it's not an LS1?
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However: your proximity to raby's shop, (and your subsequent adherence to his religion), makes me unsurprised at your "testament" that IMSB related failures are imminent for all of us. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk |
I have the pro version. An expensive bearing. I can use it if it’s not damaged but I’d be surprised if it survived the mayhem when that rod let go.
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Sorry about the rant but I don’t even want to talk about the $500+ (okay, only 400 US) that I just dropped for an engine rebuild 101 course from another of our favourite gurus which turned out to be a 4 hour feckin PowerPoint explaining to me basically everything that I already knew about these engines... :matchup: |
Well I could be all upset and rant and rave but what good would it do? I'm not happy but it was either fix it or sell it as a roller. What happened immediately before my IMSB failed probably had nothing to do with it. The other parts that failed were probably collateral damage too, but some kind of foreign debris must have gotten into the oil that was splashed into the IMSB and caused it to fail. Porsche should have used an oil-fed plain journal bearing here in its design of the IMSB IMHO. Since NeWArt now has an engine to rebuild with a similar issue, I wanted to share my painful experience.
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And kk2002s, yes my true permanent solution is my daily driver, but not really as I just sold my Acura and got a BMW (with a BMW extended warranty though)! |
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Sorry I don’t have it any more and have to leave it at that for now. I did see it though and it looked a lot like the picture of the broken one NewArt posted above except it was dual row. After being without my car for over 6 months now perhaps I’m more philosophical but I don’t think you can read anything into what happened in my situation and write off all the LN ceramic IMSBs. Maybe I should have had my oil changed more often or switched to the Joe Gibbs oil or installed spin on oil filter. My car was 15 years old with 68,000 miles and the oil was always changed at least once a year and always with way less than 15,000 miles between changes. At least LN gave us something better than the original Porsche design. And when I had the IMSB replaced the Permanet Solution was also on the market but I thought it was overkill at the time.
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RE: RND replacement engines
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Just saw a message posted 'today..' on Planet9 by Charles Navarro: SSF Auto Parts has 2.7 RND replacement engines on clearance as well with Nickies and IMSicon retrofit- that might be an option for less than a refresh on your existing one. |
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Well that’s what I think, I’m not an engineer, but it’s my opinion. |
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If you see my thread in the tech and performance section of this forum, you will see that I just missed out on the one and only 3.2 that RND had on clearance. Sad, it would have been a perfect solution. :( |
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