Our Solex 40P11-4 carbs were packed up and shipped off today. They will be restored by what I’m told are the very capable hands of Jim Kaufmann at 356 Carburetor Rescue. I was very tempted to do a rebuild on them myself with a kit. I was advised by people wiser than me to send …
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 …
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 …
