Remember this!
Still got it!
It’s been sat in the shed since VW Action ‘22 whilst we’ve been busy with other stuff, Tom racing the Lupo, sorting Ella a ‘new’ car, and general life
Not updated, because other than draining the tank and turning it over every now and again very little has happened.
The carbs went on holiday for a bit, to try and help diagnose running faults with another aircooled VW, but since that needs new rings, we got the carbs back and prepared the Fug for a RWYB
Mostly the prep consisted of an oil change, sorting the carbs, welding a hole in the exhaust and fitting this…
Which for a grown man, I was far too excited about
We hopefully have plans brewing for the Fug, which would mostly involve changing some of the tubes and replacing with 3mm instead. There is some corrosion to some of the tubes, and probably some rust inside, so it’ll need looking at properly and decisions made as to how much needs repairing, but that’s for later
Fitted the carbs, and a new working fuel pump, a bit of tweaking and it fired right up
Finding the air leak in the exhaust wasn’t too hard
Just patch over the bits the flames were shooting out of
Not pretty, but temporary so meh!
Then fitted the line lock, which was relatively easy as the brakes are on a bias box already. Few more bits sorted, thought about wiring in some lights or making it charge, but ran out of time or something
Then ignoring the weather and Storm Babet we trundled off to Santa Pod
We took 3 aircooled; the Fug, Steve with his baja, and Ady with his ‘67
And waited…. And a bit more…. And then we went….. nope, we waited (that’s drag racing in the UK
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Finally the track opened, first run I messed up, and ran a 14.9
Second run was a lot better with a 14.06 Would have been nice to run a 13 with the belt on, and another run may have seen that. But Tom arrived after work and took over
Got the hang of burnouts, though we need to do second gear ones we now know
His second run was his best with a 14.68
And some great shots at sunset and night racing
Ady ran a 13 in his ‘67
And this is why you burnout in 2nd
And Steve was more focused on beating his fiancé, who was racing his TT
A cracking weekend, park the Fug up again for a bit
