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Choosing the Best Engine Oil For Your Porsche

Evolve Your Thinking to The Best Oil For Porsche

The choice of Porsche engine oil is critical for performance, wear protection, engine life, and emissions efficiency. There’s a lot of noise about Porsche factory-approved oils A40, C20, C30, and C40 for example, and many personal opinions on the oil brands of choice, oil weights, and additives used. However, until now, no one has challenged the real underlying shortcomings of the synthetic oil in your engine. Porsche wanted to know if there was a alternative to petroleum-based oils.

Tested By Porsche – Best of the Best

More than 32 different oil manufacturers, including the largest well-known brands, tested their oil for the Porsche approval. Evolve’s oil produced superior results that exceeded all other tested oils.

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Porsche Flat Battery – No-Start and Battery Draw Problem Solving

How Healthy is Your Battery? Diagnosing the Flat Battery, No Start or Battery Draw Problems on Your Porsche.

Good battery goes flat? – no power or weak power after overnight parking? Finding a draw on a battery that causes it to go flat or have very weak power after a relatively short period e.g., overnight parking, can be a real pain in the you know what! Finding the problem can be a long drawn out and frustrating process – often this can also be expensive because of the hours involved to establish the source of the problem.

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How to Store Your Porsche Over Winter

Solving Winter Storage Problems

Unfortunately, the time arrives when you must put your toys away for winter. As the days shorten, many Porsche owners face the prospect of storing their car and not using it over the winter months. Winter storage raises many questions and there are a variety of ideas as to how to approach it.

Recommendations for Porsche Storage

We work with many professional shops that offer storage and maintain car collections that are stored in pristine condition and ready to be driven at a moments notice. So, we assembled the best advice on how to store your car for the winter.

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Porsche Restoration – Sounds Easy, Right?

How to Find the Porsche Restoration Shop You Need!

Ok, so you want to restore the old Porsche and bring it back to its former glory. This sounds like a simple goal and indeed, there are a number of amazingly skilled shops out there that can do exactly that for you – we’ll show you some.

The question is, what do YOU mean by restoration? The term restoration essentially refers to taking an older Porsche and bringing it back to near new condition. However, as simple as this definition seems, there is a very vibrant divergence of skilled shops that have taken this concept in various different directions. From preservation, to restoration modification, to outlaw and concours – let us broaden your horizons to what’s possible with that old air-cooled gem.

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Perfect For Kids Like Us This Weekend

Free Digital Live Tour of Porsche Museum

Lock down and social distancing has made it difficult to pursue typical weekend activities – no news there! However, here is an opportunity to do something a little different this weekend and it comes with the possibility of being cool!

This Sunday, May 17th, Porsche will offer a free digital guided tour of their museum in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart. This presents a wonderful opportunity to score a series of good relationship points during these difficult times. Read Full Article »

“I’m Taking The SUV Out For A Ride”

Different Perspectives

Porsche means iconic coupe or does it any more? Porsche – for many, the word conjures up an icon and unmistakable coupe with a rear mounted flat 6 engine and bags of history. For a new generation, this image and the whole concept could well be changing. Our kids have no idea how they could live in a world without mobile phones, so are we arriving at a time when people don’t think of the iconic coupe when they see the Porsche brand?

Look on any facebook, blog or repair shop website and you’ll see beautiful images of all sorts of coupes from air cooled classics to monstrous GT3 RS coupes. We’re also a victim of this thinking – that’s Porsche, right?

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REmaking the 80’s 911 Into a Modern Performer

Back to the Future – 1980’s Modern Porsche 911

Classic cars are wonderful to look at and in some cases fun to drive – many however, suffer from the problems of yesteryear. We’ve become so accustomed to all the driver aid features and smoothness of the modern car, that often the classic seems to come up short for likeability and drivability.

Clunky steering, bad suspension, heavy clutch, bulky tires, pedals that go the wrong direction – this is supposed to be fun right? When we were kids and really wanted that air-cooled Porsche, we had no idea how rough it was compared to today’s car – never meet your heroes, right? Read Full Article »

The Man and The Motor – Hans Mezger

The Man Behind The Engine

Hans Mezger has had an amazing influence on Porsche. His engine designs are legendary and a recent article from Porsche covers most of the history with some wonderful black and white pictures from the era.

Do you remember the McLaren Tag Turbo? Niki Lauda translated Hans Mezger’s TAG Turbo design into victory in the Formula One World Championship in 1984. McLaren and the Porsche engine won 12 out of 16 races at the time and Lauda became World Champion – seems like only yesterday!

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Porsche Air-Cooled Flat Six Engine

30 Years a Star – You Thought it Was Just A VW engine!

For more than 30 years this engine with its crankshaft in the middle and three cylinders laid flat on each side, exceeded what we’d expect from a layout that descended from the VW Beetle.

The 911 engine provides sparkling performance and a vivid personality – a magic combination that has attracted followers to the Porsche faith since 1965.

When Porsche debuted the successor to the 356 sports car and called it the 901 in 1963, Peugeot was somewhat upset. They owned the rights to all three-digit car model designations with a zero in the middle.

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