As soon as he gets done writing the graphic love scenes! :D
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As soon as he gets done writing the graphic love scenes! :D
Great stuff Tom. Do we have to wait until Saturday for the next installment??
I had been thinking about a response for Mark Smedley (post #648) and blue72S (post #697) when Marietta popped up and showed me the way. It was nice of her to share with us some of the ST lore from the days of the C and D series Group 4 circuit and rally cars prepared at the Werks.
It was great to see that Tom and Jim took a liking to her. For the past couple of months she existed only on some hand written note cards that I have been carrying back and forth on the train to work. But now she has been properly introduced to the long hood crowd here on the board.
Chuck will note that the Porsche content is not so abundant in the next post, but it does map out the first steps taken by Marietta on the journey to her desk at the Werks.
Max may know better but Marietta's surname, translated very loosely from the German could be something like "eye for money" ( aug, thaler). I thought it a fitting monicker for a bean counter in Stuttgart.
And Cornpanzer will just have to wait. The Group 4 privateer from Lisbon, Castelo Branco, and his young bride (a fabulous looking Brazilian) will wait in the wings for now.
This next one is for Tom1394Racing and Jim Garfield, those most smitten by Marietta Augenthaler.
It went down heavily on its forelegs and slid lazily along the forest floor before coming to rest beside a lichen covered log that sat rotting at the edge of a sun dappled glade. An uncomfortable moment passed in silence.
The old Graf pulled a vast handkerchief from his back pocket and honked his nose. Marietta exclaimed "A lucky shot, what a lucky shot, Papa!" before working the butter knife handled bolt on the old Mannlicher carbine to chamber another round.
She set the safety before tucking the spent 6.5 brass into the left pocket of her loden jacket. She knew it was showing an edge here and there but was decorated with nicely worked braid and a fine old set of nickel silver buttons. They sparkled brightly in the quiet of the glade, deep in the Graf's forest.
Her father failed to respond and turned away, while their host, the old Graf, looked perplexed by his miss and gazed with distrust at the Krieghoff drilling in his hands. "High and wide," thought the man from Salzburg, the fourth member of their party that morning.
Not including Michael, of course, the Graf's ancient gamekeeper. Off to one side, he waited patiently to catch Marietta's eye, the silence now broken only by the keening of the Graf's two immense brindled hounds, desperate with anticipation to join in the sport. When Marietta gave an almost imperceptible nod, Michael tugged once at the brim of his cap and then slipped the leads so they might bloody their jowls at the boar's throat.
When the dogs were pulled off, they saw plainly what Michael already knew. Marietta had taken the boar just behind the shoulder, allowing the round to penetrate the shield of protective gristle before delivering a killing blow to its life systems, shut down almost at once.
The man from Salzburg spoke. "FRAULEIN Augenthaler," he said in formal tone, "really, you must come by to visit with us when next you are in town." He knew Marietta visited Salzburg frequently to deal with matters relating to the ever changing franchise agreement for the family's tiny VW and Porsche dealership in their home town of Innsbruck. Most recently she had worked his dealer relationship people unmercifully to find Freddy, as his friend's called the Graf, a C Series E coupe, on short, very short notice.
Like Freddy's 68T and C coupe before it, it had to be silbergrau with leather comfort seats and a three band Becker so he might listen to the symphony on weekends via short wave. She swapped a production slot for an S plus a new Kombi on the lot somewhat under cost with the dealer in Vienna to get Freddy his car.
Herr Spiegel eyed her, apparently wanting an immediate response. As the head of marketing for Porsche Salzburg, the exclusive distributor for Austria and a corner stone of the Piech family fortune, it was not his custom to ask twice.
Marietta recognized an opening when it presented itself and replied casually "Perhaps, Herr Spiegel, Tuesday next, if that would be convenient for you."
Augenthaler pater still was not speaking with her when he climbed into the passenger seat of the dealership's demonstrator. Marietta knew he thought she had been showing off at the expense of their host. She would smooth things over with Freddy, she thought, and prepare the pig's best ham as a present accompanied with a flowery thank you note in high German.
After the oil temp came up off the peg, she pulled the Olive S demonstrator out of the cobbled court in front of the Graf's great stuccoed schloss and headed down a pea gravel drive lined with tall lindens. In her wake an October sun stretched dark pillars across a shimmering river of pearl. But Marietta never looked back.
She short shifted into second and gassed it.
Brilliant. I have been waiting for the latest.
I'll say it again, there is a book to had here Tom!
I will request a signed first edition Tom. ;)
Your air horns on the high butterfly appear to be made of steel and plated. Where did you get them, are they factory?
Mike
Hello Mike,
Thanks for your post.
The 2R high butterfly intake manifolds used on the project are fitted with the original factory steel inlet funnels. They were on the engine when it was sold by ANDIAL to its prior owner.
The 2R high butterfly manifolds have 41mm ports that match up with the 41mm intake ports of the 2,5L ST heads. The later RSR 5R manifolds have 43mm ports.
The 2R high butterfly was developed specifically for use on the long stroke 2,5L factory ST engines fitted with mfi.
As a note of interest, the bolt pattern on the mounting flange of these 2R inlet funnels is too small to fit on the later 5R high butterfly manifolds used on the 2,8L engines.
The trumpets are indeed steel and are nicely mounted on aluminum bases by a smooth flange pressed into the relieved circumference of the bottom surface of the base.
Originally the inlet funnels would have been painted satin black on factory intstallations. But we re-plated them to the same finish as they had on this engine when it was installed in the prior owner's GTU car.
As you can see in the pics, the shop turned the outside surface a bit to remove a few spots of corrosion before they were plated.
Matt Blast's Eurometrix site shows another "baby" high butterfly 2R set up.
First image attached to this post shows the 2R set-up as restored for the project.
Second image shows a short stroke 2,5L engine with its inlet funnels correctly painted in satin black.
The third image shows the 2R installed in the project car.
Hope this anwers your question - feel free to ask more and thanks again for your post.
Tom
Hi Tom! Neither here or there, but I just happen to read your post #692 and noticed the s/n of your ANDIAL 7R case and it caught my attention. I owned and recently sold my ANDIAL 128 crankcase, just a digit below yours. What a coincidence, my ANDIAL #128 was a 3.0 liter sandcast factory 911 RSR crankcase, also reworked at Olllie's by George, maybe I should buy it back, never should have sold it... See following two photos...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flunder