This is my race car little Horus...
11140251_10153668393324846_2809060291597971482_n by John Mills, on Flickr
I had the car since 2008 and have been racing her (well him) for the past few years doing RWYB at various events at Santa pod, York and Avon park raceway. I Joined the VWDRC in 2014 and started to race with them in 2015 (I had to wait to get a cage fitted into the car first)
I Have few old build photos of the car from 2008 to present so here a quick history of the car and a select few (of which there are many) jobs I done on the car
Here is how the car looked when it arrived from USA in late November 2008
34 - Copy by John Mills, on Flickr
The car running really badly when it arrived, and I soon found out it was only running on 3 cylinders! There was a host of other problems also wrong with the car which I had to sort.
One of the first big jobs I did when I got the car was to fit a new gearbox (as the boy racer in me blow the last one up racing a Honda civic R type from the lights Summer of 2009 I think).
PICT2363 by John Mills, on Flickr
I fitted a traction bar set on the car the year after from Bugpack, along with external oil cooler which gave me no end of problems for the first year as I just couldn't get the oil from leaking from various parts of the engine. and I ended up solving it by changing the pump for a smaller one, I also had to re drill the case and put studs instead of the bolts as I couldn't get the oil pump to seal. To this day am still not 100% happy with the setup, its mainly the oil lines, which I will look into in the future.
oil by John Mills, on Flickr
PICT2371 by John Mills, on Flickr
PICT2395 by John Mills, on Flickr
I was having problem getting the power down in the first few years of doing RWYB so I made some home made bump stops
DSC00096 by John Mills, on Flickr
DSC00095 by John Mills, on Flickr
DSC00144 by John Mills, on Flickr
165599_10150119560226294_1516658_n - Copy by John Mills, on Flickr
The oil cooler, I made a bracket so it could fit next to the gearbox on the nearside.
Other jobs Iv done on the car (of which there are 100's!) include replacing the rear shocks to Spax collovers, rebuilding the engine (several times) new 2" narrow front beam, Empi wide 5 front disc conversion kit, New front shocks and steering damper, complete rewire, battery box, new electric fuel pump, 5 point harness, twin circuit brake upgrade, complete rear brake re build, rear suspension tweaks (lots of times) Harden Short shafts, new pro street gearbox, Oil cooleer setup, Tacho & temp gauges and a loads of other stuff I forgotten about.
11140251_10153668393324846_2809060291597971482_n by John Mills, on Flickr
I had the car since 2008 and have been racing her (well him) for the past few years doing RWYB at various events at Santa pod, York and Avon park raceway. I Joined the VWDRC in 2014 and started to race with them in 2015 (I had to wait to get a cage fitted into the car first)
I Have few old build photos of the car from 2008 to present so here a quick history of the car and a select few (of which there are many) jobs I done on the car
Here is how the car looked when it arrived from USA in late November 2008
34 - Copy by John Mills, on Flickr
The car running really badly when it arrived, and I soon found out it was only running on 3 cylinders! There was a host of other problems also wrong with the car which I had to sort.
One of the first big jobs I did when I got the car was to fit a new gearbox (as the boy racer in me blow the last one up racing a Honda civic R type from the lights Summer of 2009 I think).
PICT2363 by John Mills, on Flickr
I fitted a traction bar set on the car the year after from Bugpack, along with external oil cooler which gave me no end of problems for the first year as I just couldn't get the oil from leaking from various parts of the engine. and I ended up solving it by changing the pump for a smaller one, I also had to re drill the case and put studs instead of the bolts as I couldn't get the oil pump to seal. To this day am still not 100% happy with the setup, its mainly the oil lines, which I will look into in the future.
oil by John Mills, on Flickr
PICT2371 by John Mills, on Flickr
PICT2395 by John Mills, on Flickr
I was having problem getting the power down in the first few years of doing RWYB so I made some home made bump stops
DSC00096 by John Mills, on Flickr
DSC00095 by John Mills, on Flickr
DSC00144 by John Mills, on Flickr
165599_10150119560226294_1516658_n - Copy by John Mills, on Flickr
The oil cooler, I made a bracket so it could fit next to the gearbox on the nearside.
Other jobs Iv done on the car (of which there are 100's!) include replacing the rear shocks to Spax collovers, rebuilding the engine (several times) new 2" narrow front beam, Empi wide 5 front disc conversion kit, New front shocks and steering damper, complete rewire, battery box, new electric fuel pump, 5 point harness, twin circuit brake upgrade, complete rear brake re build, rear suspension tweaks (lots of times) Harden Short shafts, new pro street gearbox, Oil cooleer setup, Tacho & temp gauges and a loads of other stuff I forgotten about.