Many IMS "Solutions" showing up.

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by 78F350

My mental inventory of Chinese tricycles was deficient, so I had to use Google. Here's my favorite for the illustration:

Must be a prototype as it has not been giving it's final painted finish.

[flaps10]

Originally Posted by Gilles

Hmm let me guess... Boeing..?

Lucky guess :dance:

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by flaps10

Lucky guess :dance:

Dreamliner?

[flaps10]

No, my plane keeps the lights on here.

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by flaps10

no, my plane keeps the lights on here.

737.............

[JayG]

Originally Posted by 78F350

My mental inventory of Chinese tricycles was deficient, so I had to use Google. Here's my favorite for the illustration:

at least you don't have to worry about an IMSB replacement

[Giller]

Originally Posted by JayG

at least you don't have to worry about an IMSB replacement

No, just termites.

[Giller]

Double post.

[Jake Raby]

Hmmm. Now I wonder if I should wait until late Jan. '15 to see what else is on? Since the tranny will be dropped for the bearing replacement I wonder if it would be a good time to add anything new from Raby????

The patent and the associated product that it protects are not related to the IMSB in any way. This is a tool that simplifies the insertion of wrist pins and clips for the M96/M97/9a1 engines.

It takes the hardest task within the engine and makes it one of the simplest.

We've released all the IMSB retrofit components that were on our plates to be sold.

[Allen K. Littlefield]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The patent and the associated product that it protects are not related to the IMSB in any way. This is a tool that simplifies the insertion of wrist pins and clips for the M96/M97/9a1 engines.

It takes the hardest task within the engine and makes it one of the simplest.

We've released all the IMSB retrofit components that were on our plates to be sold.

PHew! Thought I would have to keep putting money aside for more upgrades. I am proceeding with the double row ceramic which will probably outlast me...Thanks again for your interest in the M96 that has solved many of its problems.

AKL

[Nine8Six]

For the record, here goes a preview of the official Chinese tricycle. According to the Tech buzz reviews, the traditional China trike concept sold more than 5~7 billion times since its release in the late 70's (make the math$).

Eat this for some (almost bankrupted) Porsche High Tech comparison lol

Urban Simplicity Eh!

[Nine8Six]

Once modded a tad they're nasty sport and drifty. Fast like a :chicken:

[Allen K. Littlefield]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Once modded a tad they're nasty sport and drifty. Fast like a :chicken:

OH MY! how my thread has flown.................!!!
AKL

[mikefocke]

My experience was you needed patents in multiple countries. Different requirements, different lawyers, much $$$.

Hope you covered that Jake. Otherwise, expect knock-offs and trying to go after importers.

[Qmulus]

Originally Posted by flaps10

I'm often amused when people blame the engineers for poor decisions.

I work for a company that produces products of complexity that make anything Porsche has produced seem like a chinese tricycle. I can assure you that all such poor decision are made by upper management, and that an eager young engineer would be told to sit down and STFU until spoken to (or promoted to manager )

Everything I design has to "buy its way" on to the vehicle, and even then a positive business cases are often shelved.

Well, the tale I told was more of a flashback from my career 15 years ago or so. I am an electronics engineer that was involved in a situation where a major design change was decided on that I KNEW was a bad idea, but the young engineer proposing it came prepared with a stack of data from the manufacturer of a new IC backing up the proposal. He had gone around the rest of the engineering staff to the product manager after being shut down by the engineering manager. Being rather blindsided, the rest of the engineering team wanted more time to review, but the product manager said "OK, it is decided. Make it work!" So, after some grumbling and protest, it got done and seemed to work. A few weeks after the design was approved, incorporated into our product and production was about to begin, the manufacturer of the new component we had incorporated into our design issued a stop production order, as they found their parts could burst into flames under the right conditions. No, they did not have a fix or substitution. Quite a mess ensued, but in the end it didn't matter as the company soon lost funding and went belly up...

I think think the moral of the story is that design decision are often made by the wrong people for the wrong reasons. I am sure a lot of people in Porsche engineering felt that there were big problems with the M96 design from the start, but were likely told "Make it work!"

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by mikefocke

My experience was you needed patents in multiple countries. Different requirements, different lawyers, much $$$.

Hope you covered that Jake. Otherwise, expect knock-offs and trying to go after importers.

Covered it.

[BYprodriver]

Many IMSB "Substitutions" showing up!

We all know Porsche's directive about substitutions!

[mikefocke]

Not the "what 11 parts" question.

I see:
bearing
bolts
oil filter
mounting plate cover for IMB

What did I miss?