[Boxtaboy]

Thanks for answering all the questions Jake.

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

If that happened and the work had a guarantee there would be finger pointing and it would not be fun for anyone. Lots of other things can fail inside this engine that may APPEAR to be the IMS and the engine can be so destroyed that it would be impossible to determine what failed first. Due to that we assume risks together, I can't gold plate the process or guarantee that no issues will occur because its purely mechanical.

If the remainder of the engine that we can't update withiut a full tear down was so risky I'd have no problem guaranteeing this work. The worst nightmare for anyone is to have a warranty and the grat areas not point to any conclusive source of the issue.. We end up with red tape, court cases and bad reputations when that happens.. I'd much rather be up front, do the best job possible and support the job as much as possible the olod fashioned way should something occur.. I will not promise anyone a rose garden unless they buy MY version of this engine with the updates applied, and even then there are stipulations.


Maybe, maybe not... I am not big on the whole warranty thing, probably because I have been around mechanical things all my life and have seen perfectly good running engines die because of something that could not be explained... If the Warranty gives you the security you are looking for, lets just hope you don't end up in court trying to make them pay when reality strikes.

I just finished installing a test engine into the customer's car that had the crankshaft fail. He had no warranty (full track car) and didn't have to ask me to do this for him to finish his season.. He was fair and I went out of my way to accomodate him and I'll guarantee that no piece of paper on this planet would have forced any other shop to install another engine into his car after his failed ON THE TRACK- I offered to do this for him... See if Porsche will give you a loaner engine and let you take it on the track... I told him to try to blow it up, and I mean it.

This test engine has an IMS retrofit (the second one ever done) as well as a pair of cracked heads that we repaired with a new process and it has experimental camshafts.. We ripped the heads off, ported them, did a good valve job and repaired the cracks... Then bumped up the CR at bit, but we didn't crack into the block- thats all OE. A few minutes ago it made 250 RWHP from a bone stock 3.2 with 88,000 miles. It has over 500 dyno pulls on it and is stronger than ever!