My other 1303 GL

[Steve C]

Hi Wally

This is the kit I bought http://www.rallysportdirect.com/shop...gtx3076r-turbo

[Steve C]

Hi

Photo with the Cookies, I prefer the look of my 18s.

I was down 3 psi at the 1/8 meeting, I didnt do very well, still getting used to the car, the Mickeys being so skinny needed a good burnout, lots of redlights. The launch control worked great, just fitted a B&M line lock so I will go and run the 1/4 soon at my local track.

Steve

[Steve C]

Hi

I went down to Cooma again and ran my Beetle at the Snowy Mountains 1000, it’s a bit like a drag race but only a single car at a time and at over 1000 metres on Cooma airport runway, it’s much longer than a traditional ¼ mile which is only 402.336 metres.

There was an amazing variety of cars running, even an electric Radical race car and a strong contingent of VWs.

This year I had a bit of completion in my class, I guy I work with ran his immaculate Datsun 1600 powered by a 350 kW SR20 engine, he was about 1.5 seconds quicker than me and took the class win, I came second. I finished at about 50th out of 135 cars.


This year I did few things to my car to make it run faster and I managed to go a bit quicker, last year my best time was 22.513 seconds @ 226 km/h, this year I did 22.3247 @ 236.7 km/h, I had 4 runs, two where I went from 2nd gear to fifth gear one were my coolant overflow sprayed onto my ignition coils and the one where I got my best time which wasn’t a very good run as it was late in the day and I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, so car is going great, driver needs more time doing angry gear changes. Can’t wait till next year.

A video of my least crappy run https://youtu.be/wQS_nG_2E_k









The VW/Audi times

SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470

SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327

STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637

STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247

GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235

MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880

KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159

KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367

TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065

MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783

WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953

MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311

GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867

DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414

MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278

[Wally]

Very cool event and great pics Steve! Congrats! 236 km/h is moving!

The 1000 meter distance is interesting as this puts it in the 'Landspeed racing' category.

If you also have the speeds with that last summery of all VW's that ran, my friend the vw landspeed historian Burly Burlile would be extremely happy

Walter

[Steve C]

Hi

The car feels very stable at these speeds, hopefully more speed next year.

a video of my best run which was still up the **** https://youtu.be/wQS_nG_2E_k

I just sent a list of results to Burly.

kph and times of above VAG cars

SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470 254.1 kph

SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327 232.8 kph

STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637 238.3 kph

STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247 236.7 kph

GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235 226.3 kph

MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880 212.8 kph

KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159 218 kph

KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367 209.1 kph

TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065 201.5 kph

MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783 196.5 kph

WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953 191.7 kph

MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311 189.3 kph

GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867 178 kph

DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414 184 kph

MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278 181.2 kph

[Steve C]

Hi



This is a professional video of the Snowy Mountains 1000, I'm interviewed. https://youtu.be/vw-HameNCl0


Steve

[Wally]

Very cool report and great they interviewed you!
Good speed!

[Steve C]

thanks, the guy who interviewed me is a friend of my son, he works at Turbosmart and they have been really helpful

[graham]

Originally Posted by Steve C

Hi



This is a professional video of the Snowy Mountains 1000, I'm interviewed. https://youtu.be/vw-HameNCl0


Steve

Great stuff Steve

[H2OSB]

Holy crap Steve!! You went 148mph! I bet you were getting close to a dimensional shift at that speed!

Nice!

[Steve C]

Thanks, lots more in it I cant wait till next time in November, 148 mph sounds faster that 236 kph somehow

[cookvw]

thats awesome! was cool to put a face to your amazing car after watching the video.

[Steve C]

Thanks, as you can see Im an old bloke, but love my cars

[Steve C]

Hi

I went to Sydney Motorsport Park soon for a twilight supersprint on the Gardener circuit.

I've recently done some suspension improvements and I have about 70 more kilowatts so I was expecting to have some fun.

Well lots more kilowatts and a wet track dont go well together, I was running on low boost for two laps in the rain got overconfident and put the boost up to the next level lost traction and hit the wall coming onto the main straight.

I bent a lower control arm, broke the bottom off a strut, creased the front 1/4 panel, broke two mudguards and a headlight but worst of all is I bent the chassis at the torsion bar housing and the front part of chassis where the sway bar bolts on.

I always regretted putting so much weight in steel into my chassis, so I have a spare chassis that I was saving for a rainy day at the side of my garage, it will get modified with less steel this time, I will be doing much the same as Ricola did with his chassis.

Steve

[H2OSB]

Ugh Steve! That poor, fine car of yours. Too bad for your car you're a man of action. Alas, I bet it was fun.