followed a link someone posted on the VZi forum to quarter mile performance ratings of production cars. its here at syclone. my ‘caravannette’ (as the commentators at the summer nationals described it) does the quarter faster than….. porsche boxster bmw 325i mazda 323 turbo audi a8 4.2 jaguar s type V8 auto caterham 7K mercedes…

just found this… —- ac?ci?dent (?k?s?-d?nt, -d?nt’)?Pronunciation Key n. 1. a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads. b. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion. c. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one’s clothing. 2. Lack of…

just grabbed the timing data from those fine folks at eurodragster for the national finals and here is a breakdown of the best run for the samba. DAN BUZZO? V.W. SPORTSMAN? VW SPORT?97? dial in 15.50? reaction time 1.114?(oh dear, asleep at the lights!) 60ft time 2.077? 330ft time 6.251? 660ft time 9.849? 660ft MPH…

here we are after round one, jimby, ollie, ed and cath… comparing timing sheets and giggling like school children… although i got knocked out (for a disasterous reaction time (i need to practice more with the line loc and launch control)) by chris kouzaris racing his wifes daily driver stock 1500cc beetle. Chris was on…

after qualifying on saturday in brilliant sunshine we were all called to the staging area just after 9 am on sunday for the first round of eliminations. then it started raining. and raining. i ended up with a bus full of racers sheltering from the rain in shifts between braving the weather to buy styrofoam…

after a fantastic weekend at the national finals at santapod raceway we’re back at akciddento HQ… the bus behaved itself and even got home ok after running a monstrous 15.54 seconds over the quarter mile on its first run out. its on a standard gearbox & mounts and still needs to be tuned… how happy…

tonight its time for this weeks evictions from the akciddento sock basket. and YOU, the public have voted. and the nominations are LONG BLUE SOCK SHORT BLUE AND WHITE BLACK WOOLLEN GLOVE and here is the blacl woollen glove waving goodbye as it goes off to the great sock basket in the sky. —- on…

there’s a poll running on the BBCTV top gear website about dragracing you can vote on whether you think it’s a real motorsport like circuit racing or a ‘real-motorsport-like-darts-is-a-sport’ ‘ What is drag racing then? Well, you drive for a quarter of a mile in a straight line. Even its detractors would have to admit,…

just saw this post on volkszone forum… Try this one it really does work…………….. just read it and dont look at the words and try to work them out ……………… It helps if you read it out loud too! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in…

what i’ve been up to today ? this is (apart from the engine) the biggest nastiest mechanical bit i’ve ever removed from the bus… ..you could kill someone with this.. 🙂 if you used it properly. finally got the driveshaft out and stripped the CV joint on the end. I forgot that one end is…