55:a Gatrace (Sida 3 av 4)

Impad att lådan håller, fast det krävs nog att man har koll på chassit då? Inga däckstuts osv? Stack iväg som en kula på filmerna 

Nej, det är inte samma låda. Min gamla växellåda sålde jag till Max i Uppsala. Drivaxlarna är nog dom samma. Men var det verkligen CSP? Skall se om jag har kvitto kvar...

Japp, köpte nya axlar utav Niklas. De gamla finns kvar som reserv men spadarna har tagit stryk efter många års användande.

Jag har scannat reportagen från Wheels och Total VW. Men kan inte ladda upp dem här.. Tips på hur jag skall göra? 2 PDF filer på 12MB och 24 MB.

Visst. Vad har du för E-post adress?

Det funkar bra.

http://speedy.sh/S2daj/Wheels.pdf

Kunde tyvärr inte kolla repotegen. Men kommer i håg att det finns i någon bilsport en jävulskt cool bild framifrån från tullinge när det är vinkstart på Skants och en Ac Cobra. Vilken blir ifrån körd. Men till cobrans försvar så var det ganska halt och mycket motor men suset i publiken och ståpälsen man fick kommer jag aldrig glömma. Ska finnas på VHS i vårat garage någonstan.

/Johan

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The ultimate sleeper

Is it possible to build an aircooled VW that runs high elevens on a tight budget? We think that Stefan Skans, a laid back guy from the club of Västerås Aircoolers in Sweden, might have the answer.

OK, Stefan has not run an eleven with his grey street driven 1955 yet, but with 12.025 @ 118 mph it is very close. He has had a successful summer with the victory of the (in)famous "fastest in town" race in Stockholm being the highlight of the season. Despite being only 25 years old he has a lot of hard earned street experience.

Stefan's street racing career began with a top-chopped beetle sporting a turbocharged 1915cc engine, which was also his first car. This vehicle kept him busy to say the least. At each race there was always something breaking down, and as Stefan liked to race a lot that meant plenty of hands-on experience.

But the attention getting graphiced top-chopped car was not very practical in the kind of races Stefan used to enter. In 1995 he started to build a more discreet street/strip car based around the remains of a 1955 type 1.

A key ingredient in this project was how to build a high power type 1 engine on a low budget. The solution for Stefan was to buy an old rally cross engine. It was in bad shape, but the type 1 based 2332cc engine had Okrasa 84mm crank, Super Flo heads, Porsche rods, Weber IDA48's and some other good stuff. It required a total overhaul, but as the price tag was very reasonable it was not that big of a deal.

The engine was mated to a stock mid 60's transmission equipped with a Bug Pack super diff and Bug Pack's 5" shorter drive shafts. Before this package went in to the car Stefan did spend a lot of time on the chassi. The rear suspension was modified to accommodate the shorter drive shafts and in the process the transmission was mounted some 50 mm up in the body. By using the shorter rear torsion bars from 60's beetles together with spring plates for VW's with longer torsion bars it was possible for Stefan to achieve this shortening without spending too much money. The ideas came from the late VW hot rodder Robban Larsson, a man who inspired a lot of VW and Porsche people during his all too short life.

The front suspension was shortened 175 mm to be able to get the 55 really low. To reinforce the discreet look Stefan mounted 66-67 flat hubcaps with chrome decoration rings on the wheels. In the rear the hubcaps are mounted on very long bolts in an attempt to hide the true depth of the very wide wheels.

The car was finished late 1997 and Stefan experimented a lot with different turbo installations. An attempt to force feed the IDA48's with a turbo initially resulted in 0-63mph times of 3.9 seconds, but the high pressure soon made the 48's floating bowls assume the shape of prunes. Other turbo attempts, as sucking through a horizontal Weber, also got him in to a lot of reliability problems.

Late 1998 Stefan had enough of all the problems. He wanted the 55 to be a racecar, which could still be street driven with not too many worries. The conclusion was that the turbo had to go. With the IDA48's (new float bowls were required…) he managed to run an impressive 12.79 @ 103 mph. The most impressive achievement this season was a second place at the nightly Power street race in Västerås against heavy V8 artillery from all over the country.

To the 2000 season he added a bottle of nitrous, which improved the results to the earlier mentioned 12.025 @ 118 mph. What is even more amazing is that this result was achieved with a standard 1964 VW 1200 gearbox using a Bug Pack super diff and no external reinforcements whatsoever! During all this time Stefan had two stock VW1200 gearboxes which he alternated. When the crown wheel broke in one box he exchanged the tranny to the other and repaired the crown wheel on the first one.

But, the laws of physics also apply to Stefan Skans, during a nightly battle in the city of Eskilstuna the old gearbox said goodbye for the last time. To improve the reliability he decided to walk away from the cost effective, but labour intense, strategy of alternating two stock transmissions. This time he bought a used close ratio box that was supposed to be well built. Stefan is still not sure what gear ratios it has, but so far he thinks it works good. When installing the new transmission he also replaced the 1 5/8" exhaust system to a much-needed 2" Gene Berg system that, according to Stefan, made a big difference.

The interior is very business like for being a street driven car, with a full roll cage, competition type seats, lexan windows and aluminium door skins. But, despite a little noise and a slight feeling of claustrophobia it is a nice car to cruise around in. The driveability is  important in the world of street racing as there is a lot of transportation involved in the bigger street race tournaments, due to unwanted attention from certain authorities. In the "fastest in town" race the transportation between the different "strips" in the Stockholm area was more than 150 miles during one night, and the rules does not permit a trailer.

To the next season Stefan intends to set up his IDA48's with the help of a dyno. Up until now the jetting is only pot luck, Stefan claims that: "I looked around in the box until I found four main jets that were alike, that is the only jetting I have ever done". With the new improvements it looks like Stefan will have the eleven he longs for as soon as the asphalt in Västerås, Sweden dries up after the winter.

Car: 1955 Volkswagen type 113
Owner: Stefan Skans
Age: 25
Club: Aircoolers Västerås
Occupation: Mechanic
Owned since: 1995
Price then: £110
Front suspension: 175 mm shortened and lowered
Rear suspension: Shortened 5" per side, transmission moved 50 mm up
Brakes: type 1 rotors in front, type 3 drums in the back
Transmission: Close ratio with Super diff ("I don't know any gear ratios, I needed a gearbox fast and bought this without knowing too much about it" Stefan Skans)
Drive shafts: Bug Pack pro stock (5" shorter than original)
Engine: 2332cc type 1:
•    Okrasa 84 mm crank
•    94 mm cylinders
•    Porsche con rods
•    Super Flo heads, ported, with 48X38 valves
•    Autocraft 1,4:1 needle bearing rocker arms
•    Engle FK10 camshaft
•    MSD 6AL two step module, MSD timing control, MSD coil,
•    NOS fogger +100hp nitrous system
•    2" Gene Berg exhaust with stinger
Stefan wants to give a big thanks to Kristian Nordström who helps him at every race.

Written by Tobias Lindbäck 2000-11-11

varför har jag inte sett den annonsen, den ville jag köpa.

Det är inte samma bil, Magnus som renoverade 55:an byggde även en kopia som han kör på strippen. Skiljer i små detaljer såsom flipp, bakljus, bur mm. Kan väl även ha hänt att han "lånade" skyltarna från 55:an ibland