Hello everyone. I'm hoping the collective knowledge can help me track down a part which doesn't appear to be on any of the diagrams. But I swear it exists, because I have seen more than one of them. With my own eyes.
The part in question is this (the black plastic blank in the hole where the centre radiator would be):
A bit of backstory:
I'm currently most of the way through a light front-end restoration of my car, which has I think a dealer-fit Aerokit. The car is a 98 build manual Carrera, and so originally had the centre radiator hole blanked off with a body-coloured part, like so:
For various reasons, that bumper pictured is no longer usable. I spent a long time deliberating over which part number to order for the bumper, hoping I would get the exact same part. The internet was unfortunately not much help here, and as anyone who has had to order one of these before will know, the part numbers are a bit of a lottery. So the parts man and I made our best guess, I paid my money, and one turned up with a hole in it.
I considered a number of options including fitting a centre radiator, hacking up the old bumper or filling it with something not made by Porsche; but ultimately they all felt to me incorrect and I was (am) concerned that anything other than the correct part will just make the car look like the Aerokit is a later addition.
For a long time I had been led to believe that the black blank pictured above is actually the central third of the standard air inlet grille, and that people who retrofitted the Aerokit tended to cut that up and bodge it into the hole. I was actually pretty close to ordering this part up, until from looking closely at pictures (most clearly shown on the blue car above), the curvature is specific to this Aerokit part and the standard part is quite a different shape. My indy also vaguely remembers installing these in period.
So, all things considered, I'm pretty sure Porsche once made that part. If they still make it, and if one of you can help me find a part number, I'd like to buy one. And you a beer.
Many thanks.
The part in question is this (the black plastic blank in the hole where the centre radiator would be):
A bit of backstory:
I'm currently most of the way through a light front-end restoration of my car, which has I think a dealer-fit Aerokit. The car is a 98 build manual Carrera, and so originally had the centre radiator hole blanked off with a body-coloured part, like so:
For various reasons, that bumper pictured is no longer usable. I spent a long time deliberating over which part number to order for the bumper, hoping I would get the exact same part. The internet was unfortunately not much help here, and as anyone who has had to order one of these before will know, the part numbers are a bit of a lottery. So the parts man and I made our best guess, I paid my money, and one turned up with a hole in it.
I considered a number of options including fitting a centre radiator, hacking up the old bumper or filling it with something not made by Porsche; but ultimately they all felt to me incorrect and I was (am) concerned that anything other than the correct part will just make the car look like the Aerokit is a later addition.
For a long time I had been led to believe that the black blank pictured above is actually the central third of the standard air inlet grille, and that people who retrofitted the Aerokit tended to cut that up and bodge it into the hole. I was actually pretty close to ordering this part up, until from looking closely at pictures (most clearly shown on the blue car above), the curvature is specific to this Aerokit part and the standard part is quite a different shape. My indy also vaguely remembers installing these in period.
So, all things considered, I'm pretty sure Porsche once made that part. If they still make it, and if one of you can help me find a part number, I'd like to buy one. And you a beer.
Many thanks.
