MjRocket

That's impossible for anyone to say, however as many above have mentioned, with supplies on the Behr rad's getting low you may want to pick one up just to have. If you never end up needing/using it and one day no longer have the car you will always be able to sell it. Probably by then for more of a premium then you paid for it at this time. Just a thought


MJ

oroni123

if oem replacment will not be available what about using a much cheeper Rad like the one used on 944. same manufacture little modifiction needed.

Speedtoys

OEM is available.

Just very expensive.

And..the same price as a proper Alum radiator..so..why change?

oroni123

944 Rad cost Half as much as the 928 Rad, and somtimes even less.
If the function is the same and the modification are not to big of a deal so why not?

SeanR

One is designed to cool an inline 4 cylinder and the other designed for a V8. Capacities are a huge issue. It may cost 1/2 as much, but it also has 1/2 as much cooling capacity.

Carl Fausett

1) for the extra cooling capacity that the larger cooling core provides
2) to bring your temps down
3) to avoid installing plastic end tanks again, which will fail (again).

Some of these "new" radiators are NOS (New Old Stock). When this happens, the plastic has been hardening and aging for years on the warehouse shelf before you bought the part. The embrittlement of the end tanks has begun before you got the part. This does not apply to new new radiators (just manufactured)

ROG100

Stick with the original Behr radiator if you can afford it - they last for over 30 years and failures as a % of the numbers made are negligible. Behr radiators can only be purchased via Porsche and they are of current manufacture.
If your original has a leak at the plastic end tank, replacement with one of the newly manufactured plastic end tanks is very straight forward and relatively cheap. It is best to find a good radiator shop with the Behr press tool to have the tanks installed. Good tutorials are available on Rennlist for how to do this yourself.
Aftermarket aluminium radiators are historically fraught with issues and contrary to what some suppliers say they are not plug and play. Often they are wider than the stock radiator which causes fitment challenges especially if you plan to mount a SC.
On the positive side they are cheap - but you get what you pay for.

Barry Chan

So do you have any Behr rad left that was selling for $800.00?

ROG100

Barry,
I wish I did as I could sell 20 of them this week.
Roger

Barry Chan

That's too bad, i should have bought one when you had them but i didn't have any leaks until now

Shawn Stanford

Here's a potentially dumb-assed question: How about an aviation radiator?

dr bob

... Like the ones in early 911's?

ROG100

Would normally mean BIG $$$

Randy V

I find it hard to believe with the thousands of car models out there that there is not an identical radiator as used on the 928 at a reasonable price.

I'm thinking there's a radiator guy somewhere that upon seing our radiator will say, 'Yeah, the 1984 through 1993 Mumbleschmitt uses that exact same radiator. I can get a new one for $279.'

GregBBRD

Perfectly, truthfully said.

That should be the very last post, in this thread. End of story.