Is it a 72T or 80's SC - help please

[davidc]

I bought my 911 thinking that it was a 72 RHD T that was 'upgraded' to an SC long ago. It has the SC bumpers, wheels, rear arches,interior, brake servo, rear spoiler, engine ancilliaries, etc. It has some signs of a T as well e.g. the chrome. It was as cheap as chips.
I was told it had a 3.0 SC engine. I now find that the engine number matches the (72T) chassis number on the plate and chassis stamp. Good news I feel. However, at the same time I am finding more and more SC stuff e.g. fuel tank (and hence the chassis bits to accomodate it).
As a result I am wondering whether it could be an SC with a T chassis stamp and engine number grafted on rather than an updated T.
Can anybody tell me of any 'hard to change' signs to indicate the heritage of the engine and chassis other than the numbers?
Any advice gratefully received.
Dave

[Gary71]

Hi,

If it's a '72 body then it will have the oil tank mounted in front of the RH rear wheel and an external filler flap on the RH rear quarter panel. This was only done on the '72 models and is the biggest clue to the shell heritage

Hope this helps

[Nick Moss]

There are dozens of differences between a 72 shell and an SC

The 72 has twin batteries mounted in boxes in each front inner wing, the SC has a single battery on the boot floor inside the left inner wing

The 72 has no dash vents, the SC has a centre vent and a small vent at each end above the knee roll

The SC has impact bumper mounts which are VERY solid

The SC has a brake servo

That should be enough to be getting on with.....

[Glenn75S]

SC will have Aluminium rear training arms, where 72 will be steel

72T will have narrow wheel arches (no flares) whereas the SC will have a a flare.

hope this helps

[Barry]

As Nick says, the S.C. has massive bumper mounts, coupled with a single battery. If you've just got lightweight bumpers with fabricated mounts, and a plated up or still-present offside battery box, it may well be an early shell. If the bumper mounts are very heavy (2-2.5mm) steel, well spot welded on to the underside of the rear chassis legs, and the outside of the front inner wings, it's probably an SC.

Don't forget: If it looks like a pig, oinks like a pig and smells like a pig ..... it probably is a pig . Therefore if the only thing that makes it a '72 T is the engine and the chassis number (try feeling underneath the stamped-in number that should be to the off side of the flat bulkhead area
for welded in plates), then it's was probably an engineless S.C. with a donor engine.

[davidc]

Thanks for your help guys.
A real mongrel this one. Despite V5, chassis/engine numbers and some early T bits it is, at heart, an SC I reckon.
Dave