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NEWS – PEOPLE – PERSPECTIVES

918 SPYDER IS ’RING KING The Porsche 918 Spyder – one had set a new record around
of the most expensive cars in the Nürburgring Nordschleife
the world, but which costs – the 13-mile former Grand
nothing in UK road tax and Prix circuit in Germany’s Eifel
side steps London’s Mountains now a recognised
congestion change – has virility test among the makers
finally been presented to the of performance cars. In
public in its full production Weissach trim, a 918 Spyder
form, after a series of driven by Porsche factory
previews stretching back race driver Marc Lieb posted a
three and a half years. The hot lap of 6min 57sec – the
first deliveries to customers quickest time ever for a
will commence in November, homologated road car. During
the price €645,000 plus local the same session, on 4th
taxes, which in the UK will be September, another two
£648,600. drivers, rally ace Walter Röhrl
The Weissach package and Porsche test driver Timo
adds €72,000 (about £60,500) Kluck also exceeded the
to the price. It comprises previous, four-year-old record.
carbon body panels including Perhaps haunted by the
the roof, front screen frame, memory of unsold stocks of
rear wing, rear view mirrors, its last supercar, the 2004-06
as well as carbon interior trim Carrera GT, whose production
in place of aluminium, while ended over 200 units short of
the wheels are made of the planned 1500, Porsche
lightweight magnesium alloy claims a healthy demand for
and the amount of the 918 Spyder, 918 of which
soundproofing has been are due to be built over a two-
reduced. Weight is year period. ‘About a half to
down 35kg. two thirds of production has
After some late tweaking, already been sold,’ a
perhaps encouraged by the spokesman said. ‘We’re in a
appearance of the LaFerarri better position now than at
and the McLaren P1 with their the same point for the
greater outputs, power is Carrera GT.’
quoted at a combined 875bhp He added that placing an
for the 4.6-litre V8 engine and order now would see delivery
twin electric motors, while in 10 to 12 months, with the
torque is 801lb ft. UK expected to take about 50
Almost inevitably, to cars. The biggest market,
coincide with the car’s predictably, will be North
Frankfurt presentation, America, with Germany in
Porsche announced that it second place.

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OUR TAKE
CALLING THE TUNE
The German tuning
industry has thrived for
four decades, but these
are challenging times, and
some famous names may
bow out, says David
Sutherland

Is this just a blip or are we

seeing the start of something
bigger? We refer to the
Germany tuning industry: this
month two of that country’s
well known modifiers,
SpeedArt and 9ff, are in
financial difficulty, and we

NEW TYRE FOR CARRERA GT

wonder if more will suffer the
same fate. Remember, back in
2008 we thought at first it
was just one bank that was in
The Carrera GT was last 206mph maximum speed. life expectancy increased 19 (front), and 335/30 trouble, not the lot.
The Porsche tuning
built seven years ago – The Pilot Super Sport, by 10 per cent for road ZR20 (rear), priced at business took off in the 1970s,
but despite its which has the Porsche use, and by 20 per cent around £400 and £500, with, for example Ruf building
a more powerful turbocharged
disappointing sales, specification “N0” on its on track. The tyre comes which is much the same 911 than Porsche did, and by
Porsche still clearly has a sidewall, is manufactured in two sizes: 265/35 ZR as the PS2. the 1990s it was a significantly
soft spot for it, having on the same line as sized industry, with many new
names entering the fray. But
developed a new tyre Michelin’s racing tyres. It extracting more power from
specifically for the carbon uses “dual-compound” the latest Porsche engines is
bodied, mid-engined technology, meaning that quite tricky, and the “open
heart surgery” that was once
supercar, in partnership different rubber common is now rare, with
with Michelin. The compounds are used for modifications usually limited
to an ECU remap, or
Michelin Pilot Super Sport the inside and outside of sometimes different turbos.
tyre replaces the Pilot the tread, while the belt Porsche does not feel
Sport PS2 that was fitted is made from a super inclined to do the tuners any
favours. Its cars are arguably
as original equipment, durable mix of aramid the best engineered in the
and drawing on the fibres. The contact area world, so it might ask,
decade of tyre industry distributes the pressure understandably, who are
these chancers who assume
progress since the evenly across the tyre, so that they can change some
Carrera GT appeared, the that as much of the tyre bits and end up with
something better?
new tyre is said to give as possible is in contact ‘It’s a very difficult situation
noticeably improved with the road surface. and it won’t get any easier,’
handling, plus greater Porsche says there is a said one source close to
SpeedArt, who added that it
stability up around its practical gain too, with was ‘a David and Goliath
situation’ when it came to a
difference of opinion with
Porsche over what
German tuners fail modifications might or might
One of the best known names in the Porsche tuning business in not be acceptable. The writing
Germany has gone bankrupt. Not present at the Frankfurt motor show was perhaps seen on the wall
in early September, SpeedArt, based on the outskirts of Stuttgart is for the first time when a few
now in administration, while a similar fate has reportedly befallen 9ff, in years ago Porsche issued legal
Dortmund, although as we went press it was not possible to contact proceedings against a
the company by phone to establish the exact situation. prominent German tuner.
The administrators are currently at SpeedArt, assessing what if Porsche, with its virtually
anything can be salvaged from the company, which had split its unlimited resources will win
business between performance tuning and styling, and classic car any confrontation with a small
restoration. Under German solvency law SpeedArt remains open, but company, victories it will see
cannot sell or deliver products. ‘We still have some orders to complete, as a way of protecting its
but it is difficult to see how we can continue,’ said one employee. image and integrity. But it may
SpeedArt’s problems can probably be partly attributed to the kill the Porsche tuning
lengthy economic downturn that must have capped spending on business or at least send it
expensive tuning packages, and also to the increasing difficulty in into serious decline, and we
tuning sophisticated modern engines, leaving styling, suspension and wonder if, given the support
wheels as the main focus. But it is also well know that Porsche has that this sector helps
taken an increasingly firm line on copyright, particularly on its newer generate for the marque, it
models. In May, for example SpeedArt proprietor Björn Striening would really want to see that?
(pictured) told 911 & Porsche World that he had been obliged
to drop an RS style ducktail spoiler for a 997, or pay Porsche a
substantial royalty.
Since being founded in 1999, SpeedArt’s cars have featured
regularly on our pages, with some of the cars amply endowed with
horsepower. The latest to be unveiled was the SP81-CR (main picture),
a styling and suspension package shown earlier this year for the latest
Cayman. Striening had been working on an affordable turbo kit for the
Cayman, but with that requiring a substantial investment for a small
company, the chances of it now seeing the light of day look small,
whatever becomes of SpeedArt.

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NEWS

TECHART’S NEW TWEAKS CATCHING UP WITH

The Frankfurt show was series Carrera 4 by 5kg, same model, delivering a package that, at the MIKEY WASTIE
notable for the depleted rising to 17.5kg when the fruitier sound, while the touch of a “Sport” button
number of German matching rear diffuser is Noselift system raises the on the facia, increases
Porsche tuners present. fitted. These items can be front of the car by 60mm power by 38bhp to
But Stuttgart-based complemented by to protect vulnerable 414bhp, while the already
TechArt claimed to be in TechArt’s new Formula IV spoilers. generous torque rises by
buoyant mood, wheels, a twin spoke As Porsche gave details 74lb ft to 700lb ft. This
announcing new products design available in 20- and of a new V6 engine for the pares 0-62mph
for the 911 and also the 21-inch diameter, and also Cayenne Diesel, TechArt acceleration by half a
We hear about one
Cayenne Diesel. by modified suspension announced a power hike second to 5.2sec, TechArt employee’s absorbing role
The two-piece Front springs, and brakes. The for the flagship oil burner, says, and increases the at one of the UK’s oldest
Porsche specialists,
Spoiler I with integrated TechArt Exhaust System the 4.2-litre S model. The 2.2-tonne SUV’s maximum Autofarm, founded by Josh
splitter is said to reduce Racing is a valve Power Kit TA 058/SD1 is speed very slightly to Sadler 40 years ago
front axle lift on the 991- controlled system for the an engine management 158mph.
How old are you and where
do you live, and work?
I’m 31 and live in Bicester in
Oxfordshire, a few miles from
Autofarm’s workshop in
Weston on the Green.

What was your big break

into the motor industry?
One of my lecturers had
contacts at Autofarm, and
suggested I apply for the
job there. I am still here 13
years later!

Summarise your career

I started doing my
apprenticeship at a large main
CLASSIC PORSCHE PRICES ROCKET dealer, before moving to
Autofarm. I have worked in
Just two Porsches were old Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche in 1965, including at Le were delivered in black, and one most areas of the business,
entered in the UK’s highest Porsche in 1964 (a year after Mans, before being sold off of those three with a sunroof, but the Projects division is
profile classic car auction of the original 911, for which he minus its engine in 1966. It this car’s sole factory option. where my passion lies. I am
2013, the RM Auctions sale in was also responsible for, was found its way to Arizona in the The price reflects the car’s increasingly supporting Josh
the Battersea Evolution in launched), and was Porsche’s early 1970s, where it was meticulous restoration, Sadler with the overall
London, in mid September. But last factory race car that could modified to include a Targa including a blueprinted engine, running of the business.
between them they proved feasibly be driven on the road. roof, but this was later and the price achieved is
that prices of the best The four-cylinder engine was reversed, and in 2003 it was notable because this is the high Are you a petrolhead?
Zuffenhausen collectables are mid-mounted in the steel acquired by a collector, Lord equipment Comfort version Yes, it used to be all about
in rude health, between then chassis, the body fibre-glass. Laidlaw, who brought it up to rather than the more sought fast Fords, but now my
raising over £1.5m. The following year half a historic racing specification. after Sport, pared of many enthusiasm is for German
A 1965 Porsche 904/6 – dozen, including this one, were The 1973 911 Carrera 2.7 RS fittings to reduce weight. cars, obviously Porsches a big
officially badged Carrera GTS, built with 2.0-litre, six-cylinder that fetched £319,200 is a ‘I'd say those two results part of that.
as Peugeot had a claim on engines, these cars unique specification. While were very strong, and I believe
titles with a zero in them – recognisable by the central production of the 2.7RS – the that the 904/6 result was an What was your first car?
went under the hammer at fuel filler cap on the front most iconic of all 911 road cars, auction record for that model,’ A VW Polo S Coupe.
£1,232,000, including the 12 per bonnet, and by the vertically many feel – totalled 1580, just said an RM Auctions
cent buyer’s premium. The 904, lifting windows. Numbered 906- 117 were built in right-hand spokesman. ‘The 2.7 RS What was the first Porsche
designed by the then 28-year- 012, the car was raced by drive, and of those, only three exceeded its pre-sale estimate.’ you ever drove?
A 1969 Powder Blue 911.

Which Porsche past or

present do you like best?
Definitely from the past, but
choosing is hard. It would be
either a 911 2.8 RSR or a 911R.

What car do you drive?

An Audi RS4.

What gets you out of bed in

the morning?
Doing the right thing for our
customers and seeing them
enjoy the cars. Some have
NEWS IN BRIEF been coming here for 40
Porsche has established a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, where last year 1357 Porsches were sold. Opening for business on years, and it is a real privilege
1st January 2014, it will be the carmaker’s 17th subsidiary globally, and the fourth in Asia, the others being China, Japan and Singapore. to work on their cars.
Redtek, a Northampton company specialising in air-cooled 911 engines, and which has 25 years of competition engine experience, has
launched a new website. Go to www.redtek.co.uk What has been the biggest
We are delighted to report that next month’s issue of 911 & Porsche World will contain a bound in catalogue for German tuning and challenge of your working
parts specialists FVD. The December 2013 issue will be published on November 7th. career?
Porsche’s worldwide sales rose 15 per cent from January to August, allowing the carmaker to crack the 100,000 barrier with still four We always want to do what is
months of 2013 to go. The total was 106,777, compared to 92,474 in the same period last year, with North America the largest market, best for the car’s integrity.
at 27 per cent of sales. Occasionally we have to
Readers of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport have named the new Porsche 911 Turbo as the best design innovation in the gently steer the customer
Sport category, nearly 18,000 people voting in the survey. In the US, Motor Trend has named the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S as its Best into not doing something too
Driver's Car for 2013. extreme, or that won’t work.

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undertaking full testing following ensure the LMP1 car hits fuel “prototype” class. The testing has
its first outing in June at Porsche’s efficiency standards. been shared between three of
test track in Weissach – to ensure ‘In order to develop the highly next year’s drivers, Neel Jani of

DRIVE
The Porsche factory racer that
it gets sufficient miles per gallon.
A new set of rules will apply to the
World Endurance Championship
(WEC) in which it will run, including
complex LMP1 racing car so that it
is fit to compete by the start of
next year's season, many more
kilometres of testing are required,’
Switzerland, Timo Bernhard
(Germany) and Romain Dumas
(France) – but Webber, in his last
months driving in F1 for Red Bull
Porsche will compete in at Le a requirement to use hybrid drive said Fritz Enzinger (pictured), in Racing F1, cannot participate.
Mans next year with Mark Webber technology, and Porsche charge of developing the car, However Porsche’s motorsport
at the wheel has been engineers are working hard to which will participate in the top, managers are hoping to see him in

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German Chancellor Angela – but it seems she chairman Matthias Mueller steely leader of the
Merkel may not be recognises a decent car explaining the virtues of German government said
regarded as the most when she sees it. She the world’s only luxury that ‘electric mobility is set
charismatic of politicians, spent time on the Porsche plug-in electric car, the to play an ever greater
and her known personal stand at September’s Panamera S E-hybrid. role’, and that ‘vehicles of
frugality suggest a Porsche Frankfurt motor show, Clearly impressed by his all classes play a part in
does not grace her garage listening to the carmaker’s script, the low key but growth and innovation’.

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NEWS

MORE POWER FOR PANAMERA DIESEL

Porsche has always been Frankfurt show. to 3.0bar, as well as standard wheels and tyres is
coy about its diesels, as if When the first diesel water cooling. fractionally more economical
fearing that, despite their Porsche, the Cayenne, was Power is now 300bhp than its predecessor, this
considerable success in the announced in late 2009 it compared to 250bhp lowering CO2 output slightly
market, their very existence imported the Audi 3.0-litre previously, and torque rises to 169g/km; first year road
undermines its long nurtured V6 more or less unchanged, 73lb ft to 479lb ft and, this, tax is £285, significantly
a car when the F1 season ends in sporting image. It is in but while the new engine allied to shorter ratios for less than on petrol models.
keeping, therefore, that a retains the same the first four gears, trims 0- The Diesel now also has the
late November. ‘He joins in January revised Panamera Diesel configuration and cubic 62mph acceleration from 6.8 rear axle lock with Porsche
2014 when his contract begins, but with 20 per cent more power capacity, the carmaker says to six seconds dead. Top Torque Vectoring Plus that
and 15 per cent extra torque everything else has been speed rises from an already was previously reserved for
there are lots of discussions at the
has been slipped into the re-engineered. For example heady 150mph to 162mph. some petrol Panameras. The
moment,’ a spokesman said. The model range under cover of the turbo has a new turbine, At the same time, the UK price has still to be
WEC season, which begins in the the 918 Spyder launch at the raising boost from 2.5 Panamera Diesel on announced.
spring, sees Porsche return to the
LMP1 class in Le Mans for the first
time since 1998, when it took
victory in the GT1.
UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
A container ship that left the port at marking the 911’s 50th anniversary with Tuthill is also supplying Porsches for
Felixstowe in Suffolk in late August a repeat win. Also participating is an event in very different climatic
marked the end of a very busy summer another former rally champion, his conditions – in frozen northern Sweden,
for Oxfordshire based Tuthill Porsche, countryman Stig Blomqvist. in the early months of 2014. This is ice
carrying the final batch of classic Tuthill specialises in preparing historic driving, but with a difference,
Porsche 911s it had been preparing for 911 competition cars, having long participants using full specification, rally
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5000km rally starting in Kenya on 21st Francis Tuthill knows at first hand how always best for enjoying snow, older, tail
November. Seven containers were tough marathon rallying is, having heavy 911s ought to be useful tools.
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that will compete, but various support 1977 London-Sydney Rally. the courses, which include tuition from
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BUYING POWER
THIS MONTH’S MUST-HAVES AND PORSCHE ACCESSORIES

An end to starvation
The all new, water cooled flat-six engine introduced for the original Boxster and
996 generation 911 in the mid 1990s used a wet sump configuration, whereby the
oil sits in a pan below the crankshaft. This differed from the preceding air cooled
unit which was dry sumped, its oil held in a tank and essentially squirted at the
bearings to lubricate them.
One problem that wet sumped engines can suffer is oil surge, where under hard
cornering and heavy G forces, the oil is forced to one side of the sump, thus
temporarily starving the crankshaft bearings of lubrication. The Porsche engine does
feature a baffle system to offset this effect, but one tuner, Bodymotion in New Jersey, has
developed a new oil pan claimed to improve lubrication efficiency.
The Racing Billet Oil Sump Pan, designed for all Boxster, Cayman and 911 engines from 2000 to 2008,
increases oil capacity by 2.8 litres, though thanks to its “winged design” is no deeper and thus does not
reduce ground clearance. It features a baffle that reaches down to the very bottom of the sump, thereby
trapping almost all the oil and minimising surge, 11 baffle windows with one way flaps allowing oil to enter the
sump but not flow out.
The pan, made from billet aluminium, returns pressurised oil from the cam covers through air/oil separators, this preventing oil aeration, or foaming,
and useful features include two drain plugs at opposite ends of the engine, while built in threaded “jack” screws make removing and lowering the pan
easier, especially when it has been attached with Porsche RTV sealant. The pan is priced at $3695 (about £2370), with fitting in three to four hours.
Go to www.bodymotion.com

Classic suspension
KW Automotive, maker of a wide range of Porsche suspension upgrades,
has introduced a new kit for classic 911s, the 1971-73 F-Series and
1973-74 G-series. A coilover kit using the German company’s two-way
twin-tube technology, the Porsche Classic Clubsport kit lowers the
ride height 40mm and features independently adjustable rebound
and bump. It was originally made up as a one off for a tuner
customer of KWA.
The front units are finished in a black powder
coating finish, and supplied on an exchange
basis, while the rears are made from KW’s
own stainless steel technology, said to offer
longevity in all weather and driving
conditions. The kit’s part number is
39571050, and the cost, including
VAT but not fitting, is £2510.
At the same time KW has
Air time launched a new range of bolt on
wheel spacers for a wide range of
Long established air filter specialist K&N Porsches. These are sold under
has introduced an intake filter for the 991- the Weitec name, a KW-owned
series Porsche 911. It’s said to increase brand that supplies lower cost
airflow by 30 to 40 per cent, and to items including roll bars and
increase power and acceleration, while at lowering springs.
the same time maintaining 99 per cent of Made from aluminium and with an
the original filtration efficiency. anodised finish, the spacers, which go
The High-Flow Air Filter, priced at £112 between the wheel hub and the road wheel
including VAT, is a direct replacement and with no modifications necessary, increase
therefore easy to fit, and can be reused the track by either 20mm or 30mm, costing
after being washed and re-oiled after £111 and £123. They fit all Boxsters, the
30,000 to 50,000 miles, The Cheshire- 987-series Cayman, and some versions of
based company gives its K&N Million-Mile the 996-, 997- and 991-series 911s. For more
Limited Warranty on each filter. To find a information on either the coilover kits or
stockist, call 01925 636950 or visit spacers, call 0870 990 7536 or visit
www.knfilters.co.uk www.kwautomotive.co.uk

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PRODUCTS
Sharpen night sight The Tyre Depot -
Sharp eyesight is obviously crucial for the safe enjoyment of a car, and
all the more so for a Porsche, given its performance. But being
Now is the time to
expensive cars, by the time you can afford the one you want, you might consider winter tyres
not exactly be in the full bloom of youth – and your eyesight might be a
little bit past its best, too. It is quite normal for people in their forties
for your Porsche
With winter here soon, it is worth
and fifties to find that their night vision is less crisp than it used to be. considering the slightly less expensive
option of running winter tyres on
It was a problem experienced by one leading eye surgeon, John existing wheels rather than fitting them
Grindle who had found that he was troubled by an increasing level of to a second set of rims. You can still use
glare, especially from oncoming lights. The consultant ophthalmologist a reputable fitter’s “tyre hotel service”,
whereby your summer tyres are stored
at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London was in a position to do something from November through to April, at a
about it, and set about developing a new type of spectacle lens, called moderate cost.
A growing number of performance
Vista Mesh and featuring a micromesh filter. The formula was originally winter tyres are being made in N rated
developed to deflect electro-magnetic radiation 10 years ago, but has homologation (as recommended by
only now been applied to spectacle lenses. Porsche) by leading manufacturers.
These include the Dunlop SP Sport
Working on a pinhole effect, the super fine mesh is claimed to damp Winter 3D, Continental TS830, Pirelli
down flicker and sharpen contrast at night, due to the lenses aligning scattered light reflections. The Winter SottoZero Serie II, and Michelin
lenses have the normal clear appearance, and are designed for day as well as night use. Pilot Alpin PA4 N-Spec. Both Michelin
and Pirelli are already producing 20-inch
Now might be a good time to see if this lens formula works for you, given that daylight is now winter tyres for the 991-series 911.
getting shorter, and that at the end of October the UK clocks go back, plunging the late afternoon into There are also specific 4x4 winter
patterns for the Cayenne: Pirelli
darkness. The central London optician dispensing them is Roger Pope and Partners, on 020 7935 2124 Scorpion Ice, Michelin Latitude Alpin, and
or at www.rogerpope.co.uk. Dunlop, again in the winter sport 3d
pattern, and in all sizes from 235/65 R17
right through to 295/35 R21.
Let’s remind ourselves why you would
911 motion tabled want to fit winter tyres, or rather “cold
The original 911 Carrera 2.7 RS, particularly around its tail, is among the most iconic automotive shapes weather tyres”, as they are designed for
temperatures below 7°C, not just for use
of the early 1970s, so much so that one furniture designer sees no reason why it shouldn’t be brought in snow and ice. They are a softer
into the house, or indeed man cave, in the form of a coffee table. Guards Red Design, based in Aberdeen compound with a higher amount of
natural rubber and silica, which does not
in Scotland put two RS “ducktail” shaped mouldings together and attached a panel of 8mm glass on top
harden in colder temperatures
to produce the Anatina Table. “Anatina” is “duck” in Latin, so we assume company proprietor Andrew compared to the higher amount of
Smith had an expensive education. synthetic rubber used in summer tyres,
which hardens far quicker in lower
The table, whose base is made from glassfibre, as was the original ducktail and can thus be cleaned temperatures. The benefit is more
and polished up in the same way, costs £1911 plus £25 UK delivery. Measuring 1100mm in length, 650mm flexibility and hence better traction, and
wide and 400mm high, it comes in eight colour combinations: the base white or black on the outside, and superior braking and cornering. They
have a more aggressive appearance,
blue, red, yellow or green on the inside. See them all at www.guardsred-design.com though the parts of the tread that do
the most work in winter conditions are
the “sipes”, small grooves in the tread
that act as claws in the snow and ice,
improving grip.
Some of the winter fitments might be
different to the summer fitments for
Porsches, but these are still permissible
on the original sized wheels. For
example, a 265/35 Z18 can be fitted as
a winter tyre option for the rear of a 996
Porsche – changing from the existing
285/30 R18 while maintaining the same
rolling circumference as well as keeping
the original 10-inch wheels.
The key to successfully taking
advantage of using your Porsche in
winter is to order tyres early, as most
tyre manufacturers will now have
finished this season’s production. For
more information, and stockist details,
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PRODUCTS
A fitting purchase
When you buy a replacement exhaust from Porsche, the
system will not come with any of the clamps and sundries
that are needed, and an independently made sports exhaust
is unlikely to either. Therefore the full fitting kit supplied by
Midlands Porsche part specialist Porscheshop could be a
very useful purchase for the self fitter.
Various kits are offered, and taking the 996/997-series kit
as an example, it includes A2 grade stainless steel nuts and
bolts, gaskets, clamps and galvanised catalyst pipe sleeves.
It fits all Carrera models, from 1997 until 2012 when the 991
arrived, and Porscheshop says it will definitely fit
aftermarket sports systems, as their mountings have to be
the same as for the standard exhaust in order to fit. The
price is £90 including VAT, and there is a separate kit for the
996/997 GT3, as there is for the first generation Boxster,
both costing the same. Some of the items can be purchased
individually, such as the clamps and gaskets. For more
details, call 0121 585 6088 or go to www.porscheshop.co.uk

Introducing the band

The sound of alloy wheels grinding on a kerb is a painful one, and
the sight of what a moment’s careless parking did to those lovely
rims on your Porsche is equally distressing. One novel preventative
measure is the AlloyGator, a super tough nylon band that fits around
the outer edge of the rim.
The patented system is designed to take all the punishment when soft
alloy and unyielding kerbstone meet, leaving the actual wheel
undamaged, and it gives some protection to the tyre, also likely to be an
expensive item on a Porsche. They come in nine different colours, with
black and silver blending in discreetly, while red, blue, yellow, pink, green,
orange and white offer a more extrovert look.
It can be fitted by a confident DIY owner, says Warwckshire based
AlloyGator. However the tyre needs to be partially deflated, and the band,
which comes in 21-inch diameter, cut to size if necessary. You can buy it
on line for £65.45 including VAT and delivery, or pay extra for the fitting
service. More details on 08450 707078 or visit www.alloygator.co.uk

Cool calendar
There may still be a bit of 2013 to go, but there
is no harm in buying a 2014 calendar early –
especially when it contains a dozen lovely
images of classic Porsches, ranging from 356s
up to the 993-series 911, and with the mid
1960s 904 racer (one of which was recently
auctioned for £1.2m) on the cover. Porsche
Klassik 2014 is produced by the German
publishing company Delius Klasing, and is
available on its website, or through classic
Porsche parts specialist Karmann Konnection
in Southend, Essex, priced at £24.95.
Measuring a generous 675x470mm – about
27 by 19 inches, in old money – it is not a
calendar that will go unnoticed, we’d say. Call
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Adjustable Gas Pedal
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USUALSUSPECTS
BENNETT GOES TO FRANKFURT AND FINALLY HE ‘GETS’ THE 918
ALTHOUGH IT WOULD APPEAR HE’S MORE INTERESTED IN FUEL
ECONOMY THESE DAYS. FORTUNATELY A RIDE IN A 720BHP 996
GT2 WITH MIKE WILDS BRINGS HIM TO HIS SENSES
STEVEBENNETT

918 IS LORD OF THE RING

We’ve gone big on the 918 in the news global, and you don’t need me to tell you here
pages in this issue of 911&PW. For various that those three numbers refer to the lap
reasons I have in the past confessed to time that the 918 put in at the Nürburgring
feeling rather luke-warm towards the 918. I with Patrick Linge at the wheel. In other
may even have described it as Porsche’s words (Radical SR something or another
latest ‘vanity project,’ but certainly I aside, but that doesn’t really count) the
didn’t feel any real connection to this Porsche 918 is the fastest production, road
otherworldly machine. legal car in the world and has stolen a march
And so it was with a certain amount of on McLaren and Ferrari.
scepticism that I headed off to Frankfurt for This came as something of a bolt out of the
the launch of the petrol/electric hybrid. blue. The 918 was considered by most to be
Launch? Hold on, Porsche seem to have been too heavy and, while at 1634kg It’s no
launching the 918 for the past two years or lightweight, thanks to batteries and additional Wolfgang Hatz and Walter Rohrl with the new
so. It’s been snapped in various retro liveries, electric motor, the combination of a 699bhp Porsche 918 in full production guise. As
some journos have ridden in it and even driven normally aspirated V8, an electric motor, four- launches go, this one has lasted for the best
it (albeit sparingly), a production version was wheel drive and some apparently part of three years, but there’s no denying
at Goodwood and superstar petrolhead, Jay revolutionary new Michelin tyres, have created that this plug-in hybrid supercar is a seriously
Leno, seems to have one already in his world a shock result. clever piece of kit
famous garage. This constant drip-feeding of Now there are plenty of folk who see the
info by Porsche has rather destroyed the Nürburgring as the scourge of modern car Porsche 956 (6m 25.91 secs, although in
mystique of the 918. Really, what on earth development and the reason why ride quality practice he set an unofficial time of 6m
was there left to say/see at Frankfurt? has gone out of the window, but for the 11.13s, but it’s the race time that counts in
I know I sound like a hackneyed old hack, supercar contingent, the Nürburgring is as the record books). Makes you think doesn’t it?
but to me this is reverse marketing. Where relevant in terms of development as it is to In fact if this is the future, and it probably is,
was the excitement? Not at the VW Group bragging rights. In all likelihood the 918 will be then it’s not too scary at all. In fact it’s pretty
grand party (the place to be) on the night king for a day. By the time this issue hits the bloody exciting.
before the show’s opening day. The 918 glided shelves it wouldn’t be a surprise if McLaren’s That night at Porsche’s post show bash,
in under electro power to music, light and dry P1 has smashed the 918’s time. It was widely there was the ’Ring lapping machine looking
ice and later we milled around it trying not to tipped to be the first supercar to do so. But it mean in matt black with a splash of Martini
get in the way of the various cameras crews. wasn’t and Porsche pulled it out of the bag livery, with the lap record time printed across
It looked quite cool, but that’s only because when it mattered and stole the show. its bonnet. The development team posed for
Jacky Ickx was sitting in it. My 944 would look And slowly the significance of what the photographs and looked and sounded pretty
quite cool if Jacky Ickx was sitting in it! 918’s development team have achieved began pleased with themselves as the beer flowed,
Maybe things would be different at the to sink into my grey matter. It’s easy to be and who could blame them.
launch proper the next morning at the blasé about things these days but the fact is So, yes, I’ve warmed to the 918 and I can’t
Frankfurt Show itself. So at 10am once again that if you owned a 918 in the UK, you wait to see how this technology is rolled out.
the 918 glided in with, Wolfgang Hatz at the wouldn’t have to pay road tax on it, you could There will be a plug-in hybrid 911. In fact there
wheel. He jumped out, said a few things about drive it through London’s congestion charging will probably be plug-in hybrid versions of just
Porsche’s commitment to hybrid power and zone for free, you could probably drive it on about every Porsche in the range.
how it was the future and then introduced electric power only to your place of work, plug But just imagine if Porsche had resisted the
lanky Walter Rohrl who confessed to being it in and then drive home again at the end of temptation to share the 918’s development
initially sceptical about the 918 dual power the day, all without starting the engine all and gestation in the public eye, not leaked
set up, but was now on side. Yeah, but week, every week. info, not let famous people drive it and kept it
he would say that. And then on the flipside you have a car that disguised to the hilt, while pounding around
And then it popped out: Six minutes and will top 200mph and accelerate to 60mph in the Nürburgring and all those hot and cold
fifty-seven seconds, or to put it another way: 2.8 secs, has upwards of 750bhp combined places around the world where cars go to
6m 57s. Three numbers that had the and will with the right driver behind the wheel, be tortured. Imagine the impact that all
collected crowd clapping, cheering and lap the Nürburgring in a time that’s not far off of the above would have had if Porsche
tweeting. Within seconds 6m 57s had gone Stefan Belloff’s outright lap record in a had kept a lid on it?

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and Porschephiles. They’ve always got
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GETTING OLD – BENNETT GETS OBSESSED WITH ECO DRIVING

I’m a lot closer to 50 than 40, hair more than 80mph and you really in the absence of anything that I not that there’s anything young
is starting to sprout from my stand out, especially if you’re could turn up to 11, I hit the Sports about listening t0 AC/DC.
nostrils and ears and I appear to driving a 911 in a lurid lime gold Plus button. In homage to Bon If you’re worried, I still made
have developed a fascination with sort of colour. Scott’s falsetto wailing, two gears Frankfurt with fuel to spare and, a
miles per gallon. Show me a car Of course it’s not just the PDK were blipped and dropped, the couple of days later, back in the
with a trip and MPG computer and gearbox that enables such exhaust went to its sport setting, UK, and with the help of Radio 2, I
I’ll be trying to get the max from it. impressive economy from Porsche the throttle went all spiky and the managed to complete a 157-mile
This must surely be an age thing. flat six engines. Direct fuel C4S took off like a 911 should do. It journey at an average of 35.8mpg.
I blame Porsche, obviously. Ever injection, on demand oil pumps, was a wonderfully synchronised My transfer to What Car magazine
since the seven-speed PDK ’box special slippery coatings for all the moment. I even felt young again, should be just a formality.
arrived on the scene in the 997, moving parts, plus state of the art
I’ve been fascinated with its ability injectors, electronics, engine
to short-shift up to seventh at decoupling and even the maligned
45mph in its default eco mode and electronic steering all play a part.
then cruise at 70mph at under So much so that as I hit the
2000rpm, and at 80mph at bang German border I had averaged 34.7
on 2000rpm. mpg. Not bad for a 400bhp sports
The 991 is even more eco car capable of 190+mph.
configured and I get some sort of And then something odd
strange delight in ever improving happened. Scanning the airwaves,
my MPG figures over a long the radio picked up a German
journey. So, it was with some glee music station, and the tail end of
that I aimed a 991 Carrera 4S at some Euro pop. But then the
Frankfurt with the avowed unmistakeable drum heavy intro of
intention of getting there on a AC/DC’s Highway to Hell,
single tank of fuel (it’s over 500- enhanced by the Bose sound
miles from my gaff). system option, began to thud
It was a doddle really. These through the cabin, and just as it
days belting across Europe in the did the Autobahn went
style of motoring journos of the derestricted. This was clearly a Playing the MPG game has become an obsession for Bennett, but you
past, is really a big no, no. Much sign – a Spinal Tap moment – but have to say, the 991 is capable of some astonishing figures

HOW TO REALLY DRIVE A 911

It’s always a humbling experience to Club Sport. You name it, he’s raced it huge power of the thing, which, OK, but in this it feels like a go kart track.
passenger with someone who really and he particularly likes 911s. “I love is on trackday tyres, but is otherwise It monsters everything, even the
knows how to drive, and the the way they feel, he says. “You’ve devoid of any form of electronic Radicals. Mike doesn’t make it look
difference between us and them is got to go with them. Do something driver aid save for the intervention easy as such. There is a battle going
never more pronounced than when unexpected and a 911 will have you of the right foot. on here, but he’s winning and it’s a
the car in question is something off. Work with a 911 and it will look It takes a really quick car to make privilege to have a front row seat.
really powerful and old school. after you.” the Silverstone GP circuit feel small, More next month.
So as a bit of a sneak preview to So Mike trundles out of the pits
an upcoming feature, imagine being and then hits the throttle. There’s a
strapped into the passenger seat of momentary lag and then all I can
a 996 GT2 with over 720bhp and utter is an expletive. The sheer
over 800N/m of torque, about to hit power and speed of this thing
the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. catches me completely off guard. It
The car has been built by Silverstone takes half a lap to acclimatise and
based Fearnsport for Chris Reed as a for the brain to assimilate the
track day special, but for the information, but Wilds does what all
purposes of my few laps in the good drivers seem to be able to do
passenger seat, ex ’70s F1 driver, in something this fast and powerful:
Mike Wilds, is at the wheel. Mike has He manages to slow it all down. No
been in 911&PW before standing frantic movements, his inputs are Fearnsport’s monster 996 GT2 is capable of astonishing speed.
proudly next to his 911 3.2 Carrera calm and collected, despite the Fortunately in Mike Wilds they have a driver to get the best from it

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GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? NEED TO EXPRESS AN OPINION ON THE
PORSCHE WORLD? WELL, HERE’S YOUR CHANCE…

911@FIFTY
Celebrating 50 years of the Porsche 911
about to blow. Put ‘GT3’ on the question when will the Cayman
very same shape and it finally be allowed to mature

TOP OF THE POPS E

becomes iconic, purposeful, into the car it has always
veryone loves a 4=: 996 GT3 Mk1 19 points ranging from dealers, in 1973, with 1,580 units ‘though they’re silly prices
pop chart, 4=: 993 Turbo 19 points specialists, collectors, of the 210bhp coupe now. Back in 1976 the RS
whether it’s 5: 964 RS 16 points racers and private leaving the factory. It’s a was listed in Glass’s Guide
iTunes’ See the full Top Ten in owners. Be as esoteric as beautiful car from any at £3.5 grand!’ This

The 911 has been around for 50 years: but which one’s the foot-
constantly
fluctuating playlist or the
morbidly fascinating F1
the sidebar below left.
Number one with a
bullet! So how come the
you like, I tell them, which
elicits a few interesting
responses such as the
angle, and its reputation
as a formidable track and
rally weapon give it an
particular one has form
too: raced by Nick Faure,
it was successful in the
sleek, timeless, pretty, deserved to be?
stomping, hand-clapping, hip-shaking, funky-butt chart topper? For Drivers’ table. So here it 2.7 RS garners twice the spaceframe 935 Moby awesome pedigree; and 1973 STP Production

the first time ever, we polled 25 connoisseurs to come up with the

is: the official 911 hit
parade. We quizzed a
cross-section of
points of the runner up?
Pop charts are usually
worked out according to
Dick and the Jägermeister
Kremer 935 K3. And yet,
like a dog homing in on a
it’s the one that the
majority of backdaters
seek to emulate. John
Sports Car Championship.
‘It’s such an alive little car;
it’s not the fastest thing
beautifully compact and, wait It has long been said that
definitive high numbers. Can you guess which is Number 1, though? aficionados, totted up the sales statistics, and if sausage sarnie, the Hawkins, proprietor of in the world but it talks to
Words: Johnny Tipler
Photography: Antony Fraser, Brett Fraser
number of votes for each
car and, though we had a
sneaking suspicion who’d
that were true here the
996 or 997 would
probably win purely on a
points tally for the 2.7 RS
just keeps on building as
the votes roll in.
Specialist Cars at Malton
holds most of the top ten
911s in stock, hence he’s
you. There’s a real
rawness about the 2.7 RS,
like it’s saying, “if you’re
for it, ‘classic’! Porsche will never allow the
win the Grammy, the reckoning of production In terms of specs, most hosting our shoot, and his not careful, I’ll have you.”’
margin of victory came as
a surprise. Here’s how the
Top 5 playlist shook out:
volumes. Our ranking is
far more intriguing, based
on the gut feelings of 25
of our Top Ten need no
introduction. The chart-
topping 2.7 Carrera RS
top two cars are the 3.0
Carrera RS and 2.7 RS. We
sourced the latter from
One of the figures
who’s been longest
associated with the 911,
Porsche fans are a funny lot. Cayman to become the ‘new
1: Carrera 2.7 42 points connoisseurs (see the list was the competition- his neighbour, the obliging Josh Sadler of Autofarm,
2: 911 2.4 S 23 points
3: Carrera 3.2 21 points
in the sidebar) –
subjective and objective –
orientated version of the
F-programme 911s made
Lord Mexborough. ‘The 2.7
RS is the icon,’ says John,
also votes the 2.7 RS at
number 1, as does Johan Niall Gately, Cape Town, SA 911’ – by that I mean the
driver’s car that the old 911s
Keith Seume replies: I know what always were. But now that the
you are hinting at but I honestly 997 has grown into what can
believe that most people find the only be described as a ‘Grand
GT3 more attractive to look at Tourer’ (wait for the mutterings
because of the promise of what off stage…), can we please all
lies within. The GT1-derived ask Porsche to give the
THE TOP 10
1: CARRERA 2.7 RS 42 POINTS
2: 911 2.4 S
3: CARRERA 3.2
4=: 996 GT3 MK1/993 TURBO
5: 964 RS
23 POINTS
21 POINTS
19 POINTS
16 POINTS
engine, the superior brakes, the outstanding Cayman its head?
6: CARRERA 3.0 RS 15 POINTS

uprated suspension – the It would, of course, be

7: CARRERA 2.8 RSR 13 POINTS
8: 911 2.2 S 12 POINTS
9=: 911ST/RUF RT12 9 POINTS Well it looks like we’ve given the game away already.
10: 935 RACE CAR 8 POINTS
Did you really expect anything other than the 2.7 RS? It’s
HOW DID WE SCORE THEM? SIMPLE. WE the cars that are in the runners up spots that are perhaps
SCORED EACH POLSTER’S TOP 5 CHOICE
FROM 5 DOWN TO 1 AND ADDED THE
POINTS AWARDED TO EACH CAR
more intriguing
knowledge that this Porsche wonderful if the Cayman was
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became the first production car equipped with a full-monty six-
STUCK IN A 912 that no less than the great that the number one slot went to lap the ’Ring in under eight cylinder turbocharged motor,
I read with great interest the Hans Stuck put in third place to the 2.7 Carrera RS. It’s minutes. All of this far outweighs but the idea of a lighter, four-
article ‘Top of the pops’ in the on his personal list the little currently the obligatory choice the skin-deep ‘beauty’ bestowed cylinder model really does have
September issue of 911 & 912. Isn't this quite surprising you would think although upon the arguably bland lines of some appeal. Sorry, I mean a lot
Porsche World magazine. from such a race hero who’s interestingly, out of your panel the standard 996 by a few of appeal…
I was especially intrigued to driven the most powerful of twenty three, less than 25 spoilers and minimalist badging… The late great Colin
look at the individual opinions Porsche cars? per cent selected it as their Chapman is quoted as saying
of the experts you chose to As a 912 fan, too, I was just number one choice. that to add speed, add
vote for the best 911 ever, curious if any of you had the However, even more IT IS AN ‘S’! lightness, and this is surely
partly because I’m honoured to chance to ask Mr Stuck why interesting for me was the I am a subscriber to your where the Cayman’s future as a
know some of them. this underrated four-cylinder. recognition bestowed upon the magazine through i-Tunes and real driver’s car in the mould of
I do not personally agree on Porsche holds such appeal? 996 in GT3 spec. If I had a really enjoy reading it. the original 911 must lie.
the choice of the winning car, With the best compliments pound for every time I heard a I have recently purchased a Porsche has shown its
the now legendary and (to me) for your beautiful Porsche Porsche enthusiast say that 911 C2S from JZ Machtech willingness to produce ‘driver’s’
over-valued 1973 2.7 Carrera magazines. the 996 was his/her least which was featured in your versions of the Boxster
RS. It is basically no more than Mauro Borella, Italy favourite body style, except for magazine. I was suprised to (Boxster Spyder) and the 997
a similar 2.4S with a bigger the 996GT3, which they find note that you had it down as a (Sport Classic), but a bare-
engine displacement and larger Steve Bennett replies: Hi Mauro. beautiful, I'd be able to buy one. base-model C2 when it is in fact bones Cayman with a ‘cooking’
rear tyres, with over 1500 Yes that was an interesting It just proves how much a C2S (which the journalist four-cylinder turbo engine
examples built for choice from Hans Stuck. perception is the law. It is, of states he regrets not trying in could be the best-handling
homologation purposes. According to Johnny Tipler, who course, the exact same body, the article!). Porsche ever. It would certainly
To me the real landmarks in spoke with Stuck, he said that albeit lowered slightly, with a Frank Ward, via E-mail be a hoot – a 300bhp, turbo
the 911 story were such as the 912 was the first Porsche kit and its own wheels, a look lightweight mid-engined
when the wheelbase was that he drove as a youth. Also, Xeroxed onto many standard Keith Seume replies: Please coupé? If that ever happens,
changed, mechanical fuel- with less weight in the back, he 996 Carreras. accept our apologies and rest then sign me up!
injection was adopted or the reckoned that the handling was But somehow the knowledge easy in the knowledge that we Of course, it wouldn’t be as
Turbo was born. more predictable, too. of what it does, and the have now fitted an ‘S’ key to the fast as a 997, but then top
In fact I was pleased when intangible aura around it, author’s keyboard… speeds of anything over
friends like Jürgen (Barth) put seems to hypnotise Porsche 150mph are pretty academic.
in first place cars like the 2.2S GT3 OVER-RATED? enthusiasts into seeing the Give me a car like this, a clear
and 2.5ST that, in my view, are Thanks for a fascinating latest same body panels morph into a KING CAYMAN? mountain pass and I’d be far
more interesting than the RS. issue of 911 & Porsche World. different shape. The recent rumour that happier than trying to outrun a
But personal opinions apart, Picking the greatest of all 911s Put ‘Carrera’ in the back and Porsche is to build a four- Prancing Horse on the
there is a little question that is always a bit of fun and of it’s tired, worn out, slab-sided, cylinder turbo Boxster and autobahn in my ‘GT’…
makes me wonder: I noticed course it came as no surprise with odd lights and an engine Cayman must surely raise the Michael Williams, via E-mail

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BEN WILLIAMS YOU AND YOURS

THE DAILY DRIVER

When his SUV started to go wrong, Ben Williams
decided to go leftfield and buy an old 944 for the
grind. Turned out to be a machine of some mystery
Words: Adam Towler Photography: Neill Watson

T
he affection that exists between an owner passing through the hands of owner number three and
and their Porsche can strike up in the most then onto Ben last summer. In one sense it was a lucky
unusual circumstances, between possibly car, as many an early 944 has been broken for spares
unlikely combinations of owners and cars, when they look shabby, but in Ben the car has found an
and for a broad spectrum of reasons. It isn’t owner of tremendous enthusiasm, along with an
always related to financial worth; in fact, sometimes it appreciation for driving and what makes for a great car.
can be hard to explain on any logical level at all. But back to our history trail: beyond the above clues
It could be argued that one such example is Ben and life story Ben knows little else, and a call we made to
Williams and his 944. Ben has owned some very the Porsche archive in Stuttgart yielded nothing, with
interesting cars over the years, and that includes both a simply a reply that the records for the 944 are kept in
993 Turbo and a 996 Turbo. But when last year his daily Ludwigsburg and they knew nothing of the car. It goes
driver began to cost him serious money in repairs (let’s without saying that if a reader out there knows anything
just say it was a modern luxury SUV from a British about the history of this car, do write into the magazine
brand…) he decided to try something different – and then and let us know.
saw this particular 944 for sale. Could it really be pressed Could this car have been a pre-production 944
into such service? The answer was ‘yes’. He has since brought over to the UK for the purposes of Porsche GB
spent a fair amount of cash getting this ostensibly in some way, and then perhaps sold on when it would,
scruffy 944 to drive how its maker intended, and to repair usually, have been destroyed? Was it a press car or a
rot in the sills, but then this isn’t any normal 944, as soon dealer-training car, or used internally to get staff up to
becomes apparent. speed on the exciting new model that Stuttgart would
According to its VIN this 944 was manufactured in soon be sending over? Maybe that’s a fanciful
1981, and yet – we know what you’re thinking - the 944 suggestion, but such an occurrence isn’t without
wasn’t on sale until the year after. Further evidence that precedence; the original right-hand drive 928 for the UK
all is not as it seems can be found under the bonnet made its way eventually into private hands after lying
where there are numerous mechanical differences dormant for many years, and there are many pre-
compared with the regular production spec. The coolant production details on that car, too. Right: Ben Williams and the
pipework for starters, the engine mounts and the various Ben’s interest in Porsches began at an early age. “A mystery 944. Mystery? Well
connectors that are 911-spec, not as they normally are school friend’s father was an ad guy, and was responsible it was built in 1981 (despite
for the water-cooled cars. Recent research reveals that for that famous photoshoot with a Ferrari F40 and its ‘Y’ suffix plate), which
the suspension geometry is different, too. Porsche 959 on an airfield,” he recalls. “So we went along makes it pre-production.
What makes the tale all the more mysterious is that as spotty kids and the 959 was just ‘it’! It was the most and was first owned by
while the VIN sticker matches up, the chassis plate has awesome thing I’d ever seen, period. We didn’t even sit in Porsche GB. There are
been deliberately defaced and then left in place in it, but I loved it all the same.” numerous detail
unreadable form. Porsche’s supercar guv’nor of the ’80s still has the differences between it and
Moreover, the first owner of the car was Porsche GB, power to utterly beguile to this day, in my experience, so the production 944s too,
who kept the car for a year before our 944 made its way it’s no surprise that when new it could mould a life time’s but thus far no positive info
to a new owner in Scotland. There it stayed for many respect and affection for a marque. has turned up as regard
years, being used only sporadically, before recently Starting his motoring career with an ancient Land its early life

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Rover, he eventually progressed through various Saabs replacing suspension components and servicing the car
and BMWs, including an E36 318TDS he describes as ‘truly properly, and the result is that it’s a terrific steer, borne of
awful’ and an E39 M5 as “an absolute stonker – a terrific its light weight through simplicity, and the inherent
car.” Multiple Golf GTIs in the early days bred a love of chassis balance and fine controls possessed by the type. I
sporting cars. have a quick blast up the road in it and I’m grinning from
Ben’s Porsche adventure bagan with the last of the air- ear to ear: of course you’d spend the money on it and
cooled Turbo models: “When I saw my 993 on a garage what does it matter what it looks like when it drives this
forecourt I just said ‘yes’! I didn’t do any research – I well – suddenly the logic is obvious. That big four pot is
suppose I was lucky really. But every Porsche I’ve owned amazingly free revving, it may just be the sweetest eight-
has been so well put together; they are easy to valve example of Porsche’s 928-engine-cut-in-half I’ve
understand, the classics especially. In fact, they’re easy to ever driven, zipping up the rev range and giving this 944 a
teach yourself on (to do your own work on them) if you surprisingly good turn of speed. It’s still no road rocket,
have the balls to do so. There are also good specialist but it’s the kind of car you immediately want to drive
garages to deal with, the parts are available, and the hard, everywhere. The interior is actually in remarkably
whole culture around Porsches is such that people are so good condition given what you might have expected
helpful and willing to share info. I’ve not found that so when you first see the car’s exterior, although the low-
much with other marques. As a marque Porsche are hard slung steering wheel on these early 944s can take some
to beat”. The camaraderie and raw enthusiasm around getting used to.
Porsches is something that, perhaps, we occasionally As this story goes to print, Ben has stripped the interior
take for granted. out of the old 944 and is preparing it to Class 3 classic

Ben has stripped the interior out of the old 944

“and is preparing it for Class 3 classic rallying
”
Could he be tempted back, I ask, into Porsche ownership rally spec for FIA/HERO and CRA events: the HERO
of a more recent – and expensive – kind? “I would like a Throckmorton Challenge in October, and the HERO LeJog
lairy 997, maybe a GT3: the GTS is amazing as well. The in December are already in the diary.
991 is, err nice… (the conversation ends there, revealing It’s going to be ‘extreme’, he reports, before illustrating
another Porsche enthusiast less-than-romanced by the just how extreme he’s intending: “it’s going to have full
firm’s latest offering), but I’ve no interest in the underfloor protection including sump guard, starter motor
paraphernalia – the Cayenne and the Panamera I mean.” and transaxle guards; a 1.5 in ride height lift for additional
And from the man who has rallied a Citroen DS in classic ground clearance; rally seats and four-point harnesses;
events over recent years, there’s an important proviso: “I bespoke half cage and a front four spot light pod.” CONTACT
With thanks to Ben Williams.
like to be able to compete in my cars. If I was to have an But there’s an added dimension to all of this that takes Further info on Mission
older Porsche I’d want it to be for classic rallying.” We this 944’s new life far beyond the realms of just rallying: Motorsport:
www.missionmotorsport.org
muse on the possibility of an SC for just such a task (I “I'm doing both with Mission Motorsport (the Forces’
wonder how long before there’s one in the garage?) before motorsport charity, that aides in the recovery and
Ben tells me about the 356B restoration project he has rehabilitation of those affected by military operations by As if being on the road for
tucked away “in a million pieces.” providing opportunities through motorsport), taking along 32-years wasn’t enough,
Which leads us back to this wonderful early 944, a wounded soldier as a navigator and also overseeing Ben is preparing his 944 for
complete with its brush painted bonnet, GRP nose repair another MM sister car where both driver and navigator classic rally duty and in
and ‘heavy patina’ (as they’d say at auction). The ‘cookie- are complete novices.” conjunction with forces
cutter’ alloys have been painted a metallic dark grey It’s simply another chapter for a car that’s nothing if not charity, Mission Motorsport,
finish, and today they’re shod with some fresh winter a true survivor, which just needed an owner that could his co-drivers will be injured
rubber – testament to the car’s all-year-round new life. As see past the blemishes to the rewarding driving soldiers. Another chapter,
previously mentioned, Ben has spent a considerable sum experience that lurked just beneath the surface. PW then, for the mystery 944

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BLOWN
AWAY
The Porsche 911 Turbo legend keeps on trucking.
The new 991 version builds on the supercar for
all seasons and reasons reputation of its
illustrious predecessors
Words: Brett Fraser
Photography: Brett Fraser/Malcolm Griffiths

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he helmeted hero on the superbike is all over little red light confirming its activation shining from Right: Porsche launched
the new Turbo’s tail as it creeps through the the centre console. both the standard 911
sleepy German rural town. And as we turn Sure enough, the raging, tempestuous thrust from the Turbo and Turbo S
off onto back roads, he’s revving himself up Turbo sees our two-wheeled friend momentarily alongside each other. Base
for his chance of a Porsche scalp. He kicks perplexed yet still very much a looming presence in the Turbo gets 513bhp, while
down a couple of gears; cranes his head to one side rear view mirrors. But ahead is a sharp, tight, bumpy, Turbo S gets an extra
in an effort to see past the Turbo’s fat flanks and narrow left-hander. The straight on its approach is 39bhp and added torque.
assess how quickly he’ll zap by. Only it doesn’t comparatively short, and yet the Turbo S is already Not that you would guess
happen that way. knocking on the door of 120mph: it’s hellish quick, even as much from peering in
Let’s be clear straight away, we’re not countenancing on first acquaintance. Thankfully PCCB carbon ceramics the engine bay, which looks
anything so stupid as a race. Just one quick blast the diameter of cartwheels (well, strictly speaking like it’s powered by a pair of
against this supercar-humbler and then let him shoot they’re 410mm diameter on the front, 390mm on the computer cooling fans!
past: mostly these bi-wheeled missiles make a rear) are standard on the S, and they promptly send the
mockery of big-boned sports cars on narrow winding speedo digits into a nosedive.
roads, so it’s likely to be a brief and highly subjective Superbikeman is keeping a respectful distance, which
measure of the Turbo S’s talents, for reasons of given the immensity of the Porsche’s braking is a
curiosity and perspective. sensible move. Meanwhile, the seven-speed PDK
Because even accounting for the new Turbo S’s transmission (as with the new GT3, there is no manual
prodigious acceleration – 0-62mph in 3.1 seconds and ’box) is blatting down through the ratios, causing a
0-124mph in 10.3 seconds – dropping a superbike is a wicked, sharp-edged cackle to erupt from the tailpipes.
tricky proposition. And that’s despite the fact that The Turbo’s nose doesn’t dip much, in spite of the
we’re in the 552bhp Turbo S, complete with the Sport ferocity of the deceleration, and as the electrically
Chrono package as standard, which blesses it with an power assisted steering whipcracks the nose towards
overboost function that gives an extra 50Nm for up to what initially appears to be the apex, there’s not much Size matters and the 911
20 seconds in the mid-range. The 3.8-litre flat-six is a body roll, either – new to the Turbo is Porsche Dynamic Turbo has been growing in
heavily revised version of the twin, variable blade turbo Chassis Control, or PDCC, that effectively functions as width with every new
engine from the 997 Turbo, strengthened internally to an active anti-roll bar, keeping the car flat through model. The 991 Turbo is
cope with increased boost pressure. And to ensure the corners and enabling the wider new tyres to leave a 28mm wider than the 991
maximum of everything, the Sport Plus program for bigger footprint on the ground. C4S and the rear haunches
the engine management is currently engaged, the Not that you get an overwhelming sense of such fill the wing mirrors

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things through the steering wheel or the cushion of the braking pressure to whichever of the rear wheels is THE TURBO AT
18-way adjustable sports seat, but other new struggling with grip, and when you’re turning into a
BILSTER BERG
Bilster Berg Driving Resort –
technologies are also slaving away on the driver’s behalf corner it slightly brakes the inside rear wheel, thereby sounds a bit like a German golf
to make the new Turbo more agile and grippy and improving turn-in at low to medium speeds. range. In fact, it’s a devilishly
difficult private/corporate circuit
capable through corners. Electro-hydraulically control for Yet that’s all very much background information as that was designed with guidance
the multi-plate coupling of the four-wheel drive system, the corner begins to draw the Turbo S into its depths; from Walter Röhrl. And it’s where
Porsche based the Turbo launch.
for instance, means that the torque is bounced between other matters now require total focus. Despite the It sure was an interesting – and
the front and rear axles quicker than before, and more huge braking effort, suddenly the entry speed feels perhaps daring – way for Porsche
of it can be directed to the pointy end: in fact, the front mightily ambitious. And with the Armco crowding the to give journalists their first taste
of the Turbo. A quick press
axle now has the potential to work so hard that Porsche outside of the bend, the car seems huge – it’s 28mm conference then saddle up. In
has provided it with water cooling. wider even than the 991 Carrera 4 models, a fact you’re small groups, follow an
And then there’s active rear-wheel steering, which reminded of every time you glance in the door mirrors instructor’s car around the track.
Sounds simple enough, except
we’ve already seen on another recent top-end 911, the and find half your field of view obscured by those that the instructors are ‘on it’
GT3. It’s become necessary because the 991 is 100mm expansive rear haunches. from the outset. And the circuit
twists and writhes, plummets
longer in the wheelbase than the 997: good for comfort Now that we’re committed to the corner, it trickily and soars like a tarmac roller-
and cabin space, less handy for agility. Hence a pair of starts to curl round much tighter than was visible on coaster, complete with blind
electromechanical actuators in place of regular rear its approach. A slight moment of panic, but the primal crests, spine-crushing hollows,
and very limited run-off areas.
Faithfully follow the

The sheer brutality of the acceleration can instructor’s line? You’ve got to

“convince you that you’re barely hanging on

catch him first. Which, of course,
you don’t. Leaving you to create

”
your own lines, on a circuit that
punishes imperfection... And in a
car with colossal performance:
big on the throttle and then,
track rod arms: at speeds below 50km/h (31mph) they instinct to get back on the brakes ignored. Carry on having overstretched yourself, big
steer the rear wheels in the opposite direction to the steering, peering past the chunky A-posts to get a on the brakes.
For most of us it was a case of
fronts – by up to 2.8 degrees – creating the dynamic bead on where the exit will pop into view. Have faith in forget tidiness, just hang on and
effect of a shorter wheelbase, making the Turbo more the car. Then realise that, actually, there is no drama hope. And laugh. Aloud. Very
manoeuvrable and sprightly. Above 80km/h (50mph) the here other than in your own imagination. The Turbo S nervously. What it proved, though,
was how user-friendly the Turbo
rears steer the same way as the fronts, generating the has a stunning amount of roadholding and a chassis is. It allows you to go bananas,
effect of an even longer wheelbase that makes the car that is not to be deflected even by some savage mid- but then its electronics ensure
you don’t slip on the skins. All in a
more stable in high-speed direction changes. And in both corner bumps. Newfound confidence blooms into a manner that mostly doesn’t feel
instances rear-wheel steering makes the overall gung-ho quest to try a little harder in the corner, intrusive. And tellingly for a 911
steering sharper than with a conventional chassis. go a little quicker. Turbo, without any understeer.
Five laps and we’re back in.
But there’s yet more tech to come. Standard on the Care is still required, though, because this car is Buzzing. Thankful that we
Turbo S and optional on the Turbo, Porsche Torque endowed with so much readily accessible mid-range weren’t the ones who sprayed
Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus) works through an performance, that on the exit to the bend the tail steps gravel across the track. In less
frantic circumstances both
electronically controlled, fully variable rear differential momentarily out of line. In Sport Plus mode the Bilster Berg and the new Turbo
lock: on slippery surfaces the system applies light electronics allow you the satisfaction of dealing with a will be worth revisiting.

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modest degree of opposite lock, before sparking into life the public road, at least. Left: Interior is pure 911
and smoothly restoring the chassis’ equilibrium, leaving The frenzied progress and the concentration required combining excellent driving
the car set up for another shot of full throttle. to maintain it has precluded a look in the mirrors to see position with unrivalled (for
Of course it has always been the way with Porsche’s how close biker boy is: the aim is to let him through, get a supercar) visibility. Some
four-wheel drive Turbos, but the 991 series has out of his way. Yet he’s not there. Not five seconds later. might feel that the Turbo
incredible traction out of corners and extraordinary Not 15 seconds later. Not 30 seconds later. There were should have a more
pace. It erupts furiously onto the straight, engine and no side roads so he couldn’t have turned off: the mirrors bespoke interior, but its
exhaust shrieking, speed racking up quicker than an remain empty. We carry on for a few miles at unabated quality fits its price.
MP’s expenses. It’s a wild ride despite the engine revving pace. Park up to make notes on the Turbo experience Transmission is PDK only
‘only’ to 7200rpm, and although the PDK normally thus far. A minute and a half later our two-wheeled and, given the sheer pace
slithers the next ratio into place, on a balls-out charge it friend scorches by. Clearly this is one helluva car. of the modern Turbo, that’s
sometimes lumps them home, a bit like if you were Out of the forest roads and onto clearer, wider, better probably no bad thing
doing the shifting yourself and were in such a hurry to surfaced blacktop that rolls and meanders through
get the job done that you simply abandoned all German pastures and past huge phalanxes of wind
thoughts of finesse. And while in the back of your mind turbines, and the Turbo S’s performance becomes even
you know that the Turbo S’s electronics have got it all more immense. Frankly there’s no compulsion to use full
under control, the sheer brutality of the acceleration throttle anywhere: you seldom need it. Just keep it at
can convince you that you’re barely hanging on to a about 2500 to 3500rpm and you’ll be cracking along at
thrilling but malevolent force. speeds that would be very difficult to explain to any
Boom! Slam on the brakes as the Turbo S arrives at upholder of traffic laws. Long distances telescope.
the mouth of the next corner, again ahead of schedule. Without even trying, you reach the point where you
It’s a long sweeper with plenty of vision and the question how much quicker anyone really needs to
Porsche latches on to your chosen line and just sticks travel on public roads. And the Turbo S handles the task On track and the
with it, refusing to be deflected by throttle input or with near nonchalance. aerodynamics have moved
surface imperfections, just so long as you amend the What of the ‘regular’ Turbo? In terms of its into ‘Speed mode’
steering appropriately. It’s a real test of nerve to keep performance out on the road, it packs pretty much the activating and extending
pressing down harder and harder on the throttle in an same sort of punch as the S variant does, despite the three-piece lip
attempt to find the merest hint of a limit being having ‘only’ 513bhp, which is 39bhp less than its spoiler and raising the
reached; and if ever you do, it’s probably your own, on stablemate. Frankly, the magnitude of shock and awe rear wing by 25mm

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levelling and self-dipping: they’re also claimed to emit a A VERY BIG DEAL
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION quality of light that’s more relaxing on the eyes during You could sense what the new
PORSCHE 991 TURBO S long nighttime journeys. Turbo means to Porsche by the
scale of the launch. Even at the
YEAR: 2013 Common to both models is what Porsche is heralding – admittedly small – airport of
ENGINE: 3800cc twin turbo, flat six as the debut of active front and rear aerodynamic Paderberg there were Turbo
POWER: 552bhp at 6500rpm flags fluttering from the
TORQUE: 517lb ft at 2100rpm
devices on road-going sports cars. There’s an acronym, flagpoles, and the locally
TRANSMISSION: Seven-speed PDK of course – PAA, for Porsche Active Aerodynamics, and it sourced mineral water bottles
TOP SPEED: 198mph teams a slotted rear wing that automatically adjusts for in our rooms and cars wore
0-60MPH: 3.1 secs Turbo labels. The sprawling
SUSPENSION: MacPherson strut front, multi-link rear height and attack angle, with an extending three-piece hotel was chic and manicured,
TYRES: 235/35 ZR20 front, 305/30 ZR20 rear lip spoiler that glides out in multiple stages depending served stunning food, and
occupied the land area of a
on conditions. Up to 75mph, both front spoiler and rear modest rural town.
that the Turbo dispenses when pedal kisses carpet wing remain tucked largely out of sight; the latter There were plenty of test
never leaves you feeling bereft of horsepower, although looking quite discreet compared with duck-tailed Turbos cars in plenty of colours – often
on Porsche launches the test
when overtaking or on swiftly travelled open highway, of yore, the former giving much better ground clearance fleet seems barely large
you can sometimes miss the extra 29lb ft of torque the and ramp approach angles than the 997 Turbo enjoyed. enough and the colours so dull
S has over the standard car. That torque advantage is (Bad news for makers of aftermarket nose lift kits...) that it drives the
photographers insane. Hiring a
even greater if the straight Turbo isn’t fitted with the Above 75mph – or if you press the SPORT Plus button private circuit is no small deal,
option of Sports Chrono – standard on the S – that gives on the centre console – the system moves into ‘Speed either, but then Bilster Berg is
new and probably welcomes
it the 20-second turbo overboost facility; however, most mode’. In this setting the two outer segments of the the attendant publicity in
Turbos are likely to have that option box ticked. three-piece lip spoiler are extended, pushing air around exchange for a favourable
Standard versus optional equipment are where the the sides of the car and reducing lift on the front axle: rental rate.
Where Porsche really went
differences lie between the Turbo and Turbo S. The meanwhile the rear wing rises 25mm to balance out the to town was around the pits
latter comes complete with those bigger ceramic aerodynamic loading. Porsche describes this as a low- area – billboards the size of
discs, Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC), and drag setup that’s beneficial to fuel economy and allows Jumbo jets with giant pictures
of every generation of Turbo,
dynamic engine mounts that collectively are part of the car to reach its top speed. graced the side of every
the Sports Chrono package: that’s an option on the However, if you stab the aero button on the centre available building. There was no
doubting which Porsche model
Turbo. Again optional on the Turbo are the S’s full LED console you activate ‘Performance’ mode: it’s the was the star of the show here...
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spoiler sticks out to join its playmates, diverting yet Excellent fuel economy for a 198mph supercar. We doubt many 991 Turbos
more air around the sides of the car and creating a low- Roadholding to scare you silly. Roomy cabin with all the will be specced in yellow.
pressure zone behind the spoiler. Simultaneously the baubles. A PDK gearbox of such brilliantly executed Keep it dark and stealthy
rear wing soars 75mm above its basic position and is design and function that even manual diehards must and few people will even
angled forward by seven degrees. The overall effect is surely concede that it’s the best transmission for the notice as you flash by at
to create 132kg of downforce at 186mph, which in turn job. The reassurance of a fabulously well sorted four- warp factor pace
increases the Turbo’s maximum transverse acceleration wheel drive system. Styling that whilst imposing isn’t
by 10 per cent. And that, says Porsche, is good for Flash Harry. And an overwhelming sense that if you
knocking 2.0 seconds off a Nürburgring lap compared started to drive it really fast, the Turbo would just
with the car in ‘Speed’ mode. keep piling on speed until you ran out of planet on
As for the Nürburgring lap time, the Turbo S is mighty which to drive it.
impressive for a 911 that isn’t track-biased in its setup – And yet and yet and yet... Just as in the Turbo’s

You get the weeny impression that as a driver

“you’re there simply to fill the void in the cabin
it thunders round in 7m 27s on its conventional road
” nemesis, the Nissan GT-R, you get the weeny suspicion
tyres, 7m 24s on optional road-legal track tyres. Or that as a driver you’re there to simply fill a void in the
slightly faster than the new GT3... To put that cabin. You’re never quite sure whether the blinding pace
achievement into perspective, Walter Röhrl can’t pedal a you set along that last section of twisties was down to
Carrera GT around the ’Ring that quickly. your driving prowess or the latent talents of the
All in all, it’s starting to sound as though the 991 electronically controlled chassis and aerodynamic
Turbo is a candidate for the mantle of best Porsche to enhancements at your disposal. Some of your actions
date. And if you could afford just the one super- maybe weren’t your own. Or were they? It’s that element
expensive Porsche, then you could make a pretty of doubt that keeps the new Turbo one step removed
convincing case for the Turbo or Turbo S. from ultimate greatness. You wouldn’t be wrong in
Truly epic performance. Spirited handling, especially However, most of the time you’ll just marvel at the thinking that the Turbo is
for such a comparatively large, heavy sports car. Great insanity of how fast the Turbo goes and care not much if becoming a big car, but it’s
soundtrack. Nicely honed settings for the PASM, even in your involvement in the process wasn’t 100 per cent. still on the right side of
the sportier of its two damper programs, giving a far Because when it comes to an automotive rush, the new being wieldy for our roads –
more compliant ride than you’d imagine. Monster brakes. Turbo and Turbo S are complete masters of the trade. PW but only just

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TIMELORD
TAILOR We go time-travelling in Paul
Stephens’ latest offering, the
classic Speedster, based on a
964 C4 and debuting his latest
PS Bespoke range
Words: Johnny Tipler
Photography: Antony Fraser

B
ravo barchetta! That’s what it feels like, this land of the 2.7RS and 2.8RSR. Three years ago he
powerful, purposeful Porsche Speedster, an produced the PS Spyder, a one off that’s just been sold to
open-top fifties roadster. It’s a bruising ’50s a well-known German TV producer. That was designed at
sportscar, full of wayward attitude and I’m in PS and the body crafted by Braintree-based restoration
the ’55 Mille Miglia, blasting through Brescia, specialists Clark and Carter, and we featured it in 911&PW
racing round Rimini, upping the Apennines, and my in issue 212, November 2011. Although that was an
blood’s up for a Raticosa rumble. It’s hard to break the exceptional experience, I don’t recall feeling so completely
spell, but all too soon the reality check reveals I’m transmuted in time as I did with this new Speedster.
heading down Halstead High Street in rural Essex. Perhaps it was just so different it felt more like being in a
Nothing inopportune about the vehicle though: I’m 550 sports-racer than a roadster. And yet, there are 550s
aboard Paul Stephens’ brand-new Speedster, a drop- and 356 Speedsters aplenty on the modern Mille Miglia,
top rag-roofer that, by virtue of its classic demeanor which confirms the timewarp enigma of my earlier illusion.
and big-diameter Moto-Lita steering wheel with its Until the 3.2 Carrera Speedster came along, the model
three dazzling chrome spokes, manages to convince was absent from the 911 line-up. The 356 Speedster was
me that I have regressed to a period some 40 years in production from 1954 to 1958, with 4,822 units built,
previous to the creation of the donor car. For this is, enjoying a fair amount of race and rally participation and
in fact, a 964 C4 I’m driving and, by delving into a class successes in contemporary events including the
pile of period accoutrements, allied to cunning Mille Miglia along the way. It was a significant front-line
metalwork and composite wizardry, PS Autoart has model, so it’s surprising that there was no direct
accomplished a masquerade that feels real enough. successor in the classic 911 range, and there was a gap
OK, I can’t kid myself for long; this is a four-wheel of almost 30 years till the 3.2 Carrera Speedster was
drive chassis, whose ’90s handling and tenacity belies shown at Frankfurt in 1987. Between 1988 and 1989,
the classic posturing. 2,103 examples were released, but though a Club Sport
This Speedster is the first of Paul’s Bespoke range. Like version was made with no windscreen, theirs was never a
getting measured up at the tailor’s for a personalised competition role, more a style statement. As the 3.2 gave
whistle-and-flute, the customer comes along with ideas way to the 964, another 930 Speedsters left the factory
and a concept for their ideal 911, discusses the viability in the 1993 model year. They were C2 rather than C4
with Paul and, if it’s feasible and the budget permits, the chassis, and all but four were narrow bodied. These too
CONTACT:
Paul Stephens project starts to take shape. Paul has become a dab hand were high-days-and-holidays cars rather than weekend
PS Autoart at backdating 911s, offering his luxury PS Autoart series warriors. There’s a couple more modern takes on the
Sudbury Road
Little Maplestead
in which 3.2 Carreras and 964s are presented as cars Speedster imagery too: in October 2010 Porsche released
Halstead from the late ’60s or early ’70s but with fully 356 units dubbed the Speedster, in either blue or white
Essex CO9 2SE reconditioned cabins and drivelines. For more modest and based on the 997 and incorporating most elements
Tel: 01440 714884
Web: www.psautoart.com budgets he also offers the RS Teknik range, based on of the traditional machine, bringing the frische Luft wheel
Email: ps@psautoart.com body panels that transport a 3.2 or 911SC back to the full circle. But we are plotting a course mid-channel,

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Left: It’s all in the detail.

Bespoke dials and chronologically, through the Speedster theme park. The
switchgear lift the pleasures of topless motoring, as well as the alternative
interior. Gearlever stylistic buzz of the low-slung screen and double-bubble
surround/gaitor is more rear lid have not been lost on Paul Stephens’ illustrious
in keeping with the retro customer. Recognising the gap in the Speedster
vibe. Below right: Looks historiography, he’s asked Paul to build him one that
good on the road, which might have graced the Porsche showrooms circa 1970.
is what it’s all about The ambiguous specification is easy enough to
elucidate: ‘The Speedster represents the preferences
and the vision of the customer it was built for,’ says Paul.
‘The styling of the car is a blend of our retro 964 AutoArt
series and the PS Spyder. He’s had a number of Porsches,
including restored classics as well as PS Autoart cars,
and an Eagle E-type tops the list of other British sports
cars he’s owned previously. So although he’s a classic
buff, reliability and modern amenities are essential for
the type of driving he does. He wanted something that
would allow him to have the top off, but be sufficiently
watertight to drive in all weather conditions, and since
he’s not into the foibles of 911 handling, that’s why four-
wheel drive was a consideration because he wanted to
be able to drive it securely in the wet. He doesn’t like the
latest 911 styling but he does like the early pre-’73 look,
and he liked the idea of having something truly unique
that nobody else has.’
The Speedster
“
represents the vision of
To create the bodywork for this Speedster, once again
Paul commissioned Clark and Carter. Their oeuvre ranges
from Rolls Royce and Bentley classics to Porsches and
Aston Martins, and conveniently for PS they are just down
the customer
” the road, so they worked closely on the construction of
the car and its special fixtures and fittings. The donor
Porsche is a 964 C4 Targa, though a Cabriolet body-
chassis unit would have served just as well. At any rate,
no further internal strengthening of the shell was
necessary. There’s a unique chassis plate under the
carpet in the front luggage compartment stating that it’s
PS Retro Speedster number 1.
It bridges the gap between 356 and 3.2 models

Moto-Lita steering
wheel imitates ’50s
Spyder/Speedster
style wheel. Leather
is tastefully employed
and stereo looks
retro but contains
modern internals
and LCD display

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admirably. Crucially, there’s a nod to previous Speedsters aware of that. However, it should mean there is more
and, indeed, Zagato iconography, in the plastic double- space on the right-hand side of the pedals to rest your
bubble rear canopy that folds inside the rear seat-well foot when the cruise control is activated. Actually, in
when the hood is erected. There’s rationale behind the normal driving the offset driving position of the right-
soft-top’s complexity. As Paul points out, ‘if you bought a hooker and the relationship between the seat and the
Speedster from Porsche you were also given a cautionary wheel and the pedals being way over to the left even
supplement in the handbook to say that it may leak in endorses the impression that I’m in a machine from a
RAISING THE ROOF
The action of raising the soft-
heavy weather, and obviously he didn’t want this to different period; I can kid myself my Mille Miglia barchetta top canopy at the end of our
happen to his car since he might use it in all weathers.’ So is a ’50s Mazzer or Lancia, which would have been RHD. trip also requires a
commentary. The running order
although the roof is styled like the 964 Speedster’s, and In any case, the result is truly impressive. The starts with releasing the
the windscreen is an original 964 Speedster item, the Speedster’s cockpit is a fabulously cosseting double bubble with a locking
hood is a one-off, manufactured in the style of the original environment: we may be exposed to the elements, lever that’s located in the rear
well behind the passenger seat.
Speedster, and configured so it does fit securely like a agreeably sunny today, but its lavishness entices to the Then the hood can be drawn
proper cabriolet. And indeed it does button down very extent that we’re spoiled for anything else. It also helps out, taking care not to crease
the transparent plastic back
tightly, and the complex hinge mechanism pulls the foster this illusion that I’m a time-traveller in a period window, then you lift the rear
canvas very taut. The curvature of the laid-back piece. The 964 seats are reupholstered in luscious of the hood over the double
windscreen A-pillars is interesting as they perform a blackberry-hued hide, and door cards and dashboard are bubble, and that enables you to
put the soft-top’s poppers back
pronounced convex curve, and the genuine Porsche leather faced in a similar colour, allied with sleek, silvery on, and then you can stretch
Speedster side windows fit the resulting shape. When the grey carpeting that feels like a Weimarana dog to stroke, the whole roof up to the
hood is erected the tops of the windows are sealed by trimmed with the same leather and tailored to a high windscreen header rail where
there are two clips, and the
canvas strips on either side. standard. Fiddling with the electrical seat controls – an hood-frame fastens either side.
Obviously a lowered chassis with 18in wheels and 3in acceptable anachronism – I pinpoint a really good seating Make sure you’ve got the half-
size sun visors down first. And
tailpipes would have given the car a more aggressive position, slightly tilted at the front and fairly upright back, then clip the double-bubble
stance, but Paul’s customer doesn’t like loud exhausts or just the way I like it. lever back down, and hey
big wheels, so the wheels are standard diameter 16in PS I have the 964 instrumentation in front of me – though presto it is completely taut.
Fuchs replicas, shod with taller section Bridgestone S-O2 it’s retro’d 964: fuel and oil over on the left, oil temp and
tyres to give a softer ride. Brakes and suspension are oil pressure are right in the centre, rev counter bearing
standard at his request too, and the inventory of this faux the legend ‘PS Speedster Edition 001’. The dials are all set
antique also extends to cruise-control and air- in silver painted metal, with the silver theme following
conditioning, so it’s a comfortable cruiser for when the neatly through in the instrument panel with the veteran
owner motors to the Med to his holiday retreat. It has a switchgear and antique-look radio. In a nod to modernity it
bespoke twin-pipe exhaust system mimicking the 356 has also got a Bluetooth plug-in for mobile phones tucked
Speedster but producing relatively normal 964 emissions. discretely under the dash. The speedo says that we have
The customer is quite a big fellow, so the seats are re- done precisely 146 miles; it’s that new. The clock face
manufactured with a lower, flatter base but retaining the playfully highlights 12, 3, 6, and ‘911’. It’s all in the detail!
standard sports backrest. Paul tells me that the footwell The chromed door levers are L-shaped, sitting in their
on the driver’s side is also modified to give him more room niches, and it’s got fold down D-shaped chrome handles
for his size 12 feet than standard, though I can’t say I was to pull the doors shut. The indicator stalk and the wiper

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SUITS YOU SIR

The recently launched PS
Bespoke line enables
customers to take a 964 or 993
donor car and enhance it
further than the standard PS lever, plus all the period knobs on the dashboard, are all lever located in the bulkhead behind the passenger seat
Autoart series normally machined from brass, engraved with their functions and that takes the tension off and releases the whole back
extends to. As Paul Stephens
says, ‘We have a basic range of
finished in chrome, even down to the controls of the end of the soft-top. Having undone the poppers and
cars in our PS Autoart retro and Retro Sound model 1 radio. One knob bears an released the canopy off the windscreen header we pull
classic series, and people can exclamation mark, and that performs the same function the hood backwards, taking care to tuck all the folds in so
specify different trim and
engine options, including as the button in the 964’s centre console that over-rules that the plastic rear window isn’t creased, and then when
power, suspension and brake the telltale light on the dashboard that lets you know if the catches are locked and the canopy is in its resting
upgrades. Bespoke really came there’s a fault. Press the exclamation mark and out it place in the rear footwell, the double-bubble cover goes
about from the launch of the
Spyder which was a one-off car goes. The passenger footwell is illuminated by a light on over the rear seat-well, and it’s job done.
that we built to showcase what the side of the radio housing, and there is soft mood The first thing that I notice as I set off on our
can be achieved if you choose
to expand your mind a bit. Give
lighting set in the underside of the dashboard that glows photoshoot is the reflection in the windscreen of the
us a brief, and as long as your on the chrome switches below at night. The only chrome air vents on top of the dashboard, which I soon
pocket is fairly deep and you’re obviously 964 switches ahead of the gearlever are the ignore. It definitely feels like I’m in a car from a different
patient, you really can have
your own bespoke 911 built to a 4x4 and manual spoiler controls, and even these are set era, though of course that’s all a convincingly wrought
level above our standard in a redesigned centre console. It’s currently waiting on a fantasy, because it’s really behaving like a 964 C4.
products. As well as this heater control unit in the same chromed finish as the Appearances are indeed deceptive, because although it
recently completed Speedster
we are also building a very switchgear that will occupy the middle of the dashboard. looks like a 50-year-old classic, the power and the sound
special coupe for a client in The Speedster looks svelte with the rag-roof in place, that it delivers speak of a much more powerful car. I put
Monaco. It’s not like buying a
normal Porsche, it’s hand-built
but for the purposes of our photoshoot we must learn my foot down and it glides away, the flat-six growl rising
with flawless paintwork, fit and how to demount it, because it’s not as straightforward as to a bellow, and it’s the planted feel of the all-wheel drive
finish that is genuinely a level a 964 Cabriolet and is specifically designed for the PS C4 chassis that comes to belie the classic look.
above a factory production car,
the whole thing is designed to Speedster. And it’s a two-man job as well. There are a Out on the open road. The Speedster is an effortless
make you feel really special.’ couple of catches above the windscreen header and a car to drive, thanks to its rebuilt 3.6-litre engine. It pulls

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Speedster is based on
a 964 C4, so no
surprise to find a 964
engine lurking in the
rear. With 3.6-litres and
250bhp, it’s one of
Porsche’s best, offering
effortless
performance.
The 964’s retractable
wing is a feature

happily in any gear and it toddles along at 2,000rpm in

4th. I’m struggling a little bit to find 5th, which is the
stiffest slot in the G-50 gearbox, but that’s probably a
matter of usage – we are, after all, in running-in mode.
Everything about the chassis feels very firm, the
suspension is tight and there are no rattles or bonks. It’s
easily manoeuvrable in the back lanes, and on the fast
corners where we do our tracking shots there is a
tendency to understeer, which may be down to the four-
wheel drive. And on that point I prefer the more sprightly
C2 because there’s more feedback from the steering.
And then there’s a moment when my vintage reverie is
confounded. During our photoshoot Antony motions me
to a standstill. ‘Your rear spoiler is out,’ he tells me. ‘Don’t
go so fast! We want a clean profile.’ I’m shocked - not that
I’ve exceeded 50mph during our panning shots, but that
The Speedster is an
this paragon of fifties fantasy conceals – whisper it – a
spoiler! What’s that doing here? The retro cooling grille
convinced me earlier that it must be a replacement period
“effortless car to drive
engine lid, but no, this handmade grille is still issuing forth
thanks to its engine
at 50mph and retracting at 5mph. I accept that this is a
160mph car, and therefore it needs the benefit of
aerodynamic downforce on the unrestricted autobahn,
but I would perhaps confer a ducktail in order to retain the
”
period ambiance – though maybe that is too time-specific
and would detract aesthetically from the double-bubble
hindquarters, which are fundamental to the Speedster
iconography. On the open road all’s forgotten and I can
revert to my adrenaline-fuelled reverie, grasping the
mighty Moto-Lita wheel as if I’m Hans Herrmann on the
Futa pass, circa ’53. Bliss!
Back at base, I press Paul for a ballpark price. ‘With a
bespoke product, you keep pushing the boundaries of
what you want, so the Speedster cost north of £150
grand. Projects like this aren’t cheap, but that’s still
around half the price of a Singer, and that would be a
more interesting comparison in terms of build quality.’
It’s a romantic notion, the PS Speedster, and whether
you’d go for this or a genuine 964 or 3.2 Carrera
Speedster or, indeed, venture back in time and seek out a
356 Speedster depends on your love of the classic long-
bonnet look, plus the inspiration and the wherewithal to
commission PS Bespoke to make you the car of your
dreams. Beam me up Scotty! PW

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STEER IT UP
Fed up with arm-wrestling your classic Porsche round
the lanes? EZ Electric Power Steering will have
you whirling from lock to lock like a dervish
Words: Johnny Tipler
Photography: Antony Fraser

I
’m blatting along on the current: it’s turned a and a cross-section of their fave wheel. At the
the top of a dyke. prize-fighter into a decrepit Matra-Simcas back there’s a wall-
Unlike most Dutch lounge-lizard. languishing, like unbuilt mounted display of wood-
waterways, this one We’ve come to Leerdam TVRs at the redundant and leather-rimmed
has some sharp bends near Utrecht to visit EZ Blackpool factory, in the wheels they’ve created as
and the towpath roads Electric Power Steering – huge yard out back. EZ’s substitutes for classic
reflect that, so this is a that’s Eee-Zee like in ZZ entertaining showroom is models and for
great place to test the Top – where we’re fronted by a range of restoration projects. One
electric power steering greeted by the amiable classic steering wheels for a D-type Jaguar is
that’s been applied to this and effusive CEO, Roger mounted on pedestals, almost flat across the
3.2 Carrera. And what a Reijngoud. It’s a converted from a variety of makes bottom, to clear the
transformation! As I helm garage premises on an that have received the knees of a Le Mans-
the tiller, the 911 swishes industrial estate, with an electric twirling starting driver. To the rear
effortlessly around the Alpine-Renault specialist treatment, encouraging of the small factory is
corners, as if carried by in the adjacent building visitors to have a spin of where the electric

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modules and motors are kit on Morgan V6 they are upset about front wing rising up and
fabricated and mounted roadsters’ steering that. On the other hand, I when you centre it, it
on steering columns, columns from new. have a client with a goes down again. So, the
staffed by a dozen Vintage cars require Jaguar, and he says, “in more castor, the better
technicians who are busy little short of superhuman the evening I drive my the straight line stability,
at their benches with strength to manhandle, Jaguar to the pub, and but the heavier the
soldering irons and and some classics like the later on she drives me steering becomes in
screwdrivers concocting Volvo P1800 have home,” so he looks at it corners, because the
compact wiring looms. A unfeasibly heavy steering. on the positive side. I’ve steering always wants to
dozen shiny black MGB But what’s the attraction had men turn up who love go straight.’ Adding more
steering columns with DC of fitting power steering classic rallies and their castor doesn’t affect tyre
electric motor modules on a classic Porsche? wives want to be co- wear, and though the
attached, are batched Roger’s customers drive pilots. With EPAS fitted, steering does become
and ready for export. To their cars a lot. ‘If you now they can.’ heavier in the turns, it’s
one side of the building only drive the car two or Being rear-engined, the no longer an issue with
are racks full of splined three weekends a year, 911 has a light front end the power steering kit. ‘If
steel shafts and needle- you’re not going to splash and doesn’t suffer from you put more castor on in
bearing UJs for Porsches, out for power steering, overly heavy steering. combination with the
Beetles, Jaguars, Ferraris, but if you use it a lot you However, when its power steering kit, the
Maseratis and a variety of really do reap the benefit suspension is tuned with steering wheel always
other makes and models. of having had the a more sporting attitude, wants to push back, so
Apart from our 3.2 conversion done.’ There’s maybe with wider tyres you get even more feel
Carrera, there’s just one also the husband and as well, the steering and feed back.’
other car inside: at the far wife factor: ‘sometimes Below: The EZ power weights up, and it was in It’s the work of
end, a trad Morgan V8 is they talk about their steering unit is compact response to this type of moments to adjust the
undergoing the transition wives, and then I get two and either sits under the set-up that EZ developed electronics so the ‘feel’ is
from stone- to rocket- reactions,’ says Roger; dashboard, or in the case of a power-steering kit for lighter or, alternatively,
age as EZ techies apply ‘firstly, I have a customer the 911, in the ‘smuggler’s classic 911s seven years offers more resistance.
their wizardry. There’s coming over saying, “oh, I box’ in the front luggage ago. ‘If a 911 is set up for One EZ customer who
further endorsement love the power steering, area. The steering can be fast driving,’ says Roger, bought the system for his
for the concept here: except there’s just one set up for differing levels of ‘especially as they like to wife declared he’d have
EZ recently got the problem: before, my wife assistance do in Germany, they tend expected it to be even
contract from Malvern to never drove the car, and Left: EZ Electric Power to apply maximum castor, lighter, but Roger
fit their electric power now she drives the car at Steering main man, and if you put full lock on disabused him: ‘I said,
assisted steering (EPAS) every opportunity,” and Roger Reijngoud you can actually see the “look, it’s a sports car, you

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steering wheel that power steering; we’ve got

disappears behind the a small module that fits in
We drove the test car
“
on three separate runs,
dashboard) and a sensor
on the torsion rod
recognises that you’re
between the sensor wires
and we can adjust its
sensitivity. Mechanically,
turning the steering we could put in a heavier
each with a different wheel, and it wants to
negate that. ‘For instance,
torsion rod so you’d need
to have more torsion to
setting
” it notices I’m twisting 25-
percent to the left, and
the electric motor on the
get the same amount of
power steering but, being
electronic, it’s infinitely
shouldn’t be able to steer Pre-1974 911s have a column immediately adaptable and you can
it with one finger,” but he speedometer cable, and starts turning to the left reduce the sensitivity
was adamant, so we that’s where EZ fit a and eliminates the 25- and then it’s the same
fitted an even more sensor that provides the percent torsion. If it effect as having more
powerful unit in it. Now speed signal which their detects 50-percent torsion.’ Right.
it’s really light, but it’s appliance uses to torsion it provides 50- The first 911 to be
speed sensitive so at determine how much percent power so it’s not spec’d with hydraulic
higher speeds it doesn’t assistance to apply, so only speed sensitive, it is power assistance was the
become overly light. We that the faster the car also torsion sensitive.’ 964, and there’s no way
can always find a setting goes, the less assistance So why is electric that model’s steering can
that’s right for all tastes, is applied. Roger is our power assisted steering be described as
and that’s quite easy to interlocutor: ‘if you put a better than regular insensitive and lacking in
do.’ To verify this I drove classic 911 on a rolling hydraulic power steering? feedback. The last
the test car on three road, you’d find that in Roger explains: ‘It’s not Porsche to use the
separate runs, each with neutral its steering is true to say that hydraulic hydraulic system was the
a different setting: one light, but when you put it power steering doesn’t 997. So EZ beat
very light, one medium in 3rd or 4th gear it have any feel, but it is Zuffenhausen to the EPAS
light and one with hardly seems like it doesn’t have Below: The unit fits snugly down to how much effort grail by six years: the
any lightening, and I power steering: that’s in the ‘smuggler’s box’ on it applies. It’s like the hydraulic system and its
would probably opt for how you know it is speed left hand drive cars. suspension damping, the engine-bay mounted
the middle way, if push sensitive.’ At the heart of On RHD cars this is shock absorbers: what pump and lengthy
came to shove. the system is a torsion much smaller, so EZ are one driver finds ideal, pipework was discarded
There was always going rod (the first part of the obliged to locate the kit another doesn’t, and after the 997 moved over
to be a little bit of science steering column on the second steering that’s the nice thing for the 991 in 2012, and
so, bad luck, here goes. emanating from the column shaft about this electronic that, along with the

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Boxster, became the first module behind the

911 to offer electric dashboard, but there’s demount the ventilation equipment car showing
power assistance. We not enough room in the unit in the middle of the 141,282km. It’s a model I
don’t have a problem with 911’s, so, in left-hand car to fit it,’ says Roger. know very well, and my
the way they steer, drive cars, they insert it in Before fitting their kit to a first impression is how
either, but there’s a the so-called smuggler’s customer’s car EZ run a uncannily easy it is to
fundamental conceptual cubbyhole which can be few tests to make sure steer. It bears no
difference between the found to the right hand the steering is in good resemblance to the
aftermarket and factory side under the front lid in shape and self-centres normal unassisted 3.2
installations. While the EZ all pre-PAS 911s – unless properly, whether the steering characteristics;
system focuses on the they have air- horn works and the it’s not limp, exactly, but
wheelman’s end of the conditioning; the box indicators self cancel, in returning little feedback,
proceedings, modulating originally housed the order to rule out problems a bit like a soggy Jaguar
the level of feel and Webasto petrol heater post fit. XJS, for example. That’s
degree of assistance and was home to the Are friends electric? It’s because it’s on the
according to the torque blower and evaporator Roger Reijngoud and EZ time to put them to the lightest setting, and
input at the steering box of the factory-option Electric Power Steering test. An EZ customer has Roger’s colleague Ruud
wheel, the modern Behr air con system from have done much to make kindly provided his 3.2 quickly tweaks the sensor
Porsche factory version 1970. The smuggler’s box the classic car a much Carrera for the test drive. to give me more ‘feel’. But
of EPAS (developed in was originally designed more useable proposition It’s a sweet performer, a hey, hold hard there,
association with ZF) into the 901 shell as a for everyday motoring nice original non-Sport helmsman! What’s this
calculates the desirable more central location for
resistance manifest at the battery, but
the steering wheel from fortuitously it now
sensors on the other end provides a home for EZ to
of the steering train, stash their electronics.
through stability control The power steering
sensors that modulate module takes the place of
yaw rate and steering the air conditioning unit.
angle. However This is all well and good
technically brilliant this is, on left-hookers, but on
feedback to the steering right-hand drive cars the
wheel is contrived during smuggler’s box is
the process by a considerably smaller, the
reduction in rack force, air-con situated ahead of
something that’s beyond the passenger footwell,
the realms of classic car and this also obliges EZ to
steering systems, of locate their kit on the
course, and probably second steering column
anathema to the genre in shaft. ‘We can
any case. The vast reconstruct the complete
majority of EZ’s Porsche column,’ claims Roger,
applications have been indicating the universal
for pre-’89 cars, though joint that’s attached to
they have had a few the rack. The 911 steering
enquiries for 964 racing column consists of a very
applications because short torsion rod behind
electronic power steering the dashboard, and
will perhaps yield 4bhp, beyond the bulkhead an
because they can get rid angled universal joint
of the hydraulic pump and points the second shaft
the weight migrates from at a peculiar 66.6 degrees
the back to the front. A towards the centre of the
hydraulic pump is always car where it’s coupled
sapping power, but EPAS with the rack at another
only draws power when universal joint. If the car is
turning and travelling a right-hooker or has air-
slowly; as soon as the con, EZ locate their
car’s heading in a straight electronic module midway
line it doesn’t use any between the universal
power at all. joints, so it’s effectively
So whereabouts in the mounted beyond the
911 do the EPAS bulkhead. ‘The only
components live? In the drawback is that it takes
smuggler’s box! EZ usually a bit more time to install
aim to fit the electronic because we have to

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wheel we’re grasping? It which has Porsche on the CONTACT: have several international resistance against your
sure isn’t that boss,’ confirms Roger. ‘It’s Roger Reijngoud agencies competent to wrist-work, and that’s
EZ Electric Power Steering
characteristic parallel 38cm, and fitting the Energieweg 21A carry out the conversion. down to the amount of
four-spoke 3.2 Carrera eccentric adaptor 4143 HK Leerdam We get going the few castor that EZ has set it
wheel with its rectangular increases leg space too.’ Nederland kilometres across the up with. And as I go about
Tel: 0031 345 633 551
centrepiece horn – less a It looks and feels like a Email: polder to our waterland with a three-point turn
button, more a cake. No, retro wheel you’d find on sales@ezpowersteering.nl photoshoot. I become after each pass of the
Web:
it’s an EZ special, familiar an early 911, and it’s not accustomed to the ease camera, never has full
http://www.ezpowersteering.nl
to classic 911 buffs as an too dished either, but it of the 3.2’s steering opposite lock been so
ST wheel. It’s not merely a does present a paradox: it process on a mix of rural easy to achieve. It’s not
sideline to the electric throws the ’80s car’s main lanes, straight and what I was expecting of a
paraphernalia, more an control device back in narrow, till we reach the 3.2, and I would find it
adjunct, and EZ offers a time, yet the electric meandering curves of the very easy to live with my
range of nicely finished power assistance projects ancient canalside steering being like this. It
reproduction wheels for the steering towpath. It really is finger- doesn’t lose the tactile
most classic makes characteristics into the light, and the slightest qualities associated with
including Mercedes-Benz, 21st century. The input registers non-assisted steering,
Jaguar, Volvo, Triumph standard 3.2 is by no immediately, transforming and my earlier scepticism
and MG. Some, like this means the lightest 911 in the 3.2 Carrera steering is dispelled to the extent
one, are eccentric, the steering stakes, so into a much more modern that I think it genuinely
meaning that their hub is this newfound lightness is car. I’m reminded more of qualifies as an
slightly higher in relation perhaps equally redolent a 993 than a 996, so that improvement. Having it on
to the centre of the of a ’60s 911 with its lifts it at least a decade. the ‘heavy’ setting
wheel, and it’s diverting follow-the-contours It makes very light work doesn’t really make any
to see how the hub fingertip sensitivity, of the twisty bits, pin- significant difference, so
apparently rises and falls though with more Ignore Tipler if you can – sharp turn-in, and as I medium is where you’d
as the wheel’s rotated. precision. Best of both this is all about the flick from curve to curve get optimum driving feel
Along with the 911 ST worlds by the sound of it. steering, although we I’m thinking what a fine as well as assistance in a
wheel there’s a very And whether you agree concede that this is hard to innovation this is. It parking or reversing
similar 911 R version with depends on how wedded convey in a picture! Power actually helps you come situation. It might be
teardrop slats in the tri- you are to the butch arm- steering transforms the 3.2 off a corner or a advantageous in a rallying
spokes instead of round wrestle of the standard Carrera test car, making it roundabout a little bit context too; the only
holes. ‘Most of our 3.2. The 911 kit will cost easy to point into a corner quicker because it is so downside is the lack of
customers have the post- you €1,530 excluding VAT, and hold it there. Steering delicately wrought. But muscular challenge. Still,
1974 dished three-spoke or €2,150 excluding VAT wheel is EZ’s own ST what’s important is that that’s a way better
wheel in R or ST format, completely fitted, and EZ inspired design you do feel a bit of prospect than rowing. PW

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W
ith the himself a ’69 911. Rob had
birth of the a vision for what he
Porsche wanted his Porsche to
911 50 look, run, sound and feel
years ago like – and by comparison, it
being celebrated all about wasn’t so very different
the automotive from what we’ve come to
community, it’s only think of as the ethos
natural to ponder, inspiring America’s R
philosophise, and argue Gruppe cars, although his
about which models from notion was a bit less
among those five winged and flared than
decades are the best. Our some of those august
recent cover story, “THE California hot rods have
NO1 911” asked a variety come out. There’s a bit of
of owners, authors, 911R and S/T, and some
experts and other Carrera RS 2.7 in
hangers on to rate and Dickinson’s envisioned
rank their top five 911 blend, but finished to an
models, with quotes and altogether more jewel like
justification for their level. So Rob built his car.
thinking (YT included). His way. And people saw it,
Much of the result was drove it, and loved it.
predictable, and some Therein was born from
was not. The potential customer
aforementioned Carrera demand, about five years
2.7 RS indeed copped the ago, the kernel of an idea:
top spot, with the A business (ultimately
chrome-bumpered 2.4- named Singer Vehicle
litre 911S taking second Design, or SVD) dedicated
place honours, the to restoring, modifying,
Carrera 3.2 lineup coming tuning and customising
in a pleasing and 911s to customers’
surprising third, and down ultimate specification. The
the line from there. The vision and philosophy
focus was on factory behind the look, feel, and
engineered and built road spec of each car SVD
cars, but a Ruf and a modifies goes beyond the
race car or two snuck in scope of simply restoring,
there on merit. hot rodding, or recreating
Into that considerable any given year or model
fray we’d humbly submit from the greatest hits list
the Porsche 911, of air-cooled 911s: “The
“Reimagined, Restored, fact that our work visually
Modified, Optimised and recalls the past is more a
utterly Reborn” at the product of thoughtful
behest of discerning consideration of the term
customers by Singer “optimised” than a pre-
Vehicle Design. This occupation with nostalgia.
modest run of bespoke Sometimes the finest 911
and finely detailed characteristic comes from
machines are like no 911s 1964 and sometimes it’s
you’ve ever seen or driven. lifted from 1997. The
Rob Dickinson is an company’s view is about
affable Brit who was preserving a moment in
formally educated in time for the owner and
design, but like so many capturing a snapshot of
young males of his era and the air-cooled period of the
nationality, Dickinson Porsche 911.
struck out as a musician, Dickinson knew that
with 90s alt rock band The willy-nilly customising
Catherine Wheel. Amidst bespoke 911s was a short
his relatively successful path to bankruptcy, and
stint as a rock singer and believed he needed to
guitarist, he bought design and plan the car

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much as a conventionally platform, produced from car’s weight (as well as a restored and reborn for Left: Sumptuous interior is
produced automobile model years 1990-1994 serious power infusion), yet customers by Singer swathed in Spinnybeck
would need to be done. (not counting the earliest a stripped out race car or Vehicle Design. And whom, smooth and woven leather,
Meaning he would need a 964 Carrera 4 models, even RS America style you may ask, is Mr. Singer? specially imported from
willing and very able group many of which are dubbed interior wasn’t part of the In his rock band days, Tuscany
of skilled staff, and 1989.5 cars) use OBD1 plan. That meant carbon Dickinson was both
partners with which to engine management, fibre panels for the guitarist and vocalist, thus
work, and whom would emissions, and electrical fenders, hood, and decklid he is logically the “singer”
develop and supply the system architecture. Much in the name of serious in Singer Vehicle Design.
plethora of bespoke, simpler to get all the weight reduction. “We kept There was never a
modified, and hand built systems talking to each the steel door skins in the question that the
parts and components other, and to meet name of occupant powerplant for Dickinson’s
required. The look and emissions regs. protection” adds Dickinson. ever so special 911s would
concept demanded by The design and concept The design and clay be air cooled and naturally
customers had an phase was long and modelling phase took more aspirated. Fortunately, the
unquestioned heritage- critical, as the look, fit, than a year in order to 964 already comes with
inspired aspect, but finish, overall weight, and achieve the look, weight the ideal 3.6-litre starting
reimagined and optimised every single surface, had savings, structural rigidity, point for just such a
at a much higher level than to be perfect. Wider fender and quality finish that Porsche engine. SVD hands
simply building RS 2.7 flares were specced, but would suit the market for the factory lump to
clones or some such. He nothing resembling an this kind of machine. He legendary Cosworth Engine
opines strongly that the overstuffed 935. The liberally credits Technologies, which strips
964 chassis is the best bumper and fascia development and the engine to nubbins and Below: More exquisite
basic platform that treatments also needed to production partner Aria punches and drills it out to interior detailing and
Porsche ever created, as it utilise the all important 911 Group for the car’s 3.8-litres, and balances, leather lined front luggage
has all of the proper air- “long hood” visuals, yet be considerable composite blueprints and assembles compartment is something
cooled 911 bits built in, and functional and panelwork. the new longblock to its of a Singer Design calling
benefits from all of the contemporary. And the It’s important to mention customary race car levels card. Central fuel filler is a
suspension hardware and only way to get the that the 964 that gives so of quality and tolerance. neat retro touch.
other development that it balance of performance much of itself in the The intake system has This is not all show and
picked up along the way. A and response customers creation of one of these little resemblance to a no go, however. The
not insignificant side wanted was to special cars is, was, and stock 964 – that would be mechanicals are equally
benefit is also that the 964 dramatically reduce the remains a Porsche 911, far too easy! well thought out

“Dickinsonplatform
opines that the 964 chassis is the best basic
that Porsche ever created
”
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SVD’s goal with the range punch – we tried all

Cosworth developed sorts of open velocity
engine is to build an stacks and other Porsche
ultimate air-cooled flat-six intake plenums but none
that has all the high supported the high revving
revving and high HP numbers with the
horsepower drama of a torque we were looking for
classic Porsche race engine like the GT3 unit.” These
but combined with as engines make around
much low and mid range 360bhp at 7200rpm and
torque as possible to 280lb/ft at 5500rpm. All
maximise performance and this hardware is controlled
driveability on the road. “As by an AEM Infinity engine
far as the intake system is management system that
concerned we use 48mm communicates with Motec
Jenvey individual throttle PDMs (Power Distribution
bodies aligned to a Modules) that replace all
Left: Fancy sitting here? bespoke fuel injection the transistors from the
Below: On the road stance system developed by Jeff original electrical system
is just right and the 17in Gamroth at his Rothsport and along with a bespoke
Fuchs replicas fill the facility. Jeff also pioneered Mil Spec wiring harness
arches perfectly. Any the use of the 996 GT3 bring the electrical system
bigger would be overkill. intake plenum on the air- kicking and screaming into
Oh, and the colour combo is cooled engines which is a the 21st Century. The
always a winner! big provider of that mid engines themselves are

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meticulously constructed The care taken in SVD currently offers a with the Tipronic ’box. “We photos on these pages,
and blueprinted with construction and choice of two similar if have some tricks up our you’ll notice
matched and weighed component choice is slightly different sleeve to vastly improve it,” unprecedented levels of
custom components in a reflected in the motor’s Porsche/Getrag G50 he says. fit, finish, and materials
70 hour assembly. huge appetite for revs transmissions: the Dickinson is working with quality. “Besides optimising
The 964 case is the only combined with OEM thoroughly overhauled five- Cosworth to engineer up a and reimagining the
reused item (it is standards of driveability speed box that came with 4.0-litre version of the Porsche 911’s great design
thoroughly remachined) and durability. the 964, or a 993-spec G50 same engine package; “a and performance, our goal
and SVD employs the It’s all backed up by a six-speed manual trans. I little more displacement is to finish and assemble
crank and oil pump from a Burns bespoke stainless ask Dickinson if he has any might yield a tick more this car to jewellery and
GT3. The pistons are from steel exhaust system with notion to modify a car torque and a few more horological levels; we’re
JE and cylinders are high flow cats and dual using the Tiptronic that horsepower, but I’d never using at minimum Rolex
bespoke LN Engineering pipes exiting centrally, just may come with a given do it at the risk of perfect quality level parts and
3.8L items and the rods are below the license plate starting point 964? He running manners and Rolex levels of assembly
unique super light Carrillo area. The result is looks sceptical. One of the streetability. Even though and finish.” Not sure we
items – all other ancillaries something around 360 several dozen 964s used there are many racing agree with that; the fit,
are chosen with a no horsepower with a to create the cars restored parts used, and the car finish, and detailing level of
expense spared mindset to powerband as wide as to date came with a looks and feels pretty restoration work
support the high revving Montana. And a sound Tiptronic box – it was racey, it’s still a road car to performed on this
and high durability straight from heaven, or Le converted to a six-speed be driven anywhere, astonishing automobile is
requirements of a real Mans in about 1969. More manual at the customer’s anytime, and anywhere the more like the melding of a
world road-going engine about all that soon. And request. However, the hot owner wants to travel.” Porsche 911, a Patek
that has race engine yes, it’s true: the engine rodder in Rob concedes Stay tuned on the notion Philippe watch, a Prada
performance – a tricky compartment is lined with that he would rather like of a bigger motor. bag, and a Faberge Egg.
balancing act. quilted Italian leather. the challenge of tinkering As you peruse the A tour of the interior will

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WHERE THE leave you breathless. wristwatch. The balance of

WIZARDS OF Every control, every the instrumentation is
SINGER GO TO
WORK surface, and every finish visually and mechanically
If you didn’t see the Singer has in some way been refurbished by a long
Vehicle Design sign on the side rethought and optimised in standing gauges, clocks
of the building, and know what
goes on in the space behind it, keeping with the and instruments specialist
you’d likely drive right by. SVD Porsche/Patek/Faberge in nearby North Hollywood,
shares a non-descript,
cinderblock industrial building
ethos. The lightweight California.
with a paint, body, and resto carbon fibre shelled seats The finish and fanatical
shop, which floods the front are wrapped in sturdy yet levels of detail continue
parking area with cars awaiting
restoration. Dickinson is clear ultra supple Spinneybeck underneath; an hour spent
that this shop serves as office, woven leather (imported looking at the bottom of
parts warehouse, and from Tuscany) highlighted this car is sixty minutes
assembly/disassembly facility
only. There’s no paint, plating by 16 small “aeration well invested. The stock
or engine shop areas; the space rivets” à la Ford GT40 in suspension architecture is
is currently under remodel
expanding the office areas and
each seat. Smooth, supple, retained, although it
constructing a proper parts and sturdy Spinneybeck receives considerable
department. In order to leather covers a multitude upgrading courtesy of a
maintain quality, and have any
shot at making a dollar or two of other interior surfaces, Bilstein spa treatment, and
Dickinson and his small team of including the rest of the the fitment of Öhlins
skilled elves have set up the seat bolsters, backs, and Racing aluminum,
shop like a true low volume
automobile production facility, bespoke door panels and adjustable dampers.
replete with quality assurance floormats. The 964’s Brembo supplies the
processes and lots of careful
list-keeping. Dickinson gave
arcane HVAC controls are brakes. And the paint on
considerable thought as to binned in favor of a high the undercarriage is as
where to locate, and ultimately tech electronic control smooth as it is on any of
settled in the north-of-Los-
Angeles industrial burb of Sun system that manages the exterior body panels
Valley, California. He notes that those functions, and an up top. This particular car
“it just had to happen in Below: Quite a view! The audiophile level carries, at customer
America, and California
particularly, because the body is formed from steel entertainment system has request, a fully Heim-
culture here is right for what and carbon fibre. The rear also been developed. One jointed suspension,
we do, the skilled craftsmen
are available, and it’s proximous
arches stretch over the fat detail that particularly replacing nearly all
to many of SVD’s all important wheels perfectly and the flipped our lid is the clock, commonly rubber bushed
parts, service, and technology kick on the retractable rear custom re-engineered to pieces with spherical rod
partners. They’ll be happy to
restore your 911 for you. spoiler pays homage to the resemble a classic Heuer ends; exorcising any notion
www.singervehicledesign.co m RS’s ducktail Carrera Chronograph of play or slop out of the

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suspension, further wears the seminal Momo department” Dickinson zero drama. Even though
sharpening the steering, if Prototipo piece, acknowledges. Production the engine carries
at the expense of some complementing the certain Engineer, Dorian aggressive cam profiles,
ride quality over harsh period look, and deepening Valenzuela summarises the engine management
surfaces. the connection with the notion much more system compensates for
Before we twist the legendary Porsches like succinctly: “Stuffing crazy them nicely, and there’s
usual key, which still lives the 917. The red faced 20 or 22 inchers under plenty of low end torque,
in the usual place, let’s tach0 is a particularly racey there would just be wrong.” and no part throttle
neaten up a few details we touch. And how about With which we agree. splutters, stumbles or
glossed over on the way to those Fuchs style modular A twist of the left wrist other bad habits. When all
911 heaven. For example, wheels, specially finished brings the usual 911 the oils and gears are
you’ll note that SVD has just for SVD. And you’ll cranking noises, followed thoroughly warmed, we let
added an external engine note that the 17-in wheel by an urgent bark from the the 3.8 off the chain, and
oil filler, à la ’72 911. and tyre sizes were big six and subsequent the massive rear rubber
There’s no pure mechanical carefully chosen to stainless steel tubes. Of bites and the car responds
need for that, but it’s a preserve not only some course the engine is fully with the crisp, urgent pull
touch that the most semblance of ride quality, catalysed, but sounds as if of deep breathing
ardent 911 enthusiasts but also a certain period it weren’t. It’s not over the displacement. It’s not
enjoy. look. At first glance you top loud, but there’s no quick, it’s genuinely fast
Check out those unique may think that the mistaking the crisp, and the sound curls all
exterior rearview mirrors, motorised decklid wing is throaty response of your small hairs. For a hint,
super light in spun stock, but no; it’s carefully individual throttle pull out your McQueen Le
aluminium, and mounted crafted entirely of carbon butterflies feeding a Mans DVD and play the
right through the front fibre, and can be painted naturally aspirated Porsche start of the race scene
The 3.8-litre normally quarter window glass, body colour or left in its engine with legit racing again. Our subject car
aspirated engine is a work easily at hand for natural, “weave” look state. pedigree in its doesn’t blare quite to that
of engineering art. adjustment, and perfectly The tyres are Michelin construction. While the unmuffled level, but it
Developed by Cosworth it placed for an ideal view Pilot Sports in 225/45-17 engine warms we run the gives you a hint. The short
puts out 360bhp and is rearward. SVD has installed front, with 265/40-17s aft. short throw shifter through throw shifter and excellent
dominated by a 996 GT3 a variety of steering “We could have gone much the gear slots to get a feel G50 six-speed box are
plenum, which feeds 48mm wheels on customer cars, more aggressive in the for it. Once the temps are perfect dance partners,
Jenvey throttle bodies but you’ll note this one wheel and tyre up a bit, we’re away with and you’ll run up and down

“We let theand3.8theoffsound

its chain. It’s not quick, it’s genuinely fast
curls all your short hairs
”
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quickly as Haywood track time, but we can warranted or officially AND DEVELOPMENT PROVIDERS
• Aria Group – composite body (and other) panels
himself. Non-power confirm this to be among connected with Porsche • Apex Technology – wiring/electrical/engine mapping
assisted 911s have long the best handling and AG, We suspect that the • Bilstein – suspension components
been lauded for quick, most firmly supple riding original Dr. Ferdinand • BMC&GEE – six-speed close ratio G50 gearbox
• Brembo North America, Inc. – brakes
telepathic steering air-cooled 911s we’ve ever himself and 911 designer • Burns Stainless – stainless steel racing header and exhaust
response, but this car sampled, at any price, with FA Butzi Porsche, would system
takes it to an altogether 0-60 times firmly into the appreciate what happens • Cosworth Engine Technologies – engine building
• GROWit 3D – rapid prototyping and manufacture
more Kizmetic level. The fives and mid range torque here at Singer Vehicle • Hella – lighting components
Prototipo wheel feels you must experience to Design – distilling the very • Little John Interior Concepts – seats and upholstery
• Mirage International – engine and suspension development
perfect in your hands, and understand and best that the air-cooled • Nate Hranek – prototyping and parts production
when you guide it left or appreciate. 911 ethos has to offer, and • North Hollywood Speedometer – gauge restoration and
right, the car responds How much does all this taking it to previously reimagination
• N2 Aero, N2 Autosport – high performance cabin acoustic noise
crisply and quickly – yet speed and beauty cost? unprecedented levels of reduction; S.O.A., aviation standard cutting-edge materials
never jumpy – because of Begin with your stock fit, finish, quality, luxury, • Öhlins Racing AB – suspension components and development
course everything donor 964 – coupe performance, comfort and • Quaker City Plating – nickel/chrome plating, metal finishing and
parts fabrication
underneath is tight and bodystyles only please. aesthetics. • Ray Griggs – carpeting and additional upholstery
fresh and recall that this Then add about $350,000 An “ultimate 911” that • Rug Rat Racers – prototyping and part production
• Scott Kaiser and Bill Corbett – additional paint, hand rubbing,
car has few rubber bushes for the rims to roof, belongs on any “best list?” detailing
in the underpinnings, so no bumper to bumper Singer Most certainly. PW • V&C Metal Polishing – polishing
slop need apply. The wide recreation. Sound like a • Spinneybeck Enterprises – leather
• Weidmans Wheels – wheel finishing
sticky gumballs help the lot? Indeed it is, but look at
CONTACT: • Zuffenhaus Products – wheels
front end bite hard and the level of componentry Singer Vehicle Design
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USA
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is a bought and paid for Alone the bespoke wiring Email:
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the new 991 cent faster than the
GT3 would only Tiptronic, but it also
be available helped to reduce fuel
with Porsche’s consumption thanks to its

TROUBLE
revolutionary PDK more efficient design.
transmission caused But, as impressive as it
something of a stir was on paper, the PDK
among those who feel system didn’t meet with
that real race cars – or universal praise. Well, to
should that be, real cars be truthful, it wasn’t so
that can be raced – have much the transmission
If Porsche has its way, double-clutch manual gearboxes. Surely itself that came in for a

technology is the future, as the news the skilled driver wants to

take total control of the
pasting in the press so
much as the way in which
that the new GT3 will only be available car, right down to
synching every push of
it was operated. For some
reason best known to the
with a PDK transmission suggests. the clutch pedal with
every shift of the gear
gents at Zuffenhausen,
the PDK-equipped 997
However, this system is nothing new – lever and every rev of the featured rocker switches
engine? But Porsche mounted on the steering
indeed, as Keith Seume discovered, the knows better than to wheel, rather than the
trust we mere mortals more familiar paddles
first patents were granted as far back with such a task... located behind the wheel.
as 1939. But PDK history is littered with The PDK transmission
(that’s short for ‘Porsche
The ergonomics of this
early design left much to
tales of success and failure... Doppelkupplung’, by the
way – or, to put it in
be desired, the result of
which was that the PDK
Words: Keith Seume Queen’s English, ‘Porsche gearbox itself came in for
Photos: Porsche Archiv and author’s collection double clutch’) has now rather unfair criticism.
been available for five To fully appreciate the
years, having first been benefits (or otherwise, as
introduced in 2008 on the some might argue) of
second generation 997- PDK, let’s take a step
series 911. This slick back into history, for the
system replaced the DNA of this amazing
ageing Tiptronic semi- design can be traced
automatic gearbox, back far further than you
Porsche claiming that not might imagine. Forget for
only was the PDK capable a moment the Tiptronics

Looking at the
complexity of
Porsche’s Doppelkupplung
transmission, it’s hard to believe the
basic concept dates back to the 1930s.
They say there’s nothing new under the
sun, and ‘they’ could be right...

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The thread which connects

“the past with the present is
the concept of the
preselector gearbox…
”
of the 1990s and The thread which
Sportomatics of the connects the past with
1970s, even though they the present is the
were both important concept of the
steps in the evolution of preselector gearbox. It’s
the modern 911. Instead, almost unheard of now
cast your mind back (or outside the commercial
do a quick ‘Google’) to the vehicle and vintage car
days of pre-war cars like scenes but is a very
Armstrong-Siddeleys and clever idea. Vehicles with Frenchman Adolphe
Daimlers. Or double- preselector gearboxes Kégresse (above, with
decker buses and allowed the driver to Louis Citroên) was
lumbering lorries... select the next gear born in 1879 and
Seriously. They have more (either a higher or lower worked for Tsar
in common with the ratio) which was engaged Nicholas II before
modern Porsche than you only when the left-hand returning to France to
might at first realise. pedal was depressed. readiness to almost gearbox is a unique concentrate on his
Note we don’t call it the instantly engage the next experience. To start the Autoserve double-
Sectional drawing of ‘clutch pedal’ as cars with ratio, awaiting only for a car, first you must make clutch transmission.
Kégresse’s double-clutch preselector gearboxes signal from the driver sure the ‘gear lever’ – He is the godfather of
transmission formed part use centrifugal clutches, (using the paddle shift) or usually nothing more than the PDK gearbox
of a patent application which engage with rising the engine electronics. a spindly lever on the
filed posthumously in engine speed. There is no clutch pedal. dashboard or steering
1946. The layout, with its In a similar fashion, with But we’ll come back to column – is in the neutral
concentric shafts is a PDK-equipped Porsche that in a while. position. Start the engine
virtually identical to the the transmission is Driving a car equipped and then move the lever
PDK of today always in a state of with a preselector to ‘first’. Nothing will

Type 995 was a design for a 928-based car Artwork

of the future which, among other things, from a 1930s
relied on a double-clutch transmission. The Armstrong-Siddeley
project never got off the ground but kept brochure demonstrates use of
interest in the PDK alive the ‘self-changing gear’ – otherwise
known as the preselector gearbox.
Slogan proclaims ‘Eyes on the road,
hands on the wheel’

Sectional view of a PDK transmission emphasises the compactness of Porsche design

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this sounds all very Schematic

ponderous – for example, illustration
when struggling up a showing the PDK
steep hill – never fear: transmission
you could effect the with first gear
change of ratios without selected. This
lifting off the throttle. Oh, uses the central
and somewhat scarily, solid shaft
you can also move the while...
lever into the reverse ...second gear is
gear position when located on the
travelling forwards in outer hollow
anticipation of backing shaft. Check the
into a parking space... complexity of
Although never the double-
intended as a sporting clutch package.
option, the concept of Remember, this
‘having the next gear is a near 80-year-
In cars fitted with ready’, so to speak, would old concept!
preselector happen until you depress clearly be of advantage
gearboxes, the left- the left-hand pedal and to a driver who wished to
hand pedal is release it – that engages press on without having track’, a half-track of two independent
referred to as the first gear. Now, using the to worry about grabbing a conversion for clutches forming a unit
‘gear changing throttle, you bring the gear lever midway conventional cars, and mounted on the
pedal’, rather than a engine revs up to the through a series of twists allowing them to be same axis by means of
clutch pedal. point where the and turns. driven in mud and snow. two concentric shafts, as
Centrifugal design centrifugal clutch bites In 1939, when On his return to France in French Patent No.
means no ordinary and the car moves off. preselector gearboxes in 1919, Kégresse began 861,394 of 28th July 1939
clutch pedal is As soon as the car is were popular, a French work with Citroên but left in particular. An
needed underway, move the gear engineer by the name of after a brief few years to arrangement is thus
lever into second and, Adolphe Kégresse tested concentrate on obtained in which some
when you’re ready, simply a new transmission in a developing his own of the shifts, the even
lift off the throttle and Citroên ‘Traction’, a design gearbox: the twin-clutch numbered shifts for
depress/release the left- which he felt would make Autoserve transmission. example, are taken on
hand pedal again. And driving easier, dispensing Pre-war manual one of the clutches, and
Previously unseen that’s it. Continue the with the need for manual gearboxes tended to be the odd numbered shifts
photo of process until you’re in top gear changes. Kégresse rather agricultural in on the other.’
disassembled gear, at which point you was born in 1879 in operation, requiring The essence of
956/962 PDK move the gear lever into France but moved to drivers to carefully Porsche’s current PDK
transmission was the next lower ratio ready Russia in 1905 to work for synchronise road and design, however, is
recently given to for when you need to Tsar Nicholas II. There he engine speed to prevent contained in the following
the Porsche change down a gear. If developed the ‘Kégresse clashes between gear paragraph: ‘The use of
archives by a former teeth. Kégresse’s two clutches on
Weissach engineer patented design was concentric shafts enables
ingenious, compact and a more compact
efficient, and proved transmission to be
satisfactory in operation obtained with shorter
in his Citroên ‘guinea pig’. shafts and having less
However, the onset of parts than in the usual
hostilities brought a construction.’
premature halt to his Over the next decades,
work, and Kégresse sadly several related patents
passed away in 1943 at were applied for by other
the age of 64. companies, many of
He had already filed a which made direct
patent in 1939 and reference to Kégresse’s
further patents were Autoserve design. Dodge
submitted posthumously in the USA (1950) and
in 1946, and granted in Panhard & Levassor in
1951: ‘The search for France (in 1957) both
automatic operation of tipped their hats to the
change-speed Frenchman, as did
transmissions as applied Zanhradfabrik
to motor cars has led, in Friedrichshafen AG, also in
some systems, to 1957. If that name is not
connecting the engine to immediately familiar, the
the gear trains by means initial letters will be: ZF. In

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fact, the list of patent on the aluminium turbo boost, no

applicants who made structure of the 928 and momentary lag in
reference to Kégresse’s equipped with an early performance. And that’s
design reads like a who’s form of double-clutch where the PDK came into
who of the motor transmission. In the early its own.
industry – and right up 1980s, the PDK idea was The early 1980s saw a
until as recently as July initially seen as only lot of behind the scenes
this year, ZF still being relevant to road work at Porsche, with the
acknowledged his work. cars, but all that was 944 programme well
He is truly the godfather about to change as the under way. One omission
of the PDK gearbox, yet race department came from the range was an
his name rarely appears in under pressure to take a automatic version of the
connection with Porsche’s closer look at this 944S. The non-S models
fast-shifting transmission. innovative design. were offered with a three-
It wasn’t until the 1980s The advantages for speed Audi-built auto
that PDK development racers were obvious, for ’box, but this wasn’t
really moved into top gear the driver would be able considered strong enough
(sorry, couldn’t resist it...), to concentrate on to cope with the added
but the Porsche keeping his eyes on the torque of the 944S’s
connection actually has road, his hands on the engine. Volkswagen had
its roots in the late 1960s wheel, while making full- been developing an
with the arrival of a power gear changes. Not electrohydraulic four-
Hungarian engineer, Imre only that but, as with the speed unit, which was
Szodfridt, who had taken preselector design of old, tested in a 944 and found
a keen interest in the next gear ratio was to be just what Porsche
Kégresse’s design. always lined up ready to was after. However, VW
Szodfridt worked under go as soon as the driver then dropped the
Helmut Flegl at Weissach hit the ‘up’ or ‘down’ shift bombshell that the unit
who, according to Karl buttons. And there was wasn’t yet ready for
Ludvigsen, considered another advantage... production and they
him ‘a very innovative Porsche’s racing would be unable to meet Porsche was becoming so proud of the PDK transmission
character, (but) very programme almost the proposed 1989 launch that cars so-equipped boasted this little logo (top) at the
difficult to control’. entirely centred around of an automatic 944S. top of the windscreen.
Kégresse’s double- turbocharged machinery, ZF had also been In 1987, Porsche held a press event to demonstrate the
clutch system was the problem here being developing its own four- PDK-equipped 962 in action at the Nürburgring (middle).
championed by Szodfridt that conventional gear speed automatic, Hans Stuck was the driver – we’d have given anything to
and shown to Ferdinand changing allowed the although in prototype take a passenger ride that day...
Piëch, who saw it as a engine to drop off boost form it was only available Lever on the far right allowed the driver to preselect a
possible option on the if the driver couldn’t with hydraulic control. ZF particular gear (above), while punching the buttons on
911. However, the design change gear quickly pointed out that it could the steering wheel effected an up or down shift. Digital
was shelved due to a lack enough. Race be updated to the more display mounted on the dashboard informed the driver
of refinement, only to be transmissions tended to advanced electronic which ratios had been selected
resurrected a few years be heavy and relatively control if Porsche was
later when Porsche slow, rugged so as to prepared to make further Porsche? By now, the PDK fitted to the 924S test
collaborated in a withstand hours of abuse. investment. This proved idea had been bubbling car was nothing more
programme to design a If only the driver could too much for Porsche and away in the background than a single lever, which
fuel-efficient car of the make full-power shifts the idea was dropped. for some time, with could be pushed in any
future: Type 995, based there would be no loss of So, where did this leave particular emphasis on one of four different
the race programme. directions: forwards to
Porsche first began to investigate the However, it is said that shift up a ratio, back to
full potential of the PDK system in the expenditure on the PDK change down, to the left
former Le Mans-winning 956, chassis concept could only be to select reverse and to
number 956-003 justified if there was a the right to select ‘park’.
spin-off for road cars. This was the same
Once Imre Szodfridt had system as used in the
presented his (or, more race cars, with one
correctly, Adolphe exception: it lacked the
Kégresse’s) ideas to his facility to pre-select
superiors, a 924S was ratios, which could then
built equipped with an be engaged by pushing a
early version of the PDK button on the steering
gearbox. It was massively wheel. This was a
over-engineered for the deliberate omission as
road car but allowed the Flegl and his team were
system to be evaluated. concerned that an
The control system inexperienced driver on

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the road might this is where the most Unfortunately, it proved

accidentally select an interest lay. The double- problematic in practice,
inappropriate ratio which clutch unit was based so the car was refitted
could then be engaged at around a conventional ‘all with its original manual
the wrong time. indirect’ manual gearbox, gearbox for the race.
Paul Frère tested the with Borg-Warner The PDK-equipped 956
PDK-equipped 924S for synchromesh. As the next appeared in January
Road & Track magazine name suggests, the PDK 1984 at Paul Ricard in
and was impressed, unit features two southern France. Over a
although doubtful that it clutches, in a combined test session that clocked
would go into production housing. One up 1000kms, no fewer
much before the end of engages/disengages a than three PDK units
1987. Helmut Flegl had pair of input gears were fitted, the tests Audi expressed a
his own 944 Turbo fitted located at the front of being thwarted by a keen interest in
with a PDK unit, finding it the unit by way of a clutch explosion and September 1984. It was Porsche’s new
both quicker and more hollow shaft through sundry failures due to not a success... double-clutch
economical than the which a second, solid, hydraulic and electrical John Watson and Jacky system. Adapting it
regular 944 Turbo. Tests shaft passes. This is problems. In March, Ickx suffered a clutch for use in the world-
on a variety of roads attached to the second Jochen Mass was called in explosion in practice, beating Quattro S1
around Weissach showed clutch and drives the to drive the car, the result followed by hydraulic rally cars. This
the PDK-equipped car to remaining two or three being more failures and failure after just two laps example is currently
be some 12 per cent more ratios. Gear selection and the conclusion that the of the race. Watson is on display at the
fuel-efficient than a clutch operation was system was too reported as finding the Porsche Museum
similar model fitted with a achieved by way of a cumbersome in operation vagueries of the PDK
conventional automatic system of hydraulics. – lap times were almost system slightly off-
and even fractionally Essentially, the system two seconds slower than putting, too. He was used
more frugal than a 944 allowed a gear ratio on those achieved using the to making gear shifts
Turbo with a manual one shaft to be selected old gearboxes. straight from fifth down
transmission. Hans- while a ratio on the other At this point, a decision into second – or even first
Joachim Stuck also shaft is in use. When the needed to be made about – gear to save time, but
enjoyed driving a PDK- driver was ready to effect the future of PDK this was not possible with
equipped 928, the torque a change of ratios, all he technology. Helping to the PDK system. However,
of which was a far better had to do was punch the sway arguments in favour the Weissach engineers
test of the new button and the hydraulics of the double-clutch refused to be beaten,
transmission than any disengaged one clutch design was Audi’s interest calling in Hans Stuck to
‘four-banger’. and engaged the other. in developing the do yet more testing. He
The problem, however, This then freed the first transmission for use in its was impressed, despite
was that these first PDK set of ratios ready to be high-powered Quattro initial scepticism. Rear view of a
gearboxes were not very engaged at the next shift. rally cars. The programme 1985 was set aside as a ‘naked’ 962 shows
smooth in operation. One shaft carried ratios went ahead as planned: development year, with the PDK in situ. It
That, of course, was not a one, three and five, while next stop, Imola in PDK-equipped cars looks awfully
problem in a race the other carried ratios crowded in there...
application, but was two and four. While third
unacceptable as far as a gear, for example, was in
road car was concerned. use, either the second or
Twin dry-plate clutches fourth ratios could be put
were responsible for the in a state of readiness.
PDK’s rather brutal The first tests were
character, the only option carried out towards the
being to develop a wet- end of 1983 on Porsche
clutch design familiar to 956 chassis number 956-
motorcycle engineers. 003, the very car which
However, production had won Le Mans earlier
costs proved prohibitive – that year. Initial
it is estimated that impressions were not
Porsche would have favourable, as the unit
needed to sell 40,000 suffered from oil leaks,
PDK-equipped 944s to and weak castings and
make the concept viable gears. There were also
– so the PDK programme problems with the
was quietly dropped, at clutches. However, the
least as far as road cars race department
were concerned. persevered and the first
The PDK programme PDK-equipped Porsche
was perfect for the race took to the track at
department, though, and Kyalami in December ’83.

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appearing only at a 1000-kilometre race. It External view of the PDK transmission

Brands Hatch and nearly cost me the World from a Carrera 4S
Malaysia. Despite Championship in 1986...’
electrical problems, However, Bell did
Al Holbert and Vern appreciate that the new
Schuppan finished a gearbox was ultimately a
creditable fifth overall good idea, as it removed
at Brands, but Hans the worry of the driver
Stuck and Derek Bell messing up gear changes
were forced to retire to the detriment of the
from the lead in transmission. The old
Malaysia with a broken dog-clutch boxes were
half-shaft. These early brutal and needed a firm
test races were hand, and wear on poor visibility at the for use in the proposed
sufficiently components was higher Nürburgring! Type 969, a 3.5-litre
encouraging for than an engineer would The one event where water-cooled, twin-
Norbert Singer to wish for. PDK wasn’t able (or turbocharged supercar
push for the PDK Extensive testing perhaps ‘allowed’ is the built on the 964 Carrera 4
Interest in the double-clutch transmissions to be used ahead of the 1986 season right word) to prove itself chassis but styled along
system was aroused in the for the 1986 season. It reaped rewards, despite was Le Mans, Singer not the lines of the mighty
early 1980s when Porsche was not a decision that Bell’s initial scepticism. trusting the double-clutch 959. It was to be fitted as
sought an alternative to the filled Derek Bell with Installing the PDK transmission to last the standard with the PDK
conventional automatic enthusiasm. transmission in the 962 full 24 hours. A PDK- transmission, with manual
transmission. Both 924s and Bell recalled his feelings added a not-insignificant equipped 962 did run at as an option. This range-
944s were adapted to use in an interview he gave to 44 kilos to the overall the ’86 Le Mans test day topping, 185mph coupé
the PDK gearbox, this 944 the American publication, weight, all at the rear of and proved to the the was scheduled to enter
Turbo (top) being Helmut Automobile, which the car. Despite this fastest car on track, but production in 1991 but
Flegl’s personal car. coincided with the apparent handicap, Stuck at the main event, only the project was cancelled
If the PDK could stand up to adoption of the PDK lapped the full 3.6-mile one car was thus at the last minute in
the torque of a 944 Turbo, system for the 997 Paul Ricard circuit some equipped. The drivers, favour of the 964 Turbo.
how would it survive the models in 2008. In 0.77 seconds quicker Vern Schuppan and Drake Another 17 years would
grunt of a V8 (middle)? general, he approved of than his best time in the Olson, were informed that pass before the Porsche
Hans-Joachim Stuck put the Porsche’s strategy of car fitted with manual if the unit broke in the Doppelkupplung system
double-clutch system to work constantly trying transmission, while Bob warm-up ahead of the would finally be adopted
in his own 928 and loved it. something new but Wollek lapped the shorter race, their entry would be for road use, despite
The Type 969 (above) was became frustrated when 2.03-mile circuit 0.81 withdrawn. As it happens, having proved itself time
close to becoming the first every race appeared to seconds quicker. the gearbox survived the and again on the race
production road-going be treated as a test By the end of the 1986 warm-up session, only to track. In the interim years,
Porsche to be equipped with session. ‘We picked up season, PDK-equipped break a mere 41 laps into Porsche’s successful
PDK technology, but the time, without a doubt. 962s had competed in no the race. Tiptronic semi-automatic
project was cancelled in The big help was that you fewer than 11 major races, PDK transmissions transmission had reigned
favour of the 964 Turbo didn’t have to depress the notching up three wins continued to be used in supreme, but its days
clutch, but it added a lot and two seconds. There the 962 throughout the were numbered almost
of extra weight – it felt were three retirements, 1987 season, but had still from the outset.
like you had a trailer on two of which were directly yet to make an impact on PDK was clearly the
Cutaway model of the seven- the back. We tried to attributable to the PDK the road-going range. In future for, as Volkswagen
speed PDK transmission only persevere with it but the system, the third when 1985, there was talk of proved with its similar
hints at the complexity of the system just wouldn’t last both team cars collided in resurrecting the DSG transmissions, no
current system. If Porsche technology for use in the other technology could
has its way, this will be the 964-series 911s, following match the double-clutch
future, with manual the decision to end design for speed and
gearboxes possibly becoming further development of ease of use. Like it or not,
a thing of the past... the old ‘clutchless- PDK is here to stay.
manual’ Sportomatic Something tells us that,
system. The PDK right now, Adolphe
programme was again to Kégresse is looking down
be a joint venture with from on high, smiling at
Audi, who wanted an Porsche’s seven-speed,
automatic transmission lightning-fast gearboxes
for the new V8-powered that rely on his 1939
front-wheel-drive saloon. patents for inspiration.
But then Audi backed out, Porsche may have claimed
and Porsche once again it took 25 years of
abandoned PDK for its development to bring PDK
road cars. Almost... to the table, but in reality, it
In 1990, PDK was cited was more like 70 years...PW

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(I haven’t moved on very far) and goodness I was
IT STARTED WITH WHEELS AND proud of it. Obviously I had a list of things I wanted
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good those wheels still look 12-years down the line.
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to sell a garage full of second hand Porsche wheels
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and take phone calls.
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What’s changed? Oh, everything and nothing. now its two huge units and nine staff in Nelson,
There’s still the wheels – neatly stacked and of all Lancashire, Jasmine’s North West heartland.
types, but whereas ten years ago and before it was all In many ways Jasmine’s business has expanded
wheels, now Jasmine is very much in the Porsche alongside Porsche itself. The rapid increase in
recycling and servicing business. Porsche’s car sales has, of course, meant more
But for the moment we’ll stick with the wheels, Porsches on the road and more models too. All these
because this after all is how Jasmine got off the cars need looking after and there’s more than one way
ground. You see the business really did start with a to look after a Porsche and it’s here that Jasmine have
collection of Porsche wheels in Brian’s garage, surplus got just about all bases covered.

“Porsche owners are savvy these days as to

where to source parts, and why not?
”
to his racing and rallying adventures in historic The core of the business is in parts both old and
Top: Front nose for a Porsches. An advert for 40 wheels, mostly Fuchs, new. Jasmine break, dismantle and recycle Porsches.
Cayman will be snapped up placed in the back of this here magazine is all it took Enter the warehouse and there is racking from floor to
and at a considerable to get the wheels rolling. Of course back in those ceiling with every conceivable part for just about every
saving to a brand new nose. days a set of Fuchs, while desirable, were nothing conceivable model, although it’s fair to say that it’s
Wheels still form an special. These days Brian’s cachet of Fuchs would be the later water-cooled cars that make up the bulk of
important part of the worth an absolute fortune, but of course the future the recycling business. Owners are savvy these days
business. Below: Racking we cannot predict. as to where to source parts, and if a secondhand part
from floor to ceiling. At this point Brian was working in the oil and gas will do the job, then why not. And Porsche’s rapid
Pipework for cooling and air industry and was looking for a change of career, while expansion in terms of numbers of cars sold has been
con systems, while ’70s 2.7 Sue, a conference organiser was of a similar mindset something of a double-edged sword. More cars hits
receives attention and so wheels it was. The garage became a the residuals and so prices can slump to the point
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business, and as anyone who sells online knows, it’s a Boxster Championship. “It’s been a real learning curve,
time-consuming operation to constantly keep your says Sue. “Everyone wants to go to the races, which is
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was being crated up to go to Singapore, which is too.” So Jasmine started with racing and has moved Top: Boxster race car in
nothing unusual. On top of the used parts Jasmine back into racing. You could say that they’ve gone full preparation. Below left,
can also supply just about any new part too, circle. Maybe, but a rather large circle that has in the Brian Goff (front
particularly servicing parts, and in a competitive centre a major Porsche parts and servicing business foreground) and the
market, parts are equally competitively priced. that looks after locals in the North West and indeed the Jasmine PorschaLink team
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Story and photography by Chris Horton

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
It’s always nice to see a new Porsche specialist joining the fray. Even more so when not only are
they great people to work with, but also use their knowledge, their skill and their pragmatism to
put an ailing car – like this 986 Boxster – back on the road quickly and above cost-effectively

S
omething of a multi- and almost by definition one of the essentially to revitalise said pedal was way heavier and stiffer
faceted, catch-all UK’s most recently established customer’s recently acquired than it ought to be. Other than
911 & Porsche World Porsche independents. Barely 24 986-model 2003/03 Boxster ‘S’. that, though, all seemed pretty
how-to this month, hours later, after one of the most It was his first Porsche, bought good, and CPS proprietor Lee
and one that I hope interesting, informative and simply privately for £6500, and to his Jones was able to reassure him
will make encouraging reading uplifting workshop visits I have understandable disappointment that they could probably rectify all
for all 986 and mainstream 996 enjoyed for some time, I had in the had started to go wrong even of the above issues for no more
owners – as well as 987 and 997 bag the accompanying photos, before he got it home. The six- than about £1500; perhaps less.
enthusiasts, of course, whose plus a story with both a number of speed transmission was by then Sighs of relief all round.
cars are in certain respects hopefully useful angles and – for occasionally crunching and Central to both the ethos and
pretty much identical. one of CPS’s customers – a far jumping out of gear – something the low cost of the overhaul would
It all began, one Monday happier ending than he was these units seem increasingly be installing a good second-hand
afternoon in early September, with probably expecting. Contented prone to – and even as a gearbox from CPS’s extensive
an introductory phone call to smiles all round, then. newcomer to the marque it had stock – they have broken around a
Cotswold Porsche Specialists Ltd The job in question, ably tackled dawned on him that the clutch dozen 986s and 996s since
of Toddington, near Winchcombe by technician Stuart Fleck, with Necessity is the mother of invention (above). Transmission stands temporarily unavailable, so Stuart
in Gloucestershire – one of the assistance from no less keen Fleck does it the way any of us would. Oil drum, 924 wheel and a block of wood make a perfectly
satisfactory alternative – and next-door mechanics actually helped lift gearbox out. There’s a fair bit
magazine’s newest advertisers, apprentice Dan Stevens, was of dismantling to do before you get to that stage, though – not least exhaust system (below)

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HOW-TO: CHANGE 986/996 GEARBOX, CLUTCH, RMS, IMS BEARING

WHICH MODELS HAVE WHICH IMS BEARING?

Broadly speaking, your M96 engine (986-model Boxster; mainstream 996-model 911
Carrera) would have been built with first a so-called double-row IMS bearing, and then
later a shallower, single-row item. Both are of the familiar ball-race type, designed to
cope with radial and modest axial forces. Why Porsche went from one bearing to a
smaller and apparently lower-capacity item is, as you might expect, unclear.
No less obscure is exactly when this change took place. Accepted wisdom now
seems to be that the deeper, double-row bearing – and its ‘shallow’ mounting flange; see
below – was used in all 1997–1999 engines, but confusingly also for some 2000 and 2001
motors. Similarly the later single-row unit (and its deeper mounting flange) was fitted to
the remaining 2000- and 2001-model engines, and then to all 2002–2005 power units.
The early M97 engine (987-model Boxster and Cayman; 997-model 911) came as
standard with a further slightly different IMS bearing, which for various reasons cannot
be removed without separating the crankcase halves, putting it well beyond the scope
of this particular story, but no less confusingly this is said by some to have been fitted
to a few of the very last 986s and 996s. By the same token, of course, all 911 GT3s,
911 GT2s and 911 Turbo models have what amounts to the earlier air-cooled engine’s
crankcase, and thus again no relevant IMS bearing. Likewise all 2009-on ‘Gen[eration] 2’
engines have a substantially modified bottom end, and again no IMS bearing, as such.
The only sure and certain way of identifying which IMS bearing your engine has – and
the engine itself may not be original to the car, remember – is to remove the gearbox,
the clutch and the flywheel, and to inspect its outer flange. The earlier, deeper,
Obvious ‘disconnections’ to allow transmission removal include undertray(s) and support(s), drive double-row item has a relatively small ‘offset’, to borrow some familiar road-wheel
shafts, anti-roll bar, and naturally clutch housing-to-engine bolts – no less naturally leaving a couple terminology; the later, shallower, single-row bearing (as in this story) a commensurately
until you’re ready actually to separate units. Younger of these two, above left, is apprentice Dan greater depth between the three M6 fixing screws and the central nut. The non-
serviceable M97-style bearing has a larger 22mm nut securing it to the outer flange.
starting up in 2011, reckons Lee, work on it,’ says Stuart. ‘Otherwise Precisely why any of these bearings should fail is something of a mystery, too – they
as well as twice that number of you have to take half the should never be particularly heavily loaded – but naturally theories abound. Some have
suggested a lubrication problem, but both the bearings shown here have a plastic cover
944s and 924s – but obviously a suspension apart, as well.’ over each side of the ball race proper – apparently this means that they are factory-
brand-new Sachs clutch. Prudently Boss and electronics expert Lee, packed with grease, and in theory sealed
for life, however long that may prove
taking advantage of the ‘while you meanwhile, would be fixing a
to be. And it’s worth remembering that
are in there’ philosophy, they would ‘bleeding’ LCD screen in the heater even after nearly 70,000 miles the IMS
also fit a new crankshaft oil seal – control module (another bearing that came out of this Boxster’s
engine was still perfectly serviceable.
aka the infamous RMS, or rear increasingly common problem) by Maybe it was a quality-control issue,
main seal – as well as a new IMS or means of some subtle but similarly back in the day, with a specific
intermediate-shaft bearing (not cost-effective spare-part surgery. production batch. Who really knows?
For the time being we are going to
that there appeared to be any More on that in this month’s Q&A have to sit firmly on the fence on that
great problem with the old one, or on page 105 – there was only so question. Suffice it to say that failure –
which might even be caused by the
even the RMS, for that matter). much we could squeeze in here.
engine’s own oil washing the original
Last but not least, there would be So far, so conventional. factory-packed grease out of the
a replacement cover for the Interesting and instructive, but not bearing – tends to be both noisy and
sudden, and if left for too long
inboard CV joint on the right-hand necessarily cutting-edge, hold-the- thereafter then also catastrophic.
drive shaft. ‘With the gearbox out front-page stuff. What had Metallic swarf will quickly enter the
it’s easy to get the shaft out to immediately caught my attention, engine’s lubricating system, with
obvious consequences for any other
So it continues: gear-shift cables and support bracket (use correct Torx bits for screws, below), main bearing surfaces, and excessive radial
gearbox mounts and brackets, final bellhousing bolt(s). Gearbox is HEAVY – as demonstrated by Dan movement of the intermediate shaft
Stevens, CPS proprietor Lee Jones, and Stuart Fleck. No obvious reason why clutch should have been itself can allow the valve timing to ‘slip’,
so stiff; not badly worn, either. Dual-mass flywheel removed – after one loose clutch dowel is tapped with similarly dire consequences for the
home again. Inset pics show dual-row IMS bearings, and above those the LN removal and fitting tools valves and/or pistons.

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One of the lesser problems affecting this 986 Boxster was a split rubber cover on the right-hand THE KNOWLEDGE
drive shaft’s inner CV joint – an MoT failure. Ordinarily this would be quite awkward to get at, but the
temporary absence of transmission allows shaft to be withdrawn inward from hub, once large nut at Or in this particular case, perhaps, Stuart Fleck’s (huge) knowledge. A former tank
its outer end has been undone. More on this often needed procedure in a forthcoming how-to story mechanic in the British army, and now widely regarded one of the most accomplished
vehicle technicians in this part of Gloucestershire, Stuart was head-hunted by an
though, was that not only was all make or type – or any subsequent astute and determined Lee Jones, CPS’s proprietor, and has been with the company
this work scheduled for just a replacement. But we would be more or less from its inception in late 2011.
He is, as you might thus expect, one of those confidence-inspiring people who works
single day, but also that the IMS failing in our duty if we neglected quietly and deceptively quickly, even under pressure – turn your back for a moment and
bearing was to be replaced with to point out that you can obtain you’ll miss something – and is plainly prepared to improvise if necessary. CPS’s two
nothing more sophisticated (or one of these later, so-called single- transmission jacks, for instance, normally employed in a task such as this to support the
engine and bring the gearbox down to a more convenient height so that it can then be
expensive) than a proprietary item row IMS bearings more or less manhandled to the ground, were in use on another job. Undaunted, Stuart used a block
– of exactly the same make and anywhere in the UK – if not the of wood on an oil drum and a 924 wheel for the former task, gently lowering the car onto
type as the original one, in this developed world – for less than them with the aid of the workshop’s two-post lift, and then enlisting the help of a couple
of mechanics from an adjacent workshop to assist with the latter procedure. No
case Polish-made NSK – from a £20 including VAT. See opposite surprise, either, that they needed little encouragement to come and lend a hand.
local bearing supplier. That is for details. The uprated, ceramic Think you need a special tool to change an RMS? Watch and learn how Stuart Fleck
does it, safely starting the new seal over the end of the crankshaft with the blue-plastic
certainly not to undermine the LN equivalent starts at around inner sleeve with which it’s supplied, and painstakingly tapping it home with another
ingenious after-market IMS US$650, plus shipping and taxes. (smaller) block of wood and a hammer, and thereby save yourself the roughly £250 such
solutions from LN Engineering – That doesn’t make either the a device normally costs. Same with a clutch alignment tool, normally considered
essential (and certainly by me) for centring the friction plate. Stuart does it by eye alone,
see our September 2012 issue. NSK or any broadly similar bearing and I wasn’t remotely surprised that the gearbox – again with willing help from the two
Or to understate the engine (including that fully re-engineered blokes from next door – slid home with a reassuring clunk at the very first attempt.
damage that can be caused by a LN item) a guaranteed DIY Just about the only ‘special’ he did use was the combined puller and pusher (from LN
Engineering) first to extract the old IMS bearing and then install the new one, but I don’t
failure of either the original proposition. Even if you are able to doubt that even in a war zone he could quickly adapt some unlikely piece of military
Porsche bearing – of whatever remove the gearbox, the clutch hardware to make a perfectly serviceable slide hammer and a drift.
Not for Stuart Fleck, as you can see from some of the accompanying photographs,
Congealed clutch dust suggests that RMS had been weeping rather than leaking; easy to replace,
even without special Porsche fitting device – when you know how... Broken bolt (below) suggests a pair of the usual latex or nitrile gloves – which in any case even the most health-
gearbox has been out at least once before. IMS bearing flange can be removed only after crankshaft conscious of us usually give up on after ripping open the third or even fourth pair within
and camshafts have been ‘locked’ with Porsche tools – see September 2012 issue for full details. just a few minutes of particularly hard spannering. But the simple fact is that I would be
Oil that gushes out (bottom left) may be clue to bearings’ failure (or even survival). More on this soon delighted to have him work on my Porsche any day of the week.

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HOW-TO: CHANGE 986/996 GEARBOX, CLUTCH, RMS, IMS BEARING

Clutch replacement is a simple enough task – but can you centre friction plate by eye alone (above)?
We would guess probably not. Still no obvious sign of why clutch was so heavy. Release mechanism
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
was OK; must have been cover-plate springs. New release bearing was fitted as a matter of course. Purely out of curiosity – because I don’t Further questioning the helpful
Replacement transmission (above) shows evidence of leaking crank seal; oil easily rinsed put with doubt for a single moment what Lee salesman established that all bearings
brake cleaner. Team gathers again to manhandle transmission back into position; job nearly done Jones earlier told me – I sourced this seemingly specified for this application
replacement M96 IMS bearing (see would routinely have what is known as a
and the flywheel, you will still need miles if you are the really paranoid below) from my local branch of straight contact between the balls and
roughly £250 worth of special type. And the fact is that even at Bearing Traders Ltd in High Wycombe, the outer track, plus some sort of rubber
Buckinghamshire (01494 441301). or plastic dust seal over each side of said
tools safely to lock the crankshaft very nearly 70,000 miles this The nearer Aylesbury sales counter, balls. Apparently these are designed to
and camshafts, and then to draw Boxster’s plainly original IMS as I discovered by driving there first – retain the grease packed into them
out the old unit and install the new bearing was still in good enough and only the day before speaking to during manufacture, further suggesting
someone seemingly on the Aylesbury that any engine oil that finds its way into
one without the risk of damaging it condition to have been used again. number – had actually closed a few this part of the engine, and washes out
in the process. Hence why CPS will Maybe Porsche has finally got weeks previously. Yeah, thanks for that. the grease, actually does more harm
justifiably charge up to £600 for right this once so troublesome They didn’t have an exact match for than good. More on this soon, too.
the NSK unit that came out of the CPS Bearing Traders Ltd has six – sorry, five
the task – unless, as here, it is to area of the M96/M97 engine. Boxster, but from the reference number – branches around the UK (full details at
be carried out as part of some (Or then again maybe not.) shown on it – 6204 DU – were able to www.bearingtraders.com), and there are
offer an equivalent alternative. This one many other companies, both here and
other related overhaul. And the Perhaps there was never quite as is an FAG component made in Portugal, abroad, offering a similar range of
fact remains that if your car is an much of a problem as is so and I am assured is an even higher- services. A Google search should
earlier model, with the arguably widely believed. And perhaps, quality component than the original. produce plenty of useful results.
It cost £13.57 (ie £11.31 plus VAT), and as
even more problematic double-row as I suspect, there may still be a I write there are more than 200 in stock
bearing, you may have no choice lot more to this aspect of the at Wycombe alone, so in the bearing
but to buy either from Porsche or, M96 than so far meets the eye; world it is clearly nothing overly special.
I took the opportunity of this face-to-
say, LN (again see the panel on the watch this space. Either way, face contact to check on the likely
right). But it definitely does mean CPS’s real-world, down-to-earth availability of a match for the earlier
double-row IMS bearing, and while this
that you could realistically and approach offers many valid was rendered inconclusive by the
cost-effectively renew your reasons for owners of these absence at that stage of a specific
standard, later-type, single-row fundamentally great Porsches to reference number (I’m working on that;
more in future editions of the magazine),
IMS bearing at least as often as be a lot more cheerful than they it seems that Bearing Traders – for one –
you install a new clutch – or might otherwise be. And that would be able to supply an FAG-made
perhaps as often as every 40,000 works for us. PW 3204 RS for £53.65 plus VAT.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, CONTACTS & FURTHER READING Story and photographs by Chris Horton
M96 IMS BEARING UPGRADE

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This engine is a Even with engine
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encyclopaedic knowledge of their specifics of fitting the IMS (and first

M8 nut (22mm nut the replacement
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type motor, with with the LN kit is
effectively non- broader, and thus
serviceable IMS: in more effective).
which case stop!), If at this point you

extensive (and ever-growing) stock of locking the crankshaft and camshaft), as

then remove the find bearing has
three M6 screws failed completely,
securing the says LN, call for
bearing flange to guidance on your
the crankcase various options

second-hand parts for 986 and 996s, well as the RMS, see pages 88–91 of the
much discussed IMS an Internet-enabled PC, Do you see what we perhaps a complete
problem that is the smartphone and/or tablet, mean? Covers pretty intermediate-shaft
subject of this 911 & we can do little better much everything, doesn’t upgrade). Why your IMS
Porsche World how-to. than direct you to the it? From how to check for bearing flange might be
And it is at this point company’s own detailed (or better still prevent) an leaking oil. A detailed

as well as 924s and 944s. The company September 2012 issue of 911 & Porsche
S
ay what you Take a bow, then, LN number of other proudly billet connecting-rods, that we must defer to but readable explanation IMS bearing failure, to explanation of what the
like about the Engineering of 626 North American firms: pistons an upgraded oil-pump both LN’s expertise and of the situation at identifying the cars most intermediate shaft itself
Internet, but Locust Street, Momence, from JE, connecting-rods drive and timing-chain the effectively limitless www.lnengineering.com/i likely to be affected – and does, and why it is so
for every word Illinois – that’s about 50 from R&R, and not least a tensioners, a washable page-count at its disposal. ms.html. Inevitably it has why. The IMS Guardian important. There’s a

is at Unit 4A, Orchard Industrial Estate, World (right). PDFs are available via of complete
and utter tosh you will
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range of fasteners from
ARP. And its website, we
can report, is first-class.
More recently, LN has
and hence reusable oil-
filter element, and even
an adaptor to allow the
use of a convenient spin-
As print journalists,
we would love to quote
chapter and verse on this
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some of the usual rather
distracting links to various
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Read it carefully from top
system from Flat 6
Innovations, also covered
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issue. Which one of three
section on the tools
required to remove an IMS
bearing, and fit the LN
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wisdom. Pages packed significant and respected innovative range of repair a special thermostat this entire magazine, and you should quickly gain a (single- or dual-row shaft whose bearing has
so full of reasoned, supplier of air-cooled 911 and upgrade parts for the (to reduce the engine’s given that every sentient good grasp of the subject. so-called Retrofit bearing already failed; even a
well-written, accurate engine upgrades since water-cooled M96 and running temperature), a being in the developed Catch up with you in half or, if the engine is being video showing how to

tel: 01242 620180; www.cotswold for their invaluable technical assistance

and above all informative 2002. It has achieved that earlier M97 engines that power-steering oil-cooler, world now seems to have an hour or so, then... stripped for a rebuild, assess your existing
text and pictures that status primarily through since 1996 have powered and several products to
they are the intellectual its own innovative Nickies mainstream 911s, as well address the seemingly FOR WANT OF A NAIL THE SHOE WAS LOST… things. First, it releases metallic swarf into the lubrication system,
equivalent of stumbling cylinder barrels, but also as Boxsters and Caymans. clear and present danger It may be only a tiny component, but the M96/M97 IMS bearing in which quickly works its way through the entire engine, destroying
its various forms is vitally important to the health of these water- bearing surfaces. It’s the early signs of this that the IMS Guardian
across a cache of cold by offering associated These include additional of intermediate-shaft

porschespecialists.co.uk. LN Engineering, to Paul Stacey at Northway Porsche in

cooled Porsche engines. (Although it does not figure, of course, in system is designed to detect. Second, it allows axial movement of
beers in the middle of the components made to the Nickies cylinder liners and bearing failure – aka the either the GT3 or the Turbo/GT2 engine.) It supports, as its name the end of the intermediate shaft, which because it also drives the
suggests, the flywheel end of the intermediate shaft, which runs camshaft chains can all too easily upset the valve timing, to the
Mojave Desert. same high standards by a JE forged pistons, R&R much feared and certainly below and parallel with the crankshaft. And its failure does two extent that valves hit pistons. And that, as always, is game over.
With the flywheel Prise out green It’s this vicious-
removed there is
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If only centre part
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intermediate-shaft either ‘long’ or can sometimes be the engine in the
bearing flange, ‘short’ locking removed with a pic on the far left –
even with engine plate as needed special extractor. that wreaks havoc
still in car. First (left). Long is for throughout the

upgrade kits for both types of M96 IMS

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from LN toolkit will or absence of cut- pic 6 above). But before they can do
slide through outs in end of inlet the end of shaft – too much damage.

bearing, and also the M97 unit that and Ollie Preston at RPM Technik in
pulley into hole cam will quickly and not least the LN replacement
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cylinder block. Full locking tool (again bearing retaining should be plenty
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PROJECTS
WE DON’T JUST WRITE ABOUT PORSCHES,
GETTING THERE!
Our 912/6 is coming along just fine – only
one step back after three steps forward,
KEITH SEUME
1966 912
Occupation: Editor,
Classic Porsche
WE DRIVE AND LIVE WITH THEM, TOO Home town: Lostwithiel,
rather than the usual two… But if it was Cornwall
easy, everyone would do it, right? Previous Porsches owned:
Carrera 2.7; 928; 912; 914/6;
Story and photography: Keith Seume
Junior Tractor
THE TEAM Car: 912

T
here comes a where to start, so began Year: 1966
point in every fiddling around with bits Owned for: Nearly two years!
JOHNNY TIPLER project when you and bobs like door locks Mods/options: Six-cylinder
suddenly realise and striker plates. One engine conversion, etc.
964 C2 (PEPPERMINT PIG) Contact:
that, instead of removing thing I was pleased to see
How do you replace an icon? It looks like I may have to classicporsche@chpltd.com
bits and pieces, you can was how nicely the doors
start again, because the Peppermint Pig and I may have to part THIS MONTH IN BRIEF:
company. One or two ‘fanciers’ on start to bolt parts back lined up, which was more
Putting it back together…
the continent have asked me to on. For me, that point than could be said of the
‘name my price,’ in which case, arrived as soon as the car window frames when I first
bearing in mind escalating 964
was pushed out of the tried to install them. a lot more involved than
values and its new engine, means
ballpark £40K. Watch this space. paint booth – I couldn’t The frames are made you might think. Fitting all
wait to get started. from extruded aluminium the seals and scrapers is
The goal was to have and bolted together. It one thing, getting the
PETER SIMPSON the car in some kind of seems they bend fairly window winder mechanism
presentable state by early easily if you’re not careful and glass to fit (and work)
996 C4/CARRERA 3.4 TARGA September, so I could and their exact shape is another. My door glass
The 996 is still going well and I’ve finally made the show it off at Classics at appears to vary from car still won’t wind up and
decision to sell it and move on. The Targa needs my attention and
will soon be in full swing. If anyone
the Castle, Hedingham, to car – maybe the down without help and I
wants to get involved in the buildup Essex. That was the plan workers on the assembly know I’ll have to pull it all
of the 3.4 backdate fire me an but it wasn’t to be for a line gave them a slight to pieces again. One day…
email and let’s see what we can do. I variety of reasons. tweak to match the Mounting the seats was
can’t wait to get it back out on the
I didn’t expect El Chucho frames to the car? Mine the next step. I had
road – I did love driving this car.
to be drivable – the engine just didn’t sit right, so I originally planned on
woes I described last time compared them to a set making some simple
KEITH SEUME saw to that – but I did off another 911, and they supports to run from sills
hope to have the rest of were even worse. In the to centre tunnel onto
912/6 (EL CHUCO) the car together in time. end, I had to apply some which I could bolt the
Engine build? Underway! Gearbox rebuild? All done! What I had totally gentle ‘persuasion’ to get Corbeau runners. Then I
Seats? Check! Well, Cornish tartan, actually… Suspension? Getting
underestimated, of course, my frames to line up. decided to use the
there. Brakes? OK, OK, still a long
way to go. Stop trying to rush me, is how long it takes to If you’ve never done it original Porsche runners
alright? El Chucho is definitely reassemble a pile of parts before, reassembling all instead, as they are far
taking shape and I’m a happy bunny – into what passes as a 912. the components in a door superior – that meant
but I’ll be even happier when I can
I didn’t really know quite takes a long time – there is drilling new mounting
fire it up and drive the little mongrel!

STEVE BENNETT
944 LUX
Putting on the miles in my ECU enhanced 944. The
extra power is welcome, but what’s really noticeable is the extra
20bhp in the mid-range. It feels very
gutsy now. And we’re not finished
yet. The ASNU injectors have been
trialled by Augment Automotive,
and they’re producing yet more
power. Will be fitted to my car soon.

BRETT FRASER
BOXSTER S
Having recently been lucky enough to drive the new
GT3 and 911 Turbo, I wondered if getting back into the Boxster
might leave me feeling a bit flat.
Strangely not. Yes, it’s beginning to
feel a bit old, and obviously it’s not
as quick as those two, yet its
quintessential Porscheness
remains intact and endearing.

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RUNNING REPORTS

holes to line up with the pretty, so I attacked one engines than most others around Ford V6 coil packs Shame it can’t sit this low when
it’s done! The 912/6 is starting to
base of the seats. But with a hole saw to remove put together, stepped in and EDIS units. With a come together now, and most
what about the supports? excess material and and offered to assemble custom-made exhaust major components have now been
rounded up ready for the rebuild
After some thought, I it’s looking better already. our 2.2-litre ‘six’. system from Turbo
changed direction and All I have to decide is We’re using the original Thomas, it should be an CONTACT
decided to use 1/4-inch whether to have them case, crankshaft, rods and interesting package, R-to-RSR:
www.r-to-rsr.com
aluminium plate which powder-coated black or go heads, but fitting WebCam especially in a relatively Mike Bainbridge:
bolts to the original for a polished finish. ‘S’ cams with matching light SWB 911! www.mbporsche-
Porsche seat mounts on But what of the hard-welded rocker arms, Braking is to be taken engineering.co.uk
WebCam:
the sills and tunnel, the mechanical side of the 1.0mm-oversize Wossner care of by four-wheel billet www.webcamshafts.com
seat runners then being project. In the last 10:1 forged pistons and calipers from R-to-RSR, the Wossner pistons:
www.tsr-
bolted directly to this. instalment I told of my ARP studs and rod-bolts. fronts being six-pots, the
performancestore.com
It was simple (like me, engine woes, but things The plan is to twin-plug rears four. These Powerflex:
really…) and effective and are now starting to look up the heads while it’s apart. impressive calipers allow www.powerflex.co.uk
made it easy to decide in a big way. Bob Watson, Topping this off will be the use of larger vented Brakes are six- and four-pot
exactly where to locate long-time 911 engine the ITB injection from front discs from a Carrera billet calipers with later vented
discs. Purple polybushes from
the seats. However, the specialist with more Jenvey and a crank-fire 3.2 (or 911SC), while at the Powerflex are used throughout
flat plates don’t look very experience at building 911 ignition system based rear we’re using discs from the suspension

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a non-Turbo Porsche 944. five-speed but wished to been fitted relatively of the car’s life – in my New pistons are 85mm (ie, 1mm-
oversize) forgings from Wossner.
These are the same offset retain the later differential recently with new hands, at least… 911S-spec cams and hard-
as the original SWB discs unit. This is where Mike bearings, which was a So, what’s next? As we welded rocker arms were
but require the use of later Bainbridge stepped in to bonus. He also found ‘speak’, I’m refitting all the supplied by the good folk at
WebCam in California
narrow handbrake linings. help, offering to combine evidence of a broken first suspension, building it up
We also had to redrill the the two units by installing gear in the five-speed unit with new polybushes from
hole for one of the disc the five-speed gear cluster in the shape of a solitary Powerflex, prior to getting
retaining screws. into the later transmission. tooth sitting in the bottom the car on its side
When I bought the car, it This was a pretty of the case! You can see it courtesy of a ‘tilt-roller’ so
came with two gearboxes: straightforward job for ‘attached’ to the drain plug that I can finish sealing
the original five-speed someone like Mike but in the photo below. every seam and applying
aluminium case 901 and a would have been beyond Anyway, Mike worked his copious amounts of stone-
slightly later magnesium- my means as I have no magic and I now have a chip. Then I can install the
cased 911 four-speed. The experience with Porsche fully-rebuilt mag-cased brake and fuel lines in
latter had been installed in gearboxes – or any five-speed ready to go in readiness for when the Mike Bainbridge built a five-
speed gearbox for the project
the car to take advantage gearboxes, for that matter! the car once we’re ready. engine comes ‘home’. using the internals of the
of the stronger differential When Mike pulled the It’s certainly reassuring to It’s been two years since original aluminium-cased four-
speed with the later differential
and larger output flanges. later unit apart he know the transmission I bought the car and now
and magnesium case from the
I, however, wanted a discovered that it had would be good for the rest I’m getting impatient! PW four-speed we inherited

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PORSCHE PROBLEMS?
E-MAIL US AT PORSCHEMAN1956@YAHOO.CO.UK,
AND WE’LL PASS THEM ON TO OUR RESIDENT EXPERTS TO ANSWER
MEET THE TEAM
Welcome to 911 & Porsche World’s Q&A pages, edited and assembled by the
magazine’s technical man and incorrigible do-it-yourselfer, Chris Horton (right).
It’s much the same format as you would expect – you ask, and our experts
answer – but we have recently added more detail (including part numbers and
typical costs, and also contact phone numbers and websites where relevant),
and not least as many illustrations as we can squeeze in. Please note that all
prices quoted were to the best of our knowledge correct – for the UK market
– at the time of writing, and for the sake of consistency generally exclude VAT,
unless otherwise stated. We naturally do our very best to make sure that the
information given is both accurate and useful, but unfortunately we can CHRIS HORTON PAULSTACEY PETERTOGNOLA PERSCHROEDER OLLIEPRESTON
accept no responsibility for any effects arising from it. 911 & Porsche World Northway Porsche Tognola Engineering Stoddard Imported Cars RPM Technik

986 BOXSTER KEY PROBLEMS MIGHT BE DUE TO A WATERLOGGED ALARM MODULE

I own a 2004 Boxster that has covered country, all costing (here in the UK, anyway) is soaking wet. In order to replace the alarm-
70,000km – I think that’s about 45,000 miles. around the £100 mark – plus VAT. system control module you will again require
When I first bought the car, back in March, The other issue that we often see is water the programming codes, and at the time of
both of the keys had flat batteries, and the ingress into the passenger floor area, which writing the unit costs £258.54 plus VAT.
man I bought it from said he just used the Chris Horton wrote an extensive article about The part number is 996 618 262 02.
key manually to lock and unlock the door. earlier this year. The alarm control unit (see One final thing is to make sure that the car
I replaced the batteries, and then both below) is attached to the floor under the doesn't beep at you when it is being locked.
keys seemed to work fine – sometimes. passenger seat, and once it becomes full of One beep means that a door/lid or a window
Occasionally the car will lock and unlock with water can – not surprisingly – generate all has been left open, and two beeps that the
the remote, as normal, and then on other sorts of problems. If you pull the seat forward system has detected a fault in one of the
days it will have none of it. There doesn’t and place your hand under the carpet at the other components, which will require
seem to be any pattern to it, though: it’s just base of the rear bulkhead you may find that it diagnosing with the Porsche system tester.
totally random. The same goes for the front
and rear bonnet buttons on the key.
The central-locking button on the
dashboard works fine, as do the front and
rear bonnet release switches on the right-
hand sill. I was just wondering if anybody else
out there has had a similar experience.
Matthew Lomas, Queensland, Australia

Paul Stacey, Northway Porsche: The alarm

system in both the 986-model Boxster and
the 996 Carrera does have a few common
failure issues. First, and most likely, is the
remote control in the key(s) playing up.
Once the battery has been replaced or has
gone flat it loses its coding, and unfortunately
cannot be recoded to the car with the
Porsche software. This is due to the military-
style encryption used: once the buttons have
been used more than 50 times the car will
change the code. This is also known as anti-
grab coding. The result is that new remotes Boxster (and 996) alarm issues can have several fairly common causes, but the key battery is
have to be programmed to the car, and the probably the most obvious thing to check and/or replace first. Rainwater in the system’s ECU,
codes for each car have to be obtained from beneath the left-hand seat (in left-hand-drive cars, too), is a strong possibility, too. Slide forward
Porsche. There are numerous different the seat – here removed for clarity – and feel for dampness behind it, where the floor meets the
remotes depending on model, year and bulkhead. For more on fixing water leaks see pages 86–89 in our March 2013 issue

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Q&A

993’S WIPER BLADES NEED A SILENCING RUBBER BUFFER FITTED BETWEEN THEM
I recently fitted a pair of new windscreen- have any suggestions? Might I simply have situation you describe. The Porsche part
wiper blades to my 1994-model 993. Since fitted the new blades wrongly? number for the set of two blades is 993 628
then, whenever I run the wipers at their Mark Radford 901 00 (they retail at £30.60 plus VAT), and for
fastest setting they seem to be knocking the buffer 993 628 239 01. That costs £3.10
together at some point – although then, of Ollie Preston, RPM Technik: You don’t name plus VAT, and the accompanying photos give a
course, the rapid movement of the arms the brand of wiper blades you have bought, pretty clear view of how it fits. By way of
makes it rather difficult to see exactly what’s but from what you say I am guessing that comparison, after-market blades – which may
going on. It’s not a huge problem at the they must be relatively cheap after-market or may not have provision for fitting the
moment, thanks to what has turned out to be items, rather than genuine Porsche parts. The rubber buffer – can at the moment be bought
a surprisingly dry summer here in the UK, but I latter incorporate – although it has to be for as little as a couple of pounds each, but
suspect it will soon become very annoying bought separately; typical Porsche! – a small as usual in these circumstances I think you
come the autumn and then winter. Do you rubber buffer designed to prevent just the get what you pay for.

Unusually, if not uniquely, both of the 993’s two windscreen wiper arms pivot from near the centre of the scuttle panel, and as a result the blades need
to be kept apart by this small rubber buffer (arrowed). Unfortunately, some after-market wipers don’t have the necessary cut-out in the metal to allow
this to be fitted, with the result that at the mechanism’s fastest setting the two blades can knock together. The answer should be obvious!

SPARE-PART SURGERY REVITALISES 986 BOXSTER’S HEATER CONTROL PANEL – WORKS FOR 996, TOO
One of the many fascinating technical issues I discussed with Lee Jones from and finding out what happens if you change just the screen.’
Cotswold Porsche Specialists while photographing this issue’s how-to story And the answer, of course, is that a control panel carefully ‘cannibalised’ in this
(see pages 92–95) was the later models’ increasingly complex and occasionally way works perfectly – as Lee proved for me there and then by performing the task
troublesome electronic systems. (Lee used to design high-end circuitry for the on the very same Boxster that we had been using for that how-to feature, and
military, so I think he probably knows what he is talking about.) whose heater-control screen had plainly haemorrhaged in a big way.
He mentioned, almost in passing, that he had on several occasions recently Whether you will want to do the job yourself is a moot point – although I would
been asked to supply a second-hand heater control panel for either a 986 or a say that it’s perfectly feasible for anyone with reasonable mechanical aptitude
996, almost invariably because while the customer’s unit still functioned well and eyesight, and not least nimble fingers – but Lee is happy either to supply a
enough, the characteristic LCD display had ‘bled’ – much like the one in the good unit for anyone who does fancy trying it (with the help of my step-by-step
accompanying picture (below). Looks a real mess, doesn’t it? photographs, perhaps?), or else to rebuild your existing module for you.
‘We’ve broken up enough Boxsters and 911s since we started the business back Either way, you are looking at a cost of around £85 or £105, respectively, both
in 2011 to have a pretty good stock of these units,’ says Lee. ‘But the trouble is figures including VAT and postage, and clearly representing a hefty saving over the
that you can fit one car’s heater control panel only to another vehicle of pretty roughly £420 plus fitting and VAT that you might pay for a brand-new unit at a
much exactly the same type and age – and even then there seems to be no Porsche Centre – or perhaps even an independent who doesn’t have this
cast-iron guarantee that they will subsequently talk to each other as they are specialised knowledge. For more information call Cotswold Porsche Specialists Ltd
meant to. Knowing from personal experience how all this stuff is designed and put on 01242 620180, or go to www.cotswoldporschespecialists.co.uk. And, as I say,
together, though, I realised that it would be worth taking a couple of units apart, see also pages 92–95 for the full story on a highly cost-effective Boxster refurb.

The complete heater control module, as you will see from the final two Repeat the process with your donor module, and then reassemble the good one
photographs in the accompanying group, is secured into the fascia by a by reversing the dismantling procedure. Don’t bend the metal tabs too far,
simple plastic edge trim, and just two cross-head screws. Once it’s out, and though, and risk breaking them – and keep your fingers away from any of the
unplugged from the car’s own wiring, undo the three screws securing the circuitry to prevent possible electrostatic damage. Last but not least, keep the
front panel: one at each top corner, and a third in the middle of the lower outermost front panel face down as far as possible, or you risk the control
edge. Gently pull the panel forward – be careful not to strain the ribbon buttons and their inner ‘membrane’ falling out. That’s not a disaster – unless you
cable – and undo the seven smaller cross-head screws securing the printed lose one of the buttons – but certainly quite fiddly to rectify. By the way, Lee did
circuit board to the back of the front panel. Straighten the eight metal recommend taking precautions to avoid possible circuit or component damage
tangs with a suitable pair of pliers – small, but at the same time broad from electrostatic discharges, but at the same time is realistic about what most
enough to span more or less the full width of the twist. Gently pull the people will have available to them. An anti-static mat is the preferred option,
circuit board away from the outer front panel, and then equally carefully pull although an inexpensive anti-static heel strap would offer some protection, too.
the screen proper away from the circuit board. If it doesn’t come easily Failing either of those, be sure to handle the electronic PCBs only by the edges,
check that those bent tabs are all as straight as possible reducing the risk of an ESD ‘strike’ to any of the components fitted

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Q&A

BARGAIN 996 CABRIO NEEDS A HOME WORKSHOP MANUALS THE 21ST CENTURY WAY
Not exactly a Q&A item, this – than any other 996 – or 997 – You were kind enough to answer a question about my Cayenne’s PDDC reservoir
although a cynic (not me!) might costing twice or even three
mischievously suggest that a times the price. And at this level here in Q&A a few months ago. Now I have two more for you!
sub-£10K 996 could itself soon that has to be well worth a punt, First, is it possible to obtain a workshop manual for the 2010 958-model
become the subject of one. Or I reckon. More information, as I
more. Either way, I feel I ought to say, in the August edition, or call
(ie new-shape) Cayenne Diesel?
use a small part of this technical Kenny Harding on 01844 339210. On the same model there is not the usual opening at the rear of the brake
section to tell you that the 911 Please!!! If it sits there for much caliper through which the friction pads can be removed and replaced. Is it the
Carrera Cabrio featured as one of longer I might even have to give
my Tried & Tested cars in the it a good home myself. case that the three Torx screws must be removed, partially disassembling the
August 2013 issue (page caliper in order to replace the pads? If so, is it necessary also to renew the Torx
125) is still for sale. bolts with each pad change?
I know this because I
drive past it pretty much TRIED&TESTED
WITH 911 & PORSCHE WORLD’S CONSULTANT EDITOR, CHRIS HORTON
Bill Douglas, Perth, Western Australia
every day – and thus I 911 CARRERA CABRIOLET 3.4 I 1999/‘T’ I 103,561 MILES I £10,450

know, too, that vendor

I
t’s not often that we feature in Tried & Tested section of damaged steel pipe – and unfortunately I forgot
CHECKLIST

Paul Stacey, Northway Porsche: All of the latest official Porsche workshop
Porsches from non-specialist car lots. Here, though, to assess the system’s output. But it’s probably safe to
is an exception – five miles from Schloss Horton, say that it will need a new pipe and then a regas. Background: A run-of-the-mill,

Kenny Harding at
at LPG conversion specialist Oxford AutoGas in Wheels and tyres are good. The former, with subtle but common-or-garden, 996
Tiddington, just up the road from Junction 8A of attractive black-and-silver centre caps, are the standard Carrera 2 Cabriolet – and none
the M40. It would have been rude to ignore it. 17-inch Carrera rims, and show no signs of kerbing or the worse for that. Standard

manuals are essentially Internet-based only, and as such are intended solely for
With introductions courtesy of my welder friend, Eugene corrosion. Which is more than can be said of their rusty six-speed manual gearbox,

Tiddington Garage has Farrell, who lives nearby and knows OAG’s owner, Kenny
Harding, I pitch up effectively unannounced one day, and
trustingly Kenny hands me the key for an unaccompanied
fixing bolts, but shamefully that’s something you’ll find in
many modern Porsches. Tyres are ContiSportContacts:
fronts are OK, rears nearly new. Likewise the brake discs –
17-inch Carrera wheels, heated
Sports seats. On offer at a
general car-repair and LPG-
conversion specialist near

recently reduced the test-drive. He even has one of his staff set to with bucket
and chamois to wash off the dust that soon gathers on
vehicles at any busy roadside site like this. Impressive.
almost brand-new at the front, barely worn at the rear.
The Metropole Blue interior needs some TLC, but given
the benefit of that should look respectable. The levers for
Oxford. No tax, but a year’s MoT
and some recent history
Where is it? the dealer network. You can, however, download certain files from
And I am just as impressed by the car – bought at the front and rear lid releases are scuffed, there’s a small

price to a frankly almost

Oxford AutoGas is based at
auction, to give the forecourt a bit of bling. OK, so it’s not tear in the right-hand side bolster of the driver’s seat, and Tiddington Garage, Tiddington,

www.porsche.com/uk at a cost per file. From the menu on the left-hand side of
the smartest of its type. But it scrubs up well, with more the hinged armrest lid refuses to remain closed – all very Oxfordshire OX9 2LH;
to come; overall, it has many surprisingly good points for common 996 maladies. There’s no sign of floormats, and I tel: 01844 339210; e-mail:

giveaway £9750. OK, so

info@oxfordautogas.com
any now 14-year-old 996; it also has an entirely acceptable don’t much like the pieces of after-market plastic trim that
For: Specification, colour, price,
specification, including heated Sports seats and the later appear to have been stuck all over the centre console,
and while superficially not the
clear indicator lenses, as well as a good colour scheme but maybe they could be peeled off. Or maybe not… smartest 996 out there is none

it has done quite a high

and that convertible roof – and it is very keenly priced.
The mileage is fairly high, of course, and the engine
seemingly original, but what that suggests to me is that,
reputation notwithstanding, this one will possibly live to
The hood opens and closes smoothly, and the plastic
rear window is undamaged. The fabric has a few small
marks, but no sign of problems with the tensioning cables
(see last month’s how-to). Up front, there’s a newish
the less surprisingly good when
you look more closely. Drives
very nicely, too, thanks to a
number of recent new parts
the home page go down to Service & Accessories, across to Porsche Service, and
mileage (103,000, as I see the best part of another 50,000. It starts easily (from
stone-cold; they didn’t know when I was arriving), with no
tell-tale smoke in the exhaust, and apart from what might
battery, a Porsche CDC-3 CD changer (the head unit is a
CR-22 radio/cassette player), and the usual space-saver
spare wheel. Once again, though, a thorough valeting of
Against: Mileage, and
inevitably the possibility that
the M96 engine could go the
then roughly halfway down the following page to Technical Service Information.
way of many (but by no means

recall), but it’s a nice

be a faint whine from an alternator bearing sounds spot- the luggage compartment certainly wouldn’t go amiss.
all) others. Arguably worth the
on. Oil and coolant levels check out, and oil pressure at hot No obvious issues out on the road. The ride is smooth
risk at this price level, though

You will have to set up an account, which you can then either keep in credit or else
idle is around 3.0 bar, quickly rising as the engine is revved. and refined, similarly the no less important clutch and gear Verdict: Having rather
The paint is average rather than spectacular, but would shift. The engine pulls strongly, and the brakes, as you’d

colour combination, it
opportunistically spotted the
benefit from a more thorough wash and wax. No obvious expect of discs that smooth, are drama-free. Steering is car on a local forecourt – and
major blemishes (apart from a scratch on the right-hand both light and quiet in operation, and while the car feels not being a great Cabrio fan – I
mirror shell, a scuff at the right-hand end of the rear apron, directionally just a little skittish that may be simply the wasn’t expecting to be overly

drives well (the gearbox pay for each file that you view.
and a chip below the fuel filler), but the front apron is dull, need for a bit of tweaking in the geometry department. impressed. But do you know
and its underside quite markedly scraped. Several of the There’s no road tax, but the car will leave with both a what? I really liked it! The car
associated bits of moulded plastic are hanging off, as well, year’s MoT and a basic warranty. Whether all that makes needs, as I’ve said, a bit more
TLC, but it certainly has plenty
but would be neither difficult nor expensive to replace. it a bargain will depend on both your aspirations and your

is the smooth-shifting The air-con condensers appear to be clean and dry – as financial muscle, as well as your willingness to accept a
to commend it. Worth a look

six-speed manual), and

does the underside of the engine; so much for those
famous RMS leaks – and the rest of the under-floor area is
OK, too. The only real worry is what looks like a piece of
coolant hose Jubilee-clipped round the air-con pipe next to
degree of risk, but I think it has potential. Yes, the engine
could go horribly wrong, and that would take the shine off
anyone’s day, but the fact is that even spending more
than two or three times as much on a 996 (or 997) cannot
As for the brake pads on the Cayenne, the easiest method of replacing them is
the right-hand front jacking point – or even in place of a guarantee 100 per cent reliability in that department. PW

as I suggested a few to remove the caliper from the hub, and then to remove the pads through the
months back is arguably Value at a glance bottom of the caliper. They can be a little tricky to get back in with the spring

no more likely to suffer Condition
Price 


plates, but that is certainly easier than taking the caliper itself apart.
Performance
Overall 

an engine meltdown  Poor  Fair  OK

 Very good  Excellent

GT3-LOOK 996: A QUESTION – BUT ANOTHER WELCOME UPDATE, TOO

I thought I would drop you a line to give you another upwards of £800 on an amplifier, custom subwoofer Paul Stacey, Northway Porsche: The 996 up to the
brief update on my GT3-look 996 Carrera 2, which you and new speakers and so on, I have decided simply to 2001 model year will have only two oxygen sensors,
have been kind enough to feature several times in try upgrading the speakers first with a kit from JMG in both of them fitted upstream of the catalysts. This
these Q&A pages since I bought it last year, but firstly Bournemouth (http://www.jmgshop.com). means that you could, in theory, remove the cats and
to ask a technical question. The problem comes when you remove the existing the management system won’t be affected, although
I had a new Dansk exhaust system fitted to the speakers, and discover that Porsche (in its infinite the engine will sound rather loud without them.
car, and this has, as I expected, exposed the wisdom) uses a three-point fixing for them, rather If your car was built for the 2001 model year or
weakness of the now 14-year-old manifolds. I always than the industry-standard four. But the speakers later it will have the system with four oxygen
knew that these would need replacing sooner or I have ordered are part of a conversion kit, developed sensors, which means that the engine checks the
later. The right-hand manifold can be heard ‘fluffing’ by JMG, so I shall update you again once I have fitted efficiency of the cats, and will immediately bring on
at tickover, and I think it is also a little raspy under them. After-market under-seat (or in my case, behind- the check engine light, or CEL, if they are removed.
acceleration. That said, I intend to hang on as long as the-rear-seats) subwoofer bass boost units can be Either way, the major downside of running the car
possible before fitting new ones, in an attempt to found for around £150 – again a DIY fit. with no cats comes when it is due the annual MoT
limit my 2013 expenditure. So, life with T130 DUY – or L20 NCS as it now is – is test. All cars first registered after August 1992 had to
My question relates to catalytic converters. My car as wonderful as ever. The car always puts a smile on have a catalyst(s) fitted as standard (so your source
– which is actually a 1999-registered 911 Carrera 3.4 – my face, as well as rattling a few fillings driving on of information is quite wrong), and this is a legal
has catalysts fitted already, but I understand that the local roads, due to the sports suspension that requirement for the emissions part of the MoT test.
these are a legal requirement only in cars sold after came as part of the Aerokit option! By the way, you suggest that the exhaust
March 2001. On this basis, am I able to remove these If anyone reading this is hesitating about investing manifolds are somehow leaking. This may well be true,
‘cats’, and replace them with a bypass pipe, without in one of these fantastic cars, then all I can say is do of course, but are you sure it’s not simply the gaskets
affecting the engine management system? I presume your homework, do your maths, expect £1000 a year between them and the cylinder heads that are the
that in removing the catalysts I would see an increase in running costs (at least!), and then just go ahead problem? Even that is not the easiest or cheapest of
in performance – or have I got that all wrong? Your and have some fun. Life is just too short not to. issues to solve, thanks to what are usually horribly
advice would be much appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you – or even to corroded fixing bolts, that simply break when you try
Now for that promised update. All is going well, seeing my question in the magazine. to undo them, but at least you might not necessarily
and the Porsche has had many outings, both short Graham Loncaster, Yorkshire need to buy new manifolds. Just a thought...
and long. I am quite pleased with the average 23mpg
that I get on shorter runs, and this figure improves to
nearer 27mpg on a longer trip, when I have the
chance to use that high sixth gear for a while.
I have invested in an indoor cover – I am lucky
enough to be able to keep the car in my garage when
it’s not in use – and was pleasantly surprised to find
that the best price was from Porsche Centre Sutton
Coldfield. I had spotted an advert on eBay (not
realising that it had been placed by a Porsche main
dealer) and asked whether it would fit the 996 with
Aerokit – which is, of course, what my car is.
After a couple of e-mails and phone calls I was
offered the cover for £212 including VAT and first-
class postage – a cracking price when you consider
what these covers are being sold for on specialist
Porsche websites! It just goes to show that
sometimes it’s best to speak to a main dealer first.
Anyway, my thanks to Ben Carr at PC Sutton Coldfield Graham Loncaster’s GT3-look 996 is still providing him with much pleasure, and he has plainly caught
for his help and attention. He even included a couple the modification bug in a big way – hardly surprising given the model’s huge potential. One thing he
of packs of Porsche-branded sweets for my two sons. can’t realistically do, though, is ‘decat’ the exhaust system for more performance. Catalysts are a legal
Finally, I have ordered myself a birthday present, requirement for road use in all cars first registered in the UK after August 1992 – so even the last 964s
which I intend to fit myself, too. Having spoken to a are in theory thus affected. The car lives in a garage when not in use, now under a slinky new cover
local car-audio specialist, who wanted me to spend Graham bought for a bargain price from Porsche Centre Sutton Coldfield – see text

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suspension, rebuilt, Konis, kingpins brought over from Germany, the
etc, £80,000. Tel: 01622 728899. car is still registered in Germany
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MoTs/history since 1976, excellent see her father…
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player/Alpine speakers, FSH with on bringing it to excellent
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months’ road tax and MoT, excellent discs, pads, paintwork and more, all exceptional stunning condition, white
condition inside and out for year, 993 gremlins sorted, £28,745. Tel:
leather, massive history folder,
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full service history, recent alloys, full service history, new Carrera Sport wheels, extended receipts plus history,
engine rebuild £11,995 clutch, discs & pads £12,995 navigation module, Park Assist, rear comprehensive recent service at
seats, Sport Chrono Package Plus, Porsche Tonbridge, no expense or
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white with blue pinstripe interior, S2
CAYENNE
wheels with Michelin Pilot tyres, also
original teledials, exceptional original
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BOXSTER
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the cost of the car. It is a 65,000
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1999 C4 in black with black leather
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security system. This 996 is not christopher.wright@
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with Yokohama Advan AD08 tyres,
no damage, like new. New project 944 TURBO, 1986, C-reg, 89,000
forces sale, £21,950. miles, mint condition, FSH, former
Tel: 07947 254765. Project 996 can concours winner, much cherished
be viewed at RPM. Email: car for sale due to arrival of 911,
peter@chpltd.com. P1113/026 £7250. Tel: 07917 707670 or 01342
810018. P1113/056 MAZDA MX-5 MONTANA 2003,
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Sport Chrono, sat nav, heated seats,
2013, comprehensive service
19” alloy wheels, mileage 1100 (eleven
history, Montana upgrades include
hundred miles), Meteor Grey, warranty
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and MoT until May 2014, £48,000. Tel: chrome pack, air conditioning, hard
07860 350985. Email: top included, £3795. Tel: 01560
andrew.m.knight@btinternet.com 480862. Email: porschehb@aol.com
(Staffs). P1113/031 (Ayrshire). P1113/054
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911 CARRERA 3.2 TARGA SUPER SPORT  1989/‘G’  14,512 MILES  £46,995

I
can’t help but think that anything I might write Cosmetically, as I have suggested, the car is just about
CHECKLIST
about this truly exceptional 911 Carrera 3.2 – which perfect: from paintwork to the very smallest item of trim.
has the added rarity value of not just a lift-out roof Even the registration plates are brand-new (and the Background: One of the last
panel but also the wide, Turbo-style body – will risk number is part of the deal). All the usual 3.2 wear points – and most highly specified
merely stating the bleeding obvious. Nearly a the bumper bellows; the so-called ‘smile’ under the leading examples of the ever-popular
quarter of a century old it may be, with five previous edge of the front lid; the moulded lip around the rear wing; Carrera 3.2 – and now arguably
owners, and getting on for 15,000 miles on the clock. even the door-pocket lids, now so often annoyingly wavy – the best preserved, bar none.
Super Sport designation
But it is to all intents and purposes quite literally are here essentially irrelevant. There is a very light scuff on
provides the 930 Turbo’s
brand-new, and as such an enticingly wide-open portal the right-hand side of the driver’s seat – which I’m sure a
suspension, brakes and iconic
into a long-lost world of rampant Thatcherism, first-class trimmer such as Southbound in Hampshire wide body; Targa means lift-out
City wideboys in loud red braces, Amstrad personal could easily eliminate – and the top of the gear knob is roof panel and big, wraparound
computers (remember those?), and mobile phones slightly worn (suggesting that the car has been used rear window. Five owners,
famously the size of housebricks. Happy days... primarily for relatively low-speed urban cruising, perhaps), low mileage, a year’s MoT, and
Registered in early August 1989 – barely a couple of but even the dark-blue carpet feels as fluffy and as tactile apart from a few easily fixable
weeks before the Marchioness disaster on the River as a new-born kitten. Overmats? Of course – and no less blemishes is simply perfect
Thames in the very heart of London – it’s on offer at clean or appealing, either. The only other possible points- Where is it?
Hexagon Modern Classics. Their similarly stunning 1976 losers – and the car would still make the perfect concours Hexagon Modern Classics is
part of Hexagon Classics,
912E (now in the hands of a delighted new owner in the d’elegance contender – are the slightly baggy inner lining
based in central London. Cars
West Country) you might remember from these pages in for the Targa roof panel, and the tired-looking weather
are shown by appointment in
our March 2013 issue. Paint is mirror-smooth Baltic Blue seals behind each door glass, but again Southbound or its its East Finchley premises,
metallic, and the upholstery is in Linen leather; that’s an ilk ought to be able to deal quite easily with those. and a new modern-classics-only
equally appealing cream colour, basically. Wheels, as you Mechanically, too, this 3.2 must now have few equals. showroom is opening soon.
can see, are the iconic 16-inch Fuchs of the contemporary The engine compartment both looks and smells new, with Call Jonathan Franklin on
911 Turbo, with the usual full-colour, Porsche-crested no hint of an oil leak, and likewise the entire underside is 07522 911911, or else go to
centre caps, chrome-plated covers for their fixing bolts, crying out for someone to do nothing more strenuous hexagonmodern classics.com –
and again mirror-smooth Baltic Blue spokes. Very nice. than a little detailing and clear the board at a concours where you will find a selection
Additional equipment, over and above the obvious event. All four (drilled) brake discs are reassuringly smooth of images of both this and many
other truly stunning Porsches
Turbo-style body configuration and matching wheels – the and bright – despite the car’s relative lack of use – and
For: Condition, condition,
Super Sport was, of course, essentially a 911 Turbo with although they are not easily visible I don’t doubt that the
condition. It’s really that
the standard, naturally aspirated 3.2-litre engine – consists pads are fine, too. Tyres are Pirelli PZeros front and rear, simple. You won’t find another
of the 930’s classic tea-tray rear wing (and the same the former virtually unworn, the latter with probably 80–90 one like this any time soon
model’s red-enamelled, 917-derived brake calipers), per cent of their tread depth remaining – although I must Against: Not exactly
headlamp washers, part-electric adjustment for both front confess that I didn’t check their age via the code on each inexpensive. And not really
seats (squab height and angle, essentially) and, although sidewall. Ride is predictably smooth and supple, the usable without seeing your
not quite contemporary with the car, a top-class Kenwood steering light but typically engaging, and the clutch and investment start to lose value
KRC-957SRC radio/CD player. That’s the famous ‘stealth’ gear shift the usual G50 delight. And no squeaks or rattles, like any other car. Other than
unit that ingeniously hides itself behind a completely blank even from one of those sometimes noisy Targa roofs. that, what’s not to like?
Verdict: If I was impressed by
front panel. There is no air-c0nditioning, but I can’t see that Performance? Little chance of exploring that on a wet day
Hexagon’s 912E a few months
either making or breaking the deal – and frankly I would be anywhere inside London’s North Circular Road, but again I
ago (and if you read that piece
just as pleased to have the original Porsche tyre-pressure can’t see it being anything but scintillating. you’ll know that I was!), then
gauge, neatly tucked away in the glovebox. Steering wheel History, such as it could ever be at this mileage, is good this – and I’m not a huge fan of
is the attractive three-spoke item of the period. Oh, and – the most recent service was in May, at 14,220 miles – either the Super Sport or Targa
you get the usual electric windows, mirrors and central- the car is road-taxed until December, and like all Hexagon’s ‘options’ – simply took my
locking, of course, plus a key-in-the-slot immobiliser. vehicles it will come with a year’s MoT. Just perfect. PW breath away. Truly stunning

Value at a glance
Condition 
Price 
Performance 
Overall 
 Poor  Fair  OK
 Very good  Excellent

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PORSCHE 18” SPORT Classic 2 rims,
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immediate transfer, vehicle must be have never been damaged or repaired, unused condition, £1250. Tel:
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993-MODEL 911 CARRERA 2  1995/‘M’  92,750 MILES  £24,950

I
t is a measure of the huge and rapid technological than anything more sinister. Take heart, instead, from the
CHECKLIST
progress made by the 911 during the early 1990s exemplary condition of those eye-catching wheels – I still
that this 993 and the Carrera 3.2 on the previous can’t quite decide if they are first-class refurbs, or literally Background: An essentially
spread are in model terms separated by yet a third brand-new – and the unfaded rear reflector strip. standard pre-Varioram 993
– the 964 – but in age alone are fewer than six Inside, there is the perhaps inevitable wear patch on the Carrera 2 with five previous
years apart. And even at now 18 years old the car right-hand side of the driver’s seat (both have part-electric owners. Sold new in Northern
pictured below feels as thoroughly and as genuinely adjustment), but that aside the grey leather and matching Ireland, and came to England in
2002. Unusually for a car of this
modern as does the 3.2 like a throwback to a bygone carpets (with protective overmats front and rear) are just
period has Grand Prix White
age. No wonder that the 993 is still so eagerly sought about flawless – and the former has that wonderful aroma
paint – making it look very
after in this era of the modern water-cooled 911 – or you always get in any well-maintained 993. Equipment, as modern, even now – and also
for much the same reasons the 3.2, come to that. it were, consists of the standard four-spoke airbag Targa-style split-rim wheels.
I can’t see this one taking too long to find a new home. steering wheel, a nice Kenwood radio/CD player (with a No tax, but a good history, and
On paper, and even on first acquaintance, it seems nothing now obviously redundant cassette storage unit at the rear will leave with a full year’s MoT
particularly special – beyond the then relatively unusual of the centre-tunnel console), and not least a somewhat Where is it?
Grand Prix White paint, perhaps, or the distinctive split-rim counter-intuitive remote-operated immobiliser and Hendon Way Motors is on the
wheels, more commonly found as standard equipment on central-locking control. There’s no air-conditioning, but northbound side of the A41 at
the rarer glass-roofed Targa variant. Mileage, too, is about both a sunroof and a rear-window wiper – and I note that Hendon Central, north London,
just a short walk from the
what you would now reasonably expect, with the service the front wipers are missing the rubber buffer designed to
Northern Line Underground
history suggesting that the majority was accumulated prevent them knocking together on their fastest setting.
station. Call 020 8202 8011,
during the first few years of the car’s life. And as one of More on this in Q&A on page 117 of this issue. go to hendonwaymotors.com,
the so-called pre-Varioram models – ie without the modest Mechanically no obvious problems, either. The motor or e-mail sales@hwm.biz
but useful additional power and torque of the 1996 and starts easily and settles to a quiet, steady idle, and even For: Overall condition, colour –
later cars – it is arguably not quite what you might call the when hot has good oil pressure. The engine compartment white is famously making a bit
main 993 event. But to dismiss it on any or all of those is presentable rather than spectacular, but again looks of a comeback these days –
grounds would be to risk missing out on an acknowledged (and smells) entirely honest. You will need some engine-lid those unusual Targa wheels,
and still modestly appreciating Porsche classic that, even support struts pretty soon, though. Nice clutch and gear and if nothing else the simple
if not quite the bargain of the century, is going to make a shift – not that the busy Friday-afternoon traffic in Hendon fact that, well, it’s a 993
Against: Shame about the
thoroughly worthwhile and desirable project for at least allowed much of a drive, I have to confess – and no
previous repairs to both the
the next 18 years – and probably a lot longer than that. obvious rattles or squeaks from beneath. A good ride, too.
left-hand rear wheelarch and
We’ll start, as usual, with the bodywork. A 2009 invoice Brake discs are evenly polished and thus predictably right-hand ‘A’-post (see text),
(for the best part of £1500) is evidence of attention to effective, and all four Continental tyres must be almost but neither – and especially the
corrosion in the backlight surround, and plainly the car has brand-new. Up front, the bonnet struts are OK, tools and latter – is something that you
had some paintwork in this and a couple of other areas. space-saver spare wheel present and correct (beneath won’t find in many other 993s.
There are signs of filler in the left-hand rear wheelarch lip – an unusually good carpet), and there’s a newish Unipart Other than that, not a lot
resulting from a parking scrape, I’m guessing – and the battery with reassuringly clean terminals. All signs of a car Verdict: Not the most
‘A’-post mounting for the driver’s door check-strap (a very that has been enjoyed, basically, but well looked after, too. immediately exciting of 911s,
common problem in the 993 range) has no less clearly Plenty of stamps in the book, starting with Isaac Agnew but seems essentially a very
honest, original and appealing
been repaired. And not entirely convincingly, unfortunately, in Northern Ireland (the car came to England in 2002), and
example of a Porsche model
so that will need doing again sooner or later – but probably most recently (January 2012; 89,245 miles) at No 5 Garage
that famously shows signs of
at a cost of no more than around £500. That apart, the in Acton. There’s a good sheaf of bills and old MoTs, with approaching sainthood. You
only obvious sign of the car’s age is a little gravel rash on the most recent test in January 2013 at 92,423 miles – will find better, and you will
the lower rear part of each front wing, behind the adjacent but like all HWM cars the 993 will leave with a full year’s find cheaper. But not easily
wheel. Likewise the underside of the front apron is slightly ticket. The only other item you will need to think about is one that is cheaper and better
scraped, but it all seems a sign of good, honest toil rather road tax – and insurance, of course. Good to go, then! PW

Value at a glance
Condition 
Price 
Performance 
Overall 
 Poor  Fair  OK
 Very good  Excellent

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