I’ve decided to spend the Colorado winter working on two projects. One requires some research and the other is pretty straight forward when it comes to 911’s.
The first project should be relatively simple to produce but very difficult to research. I’m solely focused on the research portion right now. I’m researching the ultimate throwaway item: the original early 911 oil filter. From my research Porsche used two different types of oil filters during the early 911 era. From 1965-1971 (2.0l-2.2l) Porsche started with '901.107.203.02'. This number (not sure when) was superseded to ‘901.107.203.09’ now commonly known at a Mahle OC61 or Mann W940 and beginning with the 1972 model year (2.4l-2.7l) used ‘911.107.764.00’ which was superseded to ‘930.107.764.01’(probably when the 911 Turbo came out) now commonly known as a Mahle OC54 or Mann W940/29. I’ve heard and read that the filters were actually produced by Mahle with Purolator branding. Strange arrangement… anyone know any more on this? I’ll be looking into it.
Great, so we know the breakdown of which oil filters to use but now comes the hard part… what the heck did they look like?! We have a start thanks to three earlyS members by looking at two well-known low mileage early 911’s they photographed.
The silver 700 mile 1970 911S photographed by Cornpanzer shows us that it is running a red/orange Porsche branded filter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8072442...57630169538658 Unfortunately, before it was put away it got its 600mi service at Vasek where they would have undoubtedly changed the oil and filter. If fact it may have has two services as it has two stickers, one on top of the other. Anyone know for sure? We can thank Dave for photographing the service tag on the engine lid: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8072442...57630169538658 So I suspect that the filter is one that the Vasek Polak Dealership had on the shelf at the time and it’s probably not the original. They probably would have used the same style as it came over on the boat with but we can’t prove it on that particular car. It’s still a good start.
Next we have the Raymond Allen Aubergine 736 mile 1973.5 911T. Curt Egerer (CurtEgerer) and Jared Rundell (JCR) photographed this car as found in late 2008. Most of those pictures can be seen here: http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...read.php?54887 It was found in the garage with an orange filter but it’s tough to tell what brand it is. The instructions on it are in English. Curt was kind enough to send these photos along:
When the car was sold by Truspeed back in late ’09 the oil was probably changed along with the filter. It was then sporting a black Porsche branded filter.
The last low mileage car I know of comes from a thread about the Allen ‘73T. In post #19 of this thread: http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...read.php?58225 Eminence Gris makes note of a ’70-’72? Euro (probably) Light Ivory Targa with 131 miles on it that Seinfeld owns or did own. In any case the single pic from Eminence is all we have and there’s really nothing else to be learned unless Jerry has some kind of open house some day.
There are, without a doubt, more low mileage cars out there, and better yet probably more photos of low mileage cars from back in the day. Does anyone have photos to share of engine compartments of their newly delivered early 911’s?
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