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But the failure rate of those other parts you mentioned seem to me to have a much lower probability of failure when compared to the IMSB. Sure cam chains can break, and the IMSG will probably pick up on the metal fragments and alert you, but my quest is to solve the issue of unknown IMSB health given my cam chains will probably be fine for the life of the engine (probably just jinxed myself).
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Not so much. I currently have failed engines in my facility from 23 states & 3 Canadian provinces, and they came to me in their respective Porsches shipped from all over North America.
Of those TWO of them are here for failed IMS Bearings. The rest are here for one of the other 24 modes of failure. In the last 6 weeks we have seen 4 broken timing chains and have caught one more that was in the process of failing and was discovered while qualifying an engine for an IMS Solution retrofit procedure.
The reason why more of the other failures occur today and less IMSB failures is primarily because more engines have been proactively retrofitted. Another reason is because the other issues have always been there and because we have always seen them, they just haven't been highlighted like the IMSB issue. When I have tried to share this I was just blacklisted as a "fear monger" for exposing this. I pulled those details off the site because I got tired of it. The jobs find us, no matter what.
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Concerning "real Engineering", well there's always more than one way to achieve the same end result. Some are better than others and some are overly complicated. Simplicity drives my personal developments. The component that isn't there, can't fail. Thats why the IMS Solution eliminates 11 wear components found within the OEM single row IMSB.