GT3 Vs '62 BUS

[dweymer]

Can someone translate the captions?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-JB6JzzY4Yw

[JMatta]

It's apparent to me the guy in the GT3 is being cautious, whereas, the VW Bus does a bonzi inside move. Maybe he has Porsche brakes and a 911 engine in that thing? I know a guy that had a killer VW bus, built up off spare 911 parts.

My translation...

[shahram]

This is a track Taxi VW bus with a 993 TT engine and 500 HP.
Translation:
- Final lap on SPA Track with a GT3 Track wet/dry
- Curve exit Stavelot
- Approach Blanchimont
- Slow down because of another car on track
- The Aston can speed up fast for now
- Let me pass, oh not yet
- Aston is not going to the right
- Here is a..... No!!!
- VW BUS T1
- The bus speeds up fast!
- We all (three) can not pass trough Eau Rouge
- Shift down to get rid of Aston
- lets see if I can catch the Bus
- You can see how it went in the second part

here you find the VW BUS project:
http://www.race-taxi.ch/

[Andi1]

Originally Posted by shahram

This is a track Taxi VW bus with a 993 TT engine and 500 HP.
Translation:
- Final lap on SPA Track with a GT3 Track wet/dry
- Curve exit Stavelot
- Approach Blanchimont
- Slow down because of another car on track
- The Aston can speed up fast for now
- Let me pass, oh not yet
- Aston is not going to the right
- Here is a..... No!!!
- VW BUS T1
- The bus speeds up fast!
- We all (three) can not pass trough Eau Rouge
- Shift down to get rid of Aston
- lets see if I can catch the Bus
- You can see how it went in the second part

here you find the VW BUS project:
http://www.race-taxi.ch/

Yea race taxi! They are also one of Switzerlands notorious Porsche repair/performance/body shop!! Anyone that visits my country should say a hello and then go next door to my Uncles Volkswagen race shop!

[73notch]

That video gets me every time lol. But yea its the Race Taxi, and its pretty much a porsche with a bus body.

[dweymer]

http://germancarscene.com/2006/10/20/500-bhp-1962-vw-bus/

A quick piece on the build.

[gumba]

They use to have a photo album showing the process. I believe they started with a vanagon chassis, and added the turbo components. The bus body was split lengthwise to fit the chassis. Quite a piece of work.

[Netspeed]

Seeing that race taxi was way too cool and reminded me of the press vehicle Renault built in the 90's....the Renualt Sport Espace F1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEDwfk8EYR0

[PeterRT]

Here's the longer version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GtTMWcWJ4yg

The rest of the captions:
- approch to Pouhon, a double off camber left hander
- here you can easily see the aerodynamic advantage of the GT3
- I can significantly catch up in spite of the stock tires
- in medium fast corners the Bus can go similar speeds due to his semislicks
- here I'm running up to him again
- need to get off the throttle
- here in the fast Blanchimont the GT3 could go faster
- out of the Bus-Stop the Bus goes fantastic
- the same out of LaSource
- through Eau Rouge I'll stay with him this time
- if I pulled to redline now I could overtake him on Kemmel
- but I still want to watch him for a while
- here the aerodynamic differences become obvious
- here at Combes / Malmedy keeping up is hard work
- at Pouhon it's the same as in the lap before
- I could go much faster here
- the normal braking point would be under the gantry
- here he would hold me up again
- but now he lets me pass


and this is what it looks and sounds like from inside the Bus:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsaBYyjhHuo