Any 911 Fact Experts Here? Need Help For Project...

"Aaron Brown" (ambrown) 02/11/2014 at 00:38 • Filed to: porsche 911

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I'm trying to find weird and quirky facts about the different generations of 911s, not just spec things and numbers, but other interesting things that the normal gearhead wouldn't know. Anyone have any good 911 fun facts, by generation?

Thanks

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:39

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okay. let me think.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:39

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72 had a external flap for the oil tank for better weight distrubution but sutpid gas station attendents kept putting gas in instead so porsche said fuck that.

Rainbow > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:39

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So you want us to... INVESTIGATE 911?

Forgetful > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:40

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#trutherbait

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:40

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you can tell the difference between early T'E and S by the color of the engine shroud.

Aaron Brown > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:41

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that is not interesting enough but almost

Aaron Brown > Rainbow 02/11/2014 at 00:41

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NO

NoahthePorscheGuy > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:42

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or maybe it was 71?

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:42

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define interesting...

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:43

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Even to this day, nobody can figure out how to work and early 911 air conditioning system.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:44

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fun fact: dogleg gearboxes are a bitch.

Aaron Brown > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:45

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can confirm

Aaron Brown > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:46

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i mean like semi major differences between the gens that no one really takes into consideration

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:46

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Some 912's mainly the late soft window targa's are rarer and more expensive that 911T's of the same year.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:47

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oh. From in 1970 the grille slats are different so if you spend money on a nice grille badge for your dads car it won't work.

Manuél Ferrari > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:47

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It was interesting to me

Manuél Ferrari > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:48

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HAHA!

So true.

I still don't exactly know how to work the A/C in my Dad's SC.

I think you need to befriend a Porsche engineer to learn the secrets

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:49

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i'd come up with better ones, but sleep deprivation is fun.

Fun Fact: 99% of people today agree that the flatnoses look stupid.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Manuél Ferrari 02/11/2014 at 00:50

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My mom kind of figured it out in my dad's 88, but still not really. Fuck that shit.

puddler > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:50

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not an expert, but i'm willing to believe it was an inside job.

Aaron Brown > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 00:51

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I don't know how half of it works in my 944.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:53

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1973 911T's are worth significantly more than 1973.5 911T's because the fuel injection system was ass.

puddler > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 00:55

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porsche engineers are just 120% smarter than anyone else in the game.

Manuél Ferrari > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 01:03

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Here is one un-truth about 911s.

A lot of people say that all 911s have the engine in the "wrong" place and that this causes the car to cause the "pendulum of death" that almost always kills you if you enter a spin.

It's actually not true.

It was pretty true for the classic 911. I nearly spun one without even going fast. I was going pretty damn slow but hit some bad road and lost traction. The car started spinning because it wanted to kill me. The narrow body cars with no traction control and skinny tires were a real handful to master.

But things changed with every generation. I'm not sure where the biggest improvement happened as I've only driven an 82 911SC and my own 997.2 C2 but the difference is night and day.

I stuffed up once in my 997 going WAY faster than I was in the SC and experienced lift off oversteer. The back end actually came around kind of slowly and it was easy to apply opposite lock and ease back onto the throttle to right the ship.

IMO the 911 no longer tries to kill you. Far from it I think it's not that hard to drive. I actually find modern mid-engine cars that have the engine in the 'right' place and many front engine cars harder to drive fast.

puddler > Manuél Ferrari 02/11/2014 at 01:06

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yea, pretty sure that was from swing axles.

Manuél Ferrari > puddler 02/11/2014 at 01:09

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Oh I didn't even think about that.

I need to get underneath my Dad's car and compare it to my own

Manuél Ferrari > puddler 02/11/2014 at 01:11

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That is an awesome pic

I had not seen it before

Manuél Ferrari > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 01:11

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The white one scream the 1980s. And cocaine

puddler > Manuél Ferrari 02/11/2014 at 01:15

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and bias-plys? lol. my uncle has 2 dunebuggies, one with swingaxles, & one with irs. the swingaxle buggy is dangerous because it turns, the irs buggy is dangerous because it doesn't. haha (it does turn with the turn-brakes...would definately want turnbrakes on an aircooled vw/porsche).

Manuél Ferrari > puddler 02/11/2014 at 01:17

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haha both dunbuggies seem scary, and awesome

Manuél Ferrari > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 01:25

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One fun fact -

Air cooled 911s had lots of leather

The lower model 996s were adorned with enough plastic to cover a few large couches

The 997 had less plastic than the 996 but still too much

But it is not commonly known (due to how rare this option was actually selected) that the 997 could be ordered with tons of leather. The 991 wasn't the first water cooled 911 that you could spec out to have extra leather, Porsche must just be doing a better job of marketing those options or people care more about it these days and order cars with those options.

If you look hard enough you can find 997s that came with the extended leather option. My neighbor has one. It is SO nice. Makes you feel like you're in a classic Porsche.

911e46z06 > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 01:36

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The ladies love 'em.

Leadbull > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 01:44

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HITLER AND MEZGER WERE ROOMMATES IN THE MATRIX

Dusty Ventures > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 01:55

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I am the 1%

NoahthePorscheGuy > Dusty Ventures 02/11/2014 at 02:00

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I don't actually dislike them, but I dislike the hundreds of people on eBay selling flat noses and poorly donr flat nose conversions acting like all of a sudden it's worth 50k more than before. Too many good cars got bad conversion s done.

Dusty Ventures > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/11/2014 at 02:09

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That I'll agree with you on. Flat nose good (but not extra 50k good), home-made flat nose bad.

j.davism5 > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 02:30

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The engine block in a 996 turbo is exactly the same as that of the 964 3.6 turbo.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 02/11/2014 at 09:09

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According to the comment, and its stars, and the current views of this post, you are the 3.77%.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Aaron Brown 02/11/2014 at 09:14

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The original 911 was to be called the 901, but Peugeot said that zero in the middle was their thing.

http://www.motortrend.com/classic/roadte…

Watch these: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013…

Stef Schrader > 911e46z06 02/11/2014 at 13:51

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Truuuuuuuuuuuuth!

Mathias Rios > Aaron Brown 02/14/2014 at 00:31

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Some 911's have the same transmission as in my ML

Thisnewformatisrubbish > Rainbow 02/21/2014 at 22:10

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It was an inside job, man.

j.davism5 > Aaron Brown 05/13/2014 at 07:26

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The engine block in a 996 turbo is identical, and stamped accordingly to that of the 964

heh, double post/ my bad. anyway, porsche is awesome