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Hello Everyone,

I am pleased to announce that the 'Outlaw Flat Four Drag Racing Club' will be running one of its 2009 MSA Championship rounds at Bug Jam next year. Full details of our race dates will be published at www.outlawflatfour.com soon but in the mean time have a look below at what's install for you vw drag race fans!!


May 2nd/4th - Springspeed Nationals ,Shakespeare County Raceway (MSA Championship Round)

May 30th/31st - Yanks Weekend/NASC Gary’s Picnic, Shakespeare County Raceway (Feature Event)

June 13th/14th – The Summer Nationals, Santa Pod (MSA Championship Round)

June 27th/28th - NSRA Nostalgia Nationals (Feature Event limited to 6 cars)

July 4th/5th and 6th - European Bug Inn, Chimay, Belgium (Feature Event)

July 17th/18th and 19th – Bug Jam, Santa Pod (MSA Championship Round)

August 21st/22nd and 23rd - Open Sport Nationals, Shakespeare County Raceway (MSA Championship Round).

Sept 18th/19th/20th - NSRA Hot Rod Drags (Feature Event Limited to 6 cars only)

Sept – 26th/27th – The National Finals, Santa pod (MSA Championship Round)

Regards Paul ;D

5 MSA rounds at two different tracks? sounds like some sort of national championship ;D ;D ;D ;D

looking forward to it ,  ;D

Great news!

Thats really cool that you'll be at Santa Pod  ;D I knew it wouldn't be long ;)  :) (Although I thought that there was a conspiracy theory that VW racing at Santa Pod was done  ;) )

Really well done though, the club is extremely professional and is a credit to VW racing  :)

Thats good news.  :)

Good work Paul, that's great news! 8)

it will be good to see you all there with your cars 8) doing what we do best ;D ;D

Impressive programme of events!  8)

awesome - well done to all involved -  can't wait for crewing duties...! ;) :D

The Summer Nats and National finals will be added to my list of things to do next year then. Awesome.

It would be good to catch up with you Ant. Bernie

Definitely.

I spoke to Pete on the phone on Monday and realised the last time I saw you all was at the pod a year ago.

its going to be a busy year.

I might have to come down to the Pod for the first time since F&T 2007! ;D

I can't wait to see this, in fact I will be at Bug Jam for three days rather than just one as in previous years.

I will also be venturing across to Shakespeare County Raceway as well.

Gotta love that air cooled pan draggin' ;D

More power, quite literally, to the Outlaws.

any outlaws going to ebi?

See you all at Pod this weekend, we'll be setting off shortly. Peak Perf day tomorrow :)

:)

WOOHOO is all i have to say!!Oh and thanks to a big bunch of people  :)

Heres to O/FF 621 ;)

I hear you ran a 11.9 Adelle! Good work and welcome to the Outlaws 8) matt

 8)

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Hey Matt, Yeah 11.92 @ 111MPH with a 1.52 60ft.
On the run against Paul i redlit, however went 12.10 @ 112MPH but with a 1.85 60ft, So hopefully more to come :)





Thanks for the pictures Matt !

Definitely looked like there's more in it. It's a really cool car, nice going.  8)

A couple of videos from the weekend  ;D

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Can we have a repost please Ben??? ;)

that's better ;D

Hi!

I'm thinking about the Bug Jam maybe I'll be there on sunday.
If everything goes to plan...finally with the car!!!!

Adele:
love your car! I saw it at gary's very nice!!!!

See you!

Have checked with DFDS Tor Line regarding a trip for us to Bug Jam,they have freight ships going from Göteborg in Sweden to Tilbury-UK.They leave from Göteborg on Tuesday,and arrive back in Göteborg on Thursday the week after.Got the price today on boat only,21000 Nkr or approx 2000 GBP..  :-\

Did you check the Brevik (Telemark) to Immingham?

Less than half price from what I can see on their home page:

http://www.dfdstorline.com/DfdsTorLine/EN/Presentation/Passengers/PassengerFares/NorBridge.htm (http://www.dfdstorline.com/DfdsTorLine/EN/Presentation/Passengers/PassengerFares/NorBridge.htm)

I can highly recommend the DFDS service JHU is refering to below here.

When we enquired about Immingham to Brevvik for SCC it came out to be around £1800 for 4 people, Motorhome and Trailor. If you are only going 2 people it was around £1400/£1500.

If anyone does decide to do this, we can always meet you as Immingham is only 55 minutes from us, and only 2/2.5hrs towing from Santa POD.

If we can help at all please let us know!! We also have spare beds and room for a Trailor/s  if anyone wants to stop after Bug Jam, if you are travelling back the following week :)
:)

Adele

Thank you Adele,that is really kind of you!Those ferry prices are just too high for me right now, we'll see if we can find some other way.

No Problems Stian! If we can help at all just shout ! :)

Me and a friend plan to visit Bug Jam this year. So I wonder if some one know how much the ferry cost between Calais and Dover for one car and two pers. Can one just show up before the ferry leave the port, or must you reserve a head....

This years Bug Jam is gonna be awesome - a really great turn out from O/FF. I just hope I get a chance to watch you guys on the track rather from from the pairing lanes.

Adele, I saw your '11' great stuff.

See you all a week Thursday.

Book ahead, if you arrive early they normally put you on the next available ferry.  Book online and its normally a maximum of £100.  Try Norfolk line Dunkirk to Dover, normally cheaper.

And basically the only reason why I am going to Bug Jam this year....... but will start going to Shakespeare more to see the O/FF run....

to any Outlaws out there:

let me know if you need spares bringing up

clutches - Bernie and Phil
lash claps - Andy Marriot
Cables - Paul Bate ;D

i'll be leaving work at 5.30 tomorrow and will be at the pod about 9 ;D

Ben,

Do you have any Daikan Discs ?

Adele

Got metal woven discs, but not Daiken brand :)

Looking forward to Bug Jam!

17 O/FF members entered, so should be a good weekends racing! ;D
Matt Keene
Jason Rew
Pete Shattock
Wayne "Hector" Howe
Frank Hofmann
Dave Dinning
James Wotton
Anton Murrells
Martin Taylor
Phil West
Pete Englezos
Adele Woodbridge
Bernie Newbury
Greg Bishop
Jim Smith
Joe Gallagher
Paul Bate
All official, paid up, sub 12.99 runners! ;)

Looks an awesome field, can't wait!

Fingers corssed the weather holds.

And 9 of them are 10sec cars to.

Which is nice  ;D

You missed Chris E off the list. 14 of us at the track already  ;D

Sorry Chris! (Thanks Joe!) I took the list from Eurodragster, but I know the list isn't exactly right! ;)

Hello Outlaws!!

Chris E is RWYB with his new 1949 'Street Racer' should make the numbers and be out at Shakey for the next one cool hey !!

Paul :o

Have Matt Keene tested his car down the track yet,or do you start racing tomorrow?

Stian

Hello Stian,

No Matt's not had a run yet it's been raining but hopefully later today or tomorrow.

Regards

Paul

fantastic WE.
thank Paul and all the outlaw crew for the welcome.
At the next event I will run with you

Cédric

Awesome cars guys, special congratulations to Matt Keane - the car looked fantastic.

Congratulations to James Wotton new pb 10.24 :)

I am with you on that one. Really pleased for you James. Bernie

No longer is Miss Daisy in the house!

Well done James, going to have to pull my finger out! lol


And well done to Keeno, very impressive car. its going to be one to watch. the old spagettie boiler did good ;)

Martin (slow boy) Taylor

 ;D Wahey!

You'll get there :)

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Pair of IDAs should fix that...

2nded,well done Jim,finally all the hard work and perserverance paid off :)

cheers richie,uk

Well Said, Awesome work Mr Wotton :D

Well done to everyone, and thanks for a good weekend :)

Adele

Cheers Adele for all the tea, was a good weekend despite the car not playing ball!!!
Well done to everyone else and here's to the next one!

Crackin work Mr Wotton  8) , wish I was there to see that  ??? but I had a hard task master forcing me to make his induction system up  ;)
Good work Mr Keene too low 11 first time out mucho respect  8) 8), anyone got any pix , footage etc

I tried the IDA's keith but the laptop kept coming up with error messages,

I would like to say a big thanks to all the people that have helped me with help /advise to get to this it's way beyond my expections.   :) :) :)

cheers james.

Hello James,

WELL DONE!! Top job I know how hard you have been working and it takes a hell of a lot of mental strengh to keep going.

You deserve it Paul

 8)

Ps, Can we stop racing we stop racing each other now? Go and pick on someone else LOL!!

Hello Cedric,

Good to meet up with you again, glad that you had a good time make sure you keep in contact and let us know when you are planning to bring the car over.

All the best Paul

A few pics in here: http://www.pbase.com/slimboyfat/bug_jam_23

Matt's car looks awesome:

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Hey, thanks Gwynn  8)

I checked out your pix on VZI and have to say they are amazing 8) Top work fella ;)

its the detail i like so much on Keeno's car, like the side trim where the running board should go. so many little details it just looks fantastic!

[cough]Flashback c. 1996[/cough] ;D

No Worries :) Top pics are easy with Top Cars ;)

Have to say also loving Steve and Adele's car:

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I look like a goombah! Ha Ha  ;) You can see where the helmet has moved my sunglasses  ::)  ;D ... Of all the pictures!

Thanks Gwynn

Willy Wonka wants his glasses back Adele :D

(http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/a/images/Willy.Wonka.Johnny.Depp.tv.jpg)

LMAO!

Adele, You trying to run Steve down in that 2nd one??

it's Adele saying 'unless you take this tinware off Steve, I will catch you' :) 

Oh god, i dont think i have laughed so hard for quite some time  :D  :D
However, Thanks Ben, thats really kind of you! I happen to like my sunglasses... Steve Hates them!  ;D


Joe, Yes !
Oh guess what!! I have won the battle... Tinware off this weekend.... Its infectious Bernie ;)

Nah, you cant do that, How you going to drive it on the street!


Martin

RIP Street Car
Long live the Race Car  ;D

Genius!!!! Haha!!!!

:D Maybe not for forever but for the time being! I'd like some new parts now though! ;) 

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Sorry thats gold  ;D ;D ;)

Martin Spits Tea out over the keyboard!  LMAO

Glenn, you and Boom Boom need to get your eyes tested ;D

Sorry Matt I could'nt help myself  ;D ;D

I have uploaded a bunch of vids but they came out pretty rubbish, SORRY!

http://www.youtube.com/user/alex4057

Great vids Alex 8) They have a real 70's feel to them aswell 8). Just ordered some new springs and shocks for the rear end of my car to stop it dragging its arse on the track :o

Matt, how do you know what springs etc to order if you haven't corner-weighted the car? ???

He's ordered extras....


Im having to go down the same route. Off to Websters next month.

Got a soft spot for bays at the track  :D
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All calculations thus far have proved to be bunk. The car weighs 737 kg, of which 255 is up front and 482 is on the blunt end. Taking into account the positioning of the shocks, angle and distance from pivot point is not as easy as simple math. Sometimes you just have to suck it and see. I am going for an educated guess and have ordered several sets of heavier springs. It will work eventually, I just need to play around with spring pressures and valving. Taking Russ' car as a base line I worked out the difference in distance from the pivot/spring points and calculated the initial spring pressures. They are much heavier than Russ' even though his car weighs 400 lb more than mine. My sums said 600lb springs and that proved to be way off the mark. I am now going up in spring rate considerably and will work from there onwards.

Speaking to Dave Dinning a lot over the last few weeks helped massively. Dave's experience was very similar to mine. He did all the corner weighing stuff and still went through six or seven sets of springs before he hit the nail on the head. Incidentally, Dave now runs double the spring rate that he once started off with... The proof in the pudding is in the tasting. Mnnnnn, pudding... ;D

Me and Russ had the very same convertaion, we think his springs are way to soft, it the fact that the car runs on the T2 bump stops once it launches. the likes of me and you dont have this facility.



Martin

Are you going to up your spring rate as well Martin? After that slo-mo vid it would appear your ass is soggy, too! Unless of course you are using your muffler as a wheelie bar ;D

Yeah the car is off to Websters next month, it looks like the conversion i did to the trans has let the suspension do what its suppose to do!  were also looking at the aero stuff seeing as the car is starting to fly!

Hello All,

If you enjoyed Bug Jam then you might want to check out the Outlaw Flat Four Happenings!!



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