Little Horus VWDRC build

[runningmonkey]

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

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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.

[runningmonkey]

Made 150 on the rollers

521582_10150742042481294_876792098_n_zps46046e3c - Copy by John Mills, on Flickr


At cal look (the stinger is a new addition and got me into the 12's just)

P1020285_zpsa425779a by John Mills, on Flickr


And the car today (well last week)

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Best time to date

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Best time over the years

2009 14.99 @ 88MPH
2010 13.87 @ 94.5MPH
2011 16.30 @ 80 MPH (Slipping clutch)
2012 -Broken-
2013 13.27 @ 100.61 MPH
2014 12.87 @ 103.24 MPH

So that's the past here the future, over the winter am going to be taking the engine out and getting a cage fitted and tied into the frame horns, I may up the cc from 2180cc to 2276cc but will have to wait and see

[runningmonkey]

Engine spec

82mm Bugpack Crank (very long story behind this as I paid the engine builder for a Scat one at a cost of around £600 when the engine broke after 500 miles and had to be split again I took it to another engine builder when we opened the case it had a bugpack crank into! not happy to say the least)
92mm Pistons (nothing fancy just GSF ones)
fk89 cam with scat straight cut gears
scat 1.4 rockers with Scat cut to length push rods and tubes
Arao stage 3 heads (US heads from ARAO engineering 42 x 37.5 valves) Ported to match the manifolds with 48 IDA

Had all the bottom end balanced
and running with a Rancho Pro street box with hardened shafts, Bugpack gearbox mounts, and mid mount with traction bar.


To race with the VWDRC I need to make the car full MSA complaint so its a engine out job and is going to Cotwelds racing for a cage fitting on 14th December, Going to fit a line lock on her over the winter and may have a play (again) with the rear suspension. They few other thing I have to do for the MSA, like fitting a window net & changing the fuel lines to steel.


20150330_210141_zpsbwtseeku by John Mills, on Flickr

[1303 German Looker]

Finally remembered to have a thread !
Well done for not forgetting this John.
BTW nice pillow and blanket !!
What other tweeks for the rear suspension you are planning?

[runningmonkey]

Originally Posted by 1303 German Looker

Finally remembered to have a thread !
Well done for not forgetting this John.
BTW nice pillow and blanket !!
What other tweeks for the rear suspension you are planning?

The blanket on the garage wall is so I dont bang the door when I get out of the car

Rear suspension changes by the day on this car! The new roll cage will tie in with the frame horns so will make the whole car really stiff! It all reay has mid mounts and traction bars, a home made bump stop system and spaxs. The next I will be changing is the spax as I got them second hand and there a little short for the car.

I did mention that I may up the CC from 2180 to 2276 but I decided against this for now, next time I blow the engine up I will upgrade

[1303 German Looker]

Originally Posted by runningmonkey

The blanket on the garage wall is so I dont bang the door when I get out of the car

Rear suspension changes by the day on this car! The new roll cage will tie in with the frame horns so will make the whole car really stiff! It all reay has mid mounts and traction bars, a home made bump stop system and spaxs. The next I will be changing is the spax as I got them second hand and there a little short for the car.

I did mention that I may up the CC from 2180 to 2276 but I decided against this for now, next time I blow the engine up I will upgrade

sounds as a decent plan
but how about turbo?

[runningmonkey]

Originally Posted by 1303 German Looker

sounds as a decent plan
but how about turbo?

She's all ready to fast!

Car has just lefted this morning to go to Cotwelds race cars to have the cage fitting, Racing in 2015 with the VWDRC

[smull]

Cool car. Look forward to seeing it on the strip.

[volksrod]

Nice lookin bug.

[runningmonkey]

A little update

So I got the car back from cotwelds racing who fitted the cage, and what a fantastic job they did!

IMG_20171202_115025 by John Mills, on Flickr

I been building the car up slowly over the last month. I re fitted all the external oil cooler and pipe work, and re fitted the engine which felt great as it seemed a lift time ago since I took it out. I was thinking it would be a bitch to start but first turn of the key and he fired up!

A few jobs I have to do on the car to make it MSA complaint including changing all the fuel line to steel braided. Which was a hugely important job as when I removed the pipe that went from the tank to the fuel pump it had a hole in it!! Iv also added a fuel pump cut off switch, Fuel tank vent valve breather, roll cage fitted, securing the fuel regulator and line lock (because race car!)

Jobs left to do is torquing up the rear hub nuts (iv re done the seals over winter as I had a small leak) add the split pins and re fit the wheels, fit of the drivers seat and the making of the head rest, fit the harness and safety net, I also need to secure the battery box add some race stickers and he ready to go!

20150330_214315_zpsezorenjg by John Mills, on Flickr

20150330_212039_zpsdprmmzs6 by John Mills, on Flickr

IMG_20160211_200813_zpsmf2xryiu by John Mills, on Flickr

I had to add a head rest to the original seat, for the MSA I did this by cutting a peace of wood to size and covering it in form and fabric.