Tom Bruch's land speed records set with Porsche, Volkswagen, and Geo Metro at Bonneville Slat Flats and ECTA. 1 liter, 1.5 liter, and 2 liter records.
1.8 liter - 8 valve Production VW Rabbit Pickup Truck
Competing in land speed racing at Bonneville flying mile and East Coast standing mile events. Tom's 1 liter Geo Metro!
This production body pickup has only 4 aftermarket engine parts:
  • Techtonics Race Header
  • Web-Cam kit
  • single 44IDF Webber carb
  • small crank pulley - billet
    The rest of the engine is a stock bore & stroke1.8 PF engine with all VW production parts carefully selected and blueprinted. This combination holds 10 national records since June 2000 - all between 124 mph and 129 mph with a best one-way time of 135.512 mph at Bonneville Nationals. It's ¼ mile times are 96.2 mph at 15.2 seconds with street tires.
  • Odometer: Since 1 July 2003