Category: TwinSpark Porsche Parts

Chaptermeister, business partner and all-round top man Leonard Stolk has just posted some in-car video, from a run up the Col de Turini earlier today.

Leonard is on a return leg of a drive to Cannes in Silverado, TwinSpark Racing’s 2.7 RS-engined rally car. He’s not had much luck finding snow on the roads – the pic above is in a field – but it still looks like he is having a good time. Here’s the video: brings back some happy 2010 memories!

I was supposed to do the trip to Cannes and back, but prior commitments meant I couldn’t hook up with him in Stuttgart on Tuesday night as we had originally planned. He soon found another victim (I mean passenger), and they are having big fun en route back to Amsterdam.

In mid-2008, Zuffenhaus US, based in Charlotte, North Carolina announced a new product, at that time being prototyped and set to enter the product development cycle.

The new arrival was a finned brake caliper which used all the stock internals of the Porsche 917 caliper in a new cast body, made to the same obsessive quality as the originals. The difference was that these new brakes would bolt straight on to stock 911 suspension, with no tricky/risky machining needed, as per the 930 brake conversion for standard-body 911s. The brake package would also fit under 15″ Fuchs wheels.

As my good friend Keith Walters of Zuffenhaus said, when he announced the package on Pelican in July 2008, “they are designed as a complete, [...]

It’s been a busy week here at TwinSpark’s UK outpost. As the latest addition to the company furniture, I’ve been settling into my shareholder chair, and swapping Skype calls with my partners, looking at what we’ve got and considering what we’d like to have. Top of the want list is the same as any retailer: more customers.

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (a company whose founders are renowned for Porsche enthusiasm) once said: “We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.”

Now, if you asked me as a long-term Microsoft user, was Windows 2000 in touch with customer needs and the [...]