GEBA pump with metal impeller

[sam c.]

Originally Posted by mikefocke

I've gone through the patent process, it is long, expensive and arduous.

If he comes across as frustrated sometimes, he is entitled.

Congrats on having the tenacity and determination to successfully navigate through the patent process. As a guy who's been there myself, that alone earns you my respect.

However, being relatively new to Porsches and certainly new to this forum, with its long running debates, social hierarchies, and thinly veiled politics, who does and who does not deserve the right to entitlements is certainly subjective. I certainly appreciate accomplishments, experience, knowledge, and intelligence but I also appreciate patience, long suffering, and humility. I'm just saying..

[sam c.]

Hey, just out of curiosity, does anyone know the flow rates that the stock water pump puts out? I understand its going to be dependent on RPM but I was hoping someone knew an approximate range.

[Mark_T]

Originally Posted by sam c.

However, being relatively new to Porsches and certainly new to this forum, with its long running debates, social hierarchies, and thinly veiled politics, who does and who does not deserve the right to entitlements is certainly subjective. I certainly appreciate accomplishments, experience, knowledge, and intelligence but I also appreciate patience, long suffering, and humility. I'm just saying..

Well said Sam.

[mikefocke]

And I'm saying you can discount what he says because of the way he says it or discount the way he says it and glean the nuggets his experience and straight shooting reputation provides.

The keyboard warrior has all the time in the world to debate, theorize and claim wisdom. The guy who is working on ten cars at a time and developing training materials for the M96 internals and testing new ideas and developing new products...he doesn't. And so maybe he doesn't say things the way you'd like, he just says his experience says some posting is wrong. I can live with that.

So I cut him a lot of slack in the manner he posts because if he doesn't post, we don't gain from his experience.

(Lets you think me a fanboy, you should go back to the original introduction of the LN bearings and the sharp questions I posed to Charles and Jake and doubts I expressed over the testing sufficiency of the bearings before they were made available to the public. Those were questions I raised on the forums in threads containing his announcements. I don't care who has the right answer so much as want the information in sufficient rigor that I can know.)

[Jake Raby]

Here is my last note while on the way out the door for the season...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt from the "Man in the Arena" speech
April 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne, Paris

[jaykay]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

Here is my last note while on the way out the door for the season...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt from the "Man in the Arena" speech
April 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne, Paris

Nice, If you don't mind I am going to use this in my Monday afternoon meeting at work..