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Originally Posted by Homeoboxter
The original color was not good either though.
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I'm trying to understand what this means? haha. No clue.
I dissassembled the motor far enough to confirm a few things: A) the IMS was intact and fine. B) There was more than one rod bearing rattling-around in there.
I'm not sure if your comment was a "man, it's CRAZY that you can drive them so hard that they fail to oil adequately", or if it was more of a "Sorry, I'm not buying it. You can't drive these things hard enough that they fail to oil adequately".
Regardless, let me assure you that this, not the IMS, is the "Achilles heel" of the M96 motor. A flat, boxer motor with very little sump, really should've been a dry-sump if it was gong to pretend to be a track-oriented motor. There are some bandaids, and hopefully the ones I've implemented this year will do the trick. But talking to others and reading up on the M96 failures at the racetrack, most are oil-supply related.