Question about the project. (Which Race?)

[Scott L]

I know we are replicating the cars as they raced at Riverside, but I see there are two races there that weekend. I'm sure it was mentioned, but I missed it. Which race are we doing. It makes a difference for me as my car was a backup in one and it was raced in the other.

[Zoom Zoom]

We're doing the inaugural race, race #1. Maybe if there's enough interest people might want to build for other races, perhaps the season-ender that had only six drivers. But for simplicity and historical accuracy, we decided race #1 would be the best choice for the group build.

[Scott L]

So let me get this straight. Riverside was the first race weekend, but there were two IROC races that weekend at Riverside. From your post I take it we are replicating race 1 of the Riverside race weekend?

[Matt Wadlinger]

Hey guys, I noticed that the intake on the race cars was set up differently than the
parts included in the kit.

The racers had trumpets:
http://images12.fotki.com/v236/photos/4/431166/2869846/RSREnginePic-vi.jpg

The kit part will be easy enough to modify and cast. I can modify the part for casting, unless someone already has the correct intake.

[Matt Wadlinger]

So let me get this straight. Riverside was the first race weekend, but there were two IROC races that weekend at Riverside. From your post I take it we are replicating race 1 of the Riverside race weekend?

Here is a list of cars in the Inagural race by car serial #, engine serial #, color, driver, and car # in that race.

Riverside - Race 1

911 460 0016 Engine 684 0021, Bright Yellow, Peter Revson - Car #3
911 460 0025 Engine 684 0022, Grand Prix White, Mark Donohue - Car #2
911 460 0035 Engine 684 0024, Gulf Blue, Bobby Allison - Car #9
911 460 0037 Engine 684 0027, Pistachio Green, BACKUP
911 460 0040 Engine 684 0023, Light Green, BACKUP
911 460 0042 Engine 684 0025, Bright Green, Ricard Petty - Car #10
911 460 0050 Engine 684 0028, Aubergine(purple), A.J. Foyt - Car #8
911 460 0059 Engine 684 0029, Acid Blue (DARK), George Follmer - Car #4
911 460 0075 Engine 684 0033, Mexican Blue, Denny Hulme - Car #6
911 460 0085 Engine 684 0035, Indian Red, Gordon Johncock - Car #11
911 460 0090 Engine 684 0031, Orange, Roger McCluskey - Car #12
911 460 0100 Engine 684 0024, Sahara Beige, Emerson Fitipaldi - Car #1
911 460 0111 Engine 684 0033, Strawberry Pink, David Pearson - Car #5
911 460 0116 Engine 684 0034, Carmen Red, Bobby Unser - Car #7
911 460 0124 Engine 684 0026, Black, BACKUP

Here is a link to some pics I've collected in internet searches:
http://public.fotki.com/CADguy/reference_photos/porsche/1974_iroc_911_rsr/

If anyone else has some to add, e-mail them to me, and I can add them to the album

[Zoom Zoom]

There were apparently three races at Riverside that weekend. Heat #1 and #2 were on Saturday, and Heat #3 was on Sunday. We're modeling Heat #1. I didn't know the particulars of the dates until I read the information yesterday. So they must have been easy to quickly modify/remove decals and replace, because in that one weekend they were swapping cars, not driving the same car for the subsequent heats. Which also made for a good plan to have the cars as equal as possible, and nobody could complain if one car was particularly fast and nobody else had a chance to drive it.