- June 3, 2010
- Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche Road Trips, R Gruppe Europe
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Just wanted to share with you the new look of Woodstock. We have taken our logos and had a front hood sticker made to promote TwinSpark Racing. In the Dutch GTTC championship we are allowed to run with “fitting” sponsor decoration, so we designed a period-style striping. Hope you like it. We’ll be running Woodstock on Monday at Spa in this new outfit.
- May 24, 2010
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche Road Trips, R Gruppe Europe
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Sometimes timing is everything. I wrote to my friend Steven in New York that family festivities would take me to the area of New York and whether lunch was in the stars. When I shared the dates with Steven, he responded enthusiastically and told me about the local R Gruppe’s 3 day rally through the Adirondack mountain range. He insisted I detach myself from the family matters for a couple of days and offered his Ivory White 2.7 RS clone (“Shivory”) for me to drive. Shivory and I had met in California a few years ago and this beautifully tuned, carburetted clone carried my wife and me around that state for a week. This offer could not be refused. The pink slip for 48 hours was obtained.
Jim Garfield and several of the local membership had produced the roadbook and selected the pitstops. We gathered at 8 on Friday morning in Newburgh NY and after [...]
- May 6, 2010
- Porsche 911 RSR, R Gruppe Europe
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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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 [...]
