928 Club-Sport: Updates
02-21-2020, 01:15 PM
#136
Race Car
Thread Starter
As you certainly know, the 1989 GT is the "better" version of the Club-Sport and I have a special request for the 1989 GT Owners...
I try to understand the connection between the the two versions and would like to collect the VIN/engine/numbers/colors of each 1989 GT. I already have the equipment codes and the list of VIN. So, if you own a 1989 GT (US or not), please feel free to share the info of your car, by pm or email at 928clubsport-@-free.fr, without - .
The data are for myself only and I will not share any kind of personal data with anybody.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Samuel
I try to understand the connection between the the two versions and would like to collect the VIN/engine/numbers/colors of each 1989 GT. I already have the equipment codes and the list of VIN. So, if you own a 1989 GT (US or not), please feel free to share the info of your car, by pm or email at 928clubsport-@-free.fr, without - .
The data are for myself only and I will not share any kind of personal data with anybody.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Samuel
I'm interested by the VIN/engine number/gearbox number combinations.
02-21-2020, 03:31 PM
#137
Burning Brakes
02-21-2020, 03:45 PM
#138
Burning Brakes
As you certainly know, the 1989 GT is the "better" version of the Club-Sport and I have a special request for the 1989 GT Owners...
I try to understand the connection between the the two versions and would like to collect the VIN/engine/numbers/colors of each 1989 GT. I already have the equipment codes and the list of VIN. So, if you own a 1989 GT (US or not), please feel free to share the info of your car, by pm or email at 928clubsport-@-free.fr, without - .
The data are for myself only and I will not share any kind of personal data with anybody.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Samuel
I try to understand the connection between the the two versions and would like to collect the VIN/engine/numbers/colors of each 1989 GT. I already have the equipment codes and the list of VIN. So, if you own a 1989 GT (US or not), please feel free to share the info of your car, by pm or email at 928clubsport-@-free.fr, without - .
The data are for myself only and I will not share any kind of personal data with anybody.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Samuel
Pm me a list of the details you are collecting..
David
'89 GT keeper, '85 S2 keeper, '85 S2 sold, '81 S sold (want it back), '85 944 sold, '83 944 sold...
02-22-2020, 03:33 PM
#140
Burning Brakes
02-24-2020, 06:36 AM
#141
Burning Brakes
Thanks, not sure but the tag says L37B (Baltic Blue?)
I couldn't believe it when I saw the car for sale. I knew what is was instantly but the colour really did it for me. Has matching blue leather interior too which sealed the deal for me
David
I couldn't believe it when I saw the car for sale. I knew what is was instantly but the colour really did it for me. Has matching blue leather interior too which sealed the deal for me
David
Last edited by C531XHO; 02-24-2020 at 07:16 AM.
02-24-2020, 10:39 AM
#143
Rennlist Member
The story of my 1989 5-spd L37B Baltic Blau project car goes along the following lines: 1st owner walks into Dick Lovett Swindon in Oct 1988 and hears about the upcoming 1989 MY 928 GT. He loves the idea, but he is bothered by the long waiting time. He then proceeds and orders a 1989 5-spd wth Sports seats, Sports suspension and LSD, which would have been available for delivery within a month. I have a GT box and I also have good GT cams, but it would feel like sacrilige to destroy the provenance of a one owner barn find...
02-24-2020, 10:54 AM
#144
Burning Brakes
The story of my 1989 5-spd L37B Baltic Blau project car goes along the following lines: 1st owner walks into Dick Lovett Swindon in Oct 1988 and hears about the upcoming 1989 MY 928 GT. He loves the idea, but he is bothered by the long waiting time. He then proceeds and orders a 1989 5-spd wth Sports seats, Sports suspension and LSD, which would have been available for delivery within a month. I have a GT box and I also have good GT cams, but it would feel like sacrilige to destroy the provenance of a one owner barn find...
02-24-2020, 11:19 AM
#145
Race Car
Thread Starter
The story of my 1989 5-spd L37B Baltic Blau project car goes along the following lines: 1st owner walks into Dick Lovett Swindon in Oct 1988 and hears about the upcoming 1989 MY 928 GT. He loves the idea, but he is bothered by the long waiting time. He then proceeds and orders a 1989 5-spd wth Sports seats, Sports suspension and LSD, which would have been available for delivery within a month. I have a GT box and I also have good GT cams, but it would feel like sacrilige to destroy the provenance of a one owner barn find...
The German press kit was issued in January 1989.
The Technical Bulletins were printed in April 1989, like the commercial booklets.
I could check the date of the internal letter of introduction to the German Porsche dealers, once at home, but it is December 1988, from memory.
The decision to produce the GT was taken the 20th of June 1988.
02-24-2020, 11:21 AM
#146
Rennlist Member
Follow the progress/struggle on Instagram - #928resto
P.S. Sorry Samuel that i did not add anything to your thread - I was hoping to see a SP code on the engine block of this 89 car, given all the other Sports options but sadly I only have to do with 2R heads and 10:1 pistons... I wonder if a freshly rebuild S4 engine with S3 cams and a decent map, coupled to the G28.13 with LSD would not be the best compromise for long trips. I find the 3000rpm cruising speed in my two GTS 5-spds sometimes a bit of a chore...
P.S. Sorry Samuel that i did not add anything to your thread - I was hoping to see a SP code on the engine block of this 89 car, given all the other Sports options but sadly I only have to do with 2R heads and 10:1 pistons... I wonder if a freshly rebuild S4 engine with S3 cams and a decent map, coupled to the G28.13 with LSD would not be the best compromise for long trips. I find the 3000rpm cruising speed in my two GTS 5-spds sometimes a bit of a chore...
02-24-2020, 11:28 AM
#147
Rennlist Member
I doubt that anybody outside Porsche Stuttgart was aware of the GT before January 1989.
The German press kit was issued in January 1989.
The Technical Bulletins were printed in April 1989, like the commercial booklets.
I could check the date of the internal letter of introduction to the German Porsche dealers, once at home, but it is December 1988, from memory.
The decision to produce the GT was taken the 20th of June 1988.
The German press kit was issued in January 1989.
The Technical Bulletins were printed in April 1989, like the commercial booklets.
I could check the date of the internal letter of introduction to the German Porsche dealers, once at home, but it is December 1988, from memory.
The decision to produce the GT was taken the 20th of June 1988.
02-24-2020, 11:48 AM
#148
Race Car
Thread Starter
This is what the original owner told me - he was a serial Porsche owner, a minor racing driver in the 1970s with Heskett and reasonably connected in automobile cirles. Don't forget the SE was already available in the UK... Whether what he told me was true or not is irrelevant to the actual car - it's a superb 1989 S4 5-spd in ultra rare spec - only one other RHD S4 5spd with the same spec in existence...
In October 1988, the SE was out of production, but the last CSs were not produced.
The owner of your car may have seen a GT prototype during a visit to Stuttgart. To my knowledge, some were made in September 1988.
02-24-2020, 03:19 PM
#149
Burning Brakes
There are a number of cool S4’s around. I have a very low km 88’ S4, manual, lsd, sports suspension, drivers side sport seat (only). But they are not GT. :-)
02-24-2020, 04:11 PM
#150
Race Car
Thread Starter
I doubt that anybody outside Porsche Stuttgart was aware of the GT before January 1989.
The German press kit was issued in January 1989.
The Technical Bulletins were printed in April 1989, like the commercial booklets.
I could check the date of the internal letter of introduction to the German Porsche dealers, once at home, but it is December 1988, from memory.
The decision to produce the GT was taken the 20th of June 1988.
The German press kit was issued in January 1989.
The Technical Bulletins were printed in April 1989, like the commercial booklets.
I could check the date of the internal letter of introduction to the German Porsche dealers, once at home, but it is December 1988, from memory.
The decision to produce the GT was taken the 20th of June 1988.