LostinMaine
03-31-2010, 12:34 AM
This is how it looked when we first got it. Andrew, Rob, and I picked it up with a seized engine a couple boxes of spare parts, two spare motors, and 4 flat 20+ year old tires for FREE yes this car was given to us to make room for the previous owners new shifter kart
Somehow with some Marvels Mystery oil and luck we got it running. brought it to our first event and here is the result
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/andrewrun2.jpg
Yeah it F'n poured! then Andrew ran into one of the curbing because the breaks sucked and the tires had no grip. Those of you that have back doored a motorcycle can understand what it was like to slow that car down for the course. Then we ran it again a couple weeks later. I couldn't make it but Rob launched it off the course at the Colisee and really bent up one of the wheels. That was it; we were upgrading rubber. Andrew and Rob did the measurements and ordered a set of 13x9 fronts and 13'10 rears. with some Hoosier cast offs. The car then looked something a bit like this
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/Eric2.jpg
In the mean time they also did a complete rework of the breaks and it actually stops too good now. there is more breaking force then weight and its really easy to put too much input into the car and lock the fronts up. So we can the car a couple times like that then at our first event last year we added some body work and re did the throttle. The old setup was hydraulic and it kept getting air in it and not working so we went to a cable set up and the ability to steer with the throttle is amazing now. However luck was not on our side at this event. This was an amazingly quick course and i was on par for FTD when the worst happened. We spun a bearing in the bottom end. the Head temps shot up and there was really no power coming through the corners. I still flogged the hell out of it and was topping out in 3rd ~ 65-70 coming through a large left handed off camber sweeper ( I think this starved the engine of oil thus the spun bearing). But we finished out the day with our ever dieing car and started on an engine rebuild. However upon rebuilding the ending there is a major leak and another tear down is in order to solve the problem, or just get another motor and put our heads on it.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/andrewjmpnbean.jpg
This is the current look. Still need a new nose cone, might have found one in NB but the motor is more important
So if anyone knows of an old 1200 VW engine laying around that still runs let me know :-) or if you have any questions just ask. I would like to keep this as a kinda running log of the vee so others can see what we have done and maybe see how amazing this little car is
Somehow with some Marvels Mystery oil and luck we got it running. brought it to our first event and here is the result
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/andrewrun2.jpg
Yeah it F'n poured! then Andrew ran into one of the curbing because the breaks sucked and the tires had no grip. Those of you that have back doored a motorcycle can understand what it was like to slow that car down for the course. Then we ran it again a couple weeks later. I couldn't make it but Rob launched it off the course at the Colisee and really bent up one of the wheels. That was it; we were upgrading rubber. Andrew and Rob did the measurements and ordered a set of 13x9 fronts and 13'10 rears. with some Hoosier cast offs. The car then looked something a bit like this
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/Eric2.jpg
In the mean time they also did a complete rework of the breaks and it actually stops too good now. there is more breaking force then weight and its really easy to put too much input into the car and lock the fronts up. So we can the car a couple times like that then at our first event last year we added some body work and re did the throttle. The old setup was hydraulic and it kept getting air in it and not working so we went to a cable set up and the ability to steer with the throttle is amazing now. However luck was not on our side at this event. This was an amazingly quick course and i was on par for FTD when the worst happened. We spun a bearing in the bottom end. the Head temps shot up and there was really no power coming through the corners. I still flogged the hell out of it and was topping out in 3rd ~ 65-70 coming through a large left handed off camber sweeper ( I think this starved the engine of oil thus the spun bearing). But we finished out the day with our ever dieing car and started on an engine rebuild. However upon rebuilding the ending there is a major leak and another tear down is in order to solve the problem, or just get another motor and put our heads on it.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s174/bobit1002/andrewjmpnbean.jpg
This is the current look. Still need a new nose cone, might have found one in NB but the motor is more important
So if anyone knows of an old 1200 VW engine laying around that still runs let me know :-) or if you have any questions just ask. I would like to keep this as a kinda running log of the vee so others can see what we have done and maybe see how amazing this little car is