My friends Adam and Dave have always been into Volkswagens. They used to do a lot of SCCA stuff but several years ago they decided to give drag racing a try. They have built an A2 Golf into a mid 10 second car. It's a 2 liter, 4 cylinder, turbo charged motor sitting in a shell that's been completely stripped of anything unnecesary. Complete with Lexan windows and a full cage it's as light as it can get. The most recent dyno runs have the little motor putting out just under 500 hp AT THE WHEELS! They have won loads of races and series. Just the other night in St. Louis, they showed up at the track and were told they couldn't run due to an oil leak. They pulled everything off the front of the motor and got the leak fixed with 3 minutes left to qualify. Then they qualified the fastest for the night and went on to win the whole thing.
Several months ago they attended a race where the show Pinks was at and looking for new cars for their show on Speed. While they did not make the show, they were just on Speed for "Pinks All Outakes". Really neat to see them and the car on national television. They are probably a bigger turbo and bigger front slicks away from being in the 9 second range. Last night they ran just tenths of a second below 135 mph. Very shortly they're gonna need a parachute on the car. What's really impressive is that the car is using a stock trans and stock axles. Since they're putting out so much power right now, they're starting to break things. They break trannies all the time now and they recently snapped the solid end of an axle!! Those axles have taken a beating and have about 350 passes on them. They've really done an amazing job at keeping this thing pretty low budget but they may have reached their peak. Adam says that a beefier trans and axles could be as much as $6000. Way to go guys! I'm super proud of you.
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