Guys:
Having an opposition is nothing new. I don't expect everyone to agree with us and I expect at least 10% of the following to create banter.
These people don't bother me. I have been doing outside the box things and sharing them since before the internet existed. The funny thing is when I attend events these people never have the intestinal fortitude to look at me eyeball to eyeball and challenge what I state. Not once, not ever and I sure wish they would. Their behavior is typical of a keyboard warrior that knows nothing, has no experience and has NEVER developed a single product for these cars.
I haven't been removed from any forums, a couple aren't worth wasting my time with, so all I do is troll them and save screen captures for a rainy day when they become necessary.
What does matter is people like smshirk who have paid the price of admission for what we create and their expectations have been exceeded. The other things that matter are the engines that we save here on a routine basis through our developments in both components and processes. These people save 10K+ of their hard earned money because of what we have created.
Lets say this: If all of you knew what we know and deal with what we see you'd feel the same way that we do about these bearings requiring elective replacement. I had seven failure calls on Monday alone and as we speak I have Boxsters and 996s inbound from Texas (two from Texas!), Rhode Island, West Virginia, California and Manitoba Canada. Of those only one is coming here electively, the rest are broken.
On top of that we experienced Mode Of Failure #22 with these engines just yesterday. This is another Texas car (996) that featured an exploded valve seat. The engine is dead with 50K miles due to collateral damage related to the valve seat explosion. This means that now we can no longer trust the OEM valve seats, all 24 must be changed when we upgrade our engines.
Here is some more "Doom and Gloom" for the opposition to whine about
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2004 996 3.6 liter engine~
Whats left of the valve seat that was blown into the intake plenum
Biggest piece of the valve seat that still existed
Mining for gold in the oil filter
Whats missing here?? Its blown apart and in the intake and mufflers!
This is what its supposed to look like.. The seat is gone!!
Here is where the seat fell out, danced against the piston at BDC before it was smashed into 10,000 pieces by the piston when it hit TDC
Thats a nice piston
This is what we do. This is what we see and what we deal with day after day with people from all over the world. As time and mileage increases we are seeing new failures and different symptoms. If you can't handle the truth, thats fine just go ahead and argue, act pissy or make snide comments.
What you say or do won't change anything, in fact it might even make me take extra time from my day to post MORE pictures of doom and gloom just do get you pissed off. Take shots at me and I'll have a lot of fun ruining YOUR day, because it isn't going to bother me. Hell, I can't believe that no one has made any smart ass statements about or most recent Excellence Ad.
This is all real. Its not made up. We see it because we had the first engine program for these engines in this country and have specialized in creating fixes for the inadequacies of the engine in factory form.
I am not a jerk, at least until people start pushing my buttons and then its time to have fun.
Finally we have created a method of forecasting impending IMS failure prior to a big boom. It will also cause some animosity and drama, but it will also help save engines for those who do not want to electively retrofit their IMS bearing. We are in the process of the trademark and patenting procedures and are aggressively doing these things to get the product on the market ASAP because engines are dying daily that we could save.