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« Reply #300 on: September 25, 2016, 01:49:23 am »

Ok folks, firstly an apology for not updating this thread for over 2 years, I will attempt to post more often in future. So what's been happening in that time? Well anybody who saw it at the Volksworld show would have realized it was far from finished, no plumbing, wiring, suspension geometry set etc. What wasn't so obvious was the car was pretty much mocked up, so following the show the car has been rebuilt correctly.

First up was getting the car plumbed and wired, enter good friend and all round awesome pensioner, Bernard Newbury. A couple of weekends at Bernies and we had the car sorted on those fronts. I will post some pictures when I can, but needless to say it has all been done to his usual perfect standards.

As I mentioned in a previous post the NOS Front Wilwood brake kit I bought wasn't playing ball and I just couldn't get it all to work together. I came to the conclusion that whatever this kit or kits was it wasn't going to fit without some fabrication work. So, out came the whole beam and it was delivered to Jim Smith at Cotsweld who made new caliper brackets and fitted new, billet Wilwood Dynalite calipers (very sexy  Grin) Beam back in the car, next up was a trip over to Chris Isaacs for a few small jobs and the fitting of a JCL style steering set up and Cromoly steering column.

This brings us up to this year and the realisation that, with hardly any chance to get into the garage due to work and family commitments, I was facing yet another racing season without a finished car, so I bit the bullet and took the car over to Phil West to complete the 1001 jobs still to do and to set up the engine and suspension. While the car was at Phil's he also weighed it and it came in at 525 kg all up race ready weight, lighter than I ever thought it would be. I must say Phil has worked his magic and the car looks, and more importantly, feels like the race car I had always hoped for.

This now brings us up to September this year and a race ready car waiting to go. VW Action was chosen as the first meeting, but unfortunately things didn't quite turn out as hoped. A rained off Saturday meant I had a chance for a single run on the Sunday morning before I had to pack up and go home. Having not done any drag racing for nearly 30 years and with a completely new car, a gentle check out pass was the only option. No burn out, gentle launch then a little more gas, 1st to 2nd then couldn't find 3rd! run aborted, but crossing the finish in 4th under power.

I decided that I would do one more meeting this year, the National Finals test and tune day. Conditions were perfect and I decided on another gentle check out pass, this time I got all gears and ran a very sedate 15.5, but more importantly everything felt great and gave me the confidence to do a harder run. 2nd pass, no burn out and a reasonably gentle launch then more gas and aggressive gear changes. Waiting at the top end to be towed back, I thought "that felt better, I think that might have been a 14 or maybe even high 13" when Dave Nicholls turned up and told me it was a 12.84 @100 mph I was completely stoked! A 3rd and final run resulted in a 12.67.

So, 10 years after I started I have achieved what I set out to do, build a light, small cubic inch car capable of running sub 13 sec quarters.

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« Reply #301 on: September 25, 2016, 08:08:10 am »

Great write up  Smiley
Can't wait to see the car in the flesh, I was super impressed when it was at volksworld. How much power does the motor make?
Lee
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« Reply #302 on: September 25, 2016, 09:57:04 am »

Good job Mark getting the car out and running 12s .  Theres plenty more in the car yet!
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« Reply #303 on: September 25, 2016, 10:49:23 am »

good job Wink
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« Reply #304 on: September 25, 2016, 17:58:22 pm »

Nice work! Those are Outlaw times... Wink
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« Reply #305 on: September 25, 2016, 21:23:13 pm »

Great write up  Smiley
Can't wait to see the car in the flesh, I was super impressed when it was at volksworld. How much power does the motor make?
Lee

Hi Lee.

Little Pete had the engine dynoed at JPM shortly before he sold it and it made 186 Hp and 150ft/lbs.
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« Reply #306 on: September 25, 2016, 21:23:53 pm »

good job Wink


Thanks Melvin
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« Reply #307 on: September 25, 2016, 21:24:46 pm »

Good job Mark getting the car out and running 12s .  Theres plenty more in the car yet!

Thanks Dave and thanks again for all your help Friday.
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« Reply #308 on: September 25, 2016, 21:25:21 pm »

Nice work! Those are Outlaw times... Wink

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« Reply #309 on: September 25, 2016, 21:31:03 pm »

Good job Mark getting the car out and running 12s .  Theres plenty more in the car yet!

Thanks Dave and thanks again for all your help Friday.

no problem. glad I could help
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« Reply #310 on: September 26, 2016, 16:02:49 pm »

Well done mate....glad you got down the track...and in style!!  Cool



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« Reply #311 on: September 26, 2016, 20:28:35 pm »

Well done mate....glad you got down the track...and in style!!  Cool





Thanks Ian

More to come next year hopefully!
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« Reply #312 on: September 27, 2016, 21:55:41 pm »

Your bug looks awesome. Well done on the times  Smiley
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« Reply #313 on: September 29, 2016, 00:13:53 am »

Your bug looks awesome. Well done on the times  Smiley

Cheers
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« Reply #314 on: October 01, 2016, 18:15:33 pm »

Congratulations bud! Cool
Looks great, you must be buzzing! Grin
Now we need to get side by side.. Wink
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