Couple of questions:

Main question; If I recall from my six, the shock tower black looked like it was applied in a fairly crude manner. I swear it looked like it was brushed on. Any thoughts on how it was applied? Brush? Flat or Semi? Again, from my previous car I'm almost thinking flat with a brush...

Was the same method used under the small secondary engine grills on the body?

Front shock tower goo was brushed on. Pretty thick too and over the nuts and plate after alignment.

The under engine grill and top of rubber stop holders was brushed on (thin) on early cars, painted flat black on later cars.

Andy

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Danke.

I dont think so,
on my moms 76 i wiped it with thinner to prep for wurth satin black trim piant and it came right off, guessing it was laquer.

Any idea why this "stuff" was applied to the shock towers on the sixes?

So to ensure that you are authentic....after you paint a 914/6 you have to apply roofing tar to the body???

Yuck

Rich

Since the completed bodies were sent to Porsche for engines, transmissions and suspension they applied the same steps of completion that they did to the 911's. I have a picture in the 73 deluxe 911 brochure of a guy with a paint bucket of tar applying it to the bottom of a 911. I do not have a scanner or I would post it.

That is a very good question ...

Andy

I have a guess?

They did 911's with the tar stuff so the could seal out water and dirt. You would not want roafd grit on your luggage. Since 914 strut tops are inside the fuel tank/drain tray area the 4cyl cars were not sealed the same as 911 strut tops which are inside the front trunk. The914/6 they did like the 911 becuase they are germans.

Jim

Why would it matter to a 914 where the strut tops are located on a 911?
Andy

despite the smiley, I have to assume this is rhetorical...
/6's were assembled on the same line in Stuttgart (actually Ludwigsburg, yes?) as 911's (as I know you know) and as much as possible, all the same assembly procedures were used for everything on the line.

So the front suspension guys got instructed to install the upper bearings, torque the nuts, and smear the goo.

It matters to the 911, and it was just superfluous on a 914.

Not really. You'd think that Heinz at the assembly line was awake enough to distinguish between a 914/6 and a 911.

Why bother to pick up the goo bucket if it's a 914 in front of you?
Germans are pretty efficient in that regard.

My guess would be that the real reason was to distinguish the 914/6 from the 914/4 and give it more of a "Real Porsche" feeling by applying something that 911 owners could relate to.
Andy