Sunglasses define your personality on first glance. Take a few of the options available through Porsche:
These Porsche Carrera sunglasses were worn by Yoko Ono on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1980s. Huge on style, sporty and not for the shy personality:
1980s version Hollywood glam Porsche sunglasses. Very chic…
Porsche Carrera aviators. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The air show last weekend turned out to be pretty good. Though we didn’t get to see the AV-8 Harrier jets like last year, there were still plenty of great jets in the air. Unfortunately my camera’s battery died about half way through the show so I didn’t get the good stuff. Right after the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Kansas City region BMW club (in conjunction with the Sunbelt club) put on a DE event down at Hallett Raceway in Oklahoma this weekend, so we migrated down in a group to support their club, and get ready for the PCA club race down there in October. The funny thing was, there were [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today a small group of friends of mine and me took a road trip down to Pittsburg Kansas for the H.A.M.B. drag’s. The morning started off raining and clouds that looked like it would be a horrible day to take a two and a half hour road trip in a 1927 ford model T roadster. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of the year again. It’s time to put the tax payer’s money to work and waste gas in the most exhilarating way possible. This weekend the downtown KC airport will be overtaken by F-15s, Hornets, Thunderbirds, and more. Afterburners will be at full blast and there will be plenty of high-G maneuvers. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the rug rats back in school, we can get down to some serious business now. Saturday we had a kids day and swap meet here at the shop that we a lot of fun. Lots of people stopped by to pawn their space taking spare parts off on someone else, and the [...]
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Posted in 911, 911 Porsche, EFI, Forced induction, Porsche, Projects, engine builder, engine rebuild, porsche performance, turbo Porsche on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to see any car we have built get into the hands of people that do not fully understand or appreciate the workings of a converted CIS to EFI turbo Porsche. This car was based on a 89 930, we quickly stripped the motor out of it and converted it to a 3.4 twinplug, [...]
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We had a chance this week to tear in to a 911 5 five speed trans with some issues going in to gear and clutch problems. After removing the engine and trans we found the friction surface of the clutch was wore down to the rivets we also noticed that the trans had been tore [...]
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It’s not only Audi which is doing some sprucing up this summer – Porsche is, too! The Boxster S and Cayman S have both been given special treatment to create these two new spin-offs. Badged Design Edition 2, the Boxster S gets Carrera White paint and grey racing stripes. The red tail-lights come from the [...]
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Posted in CNC on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have read in earlier posts we have the CNC cutting products for you guys/ladiesto use to customize your engines. This weeks’ project was the famous 993 lower valve covers. After it was all said and done, these things look fantastic. Here are some pictures of the process.
Here’s a picture taken from inside the machine [...]
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