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Replacing the ball bearing entirely appears to be a bullet proof solution, and there is a product out there that does just that.
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Yep. I invented it.
The ball bearing that isn't there, can't fail. The 11 wear components that are omitted also can't create further collateral damages. (read 3,000 words about it in the tech forum of the next issue of Excellence Magazine)
Through our development with the IMS Solution we found that oil pressure inside the IMS assembly can force the segments of the IMS assembly to disconnect and leave the engine with an IMS shaft failure.
Of course, most people don't understand that the IMS assembly is all lightly press fitted together and that oil pressure can force it apart hydraulically. Thats why the IMS Solution uses a block off that plugs the IMS shaft and partitions these segments that can separate under pressure completely.
Spraying uncontrolled oil inside the engine (and aiming it directly at a dynamically operating component!) of any sports car is the most horrible idea I can think of. It may be fine in an industrial application of a low speed steady state engine, but not something that sees 7K RPM and actually accelerates. Maybe they don't understand the inabilities of engine oil to maintain proper film strength for both hydrodynamic and boundary layer protection when aerated?
We learned that in 2007, before most of these new arrivals to this engine had ever disassembled one or even had the cam covers off. From now on we are going to patent all our bad ideas, as well as the good ones.
I see lots of air/ oil separators failing in the future and all of the engines will have a single common denominator.