Porsche 935K

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Wikipedia: Kremer Racing is a motorsports team based in Cologne, Germany, founded by racing driver Erwin Kremer and his brother Manfred. They have competed internationally with Porsches for nearly all of their existence, and were even one of the factory-backed squads for many years. Besides running Porsches, the team was also known for their tuned Porsche race cars that they both raced and sold to other teams who could not gain the best equipment from the factory.



In the 1970s, Kremer initially tuned 911s, 914-6 GTs, and 934s. However, with the Porsche 935, Kremer began designating their tuned models with the letter K, followed by a number in order of construction. Eight cars were designated as such.

• 935 K1 - Their first privately built 935 in 1976
  
• 935 K2 - An improvement on K1 in 1977
• 935 K3 - An attempt to mimic the Evolution bodywork on the factory 935/78s. The most successful 935 variant, due to its technical advantage running an air/air intercooler instead of the air/water units used by the Porsche factory. Winner of Le Mans 24 Hours in 1979.
• 935 K4 - An all-new variant of the 935 for the early 1980s, featuring a space frame
  
• CK5 - A custom-built Group C prototype based on a 936 meant as a temporarily replacement until the 956 was available for customers in 1983
• 962CK6 - An improvement on the factory 962
  
• CK7 Spyder - An open-cockpit prototype using 962 mechanicals used in Interserie
  
• K8 Spyder - An improved version of the K7 for use in the International Sports Racing Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Kremer also built a 917 for use in the 1981 24 Hours of Le Mans, and would also make improvements on the 911 GT1 and GT2 in the 1990s

The first version of the Kremer was simply called the "935K" as subsequent version were introduced K2, K3 etc. it retrospectively became known as "935-K1".

Not sure why Testors refers to this as a 934 but this is the kit. Gunze and Airfix also released versions of this kit.

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[Chris K. Hale]

The 934 K (1) had that unusual rear body work and running boards, the factory 934's looked like the initial 935 Baby with the upright headlamps instead of the flat nose a 2.0 or smaller engine , It was also almost completely based on the factory stock chassis... Chris

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The 934 was the Porsche 930 built to Group 4 specs which didn't allow radically body work mods.  Basically a 930 with fender flares. 

The 935 was the 930 built to Group 5 which was a silhouette spec. The K1 was a 935.

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Re-worked kit wing.

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nice start, everything i have seen you doing is so nice and tidy and for the lack of a new term, C L E A N !!

[dustymojave]

Note that the 935s had the standup headlights of the 911 and 934 "shaved" to flat slope fenders. Is there some plan to do that to this build?

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The early 935s retained the familiar Porsche 911 headlight position, as they evolved the flat sloped hood was introduced along with ever more radical body work.

 

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The kit doesn't provide the engine cover panel lines so I scribed my own.

[Chris K. Hale]

May 5, 2018 13:21:59 GMT -8 Chris K. Hale said:

The 934 K (1) had that unusual rear body work and running boards, the factory 934's looked like the initial 935 Baby with the upright headlamps instead of the flat nose a 2.0 or smaller engine , It was also almost completely based on the factory stock chassis... Chris

I think there is some confusion about what I wrote above, note the (1) meaning ) One Built not meant to be The Kremer K1 which was a 935. If you have seen the misc Kremer street cars , you know they are know for strange body work, . Chris

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