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Nine8Six · 06-28-2016, 12:49 PM

Hey Markus

Only speculating on the roller, buddy. As I've already mentioned I know nothing about this ims shaft or bearing. I did try to ask earlier for an informed answer as to why “the overkill decision”(I mean it’s a small shaft) but got some joking back. So it’s hard to be serious here.

We have a few of your absolutely brilliant Porsche engineers folks who regularly log onto our Siemens PLM forum. German thing; they are all as kind and helpful as you are so I’ll ask them directly if that roller bearing really (really) bothers me

And yes I’ve noticed the L/R split of the engine case, half moon bearing bore. I agree with you that chances that they’ll become off tolerance pretty-quickly is pretty-real. May ‘potentially’ be contributing to some of the failures, un deniable but again what do I know.

All I know for sure Markus is that Porsche Studioz (m.eng.dept) owns an investment of 1.3billion worth of RND/test rooms, IT and software. That alone makes me thrilled to be able to drive their cars, risks or not, I’ll certainly buy again.

06-28-2016, 12:49 PM	#43
Nine8Six Registered User Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Montreal, QC. (currently expat to Shanghai) Posts: 3,249	Hey Markus Only speculating on the roller, buddy. As I've already mentioned I know nothing about this ims shaft or bearing. I did try to ask earlier for an informed answer as to why “the overkill decision”(I mean it’s a small shaft) but got some joking back. So it’s hard to be serious here. We have a few of your absolutely brilliant Porsche engineers folks who regularly log onto our Siemens PLM forum. German thing; they are all as kind and helpful as you are so I’ll ask them directly if that roller bearing really (really) bothers me And yes I’ve noticed the L/R split of the engine case, half moon bearing bore. I agree with you that chances that they’ll become off tolerance pretty-quickly is pretty-real. May ‘potentially’ be contributing to some of the failures, un deniable but again what do I know. All I know for sure Markus is that Porsche Studioz (m.eng.dept) owns an investment of 1.3billion worth of RND/test rooms, IT and software. That alone makes me thrilled to be able to drive their cars, risks or not, I’ll certainly buy again. __________________ ______________________________ '97 Boxster base model 2.5L, Guards Red/Tan leather, with a new but old Alpine am/fm radio.