Perma-Tune Ignition Parts

Perma-Tune Electronics, Inc. designs and manufactures high-energy electronic ignition systems and products for street vehicles, exotic motorcars, automobiles and race cars including Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, Saab, and Ferrari. The company also designs units for scientific and industrial applications, space and aviation applications, as well as clean-burning alternative fuel applications.

Ferdinand Porsche and Dr. Theodore Sturm designed the original Perma-Tune ignition system in 1968 for the original Porsche 911 race car, the car that “put Porsche on the map”. The same ignition was used on many other Ferrari powered race cars of the same era. A later version of the Perma-Tune, the "little blue box", was stock equipment on the 1974 911. Aero Design Products, Inc. of Newport Beach, California manufactured the systems for installation on the Porsche production line in Germany under contract with Dr. Sturm.

In 1981 Lonnie Lenarduzzi, the current President and Chief Design Engineer for Perma-Tune, was hired by Aero Design Products to manage their robotic manufacturing facilities and to oversee the manufacturing of Perma-Tune ignition systems. When Mr. Lenarduzzi took over the Perma-Tune product line, the systems were primarily used on Porsche 911 cars for repairs and for performance enhancement.

In 1989 Mr. Lenarduzzi and his wife Linda Decker, CFO of the Company, bought the Perma-Tune business, establishing Perma-Tune, Inc., a privately held California corporation. During the next several years, Mr. Lenarduzzi invented several groundbreaking innovations to the Perma-Tune product line, and earned military-spec certification from Northrop Ventura Division. The product line had been expanded from its exclusive focus on Porsche applications to include Maserati, Lamborghini, Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, military, industrial, marine and aviation systems.