Thought i'd give an update on my car since it's been sitting for almost the past 4 months!

So! today 02/07/2012 I had my clutch, IMS, RMS all done. I spent a good day last week calling around different shops all of which were recommended on here to me, some which I had found by myself and getting quotes. As I might of previously mentioned, money is of course an issue for this service - for me being who I am at the moment - full time student.

With that said, I had a great time and learned a lot by speaking to all the intelligent minds out there on the topic. I talked to shops that told me they will straight up not do IMS bearings as they are not sure and don't believe in LN Engineering as they HAVE had failures themselves, some shops we took the time to discuss on whether it should be done or not and evaluated all the alternatives, some shops told me straight up to do it.

Anyhow, I decided to go ahead with At Speed Motorsports down in Hanover, MD. The guys were $300 below all other estimates on full clutch works. I talked to Matt on the phone who is part of the service deparment and we discussed all the things that will need to be done to the car. We discussed all the price quotes, parts, etc. I scheduled an appointment for Yesterday (Tuesday) to bring the car in. I dropped off the vehicle late Monday evening around 5:00pm right before the doors were closing and talked to Bob who is quite a porsche fanatic, racer, car builder.. etc. Bob was the president and owner of At Speed Motorsports. He gave me a full tour of their facility highlights of which were 3 Porsche Factory race cars 964, 993, and 997. Also had some other interesting cars in the shop like a 2001 Cobra R with 540 original miles on it, Supercharged Viper, some older fully restored porsches, vw's, Volvo race car, much much more. The shop was absolutely THE CLEANEST SHOP I HAVE EVER SEEN! the showroom was like a dealership - needless to say I was absolutely blown away.... I was introduced to a few techs including a master tech that was at the time working on rebuilding a V10 M5 engine which blew out. I was explained about their alignment machine which is state of the art, shock dyno, and much of the other equipment of the shop. The owner is good friends with Steve Dinan and are US #1 DINAN dealer, as well as #5 dealer in the world.

All in all, incredible experience at drop off. I left the car with them 5:00pm Monday Night and as I had discussed with Matt, it would probably be done Wednesday by the end of the day. Today (Tuesday) I got a call from Matt in the morning (around 11am) giving me an update that the tranny is out of the car and they are working and are on track to finish by close of business tonight! WOW!... Also the guys have the LN IMS bearings in stock as well as RMS's and all. SO all was taken apart, put together with a new sachs kit (which I provided), LN IMS, RMS, test driven, and ready for me to pick up at 5pm today!

Also, upon my pickup today, the guys explained everything about my old clutch to me - everything they took out was walked through with me including the IMS bearing.

Amazing experience! will definitely be back to At Speed Motorsports! Thank you Bob, Matt (service) and Matt (tech).

-Paul

 

Hey thank you for Info, Glad you fix the car see you around!!!

 

so what did the bearing look like? any wear? was your RMS leaking?

 

Sooo.. the clutch first of all at 58k miles was worn all the way to the rivets of the shoes.. 1 or 2 rivets was touching just a tiny bit so my timing was perfect! As far as the IMS no play at all, and the bearing was in great shape - however, now I have much better peace of mind with the LN unit. The RMS housing had a tiny drop of oil, however, they couldn't tell if it was leaking or not as by the way I was explained they said that one drop could have been there the entire life of the car.

Paul

 

If you don't mind. How much did it cost for the job? I'm in York Pa and need a good Porsche mechanic I can trust. Thanks