Category: TwinSpark Porsche Parts

A very merry Christmas to all of our wonderful friends, customers and supporters around the world!

2010 has been a landmark year for TwinSpark. The business took its first tentative steps into the physical with our stand at Essen Techno Classica, organised its first big social events with the successful Spa trackday and the unmitigated amazingness of the Bergmeister Tour and, most recently, the arrival of a third partner into our fledgling Porsche parts business (yours truly): a move aimed at filling out the company’s Classic Porsche skillset.

We dearly hope we can help all of you to take maximum enjoyment from Porsche ownership in the future, by being a valued part of our emerging community of enthusiasts, all devoted to the TwinSpark mission statement: Exciting Experiences in [...]

Most Porsche fans actively participating in organised drives, tours and track days have their favourite specialists. One thing all of these garages have in common is that they entered existence via love of Porsche, and are now delivering first class products and a quality experience to their customers. TwinSpark Racing is exactly the same.

After an exciting 2010, TwinSpark Racing is poised to make a big step forward in 2011. We are already in negotiation with manufacturers and distributors to bring a wide range of new product to the retail market. This includes new products from our friends at WEVO and Zuffenhaus in the USA, and products from other American vendors, currently not available from European-held stock.

We are also in [...]

A friend of mine in the UK recently bought this strange device. It’s a gated shifter, built on top of the standard 915 housing from a 1974 to 1986 Porsche 911. I could only think of one guy that might have something to do with designing this, so I emailed Hayden at WEVO. Sure enough, it was one of his designs from the mid-1990s.

The average man in the street looking at the gated shifter would think it looks like a foolproof device that is bound to help the 915. Hayden says the opposite is true.

“We delivered about 20 of these in 1998/early 1999, at a prohibitive price,” he told me. “We used them on both stock 915’s and our XT-915, that has no synchros and allows for clutchless upshifts. Customers of the super fast-shifting XT-915 continued to encounter [...]