[porsche-land]

[QUOTE=Jake Raby;427021]

Wow, that's a long letter you have posted here...

First of all, we do not think Americans are stupid, that was your conclusion. We stated that you are using people's lack of knowledge to sell products that are not worth as much. That means that whoever produces these bearings, thinks people are stupid, making a big deal out of a simple bearing. If the person succeeds with it, great, sell it for even more money. But when you see competitors bearing being sold for half the cost, don't bug in and try to give your opinion. We do not make a big deal out of simple things, and let us remind you that you have started this IMS conversation. We have posted our engines for sale in this tread, and this is where it took off, thanks to your good friend Flavor 987S...
As our response, we have one of LN bearings, and within a week we will prove the whole process of where it came from, production of the bearing, and the cost, which will not exceed $100 for the actual bearing.
Flavor 987S, why don't you come over for a cup of coffee, we can discuss these things in person.
WE DO NOT GIVE A S... WHAT ANYONE DOES AS LONG AS THEY DON'T BUG IN INTO OUR BUSINESS.
We also think that you have your own customers, and we have ours. Even if you have a customer that's willing to pay you a million bucks, that's great for you. Just don't make rebuilding engines a big deal, when it isn't.
(Attn. Flavor 987S!)I, Martin Biernacki from Poland, do not use any notes when I'm assembling my engines. Even 40 people could watch me, it would still be the same.
If you think you're dealing with some rookie who came up with fixing Porsches in a hurry, you're wrong. You have suggested that at 13 you have assembled your first Porsche engine. I seriously doubt that, you might have went overboard with that sentence. Do you thing anyone is going to believe that?
I'm 39 years old, and it so happens that I have been in the automotive industry since I was born. My father used to have an automotive shop before I even existed, and used to be a well known rally car racer in Poland. Believe it or not, 39 years ago, people used to race Porsches in Europe. Google Sobieslaw Zasada if you don't believe me, they were friends with my father. I grew up in this business, and realistically speaking, at age 12 I did not assemble Porsche engines. I have started assembling motorcycle engines then, which I began to race later. In 2006 I was #2 in Polish Superbike, on one of my self built engines.
I did not serve in the army like you did, but since I was 12yo, for 27 years now, I have been in this industry. At age 18, I took over my fathers' shop, I used to build BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, and Porsche engines. Today, I only work with Porsche engines because I choose to.
Maybe now you will understand that you making a big deal out of your IMS retrofit design is not such a big deal to me. It's kind of amusing, because technicians in Europe used to do this long time before you have! They used to remove the bearing, went to the store that sells bearings, found the one they needed, and made the so called "retro fit" at the nearest machine shop. Every mechanic used to do this individually, they designed it on their own. Nobody had to patent anything, because it was such an easy thing to do, it didn't even occur to them to patent something anybody can do. You're just lucky that in US nobody has time to search for bearings, or visit machine shops. Since you were the only one, that's more power to you, but you have to understand that in Europe it has been developed by individual shops long time before you did...
Now, when we offer an alternative, you are adding your negative comments. We did not ask you for a review. If you don't think our roll bearing is good quality, we can start producing the same bearings as LN does (from Japan #5204RS), but with our retrofit patent. Since the bearing itself is the most important, what will you have to say about that? Will you also be reviewing it negatively as the other one? We would sell if for $400, which is a fair price.
Believe us, it's not a problem to rebuild an engine, resleeve the blocks, or produce an IMS bearing.
You or me wouldn't have any business in Europe, because they can repair Porsches at pretty much every shop. It's not a big deal there, every smart technician can fix it. That was an answer to your question about why I came here. I highly doubt you have any students from Europe taking your school?
Cost of your resleeving is so high because there are almost no shops in US that know how to do it. LN uses one shop they have used for years, and unfortunately customers have to pay a lot of $ for it, that's why it's so expensive to do it in US. Resleeving is always our last resort. You take pride in it, charging 5k. It's not the best solution, since the steel (non-original) cylinders are not what the factory had in mind. If they were designed as aluminum, they should remain that way if possible. If you take pride in the parts you install new, why don't you buy new engine blocks for your rebuilds? Even a good used block is 100 times better than the resleeved one, doesn't matter who resleeves it.
Regarding the customers that come to our shop, Eurosport, Vertex Auto, Fisher, or similar ones, which you have called "the bottom feeders... tying up our phone lines", these are intelligent people who made informed decisions based on the time frame and cost of the repair. They're real people who know how much their cars, engines, and labor are worth. Many of our clients have laughed really loud when they talked about your charges.
The bottom line is that we are not sticking our nose in your business, and would really appreciate if you did the same. Please do not comment on our IMS, or about our work, because we don't comment on what you do. You have started this conversation, trying to outsmart us.
Rebuilding engines or designing IMS retrofit is not very complicated, and you have certainly not been the first one who developed either one!
Maybe you should travel more around the world, you can learn things that way...
Stop acting like a guru, not everyone wants to hear what you have to say.