Mythbuster: continuing project thread of my 1303 '75

[Wally]

Originally Posted by Xellex

Paint the wheels gold to keep the bug's personality unchanged!

Nah, that wouldn't suit this type of wheel. Besides, did you know I did not paint the BBS wheels hearts? The former owner (they were on a custom GolfV) I bought the wheels from painted them gold, I just bought them like that. Mostly because I was looking for that particulair size (9Jx18 is rather rare, most rears are 10Jx18).

Dare I ask, what are your plans about the bbs wheels?

They will be sold to raise funds to pay for the semi-slick tires I need for the 17". The current owner of my former 412S has an interest, so we'll see if that works out

[Xellex]

oh, if I remember correctly, I saw a picture of the 412 with those wheels on, and it looked veeery nice.
If that doesn't work out in the end, I'd very much like a price quote on those

[Wally]

Originally Posted by Xellex

If that doesn't work out in the end, I'd very much like a price quote on those

No worries mate, you'll be first then, but he would be very foolish not to accept as I asked him a very reasonable price (which would be same for you then of course ).

[Wally]

Found some pics someone posted from the last race.
Did some racin'

Kissed some girls


and sprayed some cheap bubbles

[TSAF]

Are you sure only kissing????????

[Sandeep]

HAHA !! Fantastic ! And you did it with an aircooled VW, life is good !

Sandeep

[Steve C]

Hi Wally

So what did you do that deserved a kiss and a champagne spray, besides driving a cool car?

Steve

[Wally]

Page 65 and 66 Steve ;-)
It was 25 sept 2011, the last race of the time attack series for 2011 in the netherlands and I won (on points) my class ;-)

[70Turbobug]

Congrats Wally!! I see one hand on the trophy....where was the other one? 

[Wally]

Well, lets say, there are some things the wiFe better not know about
Cynthia is just sooo cute!
At least now I know why I want to be first in my class again next year
(which won;t be easy as hey upped the class limit by 5 whole seconds)

[owdlvr]

Originally Posted by Wally

Well, lets say, there are some things the wide better not know about
Cynthia is just sooo cute!
At least now I know why I want to be first in my class again next year
(which won;t be easy as hey upped the class limit by 5 whole seconds)

...pretty sure also you don't want your wife knowing you refer to her as "the wide"!!

;-)

-Dave

[Wally]

oeps, spelling error
Nah, she's cute too

[Wally]

Last event this year was a dynoday with 12 cars.
Was very cool and lots of fun with many familiar faces

My heap made 458 hp at 7000 rpm with 1,7 bar boost, which was a little disappointing as I would have expected 20-30 hp more with the much cooler weather.
Oh well..the dyno operator let the engine run on by accident, so it peaked at just over 7700 rpm where I had set the rpm-cut. It had still 1.7 bar boost (25 psi) at that rpm, so I am very happy (and almost suprised) the engine survived that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FzJeoqe1U

[effvee]

Hi, during the off season will you take your engine apart for a inspection? That engine has done very well

[70Turbobug]

Congrats Wally!! That's freakin awesome! If you expected more,then one explanation could be if it the dyno bases its measurement on speed,possibly the smaller wheels produced a slower speed? Maybe the correction factor hasn't been changed since your last run? A larger wheel would turn the dyno faster at the same rpm.Just a guess....