1986 VW GTI – 2x SCCA H-Production Class Champion

Written By Joe Camilleri

1986 VW GTI Race Car – 2x SCCA H-Production Class Champion, 2x Runner Up

$20,000, Chicago area

Initially built for Improved Touring B. Central Division Champion. Current lap record holder at Blackhawk, 2:51.x at Road America, qualified on the front row of the ARRC on it’s lone trip to Road Atlanta.

Converted to H-Production for 2017 season. The car did have a big incident at the Kink in the June Sprints that year that required clipping the front (forward of the firewall). Proceeded to finish 2nd at the Indy Runoffs.

Finished 1st or 2nd in every Runoffs race completed. Track records at VIR, Blackhawk and Milwaukee Mile, 3 wins at H-Production Invitational.

HP wins at every track it has competed on: Blackhawk, Road America, Milwaukee Mile, Grattan, St. Louis, Mid-Ohio, VIR, Ozark International. This car has raced with the best of the best in H-Prod competition – Sargis, Bartell, Isley, Prather, Mathis, Silegren, Benazick, Brannon, Vickerman, Meller.

This car also is NOT a perfect show quality car. We built this car from a Northern Illinois street car 25 years ago. It is a solid racing platform, with a cage integrated into all the right places, but there is also some rust underneath the car. BUT if you want to go racing without wondering if the car is slowing you down, this car is as pointy end as you will find for sale.

I will be racing this car this season, and will deliver to the new owner in exactly the same configuration I am racing it. We will be happy to load it onto your trailer from the podium at Blackhawk or Mid-Ohio (or wherever) this season.

Body-Chassis:

  • Custom cage tied to A & B pillars, rocker panels and strut towers

  • Lightened doors

  • Custom fabricated carbon fiber front fenders (+ 1 set spares)

  • Custom fabricated carbon fiber front bumper & air dam

  • Halon fire system

  • Race Techology DL1 Data system

  • Autometer adjustable shift light tachometer

  • Oil pressure, oil temperature, water temperature and wideband gauges

  • Oil pressure warning light (bright!)

  • Removable steering wheel

  • Racing Electronics car radio harness with PTT button and antenna (potential to include Kenwood 3 radio system 2 crew, 1 driver)

Suspension

  • Spherical rear axle beam mounts

  • Rear stub axle spacers to achieve legal track width

  • Ground Control front camber/caster plates

  • Custom adjustable front control arms with all spherical connections

  • Custom ball joint drop pins

  • 2-way adjustable remote reservoir MCS front struts

  • 2-way adjustable remote reservoir Penske 8300 rear shocks with custom engineered upper mount (standard double eye mount shocks – easy to source/repair)

Brakes

  • 4-piston Wilwood front calipers with Tech-53 aluminum hats and 11” Wilwood rotors

  • OEM VW rear disk brakes

  • Motorsport tools dual master cylinder “pedal box” that utilizes OEM pedals.

  • Pressure reducing valve for rear brakes

  • G-Loc Pads

  • P1 brake fluid

Drivetrain

Mathis build VW Mafia approved 10/10ths SCCA HP Level 2 engine build.

  • 0.40” over forged pistons 12:1 compression. This engine DID injest a washer through the intake last season in a session. It was torn down, evaluated, cleaned up and reassembled with fresh Cometic head gasket and is running great. See photos for details

  • K1 forged rods

  • Custom lightened, balanced, cryo treated crank

  • Legally prepped level 2 cylinder head with DLC coated shim under bucket lifters, custom valve springs, thin stem valves, “off label” Web Cam (we selected a grind for a different engine application that has outstanding characteristics for this lift limited rule set.

  • Adjustable cam pulley.

  • Alternator delete, with water pump drive off intermediate pulley, and TDC-30 electrical system voltage controller with a deep cycle battery.

  • Techtonics 4>1 header, the best commercially available header we have tested.

  • Custom engineered ATI harmonic balancer

  • Crank trigger wheel and sensor setup

  • Cam position sensor

  • Gold Box Megasquirt 3x ECU

  • · External MAP sensor

  • · Custom TPS sensor (mounted to throttle pedal to isolate from engine vibration)

  • · MAF sensor

  • · Sequential injection with custom individual cylinder tuning (there are O2 sensor bungs in all header primaries that are used for tuning, and plugged after that.

  • · Tune developed by the fuel injection and tuning GURU Andy Whittle

  • IGN1a ignition coils

  • Dyno developed intake system with MAF

  • Accusump oil accumulator

  • External oil cooler

  • Aluminum / Delerin / Polyurethane engine mounts

Race prepared OEM transaxle

  • Stock VW close ratio gear set

  • Locked differential with ARP ring gear bolts

  • USRT solid shift linkage kit

  • Kennedy Engineering 4 puck solid center clutch disk

  • Custom lightened flywheel, balanced with Luk pressure plate (the style that pulls on the connector straps, not the pusher style Sachs)

Wheels/Tires

  • 2 sets 15x7 Advanti Racing wheels with Hoosier GT-Pro slicks

  • 1 set 15x7 Team Dynamics wheels with Hoosier wets

“Open book” on setup, prep and strategy goes with this car.

DOES NOT INCLUDE TRANSPONDER

There are countless other custom developed details in this car. If you are interested I highly recommend meeting us at a race event so we can go through the car in extreme detail together.

That wonderful feeling climbing the esses at VIR.

Yes - Welded Differential.
"Welded diffs are diabolical in the rain"
Overall Prod group win in the rain at Blackhawk, including Brakke and Schreyer - lapping all but 2 cars

The first session under 2:40 at Road America with some of my HProd friends.
We missed the setup a bit on the loose side. Pay attention to throttle application - hard on the gas early makes the locker easy to drive.

Joe Camilleri
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