The pictures below were taken during the many modifications to the #2111 WGBR 1980 VW Land Speed Racing Pickup Truck. The pictures give some insights to the amount of changes required to change a street truck that is raced into a pure land speed race truck.
Mike & Keith discussing what they want to do to the truck (12/08)
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The shop bench full of engine parts with much potential (1/09) |
We think the 16 valve head is the "hot ticket" (1/09) |
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The rear air shocks are installed. (3/09) |
The Fire Bottles are in the installation process (3/09) |
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The start of the roll cage enhancements (3/09) |
Welding the bracket for the rear roll cage supports (4/09) |
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New moon disks for the larger rims (3/09) |
The lowered back axle, notice how much the tire is in the wheel well (4/09) |
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The Tonneau Cover is in the process of being redone (4/09) |
The rear window is now in! (4/09) |
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The Window is in, the roll bars are done, and the Tonneau cover is complete (4/09) |
The parachute release is in and the fire bottles are complete (4/09) |
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The windshield retainers are test fitted, next the paint shop (6/09) |
The parachute system is installed. We are racing a truck so we used a receiver hitch for the mount. (6/09) |
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The hood pins have been installed (6/09) |
Test fit of the new hood scoop (6/09) |
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Old coil Strut on the top, new air strut on the bottom (6/09) |
The installed air strut. Notice the new larger lug bolts. (6/09) |
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The modified shock tower, part of lowering the front end (7/09) |
The water tank and pump for the Inter-Cooler (7/09) |
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The Oil Slump is in and the Inter-Cooler Bracket is underway (7/09) |
The Turbo is in the process of being mounted (8/09) |
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The Oil Pump (before we found that the pump flow direction is backwards) (8/09) |
The turbo ducts are in and the Inter-Cooler is mounted (8/09) |
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The Oil Filter is to the left of the Inter-Cooler. (8/09) |
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| Test fit of the new hood scoop (11/09) | Fiberglass work completed. Special thanks to Jack Kelley! (11/09) |
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| The dry sump engine feed adaptor Gary Boyer, the team machinist made. This was done on the new WGBR slightly used Bridgeport mill. Team mate Rick Yacoucci was the recipient of a used Bridgeport with DRO and the WGBR team thankfully was allowed use of the hand me down. (3/10) | The Oil adaptor in the last machining operation. (3/10) |
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| The adaptor plates setting on the block that is ready for the pistons that are on order. (3/10) | Working on the oil squirters (3/10) |
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| Tom Hanley working on the lathe. Thanks Tom for all you help! (4/10) | Tom working on block, milling the oil squirter mount as so the crank does not impact the squirters (4/10) |
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| The 2010 engine is starting to come together (4/09) | |
