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OP, that cross your fingers and spend a few grand on the IMS swap, oil flushing simply will not work. If you are seeing ferrous bits in hand there are almost assuredly ferrous bits in the tight spaces that will not come out, constrict oil flow and kaboom. It will take a few thousand miles if your lucky but there's no cheating the reaper who will claim the entire engine instead of sparing you with just the cost of the rebuild.

How many miles were you able to put on the car yourself? I had a theory for a while that we would see a rash of these since most Boxsters and 996 Carrera never bad their IMS swapped when the clutch was replaced. I figured once the majority of these cars crossed 100k miles or suffered from infrequent oil changes the failures would begin to tick up sharply. But since these are not daily driven cars to most it would take some time.