Who makes the most acurate engine bay decals/stickers for 1973 911S ?

[911T1971]

He sometimes takes several days. Not to worry.

Agree. Good products, on a rather thin foil but I found, currently the best repros.

[Arne]

I could live with the thin foil, as I already have a roll of that aluminum tape.

My early '72 T only came to me with 2 of the slam panel stickers. For the most part, I'm sure I can find ones that are accurate enough for my purposes. (Driver, not concours)

But I've not been able to find the vehicle capacities sticker that matches mine. None that I've found show the capacity at 620 lbs. as mine does. Most say 590-something.

[sithot]

^ That's the color!

[swisscheese]

these are mine (1973): check out what I mean with "gold chrome":

[govols!]

I also tried to email the Swedes and no response either.

[911GP]

This one? http://www.skaraborgsflyg.com/dekal/eng_dekal.html

I have these. They were the closest I could find and I'm very happy with them. They are printed on vinyl not foil but still very good. Ake is a great guy to deal with. He is probably away on holiday but he will get back to you.

[Scott A]

I could not find any that were a good match in color.
I had some originals, my friend had some originals, and I could see originals at Canepa from time to time.

I got some from carbone, and then I had a special yellow transparent paint. duplicolor metalcast. yellow anodized.

I did several test...the metalcast would scratch too easy, just with my finger....micro scratches.
in the end, I painted with the metalcast yellow, then added a layer of catalyzed clear auto paint. so I could polish out once in a while.

the decal on the right is a NOS anodized foil...and I can hardly tell any difference. and my new decals matched most of the samples I had.

[swisscheese]

color looks really good! You used the Carbone as basis?

[swisscheese]

This is a comparison of the sticker samples I have: Canford, Carbone, Skaraborgsflyg (Sweden), Porsche current and Porsche (original 1 and 2). (I understood Aase doesn't offer complete sets of the same origin, but a mixture of current Porsche and own (= Carbone?)). My two original stickers have 2 different tones: One more "goldish" than the other one; Both have yellow/gold chrome appearance.
Solely looking at color appearance (so not base material structure, thickness, font, etc), the Carbone and the Skaraborgsflyg have the gold-chrome finish, of which the latter one comes closest to the lightest of the original Porsche sticker.
The current Porsche and Canford have a brushed aluminum (thicker) gold-coloured base (no reflective chrome), of which the Canford looks more "brownish gold" and current Porsche more "greenish gold".



with different light:


Chosing between the structure of base-material, the Carbon is more even, whereas the Skaraborgsflyg shows more structure.

with sun showing reflectiveness:


My conclusion (just based on color appearance!);
Overall, the Skaraborgsflyg comes closest "as-is": If the base colour of Carbone would be more yellow/gold chrome, then that would be a favorite as well (albeit, that the font seems too thick). I'll be trying to see how to modify the color (and get a bit more thickness along the way). To be continued..

[govols!]

Thanks for these comparisons !! Very interesting !! Keep up the research !!