Hayden Burvill passed away earlier this week from a long illness. Whether or not you’d ever met him, there’s a decent chance that if you race a Porsche you’re using some of the innovative parts he developed. Wevo shifters and transmission modifications are the stuff of legend. The
Cup-Engine-in-an-early-911 PVX project documented here on Pelican is one of his many accomplishments as an engineer, but he also worked on Jay Leno and Mark Donohue’s record-setting high speed run at Talladega in a Carrera GT, as well as stints with Brumos Racing and projects with IndyCar. He helped a lot of people here on Pelican as WevoID, and – speaking personally – was a tremendous ally in putting together my own 911. He had a great (and perhaps typically-Australian) sense of humor, tremendous loyalty, and was helping me with shock-tuning advice even in his later days.
The Porsche community has lost another great individual. His absence will be deeply felt.