Wh1t3Kn1ght
Montreal
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- 22 Aug 2018
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I really enjoy watching the Car Wizard channel on YouTube but I feel that his advice in this video is pretty bad. Car appeared to be running perfectly fine but owner went ahead and fitted an expensive LN engineering IMS bearing for "piece of mind"....
I made a couple of comments and got my head bitten off by some youtube keyboard warrior who didn't appear to have even read what I had written :floor:
My comment - "Just my two penneth - I think some (not all) of these aftermarket IMS solutions are nothing but snake oil which is reflected in the price of some of them. I sit in the camp that says if your engine is running fine then don't mess with it by spending 4k sticking in an aftermarket solution which can and do fail (do a search you will find LN engineering customers with failed bearings, the ceramic bearings in particular appear to have a shorter life than a standard bearing). Best option is to save money and put some away as often as possible until you have an engine rebuild fund. As the 996 engines age there are other issues and problems that will need rectifying so best to tackle it all when required by having a full engine rebuild. Here in the UK we have a specialist (Hartech Automotive) that have been rebuilding engines with failed IMS bearings right back to the early failures when the cars were still new. They have a huge amount of experience as they have seen so many cars and developed their own solutions which as I understand are a combination of uprated parts based upon the various revisions that Porsche made during the 996 lifetime. There are many 996 owners still driving cars with original IMS bearings and no issues, and all this scaremongering is driving people to needlessly spend money on half-way house solutions which may also fail. Better to do it properly rather than just replace the IMS bearing and hope for the best, I'm prepared for the time where my 996 engine may catastrophically stop working and that will be the time when the engine gets dropped and rebuilt."
I made a couple of comments and got my head bitten off by some youtube keyboard warrior who didn't appear to have even read what I had written :floor:
My comment - "Just my two penneth - I think some (not all) of these aftermarket IMS solutions are nothing but snake oil which is reflected in the price of some of them. I sit in the camp that says if your engine is running fine then don't mess with it by spending 4k sticking in an aftermarket solution which can and do fail (do a search you will find LN engineering customers with failed bearings, the ceramic bearings in particular appear to have a shorter life than a standard bearing). Best option is to save money and put some away as often as possible until you have an engine rebuild fund. As the 996 engines age there are other issues and problems that will need rectifying so best to tackle it all when required by having a full engine rebuild. Here in the UK we have a specialist (Hartech Automotive) that have been rebuilding engines with failed IMS bearings right back to the early failures when the cars were still new. They have a huge amount of experience as they have seen so many cars and developed their own solutions which as I understand are a combination of uprated parts based upon the various revisions that Porsche made during the 996 lifetime. There are many 996 owners still driving cars with original IMS bearings and no issues, and all this scaremongering is driving people to needlessly spend money on half-way house solutions which may also fail. Better to do it properly rather than just replace the IMS bearing and hope for the best, I'm prepared for the time where my 996 engine may catastrophically stop working and that will be the time when the engine gets dropped and rebuilt."
