It'll be driving tomorrow!!
Look at that bad boy!!
DAMN thats a lot of work!
We are only .5 day behind schedule at this point and looking good for completion, unless we hit some stupid snag!
before you ask- Those are heads from engine Plus, I didn't mind blowing them to bits and they were pretty much ready to bolt on..
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This car can be in the 9 second range on the bottle with a 100 shot!!!
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Looks very shiny and very fast. Can't hardly see the engine for all the plumbing! 
What kind of car is it plugged into?
Skip
What kind of car is it plugged into?Skip
55 Spyder replica....
That is a beauty, looks like nose bleed acceleration to me.
HOLY Schmidt! 
Out here in California, everybody's talking about how that show "BLOW IT UP" just got cancelled and was replaced with "Build It and Raffle It on 914World.com!"....it's gonna be great. Contact me to arrange delivery.
P.S. for your next project, a 914 shell is REQUIRED
Out here in California, everybody's talking about how that show "BLOW IT UP" just got cancelled and was replaced with "Build It and Raffle It on 914World.com!"....it's gonna be great. Contact me to arrange delivery.
P.S. for your next project, a 914 shell is REQUIRED
What trani is that mated to?
CV's??
Im gona guestimate 300-350hp N/A.
Im just curious how your going to hold 450hp down...
CV's??
Im gona guestimate 300-350hp N/A.
Im just curious how your going to hold 450hp down...
Wow 
Are those heads of your/Len's design?
Are those heads of your/Len's design?
The heads come from Engine Plus in Germany- I have had them for years..
all our prototypes are too expensive to purposely kill, so we used these to make our big power...
The tranny is based on a Type 1 swing axle and cost more than the engine to build!
That engine is 85% USED parts, even the rings are used!
all our prototypes are too expensive to purposely kill, so we used these to make our big power...
The tranny is based on a Type 1 swing axle and cost more than the engine to build!
That engine is 85% USED parts, even the rings are used!
Woah!!
What is the trani rated for at a guestimate?
Im just expecting 500hp or more out of my sbc, (depends if I go N/A or a set of turbo's..) and wondering what your using for reliable big power.. I have a lsd 915 in my garage... lol
Im just expecting 500hp or more out of my sbc, (depends if I go N/A or a set of turbo's..) and wondering what your using for reliable big power.. I have a lsd 915 in my garage... lol
This tranny is for drag racing only.. It has a spool in place of the differential and is good for 20 passes at max!
Oh gosh... I am so proud. I am a very low level sponsor. VERY VERY LOW... Go get 'em Jake!
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before you ask- Those are heads from engine Plus, I didn't mind blowing them to bits and they were pretty much ready to bolt on..
Cool.
QUOTE(Jake Raby @ Apr 23 2007, 11:28 PM)
This tranny is for drag racing only.. It has a spool in place of the differential and is good for 20 passes at max!
That's all? So your strategy is to have Art break within 20 passes?
The goal is to make between 12-20 passes, thats what the producers want to see...
Any TI based tranny that is set up for drag racing correctly will have a limited life span with an engine putting out this much power
I don't think it'll take 20 passes to break the TI.. The goal the whole time was to make nbig power at lower CR and be faster than Art, the host of the show WILL push Art to keep up with us and that means running the bottle more... Thats when the engine will really start to hurt.
BUT it's all in luck with this competition!
Any TI based tranny that is set up for drag racing correctly will have a limited life span with an engine putting out this much power
I don't think it'll take 20 passes to break the TI.. The goal the whole time was to make nbig power at lower CR and be faster than Art, the host of the show WILL push Art to keep up with us and that means running the bottle more... Thats when the engine will really start to hurt.
BUT it's all in luck with this competition!
we did a special on this week's 4th dimension Radio show all abt this build and the show "Blow it up!"...
Download this weeks show through I tunes or this direct download link.
http://www.richchristensen.com/radio/4thdim/BIT.mp3
Download this weeks show through I tunes or this direct download link.
http://www.richchristensen.com/radio/4thdim/BIT.mp3
Amazing
Ive got 2 reasons to post here. 1) It shouldn't take a run down to page five of the garage to find Jake's name, much less this post, as the date of the beg event nears (how near--Wed or Thurs??). So my post will put it back on p. one for a while. 2) to ask the man, as we must be close to the run--what happened after you (started) put(ting) the motor in the sled? Is it running, and will the front wheels stay on the ground--and if so will it track straight?
If Jake is too busy to answer, anyone who's been at the build site and knows is welcome to answer.
Oh--and for those of us without any access to cable--DO post some of this blow-off on you-know-which-tube, and give us a heads-up here to help us find it!
If Jake is too busy to answer, anyone who's been at the build site and knows is welcome to answer.
Oh--and for those of us without any access to cable--DO post some of this blow-off on you-know-which-tube, and give us a heads-up here to help us find it!
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Ive got 2 reasons to post here. 1) It shouldn't take a run down to page five of the garage to find Jake's name, much less this post, as the date of the beg event nears (how near--Wed or Thurs??). So my post will put it back on p. one for a while. 2) to ask the man, as we must be close to the run--what happened after you (started) put(ting) the motor in the sled? Is it running, and will the front wheels stay on the ground--and if so will it track straight?
If Jake is too busy to answer, anyone who's been at the build site and knows is welcome to answer.
Oh--and for those of us without any access to cable--DO post some of this blow-off on you-know-which-tube, and give us a heads-up here to help us find it!
They are filming now. Jake is knee deep in it.
They all have a long day ahead of them. I would have loved to witness it.
9:30-10:30 1st taping
12-1 is 2nd taping
2:30 -3:30 3rd taping
5-6 4th taping
7:30-8:30 5th taping
9:30-10:30 1st taping
12-1 is 2nd taping
2:30 -3:30 3rd taping
5-6 4th taping
7:30-8:30 5th taping
Good luck Jake. I finally got around to listening to last weeks radio show. Hopefully you will be competing today and that you kick ass.
I ain't got no cable TV, so I'll have to settle for innuendo and scuttlebutt.
Zach
I ain't got no cable TV, so I'll have to settle for innuendo and scuttlebutt.
Zach
Went to Cordova today and I took some pictures of the event. I need to resize and load the pictures so this will take a little while. First one.
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Rich and Clay before the show.
Art at the line for first run.
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Art at the line for first run.
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Start of burn out.
At the line.
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At the line.
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Half way and end of the run.
On average Jake, Art and the Chevelle were running in the 12's.
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On average Jake, Art and the Chevelle were running in the 12's.
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keep em comin!
Just to clarify, Muffler Mike was doing the driving for Jake.
That's most of the pictures I took.
Charles and his wife were taking pictures also. I'm sure his pictures will turn out better than the ones I took.
That's most of the pictures I took.
Charles and his wife were taking pictures also. I'm sure his pictures will turn out better than the ones I took.
Need more pictures of the cars!!!!!!!!!
Last ones.
Didn't take any pictures of the other cars that were there. You'll have to watch the show.
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The second set of cars that ran were a Chevy Nova II station wagon against a 60's Dodge Coronet. The Dodge had some over heating problems when Clay held them both at the burn out box for an extended period of time. Trying to get someone to break. Theses guys were running in the 10's on average.
There is a picture of the Chevy that ran on this website.
BigBlockShawns
Didn't take any pictures of the other cars that were there. You'll have to watch the show.
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The second set of cars that ran were a Chevy Nova II station wagon against a 60's Dodge Coronet. The Dodge had some over heating problems when Clay held them both at the burn out box for an extended period of time. Trying to get someone to break. Theses guys were running in the 10's on average.
There is a picture of the Chevy that ran on this website.
BigBlockShawns
i like the type4 store and the CFR logo on the front hood . sweet ride
Not much time to post right now...
First off- Art IS THE MAN!! I knew he would be one hell of a competitor and I knew that even if we broke that we could not lose to a better driver/car than Art... Art spanked a Chevelle time after time after time... He stepped up with 2.5 weeks to prepare and made a near flawless representation for our VW family.
What happened to the engine is still to be known.. The end result was a bent valve that didn't do much damage to the engine, we had the actual head repaired at a local machine shop by straightening the valve and doing some really nasty medieval style repairs to it.
We had EVERY intention of repairing the engine for another pass, but Mike had seriously smoked the clutch on the NOS and that was going to take all night to repair and I had some sponsors (including the owners of the Spyder shell) to please and we did not want to rip the whole thing down and work all night to make a dumb mistake that could have cost us the car and injuries to Mike. On top of that all the tapong was going to be done today and there just wasn't enough time.
The hypotehtical cause of the issue at this point is that we gained some excess valve clearance and that got the pushrod out of the cup and on the side of the rocker doing nasty things to the valve lift, bending the valve but not harming anything else at all other than the clutch- the clutch was a huge issue that due to the car set up would have taken forever to swap out.
The past 3.5 weeks have been a blurr, building the car and just getting to the show was a nhuge undertaking and we pretty much knew from the beginning that the chances of a brand new car that had never been down the drag strip ( driven 12 miles total as one unit) with a driver that had never sat in the car till yesterday was pretty much recipe for disaster, but we knew that the price of admission was worth it IF we could actually pull it off with all the crazy variables involved and IF we did a lot of years of hard work may actually pay off.
I'll be the first to admit that I am disappointed, very disappointed but thats not because we "lost" but more because such simple things are what took us out- you have to remember that even if we would have won I was still going to blow parts on purpose- unfortunately nothing scattered.
All I can say at this point is we'll continue forging on and now with even more intensity and dedication for the drag strip. we showed up with a bitchin car, that was scratch built in 3 weeks- thats pretty unbelievable to us especially considering that NO ONE INVOLVED had ANY drag race experience! We had also never used NOS at all on any engine, except to purposely kill a few at local VW shows
BTW- it still has to be verified with the time slips and video but we did have the top ET of the day and thats something to be proud of IF it is actually proven by Ray and Rich... We looked good and we were fast, but neither of those mattered today.
Big thanks to Muffler Mike for answering the call to come drive an unknown car and to everyone that helped us to get to the event, especially James2 who took time off work to come help us prep as well as driving all the way to Iowa today to further support us- thats pure dedication. Also Dave from DTM EN\ngineering has also been right by our side from day one and has proven to be a true team member putting as much effort into this as anyone in our shop- but he did it as a friend with nothing to gain. Don't forget that wrenchnride27/7 also put a ton of work into the car, also as a friend... And all the sponsors!!!MY GOSH!!
Today has pleased a lot of naysayers and proved they were right, I have 30+ more years to prove them wrong and every dog has his day. I promise not to let this experience be anything less than a catalyst for our work with the Type 4 engine in all respects, hell losing today might have just been the best thing that could have happened.
Art did us all a fine job, watching him annihilate the Chevelle from our pit was an unreal experience.
We head home tomorrow, should be back on Friday.
First off- Art IS THE MAN!! I knew he would be one hell of a competitor and I knew that even if we broke that we could not lose to a better driver/car than Art... Art spanked a Chevelle time after time after time... He stepped up with 2.5 weeks to prepare and made a near flawless representation for our VW family.
What happened to the engine is still to be known.. The end result was a bent valve that didn't do much damage to the engine, we had the actual head repaired at a local machine shop by straightening the valve and doing some really nasty medieval style repairs to it.
We had EVERY intention of repairing the engine for another pass, but Mike had seriously smoked the clutch on the NOS and that was going to take all night to repair and I had some sponsors (including the owners of the Spyder shell) to please and we did not want to rip the whole thing down and work all night to make a dumb mistake that could have cost us the car and injuries to Mike. On top of that all the tapong was going to be done today and there just wasn't enough time.
The hypotehtical cause of the issue at this point is that we gained some excess valve clearance and that got the pushrod out of the cup and on the side of the rocker doing nasty things to the valve lift, bending the valve but not harming anything else at all other than the clutch- the clutch was a huge issue that due to the car set up would have taken forever to swap out.
The past 3.5 weeks have been a blurr, building the car and just getting to the show was a nhuge undertaking and we pretty much knew from the beginning that the chances of a brand new car that had never been down the drag strip ( driven 12 miles total as one unit) with a driver that had never sat in the car till yesterday was pretty much recipe for disaster, but we knew that the price of admission was worth it IF we could actually pull it off with all the crazy variables involved and IF we did a lot of years of hard work may actually pay off.
I'll be the first to admit that I am disappointed, very disappointed but thats not because we "lost" but more because such simple things are what took us out- you have to remember that even if we would have won I was still going to blow parts on purpose- unfortunately nothing scattered.
All I can say at this point is we'll continue forging on and now with even more intensity and dedication for the drag strip. we showed up with a bitchin car, that was scratch built in 3 weeks- thats pretty unbelievable to us especially considering that NO ONE INVOLVED had ANY drag race experience! We had also never used NOS at all on any engine, except to purposely kill a few at local VW shows
BTW- it still has to be verified with the time slips and video but we did have the top ET of the day and thats something to be proud of IF it is actually proven by Ray and Rich... We looked good and we were fast, but neither of those mattered today.
Big thanks to Muffler Mike for answering the call to come drive an unknown car and to everyone that helped us to get to the event, especially James2 who took time off work to come help us prep as well as driving all the way to Iowa today to further support us- thats pure dedication. Also Dave from DTM EN\ngineering has also been right by our side from day one and has proven to be a true team member putting as much effort into this as anyone in our shop- but he did it as a friend with nothing to gain. Don't forget that wrenchnride27/7 also put a ton of work into the car, also as a friend... And all the sponsors!!!MY GOSH!!
Today has pleased a lot of naysayers and proved they were right, I have 30+ more years to prove them wrong and every dog has his day. I promise not to let this experience be anything less than a catalyst for our work with the Type 4 engine in all respects, hell losing today might have just been the best thing that could have happened.
Art did us all a fine job, watching him annihilate the Chevelle from our pit was an unreal experience.
We head home tomorrow, should be back on Friday.
Great attitude, thanks for the update
Always the small things in racing, oh well. I'm sure you had fun...knowing you...you wanted to really BLOW up something.
No better research than racing, even if it's drag-racing (not your element).
No better research than racing, even if it's drag-racing (not your element).
The only part that counts for me is that you suited up and you showed up.
That tells me all I need to know.
Clayton
That tells me all I need to know.
Clayton
Sounds like you guys were winners to me, you had a good time, a quick car and
the lowest ET.
the lowest ET.
This may have been covered already, but if not, toss a "heads up" here when this will be airing, even if its not a T4, its gonna be fun to watch aircooled beat up on water pumpers.
We've uploaded a good deal of photos from the event on our new website:
http://www.weblewitup.com
For those who couldn't attend...
http://www.weblewitup.com
For those who couldn't attend...
Good job guys... That car is a work of art and it came together so quickly. Any chance this thing will be campaigned at drag strips?
That spider is tits! Wish i had one...
Question about all the plumbing. Looks like a belt-driven oil pump. What is it really?
Question about all the plumbing. Looks like a belt-driven oil pump. What is it really?
Yes, We will be campaigning the 550 at Drag events, autocrosses and even some road course events in the future... With a swap of gearing and tires the car will be a multifaceted race vehicle.
The oil system does utilize a belt driven 3 stage massive dry sump oil pump... Its used for many purposes, primarily to keep up with the open clearances inside the engine and to provide a fully evacuated crankcase with negative crankcase pressure (vacuum)
the engine is apart for repair and further development. 300HP N/A is just around the corner- it made 244 with less cam and only 8.6:1 CR on pump gas.... I have 7 cams to swap into it over the next couple of months.
The oil system does utilize a belt driven 3 stage massive dry sump oil pump... Its used for many purposes, primarily to keep up with the open clearances inside the engine and to provide a fully evacuated crankcase with negative crankcase pressure (vacuum)
the engine is apart for repair and further development. 300HP N/A is just around the corner- it made 244 with less cam and only 8.6:1 CR on pump gas.... I have 7 cams to swap into it over the next couple of months.
samba 550 spyder for sale - got to resist : )
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=435151
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=435151
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