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Headlamp Washers?

65 mat

65 mat

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After examining recent pics from the RS day at Oulton I noticed that both Vic's Supercup car and Paul's RSR (both fantastic cars!!) have headlamp washers unlike on a 'regular' RS. Why is this if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers, Matt.
 
Because the race cars were more likely to touch paint and maybe worse!....so it made sense to fit regular C2 wings as they were cheaper to manufacture......normally they are US export spec,,,with headlamp wash but without the hole for the side indicator/repeater as more of these were produced than for other markets leading to the cheapest cost of production.
 
Question answered...cheers Clubsport! I must say, your knowledge on these cars is very impressive my friend!
 
ORIGINAL: clubsport

Because the race cars were more likely to touch paint and maybe worse!....so it made sense to fit regular C2 wings as they were cheaper to manufacture......normally they are US export spec,,,with headlamp wash but without the hole for the side indicator/repeater as more of these were produced than for other markets leading to the cheapest cost of production.
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Didn't know that! Was it anything to do with the need for headlamp washers for endurance racing?
 
Nothing to do with racing,they had a limted run of wings with no washer holes in 94/95 specific to the rs and GT2.
Fairly sure you can not get these wings now,infact i tried to get some about 6 years ago and all were used up.
My rsr is a late 97/98 car
65 mat did you get your photos from tim.i can send you some if you want
 
I knew there would be differing opinions on this,,,,I was told the racing and cost story by someone who ran these cars in a race team in the '90s, I found it interesting and took them at their word.,,,certainly seemed logical, why would they fit rare and expensive RS wings?

Paul, I appreciate you are the oracle on these cars, but isn't cost and availability a factor?

At the time, Porsche could easily have built more RS/GT2 wings to accommodate race car production, clearly there was no added value in this.

Always keen to learn more about these fantastic cars...cheers [:)]

 

ORIGINAL: paul howells

Nothing to do with racing,they had a limted run of wings with no washer holes in 94/95 specific to the rs and GT2.
Fairly sure you can not get these wings now,infact i tried to get some about 6 years ago and all were used up.
My rsr is a late 97/98 car
65 mat did you get your photos from tim.i can send you some if you want
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Hi Paul, yes I did get the photos from Tim and yes please, I would love to see some more whenever you get the chance. Cheers![:)]

Regards,Matt.
 
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