Research seems to confirm my suspicions that the crank was not correct, much less original. Courtesy of the late great Harry Pellow’s book The ABC’s (and 912’s) of Porsche Engines or Porsche Engines and the Future of the Human Race, the early Super 90 did have a unique crankshaft. Mainly just a beefier main bearing journal diameter of 55mm. Mine being an early S90, would not have been counterbalanced. It looks like the counterbalanced version did not cut […]
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Successfully cracked the case halves today. It required an expertly engineered, hand crafted tool. I sacrificed a cheap 14mm box end wrench. Used my bench grinder on the outside to make it thinner walled. My first custom made Porsche tool Initially was worried by the date codes on the case halves. The first was “12/60”.
An obsessive personality is a blessing and a curse. A lot of reading, questions, and staring at artificially enlarged photos seems to have led me to being able to definitively identify a Porsche 356 T5 seat. I guess I will know, but I doubt that many other people care too much. A little surprised that
The engine arrived! The good news is it appears undamaged, and the boxes with the carburetors are still there. The bad news is the flywheel and torque wrench are missing. I can see someone walking off with a torque wrench, but who the hell would want an old rusting flywheel. I will think twice before
Received the Kardex for our 1960 Porsche 356 T5 Super 90 today. It is reportedly a scan of the origin factory Kardex card, done for the Porsche factory for historical archiving reasons. It did not reveal much that we didn’t already know. Was really hoping for a sunroof mention. It is interesting to see how Porsche
