Kris Lauffers Notchback

[Georg/DFL]

Hi everybody,

I always loved Kris Lauffers blue Notchback, but never saw a feature of that very fast Type 3 in any magazine. I heard it wasn't up to feature car standard.
Do you have any pics of the car, engine bay or interieur? Any information on the engines he ran in that car?
Cheers,

Georg




Picture stolen from latinbug.skynetblogs.be

[Georg/DFL]

For those who are not familiar with that car, here is a video for your viewing pleasure 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4</a>

[Eric Justus]

For those who are not familiar with that car, here is a video for your viewing pleasure 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4</a>

I remembe this day...oh the days of carlsbad. I miss them much. When I used to race there, the Lauffers would always be testing something insane out. That notch ran hard and would do a burnout for days. The rear decklid was pimpled a bit from blowing up fans.

PS He is racing the shitbox in this vid and if I remember correct, Mike Gagen is announcing

[58vw]

i miss that track to...the good old days

[ESH]

A Lauffer and a Herbert on track at the same time! 

 

[Georg/DFL]

Guys, would you mind getting back to topic? 

I guess Kris Lauffers car had it's high before digital photography... 

[speedwell]

i remember the car in hot vws i know there's some pictures of this one , during dkp drag day at carlsbad , i will check georg  and post here what i found

 

fabs

[Eric Justus]

Guys, would you mind getting back to topic? 

I guess Kris Lauffers car had it's high before digital photography... 

Thats the problem Georg...I have VHS tapes of it racing and some stills of it from DKP drag days and when I raced, but digital cameras from 98-04 still werent as popular or inexpensive as they are now a days.

[Zach Gomulka]

For those who are not familiar with that car, here is a video for your viewing pleasure 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/J7Y-43ZdzX4</a>

I was there that day, the wheelie looked soooo much bigger in person!!! He slammed the front down so hard it bent up some suspension, still ran something like an 11.67!!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the motor was/is a 2442 turbo on alcohol, it came out of a sandrail. It later ended up in the red convertible.

[vwcab]

That's an awesome wheelie.     

[cal-look 56]

That car has always been one of my favorites.  Does Kris still own it or did it go away since the convertible?

[stealth67vw]

This would make John Force jealous  .
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4LDcp4iOsH0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4LDcp4iOsH0</a>

[Sam K]

I've always admired that car as well. I remember a few years ago at the Vegas Bugorama Kris was doing giant wheelies with it all day. I've heard that Kris still owns the car but it has been sitting behind thier shop for a few years now and is in pretty sad shape.

[Georg/DFL]

Come on guys! No photos? No tech details? I can't belive it. How about the Americans? No one there who took pictures of it or knows what engine(s) was(were) in the back?

I am counting on you! 

[Antoine]

 

[stealth67vw]

Come on guys! No photos? No tech details? I can't belive it. How about the Americans? No one there who took pictures of it or knows what engine(s) was(were) in the back?

I am counting on you! 

From what I remember talking to Kris at Sac probably 10 years ago, it was a 2442 with Angle Flows or Super Flows (can't remember) IDAs and a shit load of Nitrous.

[Georg/DFL]

John, do you remeber if he was running the type 3 fan and cooling tin or did he swap to type 1 set up?

[stealth67vw]

I think it was still T3, but I can't remember.

[PIMPPRIDE]

it had a type 1 upright all the times I seen it over the years

Anthony / ISP WEST

[nicolas]

don't know the engine, but it must be type1 as the header and exhaust tuck under the valance a bit too far if this was type3.

[Eric Justus]

it was a type 1, i had called him when I was building my motor. You cant keep those fans together. He kept spinning them off and blowing them up. His rear decklid showed signs of fans that had blown up. The type 3 fans just dont work with a lot of HP, I shot mine 18 ways from Sunday when i raced in Vegas.

[sofaking]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[FTG Racing]

Kris still has the car. He bought it when he was 13. It originally started off with a 2054 type 3 engine. Mom would not let us have anything bigger at the time. Then after breaking parts and as the years pass the engine kept getting bigger. In the end the engine was a 2442. It always had cheap or used up parts that were from the old man's race stuff. The best it ran was a 12.24 @ 109 N/A with all of the type 3 tin. Only the 48 IDA's stuck through the engine lid.
We had a customer come in the shop to get some race fuel for a high dollar local street race that night. He said his car ran high ten's. Kris & I grinned, and said lets go take their money. So we dug through the old man's race room and pieced together a nos fogger kit. A few hours later and some test runs down the street we were off. The cops were all ready their so the race never happened but Kris never gave dad his NOS kit back. The best it ran was 10.89 @ 123 with unit.
This was the time with type 3 fans would fly apart all the time. So he converted the engine to type 1 tin. Kris went through so many ring & pinions, axles and broken cranks (bernie bergmanns). We even tig welded a flywheel to a crankshaft to use it again. It vibrated like hell. The Notch was all ways full weight with all the glass, interior and trim. It even had the original type 3 rear suspension rubber bushings in place. So he decided to build another car and roll all of the engine and transmission componets into whats "the Devils Hot Rod" vert now. It was lighter and something he really did not care about messing up.
The Notch was retired and sat in the garage for along time. Then our buddy Russ Hare wanted to convert his rag top "The Sloval" into a gasser for the VW Classic weekend. Kris decided to pull the engine out of his mid engine sand rail and stick it in the Notch for that weekend. The Ercos came off the vert and he modified the rear bumper with a tow ball so we could flat tow "The Sloval" in from a few blocks away. We showed up to Kymco and everybody sh it.
The next day was the races at Carlsbad. We were fitting ignition issues because we afro engineerred everything in the car. When it pulled the monster wheelie against Mike Herbert, Kris took it as far as 2nd gear would go. When it came down it shoved both fenders back so the doors would not open, the beam was bent along with one tie rod and the horn was stuck on. 
He has put different engines in it when the fire is lit under his a ss to drive it around. But now it sits in our old mans garage covered up. The paint is little faded, their are some chips & scratches but other wise looks the same.
I will dig around and try to post some pictures this weekend.
Jason Lauffer
 

[nicolas]

thanks for all the info there.

so the type3 fan can be used to reasonalbly fast times??? (12 seconds is reasonably fast  ) so what makes the fan blow up the rpms or the quick revving?

[Luftkraft]

sorry, no engine bay pics

[Georg/DFL]

Hi Jason,

thank you so much for the information. I really love your brothers old car.
Would be great, if you could post some pictures!
Cheers,

Georg

[Zach Gomulka]

so what makes the fan blow up the rpms or the quick revving?

Both.

[Gary Justus]

The fan is directly fit to the crank(T3)

[nicolas]

The fan is directly fit to the crank(T3)

i know.

i'll elaborate a bit.

the flywheel will come off as well, BUT when is wedgemating, 8 dowling and so on necessary?

so,
the fan will come off, but it might be a good thing to know, what can work and until what RPM, what use, what time... so if someone tested this, maybe it was in this notch.

[67worshipper]

great car .looks hard as nails.i also love the towball if thats what it is