Porsche 964 Carrera 4 LWT - Maxted-Page

No 14 of 20
1991 Porsche (964) Carrera 4 Lightweight
LHD Chassis# 964 014!! Engine # 62L15144!
Gearbox # 953/00-015!
•Extremely rare factory homologation special - No 14 of 20
•Hand built in Weissach customer sports department
•Lightest version of 964 ever built at 1090Kgs
•Manually adjustable 4WD drive train
•Many special competition features
•4,000 kms since new
•UK/EU taxes paid

1991 Porsche (964) Carrera 4 Lightweight
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Not to be confused with the 964
Carrera RS, this Carrera 4
Lightweight was one of an extremely
exclusive production of just 20
vehicles, which were hand-built in
Weissach, in the Customer Sports
department. Never officially
announced or put into a catalogue by
Porsche, chassis numbers 964001 to
964020 were supplied to a few
factory-preferred customers and
collectors only.
When Porsche’s Formula One
programme ended in 1990, engineers
at Weissach were put onto a project
devised by Porsche client racing
manager, Jurgen Baarth, to design
and build the Carrera 4 Leichtbau. A
true factory homologation special,
built utilising some stock items as
well as other special parts, originally
from the Paris-Dakar 953 project. The
result was the lightest 964 ever - a
stripped-out racer with manually
adjustable four-wheel drive and a
short-ratio gearbox which, thanks to
its near-standard RS engine (with
power upgrade to 280bhp) would
not be impossible to maintain or use
regularly.

1991 Porsche (964) Carrera 4 Lightweight
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Built in the true Leichtbau tradition,
the C4L underwent a further weight
reduction - 150kgs lighter than the
standard RS - and when finished
weighed not more than 1090kgs.
Features and specification included
all of the following:
Lightweight aluminium doors.
Fibreglass - SCRS engine lid.
Plexiglass windows all round with
sliding vent in side windows.
Stripped-out interior with Recaro
race seats, harnesses and Momo
wheel.
Leightweight cut-away dash panel,
without trim.
Handmade roll-cage, fitted (and
numbered) to each car.
Adjustable strut-brace.
Oil tank mounted forward of rear
axle with side filler.
Battery cut-off mounted on scuttle,
under bonnet and in cockpit.
Stiffer and lower ‘Cup Car’
suspension.
SCRS-type race spec. brakes with
bias adjustment (no ABS) and a
hydraulic handbrake.
Magnesium-alloy wheels

1991 Porsche (964) Carrera 4 Lightweight
RS spec. engine with power upgrade
to 280 bhp
Type-953 fully-adjustable 5-speed
competition gearbox - 4 wheel drivtrain
(torque manually adjustable to
the front and rear axles and from
side-to-side by driver-operated knobs
on dash, unlike the Paris – Dakar 953
which was electronically regulated).
Short factory-ratio gears – (circa 125mph max speed)
Race exhaust manifolds with straight mini boxes. No cat or heating etc.
Chassis No 964 014 was finished in Polar Silver and delivered new on 14 th June 1991 via German
Porsche distributors Wehmeier & Castrup, who exported the car to a Japanese collector. During
the 1990s, chassis 014 was registered in Japan and occasionally driven on the road only. In 1998 it
was sold and imported to the UK (all taxes paid) and has still only covered a total of 4,000 kms
since new.
We are delighted to offer this, the rarest of all 964s, combining ultra light-weight performance
with four-wheel drive – a very special Porsche indeed.