12sec 1776 challenge

[Anders]

[richie]

You shouldn't have posted the tow car, I thought you meant you and Erlend drove them all the way to Johannes and I was really impressed

Good luck at SCC, am sure it will be fun

cheers Richie

[Anders]

Thanks! SCC is always the highlight of the season and I hope I can post a nice timeslip here afterwards.

I would have impressed myself too if we drove both cars down to Johannes of their own accord! 
I tried it out earlier this year on the highway, goes straight as an arrow after I got the wheel alignment sorted, but not quite the freeway flyer with the new box.
120kph equates to 5000 rpms, it's a little tiresome in the long run... 
 
cheers

[Anders]

Yupp

[Griebel]

Awsome,-congrats 

[richie]

Awsome,-congrats 

x2

Well done

[Erlend / bug66]

Time to put some lighter wheels with light tires on. Good thing I stripped my R&P, so you can borrow some real wheels


Let's get you even deeper in to the 12's!

[Anders]

Thanks guys!

The run felt really good and the car pulled hard, so was anxious to see what time I had produced when driving back to the pits.
Along the way I got stopped by Folke and Jon, since they seemed very excited I got my hopes up for a nice timeslip and when they told me 12.49, the feeling I got was indescribable! Finally the hard work was starting to pay off!

I'am specially pleased to have done it on my old cheepo kumho solus tires and full interior with the big heavy speaker box I built in the back. If feel the street car bit of the challenge is well taken care off!

Sadly I didn't get any other good runs in this weekend since the engine wouldn't play ball anymore.
After cleaning the jets, checking valves etc, I think I narrowed it down to a faulty plug, so should be an easy fix.

Next on the list is getting some lighter tires/rims for racing and with some more track time I might see it into the very low 12's!

And of course big thanks to all the guys organizing SCC and making it possible for me to race my car and have the time of my life.  

[JeeWee]

Congratulations Anders! Now I have read your thread I am even more impressed! Very nice job done and impressive results!

Thanks again for borrowing your other beetle at SCC and be so kind to us to give us a taxi to supermarket and using the grill!

[Anders]

Thanks, and it was the least we could do when you guys made the extra effort and traveled all the way from Holland to SCC!

[Anders]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpMZKENsWnY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/xpMZKENsWnY</a>

Video of the run.. Starting to get the hang of shifting with dog rings.

[darkmatter]

Great machine - great sound!