Hot Rod VW General Stories Thread
Martin S.:
Is it still considered a burnout if the road is wet? :-\
Martin S.:
Making the hole shot to the other side of the intersection with the right lane blocked
1776 and 165s. Wet road. :o
Matt Tobias:
One day I was driving home from work in my 65 bug. That 65 had a 2276cc with Street Eliminator heads, FK-8 cam and 48 IDAs. As I'm approaching a four-way stop light I press down on the brakes only to realize I have no front brakes, just rears. The rear brakes lock up and I start to slide toward the intersection. I'm going fast enough to I know I'm in trouble if I let off the brakes and I'm going to run through the middle of the intersection if I don't do something. There were some stragglers going through the light but luckily there was a clear spot for me and I had a brilliant flash of what to do. As I reached just the right spot I pushed in the clutch, revved the engine to about 3 grand and simultaneously popped the clutch and turned hard right on the steering wheel. The result was the most awesome thing I've ever accomplished as a driver. As you can expect the car threw itself around the corner in a tire screeching smokey display of ass-hole-ish-ness I don't think many people have ever witnessed LOL. The car made the turn perfectly and I took off like a bat out of hell in case they were any people of authority that might have witnessed what had happened. When I look back on that it puts a huge smile on my face cuz I was terrified the whole time but it worked out so amazingly well.
Jim Ratto:
A lot of good memories of the VW club I was in, during mid 1990's, taking our cars to Sears Point for the trophy weekend drags.
We had:
a 1969 Bug with 1776, stock valved heads, Engle 125 and 40IDF's going very low 15's
a 1969 KG with 1904, 041 heads, Engle 125 and 48 IDA going a little quicker (in all fairness, this car was geared way too tall)
a 1972 Super Bug with a bone stock 1600 with Kadrons, 4-into-1, and Bosch 010. With a switch to projected nose plugs we got this car into mid-17's
a stock 40HP 1965 Bug, modified with a velocity stack, 022 Porsche distributor and gutted tailpipes, running 20 seconds
and my '67 with 2276 and low compression (semi hemi) heads, K8 and 48's running high 13's
Sure, blasting the VW's down the track was fun, but a lot of the fun was the prep, the drive up, the jack ass talk in the pits and learning. Nobody got hurt and we were all able to drive our stuff home, and to work the next day. The words "period correct" and all that bullshit hadn't entered our consciousness yet.
Sam K:
I've been meaning to post a few stories here from the days when I was younger and more foolish. For a couple years around 1999/2000, my car had close ratio gears and much higher compression than it does now which as you would expect made for a lot of fun between stoplights but it was terrible on the highway. One particular sunny day, a fiend and I were driving on a street called Arapahoe road in an area of town that was pretty sparsely populated at the time. Some guys rolled up inthe lane to my right in an early fox body Mustang hatchback and after a couple miles of cruising next to them with some rev throwing and trash talking, we ended up next to them, we ended up stopped together at a light. As you would expect, when the light turned green we both went for it. Through first and second gears, our cars were pretty evenly matched but when I hit third gear, my bug pulled away from them. While that part wasn't too spectacular, as I shifted into 4th, my friend leaned out the window and waved goodbye to the guys in the 5.0. When we stopped at the next light and the Mustang, the passenger was laughing so hard that he was in tears. The driver wasn't amused and when my buddy asked if he wanted to try again, he declined. Good times.
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