Aircooled VW-Weber Guru needed
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:06 am
Hi Folks,
Its been a long time since I have had a car that I can run hill climbs with that is the reason that I haven't been around. But.. have been having fun. This past weekend I was at Mosport with Varac for the Canadian Historic GP. I have a new car that I bought last fall. A 1964 VW Crusader Vee Sports Racer. I ran it at Lime Rock last fall for the Historics for the first time and found it had lots of flat spots in acceleration. I was just getting used to the car so thought it was me. At Mosport this past weekend I found it only makes power between about 4500 and 5200 rpm where it pulls like a train but is flat beyond that to the rev limit of 6500 rpm. The engine runs dual Weber IDF 44s and was built by someone who supposedly knows what he is doing in california. The PO was a money is no object type and put a 120k into a 40k car so I believe it was professionally built.
I am hoping to find someone local that knows both Type 1 VW engines and webers to sort this out. I thought I had found the problem on Sunday when I found a small piece of gravel in one of the jet stacks. that helped but didnt fully correct it. The PO swears it pulls hard right up to the redline, and his previous lap times support that.
Any one know of a good tuner in VT area that would be willing to spend some time on a dyno and sort this out?
Its been a long time since I have had a car that I can run hill climbs with that is the reason that I haven't been around. But.. have been having fun. This past weekend I was at Mosport with Varac for the Canadian Historic GP. I have a new car that I bought last fall. A 1964 VW Crusader Vee Sports Racer. I ran it at Lime Rock last fall for the Historics for the first time and found it had lots of flat spots in acceleration. I was just getting used to the car so thought it was me. At Mosport this past weekend I found it only makes power between about 4500 and 5200 rpm where it pulls like a train but is flat beyond that to the rev limit of 6500 rpm. The engine runs dual Weber IDF 44s and was built by someone who supposedly knows what he is doing in california. The PO was a money is no object type and put a 120k into a 40k car so I believe it was professionally built.
I am hoping to find someone local that knows both Type 1 VW engines and webers to sort this out. I thought I had found the problem on Sunday when I found a small piece of gravel in one of the jet stacks. that helped but didnt fully correct it. The PO swears it pulls hard right up to the redline, and his previous lap times support that.
Any one know of a good tuner in VT area that would be willing to spend some time on a dyno and sort this out?