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Today we finally had a chance to test Woodstock, our signal yellow Porsche 911 3.0 RSR. The RSR has been extensively rebuilt over the last 18 months and now includes many new items which we sell to our clients. The new 3.0 twin-plugged RSR engine had been run in for about 250 km, but had not been run on track. This beautiful piece of kit was humming away like a dream for a few laps, until it developed a misfire. Coming back into the pits it turned out that one of the top spark plug wires had popped off, so nothing serious. And back on I went.

As you may know we restore MFI pumps as part of our select offering, and to check how the engine is performing we mounted an air/fuel gauge and sensor in the car. The meter read out perfectly around the desired 1:14 proportion across the rev-range, meaning that the [...]

Techno Classica 2010 was our first trade show where we exhibited TwinSpark Racing’s collection of parts for vintage Porsches. It was a very positive experience in that we got to meet some of you in person and could discuss the quality of our parts. Particularly our Zuffenhaus RSR Brakes were a client magnet. These brakes are a true to form replica of the original ones used on the 2.8 RSR, but have proven 930 brake internals (www.twinsparkracing.com).

We were joined by our partners from Zuffenhaus Products (www.zuffenhaus.eu), Keith Walters, Bob Aines and Aaron Winans, who had a first-hand opportunity to interact with the European clients visiting our booth. In a way the event turned into an R Gruppe reunion during the evening hours, as we were joined by John Glynn (www.johndglynn.com) and Vasco Ricardo (Portugal) for a meal or two. The overall impression was that the number of Porsche specialist stands were down from last [...]

Come visit us in Hall 3 booth 216 at Techno Classica April 7 through 11!