Anyone have a Raby rebuild yet?

[insite]

Originally Posted by grantsfo

Anyone know much about the place in the UK that has done inserts for cases as well? Looks like free market is driving some solutions.

autofarm. that guy's name is Raby, too. any relation, jake?

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by insite

that guy's name is Raby, too. any relation, jake?

The article on autofarm was writen by Philip Raby, a well known British editor. I did not know the Owner of Autofarm was also named raby.. I'll look into that.

My name is rather common in the the UK, especially in the North, around County Durham where my ancestor's Castle still stands today. I visited it in 2006 www.rabycastle.com

:-)

[insite]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The article on autofarm was writen by Philip Raby, a well known British editor. I did not know the Owner of Autofarm was also named raby.. I'll look into that.

it's probably philip i was thinking of. so your shop is in cleveland, GA? can i come up and check it out sometime?

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by insite

it's probably philip i was thinking of. so your shop is in cleveland, GA? can i come up and check it out sometime?

Yes our test and assembly facility is located in Cleveland GA and the components and case update work is carried out in Momence Illinois.

We are not a walk in type facility, we generally don't see more than two customers a year as we work odd hours doing behind the scenes stuff..

I'd be happy to schedule a tour for you if you'd like to come see us. Wednesday evenings are the best time for this.

We'll be testing for the next 3 weeks, so the chances of us having a time for a tour would be slim to none through the end of September...

[grantsfo]

Hey Jake, I have owned two Boxsters over the past 9 years and logged over 80,000 miles on this platform. Welcome newcomer. Just as 914 owners expect value and reasonable prices Boxster owners who enter used Boxster market expect value.

I was never willing to spend $15K to $20K for a turn key 914 motor. However your kits for 914 motors are very cost effective. If you are thinking of offering a Boxster kit that includes Nickie block, crank pistons, heads etc for $5000 I'll buy one!

Jake what is the cost of a 2.5 turn key from you? Have you actually built a motor using the Nickie case yet and ran it for any length of time? Or is all this hypothetical like many of your 914 motors? You know best way to test a Boxster motor is to build one for your biggest skeptic. I'd be happy to thrash one for you. I have a running 2.5 with 100K on it that I plan to AX and track.

Jake, Do your motors carry a warranty like porsche replacements? Also how does Nickie block compare to what Autofarm is doing?

http://www.autofarm.co.uk/pdf/Total911_July06.pdf

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Originally Posted by grantsfo

ake, I have owned two Boxsters over the past 9 years. Just as 914 owners expect value and reasonable prices Boxster owners who enter used Boxster market expect value.

I was never willing to spend $15K to $20K for a turn key 914 motor. Your kits for 914 motors are very cost effective. If you were thinking of offering a Boxster kit that includes Nickie block, crank pistons, heads etc for $5000 I'd buy one!

Jake what is the cost of a 2.5 turn key from you? Have you actually built a motor using the Nickie case yet and ran it for any length of time? Or is all this hypothetical like many of your 914 motors? You know best way to test a Boxster motor is to build one for your biggest skeptic. I'd be happy to thrash one for you. I have a running 2.5 with 100K on it that I plan to AX and track.

The prices are on his site. I don't know if he is allowed to post prices and such or what the rules are. I will tell you what I read. It appears that a 2.5 rebuild without bigger bore and head work is $10K. That's a great deal if you happen to pick up a Boxster with a blown engine for $6-7K and about the same as an engine from Porsche.

[Jake Raby]

Lots of people confuse Motec and Motronic...

What we can't solve with Motronic can be taken care of with Motec :-)

[Jake Raby]

The IMS will be seeing our upgrades with this engine, just like the earlier engines will. I'll let Charles address the specifics since he has headed up that development with the bearing and retainer enhancements.

Engine management for this mod is something that is not yet defined as our other upgrades to the earlier engines can be fulfilled with a re-flash and some manipulation of the stock ECU.

With the 3.2 we'll have to see exactly what occurs.. We believe that the stock DME can be utilized to attain serious power levels, but as of yet we don't exactly know at what level.

We are trying to do as much as possible and still retain the DME because it controls so many aspects of the car. Currently we **believe** that the 3.2>3.6 mods will be capable with the stock unit with some work and maybe just an injector upgrade. Some say it won't but others have experience that it will, the only way to know is to test it out in the lab.

Only time will tell, as we stated the earlier engines have been our main subject thus far with the Boxster engine development program. All of this work requires a bit of evolution to perfect and fully understand, even the use of advanced engine design software and modeling cannot make up for practical application and actual experience.