Larrys wife started a new job and was rostered to work all weekend so that counted Larry out, he got babysitting duties.
Also my man CT and his wife had a baby a week before so that was him dusted.
First one we have missed!
Never mind there,s allways 2013.
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 2nd, 2012 at 06:29 PM |
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After a succesfull day on the dyno tamworth sporting car club held a lapdash on the 18th of November which i entered.
I wan,t to get a feel of the car with the new engine.
It was a misrable rainy start to the day but i looked forward to a fang.
Straight up the car missed and spluttered over about 4500rpm and i returned to the pits a little dissappionted, after checking all the things i could
in the rain and muddy pit area i went out for another run, but same problem.
I loaded up and came home wondering how it could be perfect after a dyno day yet so bad straight after?
Last weekend i went over the car completely, checking every terminal and electrical connection on the car.
Hours later i checked fuel delivery at the carbs and changed the fuel filter and plugs. I checked the MSD system, reset the float levels on the carbs,
blew out the jets, and checked the rocker gear and springs, hell i double checked everything again.
Fired her up in the shed, quick warm up then big rev and no problem. Okay fixed?
Yesterday i took the car out with a mate to an isolated country private air strip for a confirmation blat.
With a few puzzled farmers watching i blasted off down the strip, ohh shit it missed and sputtered again.
I returned to the trailer with my mate and the farmers waiting, there faces and expressions were priceless.
Even with a misbehaving car the farmers thought it was a jet
It turned my bad mood into a laugh just seeing there reactions.
While the car was cooling i heard a loud bang, my mate said "what was that" I answered i reckon that was a rocker stud breaking.
I loaded up and came home, straight away i popped off the tappet covers and found the culprit.
Fun and games huh.
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 2nd, 2012 at 07:54 PM |
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Special stud col or stock?
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| posted on December 2nd, 2012 at 07:57 PM |
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Looks like aftermarket
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| posted on December 3rd, 2012 at 07:19 AM |
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Err, bummer Col.
What's the theory - coil bind or a sticking valve ?
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| posted on December 3rd, 2012 at 06:32 PM |
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Special stud col or stock?
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I use Berg rocker studs.
It,s not the first one i have broken but, hey they work dam hard!
Geometry is spot on, Larry doesn,t take any chances with that.
I will have to organize another test run soon.
Theory was it may have been working it,s way out slowly, pesky bugger, it had me stumped. 
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 4th, 2012 at 07:18 AM |
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Cars just have a poor attitude to their job sometimes 
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| posted on December 4th, 2012 at 07:23 AM |
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Maybe some valve train issues, springs, pushrod, rpm harmonics ???
Chev or VW dia. springs?
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| posted on December 4th, 2012 at 03:55 PM |
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What brand rocker studs do you use?? I have seen this with some POS EMPI parts before.
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| posted on December 4th, 2012 at 04:25 PM |
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Springs are CB VW650.
Rated up to 8500rpm and 630 thou lift.
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 4th, 2012 at 04:30 PM |
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the 650's are great, i use them too but with alloy pushrods
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| posted on December 12th, 2012 at 06:59 PM |
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Time for another mystery miss update,
So after replacing the broken rocker stud i again took the car for a blast down the road.
The so and so missed again This was really starting to ping me
off.
Last weekend i triple checked everything again, and found in the tiny carb filters one was blocked with gunk, eureka! i hope?
So off to the dyno this arvo to check this time wether i had finally fixed the car.
First run massive billows of smoke, super rich, big miss at 4000rpm. Well that wasn,t it.
Blue the dyno dude says to me take the air filters off, i commented that Larry mentioned that weeks ago!
Next run engine oil at 105 getting hot, dyno run YAHOO! All is good!.
It was sucking the air filter socks in causing the car to run super rich and choke itself.
Well f__k me!
Geez i love these cars
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 12th, 2012 at 07:15 PM |
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Sometimes its the simple things. I am glad you have fixed the problem. I've sucked those filter socks in a few times with the RX2 and Datto rally
cars. I am so looking forward to next year.
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| posted on December 13th, 2012 at 08:47 AM |
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do you run the wire spring inside the filter sock?
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| posted on December 15th, 2012 at 06:01 PM |
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do you run the wire spring inside the filter sock?
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Your onto it, sortoff.
The last air filter kit i purchased had the long springs supplied with the filter sock.
This new kit had only short springs and i didn,t give it a thought. That is why it only missed under load and when the mains came in.
Problem solved, now it,s time to detail the car inside and out, and throw the car cover over it.
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 15th, 2012 at 09:58 PM |
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put some plates on it and go for a blast !!
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| posted on December 16th, 2012 at 03:25 PM |
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Here is a photo were you can see the difference in spring sizes.
Cheers Col
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| posted on December 16th, 2012 at 06:21 PM |
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Lol that would do it !
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| posted on December 17th, 2012 at 01:16 PM |
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You always have such nice rags 
BTW Halle loves the towel. She can't wait until she can support her own head so she can go to the beach.
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| posted on January 19th, 2013 at 02:20 PM |
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My Dad allways said " an ounce of handling is worth a pound of horsepower".
With those words of wisdom ringing in my ears i have been trying to figure out how to gain more caster in the front of my car.
Caster is the angle created in relation to the struts being pushed forward at the bottom. In other words a motorbike runs lots of positive caster.
When the car turns the positive caster angle on the loaded side creates more camber and the car turns more effectively.
Now the beam guys simply put shims under the bottom beam, to easy. However it,s not that simple for a Superbug.
I have redrilled the top of the strut holes to increase both caster and camber but you are limited by the strut top plate.
K-mac do an adjustable strut top plate product but i have given up trying to contact that company.
After a little head sratching i found on the Topline website they do a offset front d-bush, i contacted them also but they don,t send overseas.
Easy fix, ring my mates at Pierside Parts and get them to buy the d-bushs and then ship them to me.
After 10 minutes of fittting here are some photo,s, i,ll keep you all posted on how the caster angle changes when i do an alighnment.
Cheers Col
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| posted on January 19th, 2013 at 07:25 PM |
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Hi col have a kmac top cam adjust plate on my L bug great product but what u need is a whiteline adjustable front sway bar Boris at vintage sells them
are custom bend set up for lower ride height as well cheers Rudi
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Hi col have a kmac top cam adjust plate on my L bug great product but what u need is a whiteline adjustable front sway bar Boris at vintage sells them
are custom bend set up for lower ride height as well cheers Rudi
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Thanks Rudi,
I have a Whiteline heavier front sway bar but i don,t use it. I found that with hillclimbs as apposed to circuit racing the speeds are alot less and
you never get front tyre temps up, therefore you need the car to be pointy.
With the heavy bar i found it did not let the weight transfer to the loaded front wheel because it was to stiff.
This is however only my experience and driving style and others may really like a stiff front sway bar.
Cheers Col
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