Hot rod drag week 2019, 2 x aircooled turbo VWs at least

[richie]

We are in Old cabrio will be doing drag week again this year, and our good friend Steve D is also in with his now turboed beetle

Looks like it sold out in about 7 minutes, thats 400 entries in that time

[Glauco]

Congratulations!   

[Steve D.]

This year is gonna be a good one!

:edit: Apparently it sold out all 400 spots in 4min 50sec!

[leec]

Nice one 

[andy198712]

i'll be trying to find a place to watch it online !

best of luck!!

[modnrod]

Wow! Sold out that quick!
Have fun. 

[RichardinNZ]

Looking forward to watching online and the team Facebook updates.

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[Eddie DVK]

Nice Richie… good luck this time..

[volkskris]

Cool! I hope you can both make it to the end 

[j-f]

Good luck!

Do you have any goal or average ET for this year?

[richie]

Thanks, should be good and want to finish the week 1st of all, but the aim is 9s every day

[Chip]

Are you making any big changes to the engine for this go around? I assume you will be running the roller cam 4" JPM engine again right? Corn fed or gasoline? Good luck, I look forward to watching your progress again!

[BeetleBug]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

[richie]

Are you making any big changes to the engine for this go around? I assume you will be running the roller cam 4" JPM engine again right? Corn fed or gasoline? Good luck, I look forward to watching your progress again!

Going over next month to work on car, I did some changes to oiling system & rockers to get more oil on valve train & heads to keep it all a bit cooler as dry sump scavenge was to efficient, and swapped out ex valve to stainless as the Ti ones were worrying me as we had durability issues with them in another engine, I also replaced all the slip joints on header with V bands as well as it was quite slow to build boost before so wanted it all sealed up tight   rest is the same still, while i am there hopefully dyno it on e85 and see what it makes, got an intercooler set up i made for it as well so if we have time test both ways, then after that decide if its enough, if not swap out to race fuel and intercooler for the racing part and e85 for drive.
With the fuel tech on car now I was able to get a decent tune on 91octane as well even with the 2100cc injectors on car now so it wont be a drama if we need fuel and e85 isn't available which was a real problem last time.
Only other thing I did was change 4th gear ratio as it was so tall i couldn't really use it except on freeway and I don't need to go 160mph + so dropped it a little to allow using it more

cheers Richie

[richie]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

We will look for you in the stands? 

[Trond Dahl]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

We will look for you in the stands? 

Challenge accepted Kalle?

[Erlend / bug66]

Are you making any big changes to the engine for this go around? I assume you will be running the roller cam 4" JPM engine again right? Corn fed or gasoline? Good luck, I look forward to watching your progress again!

Going over next month to work on car, I did some changes to oiling system & rockers to get more oil on valve train & heads to keep it all a bit cooler as dry sump scavenge was to efficient, and swapped out ex valve to stainless as the Ti ones were worrying me as we had durability issues with them in another engine, I also replaced all the slip joints on header with V bands as well as it was quite slow to build boost before so wanted it all sealed up tight   rest is the same still, while i am there hopefully dyno it on e85 and see what it makes, got an intercooler set up i made for it as well so if we have time test both ways, then after that decide if its enough, if not swap out to race fuel and intercooler for the racing part and e85 for drive.
With the fuel tech on car now I was able to get a decent tune on 91octane as well even with the 2100cc injectors on car now so it wont be a drama if we need fuel and e85 isn't available which was a real problem last time.
Only other thing I did was change 4th gear ratio as it was so tall i couldn't really use it except on freeway and I don't need to go 160mph + so dropped it a little to allow using it more

cheers Richie

How is the E85 availability on this years event? Having a E85 race map, and a gas map should be "easy enough" to make?

Did you run last year without an intercooler?

[BeetleBug]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

We will look for you in the stands? 

Challenge accepted Kalle?

I`m afraid not. Currently busy with some time and money consuming projects.

-K-

[Trond Dahl]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

We will look for you in the stands? 

Challenge accepted Kalle?

I`m afraid not. Currently busy with some time and money consuming projects.

-K-

Those are usually the best ones :-)

[richie]

How is the E85 availability on this years event? Having a E85 race map, and a gas map should be "easy enough" to make?

Did you run last year without an intercooler?

#Generally in that area looks pretty good but as they don't tell us route until after we made the passes at track each day its hard to know 100% if there are some on route

Yes no intercooler then

cheers Richie

[Neil Davies]

Keeping it real! Very inspiring Richie and Steve D.

-K-

We will look for you in the stands? 

Challenge accepted Kalle?

I`m afraid not. Currently busy with some time and money consuming projects.

-K-

I've got those too - usually known as wife and child... 
Looking forward to the live streams every day - new school will allow me to have it on the big screen in my classroom all the time!

[dragvw2180]

 HOT ROD Drag Week 2019 Dates and Tracks Announced!
Hmmm , Dimwiddie is only a couple hours from my house .
DATES AND TRACKS:
Sunday, September 8 (tech)   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Monday, September 9   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Tuesday, September 10   Rising Sun, MD   Cecil County Dragway
Wednesday, September 11   Atco, NJ   Atco Dragway
Thursday, September 12   Budds Creek, MD   Maryland International Raceway
Friday, September 13   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Dinwiddie is only a couple hours away from my house.

[richie]

HOT ROD Drag Week 2019 Dates and Tracks Announced!
Hmmm , Dimwiddie is only a couple hours from my house .
DATES AND TRACKS:
Sunday, September 8 (tech)   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Monday, September 9   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Tuesday, September 10   Rising Sun, MD   Cecil County Dragway
Wednesday, September 11   Atco, NJ   Atco Dragway
Thursday, September 12   Budds Creek, MD   Maryland International Raceway
Friday, September 13   North Dinwiddie, VA   Virginia Motorsports Park
Dinwiddie is only a couple hours away from my house.

Come out and watch then Mike, be good to put face to the name   cheers Richie

[dragvw2180]

I may just do that Richie , I already talked to my race partner John Toomey about it .  I will bring my motor home and camp out . Mike McCarthy

[Eddie DVK]

Are you making any big changes to the engine for this go around? I assume you will be running the roller cam 4" JPM engine again right? Corn fed or gasoline? Good luck, I look forward to watching your progress again!

Going over next month to work on car, I did some changes to oiling system & rockers to get more oil on valve train & heads to keep it all a bit cooler

cheers Richie

I liked the way Ray Vallero made his mod on extra cooling on the valve train.... by drilling a hole in the intake pushrod. (in this post http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,16934.60.html)
Did you do something like this Richie?

Wondering if this will work or give a loss in oil pressure.

Regards Edgar

[richie]

I liked the way Ray Vallero made his mod on extra cooling on the valve train.... by drilling a hole in the intake pushrod. (in this post http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,16934.60.html)
Did you do something like this Richie?

Wondering if this will work or give a loss in oil pressure.

Regards Edgar

Hi Eddie

no i did look into that but these pushrods are so thick[for the high spring pressure from roller cam] and so hard from heat treatment that we couldn't make a hole in them. As this pump has plenty of extra volume spare and excess is being bled off I should have enough in reserve to not see any difference

cheers Richie

[Erlend / bug66]

I liked the way Ray Vallero made his mod on extra cooling on the valve train.... by drilling a hole in the intake pushrod. (in this post http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,16934.60.html)
Did you do something like this Richie?

Wondering if this will work or give a loss in oil pressure.

Regards Edgar

Hi Eddie

no i did look into that but these pushrods are so thick[for the high spring pressure from roller cam] and so hard from heat treatment that we couldn't make a hole in them. As this pump has plenty of extra volume spare and excess is being bled off I should have enough in reserve to not see any difference

cheers Richie

A brake line tapped into the head “above” the springs should work fine?

Couple of holes per spring.

Saw a picture a time ago, will try to find it

[richie]

A brake line tapped into the head “above” the springs should work fine?

Couple of holes per spring.

Saw a picture a time ago, will try to find it

Was another thing I considered but really just isnt enough room  in there for that I think

[andy198712]

drill the rocks to squirt oil at the springs? are they bushed rockers?

[richie]

drill the rocks to squirt oil at the springs? are they bushed rockers?