i was reading the newest edition of Excellence and came on the SSI ad with the 914 / 2.0 heat exchangers pictured. long story short, bottom line, F.O.B. from warehouse in California,...$1000.00. lead time 4-6 weeks.
SSI by JP Group
homepage listed:www.jpgroup.dk.
has this already been talked about?

Yes. I believe John sold out and the new company is re-expanding the line.

seems alittle expensive compaired to what john was selling them for... I think they were around $250-$300 way back when

Boy, Dave,
You sure gave me a good deal on my complete exhaust, about half of what new SSI's are by themselves. Still looking good too!
Tom

About market value though. I sold a new set a few years back for $900.00. Scooter drove up from the Bay Area to get them too...

If they're all stainless that might be the current price...

So are these being made now?

Well - when ?
Per the inflation calculator:
What cost $300 in 1980 would cost $806.05 in 2011.

so there ya go. $500 lost just to inflation...

Perfectly reasonable IMO. I'm glad to see they are being produced.

Now, will they reconsider 914-6 stainless heat exchangers? With so many conversions out there, perhaps there is a market to justify the tooling costs.

Or you can buy this. Ebay

I doubt in on the 6 HE's. I actually sent a set of 6'er boxes to Martin Pedersen at JP Group about ten years ago, and they didn't want to quote. Here's the realy sucky part: the story I got was that Porsche scrapped the tooling to stamp the heater shell halves.

I wanted to see about getting new shells stamped out of mild steel and then making new tubing out of stainless and just thermal coat them. Unless I wanted to spend a ton of money on tooling, it was a no go for me.

Glad to see they are making them again.

Not being a welding expert, but if you had a good pair of 1.7 SSI exchangers it shouldn't be to hard to modify the ends to make them fit a 2.0? I mean cut them at the bend and make/bend new tubes and weld them on along with the flanges???
May not look 100% stock, but I would think it could be done cheaper than $1K

Just thinking out loud But hey if I had an extra $1k it would be nice to have anew set of SSI for my 2.0

I bet that's George...

You got it!

I bought my SSI's in '75 for around 350/pair. 37 years later they still look new (well, I polish them from time to time) and work perfectly. These should be lifetime parts!
Now, what I'd really like is a stainless muffler, disguised with proper-look high temp paint.

Ceramic coating would probably be the only thing that would stick!

If the price was OK I'd go for that...I just decided to scrap heat on my conversion. All options seem to be crazy money and/or don't heat well.

Wow, I guess I'm lucky ... picked up a really nice set of 2.0L SSIs for $300. last year