Tag: Twinspark Racing

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 shifting [...]

Today is the final day of the Roger Albert Clark rally in Yorkshire, UK. The weather has been very challenging, with 20+ cm snowfalls closing stages and even entire sections of the event. This is the worst weather in this area of Great Britain for late November/early December since 1993.

Normally, a 911 driver looks to the sky, sees the clouds forming and thinks ‘yes – today is a good day’. But here we are, four stages from the end of the rally and there is not one 911 in the top 20 runners. Fifteen of the top twenty are Ford Escorts! This is clearly unrepresentative of the relative strengths of the cars: further investigation is required.

Francis Tuthill, friend of TwinSpark Racing, is currently the leading 911 in 33rd position. Francis is running a Tuthill Challenge car, one [...]

In mid-2008, Zuffenhaus US, based in Charlotte, North Carolina announced a new product, at that time being prototyped and set to enter the product development cycle.

The new arrival was a finned brake caliper which used all the stock internals of the Porsche 917 caliper in a new cast body, made to the same obsessive quality as the originals. The difference was that these new brakes would bolt straight on to stock 911 suspension, with no tricky/risky machining needed, as per the 930 brake conversion for standard-body 911s. The brake package would also fit under 15″ Fuchs wheels.

As my good friend Keith Walters of Zuffenhaus said, when he announced the package on Pelican in July 2008, “they are designed as a [...]