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I'm gone test this weekend in Bitburg, who else is coming?

Sven.

Well...

All depends on whether I get the car ready (or not). Some final things need fixing, but I have taken some days off of work to get them done. and then lets hope I haven't bought a cat in a bag. Or rather an anchor on a car.

One catch is that the car really needs to drive perfectly as I'll be doing its maiden trip Ghent-Bitburg, race and back. That'll put some stress on it. If not on the car at least on it will on me.

Cool dude! I hope I can assemble my turbo engine by the end of the week and then Sven won't be the fastest Belgian anymore haha!

ciaoo

Christoph

Are you guys racing the whole weekend,from saturday on?
Or sunday only?

All depends how much fun we have  8)

What happend with the engine dude?


gr henri

I will be there too.
After engine trouble (my first build) No Street eleminators, no DDD but now my engine sounds good. Time for the second smooth tests with stock trans and streettires.


Dirk

Well, no Bitburg for me to close the year (or start it in my case  ;)). The engine is in and performing like an animal, however I need to finish some odd jobs to be able to race.

Biggest hurdle to tackle is that the generator doesn't seem to charge  :( Tomorrow I'll do some more testing of that thing and hope it is just the regulator. Next I need to get the front wheel geometry fixed, I'll just have that done as it is mighty squirrely right now. And finally, what is holding me back to race for sure is I need to weld in some safety belt mounting points. Oh, and get the battery strapped down so it doesn't slide all over the passenger side floor.

There is always next year!

Hi guys,

Just back from the workshop.. the blue GIMINI bug and my little black bomber are ready to rumble! Tomorrow we'll test and tune, so hope for the best! ;)

Cheers,

Christoph

Tell us  :D how did it go?

Hi guys,

The first test was awesome, Sven did a 10.50 and I did without wheelybars 11.2 and a hughe wheely, so high that the parashutemount scratched the ground! The second run with wheelybars and a bit of slip on the clutch, a wheely of 70cm and a 11.00 sec. pass and 202km/h...then the last run perfect launch of 1.38 on the 60ft and when I came down and shifted to 2nd gear I lost control of the car and went several times sideways... I also drove the richt wheel into the grass and did 16 seconds then.. ;)

Cheers,

Christoph

A good picture tells more than thousand words, thank you mr. Maquoi.

See you guys have a lot of fun.
Great pics btw.
 ;)

You guys had a lot of fun. Perfect Weather. Perfect Times. Great Pics.

I went yesterday to Bitburg. Not a lot's of Bug but I have seen a few runs of a new white race bug. Super nice car, very well done.
Good weather but ice cold wind!

Wooow !!!

I just upload a video.
Smoke is oil spiting on the exhaust.

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Verry nice looking car!!! Congrats with that time!  ;)

Here are our runs...

http://proformance.skynetblogs.be/

Cheers,

Christoph

Wow....that car is fast,and that for the first time out.I saw it @ DDD,but it didn't run there.
Thanks for the pics and video J-F.

Hope to see your cars running next year.Nice wheelies and LOTS of power.Thx for the vid (en blijven oefenen) Christoph.   :D

The 10,6 was the second run down the full 1/4 mile . The dyno testing one week before showed good numbers. But we do not run dyno numbers but time slips :-) . Hopefully we get some better times next year , Sven has to do some work on the car.

Udo

I'm already busy, hopefully I'm not the only one.

Sven

The white one is also your car?  :o

I think there is a misunderstanding,that new white bug is from Germany,and the driver/owner is Sven Lawitschka.
So there are 2 Sven's with a fast dragbug at Bitburg.  ;D   ;D   (and I think that Udo was referring to him,.....)

That one has a very BIG type 4 engine in it with Remmele heads if I am not mistaken  ::)
Like it! It runs the rpm's for sure! Excellent time as well. Well done 'other Sven'  ;)

Sorry , no Remmele heads . They will not perform like that . I did some work on Pauter heads on that engine ...

Udo

Well, close but no sigar then  ;)
Nice work Udo!

Can he run a bit on the street as well with the Pauter heads?

That car is not for street use . The engine would be ok for driving on the street , but only a little . the injection works fine so there are not the problems like you have with carburators

Udo