Category: TwinSpark Porsche Parts

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

Two weeks ago the Dutch Historic Automobile Racing Club (HARC) announced that it will add two new divisions to the National Historic Touring & GT Championship, in line with FIA TC and GTC classes. Having lobbied for this move a year ago we were delighted to see that HARC now believes such championship for cars homologated between 66-75 and 76-81 is viable.

Team TwinSpark will be entering its two RSRs: Woodstock 73 and The Hulk 74 driven by Lex Proper and myself. It looks like at least one of our R Gruppe buddies, Ronald Aardse, will enter as well with a 2.8 MFI engined RS clone. However we are sure that this convenient two weekend, 6 race event will draw out quite a few more Porsches from the 66-75 era and not just from Holland. You can mark down May 14-16 and September 10-12, both at Zandvoort’s Grand Prix track.

We will be competing [...]

After a mild day yesterday Murphy struck with full force today on the winding mountain roads of Slovenia.

On a Benularity this morning our ignition cap rattled loose on stretch full of potholes. The rotor got damaged and the coil must have burnt through. After a quick diagnosis we were about to call in for help when Fer and Gerard passed by. I asked if they carried these spares and low and behold: they did! We carried the other components for the ignition and the coil, so together we could replace the required parts and we were proud of our friends and our getting the engine to fire up in one go once everything was in place.

We merrily continued our journey, drove our first test in Logatec and picked up the pace by skipping lunch.

The first benularity was a bit of a challenge and we lost some more time. On the second [...]