the 40mm 12 sec black '67.. Dave Conklin thread....
Zach Gomulka:
Quote from: Cornpanzer on November 25, 2009, 20:18:00 pm
Quote from: Zach Gomulka on November 25, 2009, 20:05:34 pm
Quote from: Brandon Sinclair on November 25, 2009, 19:42:22 pm
That engine in that car was sweet. I remember the threads on the old CLF talking about the engine-everyone liked to give Dave a hard time for the small valved heads. I think it had some funky jetting too like 150 mains and 150 airs with 40 vents, but the numbers didn't lie!
Did you smell something?? ;)
hey, I got a bum rap for that ;D You really think that some guy from Ohio figured that out? I was just the only guy who admitted playing with the nasty stuff! :o
I knew you were down in the 12's on pump... but I didn't know it was that far down!
Here's one vote for putting it back on IDA's ;)
Jim Ratto:
never ridden in Dave's car, but it sure goes against "the need" for 11:1, megaflow race heads, FK89 and everything else that turned fast street VW's into nothing much more than "conversation pieces".
Cornpanzer:
Quote from: The Ideaman on November 25, 2009, 21:57:39 pm
Dave, I'm pretty surprised with the low compression it picked up anything with the "can". Around the same time, we put some Propylene oxide into a low compression 2387, and it didn't do a thing except smell funny. Other guys with high(12-13 to one) compression picked up 2-3 tenths. Your car and the Palmers' were my favorites of the "Behind the orange curtain" tour.
Thinking about it now, it was pretty silly to spend $50 a gallon on a toxic chemical in an attempt to eke anoth tenth out of the car if that. I suspect that a tenth was all it ever gave me.
Thanks Jim for the kind words. The car means a lot to me. I dont play with it as much as I should, but it isnt going anywhere.
Like I said, the paint is getting pretty hinky, so someday I will go through it. I have a lot of choices. I keep telling myself that I am ready to chop out the roll bar and return it to the IDA spec...but then I drive it! Seriously, that kind of power in a VW is a real hoot. I am totally done with the racing thing, (way too lazy for that action any more) but part of me knows that there is a 10.50 or better in that car and I would like to have one last blast at driving to the track, laying down a mid 10 and driving it home.
Other days I look at it and want to strip it down, dechrome it, buggy bumper it and build a "real" Cal-Look car like these guys from the UK and Europe are building. But I dont know...it has an awful lot of history just like it is.
The third option is to just freshen it up and return it to the way it was in 2003 when we drug the cars out to California. I just cant leave things alone. I have the attention span of a retarded kitten and I get restless if I'm not changing things. :)
Cornpanzer:
:)
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: Cornpanzer on November 25, 2009, 23:08:18 pm
Quote from: The Ideaman on November 25, 2009, 21:57:39 pm
Dave, I'm pretty surprised with the low compression it picked up anything with the "can". Around the same time, we put some Propylene oxide into a low compression 2387, and it didn't do a thing except smell funny. Other guys with high(12-13 to one) compression picked up 2-3 tenths. Your car and the Palmers' were my favorites of the "Behind the orange curtain" tour.
Thinking about it now, it was pretty silly to spend $50 a gallon on a toxic chemical in an attempt to eke anoth tenth out of the car if that. I suspect that a tenth was all it ever gave me.
Thanks Jim for the kind words. The car means a lot to me. I dont play with it as much as I should, but it isnt going anywhere.
Like I said, the paint is getting pretty hinky, so someday I will go through it. I have a lot of choices. I keep telling myself that I am ready to chop out the roll bar and return it to the IDA spec...but then I drive it! Seriously, that kind of power in a VW is a real hoot. I am totally done with the racing thing, (way too lazy for that action any more) but part of me knows that there is a 10.50 or better in that car and I would like to have one last blast at driving to the track, laying down a mid 10 and driving it home.
Other days I look at it and want to strip it down, dechrome it, buggy bumper it and build a "real" Cal-Look car like these guys from the UK and Europe are building. But I dont know...it has an awful lot of history just like it is.
The third option is to just freshen it up and return it to the way it was in 2003 when we drug the cars out to California. I just cant leave things alone. I have the attention span of a retarded kitten and I get restless if I'm not changing things. :)
you and I are riding in the same boat. I look @ my car, and think how proud I was of it when it ran 12.60's, and though it did it on pump gas, it was still a close ratio, slick'd prima donna that truly was driven a fraction of the time I drive it now. My paint is definitely showing its 20 year old too, lots of nicks and knocks. I look at and think "one of these days.... I will repaint it same color, leave the brightwork, leave the US bumpers, leave the Japanese BRMs...etc", then I get into the groove of "nope I'm gonna build my dream California Look thing, Porsche 930 Ice Blue, fully dechromed, no bumpers, 911 alloys in RSR finish (7" rear), huge cc 230hp flashbulb motor, 5 speed, FTC m/s...etc...", but truly, I think I am going to let my kid's blossoming interest in VW's continue to grow, and end up letting him dictate what we do... within reason of course... (no Baja jobs ::))
I think, if you enjoy driving the car with the turbo.... if it blows the cobwebs out of your eyes, then leave it dude... you have the 911S too for the 'refined' side of things, right? ::)
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