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You could have added the failures LN/Flat6 went through with off the shelf items and even one of their early designs had to be redone after the first dozens were out there and they got some more experience on them.
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What you can really add is that we didn't have anyone else top "copy". We blazed the trails and spent the money to not only develop the bearing products, but also the tools and then the procedure to retrofit.
You want to talk about pain? How about wasting 4,400.00 in less than one minute when something didn't work. How about the first IMSB I tried to fit wouldn't even allow the flywheel to pass through the flange? We did this all from ground level; but we made one critical mistake and that was not following through to patent the system retrofit, period. If we had the experience with the Patent office that we do now, we would have certainly protected it and licensed the ability to retrofit the bearing, but we didn't and thats allowed copycats to benefit from the trails we blazed. Remember, the IMSB was said to be "non- serviceable" by Porsche.
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But forum posters think that specs are everything and trumpet their "success" after a few miles.
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No, people have no clue what it takes to invent something, develop it, have 41 revisions, come up with the tools, come up with the instructions and then market it.
Some people are happy if something just runs after they do a job; they don't have to go to sleep at night knowing that 25,000 engines are out there, fitted with their parts. The majority of those were also installed by techs that truly don't understand all the things that can kill a retrofitted IMSB.
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I hope they don't have as many failed test engines as LN/Flat6 did before they got it right.
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I don't know how they could afford to... With us, I'd build engines up with questionable parts just to break it. My record was an engine ruining for 210 hours without being shut down, night and day.
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Another difference is the kit contains other improved parts beyond the bearing itself. From flange to bolts to seals to ....
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Thats never considered...
We never stop development. I am currently working on completing another product for the dual row engines and also a tool that will be used to measure another critical distance in regard to fitting an IMSR. This tool will help installers pre- qualify engines with greater confidence