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Title: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 30, 2009, 20:10:50 pm
This weekend is the final race here for the VW PRA,today there is an open house at Vee dub parts,tommorow there is a dyno day at Rancho,then sunday the race/car show at Fontana.

I will have my camera with me and will update the weekends activities as and when I can.

My car is back together and the problem I had found and fixed,so I am looking forward to some good passes on sunday.The temperature has cooled down and as long as the track is good we have the potential to see some quick,maybe even record passes.
It looks like there will be a good field in the heads up classes with both Pro mod and super street having bigger fields :)Thanks again to Jeff Denham for repairing my melted cylinder head and giving them a freshen up :) 

cheers richie,uk


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Ragtop on October 30, 2009, 20:41:04 pm
Good Luck Richie!!

/Johan


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Jesus on October 30, 2009, 21:21:44 pm
Have a good weekend i look forward to seeing the footage ;D

Cheers

Alex


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 31, 2009, 00:09:59 am
Heres a couple of pics from the Vee dub parts open house today,the exhaust shot of the low light convertable ghia is especially for monkiboy :)


Thanks to Greg,Jeff, Susy and all the staff for looking after everyone :)



cheers richie,uk


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 31, 2009, 00:12:12 am
Amazingly there was no sign of Keith Seume,he is quite partial to a open house or party :D




Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 31, 2009, 00:17:07 am
For lee :)


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 31, 2009, 00:22:45 am
and the last 2


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Lee.C on October 31, 2009, 00:41:29 am
Cool pic's - and cheers Mr Webb that Dual QP is Just Perfect - You always know what I like  ;) :-* ;D


P.S is that shop I got my tires from?


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on October 31, 2009, 00:50:24 am
Cool pic's - and cheers Mr Webb that Dual QP is Just Perfect - You always know what I like  ;) :-* ;D


P.S is that shop I got my tires from?

This is where John used to work,he has his own shop now for a couple of years,Dubbers toy box

cheers richie,uk


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Lee.C on October 31, 2009, 00:56:56 am
Cool pic's - and cheers Mr Webb that Dual QP is Just Perfect - You always know what I like  ;) :-* ;D


P.S is that shop I got my tires from?

This is where John used to work,he has his own shop now for a couple of years,Dubbers toy box

cheers richie,uk

Cool say hello from me :)

Any more info on that header/Dual QP's ???


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Udo on October 31, 2009, 07:53:01 am
Hi richie

Good luck to you all  :) and thanks for the updates for all the poor people like me that have to stay at home  :(

Udo


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: jr59 on October 31, 2009, 10:22:30 am
Well feeling  like Udo..... ;D ;D ;D
thanks



Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: DKO on October 31, 2009, 11:57:13 am
that late model green ghia for sale is nice. anyone have any more info ?


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on November 01, 2009, 01:36:18 am
Well in the pump gas class robert Kong won with his super squishie pistoned 66 ghia vert with 221whp  and outright Erci madsons vert ghia won with 760whp :o  It was definately a day for vert ghias :)

Some pics of who and what,the white ragtop bug was a very nice understated car and it smelt like it was running E85


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on November 01, 2009, 01:46:40 am
Roberts ghia  and


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: richie on November 01, 2009, 01:56:31 am
Waiting in line inside rancho

steve daltons  angleflow car made 217whp on 91octane pump gas

Julios 56 cab runs period tuned 36hp and made 63whp at 6100rpm,everyone around it was scared expecting something to let go

Eric calabrese red baron made 665whp on a carb drawthrough set up


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Berger on November 01, 2009, 11:10:46 am
Nice pics Richie :)
Any dyno results on your car?


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: BeetleBug on November 01, 2009, 11:22:35 am
Thanks Richie,

They had a live link from the dyno session and I hooked the pc to the TV and watched it. Unfortunately the mic was way to sensitive so we could not hear a dam thing at times but we could watch the cars being dynoed at least. I noticed the Baron made 665hp but they feel that the numbers was low? They ran 31lbs of boost yesterday and earlier they made 650hp on only 21lbs of boost. We could also see a fireball after the Madson run? Exhaust fire due to methanol? 767hp and 910nm is really impressive stuff. And all the results is wheel hp. And what happened when you dynoed? Tires rubbing?

Anyway, good luck with the racing today.

Best rgs
BB


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: lawrence on November 01, 2009, 20:04:49 pm
A lot of nice looking cars in those pictures. Thanks for posting, Richie. I remember watching and hearing Madson's ghia indoors on the VW Paradise dyno. INSANITY!!


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: nicolas on November 02, 2009, 16:35:56 pm
great stuff.

all those really big numbers, i still can't get my head around it. maybe someday i'll understand...

so don't be shy, what did you run?



Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: Jason Foster on November 04, 2009, 07:07:17 am
Richie did I think 395 at the wheels, and yes tires were rubbing first pull.


Title: Re: VW PRA racing season finals weekend at Fontana,USA
Post by: nicolas on November 04, 2009, 10:04:51 am
Richie did I think 395 at the wheels, and yes tires were rubbing first pull.

against what? wheelybar?

 ;D