Current thin-flange SSI's available without MFI heater tube?

[maninblack]

Are the current thin-flange SSI's available without the MFI heater tube?

Backdating a '75 car and I bought these on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/152570276351

But the heat exchangers I received have the MFI heater tube on the driver side:



Both the eBay listing and the box show a part # of 91.911SSI.

I've had older SSI's on a couple cars that did not have the heater tube but wondering if that version is no longer being made under new SSI ownership. Any ideas?

[dg567]

I'm pretty sure all the new ones are with the tube, if its not being used you just cap it off.

[maninblack]

Originally Posted by dg567

...if its not being used you just cap it off.

Yeah, I know, but it'll still keep me up at night!

Wonder why everyone is showing the photo without the tube?

[dg567]

Originally Posted by maninblack

Yeah, I know, but it'll still keep me up at night!

Wonder why everyone is showing the photo without the tube?

Probably an old stock photo. Its easier for them to produce 1 style for both applications.

[maninblack]

Originally Posted by dg567

I'm pretty sure all the new ones are with the tube, if its not being used you just cap it off.

Spoke with Bill @Pelican and turns out the thin flange SSI's ARE available without the MFI heater tube and our host has them in stock.

One more crisis averted...

[eastbay]

Originally Posted by maninblack

Yeah, I know, but it'll still keep me up at night!

No kidding, no way I could live with that either. The correctness of Porsche details can be a cruel mistress.

[maninblack]

Correcting my own post. Although Bill @ Pelican had told me that these were available without the MFI heater tube, turns out that SSI has recently consolidated their production and the non-MFI SSI's are NLA. Anyone using these in a carbureted car in the future will need to cap off the tube. Another first world problem we'll all have to live with.