Promotive Engineering has specialised in
modifying Porsches for motorsport for over fifteen years.
We are now based in Brisbane, Australia but still service a
large number of customers interstate. We help our
customers at the top level of motorsport achieve success,
including winning the
Australian F2 Rally championship, wins
in international marathon and tarmac rallies such as the Panama
to Alaska and Classic Adelaide,
as well as success in circuit racing including Porsche Cup.
In 2007 we
formed Promotive Aviation to cater to the builders of
high performance experimental aircraft using an unlimited category aerobatic plane and
a light turbine helicopter as our main development platforms. We have a number of interesting
development projects underway.
The new online shop is where you can easily
purchase some of the specialised parts we make, as well as
surplus parts, Goodridge hoses and fittings and MilSpec wiring.
News.
01.03.10 - We are currently booked out to the end of the year
and not taking on any more major projects until we relocate the
workshop...
23.11.09 - I have finally started adding items to the shop.
I have started with the Ferodo brake pads and more parts will be
added soon.
25.11.09 - I have broken my golden rule of not
letting water cooled 911s into the workshop! This GT2
project is the most radical looking car I have seen for a while!
It should be a lot of fun, photos - here. I am
not moving over to the dark side though...
It seems that turbo engines are all the rage at the
moment! I have just finished my last batch of engines for
the year so I can concentrate on getting some competition cars ready for
next years season. Next year is almost booked out already
for non competition work! I have tested some Vipec ECUs as a
cheaper option to the Motec systems that we usually fit and I am
really impressed! They are excellent value for money and I
am now offering them for sale as a dealer. If you want one
for a non Porsche application I recommend contacting Mark at
Godzilla Motorsport. I have them running around on a few
modified 911s now and am about to fit one to my workshop hack -
the green twin turbo cabrio so I can do a back to back test on
the engine dyno between its existing Motec M800 and the V88 to
prove a point. Stay tuned!
20.11.09 - Here is a great photo of a 996TT that we setup for
Classic Adelaide.
here. The shock and spring rates were changed to
make the car more drivable on the limit. With just a setup
and brake pad upgrade it was more predictable and gained two seconds a lap around the
test track...
24.09.09 - I am not going to promise any more updates again, at
least until things slow down here! In Porsche world, the
flat fan motor is being stripped to check it out because it has
been sitting for a while. I have decided that it needs to
be twin turbo again and I can remove some weight and gain some
more efficiency by changing to a water intercooler. I am
aiming to have it on the dyno in the next few weeks. I
will endeavour to find the old project files from the old
website and add them to the Engineering site...
31.09.09 - A few updates are on the way... Already added
is an update to the Z2300 aerobatic plane project.
28.09.09 - There has been an error in my email link on the
website which was directing mail to an address that is long
gone... The link has been updated so emails will now get
through.
05.07.09 - Wow! So much for keeping the new website up to date!
We are so busy here at the moment that web content and the
online shop will have to
wait a while... Now that we can CNC port 911 heads, I have
added a new flow bench to the workshop arsenal so we can more
accurately validate any changes before the engine goes on the
dyno. I had a bit of a fiddle and now the flow data can be
captured by the dyno's datalogger... Customer projects
have us snowed under at the moment so progress on the flat fan
motor (version 4!) is slow, and work on the aircraft is limited
to the specialty parts that are being made elsewhere such as
grinding the gears for the main rotorbox and the wing for the
plane that is being made in the US...
23.05.09 - We are bringing a container back from
the US (LA) in August. At the moment we are only bringing
a 20ft container but I would like to upgrade to a 40ft so I can
bring in the aerobatic wing at the same time. That means
that we need to sell some space at a subsidised rate for a car
or two... Contact me
if you are interested...
16.05.09 - Welcome to the new look website!
The main reason for the change is the online shop which will be
open in July. Parts stocked will include lightweight
Goodridge hoses and fittings and Tefzel wire and supplies.
If you need some parts in the interim, please email us with your
requirements. We have always been to busy to spend much
time updating the website, but we should be able to get some
exciting footage of some of the toys we build here in the next
few months with the new gyro stabilised camera mount that we have
developed. It can be mounted in car and of course we have
already made a fitting to mount it on the helicopter!
We will be undergoing a few major changes in
the coming months. We have always been short of room but
with the arrival of the engine dyno and the final assembly of
the plane becoming imminent, we really need to move to a larger
workshop! The move is delaying a few of our big customer
projects but stay tuned for their progess.
Design,
Fabrication, Advanced Analysis, and DevelopmentText
and pictures are copyright (c) 2002 - 2009 by Promotive Engineering and can not
be used without author permission.Promotive
Engineering is not affiliated with Porsche Ag or Porsche Cars
Australia.
