One of the items I've been wanting to fix on the FV, was the slow steering. My car used a stock steering box (per the rules) but with n...

Well, sorry for the delay on the day two race report. It was a hectic week last week, and frankly, I was eager to spend some time in the ga...

I had an adventure filled race today, day 1 of 2 out at Thunderhill. With the old 1200cc engine slotted back in, everything was pretty much...

Well, long story short, the new 1700cc VW engine I built was in Ralphvee and running just fine for a couple weeks. I had about 5 or 6 hours...

After much fiddling with the carburetor, and realizing we had the #3 and 4 spark plugs wires crossed, the new engine in RalphVee came to lif...

Why good afternoon! It's Christmas day, and Susan and I are wrapping up our day of gifts, grub, and for me, lots of booze! I'll le...

That's right, the built dual port engine has been sitting in the FV chassis for the better part of a week. I only had to take it out tw...

I piddled around the garage this weekend working on the 1700 FV motor, doing all those small odd jobs that turn into small projects on their...

In the last post, I talked about the dinged up bearings I received. After a few days of phone calls and e-mails, SoCal Imports set me a new...

I did in fact get the second package of VW engine parts last week, on Thursday. Unfortunately, a couple of the main bearing and cam bearing...

So I pretty much blew through the tear-down of the spare VW motor without taking a single picture. Because of that, I'll try to snap pi...

On the way home from our 4-day vacation in Oregon this past weekend, we swung by Sean's place to pick up a 1963 Bridgestone BS7 Surfride...

I've been so busy working on the C110 Racer project, that I haven't had a chance to update my "personal" blog. So I thoug...

I finally decided to make some seriously strong shelves to mount up above the motorcycles. we will be moving out of our storage unit at the...

I spent the morning out in the garage working on the Vee. At the last race, after the last session, I noticed the steering stem was cracked...

Just a sample to see if this things works. And here is a photo of the FV for starters.