36hp Challenge Racing
Stephen Muller and Mick Percy have recently contacted me about racing 36hp motored Volkswagens in land speed racing. Since Austrailia enjoys the presence of Lake Gairdner, a massive dry salt lake that is just like the Bonneville Salt Flats, VW LSR competition is very much possible. I would like to invite all VW folks who might have an interest in this type of racing to contact me via the email address at www.burlyb.com , home of the 36hp Challenge.
Even better, get in touch with the Dry Lakes Racing Austrialia DRLA at http://www.dlra.org.au/ and let them know of your interest. Just this past spring, the first VW to ever run the DRLA Speedweek event, a Super Beetle owned and driven by Mark Hollyoak and powered by a 2180cc VW, posted a top speed over 117 miles per hour. The annual event will next be run between March 8th and 12th in 2010.
My thanx to our friends down under for your interest. Their participation will soon make the 36hp Challenge a truly "international" Volkswagen event.
Till then, may the Speed be with you..................
Burly Burlile
Even better, get in touch with the Dry Lakes Racing Austrialia DRLA at http://www.dlra.org.au/ and let them know of your interest. Just this past spring, the first VW to ever run the DRLA Speedweek event, a Super Beetle owned and driven by Mark Hollyoak and powered by a 2180cc VW, posted a top speed over 117 miles per hour. The annual event will next be run between March 8th and 12th in 2010.
My thanx to our friends down under for your interest. Their participation will soon make the 36hp Challenge a truly "international" Volkswagen event.
Till then, may the Speed be with you..................
Burly Burlile
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Permalink Reply by Burly Burlile on -
Get a lot of good photos Mick. And say hello to everyone for me...................
Burly
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Permalink Reply by Jez Thomas on -
Hi Ash, hope all's well with you and the blue brick.
Has the salt racing happened yet; I'm keen to go if not?
Cheers now,
Jez
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Permalink Reply by Ash on -
Sorry Jez, been and gone. Here is a few pics taken at the event: http://www.volksculture.com/photo/albums/ratmuller-36hp-world-chall...
The boys did very well, actually breaking a world record with the modified Ghia (127mph+), and unofficially breaking the 36hp world record with 75.1 mph with the 36hp Beetle. The later is not recognised as it was on a GPS timed track, but I think Steve is keener than ever to get back next year and make it official.
How is your gorgeous bus going? Dropped anything else into it yet?
Cheers
Jez Thomas said:Hi Ash, hope all's well with you and the blue brick.
Has the salt racing happened yet; I'm keen to go if not?
Cheers now,
Jez
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Permalink Reply by Humphrey on -
A pic of each car is in the current issue of STREET MACHINE, very little info though.
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Permalink Reply by Burly Burlile on
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Whose coming to race at World of Speed (9/11/0)
1. Bill Smith from Phoenix will be running his lowlight 56 Ghia coupe with a Stone Stock 36hp engine. Bill is a Mustang restorer with a passion for, and a garage full of Karmann Ghias.
2. Craig & Rose Wilson from Groveland, Cal, located just outside Yosemitie Park, will also be running a 67 Ghia coupe with Britt Grannis's Stone Stock 36 engine taken from the bug he ran last year. Ghias are supposed to be 8 miles per hour faster because of their aerodynamic efficiency. This will be a good test to see how accurate that theory is.
3. Brad Humenny is coming from the great white north with his big blovk VW slalom buggy converted for land speed racing on the salt. It will be the first street buggy to ever have competed at Bonneville.
4. Juan Cole, better known for his Beetle Ball adventures, is bringing Herbie to run the Stone Stock class and try and dethrone the Beaver Geezer boys.
5. Evergreen, Colorados, David Manobla will be in his Okrasa motored Ghia coupe and will make his first pass down Bonnevilles black line this next week.
6. Kim Slaughter is building a NA36 for next year but will take his 58 Bug across the salt this year with a Stone Stock motor that has quite a few miles under it's belt. No tight tolerances their !
7. John Milner is again bringing his Formula V outfitted with a big block VW and dual Webers. He even has a spare motor should the unthinkable happen. Both have been on the dyno so this should run good.
8 & 9 & 10. Dave and Molly McCoombs are coming up from Tustin in So Cal to try their hand in the Challenge.
They will be running a Tom Bruch built DSS 1582cc engine that Tom will also drive once Dave has completed his runs. Both are Stage 4 cancer survivors so you could say they will be 'Running for the Cure' !
11. Britt Grannis is bringing his RED 67 Ghia coupe equipped with Richard Troys 1500cc Okrasa that has jsut been dynoyed by ACE in Salt Lake City. Hopefully this will put Britt into the "1" Club.
12. Dick Wakefield, with his daughter Kami as the pit crew is coming from Texas to try and be the first ?VW bug to gain entry into the 130 MilePer Hour Club. We wish him the best of luck.
13. Richard Troy who became the fifth "1" Club member last year with his Denzel powered Ghia Coupe will return with many refinements and a solid Dyno tune by ACE to speed him along. His goal, 115 mph plus and he has a good shot at acheiving those speeds.
14. Joe Morris is coming all the way from Indianaplis, Indiana, in hopes of besting the Stone Stock record of 73 mph. He has installed his motor in a slippery Super Beetle to give him that 1CD advantage in cheeting the wind.
15. Matt Guzowski will be piloting his road racing Formula V, complete with a blueprinted and dynotuned 40hp engine(now putting out 58 hp) as required for the classes he competes in at Millers Motor Sports Park and other road race venues around the west.
16. Yoncalla, Oregons Jerry Avis came to the salt last year with a neat looking 36hp trike. This year he returns with 'the Cheetle', a Stone Stock powered full bodied bug outfitted with numerous aerodynamic modifications just to see how fast he can make a stock motor go. He will have to run in the "1" Club because of the changes but his goal is maximum speed and nothing more or less.
17 & 18 & 19. The Blackline Boys are in reality, brothers Justin and Colton along with dad Dan and this year they may attempt record speeds in three (3) classes of 36hp bugs. Last years DSS record motor will run first with a highly modified 28PCI carb in SSS, then convert to a modern dual carb to compete in NA36 (it does not have to be turboed, ya know!) and if the motor is still on one piece, they will put last years car on and try to beat their own record. Hopefully, all three will get a go behind the wheel. They are even talking of heading southeast to Goliad, Texas next spring to see what sea level atmospheric conditions would do for their top speeds.
20. Dick Beith, 'the Speedfather of Volkswagen racing', is returning to race 36hp VW's after fifty years, with the worlds most modified land speed Volkswagen. Dick set the first two VW records in LSR in 60 an 61 and then went on to race Mustangs and during the seventies owned an Indy car that raced the Indianapolis 500 as well as the regular Indy circuit.
21 & 22. Kevin Winder and his dad Jesse will bring both a diesel powered Rabbit Pick-Up and a 'dual engine'
3000cc diesel Streamliner. The streamliner which debuted last year with a new record using a single Rabbit engine is now equipped with two 1500cc Rabbit diesels and a new goal of 200 plus miles per hour. The class record is 199 so these Winder boys have their work cut out for them. Like Dick, they will be racing the long three mile track along with all of the other hot rods and streamliners.
23. Saskatoon up in Canada is also sending down Todd Penn with his 60 Bus. I know the engine will not be stock so it will be interesting to see what top speed he acheives.
24. A surprise last minute entry will be a fellow (name unknown) who is bringing one of Matt Kenneys bugs to race the Challenge. Again, the engine and class are unknown but it is good to see Matt racing in abstentia as he will be driving some Type 181's from the midwest to California. We wish him luck in both endeavors.
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Permalink Reply by Burly Burlile on
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Kim Slaughter from northern California will be running an original 80,000 plus miles 58 Bug 36er on the salt outfitted with the new Wolfsburg West 'Okrasa' head and dual carb kit. This will be a good opportunity to see how the WW kit performs on an everyday street car and how it will benefit most of the folks running 36hp engines in their VW's. Watch for results to be posted here and in the Challenge newsmail after World of Speed ends this coming Saturday.
May the Speed be with you...................
Burly
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Permalink Reply by Burly Burlile on
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Friends of the Challenge
Finally, here are a few of the top speed results for the 2010 World of Speed held at the Bonneville Salt Flats in September. More information will be presented in Hot VW's in a future issue(next year!).
36hp Challengers:
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/IMG_449...[/IMG]
SS T2 Todd Penn 60 Pick-Up Canada 56.233 Base Record
Driven to and from Canada with a 1600cc engine, then engine swap to 36hp
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/TheBlac...[/IMG]
SSS Bug Justin McAllister 74 Bug Utah 99.370 New Record
Yes, it has a single 'modified' 28PIC carburetor !
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/IMG_369...[/IMG]
DSS Bug Dave McCoombs 57 Bug Sunroof California 88.898
Used Tom Bruchs big Bruchrasa Single Port dual Carb motor
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/IMG_461...[/IMG]
DSS Ghia Britt Grannis 67 Ghia Coupe California 91.587
Used Richard Troys 1500cc Okrasa engine
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/IMG_391...[/IMG]
DSS Ghia Richard Troy 59 Ghia Coupe California 105.777 New Record
Denzel engine. Fastest 36hp speed for 2010 ! ! !
[IMG]http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr301/36hplandspeedracer/DickBei...[/IMG]
UNLTD 36 Dick Beith 68 Bug California No Speed. Display only. Will make innaugaral run in 2011
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Permalink Reply by Bill Moore on -
Looking forward to seeing some of the times for the 2011 event at Bonneville as I understand the World 36HP Challenge Record may have been upped by a couple of mph to a tick over 75mph. That will take some achieving when the Ratmuller Racing Team hit the salt at Lake Gairdner Soth Australia in March next year.
countrybuggybill
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Permalink Reply by Juan Cole on -
I heard that there might be some interest in our record-breaking, stone stock, 36 hp bug (75.534 mph) . . . This was definitely a budget operation. We started with a dead, dented, hulk, and ended up with a pretty decent looking little "Herbie". I did most of the work myself: engine, interior, and paint, with the help of my wife Julia, and son Isaac. Here are some pictures. If you have any questions, ask away!
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Permalink Reply by Burly Burlile on
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Bill Moore said:Looking forward to seeing some of the times for the 2011 event at Bonneville as I understand the World 36HP Challenge Record may have been upped by a couple of mph to a tick over 75mph. That will take some achieving when the Ratmuller Racing Team hit the salt at Lake Gairdner Soth Australia in March next year.
countrybuggybill
Hi Bill
Below are the updated speed results for all of the Volskwagens that ran at World of Speed this year.
Enjoy............Burly
Friends of the ChallengeBelow are the top speeds achieved by each of the racers at World of Speed. I would like to offer a BIG thanx to all of the racers, crews and VW spectators who ventured to Bonneville to be part of the USFRA's 26th annual World of Speed. And thanx to Hot VW's for sending RK Smith to cover this unique VW event and for The Samba's moderator, John Moxon to come all the way from England to be part of our race.I would also like to offer a sincere debt of gratitude to Wolfsburg West and Tony Moore for his support of the 36hp Challenge and the $1000.00 contingency award they provided to the fastest Wolfsburg West cylinder head equipped record breaker, Bill Hatfield of Harmony, Indiana.May the Speed be with you..................Burly2011 World of Speed VW results:36hp ChallengeSS36 Bug T53 Juan Cole.........................................75.534 New Record 9/16/11(old record 75.277T60 Dan Durie(Beaver Geezers)..........75.277 New Record 9/14/11(old record 73.492T77 Ralph Dotson...................................71.480DSS36 Bug T20 Bill Hatfield/Wolfsburg West........108.324 New record 9/15/11(old record 103.056T54 Gene Dannan/Wolfsburg West......59.709SS36 Ghia T777 Bill Smith...........................................73.752 New Record 9/15/11(old record 71.314DSS36 Ghia T67 Craig Wilson/Wolfsburg West..........84.442T143 Richard Troy-Denzel........................92.808DSS36 Bus T58 Ronnie Fietelson/Wolfsburg West.68.851 New Record 9/16/11(old record 67.909T8 Matthew Kenney..............................67.909 New Record 9/15/11(base record36hp"1"Club T11 Larry Mocnick/Cheetle....................75.105NA36 Bug T903 Tom Bruch/Gaylen Anderson........126.236*New Record 9/15/11(old record 106.514* Top 36hp Speed of the meet !H/FCC 3601 Dick Beith........................................handling run only-no speedBig Block(40hp & newer engines)-130/150 MPH CLUBGhia Coupe T70 Britt Grannis/Geoff Hart.................139.756 Dual Carb 130 Club Member-newGhia Coupe T701 Tom Simon/Grannis/Hart..............138.520 Dual Carb 130 Club Member-newFormula V X150 John Milner.....................................134.707 Dual CarbBug T363 Justin McAllister/Burlile..................127.480 Dual CarbVolksRod T1967 Richard Luna...................................119.207 Dual CarbBug T51 Dick Wakefield...............................118.510 Dual CarbBug T4 Scot A Harig....................................109.051 Turbo 2bblBug T48 Karl Barnett.....................................107.777 1600cc SSS (Single 34PICT Carb S/P/ Best 1/4 drag speed 96.8 in 13.93 secondsGhia Coupe T15 Larry Gregg.....................................107.296 Dual KadronGhia Coupe T65 Greg Silkenson...............................102.630 Dual CarbBuggy T122 John Dahlstrom................................97.171 Dual CarbGhia Coupe T711 Warren Grannis/Grannis.................93.180 Dual CarbWatercooledGolf R32 X57 Gabe Adams.................................160.047 Turbo VR6 150 Club MemberStreamliner 1479 Kevin Winder.................................149.182 Turbo 4 Diesel(new G/DS record 2 way avg 147.909Golf R32 T59 Chris Adams..................................137.499 Turbo VR6 130 Club Member-newGolf R32 T57 Andrew Augustain..........................137.036 Turbo VR6 130 Club Member-newGolf R32 T337 Norma Fergus(Garys mom!).........134.551 Turbo VR6 130 Club Member-newRabbit X8383 John Finn.........................................110.906 Turbo 4Rabbit P.U. 479 Rick Winder......................................103.075 Turbo DieselDasher WagnT6802 Dan Kingery........................................91.516 Turbo Diesel-Vegetable Oilhttp://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/wickedwagens/WOS%202011/ Photos by Mark Ortiz(Thanx Mark!)MORE RACES IN 2011-See BelowSept 24-25 East Coast Timing Association (36hp Challenge). One mile standing start time trial, Maxton AFB, Maxton, NC. All VW racers and spectators welcome. For information visit www.ecta-lsr.com . For 36hp Challenge guideline information visit www.burlyb.com.Oct 8-9 The Mojave Mile (36hp Challenge). Mojave, California. This will be their second event for the Southern California/Nevada area. Volkswagen racers welcome. For information, visit http://www.mojavemile.com . For 36hp Challenge guideline information visit www.burlyb.com .
Oct 21-23 The TEXAS MILE (36hp Challenge). One mile standing start time trial, Goliad AFB, Goliad, TX. All VW racers and spectators welcome. For information visit www.info@nasatx.com . For 36hp Challenge guideline information visit www.burlyb.com .Oct 29-30 East Coast Timing Association (36hp Challenge). One mile standing start time trial, Maxton AFB, Maxton, NC. All VW racers and spectators welcome. For information visit www.ecta-lsr.com . For 36hp Challenge guideline information visit www.burlyb.com .
QUESTIONS ? Please contact Burly Burlile at burlybug@comcast.net or call 435-752 4359 or 435-890 8832 M.S.T..
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