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Finally it is happening.
I now live in the same country as this dragster.
I have collected parts for many years to get it running again.
Original engine from 1978.
This time with a Autorotor to bump up the noise factor.
090 bus automatic transmission.

To begin with, pictures will tell the rest of the story for now.

Edit: I will fix the size problem but not tonight. Sorry.

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When it was being built; 1977
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GO Fredrik !!!!!!!
Coollll project

Goodluck

Sorry for the size....newer Photobucket is not my friend.
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WTH...that is no good. I will try to fix that but it will not be tonight.

Yes please my screen is not that big LOL

Wow, that´s fantastic news Fredrik!!!!  :o :o
Did you move back to Sweden permanently?

Yes!
Here I am!
And I love it!

Still some pictures being too big.Plus the ones I edited are now too small. GRR.
I will fix later again...now I am at work and need to do that for a while.

Here is one of my history favorite moments.

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I`m loving this. I always liked the pictures you posted of this car. Never saw it in real life but I´m looking forward to seeing it for the first time.
Have fun

Great! Maybe we`ll see you at SCC 2014?:D

No SCC
At the best I will have the car running by end of season August/September.
Then it will only be local south Sweden strip testing on Malmö Raceway.
2015....that is not impossible.

Here is the transmission.
Dave Folts built.
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The spool

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What the engine looks like today.
Prior to being painted and polished.
Mechanically fully renovated.
New Supercharger drive to be added.

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The Supercharger "huffer" from Autorotor that will go on top.

Billet throttlebody built by a friend.
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Fredrik is that the 300m  hd inputshaft on that tranny?

gr henri

Yes Henri
And a lot more

The intercooler and ice tank.
Now I know what size to use.

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Cool   nice to see it finally will get back on the strip
I remember it from bug run 8 my first bug run  ;)

Return of the sub 300 kg. "Pank",-Definitely cool !! What nozzle size did Gösta Grubb at "Onaneramera" use on his "spraying device" ?  ;D

E.T.: 6.71 on 1/8 mile (street tyres) at Bug-Run back then ?

Regards from Griebel

Griebel, you got your records right.
Now sub 300 kg will be more like close to 400 kg but double hp.
I think it might be something like 380-400 hp.

It will be a wide dragster. Maybe a bit wider than before but this time 10,5" slicks.
I love my Strange axles. A good feeling to know this part will not give trouble.
40 splines and gun drilled.
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Best ET in 1980 was 10.14 and 208 km/h.
372 kg with me in it.
175 hp.
D/D record holder 78-79-80
10.27 and 204 km/h in 1979

Now it should be a bit quciker, but just for the fun feeling.

Hi Fredrik. Aren't you getting a bit old for this  ;). I will swap you the dragster for a very nice rocking chair and pipe.

Hi Chris,
I will bypass that chapter in life. Drag racing and more, to the end.
But thanks for the offer.
Chris Kareseminis TF driver is 86 and I saw him in Gaineseville in April. my hero and role model.

A good friend of mine retired (apparently!  :D) decades ago. He now runs his shop when he feels like it, just a small shed full of old equipment tucked away, still very much in demand by the hotrod crowd (he can still hand cut and bend louvres in bonnets, among other work.........). He's 83.
When he was 77, after 50 years of trying, he finally took his hand-made 32 Coupe to win THE big meet here. He built everything on the car before I was born, and I'm now almost 50. A bigger, nastier engine would go in every few years, and when he took the big trophy a few years ago he was running a 468ci alloy-head motor into the low-8s. This car, still in low-8s spec, is what he now drives through the local traffic to work in his shed............
Coolest read-deal hotrodder in the world I rekn!  ;D

I really like your input post Modnrod.

I see a reason to go south.  ;D

Awesome car and project - can't wait to see it run in Malmö!
:)
Johan

The 6.71 run...Super poor video quality :-[,-I'll make a digi/cleaned-up edition later,- 2 runs from that event...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuW-D__rIec (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuW-D__rIec)

Thanks Griebel!

Never seen any video of that car.
Today I will download a practice tree. He is one car length ahead of me, if he did not redlight.
Very cool for me to see this video.

Nothing like when mockup is showing the angles and relations that have been circulating in the head for very long.

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I love every little progress but this one is big for me.
It is a lot of planning but now I can both see and feel it.

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Upgrade. More hp. Autorotor 2,6 H
Thanks JM Tech for a good swop!

Today I picked up my new front wheels.
Sent my 36 year old Avon Speedmasters to Jon Hansen in California.
They will be used on a nostalgia exhibition front engine dragster. Museum, not running.
In return he sent me these new tires and a stage disc. Thanks Jon!

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Another delivery!

New slicks! More traction and better gear ratio for my purpose.
Plus it does not have cracks like the 30 year old ones.
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Supercharger stuff.
Restraints and blow off panels
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Arm restraints
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HANS
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Two very cool drawings I found.
Original drawing 1977.
Then the three wing front design that we built but never used. Pretty innovative to be 1978. I think.


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Not a lot happened since spring on the dragster...but now with my beetle running again, basic clean up in the workshop, inverter heating going in, new fluoroescent electrical wiring soon (not like today with extension cords :-) ) , the dragster is in focus again.
Just got my S60 wiring loom from Martin at MEF.
Very professional! Thanks!

As I used to be professional wire loom maker (building three seater planes..... and not with extension cords) I had the initial idea to do my own loom but then changed my mind and invested in this one. I do not regret it.

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For the sharp eyed you can also see a TIV trubo on the stand. So no, I have not changed personality, I keep on having few too many projects in the air at the same time, but that is just me.

Did I hear somebody mention 'type 4 turbo'??  ;D

Work on, you slacker!  :D :D :D

Nope....in fact I see that I wrote "trubo"...... :)

But yes, it originates as a Whipple SC engine way back when I lived in Poland and then turbo and now when I am living in the same place without traveling, it is time to do something about it.
Look, I posted a little bit about it on this forum before.
http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,20833.0.html

Transbrake is inhouse now. Maybe it will be used in this dragster one day, probably I will try it first in my old -67 beetle.
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Six years later! Come on, there must be more to tell than about a transbrake...  ;D

For sure...... but under  the title Pank II.
I bought a VW turbo dragster from USA. Raced it and now it is ready to race again..... no turbo, a large Whipple screwcharger.

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,27338.0.html