Flat 6 Innovations saved my motor

[Jake Raby]

Everything is more complicated with a tip.. Pulling the tranny is more difficult and while it's out the fluid should be changed if it has any decent mileage on the car.

Due to this the charges associated with a tip are very similar to that of a manual, tiptronic fluid isn't cheap and the added labor adds up to costs that can exceed that of a manual (at least when going all the way with a comprehensive service)

[Jake Raby]

Did an Independent third party verify the fact that the bearing was in failure mode?

Yep.. That would be the owner of the car. He was here, he saw the bearing when it was extracted and he smelled the stench of the shop that was a result of the torched lubricant from the bearing. He put the bearing in his hand, it didn't take a rocket scientist to see that the bearing had failed and was caught just before the big boom.

On top of that, the bearing is in a bin with about 40 others, bagged and tagged with the owners name, mileage, engine size and serial number of the bearing that replaced it. When I get about 10 more of these the whole batch will go to an "independent 3rd party" for observation.

When any bearing is pulled from an engine and the smell fills a 7,000 square foot facility to the point where office workers over 100' away note it, even a blind man could tell that the unit was toast.

Note that the OP was my customer, he has been so pleased with our effectiveness and business practices to send several others our way. Coincidentally one of those people just called to schedule his IMSR procedure last week, he'll be driving several hours to get here..

Why has this forum turned into another business site for flat6 innovations?

The better question is why do you care? It obviously turned into this because my client was impressed with what we did for him enough to share that with others. Those "others" shared his feelings enough to make their posts and make the thread grow and one person even asked how much it cost... Only after the question was raised did I mention the cost, because it was a QUESTION.

Seems that you don't like much about this site and the people that frequent the site don't care much for you and your nameless identity.

Keep taking stabs at me, every time you bring some crap up the phone rings even more and the emails really roll in... I'll say that the people really love you, I get some really humorous comments!

Talk about a stimulus, maybe you should run for office, Barak could use a right hand man as effective as you. Keep making the reading provocative and dramatic, people really love a story full of drama!

Thanks!

[JoeFromPA]

Hi Jake,

I just took possession of a '99 Boxster 5-speed with 56k miles on it. Was owned by my father since it had around 25k on it, back in ~2003.

Anyway, my engine sounds fine. Clutch grabs well. And I have no idea if this is the original engine or if it was ever taken apart in the original 25k miles.

I will try to do the clutch job myself when the time comes...and then the IMS stuff and associated good things to do at the same time.

My question is: What's the condition of the DM flywheels you see on all the boxsters you are doing? Sounds like most of them appear fine, even after 80-90k miles, since you aren't replacing them as part of oyur package.

[Banana S]

How many threads has Jake started since he joined this forum? I count 12, of which 2 were simply "parts for sale" posts.

The vast majority of his posts appear to me to be responses to questions posed by forum members who know that they will get a helpful response from him. How many questions like that have you gotten from forum members here?

Incidentally, I'm dropping off my car at his shop on Friday (it will be a 9-hour drive for me, but I'm looking forward to it anyway), so I'll be able to report back with firsthand information (as opposed to snarky innuendo) as to how busy he is.

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by Banana S

How many threads has Jake started since he joined this forum? I count 12, of which 2 were simply "parts for sale" posts.

The vast majority of his posts appear to me to be responses to questions posed by forum members who know that they will get a helpful response from him. How many questions like that have you gotten from forum members here?

Incidentally, I'm dropping off my car at his shop on Friday (it will be a 9-hour drive for me, but I'm looking forward to it anyway), so I'll be able to report back with firsthand information (as opposed to snarky innuendo) as to how busy he is.

We'll see you on Friday.. Dean will be in touch this afternoon with a phone call.

To my old buddy,
Actually I am busy, very busy.. There are certain days that find me in my office all day, or in the dyno cell waiting for an engine to cool down. Today I am doing some welding and waiting for the parts to post cool before the next process, so I have a few minutes on my hands.. I have 13 computer stations in my facility, I can have fun with you from just about anywhere :-)

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

We'll see you on Friday.. Dean will be in touch this afternoon with a phone call.

To my old buddy,
Actually I am busy, very busy.. There are certain days that find me in my office all day, or in the dyno cell waiting for an engine to cool down. Today I am doing some welding and waiting for the parts to post cool before the next process, so I have a few minutes on my hands.. I have 13 computer stations in my facility, I can have fun with you from just about anywhere :-)

I swear, sometimes internet trolling is so funny it hurts to watch it unfold.

Jake, while I may not currently have the financial means to go about your retrofit (unless you offer military discounts ), I'm pretty convinced it'll be money well spend at 1/4th the cost of a full rebuild, nevermind we're talking about other new parts and an oil change to boot, and I'd make the good 20+ hour drive down to GA from CT for it after reading some satisfied customers' responses once I do have the funding. I find your taking time out of your work to come on here and be helpful to others obviously to be beneficial, as it has been to me, rather than seeing it as you figuratively putting your feet up on the clamshell of a customer's 986/7 and typing away while you sip your coffee, as some seem to try and make it out to be. If it were just forum members chatting it up, I wouldn't be as convinced, but here you are backing up your work and being pretty frank about it. As far as I'm concerned, that's where one's credibility shines, and you've earned a shameless plug here and there, which you haven't even bothered to do. There's no need as you've got satisfied customers plugging for you all day.

Hopefully I'll be making an appointment with you one of these days, and even more hopefully my engine won't start going south prior to my actually driving it south to your facility.

As for your forum nemesis, feel free to borrow a little quote from a musician I know of that seems to ring true here: "Haters make me famous."