Tag: sambasaurus
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guess who came today !
Tim and Neil from top gear magazine turned up this morning to do a photo shoot of the bus. tim got in contact recently and we had a chat about the bus and racing etc. sadly i couldn’t take him out and scare him witless but we had a chat and then neil took a…
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broke down!
so here it is, on the hard shoulder again, waiting for the AA….
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15.11 seconds !
after a manic week with paul and joss at Der Botcheinvolks workshops fitting a complete rollcage in the bus and rebuilding the rear end of the bus we ran a new personal best of 15.11 seconds at the weekends Flame and Thunder meet at santapod raceway in bedford. I even got to do my first…
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Travelling…
A trip away heading south… We had fun playing with a honda r type. Sadly the bus lost the edge after about xxx mph. It was only after slowing and regaining hearing that i realised the bus had lost a plug lead and was running on three cylinders the whole time…. Cool ! had to…
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desktops and downloads
spent a few hours yesterday avoiding doing useful things and noodled through a few image variations and came up with this. i thought that people might like some desktop picture downloads… ?
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national finals timing data
just grabbed the timing data from those fine folks at eurodragster for the national finals and here is a breakdown of the best run for the samba. DAN BUZZO? V.W. SPORTSMAN? VW SPORT?97? dial in 15.50? reaction time 1.114?(oh dear, asleep at the lights!) 60ft time 2.077? 330ft time 6.251? 660ft time 9.849? 660ft MPH…
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timing sheets!
here we are after round one, jimby, ollie, ed and cath… comparing timing sheets and giggling like school children… although i got knocked out (for a disasterous reaction time (i need to practice more with the line loc and launch control)) by chris kouzaris racing his wifes daily driver stock 1500cc beetle. Chris was on…
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sheltering in the rain
after qualifying on saturday in brilliant sunshine we were all called to the staging area just after 9 am on sunday for the first round of eliminations. then it started raining. and raining. i ended up with a bus full of racers sheltering from the rain in shifts between braving the weather to buy styrofoam…
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can you guess
what i’ve been up to today ? this is (apart from the engine) the biggest nastiest mechanical bit i’ve ever removed from the bus… ..you could kill someone with this.. 🙂 if you used it properly. finally got the driveshaft out and stripped the CV joint on the end. I forgot that one end is…
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some tlc & more tyres !
getting my head straight after the vwaction show at the weekend and after a quick call to peter englezos at cogbox about the spec for a new transmission it’s off on a shopping trip in the bus, first stop protyre in bristol for MORE tyres. they’re nice people, helpful and have got a full lazer…