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I get that Jake has to market and sell his products or his business goes broke, this and other forums are the current version of a market. I also get that he can not give away his proprietary information or again, his business goes broke.
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Honestly, we've already moved on from the M96 as our primary objective for development. The 9a1 engines (and others) are now where the focus is, and has been for some time, as we have been developing them for 4 years now. (See Panorama Magazine December 2013 issue, pages 66-71 for just a taste)
The things that we have already developed for the M96 will continue to populate the market for years to come, as they are ready to be introduced. With our M96 engine program the Gen5 engines coupled to my R51 heads and cams will change things again in the coming months as they are released (for spring 2015 delivery) with a much different set of engine combinations than conventionally available. We'll continue to build these engines to satisfy the huge demand, but pretty much we've done all we can with the platform thats within reasonable purchase prices. In fact, we'll be able to build more engines than ever, because the focus with the M96 moves from development to application (No, this doesn't mean that prices will drop!). This means its time for years of hard work to finally pay off.
My final M96/97 development is a 10,000 RPM capable engine for my wife's Land Speed addiction. It will only be 3.5L, but I am sure it will shatter what any M96 has ever done before, and should supersede most GT3 engines. Its kind of the icing on the cake, open checkbook project, pretty much just to put those people who are
trying to be our competitor in their place, and remind them that we will always be a decade ahead of them.
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As far as you starting a battle you didn't. There has been some "healthy tension" in the forum that I think a few beers around a campfire would solve. My sense is that has more to do with the fact that we are all restricted to posting instead of talking to each other face to face so misunderstandings are inevitable.
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Honestly, I have grown to pretty much hate forums and what they create for us. People believe that we are here to gain business, but the fact is that no one on these forums seeks out our engine services, or at least very, very few. Yes, many of you employ the technology that we have developed, but that doesn't bring business to us directly, as we become disassociated with he product once its brought to market and our part is done. We benefit from it by having these things for our engines.
We have found that we must be active members of these forums to ensure that misinformation isn't spread. Pretty soon I am going to have to check out permanently, so I can go to the next level, and if misinformation occurs, it'll just have to happen.
All of that said, if your cam timing is off now, it probably was off before the procedure and it was just enough to create an issue. People assume that their cam timing is correct before the process, when they should assume that it IS NOT and then quantify that, then address the deviation issues BEFORE the retrofit is done. The other thing that leads to timing loss after a procedure is worn timing chains.
Yes, The IMS assembly is comprised of 4 pieces that are miraculously assembled without any positive means of locking them into place, no dowels, no pins or etc are employed. IMS drives slip all the time and a couple of degrees is like 100 miles to the engine.
If I had the patience and time to sit on the phone all day and help people there's a big market for selling the things we have developed to the DIY installer, with super detailed instructions and support. My goal is to stay out of the office and away from the phone as much as possible, both of them are places where I hate to be. If I had to deal with that everyday, you'd read about the result of it in the headlines of national news.