Fantasy Junction

Description

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1970 Porsche Carrera RS Clone

s/n 9110123760 engine no. *64R00607*

White with Red Script with Black Interior

The legendary Carrera RS is widely regarded to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest roadgoing Porsche ever built. Compared to the standard 911, the cars featured larger more powerful engines, flared rear wheel arches to accommodate wider wheels, numerous deletions and alterations to reduce weight, improved suspension, and a few cosmetic alterations, which would become the car’s trademark. With its distinctive contrasting striping and wheels and the simple and functional ‘burzel’ or ducktail, the styling of the RS is iconic. With just 1580 examples built, the cars are in high demand and are accordingly valuable.

Consequently, replicas built using a variety of 911’s (and even 912’s) as bases are popular, particularly since it is relatively easy to achieve the look of the RS. However, most replicas resemble RS’s only visually, and high quality examples that faithfully reproduce the details of the original RS are unusual.

This Porsche 911 is a 1973 911 Carrera RS Tribute Street/Track Hot Rod built and powered by a 1991 3.6L engine and impressive performance upgrades including a full coil over suspension. This car has a wonderful history right here in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Golden Gate Region Porsche Club of America. This lovely Carrera RS has been built with the best track oriented components money can buy and was successfully dominated the Porsche Club time trials by the previous original owners. The car has been professionally built by well-known builders such as Jerry Woods Enterprises, Elephant Racing, Arcane Engineering, The Racers Group and S-Car-Go.

The car started life as a 1970 non-sunroof 911 purchased and resided in the Boulder Co area by the original owners who relocated to California and got caught up in the Porsche Club scene here and eventually became board members. The owner wanted to build this car for light track use and autocross and started with a 2.7L engine with torsion bar suspension, but later progressed to coil-overs and a 3.6L. It sports butt-welded RS rear flares, RS bumpers, a fiberglass ducktail spoiler. Wheels are 17″ Fikse FM10’s which are 8 inches wide up front and 10 inches out back with custom offsets. Under these relatively stock flares the offset on the wheels allow for 245’s up front and 275’s in the back and the wheels are shod with new Toyo R888’s.

The interior is quite nice, full German factory carpeting and headliner. It has retained the original door panels and an un-cracked original dash. All glass is in wonderful shape and windows fully function. All seals had been renewed when a complete down to the tub bare metal two stage paint job was completed. Complete custom roll-cage for safety with a Recaro Passenger and a Momo Acropolis race seat with 5 point 3 inch harnesses with stock retractable seat belts doubling as back up.

The 3.6-liter engine has approximately 55k miles and has 993 injection. This is the twin plug motor with vented dual distributors. It’s mated to a rebuilt 1973 915 gearbox (no more dogleg first) with Quaife LSD and was properly geared 7:31 with Patrick Motorsports crank fire. The injectors were just reconditioned and all fuel lines and filter replaced with brand new Fuel Safe bladder all within the last year. The engine is kept cool even in traffic or summer track days by a custom mounted Setrab cooler up front and a Carrera style cooler mounted in the right fender. All oil is fed through stainless steel braided lines and are custom routed through the passenger compartment for optimum protection. Fresh Swepco fluids just changed throughout. The shifter, shift linkage and motor mounts are all WEVO. Stainless steel heat exchangers are tied into a beautiful and throaty Tri-Y exhaust system with dual exits. This combination provides this 2400 lbs car some real scoot.

Suspension and braking is another place where not a penny has been spared. Starting up front there are welded-in 935 camber boxes which are tied together from the cage (no bolt in strut bar.) The front suspension is an ERP 935 front end, rebuilt steering gear, raised front spindles with height adjustable Bilstein struts. Fully adjustable TRG 1” sway bar.. The 300 lbs/in spring rate up front actually provides a firm but comfortable ride on the street and is a very nice set up for the track. Rear suspension has reinforced strut towers also tied across from the cage. Complete height adjustable coil-over suspension with 500 lbs/in springs, adjustable sway bars and 930 trailing arms (yes you are thinking right, like hen’s teeth.) Spring plate mounts and front sway bar mounts have been fully reinforced with Elephant Racing’s reinforcement plates and professionally installed by them. Brakes are 964 Turbo Big Reds front and rear with Pagid Orange pads. This 911 will out-brake almost any vehicle it meets on the street or track.

When the body went through the transformation nearly 20 years ago it was dismantled and taken down to the tub for paint. The fit and finish of the panels is top notch. Panels are straight and gaps are very even. Doors, hood all line up well and best of all close with the original Porsche “thunk.” The chassis does not show signs of rust, the body does have a few reverse rock stars coming up from rocks thrown up from the wheels and tires.

How does this car drive? On the street it’s actually a very nice drive, superfast when you want it to be yet docile at low speeds and through traffic. The motor has so much torque that you can easily run a gear up through town, so it’s relatively quiet and it doesn’t cough like a Weber equipped car. On track it’s one of the quickest and best stopping early 911’s at any event. The car corners flat, has tenacious grip and accelerates like a 300 hp 2400 lbs car should. To say it’s a bit Jekyll and Hyde is almost an understatement because when this gets up into the revs the entire car comes alive both in dynamics and sound. Its relative light weight and massive torque can make acceleration out of a turn or onto an onramp a bit blurry. Fortunately the massive brakes and composure of the car can haul it back down to sanity pretty quickly. Whether you bring it to the track or just drive it around, it usually attracts a decent crowd and you’ll get a lot of thumbs up and long stares from other drivers and passengers, little do they know it costs far less than $900k.

Exterior

Originally a 1970 911 purchased in Denver, moved to California in the 80’s
Metal 911 RS rear flares butt welded
Hand fitted fiberglass front and rear bumpers with ducktail lid and 3.6L emblem
No rust around front Battery box locations
Lightweight battery relocated to smuggler’s box
Cut-off switch installed, great for longer storage
Factory chrome retained (provides a truer vintage look)
H4 light conversion
Factory Bosch lenses
1973 left and right factory mirrors
Rubber tie downs for rear lid and front trunk, though front also retains factory lock and release
Though paint is nearly 20 years of age, it still shows very well, super straight panels
Bumpers recently redone to perfection

Interior

Front and Rear glass, nice shape
Rear quarter windows function as they should
Roll up windows
Original dash, door panels, factory headliner and carpeting all in nice shape
Custom padded roll cage with suspension tie in
Competition seats on sliders
Back brace for driver (safety)
5 point 3” harnesses along with factory later model retractable seat belts for driver and passenger
Retained factory door latches and handles, car still retains locking mechanisms
Hood release is retained, trunk release is disconnected
Smart Racing quick release steering hub with Momo Competition wheel
WEVO gated shifter, linkage and motor mounts
Panoramic competition mirror
Pedal cluster rebuilt with polybronze bushings and custom height plates for better heel/toe
Four speaker Panasonic Stereo with CD connected to a non power retractable antenna
Factory S gauges all function as they should, clock is present but currently does not work.
Turn signals, lights, wipers all function as they should
Glove compartment is retained and operational

Suspension

Front-
935 ERP aircraft aluminum front suspension (adjustability for wider track and camber)
935 welded in camber boxes (hen’s teeth) with welded cage extension
Lindsey Racing four way adjustable camber/caster plates
The Racer’s Group (TRG) through the body 25.4 mm adjustable sway bars with adjustable drop links and reinforced Elephant Racing sway bar mounts.
Custom valved fully height adjustable Bilstein struts with lowered spindles and 300 lbs/in springs

Rear-
Reinforced strut towers also tied to cage
Custom valved fully height adjustable Bilstein coil overs with 500 lbs/in springs
930 trailing arms (hen’s teeth)
935 ERP adjustable spring plates
Elephant Racing reinforced spring plate mount kit professionally installed
Rear Sway mounts reinforced
TRG fully adjustable 25.4mm sway bar

Mechanical

1991 3.6L Engine with ~55k miles and only 15k of that attached to this chassis
993 intake with K&N filter, freshly refurbished and balanced injectors
Patrick Motorsports 3.6L wiring
DME installed under the driver’s seat, custom relay wiring, retains O2 sensor and warm up sensor and doesn’t smell when it runs, actually quite unusual for an early 911.
High volume oil pump
All new stainless steel braided fuel lines and Fuel Safe bladder
Stainless steel heat exchangers
Tri-Y dual outlet exhaust
915 Transmission from a 1973 911 rebuilt with Quaife LSD, modified for crank fire
Because modern injection is retained, the motor never fails to fire up and run smoothly on first turn of the key. Does not cough, stall, nor leak.

Wheels/Tires

Two sets of Fikse FM-10 wheels, 17X8.5 and 17X9.5 with custom offsets. Technipolish finish and shod with nearly new full tread 245/40/17 and 275/40/17 Toyo R888’s

Publications

Featured in May 1999 Excellence Magazine, copy of magazine and all paperwork will go to the new owner

The above vehicle information is complete and accurate to the best of our knowledge at the time it is posted to this website. Corrections or additional information is always appreciated. All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document preparation charge, and any emission testing charge. Vehicles are subject to prior sale. All advertised to be true but not guaranteed. We assume no liability for errors or omissions.

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Fantasy Junction  •  510-653-7555  •  1145 Park Ave, Emeryville, CA 94608