UK Circuit Raing News

[DORIGTT]

For those of us on the 'wrong' side of the pond, how about some information on the 1200 & 1300 cars set-up? I've always been curious about what you guys do for your race configurations. Fill us in :agree:

[beetlecupdriver]

We had a series called the beetle Cup in the UK you had to run a supplied kit and could not change too much. This is how my car ended up.

Lowered front end, Standard front disks with competition pads, 2 sets of caster shims fitted, Bump steer kit, aftermarket castor adjustors, Bent top arms for more camber, long travel ball joints, and a heavy duty roll bar.

Rear end was up rated torsion bars with the poly bushes and lowered. Standard rear drums fitted with front drum wheel cylinders. No rear roll bar etc as they don’t work so just ran some restriction on the droop.

Spax dampers all round, Braded brake lines with comp fluid. The fuel tank had a bigger outlet fitted and fed the carb via an electric pump and bigger fuel lines through the car to an adjustable filter and fuel pressure regulator.

Windows were replaced with Plexi glass and every unrequired nut, bolt, washer, wiring along with all the under seal etc was removed, and ran it on buffed tires, with a solid mounted gearbox.

The engines came as a sealed unit, 1641cc, standard rods, crank and heads, full flowed with a heavy duty oil pump, Engle 120 cam, and lightened fly wheel. All the engines came with a Single twin 40 Dellorto carb kit and an exhaust system.

I fitted 1.25.1 rockers, and Auto craft shafts along with up rated valve springs and heavy duty push rods, and got some more taken off the flywheel and fitted a small pulley.
The carb inlets were polished and the plenum for the carb modified with balance pipes fitted to the manifolds, and the air filter replaced.

We had to run standard brakes, no dropped spindles, all steel panels, no extra aero devices, standard steering and pedals, no adjustable spring plates, no electronic ignition, gear boxes boxes could be selected from across the beetle range but no swapping of ratios you picked the box that you thought was best.

Wheels were restricted to any standard rims or you could use Cyclone Dragstars, we also had a min weight and ride height.

Think that’s about it, made for excellent racing with grids of 20 cars plus all with the same spec.

Pity it was allowed to die out.

[65Cabby]

Craig
Good luck and keep posting the dates because I would definitely come along to watch.
I can't see myself getting back into racing though, for two reason , I was cr@p and I just couldn't cope with loving the car off the track and then trying to kill the thing on it.
I still do the odd track day to have some fun but it just doesn't make you sweat like you do in a proper race it's not the speed so much, I've got a 964 and I'm a lot quicker (hopefully as I would expect) round brands but the sheer wheel to wheel racing made the adrenalin pump, or did for me. I'm sure the guys at the front of the pack were as cool as ice.

John must be oh so quick in a 1835, which must be a third more power than the old volkspares engine.

Interesting your car had 1.25 rockers, by the letter they were illegal

Richard
ex No35

[beetlecupdriver]

You mean your car was the only one without them?????
Regs said you must use standard VW items, they had a VW part number!
Shaun sold them to most of the grid for use in the series.

[65Cabby]

Haa haa do you know I probably was, I knew there must be another reason other than me for being soooooo slow.
I did buy some and also some double springs to stop valve bounce but never fitted them before I stopped racing.

Reading this thread made me go and look at my very old web page,
www.avnet.co.uk/raw/beetle.cup
it's had over 100 thousand hits but is 10 years old. Blimey

The details page shows the car as I sold it to the Portuguese chap. I'd love to know if he is still racing it. Funny but I remember it as being very clean and pristine, funny how your stanards change.

[beetlecupdriver]

Funny looking Spax dampers on your old car they seem to read KYB

[65Cabby]

Are yes well spotted, I borrowed the spax's for my speedster, thats why the KYB's look like new, they were. I find them way too stiff.

[beetlecupdriver]

Pics from today

[beetlecupdriver]

[beetlecupdriver]

Proposed new race series (UK Kafer Cup)

Any of our European neighbours fancy joining in? any Beetle conforming to FIA safety regulations will probably be eligible.

contact Lee Arnold at http://www.laperformance.co.uk

http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=304106

[beetlecupdriver]

Lee is organizing a drivers meeting looks like its going to be at Silverstone last week in November.

If your planning on getting involved please contact him with a day and time that you could attend so he can try and arrange something that suits the majority.

[beetlecupdriver]

Drivers meeting November the 25th @ Silverstone

Contact http://www.laperformance.co.uk for details