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The other day I walked into Ton’s engine building room to catch up on the final RSR engine we needed to build. The Hulk’s 3.0 RSR, twinplug, Schrick cammed, centerlube, high butterfly power plant. Every time Ton puts one of these engines together there are little surprises which slow down the process. It’s usually down to his meticulous attitude (which borders on the obsessive at times) that we experience slight delays, but they are always justified. Waltz over his concerns at your peril. Listen to his observations and your engine will run perfectly for many happy years. This time we needed to get the bearing housing for the centerlube cams machined. George, our in-house precision machining specialist, is drowning in work and we just have to wait our turn…

This engine had just received its clutch package. As we want to use as many of the parts we sell for our performance engines as possible, [...]

I spend a lot of time with fellow R Gruppe buddies in the USA over the course of a year, travelling with my friend and car photographer Jamie Lipman. Jamie and I catch up with the latest must-see Porsche 911 hot rods, and shoot and write stories about them.

Through my Stateside trips, I’ve met some great people. Fuchs expert Harvey Weidman is one, Arizona desert resident and Martini RSR/Kremer ST builder Gib Bosworth another. This year I met yet another 911 addict: Sam Gassel, from Virginia Beach. These three guys have all played a part in building one of the coolest 911s to come out of the USA for some time.

Bosworth is fast becoming a legend in race replica circles. His much-admired Martini RSR homage now lives in the UK, with R Grupper Mike Moore. Mike’s been [...]

WEVO director Hayden Burvill at WEVO in San Carlos, California has just finished building the classic Porche 356 he and TwinSpark’s good friend Steven Harris will race in the Peking to Paris trans-Mongolia rally, which starts in China on September 10.

The Peking-Paris Rally lasts 37 days and takes the cars from China into the Khangai Mountains and Gobi Altai (as in Gobi desert) to Russia. Next comes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France: an expected total of 14,600kms.

It will come as no surprise to find that the 356 has been modified for P to P, though perhaps not as radically as one might have expected. Hayden’s WEVO blog features pictures and further details of the modifications, including the custom-made additional fuel tanks, and crack tested wheels and other components. Hayden’s piece also [...]