Wonder what color it was when it left Stuttgart?
 

Well, rebuilding the engine prompted detailing the engine bay. Anyone know what color (if any) the sheetmetal shrouding around the perimeter of the engine would have been on a 73 RS?

Thanks,
Jack McAllister

There have been a couple of threads on this. It is unresolved...

Either body colour or black, but it isn't clear which.

I would do it body colour, personally, cause I like the way it looks.

Cam

Hi,
My RS, number 193, has white paint in the engine compartment, and it is all original. So do all the RSs I have ever checked (about 20 cars).
The sheetmetal that surrounds the engine, that is the parts that come out with the engine when you remove it, are black.
GeorgeK

[This message has been edited by GeorgeK (edited 05-16-2001).]

Not that my car is an RS (I wish..), but it is pretty close to yours in age - it's a 72.

My car had* the same colour in the engine compartment as the exterior of the car, so I assume that would be true for your car as well.

(*= until someone oversprayed it black 10 years ago. I found traces of the original paint, however, so now I'm repainting it in it's original colour again.)

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Hello

The RS came normaly without black color in the enginebay or in the wheelweels.

However they could be ordered with it.
I think that was quite rare within the first series ( aluminium duck tail frame and trany oil pump ) as all those cars had to go to the TÜV to be count and recive the wighting for the FIA papers.

The factory cardex will show it then.

I know only one car who had it for shure ( 0013 ). Showed in cardex ( Mr. Lang himself ) and Mr. Bott could remember it ( Well that car was a little "showcase" or "prima ballerina" under the early RS )

In fact the factory did use to overspray the bodycolor with that high pigment matte black used on the dash, the middletunnel, outher seatrail podest and the forward bulkhead.

The inner doorframes where not sprayed the used a sponge like tool and "brushed" it on.

BTW the OEM from that color was and still is 200m down the road in Zuffenhausen.

If you like they mix the old color in 50 kg cans.

Engine sheet metall is RAL Black ( 9001 ? ).
Color was applied by hot tanking on bare metall. Later sheets received previous a anticorosion treatment. Some engines had tinware pressed from Weissmetall (whitemetall) witch was lighter and didn´t corrod as fast. Had seen it only once on a factory RS sportomatic engine ( Well i know this thing is not in the literature but it exists and was in a 914/6 ). Unclear today what was up with that as Mr Bott hadn´t much time left over.

But maybe some other RS had similar tinware ?

Grüsse

Thanks to all who responded. I have (with engine out) painted my engine bay area Grand Prix White with the same bc/cc acrylic enamel as the body. The sheet metal that comes out with my engine was oversprayed with different colors from almost 30 years of PO dabbling, so I'm unsure what this car had from the factory in this area. Your inputs have been helpful...since I'm wrapping up an RS resto / lookalike (but not genuine), I think black will be the final choice for the sheetmetal. I think this will give a little better contrast. I'll post photos soon. The engine rebuild is almost finished and it has been completely detailed and painted also.

Thanks again to all of you...

Jack McAllister

Roland, you're beginning to scare me.

Hello

Sacre Cuer, how can i scare someone without showing my Quasimodo face ?+

Just had the luck to see more then the average person.

Grüsse

Welcome aboard Roland, you're going to love it here

Mrdi

Hello


Power is my Proffesion, Porsche my Passion

right now i try to add: Porsche poetry to it.

Harry Pellow his my star. Wish i could write like chandler or at least K. Vonnegut......maybe with a slight touch from Stanislaw Lem.

Grüsse