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Petrol Tank Size - Front Strut Brace

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DavidM777

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Hi everyone

I am just ordering a front strut brace from Heigo in Germany and want to make sure I have the right one. My car is an RS Touring (RHD) with a 70 litre tank. I am working on the basis this is the large tank, rather than the small one for the purposes of the struct brace?

Anyone know the answer to this?

Thanks

David

 
David,

Since your car is RHD it can ONLY have the small standard fuel tank fitted. The 90 litre tank can only be fitted in the LHD cars.

Dave
 
Yes, that's right. The large one is a 92l tank. 70l is the small one.

For information:
The original Porsche RSR strut brace was delivered by Heigo and has a "Porsche"-writing. I don't know, if you can still buy it by Porsche.
Here are some pics (this strut brace is sold): http://www.elferteam.de/Forums/index.php?showtopic=16836&hl=

With a 92l there might be some problems with the orginal Porsche strut brace.

Michael
 
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

Unfortunately my 'large tank' struct brace is already on the boat over to me from Heigo, but they tell me it will fit anyway. It was realtively cheap so I could always put it on eBay and get a 'small tank' one if needed.

Looking forward to seeing the difference on the track anyway!

David

 
I am sure it does not make any difference as I took mine off and repaced it with a Krema item.I have the long range tank.
My original one was tried out on a 70litre C2 and it fitted no problem.
I still have the original brace.

Jeff
 
The tank, whether big or small, has no impact on the fitting of the strut brace (the only difference with the big tank is that it encroaches into the area immediately behind and above the space saver).

RHDs had the smaller tank as standard but you could "special" order the larger tank.

Damen


 
ORIGINAL: 964RS

Melv - are you saying a strut brace doesn't make any difference on the track or for the overall handling?
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No difference in SIZE yer plonker!![8|]

Edited to add: What Damen says!!
 
Wow - thanks for all the feedback.

Just the roll cage to follow now................ Heigo very good so far actually as almost all done on the internet and a couple of calls to them in Germany.
 
Melv

Are you sure? See below, picture of a large tank in a lhd car (and a small/standard tank in my rhd car, attached to my next post).

Damen



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I think it's 77 litres or 92 litres.

All RHD came with 77 litres, early LHD were 77litres with 92 litres as an option, and later LHD were all 92 litres for reasons best known to Porsche !

It seems to go with the Vin number on the A pillar ...

As for front strut brace, I can't see that the tank size would make any diference to this ?
 
I believe there can be issues with clearance of the fuel tank sender unit with the large tank, but you can kind of rotate it out of the way ................

Jamie
 
Goodness -do I have to spell it out[8|]

"The size of tank makes no difference to the strut brace"

There, all clear now???[;)]
 
But I can't get a carbon strut to fit. Car is LHD with larger 92 litre tank. '93 964RS. Its the small hose on top that gets in the way. Help - anyone?
 
The only ones I have seen have already been fitted.

Paul, maybe the one you are looking at isn't intended to do this particular job ?

I can no longer show you mine -- but is there one on the Strasse car ? Or ?
 
Hi Chris,

I havn't seen the Strasse car yet. It's a 1992 car so may it have the smaller (70 litre) tank anyhow. I guess it's the length on the arms to support the brace that are too short. I may need to re-route the hose on the fuel tank but at this time I am not sure what it does or how I can re-route it.

Some feedback from anyone about whether it not it is worthwhile fitting a strut brace would be useful. Anyone with before and after accounts and experiences?
 
Julian Thompson told me he was sure it made a difference, but they were not standard from Porsche ...
 
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