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Originally Posted by Petecomplete
Thank you.  Looking foreward to summer now.
No? Have you googled specificly then? Because trawling both this and the BoXa.net forum yealds plenty of positive feedback from people who have it, and with extensive searching and googling, I could not find a single well documented failure, unlike the FVD Brombacher bearing (rebranded SKF bearing) which both Porsche Classic Center (porsche's own center focused on the classics, there are 4 of these centers worldwide) and AutoTech-Sport wanted to use (the only two willing to do the job). FVD is a regular sealed ball bearing like the one originally in the car, but apparently even more failure prone with documented posts of failures after as few as 20 000 km. Porsche classic center recommended against doing anything at all, as they had not seen a orginal IMS failure in 13 years, but three failures of a changed ims (fvd brombacher is my guess). They actually called the whole IMS issue "an american problem", and said they rarely change them. True enough, very, very few 986/996 on the marked have had ims changed in the time I have looked at adverts. I decided to change it anyway, but I'm not putting in the same flawed thing as I am replacing, no way.
The EPS could easily be ordered from design911 in the UK with VAT agreement with Norway, and almost no delivery fee. Also, it comes with a flange so I did not have to figure out if i had a dual or singel row which would cost me as the car would then need to have gearbox out, and then be stuck at the workshop as i waited for the bearing to arrive. So it seemed like the obvious and most hassle free choice, as i would not want another bearing identical to the original. |
I was very interested in the EPS roller bearing system for a while, until forum Porsche guru JFP in PA pointed out that the oiling system they devised for the bearing, i.e., poking a hole in the oil pump and directing the oil flow to the bearing through the hollow center of the intermediate shaft, was a flawed design. As folks here can bear witness, I went through many stages of understanding before I finally chose an IMS bearing. Although I argued and fought against it because of the cost, ultimately I realized that LN Engineering's IMS Solution was far and away the best design and the only permanent solution. It has neither ball nor roller bearings, both of which will eventually fail, and it supplies fresh, filtered oil to the bushing-like bearing. Its inventor, Jake Raby, has a number of videos about the Solution. I recommend that you watch a few. Due to JFP's and Jake's irrefutable logic, this hardheaded holdout became a convert.