2006 Cayman S engine failure

[Trey T]

Cool! Have your company investigate the ceramic bearing offered by LN Engineering after extensive mileage or use? If so, are there any report?

Sounds like you're the owner of Flat 6 Innovation or something?

[mikefocke]

Jake was one of the forces behind what is marketed as the LN bearing. There have been around 8-10,000 installed, some for over 4 years and 50k+ miles. Jake was instrumental in working out the procedures for removal and replacement as well as the tools needed. Also tested them in his personal car on both road and track. Have they looked at LN bearings removed from cars and shipped them to a bearing engineer for further analysis, yes. And they have extended their projection for the probable life of the bearing repeatedly as they are shown by experience to be lasting much longer than their original cautious claims.

There are hundreds of online reports on the use of the LN bearings. The very few problems seem to be when people have used them as a "just replace the old bearing" AFTER the original bearing has shed pieces throughout the engine or when unqualified folks screw up the install.

Jake teaches a M96 engine internals class to qualify folks to do the installs properly.

Yes, Jake Raby is Flat6

Poke around the LN and Flat6 web sites. You'll learn a lot there.

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by Trey T

Cool! Have your company investigate the ceramic bearing offered by LN Engineering after extensive mileage or use? If so, are there any report?

Sounds like you're the owner of Flat 6 Innovation or something?

I guess you ca say that I investigated it. Hell, I installed the first one ever produced, developed all the tools and helped found the company.

[Johnny Danger]

Jake is the candy man ! He makes it all taste good !