Mick jumps back on the good ship Renngineering.

It's always fun us two getting together to rattle through what's going on in our lives but when Porsche release a do not drive statement just in time for a Waffle, it was always going to be good.

We also gave our thoughts on the GT3 992.2 and the 911 Carrera T. A cabrio... really?!

I hope you're all doing well. If you are get out and drive and if you can't do that, get planning a trip for when you can.

Thanks for listening.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

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Picture this... you've found a car that sounds like a scam, but it's a Singer style shell, sat at Tuthill Porsche. It's reasonable money but you're taking it on, basically on trust. You then don't want to build a Singer tribute and go about building something yourself.

That's what Paul Leyton did with this 911!

Some people have a natural way about them, that makes you feel that nothing is worth getting too upset about, and that it'll all work out. Well this episode gives you about ten of those examples.

The output from all of that work is an absolutely stunning car. Genuinely one of the nicest "home builds" and I'm reluctant to use that term, that I've ever seen.

It's also now for sale. As is one of my kidneys.

We follow Paul from the early days of building VW Beetles, through a load of flips, to his one of ten 964 cab, his 993 build and this, his complete one off.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that little trip is cool as it is, but you really do need to shoot over to YouTube to check the interior out. It's amazing.

A big thanks to Paul for being a good friend and for spending time with me. An even bigger thanks for when we caught up once the new engine was in and being dialled in and chucking me the keys. Yes, you guessed it, that's on YouTube as well.

You can find Paul at @dooley.vw on instagram. So if you listen, and then check out the pics on the Renngineering insta, or watch on YouTube and want to buy the car, shoot him a DM.

Thanks for listening.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #singerporsche #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman #13stitches #aircooled #tuthillporsche #riveriaautobody

A big personality from a big man!

Some episodes you listen back to and find yourself smiling a big dumb smile. That's what this episode did.

Partly because it was so useful for me to learn about air-cooled Porsche engines, or at least start that journey but also because he's such a good laugh to be around.

You'll hear us talk about Chris and his dad's background in racing, including a Jacky Ickx Le Mans winning engine build, Chris's own motorsport career but also how he's part mechanically minded and part artisan. Like a BFG sized Roald Dahl.

Chris takes me through the pro's and con's of all the different eras of six cylinder P-car engine and what to consider before almost coming to a conclusion. Almost.

No doubt we'll debate it further as things develop, but for now at least it's food for thought.

Bonus easter egg for the OG's that wait for the post credits.

You can find Wrightune at @wightune on socials and wrightune.co.uk

Thanks for listening.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #992.2 #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman #wrightune #aircooled #gbody

The comeback kid

What a strange couple of weeks! With an episode that was difficult to record, difficult to edit, and difficult to put out, you couldn't make up the u-turn that came after.

With that pause and reflection in the bank, and the need to buy a new daily runabout, particularly for the winter, it was looking more and more like buying a VX220 or Elise donor car for the RENN550 was going to be a 2025 thing.

The budget for a donor isn't huge, with the early phase of the build but self funded. That's why monetising both the pod and YouTube channel are so important.

Cars have come and gone, but mostly written off/totalled cars. For most cars that's a problem. Lotus cars tend to be written off for silly things like lights, small cracks in the fibreglass clam shells etc. So whilst not attractive to a potential future owner, as a development car not a disaster. Still, I did want a straight car with a clean title/V5.

I missed a few cars by minutes, until one popped up online at the exact moment I was scrolling away. Within seconds I'd messaged "I'll have it!". Roadworthy, serviced and MOT'd and with 74000 miles and with a clean title - it's perfect.

So there we have it. I'll be dallying a scruffy old VX220 whilst at the same time 3D scanning it so I have data to play with.

Als0, in between the last episode and this, I had two episodes shot with both Tuthill Porsche's Richard Tuthill and a second episode with Frank Cassidy. Both who told stories of being focused on the goal and being willing to take some knocks along the way.

Time for me to take a few days off and relax in Greece, but I'll be back next week with more of season 3 after this brief interlude.

Thanks for listening.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #992.2 #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman #mentalhealth #positivity

The honest episode.

I remember listening to Porsche Cooled with Michael Bath just before Renngineering started and hearing him talk about being tired and it being a pretty labour intensive thing to do, putting out a podcast weekly.

Blindly positive, I thought how hard can it be!? Turns out there are two answers to that. If you have a team around you making it all happen and you can be the host, pretty sensible. However, if you're a pretty normal working guy or gal, and having to do it all, well that's intense.

Not to do things be halves, I chose to start a channel where I go and see and chat to these big companies, fantastic independents, or cool collectors.

I absolutely love doing it and I'd play to mosquitos as Sheryl Crow says. I just wouldn't put pressure on myself to put an episode out a week!

The problem is... if you don't, you won't grow. If you don't hammer social media, you won't grow. If you aren't shamefully self promoting, you won't grow.

So this episode is a bit of a reflection of all of that.

I don't like leaving things with a negative tone, so I thought I'd share a chat that I recorded when I went to visit Simon, who owns Built By Basil. Another normal, down to earth guy doing what he loves and trying to make it a success.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #formula1 #992.2 #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman #builtbybasil

This week is a break in the big episodes and I grab Mick for some good old fashioned Waffle. With absolutely no planned conversation, we surprised ourselves and found that there was quite a bit to talk through.

We start by trying to figure out what Porsche is trying to achieve by forcing brands that are woven in to the brand to no longer market their cars as a Porsche, even when they're built off one.

We chat about Mick seeing the new 992.2 just last weekend and his first thoughts. That led us nicely on to how much they are these days and what you could buy as an alternative, given how much prices have come off recently.

That then Segway'd in to what you could buy for £100k. I for once wasn't too reckless where as Mick had full confidence in the brand.

We wrap with some reflections on the current Formula 1 rankings and the weekend ahead.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #formula1 #992.2 #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman

I agonised over who to use for interior trimming.

With any company I choose to use for my Outlaw Cayman, the hope is that I'll have a great experience so that when it comes to building the RENN550, I've got the relationships and trust in place to know the product at the end is what I'm looking for.

I'm frustratingly difficult as a customer. I have such high expectations of people that it's rare that I'm completely satisfied. That's not to say everyone is awful. Far from it. But, companies are trying to make a profit, so you either pay for that last 2% of quality with 80% more outlay. Or you accept great, but not perfect, as the end result.

The other part of it, is the person behind the company. What are they like? Are they good to their staff? Are they willing to stand behind their work, or come up with excuses, or worse, lie... Yes, by the way I've had that during the Cayman build.

The great news is that Dave, of Dave The Trimmer, ticks all the boxes.

I first saw Dave's 964 at Flat 6 show at Goodwood Circuit. I was bowled over. I'm sure most people look at his Guards Red, low AF 964 and take a peak at the interior and think it's nice... and move on.

I spent 15 minutes just looking at the interior alone. Trying to get my head around how he managed to ghost fade pasha on grey Alcantara. How the stitch was arrow straight and even at every seam.

Then I spoke to him and he humoured the perfectionist in me. No... scratch that...reverse it... he seemed to enjoy the challenge.

It's fair to say that throughout the process of designing the trimming plans for my car, we didn't quite get on the same page. But there was trust on both sides.

The result? It's a show stopper. People seem to appreciate the aesthetic of the Outlaw Cayman, but go nuts for the interior.

I just can't wait to see what he does with a Lotus/550 Spyder hybrid. It's going to be wild.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #davethetrimmer #flat6show #964 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman

Flipping heck.

Sometimes you get to speak to someone and wonder what living their life must have been like. Chatting to Graeme and his wife Kerry, at Porsche in the Park 2024, allowed me (and you) to get an insight in to that. At least a little bit...

From crashing his first car and putting himself firmly in hospital after passing his driving test 20 days prior, to racing at Daytona, to the Porsche Championship and winning races (draws breath), to collecting and owning a Porsche Carrera GT, Graeme has the t-shirt(s), the cups and the scars to prove all.

I said it before, but I'll say it for the bleachers... The cars are cool, but the people are cooler.

Grab a coffee. Put your feet up and settle in.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #carreragt #porscheinthepark #gt2 #daytona24 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman

Barry Hart. A name you may have heard but possibly not. Hartech... if you've owned a Porsche, or even thinking about an early model water-cooled P-car, it's highly likely you've heard the name.

If you've listened for a while, you'll know that Renngineering isn't only about the tech side of Porsche ownership. It's about the people and culture that goes behind it. When you've been working on these cars as long as Barry Hart (78 years young), there isn't a lot you haven't seen before and don't know.

He's forgotten more than I'll ever know.

He's also one of life's really lovely human beings. Not satisfied with being a Doc from Back to the Future level of engineering mind, he built a team of passionate enthusiasts. Then nurtured them in to also being geniuses.

That family feel comes across when you listen to the episode. You can watch this episode on YouTube, where you'll some of the engineering work and images of Barry's cars and the great man himself.

Not only that, but this was the second episode shot at Porsche in the Park! The first, earlier in the day being the owner of a Carrera GT! So, if you hear some background noise, that is to be expected when recording a live event.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #borescore #hartechporsche #hartech #m96 #997 #997 #911 #classiccars #sportscar #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman

We're back! Season 3 couldn't kick off without some good, old fashioned Waffle.

We kick off with a general catch up and talk through the car park, given we've gatecrashed at Porsche Portsmouth, whilst Mick drops his car in for its THIRD PADM module since birth.

After moaning about the one British part on the car, we get in to the chance to get back on the road, and how great our experiences are with Michelin tyres! With Michelin having recently collaborated with Renngineering, it has given us time to learn a little more about what really goes in to tyre manufacture. Stay tuned for developments and possibly a future Tech Talk episode!

We start to wrap up by talking about my car briefly before a deeper conversation about what's happening with the Porsche culture scene in the U.K. and clubs vs organic online communities. It's a less widely talked about topic and we weigh in on our thoughts.

I'll take a moment to thank you all for listening so far. I appreciate all of you and always welcome your comments, questions and thoughts. Just drop me a DM or email.

You can find Renngineering at: @renngineeringuk on Instagram. @renngineering everywhere else, including all good podcast streaming services.

If you want to be on Your Porsche Stories or Heritage then DM me or email [email protected]

If you're interested in collaboration or sponsorship to support the RENN550 then [email protected]

The likes, shares, comments and subscribers really do make a difference to me. The quicker the channel gets monetised, the quicker the RENN550 gets built. The what??? You’ll see... Enjoy!

#porsche #supercar #renngineering #reengineering #RENN550 #restomod #classiccars #sportscar #aircooled #modifiedcars #luftgehkult #outlawcayman #911ST #formula1 #tuthillporsche #tuthillgtone #michelin