Tag: Porsche

We just finished the opening dinner of the rally and the participants are beaming with optimism about what lies ahead. As most participants are true classic car enthousiast, it’s easy to connect around the table. Here’s The organizer of the rally welcoming you to this blog’s updates:

In honor of another Classic Events rally, Carrera Copacabana a band of Brazilian samba dancers performed on stage and the contrast with our winter outfits could not have been greater!

The evening started with cocktails in the bar of the hotel here in gorgeous Sankt Wolfgang. Co-driver Joost Cohen welcomes you to the event.:

Le Mans Legend Gijs van Lennep has returned to compete in the Trial Class with a Porsche 356C with co-driver Ian Tullie. Victory has eluded Gijs on earlier editions of this FIA rally, due to technical problems. Preparation by the State of Art collection has been meticulous so we all [...]

At 4 am the alarm awoke me rudely to the first of 8 days of early 911 fun. After a nice wonderful breakfast prepared by Mrs S, I set out to pick up my co-driver Joost in Zeist. Our schedule permitted a quick espresso and we left to meet Fer and Gerard and their red 1973 2.4S Targa at the Dutch German border.

In the meanwhile we are at 1/3 of the 1.000 km track from Amsterdam to Sankt Wolfgang near Salzburg, from where the Winter Trial 2010 departs tomorrow morning. We have dodged two traffic jams already and missed a pile up by 2 minutes, judging by the limited size of the traffic jam…

Our 2.7 RS engine hums away beautifully and Joost and I discussed what a huge job it is to get everything, particularly the car, ready for a rally of this magnitude. Then again, the way our Silverado behaves, drives and [...]

The Mechanical Fuel Injection set up on early Porsches was allegedly derived from the need to fly upside down. In the Second World War aerial combat developed into serious forms of aerobatics and there was an advantage to be had by those pilots who could manage their throttle and therefore acceleration, irrespective of the position of the plane. Traditional carburetion was inadequate as carburettors rely on gravity to keep the float chambers filled. Trust the German engineering cadre to come up with a solution. Their Messerschmidt aircraft could pull negative G’s thanks to this technology and the British Spitfires could not follow their trail without stalling their carburetted engines.

The constant fuel pressure combined with excellent fuel atomization, leading to a maximum fuel burn ratio in gasoline engines, had Mercedes, Porsche and later BMW, apply this expensive and complex technology on their race and production cars. MFI was overtaken by Electronic Fuel Injection only 20 [...]