2003 Boxster S - prevent IMS failure?

[chitowndad]

This is the Porsche place in Bensenville that I was thinking of:

http://midwesteurosport.com/

Anyone have any experience with these guys?

Originally Posted by chitowndad

This is the Porsche place in Bensenville that I was thinking of:

http://midwesteurosport.com/

Anyone have any experience with these guys?

The place is a dump. Great race shop, but I would not take my personal car there.

[fragdude]

Toolpants,

You are obviously very savy mechanically, especially so with porsches, as it seems. I recently had a leaky RMS and IMS seal. My mechanic, who has been working on porsches specifically for over 25 years, says that porsche states that on the 911 you have to change the whole IMS flange, but on the Boxster you just change the seal (he then showed me a new flange w/ seal to point out the seal, which did have multiple ribs). Any particular reason for this? Is the new flange better in some other way? is it worth it going back there and questioning this?

It did seem strange that the 911 would get a new flange while the boxster just get a new seal since the engines are extremely similar.

[chitowndad]

This was the last reply that I got from the Hartech guy:

There is a later Porsche spindle carrier and spindle that may fit your
engine - a check with your engine number and Porsche parts department may
confirm and this may be a way to upgrade your particular engine within the
Porsche network over there - good luck.

[chitowndad]

bmusatti,
Sometimes the best looking shops have the worst mechanics! I tend to believe that the guys that race cars know the engine the best. I have had really bad luck with Toyota mechanics lately - they just don't try hard enough to solve the problem and want to fix things that don't need fixing...

-Steve