[Jake Raby]

Guys,

Every time I am ready to post infinite details about what differentiates our engines from others and exactly what we do another reason pops up that I shouldn't.. There are lots of people that jumped on the "bandwagon" with M96 engine repair and production after we did. These people simply cannot figure out how we are being effective, when they can't even build a stock engine without it failing.

The biggest difference is they are creating an engine thats designed to sell, not really to work.. They have whittled prices and processes to the point of being bare minimum and they basically lack the experience or resources to do anything more.

These people read my site and these forums just as much as the individual enthusiasts do, trying to see just what makes the engine tick. Due to this I have to be reserved with some information or even some problem areas or processes to keep them from becoming more educated and using that information against me.. I guess they'll all buy a copy of my book and maybe then they'll have a chance!!

Cartel, If you want an idea of the 22 areas that I was referencing, just send me an email and we'll begin some dialogue.

Lets go over The Radium King's last post:

thanks jake. my $4k to $15k comparison wasn't fair, as one price doesn't include labour and one (yours) does.

It also doesn't include cylinder head rebuilding, crankshaft evaluations, or even a gasket set for reassembly. The simplest of parts for this engine add up extremely quickly and your observation covered none of them.. My price covers 100% of them and installation, and both engine and chassis dyno evaluations, and **i** personally test drive the car for 3-500 miles before its shipped to you.. We do the first oil service, all break in related services and when the car returns you have no action required and no break n period. Drive it as hard as you want right off the delivery truck.

Consider these things when you consider initial cost and understand that some of them are absolutely priceless..

as well, i fully realise that your engines also have reliabilty modications (ims, low temp tstat, billet chain tensioner, etc.) that increase overall cost.

Yes, we apply ALL of the enhancements currently available to every engine, the list of options is short.

good to hear that no fuel delivery/air intake revisions are required.

I specifically designed the Stage 1 performance engine to be this way.. Above this stage all of that changes.

am i correct in assuming that the drawbacks to a 'bore only' change that you list (heat, poor mpg, narrow powerband) are all related to valve/cam operation? if so, then can i consider a valve job and cam grind necessary mods to accompany a bore change?

No, cylinder head alterations are also required and its not so much changing the camshafts that matters as much as simply altering the timing of existing cams in some situations and base engines.

thanks jake, and i think we are all loooking forward to seeing your 3.2L mods up on your webpage (as well as your UDP!).

The site will probably stay as is for a while.. we are staying swamped with the site being as vague as it is currently and seriously don't want to educate our competitors or future competitors.. They have to pay the price of blood, sweat and dollars just like we have to get this far, else its not really life.