Kremer ST Recreation in progress

[johndglynn]

Hey Gib, saw this one at Essen and wanted to send it to you on a postcard!

Keep up the good work

[letsrollbabe]

Boxster03:

I did check with Dave Moore to confirm the details of the crossover lines. Edmond Harris had confirmed the car had the hard lines, but I was curious about the 4 brackets holding the lines. They must have been installed by Kremer also, because they came with the car. As I mentioned, am having the oil lines fabbed, but as I anticipated, getting the right fit is a bear. Have settled on aluminum lines as finding the right size in brass or steel was difficult. Will post pix soon.

John:

Thanks for that viper green ST from Essen. Like to see more. Here is a factory poster from the day of the Kremer ST after winning the Euro GT championship. (Sent to me by Edmond Harris). The car was running 9x15 Fuchs front and 10x15 BBS in rear...which is what I will be using.

Gib

[Max (SD)]

John,

Have you more photos of the green Porsche with two pairs of Cibie's? Thanks.

[RS-GT]

look there !

http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/vie...r=asc&start=60

JD

[letsrollbabe]

Just got some tires mounted on the 10" BBS and 9" Fuchs. Went with the 245/50 Sport 8000 Dunlops for the BBS, 225/50 Goodrich for the Fuchs since Dunlop doesn't make a 225/50 Sport 8000 anymore. These will be for the street, and will use similar 20 bolt BBS all around for track events. That's Harvey Weidman's work on the 9s.

Gib

[letsrollbabe]

Here is the battery cutoff scheme with 2 pull cables used by the factory on early STs, as seen in the pic from a 71 ST sent to me by Edmond Harris. It utilizes a single Bosch switch mounted to the fender wall. Kremer installed one cable on the dash between the instruments, and the other through the driver side horn grill. According to EH, Kremer also used this scheme on their 73 RSR. I have decided to use the pull cable in the horn grill rather than using the Bosch switch.

The horn grill pull cable is visible in the track shot of the 72 Kremer ST, plus one taken of a Kremer ST from the recent Essen show.

Gib

[letsrollbabe]

I needed to get the car off the lift, so I put the wheels on and rolled it outside...then couldn't resist taking a couple of pix. No drive train yet, and still lots to do.

Gib

[letsrollbabe]

Here is the new dual pull cable scheme with the 2nd cable through the horn grill (bumper stripe will be painted since the tape doesn't stick). The cutoff switch now opens the coil/CDI when it trips in addition to cutting off the battery power so that the engine will not continue to run from the alternator feed. The alternator diodes are discharged through a resistor when the circuit is opened.

The crossover oil lines now fitted....the brackets are still being made. Getting the oil cooler connections to fit required a lot of revised fittings, but are now complete.

The gas tank is just dropped in to see clearance with lines. It has a 4" filler neck which does not penetrate the hood. The strut brace should be ready next week.

Gib

[Mike_Moore]

the oil lines look fantastic Gib, bet you can't wait to get the car back to the painters for the yellow!

[Matt Blast]

Regarding the question of hard vs. soft cross over lines. There is evidence in my ST that their were hard cross over lines a some point. Small pieces of the brackets that are in back of the fuel tank are still visible. They look like the were torn off with a pair of vicegrips but maybe thats good thing. At least I can tell that they were there. I may have close-up photos of this area and I'll post them if I do. If not I'll get some when I see the car next week.

Matt