German Race Bug
 

Hello Friends,

i want to show you my race bug, me and also 2 friends drive with our bugs on racecircuits we drive in an austrian racefield called www.histo-cup.at. Also you can take a look at our homepage www.boxergasse.com. In this winter we installed air jacks in the car. Also we put new transmission gears in the porsche 915 gear box the first gear will be now till 90 km/h at 7500 rpm. The engine is an typ4 2,8l OHC engine with 270PS.

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Hi Thomas,

Nice to see you here!
Was great fun last year running with you guys at Spa-francorchamp. Pity we have to wait another year for it to return.

Grusse,
Walter

Thomas,
Give us some pics from your OHC engine...please! :cool:

OHC Engine
 

Here the engine on rolf holzapfels dyno, much more pictures on our homepage www.boxergasse.com, hello walter was so super days in spa. We have much fun on this great racetrack. We all bugdrivers from the boxergasse will be back when the next bugshow is in spa.
Thomas

hi Thomas, nice to have you here!
I had the chance to see your bug live last year at spa, and all I can say is wow!

nice cars and a great site.
I see on one of the cars you run a tension strut on the front suspension, how much of a improvment did you see with this? I'm thinking of going to a compresion strut on the front but have only seen tension struts on the front of the strut front suspension on a beetle.

front suspension
 

Hello judgie,

sorry my english is not so good to answer you. the front suspension is complet build by me, to drive with tension strut ist much more better than original version. the car is completly with uniball. it drives very famous.

thomas

Hi Thomas! Great car and I love your website aswell! Hope to see it someday in person!

Very nice work. Very impressive, Welcome.

Wow. Amazing car. Air jacks are very cool.

90kph in first gear is mad!

Welcome Thomas.

Very impressive car indeed. Boxergasse.com is one of my favorite sites and I often use google translator to understand the information presented.

I have questions regarding the front suspension set up of the 1200 Kafers, but that is for another thread.

Thanks for posting pictures of your car.

Sandeep

We all understand fast VW talk, its our universal language, love your work.

Very nice!!! :D Welcome to the GL site!

WOW great looking car...and air jacks to boot ;)

Chris

Wow! Hope to see more of your work and car!

news
 

this weekend i made the new under floor coverings for the bug the old one was broken. the painter did his work so i can mount the new fenders, front spoiler and front hood on the car. so the race bug looks much more better than last year. i hope that last parts for the gear box come soon in house that we can complete it. the first race is on 16.april on red bull racecircuit in spielberg. the time runs very fast and next week comes the 1303rs bug from christian stelzer http://www.vw1303rs.de/ to me to make an better front suspension in his bug.

thomas

Cool! That under tray looks vaguely familiar to mine ;)

I see you're showing off you hydraulic lift / 'Hebesystem' nicht? :D

Ready to Race
 

Hello Friends the racebug is complete ready for the first run at 16.4.2011 on the new red bull a1 racetrack in spielberg. on friday we had 2 dyno-runs with the beetle to controll, couse last year we had trouble with the fuel pump, now it"s all ok with the new porsche 964 pump. so we hope that the two ohc bugs runs well.

thomas

She's too pretty to race!!! Hey, do you know much about the development of the rear wing you run? Was there any wind tunnel testing? What is your feel about the difference it makes?

Jason

spoiler
 

Hello jason,

the rear spoiler is not tested in an wind tunnel. he is build by rolf holzapfel with help from an aerodinamic specialist who works by sauber mercedes. i"ll think the idea and the build from this spoiler is 15 years old. to drive in high speed with this spoiler is much more better than without.

thomas

What a great car you got there!

I created a page where I try to explain how such a roofspoiler works. On this page I think I used a picture of your car. Is that allright with you? If not, I'll take it off the page.

See this page: Roofspoiler explanation

It's funny, because I also use some Mercedes pictures to explain it. So there's a link with your story. :)

spoiler
 

to use the foto from my car is ok, if you need an other picture say it how you need it ill take it and send it to you.

thomas

Thanks Thomas!

This picture is fine.:)

I just had a look at your website, www.boxergasse.com. You've got some excellent beetles in your club.

Is the front oil cooler/bumper/spoiler available to purchase some where?

Thanks

Hello!
Nice airjacks!
Very nice ride!!
Grtz Roel

New Shifter
 

Hello Friends, this day i put my new shifter in my race bug. So i hope that he works well. Next Race Event in Hockenheim at 17.6. till 19.6.2011.

Thomas

Salzburgring
 

Hello Friends,

at the weekend 27.8.2011 we drive with 15 Racebugs on racetrack in austria. many pictures from the bugs on our homepage.

http://boxergasse.forumieren.de/t216...g-classic-2011

Looks like a great event (wet but great). Lots of great pix, thanks for the link.

Awesome! I wish I could race against other bugs too in my country. I raced my 1303 against some classic Mini's. I was the only bug in the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6owr5xmmBeg

By the way, those nice front spoilers, fenders..etc on the race bugs in your photos, are they available to buy or home-made?

Hockenheim
 

Hello Friends,

last Trackday this year for us. We drive in Hockenheim at 12.11.2011 with 9 fast race bugs. guests and friends are welcome, free entree.

http://www.amsev.de/wordpress/

I hope you have good weather!

Bon chance!

Well I went down an internet rabbit hole .. trying to track down\ find info on one of my favorite VW 1303s.. Is this your track car? thomas07056

I think it is... and its amazing!!