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I happened across this today and thought it was interesting. Anyone heard of it? I haven't heard it mentioned before.

IMS Bearing Direct Oil Feed (DOF)® – TuneRS Motorsports

They don't let you copy/paste text from the above link.

But they didn't put the same restriction on their other link
DIRECT OIL FEED (DOF)

While working on rebuilds for a number of water cooled Carreras and Boxsters in the late 2000s, we noticed that the much talked about culprit of many engine failures on many of these engines was not necessarily just the IMS or Intermediate Shaft Bearing. While some will argue about the bearing design or the short shaft found in water cooled Turbo Carreras and air cooled Porsches vs the long shaft found in the water cooled non Turbo Carreras, Boxsters and Caymans up until 2008 as the issue for the high number of engine failures. We noticed that the common issue was due to the sealed IMS bearing eventually losing its internal lubrication and the IMS bearing requiring more oil lubrication to help increase its longevity.

They've engineered a kit to provide cooled and filtered oil directly to the IMS bearing. The kit looks reasonably priced. They do not include a new bearing. I believe this kit is designed for folks that want to do the install before it gets to that point. I think they mention in the first link that you can use the stock bearing or any number of other bearings including ceramic and roller. Anyway, it sounds like an interesting solution.

Anyone heard about it or got any thoughts?

I'm not in the market for a fix, just thought it was an interesting solution that sounds like it might be better than any other solution out there.