Speedraser

Doug,

I was terrified to pull off the Carrera badge -- my car has its original paint and is in pristine condition, so the last thing I wanted to do was damage it. I pulled quite gently after heating it with the hair dryer, and I figured that, worst case, if the adhesive had left a mark in the paint I could put the badge back on. I just didn't want to do more damage by removing it, like lifting the paint in the surrounding area. Fortunately, the paint was completely undamaged underneath.

Don't do it if you don't want to, but so far I've not heard from anyone who did any damage by removing the badge.

Beethoven

Hi,

I'm pretty sure the SC stands for Sport Coupe. That's at least what it stands for in other German makes, doesn't it?

Beethoven
'88 Carrera 911 Coupe

Doug&Julie

Pretty sure it's "Super Carrera"...because it was the step up from the "Carreras" of the mid 70s. Ironic that for the '84 model year, it dropped down to merely the "Carrera" again. Hmph

Alan Herod

go to the newest sponsor's site listed at the top and go to the pull down for 1978 911 -- you will find the Porsche site calling it "Super Carrera".

My car's recently acquired rear deck with Carrera tail says "Carrera" on it and I have left the script there out of reverence to the last departed user of that tail. He took it off his car (which was an SC as well) and passed it on to me when his car grew a wing. Seems he originally got it off a "Carrera" and it came with the script.

uli953

What I heared is, SC stands for: nothing

Anyhow, the car-type, mentionned in the registration records of any (German only ?)3.2 carrera is: "SC 911"

Just to make things more complecated....



Oh, I forgot: I have a copy of an old "F-modell" construction-drawing, dating from the early 70ths. It states "typ SC".
So, the "SC" is older than the modell series 78-81

bones

Super Carrera was first used for the 356 . Although the factory have never fully acknowledged the term Super Carrera for the SC it has slipped into general usage by Porschefiles . If you think about it , it would have made sense to call the SC the Super Carrera after the mid '70's Carreras and the Carrera 3.0 production ended in 1977 with the introduction of the SC . Great car as the SC is it's a pity it didn't have more ponies and justify the Super tag (I do own one by the way) For those who still insist on calling it something else just read the history . Better still why don't we just leave it as 'SC!'

Alan Herod

As was pointed out to me go to one of the site sponsor's 40 years of 911 site and select the 78 SC.

http://www3.porsche.com/english/usa/...lle_gserie.htm

If Porsche says that is what it must stand for, I'll quit arguing.

Doug&Julie

From the Porsche Anniversary website:

911 SC 3.0 Coupé (1978)

1978 to 1979

6-cylinder boxer engine (air-cooled)

2994

180 hp @ 5,500 rpm

196 lb-ft @ 4,200 rpm

5-speed manual

Rear-wheel drive

7.0 secs

140

10,832

In 1978, this 911 SC (S for Super and C for Carrera) is the only 911 with a naturally aspirated engine. From 1980, it is available with 188 bhp and from 1981 with 204 bhp.

...well, there you have it then!

Sonic dB

Instead of calling the new 3.2s "SDC" or "Super Duper Carerra"....Porsche did the wise thing and just made it "Carerra".

Doug&Julie

...i kinda like "SDC"... he he.

Alan Herod

It is extremely unlikely that SC meant Super Carrera for the 356 since the SC was the successor to the Super 90 and was introduced in the 356 line the same time as the 2 liter four cam Carrera 2.

uli953

Sorry, it´s me again:

can you -as the real experts- explain why a 3.2 carrera is called a "911 SC" in its official registration papers and why the old ( pre G) F-modells are called "Typ911 SC" on original construction papers? Both defined by those people who really deal ed with this subject. Who ever made this webpage you refer to ...

It seems (to me, at last) that SC is not a special abbreviation but is something more general...

just my opinion

uli953

I will meet an Porsche Ing. next week who works in Weissach from the very begining (must be 30 years) and will ask him to find this out

bones

It's here at last in black and white as pointed out previously , surely that convinces those with doubts?
http://www3.porsche.com/english/usa/...lle_gserie.htm

Alan Herod

I was just saying that while the Porsche site does say that SC for the 911 means Super Carrera, it is highly unlikely that it means the same thing for the 356 - since the 356 Carrera 2 had nearly 50% more horsepower then the 356 SC, unless it meant "Slower Carrera".

We had this discussion on Rennlist mail forum years ago, and I was hard headed about this then. I assumed that Porsche resurected the old SC designation and that they would be consistent. Now that I have seen it in print on the Porsche site, I'm forced to accept that their must be more then one meanings within Porsche for the SC designation. It seems somewhat akin to Mercedes naming the SL, a car which in street form has never been a light weight.