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Originally Posted by wtbzanzibar911
Can we get back to the original question
LN bearing or Guardian or
Solution ?
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Its a generational situation more than anything. Here is an overview
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If your car is a 97-2000 you only have three choices:
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1- Do nothing, say your prayers and play Russian roulette with each twist of the key. This could cost nothing if you are lucky, or could cost 20K if you are unlucky.
2-Employ the IMS Guardian system, this will cost 400.00 if you do it yourself, or 6-800.00 if a shop does the work (do it yourself!!!)
3- Apply the standard "classic" IMS Retrofit procedure of your choice, some are better than others, but any of them are better than nothing.
If your car is a 97-2000 the IMS Solution is NOT a possibility for you. The values of these cars has dropped so much that the market for the Solution just isn't there with it's elevated costs.
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If your car is an 01-2005 (early 2005) you only have four choices:
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- All 3 listed above plus the addition of the IMS Solution.
The 01-early 2005 models are BY FAR the WORST in regard to bearing failures. The single row, early diameter bearing used in these is too small to carry the loads- period. These cars are the ones that the IMS Solution provides the most sense for, since it is easier to install and omits the ball bearing completely. The part that isn't there simply cannot fail; the IMS Solution omits ELEVEN wear components from the engine.
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If your car is a late 2005-2008 you only have FOUR choices:
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- Do nothing
- Employ the IMS Guardian Jr system. This is a universal "Engine Guardian" that is cheaper than the standard IMS Guardian but allows integration with any vehicle dash. Its not as clean to install and doesn't look factory, but it does provide audible and visual alarms in case of foreign object debris generation. (LN Engineering will have these in stock in 2 weeks, they are now the exclusive sellers of all IMSG systems. (Cost around 250.00 for the kit and please carry this out as a DIY, don't pay a shop for this work!)
- Send the car to us to disassemble the engine, upgrade a few things and employ the IMS Solution with a special unit we have produced. The issue with the late cars is the factory IMS Bearing is too large to remove through the access port in the case without cutting the bearing apart. Cutting a bearing apart inside an engine is medieval, uncouth and only for those that haven't built enough engines to know whats stupid or not.
We have an IMS adaptor that we can install into a disassembled M97 engine that fits the single row IMS Solution to it. This allows the IMS Solution bushing to be pulled at a later date if you ever wanted to do so and this can be done without engine disassembly.
This cost 8,500.00 all inclusive and NO ONE else can do the work at this cost; because no one else in this country is proficient enough with these engines to carry this work out in a timely manner. We can do this work in less than one week once the vehicle is scheduled in.
- Wait at least a year for us to finish the testing of the IMS Solution for the M97 that will be a retrofit. This may never come to pass just because the challenge of removing the OEM bearing without creating more damage than its worth. Don't count on us offering this, because it would be above the heads of most any reasonable shop to carry out these days and it is simply too risky.