Millennium Falcon for sale: 3.6-litre Porsche 911 SC

April 29, 2013

My great Porsche amigo, Jeremy Holmes, is selling his hot rod Porsche 911 SC, affectionately known as the Millennium Falcon. The name comes courtesy of a 3.6-litre, non-varioram 993 engine sitting in the back, remapped to 302 bhp courtesy of Wayne Schofield at ChipWizards. I love this car. We’ve done quite a few runs together [...]

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Tuthill Porsche on Classic Baja Rally

April 28, 2013

Tuthill Porsche‘s first North American rally – the General Tire Mexican 1000 – starts today. This pic comes from yesterday’s scrutineering session, where Richard and Francis took the car through the official approval required to run this classic Baja rally. Richard tweeted: “Scrutineering today. We are playing spot the difference!” and what a difference there [...]

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Porsche Cayman Racer at Specialist Vehicle Preparations

April 28, 2013

Loving this Porsche Cayman S race car, in build for the PCGB championship by SVP Porsche/Specialist Vehicle Preparations in Worcestershire. Fabrication on the bare shell has been handled by Mike Evans, SVP’s newest member of staff and an old hand in metalwork and motorsport fabrication. Most recently, Mike has led the team of builders at [...]

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Porsche 911 Video: Fuel Pressure on Bosch CIS

April 28, 2013

Up to my eyes in work, so am grabbing moments here and there to blog a bit and fire some quick iPhone videos onto Youtube. The vids are about as far as you can get from the glossy productions seen elsewhere: really just flat-six engines being run for the first time post-rebuild. Most will not [...]

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Flat Six Bedtime: Porsche Engine Cool-Down Video

April 24, 2013

Just put a short video up on Youtube. It’s a clip I’ve had for a while, a bit odd to some of you perhaps, but something about it I like. Coming home in my 1976 Carrera 3.0 from an Impact Bumper social last year, I enjoyed a great drive on a chilly night across rural [...]

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Porsche: Origin of the Species (in Books)

April 24, 2013

Bentley Publishers has very kindly sent a review copy of Karl Ludvigsen’s latest book, Porsche: Origin of the Species. A bigger review will follow once I’ve read a bit more, but an hour of leafing last night and this morning reveals a wealth of previously unseen images: photographs, blueprints and scans of archive documents. All [...]

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More Bosch Workshop Gadgets at JZM Porsche

April 22, 2013

Here’s a clever little gadget spotted recently at JZM Porsche. About the size of a handheld credit card reader, it’s a Bosch systems tester designed to assess the state of a vehicle’s charging and starting system under load. Once the machine is connected to the vehicle’s battery, the technician – in this case, Mike at [...]

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Webber: Too Early for 2014 Le Mans Porsche Decision

April 19, 2013

Sitting here watching the Bahrain Grand Prix Practice Two on Sky F1 HD, anchor David Croft mentioned the speculation surrounding Webber and Porsche for 2014, before cutting to an interview where King Kravitz asked Mark about the rumours. “You like Porsche road cars, and Porsche are back in World Endurance, so are people putting your [...]

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JZM Porsche 996 GT3 Manthey Transmission Upgrades

April 19, 2013

This superb Porsche 996 GT3 caught my eye at JZM Porsche on Wednesday. The car was in for a transmission upgrade, via a package of mods Steve McHale (JZM tech boss) has combined to bring even more excitement to the GT3 track day cars. First is the Cup Car diff plates, as seen in the [...]

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Porsche Winners for 2014 Le Mans LMP: No Webber Yet

April 19, 2013

Stuttgart has picked a pair of previous winners for its works LMP drive at Le Mans 2014. Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard have both previously won at La Sarthe. They are the first two drivers announced for the LMP 1 car, heralding Porsche’s return to endurance race prototypes. “The pair are particularly competent test drivers”, [...]

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