Tag: 911 RSR

Our third racing weekend of the championship was just completed at the Nurburgring. In the intermissions of the 159 participant VLN Barbarossapreis (German Endurance Series), the Dantuma Dutch Historic GT and Touring Car Championship drove an early, wet qualifying session and two dry races.

Coming to this venue as an observer during e.g the Oldtimer Grand Prix, in the past you are overwhelmed by the scale of the Nurburgring facilities. It practically dwarfs Spa-Francorchamps. Imagine arriving as a participant to the Holy Gates next to the Lindner Hotel and presenting your participants parking pass! This was going to be fun. The place was packed with professional racing teams, supporting tens of 997 RSRs, several Mercedes SLS Gull Wings and a raft of lesser equipment. For a moment you think:”have we arrived in the right spot?”

The weather predictions were for a wet Friday [...]

Leonard recently unearthed a Porsche press release from 1972, talking about the transmission changes for that year: the arrival of four speeds as standard and five speeds as optional, and the replacement of the dog-leg pattern on previous 911s. This release heralds the arrival of the Porsche 915 transmission and is interesting stuff, though I wonder if its really about countering objections on why five speeds now cost extra.

To match the increased power, a new, stronger gearbox has been developed by the engineers. Due to the greater flexibility of the engines, and the associated wider power range, the standard unit could be reduced from five to four gears thanks to the better torque. For all those who do not want to forego the fifth gear, a likewise newly designed five-speed gearbox is available as optional equipment.

I came across some confusion on a Porsche forum the other day, where one user was telling another that WEVO do not make a transmission mount for the Porsche 915 gearbox, only the G50.

This is incorrect: WEVO does make transmission mounts for the Porsche 915 gearbox. Users can chose from blue and black pillows for Porsche transmission mounts: semi solid and a bit softer. I have blue in my 1976 Carrera 3.0 and would not change them, but lots of our customers use black quite happily in more road-biased cars.

WEVO originally got into Porsche tuning parts as an engineering challenge. Australian Hayden Burvill is a trained design and vehicle performance engineer who has worked on Formula 1 cars, Group C racers and the most successful Indy cars. Indy cars brought Hayden to the USA and he bought a [...]