A/C Delete an Option in 1988 911?

Ontariomark · 07-01-2007, 08:02 AM

I have an 88 911 that is used exclusively for the track: PCA DE and, soon, vintage racing. The car has raced in PCA F stock class in the past, and I would like do some PCA racing as well. The car still has its A/C compressor and associated hoses. I would like to take it out. The car is not going back on the street, and so the system is very dead weight in the car. I was told by a PCA club racing official that if the car could have been obtained from Porsche without A/C, then it would be legal for PCA stock racing to remove the A/C system from the car, so long as I strip out every A/C component. I was also told that A/C delete was an option as late as 1982 for SCs, and therefore one could take out the system and be PCA legal. My question, therefore: can anybody provide me with a document or reference advising if A/C delete was an option in 1988?

GrantG · GrantG's Garage

It was definitely a delete option on the 1988 Club Sport. Not sure if that is in your class or not...

Dixie · Dixie's Garage

A/C was not a 'delet' option on 911 SCs. A/C was an option. Conversly, all Carrerars in the US came with A/C. It was not an option. It was standard.

Bottom line: You need the A/C to run 'F' stock. The A/C does not have to work, just be on the car. (Otherwise every Carrera PCA club racecar would have the A/C yanked off.)

...And the '88 Club Sport is not an 'F' class car.

Ontariomark · 07-02-2007, 08:08 AM

Thanks Rob for straightening that out. It is dissappointing. I appreciate the reasons for the stock rules, and know if I want to take out the A/C badly enough I can just run in a different class. It just seems like a such a simple thing, though, to allow the A/C system to be removed. Now when the car goes vintage racing its carrying a lot of weight with the A/C that it would not otherwise have.

I had to do a double take when I looked at your photo of your car. It looks almost exactly like mine.

Mark

Dixie · Dixie's Garage

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I had to do a double take when I looked at your photo of your car. It looks almost exactly like mine.

Mine is pretty much stock. It looks so nice, I have not been able to modifying it further.

Here's a bigger pic of my Avatar.