Racing your vw

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Do you guys race your vws, if so, what did you race and did you win? My dream is to smoke a 5.0 Mustang- Anyone done that?

[sixty-two]

how about a 66 stang with a 306 bracket motor. Ya, he was talkin all sorts of shiat, then ended up staged next to me. He got worked. He then came back around to say he got a bad start. I proceeded to check my time slip...He wasnt even a hundredth of a sec behind me starting, but got be by 1 1/2 car lengths.

Josh - JHC

[Mowser]

For anyone interested here is a link to an Mpeg showing a turbo'd bug destroying a big block Camaro. http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/vinperfnet/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/kurtvscamaro.mpeg

Or use this link to see the webpage with 3 different Mpegs.

http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/vinperfnet/vintageperformance/id13.html

Enjoy!

Mo

[Karly]

not that i'm a chevy fan, mo, but it looked pretty close to me

[Dominic]

Holy sh!t, that was bad!

[Dave]

That Big Block Camaro had a very healthy dose of Nitrous going to it, too, and the driver of the Bug, Kurt, as you can see, came from behind to spank him. To date, to the best of anyone's knowledge, that 10.06/140.95 pass is the fastest pass ever recorded by a street driven Beetle.

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I had a 68 ghia with a 911 turbo engine on a 911 trans, She was a real sleeper. I always drove like I had a 1600 in there. But when ever I came across a honda all race ready I would challenge them and smoke them like the roach in my ash tray. Muscle cars never wanted to race me.
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i race all day every day b/c thats the only way i can keep up with traffic.na i smoked a stang once for the frist 40 feet if thats where the race ended then i won but it wasnt but i still smoked him

[Scooter]

Dude, my stocker could stomp a honda.

[joey-bugnaked.com]

I've races 2 stangs on the street and dusted them both, but I haven's raced one on the track yet. I have raced a ton of water-cooled dubs and imports on and off the track.....smoked most of them, just gotta make sure you get em from a dead stop!

[TRACKMAGIC]

I saw a primered, beat to hell, 65 bug whip the shit out of this guy with a gutted WRX. It was one of the older style ones(2000) It had a big front mount and was pretty quick. Guy in the bug told him he would run his "little" 2.2L bug against his WRX.

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if you go to kennedy engineering they make a mounting/adapter plate for the mazda rotaries i think.(www.kennedyeng.com)? i was thinking of that but the stock tranny will bust at around 200hp im told. if hi po trannies werent so expensive then i'd find myself a nice rear hit third gen to cannabalize. the rotary exhaust through such short pipes would sound like a horde of very angry hornets

[deathbyspoon]

last night i dropped a friend off and a few beers later i was on the way home about 2am and a punk in a del sol with stickers on it and a coffee can pulled up acting hard... then a dropped jetta w/ ground effects pulled up on the other side and a mustang 6 cyl behind him... it was fun making all of them look silly i smoked the tires and laughed all the way home in my 67 granny's grocery getting 2176cc...

[BUCIOBATISTI]

I saw an angry old lady with a walker across the street from my house. I quickly grabbed my key, switched it on, pushed the start button, fired it up, mashed the pedal, got all 36hp in action, and just beat the bag to the corner!
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/84749.jpg

[steel buggin]

stang ain't shit over here in so cal stang won't even race me because all there friend's have already been smoked they don't stand a chance even with a spark plug wire off

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lol i had the owner of a car club pull up next to me in his wrx smiling like im dirt... till the light turned green.. i pulled a wheelstand he took off only for me to catch back up and see the look on his face when i passed him... god i love VW's thanks germany!!!!!! lol everyone out there that races there bug or anything.... look into and autocraft Midget motors... those bad boys out of the crate are pulling in 400 horsepower.. no turbos or anything!! slap that mamma jamma in your buggy wuggy... (can you say untouchable)

[Dubbed]

I just put my 1915 in 2 weeks ago and I was cruisin last Sat and 5.0 Stang pulled up next to me and wanted to race. So naturaly I reved my engine too. He was talking a lot of $*it so I dropped the clutch and smoked him. Later that night at Sonics He complimented me on my car as I showed him it was N/A.
He He He... I love the look on there faces when you pass em!

[60vwnewengland]

i know if i raced my bettle the thing would start fallin apart and by the end of the race all that would be left would be myself dragging a tire across the finish line.

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In SWFL, you don't see many VW's on the street, but when you do they are hellicously fast. That is why I have a 914 tranny in the vert with a 912 going in for the ponies. If not, it will be a 1835cc w/ dual 40's. C'mon guys... help me out here.

[type34inKY]

My daily driver is a Jetta TDI- and while it has plenty of torque for a mid-sized car, it's no speed demon. Once in a while, I'll drive my bug, which currently has stock displacement but little other stuff like quiet pack, dual Kadrons, ratio rockers, etc... and it is quite respectable for a small motor. There is this guy with a bright green Honda Del Sol that is always driving like an ass and we go the last mile or so before my turnoff in the CBD. I was driving quite casually when I spotted him in my rearview shooting across 4 lanes to pass me on the right (I hate that). Of course, a half block up- there is someone stopped in that lane, so I dropped a gear and punched it. He had to brake and get in behind me. At the next light, he is seething mad and we're both lined up. Light turned green and I gave it all she's got- never did this before. I had so much wheel hop, it took at least a half second to hook before I launched, chirped 2nd, and got to the light where I turn. I think I must have frightened him with my launch, because when I looked back for him, he was still 1/4 block back- looking very sullen.