Kremer ST Recreation in progress

[boba]

Car looks great, glad you got to get it out for some exercise.
You do have some great photo locations.

[nickR]

Great shots Gib. Thanks for sharing.

[Mr9146]

Nice to see it out and about. It looks great in the desert sun. So, everyone wants to know, what's it like at 8000RPM in 3rd?

[letsrollbabe]

Marco, no 8k as I have a 7500 rev limit, and with the 66 stroke it gets there quickly. The GE40 cams combined with the 50 mm HB throttle plates give the engine lots of breath and a glorious sound in the upper rev range.

Most questions from the Scottsdale event were about the muffler, front trunk oil lines and coolers, and the D'IETEREN plate next to the VIN plate. Here are some pics of the muffler configuration, a Flowmaster Crossflow, which gives great sound and is about 12 lb. lighter than a factory muffler. The crossover oil lines are aluminum, which I bent to fit the trunk and coolers. Coolers are factory wide-mouth Behr units, only used on 72 MY cars. The original 72T was initially imported into Belgium, and D'IETEREN FRERES was the sole importer of Porsche cars to Belgium in the day, and they attached a plate to identify their role. BTW, in case you wondered, the battery is in the smuggler's box.

[Veronica87911]

Gib, I wanted to add an oil cooler to my 72. Is the Behr still available? Will a newer cooler for a G-car like my 87 fit in there? Any help is appreciated.

[letsrollbabe]

Serge:

The large mouth (30 mm) Behr coolers are hard to find and expensive since they are so rare for one MY only. Almost any of the later Porsche coolers will fit and work, as will several aftermarket units. There are many threads on here and Pelican with comments on mounting them...do a search. I used the brass 28 tube coolers on my 72 Light Yellow ST. All the coolers will fit without removing the battery boxes if you are careful with the mounting arrangement.

[geneulm]

I saw these wide mouth coolers were also in the 954 (scrs) parts cat. I wonder why they stuck with these ten
Years later instead of going with the radiator or brass coolers?

[letsrollbabe]

I was asked about seeing more detailed pics of the crossover line brackets, so here they are. They are a 2 piece design with the bottom one having legs that are attached to the shelf via stainless screws/nylock nuts, and the tubes are wrapped in a rubber piece to insulate them from vibration and from transferring heat. The top bracket is a U-shaped piece that simply holds the tubes in place, and are attached to the bottom piece with 4 stainless screws with nylock nuts. The 2 piece design allows the installation of the bottom bracket and placement of the tubes on the top of the bracket, and then simply attaching the top bracket in place to hold the tubes firmly in place.

Please excuse the Arizona dust...

[Darren65]

Being a newbie I'm still catching up with many great threads here.....many thanks Gib, yours are truly inspirational (i.e. I steal your ideas! )....you've built some truly awesome works of art

I like my cars skinny although thinking maybe one day my Mongrel might gain some width!....the ST look sure is hard to beat!

Thanks for messing with mind....all happy thoughts!

Cheers,

[letsrollbabe]

Being a newbie I'm still catching up with many great threads here.....many thanks Gib, yours are truly inspirational (i.e. I steal your ideas! )....you've built some truly awesome works of art

I like my cars skinny although thinking maybe one day my Mongrel might gain some width!....the ST look sure is hard to beat!

Thanks for messing with mind....all happy thoughts!

Cheers,

Thanks for the kind comments. I have always liked a little wider look on my long hoods. Here are a couple that I have modified with RS flares...my first 72 in Bahia Red had a wonderful 2.7 RS spec MFI engine shown at the second R Gruppe gathering in Cambria 2001, and a couple of years later I built a 73T with MFI in Tangerine into an R Gruppe hot rod. But since then, it has been all wide-body builds. Once a guy goes down the 'wide-body rabbit hole' there is no recovery...maybe it's a coming of age thing...

(John Goriup took the Martini shot)