Greg Ward's Picts

[Mabbo]

i would LOVE to be behind the wheel driving down that road...
where exacty is is? we dont get nothing like that over here in the UK... too many stupid round abouts and tiny little roads

the pics look great, cheers for posting them up guys!

the widened wheels look good, what are the tyre sizes you are running? im trying to make my 68 handle faily well, im not expecting a sports car, but just to handle fairly well whilst keeping swing axel. the tyres i have on my wheels at the moment are firestone 205/70 rears and firestong 145s on the front, so the fronts defo need changing, but i was hoping to keep the rears as they are for a while.. even tho they are tall

the sprints look real good fun and i want to get out there and have a go in my 68 now... just got to get the car finished.

two more questions (sorry greg)...
what brakes are you using? i was planning on going 944 rear with hopefully 944 fronts (if i can offord it) or just stock 4 stud front disks.
is it 1 spline down at the back?

thanks again,
mabbo

[Cohibra45]

Mabbo,

Here is the link to the article written by Greg W. on his car and all the changes he made to it to get it to perform. Remember, this is his everyday driver. He drives it to the races and back again after racing. That is the way it use to be 'back in the day' when you only had enough money to buy your car, drive to the track, race, and hopefully drive back home. That was the way it was after WWII when the boys came home from England with their MG's, Triumphs, Morgans, ect. Also, that was the way it was in the beginning during the startup of the SCCA. It would still be nice to have the grass roots driving section for the SCCA, but competition and money may have ruined it forever for us that can only afford the one car.

Even in Solo events, people are purpose building cars only to have the edge over the other guy. I plan on trying to Solo my Ghia, but it will always be my daily driver, so I don't plan on winning any events, just having fun with my car, trying to get better times for myself.

http://www.aircooled.net/gnrlsite/resou ... ndling.htm

Enjoy reading the article as he talks about his experience with a swing axle as well as his IRS.

Kelly (Cohibra)

[Greg Ward]

The tire sizes are 195/60/14 on the front and 205/60/15 on the rear.

They are 7" wide steel rims with the stock centres welded in.

The brakes are stock type3 all around, they came off a wagon, bolt straight on without any dramas.
I also took the twin spring plates from that wagon too, I don't know whether they make any difference at all, but they looked tougher back when I did this, so I used them.

I'm really not sure whether all the 944 stuff is really necessary, my set up can stop from over 100MPH pretty smartly, so anything else seemed like overkill.

It wasn't so much a money thing to do the car like this, simply that the Vw stuff is overengineered to begin with, and I liked the fact that I could simply walk down the shops and buy what I needed off the shelf.

I'd get out there and have a go if I were you guys, you don't need anything too special, it all depends how competitive you want to be. There is nothing quite like grabbing your helmet and walking out to the garage, starting up your "race car" and driving it to the event.
Imagine rocking up to an event, more often than not being passed by your competitors on the way there as they are trailering their cars, taking off the hubcaps to race, getting the winners trophy, putting the hubcaps back on, then driving past the competition out the gate whilst they are loading their cars up...lol.. don't know quite how to describe that feeling.

Last October (which is when that picture on the long road was taken) I drove it 1250 miles to the racetrack on the other side of Australia, raced it for 3 days in Hillclimb at over 8Krpm and then drove it 1250 miles back home again!

[judge]

cool car
noticed your running twin plug heads, what and how?
run somthing along the same lines just evoloved a bit more


cheers rob

[Greg Ward]

The twin plug heads are just Street Eliminator 42x37.5mm, my engine builder has done many aircraft engine builds and had to tool up to be able to put the extra plugs in.
Seeing twin plug Porches were banned in certain SCCA racing classed, I thought there must be a reason to it.

A few years ago it was decided to try the same setup in a car,and since it worked so well, he has done about 20 bus engine conversions, and trikes amongst the car engines.
If you can imagine a full weight Bus driving away from a standing start in 3rd gear, that'll give you some idea what it's worth down low

It's a tricky feat to get the plug in the right spot though, there are many variations of head postiions as far as from an 040 to a Street Elim, to a 914 style head!

[MadDog]

nice ride greg!

my question also involves the dual plug setup, what ignition are you running.

I know the dual plug into the type 1 head is fairly easy to do but you mention the type 4 also. I heard this requires extensive work.

I am building a trike, and when I was a young lad my neighbor ran a trike with no cooling tin or fanshroud, he ran a dual plug setup and said it was an important setup if you run without cooling tin which I would like to do.

I have type 1 1600 for the trike, which a place in california will make the heads dual plug. they will remain relativaly stock except the mild headwork on my stock dual ports. and I have a type 4 1.7 motor but thought to costly to make dual plug.

I have yet to find very much info comparing the different aviation dual plug systems- they all claim to be the best and some cost alot of money!
so I have yet to choose a system.

[Greg Ward]

The distributor is a Bosch twin plug unit from a Japanese car, you could use a Ford Ranger or anything that came out twin plug, a number of early 90's Toyota's also had them.

All you have to do is get a place to machine the body to fit the Vw, and put the Vw drive on it and you're good to go.