Project Racecar Resurrection

[Rennwagen1]

That old girl cleaned up really nice! SOrry to hear that you didn't get to race it, but there will always be more events.....

[bigmontana]

I should have checked this sooner I would have totally went. Where is your shop located, I'd like to come by sometime and see the cars in person.

[ValveFloat]

now for sale?
http://montana.craigslist.org/cto/1059314338.html

[Rennwagen1]

Yup, that is it......

[76scirocco]

I am putting the rabbit together instead of the cabriolet. I wam making it kinda street legal so I can play with it more in the summer. It's kinda hard to get plates for a car with no windshield.

[kompressorgolf]

how much for carbs

[76scirocco]

I took money down on the car today. If the deal goes through I end up keeping everything I need to put the rabbit together so I guess I will be needing the carbs for a while longer, til I find an injected motor to swap in anyway. With a little luck I should be rolling to the autocrosses by mid summer.

[76scirocco]

With a change in jobs I did not get as much done this winter as I had hoped so I am going to try to run this thing as is one more summer.



First race of the year was a rain out so I still have not raced it. I did have another leak in the dry sump and it seems to have aeration problems with sustained rpm. I have decided to pull it after watching a Porsche leak oil most of the way around the track at Lewistown the other weekend. I do not want to be responsible for holding up racing for hours like that and just do not trust this cobbled together system.

It definitely makes a mess when you start pulling what seems like miles of oil lines.



It also allows me to easily mount up an alternator so I do not have to worry about battery charge between runs. I am kinda taking away the race car aspect of this thing, but for what I will use it for it was overkill. I still need to find the pulley for the alternator, but I think I have the rest of the conversion all figured out.

[Roadhog]

that looks like a big yellow bathtub.

[76scirocco]

It finally made a track debut at Lewistown on Saturday and ran at an autocross on Sunday. The suspension worked really well on the big track, but us a little too twitchy for an autocross. I think for next time I will try it without the rear sway bar, it was just too easy to have the tail hang out on the tight track. I also need to work on the brake bias, but the car was a blast to drive. At lewistown it was down on power on the back stretch, but did the slalom and tight stuff very well. It snuck into the triple digits on the backstretch before the headwind, but that's about all it's got. I'm gonna try swapping on my big valve head and seeing if that makes much difference. I will probably end up having to go with more displacement, but the balanced, knife edged crank on the 1.6 is just too cool not to use at the moment.