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Ideas for an engine lid grill
It seems these days that "factory built" STs have all manner of engine lid grills.
However, period photographs generally show cars with bog standard production car engine lid grills. Series C, D and E cars all seem to have been originally equipped with standard production grills. A review of all the great images in the Ultimate ST Thread illustrates this point well.
But as with all things related to the ST, there are exceptions and the 1970 Monte Carlo Rally cars campaigned by the Werks show more interesting examples. These appear to have been made up from standard expanded wire mesh with bits of the standard five bar grills used on the 2,2L C and D Series cars in 1970 and 1971.
For example, the grill on Waldegaard's car at the 1970 Monte Carlo Rally (first and second image) is made up from standard expanded mesh and a single vertical bar, and does away entirely with the silver anodized horizontal ribs. Note that the expanded mesh is mounted from underneath the lid, but still above the rain guards. All satin black, the design looks purposeful but the execution strikes me as disappointing. These images were scanned from the same book by Brian Long credited in post #372.
Mike used a nicely finished "Werks prototype" style grill on his Martini car to achieve a very purposeful look (third image). It also scores top points cosmetically. Mounted conventionally on the top of the lid, and with rain guards underneath, all five vertical bars remain and, like the Waldegaard grill, it does without the anodized horizontal ribs. It looks perfect.
We set out to make one like it. We found two (very rough) donor five bar grills and combined the good bits of the two to make up a single Werks prototype style grill. After a respray in satin black it was ready to mount.
First Ken fastened the rain guards on the engine lid with standard 1/8" rivets, and then set the grill down lightly on the lid to get a preliminary look.
It still needs some straightening and fitting and looks a bit chunky to me. Note that the rivets fastening the rain guards still need to be blacked out.
We are pretty confident that when the car is on the ground, the grill is straightened and fastened down, and a black PORSCHE script is fixed on the lid it will all look just right.
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ST cross over lines: center clamp in fuel bay
The best document image available to us showing Race Department preparation techniques applied in the area of the fuel bay is by now familiar to readers of the this thread. The first image attached to this post shows the image once again to refresh everyone’s memory. Even though we studied this image with some care, we incorrectly identified the center clamp seen mounted on the rear of the tank support. The clamp provides a means of securing the brass cross over lines that plumb the bi-lateral fender mount oil coolers. The clamp looks familiar.
Our study indicated that the Race Department employed for this purpose the same clamp used in subsequent model years to fix the external oil lines to the rocker on MY 1972 and later cars equipped with fender mounted oil coolers. We ordered one of those clamps from the dealer last year and put it on the shelf, ready to go when it came time to mount the lines. We thought no more about it and crossed off the item from our list of “Parts Needed.”
When the time came with lines arrayed in the fuel bay, Ken mocked up the center mount and took another look at the clamp. The production part frustrated his efforts to give the installation the appearance and tidy fit recalled from the document image. It was time to take another look.
A re-examination of the Werkfoto revealed our error. Under close scrutiny the mounting clamp no longer looked so familiar. In fact, a fresh look convinced us that Porsche never assigned a part number to this clamp. It now appeared alien, a part from outside the orderly world contained within the confines of the maroon binders of the Spare Parts Catalogs.
But the clamp shown in the Werkfoto, our point of reference for this aspect of the project, certainly fits the credo of form following function and looks good to the eye. Auto Associates decided to make one up to look authentic.
Perhaps the clamp was just a fitting sourced by the Werks from a catalog of industrial hardware, but just the same the clamp might be an example of something fabricated on the bench in the assembly area of the Race Department. Perhaps that unknown fabricator made one up as follows:
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ST cross over lines: center clamp in fuel bay cont
A myriad of detail distinguishes the factory built ST.
An authentic looking center clamp for the cross over lines is just one of many small details that make up the overall presentation of a "real" car.
But, details also "make" a hot rod.
