IRS Rabbit circle track car

[petew]

could you write a letter to the rule makers?

[Chris V]

Emails and calls are made to the track fairly often....

I'll probably be out at the track a bunch more this year, stupid addiction.

Mike, you gonna' get some work done on the car and make it competitive this year?

[ministockracer#7]

Don't know how compeitive it will be, but it is running on all 4 cycilnders instead of two when I was out there last.

[Chris V]

Right on...yeah, the Kadron rule sucks...you should try to get rules to allow you to run dual two-barrels. I mean, the inline-4 engines are allowed to run 500CFM carbs, but they choose run 350's...seems like they have ample carburetion, yet they crackdown on aircooleds.

[ministockracer#7]

Had AJ Sims 46mm kit installed in the Kadrons plus the air vent kit. He claims they now flow 246 cfm each so maybe my heads will like the extra fuel. I might even say what my real engine size is this year but the weight break I get for saying it is a 1776 instead of a 2276 helps a little

[Chris V]

Well hopefully the 46mm kit does the trick...it's not like you're going to get protested for finishing out of the top 2 anyway at $300 a pop.

[fezzic181]

What is it with circle tracks and their hating on VWs. Local track here won't allow and VWs in mini stocks.

[Chris V]

Did a little practicing on the 5/8ths mile paved oval today (geared for 105mph @ ~8400RPM with our more competitve Rabbit...Here it is being pushed to its limits:







Our buddy Jim even made it out in Herbie...but he forgot a cylinder, couldn't get #3 to fire, and carb (single 44IDF) was filthy. We rebuilt it as best we could in 15 minutes so he could make final practice, but to no avail, still ran poorly.

[Chris V]

First 5/8's race...and he almost ran away with it, huge lead only to lose it on a restart with several laps to go...Was too afraid of missing the 2/3 shift and hitting 5th (usually run a 2 or 4-speed, 5-speed had the right gear, and had only been in the car 12 hours or so) so the competition got a jump on him. Timed-in 6th fast before adjustments were made, best lap times recorded were 27.1 sec

NASCAR West Series cars pole qualifier set the track record (as did other's before him) in their class at 22.5 or so.

[Marc]

...NASCAR West Series cars pole qualifier set the track record (as did others before him) in their class at 22.5 or so...

It was 22.831 (down from 23.131 last year). He went on to win the 200-lap feature on Sunday (that makes 6 out of 8 so far for him this year) - and his teammate was second.

[Chris V]

First 5/8ths race of the year and my buddy snagged 2nd place! I've been out sick nearly all week, so it's not because anything I've done.

My buddy and his Dad changed the engine & trans Thursday night to make it out Friday morning and it was worth it. He's collected I think 4/5 top-5 finishes on the old 1.8L engine with a cracked block (I've been diapering the thing with half-dozen shop rags every weekend to avoid a black flag). This is on the new 2-liter engine, the class has no way of teching the rotary cars (#64 & #29), so rather they told everyone else they could make their engines bigger to try and compete, except for the aircooleds (what logic). They've also let the #64 car run an aftermarket (not MacPherson Strut any longer) IFS and refuse to let us run our OEM-ACVW component IRS -- seems fair right, since they can't tech the engine either.

I've been uprading my go-kart so we've been talking about using my old bent kart axle and used bearings to toss-together yet another IRS setup...but really, it's hard to say what the competition will be like in a couple years, after 2013 the track is banning rotaries engines - but there's talk of allowing piston power engines to be swapped-in, so long as they're Mazda.

Little cars on the big-track pt. 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqwSfAbf ... ure=relmfu

[Steve Arndt]

IRS rabbit? cool. Maybe a complete BWM 318 rear end transfer would have worked? They are similar to vw/P 944, but modular.

[Chris V]

Rules...Way outside of the rules going to BMW parts on a VW. Oddly enough there is a VW (Corrado I think) with a BMW 2002 body on it that participates on occasion...the same guy who runs the 'Ghia with Dad's old glass nose on it from time-to-time.

Just got off the phone with my buddy...Come to find out the shifter broke on him just before time-ins and he had to manually select third with the hood off and have them push him onto the track! He was also on four used tires (OK, one was only one race old), while the winner was on four new tires (though the car weighs several hundred pounds more since its EFI). The new engine had such great torque he didn't have to downshift on the re-starts, which cost him the race last time.

[Chris V]

The fast Rabbit, an '81, is getting some 944 caster/camber plates and my bud has just finished re-building a Prelude as well..His Uncle and Cousin wrecked them each respectively.





I helped him skin some wrecking yard doors before the re-paint, man are they built like tanks! Completed w/old house gutter side skirts.

[Chris V]

My buddy and his cousin had a good time Saturday, finished 1-2 in their heat race and 1st & 4th in the very wet main. We'd like to thank our buddy Curt @ http://c-dub.com for sponsoring the car and coming through with a new cylinder head - the old one didn't clean up until it would give ~14:1 CR. Our track has been selected as one of three across the country to have live streaming coverage on the NASCAR website, and here's new onboard camera footage:

http://youtu.be/MyqV03hJPwY