- December 21, 2010
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on TwinSpark Racing is looking for Dealers
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 [...]
- December 13, 2010
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts, WEVO
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Gated Shifter for Porsche 915 Transmission
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 [...]
- December 10, 2010
- Porsche Road Trips, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Porsche 911 Carrera RS revisits the Col de Turini
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.
