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Originally Posted by Peter Zimmermann
Matt: I wish that I would have known about you a few months ago  ! I needed a 28:23 a few months ago, and searched everywhere. I got a price of $1600 (new) from the dealer and $1200 (new) from a shop that had old stock on the shelf. In each case I would have had to buy a new needle bearing and bearing bushing (another $100). As you well know, chatter lines are very common on the inner bearing surface, and a gear with those marks is a throw-away (at least I won't use one). I bought a number of 5th gears from different sources, and had to return all but two of them  because of those lines, even after asking that the gear be checked carefully and to not send me the gear if they are visible. |
Wow!
Maybe I'm not charging enough for some of my gears. I've got a dozen or so NOS 4th and 5th gears for 915. I've never sold one for even $1000. I sell NOS G50 gears for that kind of money, but they've always been that kind of money.
It's really ironic because those 915 gears used to be throw aways. I was at lunch with Grady one day and he was telling me about back in his dealership days (when I was in diapers
). He bought a huge stack of 915 gears from Porsche for something like $15 each. He didn't do it for the gears but for the dog teeth since Porsche wouldn't sell them seperately back then and the racers needed them for their special ratio gears they were beating up. He said he literally threw away a 50 gallon garbage can full of dogless NOS gears at one point!!!
Sorry for the hijack but I am just floored. Special ratio gears is my business and I didn't know anyone outside of the dealerships/PAG was charging that kind of money for 915 stuff. And now my aftermarket Aussie gears seem like a really good deal.
