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Welcome to Stateside Tuning VW + Porsche Performance Website.
Our company specialises in the machining, parts supply and assembly of VW and early Porsche air cooled engines. We were founded back in the late 70s as a supplier of performance parts to help support our own rally team. Over the years we expanded and invested in the air cooled industry to supply a wide range of services, including the first air cooled dedicated rolling road chassis dyno, the first UK one-stop shop for in house engine machining/assembly/high performance parts supply and fitting/tuning centre.
Following this we purchased an ex rally cross 1303 as a rolling shell. The car was solid, light and had competition suspension ideal for our use. After a complete strip down and refurbishment the car came out on the 1983 tour of Cumbria national rally sporting a loaned 1776cc motor (no time to build one) with a close ratio gearbox. It soon became evident the car was ideally suited to tarmac, and the event was completed without too much grief and for our troubles we were awarded man of the meeting. We competed on many stage events with various type 1 engines but really did not have enough power or long term reliability for multi venue stage events, so it was decided we would use a Type 4 engine. After gathering parts we came up with a 66x100, using Oettinger barrels/pistons, 914 Porsche heads, 48IDF Webers, a Eurorace camshaft, 911 Porsche cooling and full dry sump system, the overall result was amazing. We finally had some power to compete with the Escorts and Talbots! The first event was the European Dieppe rally, they decided to seed the English cars by using a hill climb stage, in which we managed to qualify half way up the field. The next event was the Dutch Limburgia rally, having a strange car didn’t help with starting numbers, we were well down the field for the Friday night start, but by midday on Saturday we were up to 47th o/a… not bad for an old dinosaur. Unfortunately a slight off finished us a few stages later. We competed on many European events, Koln Ahrweiler 86 + 87, and many Belgium tarmac rallys, by this time the car was hopelessly outclassed so we bowed out gracefully. |
As motorsport is very expensive we have always supported and will continue to support the privateer. Rob Judge is campaigning a 1303 in hill climb sprints using our spare 2.0ltr historic race engine. Rikki James, the mad type 2 split guru and the man responsible for getting the type 2 scene off the ground runs a large type 4 with parts and machining donated by Stateside for demo sprint runs in a 23 window Samba. Ian Davis campaigns a buggy special with a 1776cc Stateside motor in production trials, a very successful car. Neil "Dude" Ellis currently runs a bug drag car with a Stateside 1914cc type 1 nitrous injected motor, in a mild state of tune and with he’s managed 11.82 at 115mph! Who's next for some Stateside support????
As time has marched on Stateside decided to close down the workshop facilities and concentrate on the engine assembly and machining side of the business. With our large parts store we believe we are one of the best equipped set-ups in the country able to offer services ranging from in house dyno testing to crank shaft balancing.
We continue to strive for better products and offer the piece of mind that, if a part is sold by us, it has been properly researched and probably tested by ourselves.
James Calvert & Gary Philip