Introduction - Ruf
Discussion
Hello
I have been following this forum very closely since being introduced to it by Alex Sharp from AMD. He was trying to get me to come to the Bruntingthope 'Shoot out' last week having experienced my car before.
I am meeting up with Alex next Friday as he is proposing doing an article on my car, to be posted on Pistonheads.
I have a 1996 Turbo 4 with a Ruf engine conversion, and see there are one or two people on the board who come from Reading (or surrounding areas).
I know, from a friend of mine, that Porche club people meet regularly on 1st sunday of every month at The Bird in Hand, Hare Hatch, but do you lot ever have meets at all? I would be interested if you do.
Anyway thats it really, just wanted to say hello, and await Alex's report (hopefully!!!)
Simon
I have been following this forum very closely since being introduced to it by Alex Sharp from AMD. He was trying to get me to come to the Bruntingthope 'Shoot out' last week having experienced my car before.
I am meeting up with Alex next Friday as he is proposing doing an article on my car, to be posted on Pistonheads.
I have a 1996 Turbo 4 with a Ruf engine conversion, and see there are one or two people on the board who come from Reading (or surrounding areas).
I know, from a friend of mine, that Porche club people meet regularly on 1st sunday of every month at The Bird in Hand, Hare Hatch, but do you lot ever have meets at all? I would be interested if you do.
Anyway thats it really, just wanted to say hello, and await Alex's report (hopefully!!!)
Simon
Welcome to PH, Simon!
That sounds like a very tasty motor indeed you have there. I shall look forward to Alex's report!
In answer to your question - PHers do indeed organise informal meets quite regularly. The largest of these being the (almost) monthly trips to Virginia Water. Smaller runs out involving scenic drives and so on happens from time to time as well. Last year I either arranged or helped arrange three in the area starting from Basingstoke - so not far from you. I hope to do the same this year....
For the most part these meets are Multi-marque which is an aspect of PH I really enjoy. How often do you get to compare and contrast TVRs, Porsches, Ultimas, Marcoses and Loti in the same car park!
More interesting than row after row of Chimaeras or Boxsters (much as I love these cars and own one of each!).
Anyway. Welcome. I look forward to meeting you at a future PH meet.
That sounds like a very tasty motor indeed you have there. I shall look forward to Alex's report!
In answer to your question - PHers do indeed organise informal meets quite regularly. The largest of these being the (almost) monthly trips to Virginia Water. Smaller runs out involving scenic drives and so on happens from time to time as well. Last year I either arranged or helped arrange three in the area starting from Basingstoke - so not far from you. I hope to do the same this year....
For the most part these meets are Multi-marque which is an aspect of PH I really enjoy. How often do you get to compare and contrast TVRs, Porsches, Ultimas, Marcoses and Loti in the same car park!
More interesting than row after row of Chimaeras or Boxsters (much as I love these cars and own one of each!).
Anyway. Welcome. I look forward to meeting you at a future PH meet.
Hi Simon.
Welcome to PHland, I look forward to seeing a report on your Porker, 650Nm!!!!!!! a great shame you couldn't make Bruntingthorpe but maybe some other event either on or off road so to speak. Alex did mention a Ruf 993 he'd been in recently was absolutely ballistic I quote "Daz, it even makes your car seem slow",
cheeky git.
Of course it would also be great if the current "993 turbo northern hoonster, man of many words" could do a runway shoot out. He'll no doubt be along to say Hi and identify himself pretty soon.
DAZ
Welcome to PHland, I look forward to seeing a report on your Porker, 650Nm!!!!!!! a great shame you couldn't make Bruntingthorpe but maybe some other event either on or off road so to speak. Alex did mention a Ruf 993 he'd been in recently was absolutely ballistic I quote "Daz, it even makes your car seem slow",
cheeky git. Of course it would also be great if the current "993 turbo northern hoonster, man of many words" could do a runway shoot out. He'll no doubt be along to say Hi and identify himself pretty soon.
DAZ
Welcome Simon.
I am a mate of Alex and Andy, both of whom you know I believe.
It's a small-ish world on PH. Browse the site (see previous pages of this forum perhaps) and it won't take long for you to feel familiar with the characters on here.
Don will wax lyrical about the subtleties of Boxster Ss, I will try and get you to shove your engine into an RS, and Derestrictor will leave you admiring his use of the English language (he is also called Simon and has a 490bhp Turbo 4, which is slightly spooky eh?).
ATB
Domster
I am a mate of Alex and Andy, both of whom you know I believe.
It's a small-ish world on PH. Browse the site (see previous pages of this forum perhaps) and it won't take long for you to feel familiar with the characters on here.
Don will wax lyrical about the subtleties of Boxster Ss, I will try and get you to shove your engine into an RS, and Derestrictor will leave you admiring his use of the English language (he is also called Simon and has a 490bhp Turbo 4, which is slightly spooky eh?).
ATB
Domster
Simon - something Rubenesque and turbotic, resplendent with 550 belligerent, equine related measuring units at one's disposal...somehow I feel the necessity for simultaneous congratulation and desperate recourse to the 'blow my engine up' catalogue...
In the name of Bonnepart's balls; that sounds magnifique!
However, you really can't come on a forum like this, dangle such a morsel of tantalising, nicely basted grunt thus and then depart, having failed to regale the gathering throng with details of who, how, what, why (how much?!) and how you remain in possession of a driving licence?
I've just taken an acquaintance's young lad oot in the beetle for a helping of finest Porkensplatter and it was encouraging to hear his comments that it comprehensively whoops the undoubted charms of his uncle's F360...quite what your creation of purest daemon seed is like, only the legions of Melnibone could conceivably ponder.
I demand details and I demand them now!
(oh sh1t, Domst; you know what this bloody well means, don't you?
)
I feel a Wagner moment coming on...
Good to have you on board, Simon.
In the name of Bonnepart's balls; that sounds magnifique!
However, you really can't come on a forum like this, dangle such a morsel of tantalising, nicely basted grunt thus and then depart, having failed to regale the gathering throng with details of who, how, what, why (how much?!) and how you remain in possession of a driving licence?
I've just taken an acquaintance's young lad oot in the beetle for a helping of finest Porkensplatter and it was encouraging to hear his comments that it comprehensively whoops the undoubted charms of his uncle's F360...quite what your creation of purest daemon seed is like, only the legions of Melnibone could conceivably ponder.
I demand details and I demand them now!
(oh sh1t, Domst; you know what this bloody well means, don't you?
) I feel a Wagner moment coming on...
Good to have you on board, Simon.
derestrictor said:
Only the legions of Melnibone could conceivably ponder.
Ahhhhh. A man who understands his position in the multiverse. I have often wondered who the Eternal Champion is in this plane. Whoever he or she may be..only a chariot of finest German manufacture would be suitable I feel. Something with more than one turbo...
I feel a Wagner moment coming on...
Oh dear. I'm told its so much better than it sounds...
Hello from an owner of a earlier Turbo car - from the days when a single turbo and the factory standard power output were considered adequate. 
Anyway pleased to say the world has moved on to the point where too much is just about enough!
Strangely enough I was admiring a Ruf modded 993TT on the Joe Macari Cars website (joemacari.com, under Other Cars) just last night, and dreaming of outlandish methods of raising the asking price. In the meantime I'll have to make do with the Ruf window sticker in mine, courtesy of a previous owner who used to have it serviced by them when they had a UK outfit.
Any chance of some pics of yours? (The Ruf that is
).
Chris
Anyway pleased to say the world has moved on to the point where too much is just about enough!
Strangely enough I was admiring a Ruf modded 993TT on the Joe Macari Cars website (joemacari.com, under Other Cars) just last night, and dreaming of outlandish methods of raising the asking price. In the meantime I'll have to make do with the Ruf window sticker in mine, courtesy of a previous owner who used to have it serviced by them when they had a UK outfit.
Any chance of some pics of yours? (The Ruf that is
). Chris
Thanks for such a generous welcome!!
Chris – I too saw the Ruf on Joe Macaris website, didn’t seem a bad deal to me. Pics will be forthcoming once I’ve met up with Alex Sharp. Me not very good with this Digital camera lark.
Derestrictor – Sorry to disappoint but my car only has a mere 505, not 550 of the “belligerent, equine related measuring units”. I hear yours is not too far short of that, and yes, I too had a little play with a 360 the other day, and offered him a little wave as he fell into the distance.
Domster – Yes, Alex and Andy. Andy had the car just prior to xmas for a ‘routine’ clutch replacement. However, I don’t think that the Ruf guys do anything routinely, and Andy found himself putting together the clutch from an assortment of different items, to match what they had done, including parts from a 944 clutch! Having said that the bill was not routine either! Ouch!!
Dazren – Alex told me that he’d had a couple of chats about my motor whilst at Bruntingthorpe, however, you seem to be the champ with your motor, and looks as though it would take some beating. (I may have to ship the car back over to the looney Germans to boost it up again!)
Will be good to meet you all at some time, but am seriously miffed off by this thing:
http://web.norrisdesigns.com/Feature_Cars_view.asp?FCid=28&strcat=1&id=1&cid=0
Cheers
Simon
Chris – I too saw the Ruf on Joe Macaris website, didn’t seem a bad deal to me. Pics will be forthcoming once I’ve met up with Alex Sharp. Me not very good with this Digital camera lark.
Derestrictor – Sorry to disappoint but my car only has a mere 505, not 550 of the “belligerent, equine related measuring units”. I hear yours is not too far short of that, and yes, I too had a little play with a 360 the other day, and offered him a little wave as he fell into the distance.
Domster – Yes, Alex and Andy. Andy had the car just prior to xmas for a ‘routine’ clutch replacement. However, I don’t think that the Ruf guys do anything routinely, and Andy found himself putting together the clutch from an assortment of different items, to match what they had done, including parts from a 944 clutch! Having said that the bill was not routine either! Ouch!!
Dazren – Alex told me that he’d had a couple of chats about my motor whilst at Bruntingthorpe, however, you seem to be the champ with your motor, and looks as though it would take some beating. (I may have to ship the car back over to the looney Germans to boost it up again!)
Will be good to meet you all at some time, but am seriously miffed off by this thing:
http://web.norrisdesigns.com/Feature_Cars_view.asp?FCid=28&strcat=1&id=1&cid=0
Cheers
Simon
Simon - 
- don't go there!
Once you start peering into the abyss of the eternally modable EVO or Skyline pit, things can get awfully worrying...far better to ignore them and pretend they don't exist/ hope you don't meet one on the road!
700-odd bhp from a VII? Scarcely credible, frankly, but, given my all too brief dalliance with one of these banzai contraptions, I can see how such mutations might come about...quite how/if it drives is an altogether different matter.
It must have a range of about 50 miles!
Ruffmeisters uber alles, nein?
Wilco unt oot.
- don't go there! Once you start peering into the abyss of the eternally modable EVO or Skyline pit, things can get awfully worrying...far better to ignore them and pretend they don't exist/ hope you don't meet one on the road!
700-odd bhp from a VII? Scarcely credible, frankly, but, given my all too brief dalliance with one of these banzai contraptions, I can see how such mutations might come about...quite how/if it drives is an altogether different matter.
It must have a range of about 50 miles!
Ruffmeisters uber alles, nein?
Wilco unt oot.
Hi Simon,
So there you are!
Alex told me all about your car on the way back from Bruntingthorpe...
I live between Reading and Wokingham, and regularly attend the Bird in Hand meets. Shall i expect you at the next one?
Looking forward to it.
VS
www.VerySideways.com
So there you are!
Alex told me all about your car on the way back from Bruntingthorpe...
I live between Reading and Wokingham, and regularly attend the Bird in Hand meets. Shall i expect you at the next one?
Looking forward to it.
VS
www.VerySideways.com
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