Track set up for driving events.

Tires and suspension set up and adjustments Tire construction and heat cycles: Tire structure is steel and nylon that gives the tire the shape. The outside of the tire is synthetic rubber that heats up with friction and gives us that much needed stick! The greatest...

Boxster coolant tank failure

While Porsche has gotten along with air-cooling for their sports cars for the past 50 years or so, it has come to my attention that all Porsche models are water-cooled, and have been since 1999. The reason for this new-fangled water-cooling is that it maintains a more...

993 Intake Oil Leak

As the last of the air-cooled 911s celebrate over two decades of service to their owners, they seem to more closely emulate their earlier air-cooled ancestors. You see, back in the day… Porsches leaked oil to one extent or another and that was just the way it was....

911 Camshaft fitting Oiling Update

Back in the day before the turn of the last century we didn’t have the internet like it is today with its vast array of information. We were lucky to have a dial up modem to log onto our AOL account! So we couldn’t just click a year and model car and click “Service...

To Spec or Not to Spec

If you gave been following my track driving history you are probably aware that Greg Phillips and I have been sharing track cars for several years. We started driving together when I was between racecars and Greg needed help with track set-up on his gray 928. We moved...