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For the record: The IMS solution has not experienced a single failure, of any kind, in any application. It had been insinuated earlier in this thread that this was not the case, so I’ll tell you from the source, that their have been ZERO failures of the IMS Solution. Yes, Raby responded. Will his reply here be deleted? That’s to be determined. Also, I’m no one’s “competitor” in thiby Jake Raby - Main Forum
This is a retrofit, unless your car is 06 or newer it is installed just like the classic IMSR arrangement. Engine in car and assembled, tranny and flywheel pulled.by Jake Raby - Main Forum
The IMSG is great at detecting an issue, it does not solve the issue like a retrofit or the IMS Solution.by Jake Raby - Main Forum
Inspection is not necessary as there are no "wear parts" like there are with the ball bearing. With the IMS Solution the only thing that would ever wear is the bushing. Unlike a ball bearing, if the bushing wears nothing breaks, the engine only picks up a noise and continues to run just fine. When we purposely created wear the noise was just there all the time and sounded like an old chevy with bby Jake Raby - Main Forum
Intermix from cracked heads.by Jake Raby - Main Forum
When anything breaks the very first thing thats questioned is the very last thing, or most expensive thing that the finger can be pointed at. When someone has something fail and they have purchased a product with a warranty from a company with a strong reputation to maintain and plenty of cash in the bank, guess who gets the gavel pointed at them? You got it. Thats why I don't sugar coat a damnby Jake Raby - Main Forum
30 day warranty for manufacturing defects. If we carry out the retrofit here at Flat 6 and the car passes my pre-inspection and is found suitable for the retrofit the conditional guarantee will be 90 days. Any other warrantees will be up to the installer of the technology. With majority of these cars and engines at 80K+ these days the reality is any other warrantees would just be a selling aiby Jake Raby - Main Forum
Cost will be up to your local shop. These kits are not being sold retail, only through a distribution agreement with SSF auto parts. This means your local shop can source the kit through their normal channels and then install it into your vehicle at the cost that they see fit for the entire job. Here I charge the same price for the IMS Solution install as a standard IMS Retrofit. For us there arby Jake Raby - Main Forum
It took longer to show up here than I imagined it would. Yes it is expensive, no it is not for everyone. The technology was originally only intended for my engines. Remember, the other plain journal bearings within your engine that are located in the main and rod bearing positions are also aluminum faced. Since the unit is hydrodynamic, the wear surface is actually the film of oil between theby Jake Raby - Main Forum
Then why aren't all of us driving 10 liters? I would much rather have a better built, more efficient medium displacement engine with a broad power band as most anything I can think of. Based on port flow and shape studies that we have carried out the M96 cylinder head cannot adequately feed an N/A 4 liter engine. The M97 cylinder head has dramatic changes that can sustain this on the 3.8 liter faby Jake Raby - Main Forum
Quotemikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC I haven't seen a single posting on any of the Boxster web sites citing installation of one of the really big HP motors Jake sells. Since for that $$$$ and your car you can almost get a new model, I wonder how many have been sold. The majority of these engines have gone into 996 platforms primarily because we must base them from the 3.6 liter 996 or larger foundatby Jake Raby - Main Forum
The warranty covers the system. Not the engine. The systems that are bought directly from us will receive a 150% credit based from the purchase price of the system to be credited toward Flat 6 products or services to correct the engine issue. I would NEVER warranty anything on the engine if the system didn't work, because dishonest people could disarm the system, blow the engine on purpose thenby Jake Raby - Main Forum
No, my company does not extend the warranty of one year to the bearing. That warranty is given to the bearing its self by LN Engineering. I suppose that if we had an occurrence that the purchaser could default to LN and that would be up to Charles as to what he would do. I prefer to keep things simple, and I hope that my explanations helped some of you understand how I bade the terms of our servby Jake Raby - Main Forum
Boxsterra, Thank you for that reply. I am well aware of the insurances that you mention and some of my products do have things like this in place. I do offer a one year unlimited mileage warranty on our reconstructed engines and have had two small claims that we had to take care of. The last one found me in Washington laying on my back replacing a camshaft in a customer's garage, but we exceededby Jake Raby - Main Forum
This is correct. The reason for this is very simple, since I am a very direct person that avoids "issues" at all costs I can explain it to you: We go to exceptional measures to ensure than any vehicle that we apply a retrofit bearing to is worthy of the expenditure of time and money that the procedure costs. This includes pre-eval Dyno tests to compare engine output to our standards from dozensby Jake Raby - Main Forum