Formular Vee Festival held at mondello park on 21st and 22nd july
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Hi thats a interesting looking vee its an english version, the wheels are a give away as the english vee's run 15 inch wheels and the irish ones run 13 inch as for the chassis dont know the make. I think its a marauder, there were only a few built i think only 2 were made, would need to see the rear suspension as it ran an interesting zero roll set up. As for a race engine the english vee engine is a very heavily modified engine that will rev to 7300 rpm from a 1300cc motor. I know where there is one ready to go if you want one, they also run a beetle box. If you want any info on building message me as i race these and have built a few.
yes the vee i have came from the uk
. i got it off vzi last year somtime . as i said i know absolutly nothing about it but paid £350 for it thought it was cheap at that . it came dissmantled (kombi noise brought it over inside a t25 camper lol ) it came with all body panels + moulds for making new panels . all steering parts and rear susspension . everything for the engine except the crank case . i didnt get a front beam/ gearbox or wheels .(not a fan of centerlines ) at the moment its just another pile of parts in my shed :-(
. i got it off vzi last year somtime . as i said i know absolutly nothing about it but paid £350 for it thought it was cheap at that . it came dissmantled (kombi noise brought it over inside a t25 camper lol ) it came with all body panels + moulds for making new panels . all steering parts and rear susspension . everything for the engine except the crank case . i didnt get a front beam/ gearbox or wheels .(not a fan of centerlines ) at the moment its just another pile of parts in my shed :-(
i would have had the wheels always handy for racing, the beam needs to be cut and lowered to fit the car, what carbs did it come with. It wasnt a great car when it was new i believe the guy who came up with the idea spent more time crashing it than racing it. You would have to spend quite a bit to make it run again, probably cheaper to but a spare car and transfer all the bits. As for the festival your welcome to race if you want, there are cars for rent that weekend just get your licience and bring the money. If you send a pic of all the bits could let you know if you have good stuff.
Stick a lowered beam in and a 1600 motor an get it out for the festival, I see some have only one sway away adjuster welded into the beam, dunno why only one?! It'd be a bit of crack, drag it over the Le Bug show at Spa Francochamps in August, they've an aircooled only track day all weekend on the F1 circuit, race prepped bugs an early Vee's on track all weekend!
There was a guy this year at Bonneville with a Formula Vee with a race 2180 which only ran 135 on the long course He was way bummed when he heard that I ran 139 mph, he told me before he knew who I was.
That makes perfect sense Trev, I shouldve know better considering, plus I never bothered asking.......
@jdman - hah, spectating was a long task too, it felt like there was about 5 cars on track it took then so long to come aroung and to be honest they looked so slow, only a few Turbo'd Bugs looked qiuck through Eau Rouge! - Still left my mate raging he didnt drag one over- we didnt know at the time!!! - We got a lift around in a Bay Pickup during the aircooled parade lap, took hours, awesome on a sunny day!!!
Any talk of parade laps for aircooled cars at the Festival similar to the Classic Car Live?
@jdman - hah, spectating was a long task too, it felt like there was about 5 cars on track it took then so long to come aroung and to be honest they looked so slow, only a few Turbo'd Bugs looked qiuck through Eau Rouge! - Still left my mate raging he didnt drag one over- we didnt know at the time!!! - We got a lift around in a Bay Pickup during the aircooled parade lap, took hours, awesome on a sunny day!!!
Any talk of parade laps for aircooled cars at the Festival similar to the Classic Car Live?
Heres the link to my Spa Picture Thread!
http://www.eircooled.com/deforum/showthread.php?6688-Le-Bug-Show-2010-revisited!!-My-pics!&highlight=Le+Bug+Show+pics
I took pics of this Vee and it was nice, early and in good condition but others werent in great nick so I didnt bother!
Parade lap
http://www.eircooled.com/deforum/showthread.php?6688-Le-Bug-Show-2010-revisited!!-My-pics!&highlight=Le+Bug+Show+pics
I took pics of this Vee and it was nice, early and in good condition but others werent in great nick so I didnt bother!
Parade lap
That would be mega.
I'll never forget there in 09. A few of us Hung back a little, then Tsar and I in our ovals left riggsi in his auto notch standing.
Class crack.
i raced one of those historic vee's before it was intersting, the bike engine car was mighty through eau rouge.
It has a gsxr-1000 putting out 180bhp the whole car weighs just 350kg thats mighty quick, even still it was a tiring race around spa 25 mins felt longer.
No television or pic truly shows how steep eau rouge is you could hardly walk up it.
It has a gsxr-1000 putting out 180bhp the whole car weighs just 350kg thats mighty quick, even still it was a tiring race around spa 25 mins felt longer.
No television or pic truly shows how steep eau rouge is you could hardly walk up it.
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it a leastone formula 5 he also builds the vee,s in the earlier pics i posted. He is based in kildare and his chassis has won the irish and UK vee championships more time than i can count. He also builds my irish race engine went to see the stripped motor at the weekend new bearings and the crank to be balanced for starters and not checked the top end yet, the bills start to mount and i have not driven it yet.
Ah cool, I thought it might be a Leastone! David Sheane is my uncle but im not into 4wheels in that sense, Ive been to busy racing bikes to get involved with cars, my Dad raced Vee's back when they started but went onto rallying so Im more into that! Bikes were cheaper and I figured when I retire I can switch to 4 wheels!!!
Good to see the Vee's getting a push again, will the UK Vee's be over, Id really like to see their cars!!
Good to see the Vee's getting a push again, will the UK Vee's be over, Id really like to see their cars!!
Just found out I'm off that weekend. I didn't make any if the shows last year so am already one up.
Since Mondello is only 3 miles down the road i think the bus and beetle Will go to this. Can camp on Friday night in my parents if anyone wants to and convoy together.
if you want to see how tough a formula vee is also see what we do to front beams and axel tubes this was the first race of the year two weeks ago a big crash but all walked away the next vee race is this weekend in mondelo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWbEN2tgKU&list=UU3TRC4hrTFZ-kp2EmITBtVg&feature=player_detailpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWbEN2tgKU&list=UU3TRC4hrTFZ-kp2EmITBtVg&feature=player_detailpage