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| slugmika |
 Nov 13 2007, 02:30 AM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 208 Joined: 19-February 03 From: Finland Member No.: 318  |
Thought some of you might be interrested about our new project.
We are building a track taxi for a 2008 season. We are going to race it in some of the Roadsport and asphalt sprint races. After i converted my Vanagon Multivan to Subaru WRX Sti engine, it was clear that we really need to make Vanagon for track use (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) It's going to be exotic ride. Full story in T3 Race Taxi Please feel free to comment. Mika ps. pictures of my Multivan and Race taxi Attached image(s)  
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| Katmanken |
Nov 13 2007, 08:25 PM
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You haven't seen me if anybody asks... Group: Members Posts: 4,738 Joined: 14-June 03 From: USA Member No.: 819 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Ahhhhhh....
Vanagons, they are awesome. 50/50 weight ballance and they are quite tossible around a corner. The handling really improves when you dump the 14 inch rims and go with a larger rim. My 15 inch Mercedes wheels made such an improvement I couldn't believe it. Another Vanagon in the neighborhood has 16 or 17 inch Porsche wheels and that would make it even better. The manual transmissions won't take a lot of power, but the automatics will. VW hired cheap (and not very good engineers) when they designed the transmission. Some idiot designed 3 sharp slots in the second and 3rd gears. The slots have no radius in the corners, and are a huge stress concentrator. So, over time, a crack takes off across the gear. My tranny was rebuilt and I still have the broken second gear assembly with one third broken off and each of the other two thirds having a crack working its way across the gear. The last year or so had a gear fix (1990 and 1991 I believe) That van looks like fun and the white color matches my 1986 that I bought new from the dealer. Ken |
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slugmika OT: Our race taxi project Nov 13 2007, 02:30 AM
Aaron Cox looks like too much fun! Nov 13 2007, 10:08 AM So.Cal.914 Beauty :) Nov 13 2007, 10:17 AM jd74914 Wow, that does look like a really neat project :D ... Nov 13 2007, 11:48 AM slugmika Thanks guys.
It will be fun, even my Multivan is s... Nov 13 2007, 12:19 PM jd74914 That Locost came out great :clap: Nov 13 2007, 01:52 PM Aaron Cox the FEA anaylsis rocks!
why the solid rear ax... Nov 13 2007, 05:06 PM jd74914 Just out of curiousity what kind of stiffness (for... Nov 13 2007, 07:44 PM slugmika Aaron, rules say that we need to use solid rear ax... Nov 14 2007, 02:15 AM JMPVW73 Pay attention at about 1 minute into this one.
htt... Nov 15 2007, 03:25 AM
slugmika Yes, thats really cool. That is actually vanagon w... Nov 15 2007, 08:22 AM |
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