Category: Racing
-
Chimay 2023 day 2
day 2 at chimay and the sun is blazing, sunburn is available in half litre sizes at every stall and the cocktail bar/caravan is doing a roaring business…. #vwt2 single cab pickup #oklahomaWilly says die.asphalt.die #ebi #chimay and the burnout box competitors say die.tyres.die
-
bbc points west video… finally
the akciddento vw t25 t3 turbo race builders van with junkyard turbo install feature on BBC Points West evening news program. At the Raceshack tuning facility in Tweaksbury fitting version one of the Junk Yard Turbo install. on a barn find VW wbx waterboxer 2.1l DJ motor we fitted the guts of a Saab turbo…
-
pimp my ride- butcher my bus
rolled up to RaceShack early on thursday, Conor had organised a Petrolheads monthly meet for later that evening and asked me if i’d like to put the panel van on the rollers to get a baseline so we can see how much extra power we can wring out of it after turbo fitment… when i…
-
guess my weight,,,
i trucked up to RACESHACK to deliver croissants and blag mugs of tea and also to checkout how progress is going for bigbang show at santapod this weekend.. conor and kevo had the rail together and had just finished breaking in the cam on the new engine… conor also had a seablau and blauweiss 15…
-
oops, done it again,
it seems that, after discussion with spencer tramm at VWDRC and with fellow akciddento bus racer ollie-slammedbay-twobuses-dyer, i’m racing at bigbang… i’m not ready, the bus is not ready and i’ve got a very busy month with several important projects on… sounds ideal… don’t think there will be time to get the turbo system sorted…
-
more flame and thunder
a damp, rainy bleary start to the day. it’s been drizzling for several hours and the air is so cold it looks not too promising for racing today. It seems that the one meeting tha people thought would be dry is in danger of being a washout just like most of the others this year…
-
The new project wedge race bus!
The beginning of a light weight streetracing builders van The new akciddento race bus is now underway, as some of you may know the 1965 VW samba that we have campaigned for a season and a half has gone on to pastures new and we have a new race bus project. introducing the akciddento weapon…
-
more big bang
we all woke to a dry but overcast day.. the track dryers were out hoovering the moisture off the track and all looked promising… all morning to run qualifying and all afternoon to race… off to the startline and into the staging area…..then BANG, it hit me like a steam train… back behind the wheel,…
-
back home
after a break of writing here for a few days i’m back after the first race ever ! the big bang show at santapod raceway in bedford. i’m snowed under with material, over 800 still frames and nearly 3 hours of video! i’m working my way through it all and trying to catch up the…
-
i’m racing at big bang!
the scrutineer passed my bus, (only just) i qualified (initially 3rd then finally 8th) , tried out the new camera mount and shot lots of video, and ! i ran my first race, needless to say i got knocked out in the first round but it wasn’t the sphincter clenching humiliation i thought it would…