Tag: Historic Racing

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 [...]

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking Woodstock, our 1973 S/RSR out of the barn to pick up parts at our client Blankemeijer. The engine loosened up considerably over the course of the day and although I didn’t rev the new 3.0 RSR block too highly, it felt great. It was a rainy day, there is no heating in this car and I was wearing a woolen hat, gloves and thermal underwear to be able to put up with the temperatures… Thank God all that was enough to stay warm. The engine is relatively mild (as far as RSR engine can be…), as we have used S cams, but torque is already massive. In traffic on the Rotterdam ring road I stood on the throttle in 2nd and I fishtailed towards the next car!

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 [...]