The beginning, my highlights, and delving into history – all this is what ‘turbo’ means to me. Alwin Springer As a partner in Californian company Andial and a motorsport specialist, one of the main protagonists in many of the Porsche racing successes in America. President of Porsche ...
But Porsche has given me the key to its museum-display 930 to drive the rural roads near its Stuttgart headquarters, and absurdly tall gearing is a hardship I am willing to bear. Pulling away requires copious clutch slip, and even when you’re rolling, there’s not the explosive ...
Teloché near Le Mans in the early 1970s. Here in a little workshop, the Porsche team is preparing for the 24-hour race. It’s almost dark when engine specialist Valentin Schäffer meets Head of the Motorsport department at the time Ferdinand Piëch and Head of Testing Helmuth Bott. “...
Next you will need to adjust the fuelling and timing, a specialist job. A remap on a rolling road is your only option if you want to avoid blowing up the engine and want to extract the maximum amount of power from your mods. Injectors will also need to be uprated and most standard ...
CLICK FOR DETAILS:1984 Maserati Biturbo You are bidding on a mechanically sorted Maserati Biturbo with an unmatched pedigree. History: This was the personal car of the owner of Fremont Foreign Auto, an Italian car specialist in Fremont, CA. He swapped the drivetrain along with the rear end,...
The Tacx Neo 2 Smart currently tops our round-up of the best turbo trainers, but there’s not much to separate the Neo 2 and the equally excellent Wahoo KICKR. Both offer stunning (and near-silent) performance, but for us, Tacx’s flagship design has the edge and justifies its higher ...
and was issued in the mid-80’s. It has been built to be small, but with enough space and that is why the car is a bit high. It is known as the Honda Jazz in Europe. The City Turbo II has a turbocharged engine and an aggressive look that makes me smile, and that Inno64 decid...
It’s almost dark when engine specialist Valentin Schäffer meets Head of the Motorsport department at the time Ferdinand Piëch and Head of Testing Helmuth Bott. “I remember it well,” relates the now 92-year-old Schäffer when we meet him at the Porsche Museum. “...