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My 1985 VW GTI ITB car is now on eBay at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...item=4568661685 This was a project car for European Car magazine( see www.europeancarweb.com and click on "Project Cars") and is absolutely race ready! The car is located in the Twinn Cities of Minnesota...

I have finally convinced my bosses at European Car to put part 4 and part 5 of my "Race Ready Golf" series from the magazine onto the web site. You can see it at http://www.europeancarweb.com/projectcars/ I hope you enjoy it! Look for Part 6 in an upcoming issue. Kevin Clemens Lake Elmo, MN...

Having moved to Minnesota, where the lakes turn hard in the winter, I was hoping I might find an old Volvo 142 to play with in ice time trials. I know, they are rear wheel drive, but that's half the fun, isn't it? Anyway, anybody have a running, moderately rust free streetable 142 that they have...

On the pace lap yet! At IRP this weekend for the double regional, leaving turn one heading toward turn two when there was a loud bang and the car filled with smoke. I was turning about 3,000 rpm in third. No, honest I was, you can see it from my in car video. You can also see all of the smoke...

How come some of the more interesting odd-ball cars don't have a place to race in Improved Touring? Right now I am racing a ubiquitous ITB VW Golf, but thinking about the future, I have been watching eBay and the classifieds and thinking what might be fun and different. Yet it seems everything...

I know everyone has addressed camshaft timing before, but a quick search through the archives and I couldn't find anyone with this specific problem. I just did some dyno runs on my 86 GTi ITB car to play with ignition timing and fuel enrichment. On my best run I saw 98 horsepower at the wheels...