read this and be warned about your motor

[Boxtaboy]

Jake, do you offer any sort of limited warranty on any of your upgrades and/or engine work? Just reading one of the passages below, it says once your upgraded bearing is installed, it "should be good for the remainder of the engines life." What happens if for any crazy reason, it fails a few months down the road?

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The problem with the dealership is the techs there are parts changers in most cases.. Few of them have the ability to intervene and even if they could they have rules governingwhat tactics can be used tocorrect the issues. If their isn't a TSB that directs them to an issue, or there isn't a scheduled procedure, the work doesn't get done. Here we have no rules. Others like us play the game the same way

Once the IMS bearing is replaced with a silicon nitride hybrid bearing retrofit bearing it should be good for the remainder of the engines life.

We have bought bearing analyzing equipment and have been testing every car we see to gain data concerning good and bad bearings so the test equipment can be rented to be used by others with accurate parameters for "good and bad" bearings... Until then it'll require a traied ear and a stethoscope to detect the issues.

This work isn't that difficult and we are not the only people who can do it.. I have literally been building engines since the age of 8 and had my first paying customer for an engine build at 13... I live, breathe and sleep engines and always have, so over time I have learned to pay attention to the engine and allow it to tell me what ailments it may have... What you don't need is a person/shop that only follows the directives set forth by a book!

So long story short, the 60K service should have another 1/2 page added to its list of items to be checked.

BTW- The ATF and etc is not really good for the vario cam solenoids and related parts within these engines. I do not recommend using these old school methods with the M96 engine. As we always say:
"The quickest way to spend a thousand dollars is by trying to save one"