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  • So this is the VW powered bike that ran at Speedweek this year. It's listed on the DLRA site as being run by competitor number 1093, Brook Denning. At the moment there is no speed recorded in the results (on open record for this class). I can only assume that either Brook did not finish the course or that the results have not been entered yet.
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    Salt Rat Oval

    My '56 oval LSR car.
    Record holder in DLRA G/BGALT class.
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    The trip to this years Speedweek actually started seven years ago back in 2009; the first time that I visited Lake Gairdner. Myself and a mate had tried to get out there a few years before in 2007, but rain and bad track conditions had meant that the...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    It Lives
    Its been a quiet couple of months, the oval went onto the back burner whilst we led up to the xmas break - its a really busy time for me at work and with the bit of time that i did get off over the xmas break I found myself building a pond int he bac...
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    Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    DIY Velocity stack
    The 1600 single port build that I have been working on is using a Mikuni carburetor. These are normally found on Harley Davidsons and are fitted with filter covers. Whilst there's a lot of different bling style jewelry air filter cover available (Har...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    If you read my last post - 'Hydraulic clutch slave' which was about fitting a hydraulic clutch to a Porsche 915 gearbox you might have thought that it was a good solution to an otherwise difficult issue to solve. Well that is what I thought until I t...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Interior panelling
    I've been pretty busy over the past few weeks trying to get the shell and running gear finished so that I can make a start on building the engine. The body is pretty straight and only needs a few small patches welded in but having cut out the rear fl...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Moon Disk Fitment
    With Christmas out of the way I managed to sneak out in the garage and spend a day finishing off the window surrounds and moon disk fitment....
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    After last weekends progress and also receiving my 74mm DPR crank in the post this week I was amped to get back out into the man cave and spend a little more spanner time on the oval. The DPR crank is an awesome bit of work. It's a stock 36hp crank t...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    A change of heart
    A chance meeting has netted me with a bunch of 36 horse parts. I popped out to buy a number plate bracket for the Type 34 and ended up coming home with a bunch of 36 horse stuff. This has nudged me to change direction with my plans for speed week and...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    It's been a while since I did anything on the Oval. It's pretty much been left abandoned in the garage and used as a bit of a storage shed. I think that this is a necessary step in any restoration project, or at least thats what it seems like as all ...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Been meaning to post some pics up of the garage since it's near completion for some time now, so thought I might as well add a blog post to put down what has been going on....
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Roll on 2011
    Well, at the beginning of this week I decided to throw in the towel with the oval build and admit defeat. Whilst it would still have been possible to get the car running and to the lake, I would have been missing out on any shakedown time that I had ...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Haven't had a chance to post much lately, been pretty busy either working or getting the oval back together. Progress has been marred a little by real work, which has taken me out of Adelaide, this has meant that work on the oval comes to a complete ...
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  • Matt commented on the blog post, Cage Finished
    Cage Finished

    looks good, you must have a very understanding partner

    matt

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  • Mick commented on the blog post, Scattershields
    Scattershields

    I would love to take it to the states for speedweek, and probably will at some point, but at this stage I'm not sure if it will be this year. There was talk of some guys getting together for a reduced rate on shipping, but will have to see.

    The event I'm prepping this for is Speedweek here in...

    I would love to take it to the states for speedweek, and probably will at some point, but at this stage I'm not sure if it will be this year. There was talk of some guys getting together for a reduced rate on shipping, but will have to see.

    The event I'm prepping this for is Speedweek here in Australia at Lake Gairdner - the Aussie version of speedweek. There's more info on the DLRA website if you're interested - http://www.dlra.org.au

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  • phil commented on the blog post, Holidays Part 2
    Holidays Part 2

    nice one jason......wish i had kept my bike licence.

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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Scattershields
    OK, fresh back from the scrutineering meeting yesterday, decided to get cracking. Went out and sourced some steel for the scatter-shield, and the RHS braces that were discussed, and also some sheet metal for fabricating up the new bulkheads and patch...
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  • Mick commented on the blog post, Cage Finished
    Cage Finished

    Strictly race, they won't allow roll cages in road cars here in SA without a lot of engineering B/S. Small possibility that I could get it registered under a club rego, but prob not worth the hassle.

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  • Bobble commented on the blog post, Cage Finished
    Cage Finished

    looking good Mick is this strictly race or are you thinking of streeting it cheers

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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Cage Finished
    First off, if you haven't noticed, we finally released the first issue of Vdubber magazine, thanks for all of your kind words, and support, it looks like it's a success. A big thanks to all of the contributers and also Melle Mel for typesetting the w...
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  • Mick commented on the blog post, Body back on pan
    Body back on pan

    Cheers.

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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Slacking
    Feel a bit lost without the car to work on, so have been a bit slack. Have spent the time doing a spot of research on ye olde interwobble, trying to track down some cheap gauges. Found some flea bay specials for a very reasonable price - oil pressure...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Caged Beast
    Delivered the oval to Donegal Engineering today to have the cage made up, big thanks to Paul Penny and his brother for helping out, was good to hook up. Sorry I couldn't have stayed a bit longer, but had an appointment at upullit to get a throttle bo...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Body back on pan
    Made more good progress today, i fitted the new pan halves and got the body back on the pan. Somehow I managed to do this by myself - I guess it's a lot easier if you're not worried about scratching paint. I postponed fitting up the new front beam as...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    IRS Fitted
    Progress was good today, managed to get the IRS finished, all that is required is the final welding and a little patching where I've relocated teh handbrake cable to the lower half of the pan. I will leave the final welding until after I have had a c...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    915 box fitted
    Fitted the 915 box in today, it sits pretty good. Had to cut out old front gearbox mount to get enough clearance. Still got to make up mountings but will fab some custom ones to fit. I've also cut the pan for the shift linkage, everything seems to li...
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  • Mick commented on the blog post, VEC Volksfest Cruise
    VEC Volksfest Cruise

    Forgot to add - view it original size to get best view

    oops - I should pay more attention - it's not a 3 cornered knot its a 4 cornered knot - but whatever - it's very nice

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  • Mick commented on the blog post, VEC Volksfest Cruise
    VEC Volksfest Cruise

    it's a bit hard to make out in the pics, but it's a nice geometric pattern with the three cornered Celtic knot in it (called a Triquetra). I've posted another pic that shows the pattern a bit better. it was very well done - subtle but also distinct, very eye catching. I'm going to try to find...

    it's a bit hard to make out in the pics, but it's a nice geometric pattern with the three cornered Celtic knot in it (called a Triquetra). I've posted another pic that shows the pattern a bit better. it was very well done - subtle but also distinct, very eye catching. I'm going to try to find out who painted it - would love them to do my bus. Apart from the graphics the rest of the paint job was also spot on too.

    Here's the other pic - http://www.vdubber.com/media/images/sharingImages/393.jpg

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  • whatnow commented on the blog post, VEC Volksfest Cruise
    VEC Volksfest Cruise

    that looks fun. there are some nice cars there.

    was that lacework on the bonnet of the purple car? if so, i'm so pleased to see that it is coming back, i love lacework.

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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Stripped Naked
    So I finished stripping the oval today, the doors didn't want to come off, half of the bolts came out with a little persuasion from the rattle gun, but the rest had to be drilled out. the keeper plates will have to be cleaned up and re-tapped before ...
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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    Project Oval Stripout
    Just a quick post to say that the strip down of the oval is now underway. The shell has been mostly stripped out, with only two wings (fenders) and the doors left to remove before the body can be lifted from the pan....
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  • Mick commented on the blog post, crazy ideas.
    crazy ideas.
    •   General
    •   Saturday, 31 October 2009

    Some of these are already a reality.

    "piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed"

    - There's already a few EFI's / chip upgrades on the market that provide a 'girly button' to allow extreme boost etc to be switched...

    Some of these are already a reality.

    "piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed"

    - There's already a few EFI's / chip upgrades on the market that provide a 'girly button' to allow extreme boost etc to be switched out of the map when the missus uses the car for the shopping trip

    "variable length headers where the collector slid, set up so the tuned legnth of the exhaust changed to the optimum for the motors rpm"

    - Honda NSX has these and I think the Mitsubishi GT3000 as well.


    "an electricly operated stand off kit. this idea was from back when i first got into vw's."

    - There's a guy in the UK with a custom orange Ghia who's done something similar - i think he's removed the cooling vents and has a cooling flap open when the car is moving temp gets too high - bit like a Porsche rear spoiler.

    "a clutched fan pulley so you could "slip the fanbelt" when ever you needed just a little more go for a few seconds. i belive that this has now been done with auto airconditioning pulleys."

    - I could never understand why no-one had used a viscous coupling to achieve the same - this is common for crank mounted fans - the fan spins on a high friction coupling - this allows slip during acceleration but at steady engine speeds the friction in the coupling causes the fan to spin at crank speed.

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  • Mick commented on the blog post, an idea
    an idea
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    •   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    Sounds familiar - I found this site years ago when I first started playing with Type 4's - http://www.apfelbeck.nl/ It's an OHC Type 4 head. Personally I've always wanted to do something with rotary valves - they have been used before, and I can't figure out why no-one uses them now - there's no...

    Sounds familiar - I found this site years ago when I first started playing with Type 4's - http://www.apfelbeck.nl/ It's an OHC Type 4 head. Personally I've always wanted to do something with rotary valves - they have been used before, and I can't figure out why no-one uses them now - there's no reciprocating mass - and therefore would rev a lot higher.

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  • Mick posted a new blog post in Salt Rat Oval
    This may seem strange to some, but after being into VW's for over 20 years, I've just bought my first Beetle. The car in question is a 1956 oval windowed bug that I've bought to build as a budget racer. The idea is to put together a car for Speedweek...
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  • whatnow commented on the blog post, an idea
    an idea
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    •   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    this morning (while in the shower of course) i thought of some more things. the body of a bigcap is big enough to fit 2 sets of points. aka you could run each coil off it's own set of points. from what i have read the cast body distributors don't have the 3 deg retard on number three so no worry...

    this morning (while in the shower of course) i thought of some more things. the body of a bigcap is big enough to fit 2 sets of points. aka you could run each coil off it's own set of points. from what i have read the cast body distributors don't have the 3 deg retard on number three so no worry there. then i thought of something else... if you used say the top plates out of a stock oval vacuum advance dist (VJU4 BR8), heavily modified of course to take one set of points on the bottom (fixed) plate as well as those on the top plate (movable), you could fairly easily make a set up that allowed you to adjust the timing of the two coils. aka you could run them in sync for one BIG spark or set them just out of phase to run one long spark or even split them completely and have two sparks with a degree or 3 separation between them. i'm sure you could even work out a vacuum can set up to advance or retard one coil under load. tuning this system for optimum power etc would prob be way beyond me but still.
    i won't get into my dream of twin plugs and twin distributors each with two coils and variable coil timing.

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