Re: Racing shifter bushings anyone? (Sad drag racing story)

[J Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

Lauri, you can substitute shifter bushings from an A3 chassis Vento or Golf.
They are hard, white plastic.  You will have to break off an anchoring tab, but
other than that, they work fine.

jim

Lauri Pettai wrote:

> I remember sawing somebodys page who swapped normal shifter bushings to some
> racing ones! Who it was from where he got them?
>
> Why I ask:
> I was drag racing yesterday (Second official dragracing competition in
> Estonia) and lost in semifinals because I was unable to shift to fourth at
> 6500rpm and then my competitor (Opel Vectra 2.0 DOCH 16v 110kw against my
> 82kw) passed me and won me with distance near to 5 inches time difference
> was in hundreth of seconds.
>
> In finals I would have had to face Nissan Primera GT 2.0i 16v, but this car
> was too heavy and this Vectra won tho whole race (in under 2 litres class),
> but this could be me if I had all things right at my gearbox!
> Just for your info the final results:
>
> under 2 litres Opel Vectra 2.0i DOCH 16v
> 2-3 litres Subaru Imperesa 2.5 4wd
> 3-5 litres Porsche 911 Carrera 4s 3.8l
> over 5 litres Dodge Viper RT/10 8l
>
> Best overall time: Subaru Imperesa 4wd 14.11
> Overall car winner: Porche 911 4s 3.8l (Both Subaru and Viper missed the
> start with him)
> Overall winner: Yamaha Bike 0.6 litres (Just one guy from crowd popped out
> and wanted to race the best car and got time 11.09, but this wasn't very
> fair play)
>
> Lauri!
> '84 Scirocco GTI Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736)
> http://www.ttu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
> I finally added nothing new to my site!
> But whach out for the Drag racing movies!
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
> If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org


--
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org