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Not a beetle but that is a very nice looking car ....... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwF-kr91uxU

Udo

For sale one 4 bedroom house, 2 children and two VW bugs (both run the numbers until I saw video above) ;D

Fast Yank considered money your way. ;)

That's just AWESOME

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Thanks for posting that Udo, it wás awesome indeed.

Fucking hell  8) thats bad ass

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Real street cars have working wipers and a radio!

very cool!  :)

Thats crazy fast!

To drive in the rain with that fat tires and high hp is crazy! :o
My street Chevy has 18,5" wide tires and it's like driving on ice when it raines and it's low on hp!

very love lol wow

amazing for a street car!!!!!!!!!!! :o

way bitchen Chev 2. love the old school lenco. so i would gusse the way its sounds maybe a belt driven pro charger. I'm guessing. sounds NA on the staring line. the car has the hardware for sure. who ever doesn't have respect for the car has there head up there A//. thanks for that UDO. VERY NICE INDEED.     UD .   

watch what happens at the 1:10 or so mark...and again at the 2:50 mark.....that is why they take the wiper arms off of fast street cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrU58zbYn5Q

Here's a nice video of the six second pass, that includes a slow motion version which looks killer with the exhaust coming out of the rear & blow off valves up front (be sure to dbl click and view in HD format!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0de47YVUsc&fmt=22

It is a turbo car. 35 psi boost!

Interesting question would be, what is the fastest street car in denmark , sweden , germany, finnland , GB......etc.
Because of different rules in registration in all the different countries !
I think you would not get that car street legal in germany  ;)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-y2mxYS6c&feature=related

first time i see a gear shifter like that.
is that a different lever for each gear?

henk!!!

That is bitchin! 

I'm surprised no one brought up the whole "what's a street car?" discussion.   :D

The Chevy II has always been one of my faves and that car is wicked! ;D 8)

Henk. That is the good old relible Lenco gearbox its abox that was very popular in 70s 80s prostock cars A real mans box . And probebly the only box that could handle that kind of power.Bettter than SEX.  UD.

"Like automatic transmissions, Lencos employ planetary gearsets to handle massive amounts of torque. Three components are in constant mesh--the sun gear, three pinion gears, and the ring gear, so power is spread out over a much larger area than in a cluster gear transmission. A Lenco is still considered a manual transmission and requires a clutch between the engine and transmission. The clutch is only used during starting and stopping, though. This is a huge performance advantage--you can shift a Lenco at full-throttle without ever lifting off the gas. Lenco also makes the Lencodrive, a manumatic transmission that uses a torque converter in place of a clutch. There is no third pedal, but the driver still has to shift the gears manually.

Several different gear ratios are possible out of a single planetary gearset, and Lencos are designed to run two speeds out of a single case: one reduction (the ratio depends on the gears you choose) and 1:1 direct drive. Multiple speeds are possible by stacking cases together. If you want a three-speed transmission, you need two cases. If you want four speeds, you need three cases, and so on. Remember, each case has two speeds, but direct drive in one case transfers the power to the low ratio of the case behind it until there are no more cases to shift into.

Though the operation sounds confusing, it's actually quite simple and brilliant. Starting from a stop, each case is essentially in first gear--their low ratio. When the driver engages the clutch, engine power turns the ring gear in the first case (though the ring gears in all the cases are turning as well). The sun gear is held by the overrunning clutch, so the planetary carrier is the output. When the driver pulls the shift lever, he's actuating the multiplate clutch housed in a hub on the planetary carrier. When this clutch in engaged, the input (the ring gear) and the output (the planetary carrier) are now locked together and the whole assembly turns at a 1:1 ratio.

Sumek tells us that contrary to popular belief, you can drive a Lenco on the street. It upshifts and downshifts just fine. The only driveability issue to be aware of is that because of the way the overrunning clutch works, there is no engine braking unless all the cases are shifted into direct drive."
from: http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/ccrp_0904_inside_a_high_performance_drag_race_manual_transmission/lenco_racing_transmissions.html  ;)

thanks guys,for the explanation,never heard of.

henk!!!

Look at the ignition keys...

That car is insane!!!!

Fu"}=)g Hell, Thanks Udo !!!