911 long and short front horn grills...

speedysimon · Post by **speedysimon** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:30 pm

...does anybody know why the grills are two different lengths?

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:55 pm

- do you mean apart from the fact that the longer ones are for swb cars & the shorter ones for lwb models ?

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:14 pm

Because the indicators are different lengths.

speedysimon · Post by **speedysimon** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:16 am

Andy, exactly, is it because the SWB cars had the side light in the headlamp? - then why move it for the LWB and shorten the grill?

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:46 am

The SWB cars had the sidelight in the indicator housing

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:18 am

The tendency with car manufacturers over the years (especially in the '60's) has been to continually increase the size of the front & rear lamps.

Porsche altered the size of these lamps when they increased the wheelbase in '68 with the introduction of the 'lwb' models - there was a fixed distance between the front edge of the wheelarch & the bonnet so by increasing the size of the indicator/sidelight meant there needed to be a corresponding decrease in the size of the horn grilles.

speedysimon · Post by **speedysimon** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:33 am

Thats the answer! - I can see now, as Porsche rarely did anything with out a very good reason, especially when re tooling was concerned.