"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm Bruce morous and this is how I built 1320 videos number one feature car I got into Volkswagen's my first car was a 1982 VW Rabbit and uh I didn't buy it because it was fast because it was quick or anything I got it because you could fit two 15in Kicker subwoofers in the hatch so that that started my VW Journey it wasn't until after high school to where I uh got into um you know souping them up and making them fast a friend of mine had a 16 valve uh Jetta and uh it wound up being being crashed and the 16 valve uh Jetta and GTI they were really fast like they had you know 140 horsepower which was was you know uh you know pretty good for back in the day you know for those cars so what I did is I bought that wrecked Jetta and um I took the 16 valve motor out of that and I put it into my 1982 rabbit so that was that was pretty pretty pretty cool for back in the day you know to take a rabbit and put the 16 valve motor in it because those were in the mark 2s the Mark 1es didn't have the 16 valve available so I took the speakers out of the you know out of the rabbit you put the 16 valve motor in there so now I had 135 horsepower you know stock engine in a two you know 1700 lb car so um I got to racing you know Mustangs and stuff with that car and I could actually beat a GT Mustang gt50 you know a 92 gt50 with my 82 rabbit which was you know pretty awesome so that was probably like in '92 93 when when when I started doing that me and some buddies we went to the Circle Track you know I used to go to the doto speedway and watched Circle track races when I was a kid you know and then they had this class called minock you know the minock class I you know they came out and they ran and I was like Wow and there was a VW Rabbit running minock I was like you know no crap like I love racing cars and racing vws and I saw this VW out there running around the circle track with these other Fords Toyotas and all these other guys like dude I'm in you know that that's it so I dropped everything what I was doing with the car stereos and and I was like I'm I'm buying a minock so I you know I bought a Mark I VW had a roll cage put in put in it and uh just went to town you know I was good at building the four-cylinder Motors I mean the ABA motor was was awesome and all the parts are interchangeable you know from VW from 1970s to present day like you can take a crankshaft out of the you know out of the newer cars and put them in the old blocks so it's like back you know this was back in like 9099 2000 when I built my first Circle Track car so yeah so what I did is I took the ABA motor took the crankshaft out put it in a diesel crankshaft did a little work on the heads with the cams and stuff like that and I actually built a motor that could keep up and you know just dust you know dust those other cars you know on the circle track and that was a lot of fun for for so many years you know uh running the Circle Track and that's like door to door racing guys are buzzing right next to you you know you're crashing you're hitting the wall you know so I would I would do good my car have the engine had a lot more power than the other guys I would be able to pull a half track lead on them but me I'd always have the pedal to the metal and I'd wear out my front right tire so my front right tire would get hot I'd start pushing to the wall pushing to the wall eventually the guys behind me would catch me and either pass me or I'd crash or something like that but it was a lot of fun man down into turn number one gber continues to lead here comes the 13 up morous on the outside now as they head down the backstretch into turn number three yes indeed the rabbit has taken the lead and the rest the field chasing the rabbit number 13 Your Leader Bruce bous after I was you know racing the Circle Track Racing I won a few races and you know that kind of got old and it was you know it's a big commitment to get the car together and get out there every Saturday night and race cuz you know you're Racing for points for the whole season stuff like that so um you know I got into the drag racing so I started my you know my my buddies were starting to put turbos on these VR6 motors which had just came out come out and they were starting to become available at the junkyards you could get you know the VR6 Motors you know out of the junkyards and and start you know tinkering with them and making them fast so um you know that was about the same time you people were starting to strap big turbos on the engines and stuff like that so I you know I was like oh there's something to this you know so I'm you know got interested in that so um I picked up this uh this was a surf green 1995 golf sport 3 so when I got it so it was like a fake GTI it wasn't the VR6 it was the four-cylinder model so I got this car and I drove it around you know as a as a four-cylinder for a while as my daily driver while I was working on my uh my Mark I was in the shop so I was driving this around and then um my Mark I got finished and then I was like well I'm turning this apart and putting a VR6 turbo in there so uh started started working on that it was a front-wheel drive car and uh put a big turbo on there 67 mm I bought all the parts from shim performance made about 7 700 horsepower something like that on the dyno and uh got it down to a low 11 High 10 I think I nicked a1099 once at at uh Gainesville Speedway and then um you know that was it I started started breaking the drive shaft started breaking the gearbox you know all that stuff started breaking so I just kind of put the car away you know it was a 10-second you know not low it was fast car fast car for a front wheeel drive car at at that time so uh kind of got bored with it I kept breaking stuff so I just put it put it away in storage you know gave up on it and then uh I moved from Florida out to Colorado out here started you know working doing construction and stuff out here and then um got the itch back to pull the car out and do something different you know so I was you know Texas 2K was was going on and they were racing and you know racing was coming back big 1320 had come out and exploded on the scene with all their videos and stuff like that so I got you know reignited the passion you know to to build a fast car and I did not want to do a front-wheel drive car I wanted to do something else so I I I got a R32 and I was going to pull all the R32 uh for motion Parts out and put it into this car that was the plan at first and then you know I also had the idea of a twin engine car because I would see the big dubs car and I saw there was another guy building the polo with two VR6 engines in it and he was Shifting the car you know through the cables and stuff like that I was like and at the time the the the for motion all-wheel drive system you know they would break too you know there's no sense in having a th000 horsepower engine if you can't you know keep it together so I was like well how can I do that and not be an all-wheel drive car you know have two 700 two 700 horsepower engines with two gearboxes to split the load between the two so that was my my concept you know of to build a twin engine car I approached the local hot rod shop here I found in Denver Hanksville hot rods about my idea and uh he he got on board like he was like you know oh yeah we can do that they built awesome roll cages and stuff like that so they were the guys that originally cuz I didn't have a welder or a pipe bender or anything like that so I approached them with my idea and you know they got on board and so they did the roll cage for me on the inside the 850 cage and then they did an engine cradle in the trunk so where I could Mount the rear engine in so I gave them you know block and they you know I collaborated with them and they got me started so they got they did the 850 cage and they did the Cradle in the trunk and then I got the car back from them and I you know had to build the rest so but they did a great job you know getting the engine in the trunk and stuff like that they got me going so then I had the Shell with the two Motors in it and I just had to figure out how to make them work so it worked together and um the engines had two of everything two intercoolers two cooling systems two radiators you know two water pumps two pumps for the for the for the cooling systems um and I you know managed to cram all that into this little car up up in the front I had the pumps up front hidden in the bumper had the uh the whole front bumper was actually built as a water tank I built out of aluminum so I built a water tank that fits inside the bumper to hold the Ice Water you know for for the intercoolers and stuff like that in order to shift them both sqs made this sequential shifter which um converted a cable shifted H pattern into a sequential uh shifting gearbox so you just have to pull the handle back and would go 1 2 3 three four and it would shift the gears it would just go forward and backward I was like well if I take two of those put them side by side I can shift the front one shift the rear one and then lock them together in first and then shift them both at the same time that's what I did and it and it I it worked and then to start off I had it was really difficult to get them the throttles to match up so I had two cable gas or I had one one gas pedal with two cables coming off it working both throttle bodies so like to get them both to to rev at the same it it was just a nightmare um when you floor it you know you hold it to the floor they both be wide open throttle so at first I was turning one motor off doing a burnout in the rear then turn the other one off start the front one it was it was a it was a mess at the you know in the staging you know trying trying to trying to rase it like that and then um I was like man I somehow got to get drive by wire throttle bodies in here and I found a place that was called KMS electronics and uh they made a standalone uh drive by wire throttle control unit so I got two of those and was able to wire those into the ecus I had and um that gave me the ability to just flip off and on the throttle bodies so I could flip off the front one flip on the rear one or or vice versa and then lock them both in so I would run one gas pedal it would run both throttle bodies and they would match the the throttle plates would match perfect so they would rev you know pretty close to each other everything would work you know pretty pretty much in sync so that was that was a that was a game changer that was a big step you know big big step getting them both to work you know in sync like that with a drive by wire I started you know knocking off 11s knocking off 10s you know getting into low 10 and then you know started getting into high nines I was like man this thing's starting to work now you know it's starting to work and starting to shift you know starting to do what what I wanted to do you know um and then uh the next next year out I actually you know felt confident enough to take it to the half mile event which is where I bumped into 1320 there you get exhaust down from all four corners of the car no matter where you're at you can hear the car exhaust I think the GTI going to get it done 1600 yeah it was it was doing well there you know uh I think I ran 187 or something in the half mile and uh yeah car was shifting it was driving driving pretty good and and uh yeah so so that was that was where where where I started running into some new problems you know so at the drag strip you know I really wanted to get it into the eights you know I I couldn't get it you know i' get to like a 950 940s and I really wanted an 8sec car which was which was my goal to get it into the 8sec 8sec range so uh you know I was having trouble with the shifters the uh when you when you're pulling on that sequential shifter sometimes it would lock up sometimes it would wouldn't shift like one gearbox would shift one gearbox wouldn't shift so that was that was kind of a nightmare I was bending the shifting Forks inside the VW transmission I was bending the selector the selector the gear selectors in there they would bend out of shape it takes so much on on a dog box that had dog gears in there where it's clutchless shifting so when you it takes a lot of force to pull that out of gear and actually go into the second gear even know you're cutting you know cutting Torque from the motor it takes a lot of force and that amount of force you know just bends stuff inside the gearbox you know the sequential shifter wasn't really sequential it was just like a a cheap not not a cheap but but like a like a conversion a copy you know to change an H pattern to a sequential it's just it's it's not really a sequential so there's problems in that running the cables you know and getting it to shift correct um I came across this company which was kouch gearboxes which made came out with a gearbox which was a full sequential gearbox which actually had an F1 style tumbler on the inside of the gearbox which was a sequential shifting gearbox which actually is what they use in the in the rally cars so it actually was a sequential shifter and there's just a rod that shifts the gearbox you know with one pull forward or one one pull backwards so that tumbler on inside would actually shift the forks you know uh sequentially and there was no cables there was no you no uh a selector moving from one gear one to gear two gear three gear four put him in there and I was like man this thing shifts like like a dream now like a holy cow like I didn't have to lock the two together to get them both to shift I didn't you know I just for the levers I put them close together I just grab them both and shift them both and they had um they had built-in strain gauges on the shifters so they had the strain gauges on the shifters so as soon as I pulled back that force would cut cut the torque to the engines let them shift and they would shift pretty you know shift every time car was working great car shifting uh awesome I actually squeez off an 8sec pass and got got it into the eight with these new gearboxes I was like man that's that's awesome and I was like man you know if I could get some sort of traction control for the front engine that would really you know take this car to the next level you know because when I do a launch the weight shifts from front to rear and then all the weight comes off the front wheels and they just go to instant burnout instant red line so first gear instant Red Line it's just smoking the tires second gear instant red line and then finally and third gear I'm able to actually put some power down on the front wheels and then you know they would get some traction then fourth gear then they wouldn't slip at all so I was like man there's got to be you know I got to get some kind of way where to keep the front wheels in check with the rear wheels you know for the for the first you know first couple gears fueltech came out with the new ft 600s they have everything built in that I need they have the drive by wire throttle bodies they have traction control which would I put wheel speed sensors on the front rear I can set I set the front wheels to to spin at 10% faster than the rear so I always had Traction in the rear I didn't really get loose in the rear the fronts would always spin all the way down the track I have a log one time I did like a 200 mph burnout like my I was going 180 my front wheels are going 200 M an hour through the traps you know I'm looking at the wheel speed I was like I like man I just did a 200 mph burnout I I got the I got the log I'm looking I was like my front front wheels are going 200 I was going 185 I was like you know there's got to be a way to you know fix that and then um I took you know the old old ecus out and I swapped over to fueltech and that was another big game changer for me you know the transmissions and then switch into these new ecus got into the eights I was making eights you know was no problem and then I started getting down the 82s 81s and then I squeezed off at 80 at bamir at 188 milph I was like holy crap you know this thing's getting fast took it to tx2k then I was actually felt confident enough to actually bring it to that race I was like man you kidding me I get to race with with these guys in my in my rabbit you know only VW to race you know race at that race you know and qualify and well first year I didn't qualify I broke what broke oh I snapped the input shaft the second tx2k um I couldn't get it to shift out of first gear so I I was grabbing the shifter and the amount of force it takes to get the front Mo uh the front motor out of first gear was on that track it was so sticky you know I just would launch the car the car would launch hard I'd grab it I couldn't get it to shift out a second it would work in the lot it would work at bmir it just I couldn't get it to work at tx2k so that was my my second tx2k so I'm looking at you know different options and the F1 cars are shifting with an air solenoid an air shifter so the way that they shift they shift off the paddle you know you know hits the air solenoid and it shifts the car I was like well how can I make that work on both my engines you know and shift them both to where I don't have to do anything so I was like well I you know looked at how they were shifting motorc Cycles how they were shifting F1 cars and stuff like that and I came up came up with my own plan to to shift it like an air shifter so and fueltech came out with an update gear Control Management which actually would shift the car like an automatic I was like man I'm putting all this together I was like man I um got online went to was a Granger or somebody and ordered some order like five different sizes of air cylinders got a CO2 small CO2 tank and some solenoids and wired it into the fuel tech software and I was like you know it works I was like holy crap this thing is going to shift like an automatic you know for me all I have to do is let go of the button dump the clutches and then steer and then fuel Tech's going to nail my shift points every single time I got that working and then I brought it back to tx2k my third year with the air shifter system squeeze off the first SEC 7sec pass ever in a in a VW Golf so I I think I still there's one other guy but I was the first one to run a sevens in in in a VW Golf so the 7sec pass I made at tx2k was awesome Motors held together but I was running into problems you know trying to repeat that you know I would blow the head gaskets all every single time I put in the big tuneup for the big 7c pass I would blow it you know it held once or twice I trapped 196 in it I've trapped 192 in it and every other time I've tried it's blowing the head gaskets so new for this year what I've done is i' I've got fir rings in there so that's actually you cut a ring into the block into the cylinder head and you put a fire ring in there and uh that's should hold the Boost you know that's what the 2JZ cars are doing you know the big Power Hondas you know everyone's running the fire Rings now I'm thinking it's going to hold the power hold the Boost get me into the sevens repeatedly you know you can't just make a 7-second pass once and be done you have to do it qualify you have to you know go rounds you have to be able to do it all day long so you know it's so far it's just been one and done but hopefully this year I'll be able to you know hold that power in the engines multiple times and make it through an event and make you know multiple 7c passes what else is new for this year is is the new rear suspension a lot of trouble what I was having with having a front-wheel drive Volkswagen 1990 suspension in the rear of my car so that's that's all it was was the front uh subframe and the control arms and I would just have the control arm locked with the you know an adjustable control so I can set the toe and it was just locked so when you put that much 1,000 horsepower torque into into a front wheel drive suspension in the rear you know the toe changed the camber changed like you look at some of the slow motion videos like the toe would change like an inch like on shifts like ridiculous it would throw me left it would throw me right so you know I'm looking at all these you know suspension systems and trying to come up with a plans like how can I change the suspension in the rear so where I can keep the car straight and you know have it drive better I'm looking at the granis setup for the Supras how they're doing the IRS I'm looking at the Mustangs how they're doing their IRS and I have all this stuck in my head about IRS IRS s suspension and then um I stumbled on the the four-link setup I didn't know what a four-link was two years ago or how it was set up or anything like that I'm looking at it looking at the geometry I started reading on four links you know I bought the book Jerry ble book on four links 10 Soldier race cars how they're doing their low prep uh brackets for for for the setups and I'm looking at the design on the foring I like man how can I how can I make this work in in my my Volkswagen you know so I was like man there's got to be a way so what I came up with as I bought uh Tin Soldier race cars low prep brackets and uh everything set up to build a four link I chopped all those up and I built two separate four lengths one for each wheel so each one works independent of each other and it has all the adjustability all the instant centers movement of a four link but it's just two of them one on each side and I have a giant um not giant but big for a Volkswagen I have it like an inch and 1 half inch sway bar which links them both together so if you jack up one side the other side jacks up so it locks both Wheels together both suspensions together so I have two independent four-link adjustable suspensions in the rear of the car so that's new for this year brought it to Texas to test it I was on a pass like I had had the hit in there you know to to get a you know my probably my best 60t ever you know but the differential split in half you know I got that fixed what I did was I took the differential I got got some new parts and I welded the rear diff so it's actually solid rear not solid rear axle but it's locked so there's no there's no differential in there you know all the spider gears are all welded together so I got that fixed and I I'm going to be testing that this year as we speak so um I think that new suspension is going to keep definitely keeps the wheel straight keeps the camber camber straight it doesn't change um so I I think that's going to be that new suspension is going to push me to the next next level whatever that is you know I I know I can trap 200 with the power that I have and I'm pretty sure I can get a 495 on the eth with the new suspension so hopefully this year I can put all all that together and make that work okay current current setup on the on the car on the engines um I got 2.9 L uh VR6 Motors I got 80 mm turbos on it right now um the rear engine actually I have an 88 mm turbo that I can run when I can get the power to hold the head gas get to hold each each motor makes about 1,000 horsepower to the wheels um the rear motor I can get to I've I've DED at 1300 but I haven't been able to keep it together you know it always blows out whenever I put that 1300 hor power tuneup I blow the head gasket or torch the head or something something always goes wrong but I have you know the capability to make 1300 on the rear so uh so yeah that's that's pretty much it you know I got aluminum rods in there I've got you know my my own custom piston designs which is a little bit different the compression ratio and the pockets for the valves they're not off the-shelf stuff you know um I have custom cams you know uh cat cams made me you know a set of cams that are that are a little bit different than what other guys are running but uh that's pretty much it um no coolant system in the rear the rear engine's filled the block is filled with a you know hard block so I don't have to pump you know coolant water the rear engine just gets started you know you pull through the the tunnel start it up do a burnout make a pass and shut it down the F engine you know drives on the street and does all that stuff so I have you know all the cooling system and everything you know for the F engine don't really need it in the rear I also added this uh the front front lip spoiler um the for scump special here um so that helps with the arrow to help suck the front end of the nose down so um the underside of that is actually built like an airplane wing and aerrow foil or whatever so at you know at 100 mph or whatever speed it actually sucks the nose of the car down and G gives me more traction up front so yeah that's kind of kind of helpful I'll come Forest go okay well Force Gump came across like every time I'd break something I would feel like well I came this far might as well keep on running so I'd break a transmission or break something I was like there but a solution was always there so I'd break something and I I felt like Forest scump running back and forth across the country well I came this far might as well turn around and keep on running well I get to the other end I get to the you know the 8 seconds I was like well I came this far I might as well keep on running I can get to the sevens well I got to the sevens now might as well keep on running I built the new suspension I don't know how far how fast I can go I mean I'm not going to you know I think realistically I can get a 740 750 out of it out of the car you know but yeah I felt like force Gump running back and forth you know across the country you know and I guess at the end of the day you know Forest scump might have been the dumbest son of a alive but he sure is fast oh my God this look this look freaking epic this is so ridiculousI'm Bruce morous and this is how I built 1320 videos number one feature car I got into Volkswagen's my first car was a 1982 VW Rabbit and uh I didn't buy it because it was fast because it was quick or anything I got it because you could fit two 15in Kicker subwoofers in the hatch so that that started my VW Journey it wasn't until after high school to where I uh got into um you know souping them up and making them fast a friend of mine had a 16 valve uh Jetta and uh it wound up being being crashed and the 16 valve uh Jetta and GTI they were really fast like they had you know 140 horsepower which was was you know uh you know pretty good for back in the day you know for those cars so what I did is I bought that wrecked Jetta and um I took the 16 valve motor out of that and I put it into my 1982 rabbit so that was that was pretty pretty pretty cool for back in the day you know to take a rabbit and put the 16 valve motor in it because those were in the mark 2s the Mark 1es didn't have the 16 valve available so I took the speakers out of the you know out of the rabbit you put the 16 valve motor in there so now I had 135 horsepower you know stock engine in a two you know 1700 lb car so um I got to racing you know Mustangs and stuff with that car and I could actually beat a GT Mustang gt50 you know a 92 gt50 with my 82 rabbit which was you know pretty awesome so that was probably like in '92 93 when when when I started doing that me and some buddies we went to the Circle Track you know I used to go to the doto speedway and watched Circle track races when I was a kid you know and then they had this class called minock you know the minock class I you know they came out and they ran and I was like Wow and there was a VW Rabbit running minock I was like you know no crap like I love racing cars and racing vws and I saw this VW out there running around the circle track with these other Fords Toyotas and all these other guys like dude I'm in you know that that's it so I dropped everything what I was doing with the car stereos and and I was like I'm I'm buying a minock so I you know I bought a Mark I VW had a roll cage put in put in it and uh just went to town you know I was good at building the four-cylinder Motors I mean the ABA motor was was awesome and all the parts are interchangeable you know from VW from 1970s to present day like you can take a crankshaft out of the you know out of the newer cars and put them in the old blocks so it's like back you know this was back in like 9099 2000 when I built my first Circle Track car so yeah so what I did is I took the ABA motor took the crankshaft out put it in a diesel crankshaft did a little work on the heads with the cams and stuff like that and I actually built a motor that could keep up and you know just dust you know dust those other cars you know on the circle track and that was a lot of fun for for so many years you know uh running the Circle Track and that's like door to door racing guys are buzzing right next to you you know you're crashing you're hitting the wall you know so I would I would do good my car have the engine had a lot more power than the other guys I would be able to pull a half track lead on them but me I'd always have the pedal to the metal and I'd wear out my front right tire so my front right tire would get hot I'd start pushing to the wall pushing to the wall eventually the guys behind me would catch me and either pass me or I'd crash or something like that but it was a lot of fun man down into turn number one gber continues to lead here comes the 13 up morous on the outside now as they head down the backstretch into turn number three yes indeed the rabbit has taken the lead and the rest the field chasing the rabbit number 13 Your Leader Bruce bous after I was you know racing the Circle Track Racing I won a few races and you know that kind of got old and it was you know it's a big commitment to get the car together and get out there every Saturday night and race cuz you know you're Racing for points for the whole season stuff like that so um you know I got into the drag racing so I started my you know my my buddies were starting to put turbos on these VR6 motors which had just came out come out and they were starting to become available at the junkyards you could get you know the VR6 Motors you know out of the junkyards and and start you know tinkering with them and making them fast so um you know that was about the same time you people were starting to strap big turbos on the engines and stuff like that so I you know I was like oh there's something to this you know so I'm you know got interested in that so um I picked up this uh this was a surf green 1995 golf sport 3 so when I got it so it was like a fake GTI it wasn't the VR6 it was the four-cylinder model so I got this car and I drove it around you know as a as a four-cylinder for a while as my daily driver while I was working on my uh my Mark I was in the shop so I was driving this around and then um my Mark I got finished and then I was like well I'm turning this apart and putting a VR6 turbo in there so uh started started working on that it was a front-wheel drive car and uh put a big turbo on there 67 mm I bought all the parts from shim performance made about 7 700 horsepower something like that on the dyno and uh got it down to a low 11 High 10 I think I nicked a1099 once at at uh Gainesville Speedway and then um you know that was it I started started breaking the drive shaft started breaking the gearbox you know all that stuff started breaking so I just kind of put the car away you know it was a 10-second you know not low it was fast car fast car for a front wheeel drive car at at that time so uh kind of got bored with it I kept breaking stuff so I just put it put it away in storage you know gave up on it and then uh I moved from Florida out to Colorado out here started you know working doing construction and stuff out here and then um got the itch back to pull the car out and do something different you know so I was you know Texas 2K was was going on and they were racing and you know racing was coming back big 1320 had come out and exploded on the scene with all their videos and stuff like that so I got you know reignited the passion you know to to build a fast car and I did not want to do a front-wheel drive car I wanted to do something else so I I I got a R32 and I was going to pull all the R32 uh for motion Parts out and put it into this car that was the plan at first and then you know I also had the idea of a twin engine car because I would see the big dubs car and I saw there was another guy building the polo with two VR6 engines in it and he was Shifting the car you know through the cables and stuff like that I was like and at the time the the the for motion all-wheel drive system you know they would break too you know there's no sense in having a th000 horsepower engine if you can't you know keep it together so I was like well how can I do that and not be an all-wheel drive car you know have two 700 two 700 horsepower engines with two gearboxes to split the load between the two so that was my my concept you know of to build a twin engine car I approached the local hot rod shop here I found in Denver Hanksville hot rods about my idea and uh he he got on board like he was like you know oh yeah we can do that they built awesome roll cages and stuff like that so they were the guys that originally cuz I didn't have a welder or a pipe bender or anything like that so I approached them with my idea and you know they got on board and so they did the roll cage for me on the inside the 850 cage and then they did an engine cradle in the trunk so where I could Mount the rear engine in so I gave them you know block and they you know I collaborated with them and they got me started so they got they did the 850 cage and they did the Cradle in the trunk and then I got the car back from them and I you know had to build the rest so but they did a great job you know getting the engine in the trunk and stuff like that they got me going so then I had the Shell with the two Motors in it and I just had to figure out how to make them work so it worked together and um the engines had two of everything two intercoolers two cooling systems two radiators you know two water pumps two pumps for the for the for the cooling systems um and I you know managed to cram all that into this little car up up in the front I had the pumps up front hidden in the bumper had the uh the whole front bumper was actually built as a water tank I built out of aluminum so I built a water tank that fits inside the bumper to hold the Ice Water you know for for the intercoolers and stuff like that in order to shift them both sqs made this sequential shifter which um converted a cable shifted H pattern into a sequential uh shifting gearbox so you just have to pull the handle back and would go 1 2 3 three four and it would shift the gears it would just go forward and backward I was like well if I take two of those put them side by side I can shift the front one shift the rear one and then lock them together in first and then shift them both at the same time that's what I did and it and it I it worked and then to start off I had it was really difficult to get them the throttles to match up so I had two cable gas or I had one one gas pedal with two cables coming off it working both throttle bodies so like to get them both to to rev at the same it it was just a nightmare um when you floor it you know you hold it to the floor they both be wide open throttle so at first I was turning one motor off doing a burnout in the rear then turn the other one off start the front one it was it was a it was a mess at the you know in the staging you know trying trying to trying to rase it like that and then um I was like man I somehow got to get drive by wire throttle bodies in here and I found a place that was called KMS electronics and uh they made a standalone uh drive by wire throttle control unit so I got two of those and was able to wire those into the ecus I had and um that gave me the ability to just flip off and on the throttle bodies so I could flip off the front one flip on the rear one or or vice versa and then lock them both in so I would run one gas pedal it would run both throttle bodies and they would match the the throttle plates would match perfect so they would rev you know pretty close to each other everything would work you know pretty pretty much in sync so that was that was a that was a game changer that was a big step you know big big step getting them both to work you know in sync like that with a drive by wire I started you know knocking off 11s knocking off 10s you know getting into low 10 and then you know started getting into high nines I was like man this thing's starting to work now you know it's starting to work and starting to shift you know starting to do what what I wanted to do you know um and then uh the next next year out I actually you know felt confident enough to take it to the half mile event which is where I bumped into 1320 there you get exhaust down from all four corners of the car no matter where you're at you can hear the car exhaust I think the GTI going to get it done 1600 yeah it was it was doing well there you know uh I think I ran 187 or something in the half mile and uh yeah car was shifting it was driving driving pretty good and and uh yeah so so that was that was where where where I started running into some new problems you know so at the drag strip you know I really wanted to get it into the eights you know I I couldn't get it you know i' get to like a 950 940s and I really wanted an 8sec car which was which was my goal to get it into the 8sec 8sec range so uh you know I was having trouble with the shifters the uh when you when you're pulling on that sequential shifter sometimes it would lock up sometimes it would wouldn't shift like one gearbox would shift one gearbox wouldn't shift so that was that was kind of a nightmare I was bending the shifting Forks inside the VW transmission I was bending the selector the selector the gear selectors in there they would bend out of shape it takes so much on on a dog box that had dog gears in there where it's clutchless shifting so when you it takes a lot of force to pull that out of gear and actually go into the second gear even know you're cutting you know cutting Torque from the motor it takes a lot of force and that amount of force you know just bends stuff inside the gearbox you know the sequential shifter wasn't really sequential it was just like a a cheap not not a cheap but but like a like a conversion a copy you know to change an H pattern to a sequential it's just it's it's not really a sequential so there's problems in that running the cables you know and getting it to shift correct um I came across this company which was kouch gearboxes which made came out with a gearbox which was a full sequential gearbox which actually had an F1 style tumbler on the inside of the gearbox which was a sequential shifting gearbox which actually is what they use in the in the rally cars so it actually was a sequential shifter and there's just a rod that shifts the gearbox you know with one pull forward or one one pull backwards so that tumbler on inside would actually shift the forks you know uh sequentially and there was no cables there was no you no uh a selector moving from one gear one to gear two gear three gear four put him in there and I was like man this thing shifts like like a dream now like a holy cow like I didn't have to lock the two together to get them both to shift I didn't you know I just for the levers I put them close together I just grab them both and shift them both and they had um they had built-in strain gauges on the shifters so they had the strain gauges on the shifters so as soon as I pulled back that force would cut cut the torque to the engines let them shift and they would shift pretty you know shift every time car was working great car shifting uh awesome I actually squeez off an 8sec pass and got got it into the eight with these new gearboxes I was like man that's that's awesome and I was like man you know if I could get some sort of traction control for the front engine that would really you know take this car to the next level you know because when I do a launch the weight shifts from front to rear and then all the weight comes off the front wheels and they just go to instant burnout instant red line so first gear instant Red Line it's just smoking the tires second gear instant red line and then finally and third gear I'm able to actually put some power down on the front wheels and then you know they would get some traction then fourth gear then they wouldn't slip at all so I was like man there's got to be you know I got to get some kind of way where to keep the front wheels in check with the rear wheels you know for the for the first you know first couple gears fueltech came out with the new ft 600s they have everything built in that I need they have the drive by wire throttle bodies they have traction control which would I put wheel speed sensors on the front rear I can set I set the front wheels to to spin at 10% faster than the rear so I always had Traction in the rear I didn't really get loose in the rear the fronts would always spin all the way down the track I have a log one time I did like a 200 mph burnout like my I was going 180 my front wheels are going 200 M an hour through the traps you know I'm looking at the wheel speed I was like I like man I just did a 200 mph burnout I I got the I got the log I'm looking I was like my front front wheels are going 200 I was going 185 I was like you know there's got to be a way to you know fix that and then um I took you know the old old ecus out and I swapped over to fueltech and that was another big game changer for me you know the transmissions and then switch into these new ecus got into the eights I was making eights you know was no problem and then I started getting down the 82s 81s and then I squeezed off at 80 at bamir at 188 milph I was like holy crap you know this thing's getting fast took it to tx2k then I was actually felt confident enough to actually bring it to that race I was like man you kidding me I get to race with with these guys in my in my rabbit you know only VW to race you know race at that race you know and qualify and well first year I didn't qualify I broke what broke oh I snapped the input shaft the second tx2k um I couldn't get it to shift out of first gear so I I was grabbing the shifter and the amount of force it takes to get the front Mo uh the front motor out of first gear was on that track it was so sticky you know I just would launch the car the car would launch hard I'd grab it I couldn't get it to shift out a second it would work in the lot it would work at bmir it just I couldn't get it to work at tx2k so that was my my second tx2k so I'm looking at you know different options and the F1 cars are shifting with an air solenoid an air shifter so the way that they shift they shift off the paddle you know you know hits the air solenoid and it shifts the car I was like well how can I make that work on both my engines you know and shift them both to where I don't have to do anything so I was like well I you know looked at how they were shifting motorc Cycles how they were shifting F1 cars and stuff like that and I came up came up with my own plan to to shift it like an air shifter so and fueltech came out with an update gear Control Management which actually would shift the car like an automatic I was like man I'm putting all this together I was like man I um got online went to was a Granger or somebody and ordered some order like five different sizes of air cylinders got a CO2 small CO2 tank and some solenoids and wired it into the fuel tech software and I was like you know it works I was like holy crap this thing is going to shift like an automatic you know for me all I have to do is let go of the button dump the clutches and then steer and then fuel Tech's going to nail my shift points every single time I got that working and then I brought it back to tx2k my third year with the air shifter system squeeze off the first SEC 7sec pass ever in a in a VW Golf so I I think I still there's one other guy but I was the first one to run a sevens in in in a VW Golf so the 7sec pass I made at tx2k was awesome Motors held together but I was running into problems you know trying to repeat that you know I would blow the head gaskets all every single time I put in the big tuneup for the big 7c pass I would blow it you know it held once or twice I trapped 196 in it I've trapped 192 in it and every other time I've tried it's blowing the head gaskets so new for this year what I've done is i' I've got fir rings in there so that's actually you cut a ring into the block into the cylinder head and you put a fire ring in there and uh that's should hold the Boost you know that's what the 2JZ cars are doing you know the big Power Hondas you know everyone's running the fire Rings now I'm thinking it's going to hold the power hold the Boost get me into the sevens repeatedly you know you can't just make a 7-second pass once and be done you have to do it qualify you have to you know go rounds you have to be able to do it all day long so you know it's so far it's just been one and done but hopefully this year I'll be able to you know hold that power in the engines multiple times and make it through an event and make you know multiple 7c passes what else is new for this year is is the new rear suspension a lot of trouble what I was having with having a front-wheel drive Volkswagen 1990 suspension in the rear of my car so that's that's all it was was the front uh subframe and the control arms and I would just have the control arm locked with the you know an adjustable control so I can set the toe and it was just locked so when you put that much 1,000 horsepower torque into into a front wheel drive suspension in the rear you know the toe changed the camber changed like you look at some of the slow motion videos like the toe would change like an inch like on shifts like ridiculous it would throw me left it would throw me right so you know I'm looking at all these you know suspension systems and trying to come up with a plans like how can I change the suspension in the rear so where I can keep the car straight and you know have it drive better I'm looking at the granis setup for the Supras how they're doing the IRS I'm looking at the Mustangs how they're doing their IRS and I have all this stuck in my head about IRS IRS s suspension and then um I stumbled on the the four-link setup I didn't know what a four-link was two years ago or how it was set up or anything like that I'm looking at it looking at the geometry I started reading on four links you know I bought the book Jerry ble book on four links 10 Soldier race cars how they're doing their low prep uh brackets for for for the setups and I'm looking at the design on the foring I like man how can I how can I make this work in in my my Volkswagen you know so I was like man there's got to be a way so what I came up with as I bought uh Tin Soldier race cars low prep brackets and uh everything set up to build a four link I chopped all those up and I built two separate four lengths one for each wheel so each one works independent of each other and it has all the adjustability all the instant centers movement of a four link but it's just two of them one on each side and I have a giant um not giant but big for a Volkswagen I have it like an inch and 1 half inch sway bar which links them both together so if you jack up one side the other side jacks up so it locks both Wheels together both suspensions together so I have two independent four-link adjustable suspensions in the rear of the car so that's new for this year brought it to Texas to test it I was on a pass like I had had the hit in there you know to to get a you know my probably my best 60t ever you know but the differential split in half you know I got that fixed what I did was I took the differential I got got some new parts and I welded the rear diff so it's actually solid rear not solid rear axle but it's locked so there's no there's no differential in there you know all the spider gears are all welded together so I got that fixed and I I'm going to be testing that this year as we speak so um I think that new suspension is going to keep definitely keeps the wheel straight keeps the camber camber straight it doesn't change um so I I think that's going to be that new suspension is going to push me to the next next level whatever that is you know I I know I can trap 200 with the power that I have and I'm pretty sure I can get a 495 on the eth with the new suspension so hopefully this year I can put all all that together and make that work okay current current setup on the on the car on the engines um I got 2.9 L uh VR6 Motors I got 80 mm turbos on it right now um the rear engine actually I have an 88 mm turbo that I can run when I can get the power to hold the head gas get to hold each each motor makes about 1,000 horsepower to the wheels um the rear motor I can get to I've I've DED at 1300 but I haven't been able to keep it together you know it always blows out whenever I put that 1300 hor power tuneup I blow the head gasket or torch the head or something something always goes wrong but I have you know the capability to make 1300 on the rear so uh so yeah that's that's pretty much it you know I got aluminum rods in there I've got you know my my own custom piston designs which is a little bit different the compression ratio and the pockets for the valves they're not off the-shelf stuff you know um I have custom cams you know uh cat cams made me you know a set of cams that are that are a little bit different than what other guys are running but uh that's pretty much it um no coolant system in the rear the rear engine's filled the block is filled with a you know hard block so I don't have to pump you know coolant water the rear engine just gets started you know you pull through the the tunnel start it up do a burnout make a pass and shut it down the F engine you know drives on the street and does all that stuff so I have you know all the cooling system and everything you know for the F engine don't really need it in the rear I also added this uh the front front lip spoiler um the for scump special here um so that helps with the arrow to help suck the front end of the nose down so um the underside of that is actually built like an airplane wing and aerrow foil or whatever so at you know at 100 mph or whatever speed it actually sucks the nose of the car down and G gives me more traction up front so yeah that's kind of kind of helpful I'll come Forest go okay well Force Gump came across like every time I'd break something I would feel like well I came this far might as well keep on running so I'd break a transmission or break something I was like there but a solution was always there so I'd break something and I I felt like Forest scump running back and forth across the country well I came this far might as well turn around and keep on running well I get to the other end I get to the you know the 8 seconds I was like well I came this far I might as well keep on running I can get to the sevens well I got to the sevens now might as well keep on running I built the new suspension I don't know how far how fast I can go I mean I'm not going to you know I think realistically I can get a 740 750 out of it out of the car you know but yeah I felt like force Gump running back and forth you know across the country you know and I guess at the end of the day you know Forest scump might have been the dumbest son of a alive but he sure is fast oh my God this look this look freaking epic this is so ridiculous\n"