Ss/vx?

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by 6130

That's not primer. It's grey paint.

Edited for brevity.

Sorry. Showed up in primer grey a year or so ago while the car was still in development. Looks great in the finish color coat. Thanks for all the technical info.

[6130]

Originally Posted by Rory McNeil

Not sure if they are legal for SS/VX or not, but we have 3 or 4 low to mid 10 second VW Beetles that race in our local BC Supershifter group, and they all run some aftermarket transaxle that uses ring & pinions from an American diff, not sure if its 12 bolt, 9 " , 8 3/4" or what it is. They are called Mendeola transaxles..

Yeah, that's the Mendeola MD. It's based on the VW transaxle, but it uses a 10" ring gear. Probably overkill for a 1,600 pound car with 225 horsepower on 6" slicks. Your buddies are probably running turbo engines with about twice that power, on 8-10" slicks.

Weddle says you have to hack up the car pretty good to get one of those in there.

And they're only available in an IRS configuration, which makes it pretty difficult to use in a swing-axle car.

But according to Weddle, the biggest problem in using the MD in a drag-race application like this, is that the Mendeola MD ring gear is so big, that it cost several inches of ground clearance- when the car squats on launch, it can bang the transmission into the ground.

[6130]

Originally Posted by FireSale

Edited for brevity.

Sorry. Showed up in primer grey a year or so ago while the car was still in development. Looks great in the finish color coat. Thanks for all the technical info.

Yeah, today I came across some older videos of him racing, and I'm not sure if he's always raced the same car, but he did race in grey primer just like you said.

[6130]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

.011 to .097 told the tale.
Want to run a slow, stick car in S/SS or StK? Then you know what needs to be done, right?

I'm not sure what you're getting at, Mark. An .097 light is not likely to result in a round win, but when your opponent cuts an .011 light in no-box racing, there's not much that will beat that, no matter what you're driving.

No matter what the outcome, you have to admit that it was a fun match up.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by 6130

I'm not sure what you're getting at, Mark. An .097 light is not likely to result in a round win, but when your opponent cuts an .011 light in no-box racing, there's not much that will beat that, no matter what you're driving.

No matter what the outcome, you have to admit that it was a fun match up.

It was fun to watch, but then I looked it up, and I bet it was more fun for the hemi car.
.011 is a tough one , for sure, but then there's two ends to the race track ;-)

[6130]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

It was fun to watch, but then I looked it up, and I bet it was more fun for the hemi car.
.011 is a tough one , for sure, but then there's two ends to the race track ;-)

I guess it depends on how you look at it. After winning a race like that, he has now earned the privilege of being able to tell people that he beat a '63 VW to the finish line by half a fender.

And if he had lost that race, how on earth would an SS/AH driver ever be able to explain it to a lay person?

I think the diversity that affords lop-sided mis-matches like this, are the stuff that makes drag racing great.