simplysmn

just something that we all fear Hp to weight ratio on theses thing's is Wicked

rockcrawler304

There is one here that runs low 12's high 11's in the quarter and is all VW parts. Our track is also about 3000' in elevation.
Only running a 10" slick to boot!!

Very impressive.

simplysmn

there is a group out of San Diego that has a dragster tha does 6's at over 260 mph in the 1/4

patdaly

Eh, I would run that....... My Nova is as stock as his bug.........

simplysmn

they will surprize you that car does 9's n I have seen many that r in the 8's or better

jstone44720

I like it. There is a local who has one of those with a 5 speed and slicks. It looks stock from the outside and the idle sound is impossible to tell it isn't stock. He leaves at about 6k rpms and shifts at 7k and embarrasses a lot of mustangs around here. We are going to put it up against my father's 489 blown big block monte carlo in the 1/8th mile this fall, and I really don't know who will win.

Sleepers Rule.

irocpractice

Hey Pat,you remember these?(aka the way we used to do it)


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Can someone make this work please?

The famous INCHPINCHER !! We used to watch this thing at Lions Dragstrip and at Pomona Raceway.

http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/h...tle/index.html

The strip was closed the next year in December and,yes my nose ran,my eyes watered and my ears rang as we stood at the staging area.Ah, what a night that was.

simplysmn

your going to get Spanked baddddddddddddddd

patdaly

LOL, yep......................Been known to surprise a few myself. Hate it they kicked me out for no chute.......street cars with chutes suck.

patdaly

Yep, that is but a very few years before I started my fascination with the 1/4.

The sad thing is my all steel street car is faster than any of those smokers......

Of course, there is something to be said for modern HP and better yet, actual traction... I would have loved to been able to hang the front end out for 330 feet or so back in the day.

Gotta say, the only Bug that ever impressed me was one built by Fittipaldi back in the mid to late 60's, I think it was him and his brother perhaps? Anyway, they welded 2 bug engines together, and made a scary fast unit.

simplysmn

you must not have seen the last few yr's they have a drag car vw powered that is deep in the 6's it is wild to watch funny thing is most people underestatemate a vw

cbrahs

iroc, you sure did date yourself.

here is a 1/8 mile 6 sec bug. sounds cool anyways

Totallyrad

He almost made the eighth with his burnout.

jstone44720

@ simplysmn :
Probably. The owners are all old friends though, and I don't feel bad though because I'm not the one that spent a fortune building a mountain motor to get squashed by a bug. We will tape that run and and the real grudge match run against a blown pro street chevelle convertible, and hopefully I will figure out how to put them on here to illustrate the point of the original post: "Never Assume".

Edit: Took another look at the power to weight ratios on this one. Monte @ 3500 lbs, plus 75 lb blower, and 100 extra lbs in rear suspension/ drivetrain beef, with 804 HP yields about a .219 ratio. The VW, at 1764 lbs stock, and 210 HP, is about a .119 ratio. Should these be calculated more at a "at the wheels" type HP? The monte is also a full pro-street car. Do those odds still look really bad?

simplysmn

Amen I agree back 2 yr's ago before I lost my bug to a flywheel exploding I would drive it on Fri night's and several times I would end up next to some very nice n fast car's and the end result's were I was laughing n the poor v8- or even a couple chevy durajunk's n a furd were last .! night I had a guy with a 300 magnum all hopped up say that there was no way and needless to say after proving him wrong he never said another word everyone think's aww it;s just a vw they aren't fast till you fly by em

that 1 is hard to say I am sure it's going to be close most of the time power to weight ratio being better win's thou