Wishing you an uneventful Thursday, a dull time in the hospital, and a speedy convalescence!

Standing by for the word!

Flirt with the nurses, its good for you.

Today had a pre-op meeting with the team I must have signed 30 medical forms ! Tomorrow will be light diet of jello and fluids..........great ! :( Tomorrow I will find out what time on Thursday I have the procedure. Should take about an hour and then post op recovery from the sedation. I will be able to go home that afternoon with post-op follow up on Friday. Take it easy over the weekend and back to work on Monday. Recover for two weeks ( roughly ) and turn Jake on to complete the build/transformation. Nov. and Dec. will have daily follow up treatments and then I'm done. My word of advice to ALL men out there get a yearly physical !!! That is how we caught my prostate cancer that I am being treated for. Doctors are telling me we caught this early, it is contained and very positive it can be cured/eliminated. That's the end of my public service announcement let's get back to the car ! :D

Glad and relieved to hear it was discovered early.
Our thoughts are with you.

Hey guys I am now home the procedure went exactly as planned this morning with no complications. So today is the first day of recovery ! :cheers: I talked to Jake last night we now have a new timetable we're working to. I'll keep you guys up to date as we get closer to completion.

Great news! I am a cancer survivor too (DLBCL), you can do it!

Holy crap!
 

Wishing you all the best!

Best of luck with your health and your build! Looking forward to seeing another high HP Boxster in the neighborhood... Just be careful about other "sleepers" prowling the streets of Marietta... you may get caught off guard :D :dance:

PS: 5 liters may not be enough ;)

John I followed your build thread I must say I'm impressed with your abilities. Lets face it no matter how much power you have someone else will have more. Whatever hp we end up with on this build will be enough for me. We need to meet up sometime once I get my car back.

rfuerst911sc,

I saw a post of yours today and it made me think about you relative to how you are doing and how your engine build is coming along. Any updates that you can share?

Porsche9 thanks for asking. In regards to my health all is going well I will be done with treatments on 12/23. So that is the best Christmas present for this year. Second best present will be getting my Boxster back from Jake. Between me putting Jake on hold for a while and his very busy schedule I'll get the car back in January. He will be completing the engine before Christmas and then putting it in the car early January. Then there's the tuning/breaking in of the engine plus dyno runs that all takes time. But it will be well worth the wait ! Once I get the car back and drive her a little I'll give a full report :D

Look forward to it. Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone we're almost there !!! Jake sent me pics last night of the completed engine . Right in time for holiday shutdown :p Jake will pick back up the beginning of January the timeline for picking the car up is looking like the 3rd week of January. WOOHOO !!! Oh and my last prostate cancer treatment is scheduled for 12/23 so that will be in the rear view mirror also :cheers: . This is a great Christmas present on both fronts .

Awesome new on both counts!

Great to hear! Look forward to hearing about the results.

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::c heers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

:cheers: to having fun again

Good to hear that you and the car are on the road to recovery!

I consider all of you my long distance support group :D. But I really do appreciate all the well wishes...........and I am foaming at the mouth to get my car back !! So this is a basic rundown of what I'm waiting on.

3.6 litre Jake Raby magic with all kinds of internal voodoo
Big bore throttle body
Lightened/balanced flywheel
Deep sump oil pan extension
IMS Solution
987 air filter housing modified to fit my 986
Stainless steel headers with no cats and a GHL twin can muffler.....light and aggressive !
OEM GT3 front bumper with Porsche Motorsport spoiler lip
GT3 Tek rear diffuser
Black convertible top with glass rear window
GT3 aftermarket side skirts

In the waiting: Jake Raby custom in house camshafts to be installed in the spring
H&R adjustable shocks/struts looking to lower her by about an inch or so
Aftermarket 18 x 8 + 18 x 10 wheels still deciding on rubber but leaning to Bridgestone 03 Pole Positions

She will be a friggen beast !!! :cheers: I can't wait to start rowing through the gears !

You are going to have an incredible Boxster! In the end, your health is the most important thing, good luck and congrats on getting to the end of your treatment! Here's to a great 2016:cheers:

Great news.

RCOG or whatever they are called now by any chance? My PSA is not detectable 5 years after an extended (35 days) visit to their Decatur site.

Yes to RCOG and yes I'm going to the Decatur facility..........congrats on your success !! I hope for similar results. :cheers:

One step closer the engine is going into the car today ! Wow I can't believe how close we are. :cheers:

Color me jealous. We'll need a video for proof though:)

This is some uplifting news to hear!

I'm sitting here at the computer, it's raining cats and dogs and I'm pissed off that my car is not done yet ! But the reason for being pissed off is directed squarely at myself !!! Lets backtrack........engine is done and in the car. Aprox. a year ago when Jake and I talked about this project Jake and I went over a checklist of parts that would be needed. Being a friend Jake offered to allow me to shop for some parts to try and save myself some money. Seeing that he stands behind his engines he did not have to do this. One of the items I agreed to purchase was a GT3 throttle body. I searched around and came across one on Fleabay. I sent the link to Jake to make sure it was the correct part number and he agreed it was. Now this throttle body was advertised as " slightly used " but fully functional. I bought it. Now roll the clock forward one year and Jakes goes to fire up the engine. She fires right off as expected but no throttle response :( . Jake spent a few days diagnosing the problem and unfortunately found the issue.........the throttle body I had purchased was DEFECTIVE with an internal short or miswire ! As soon as the key was turned 5 volts backfed into the ECU and killed the driver for the drive by wire throttle body !!!!! So my seemingly " good buy " bit me hard ! Jake swapped throttle bodies ( twice ) and eventually installed a manual throttle body to prove out the failure. So yesterday my ECU was in the mail to a ECU guru to be repaired. Despite the setback Jake was able to keep the car running and even sent me a 7 second video of two throttle blips ( done manually ) and she sounds soooooooo sweet and mean :D Engine passed all mechanical tests with zero issues......no leaks......no noises other than that sweet exhaust note. So we're at least 3 weeks away as the ECU repair shop currently has a 2 week backlog. But we are very........very close ! :cheers:

Ready to be done with this one!! Won't be long now.

What can happen will happen, there was a reason that TB was cheap, and appeared brand new when we received it! Don't blame yourself, I am the one that let you do it!

Bummer! Used parts and Ebay comes with it's risks.

You mention a video. Can you share?

I am computer challenged :D......the video was sent to me via instant messaging I have no idea how to post it. I'd be willing to try if someone can walk me through it. Or maybe Jake can post.

Wait on that video... The engine was running lean and wasn't optimum.. Lets get it perfect before we start letting the world see it :-)

We are all excited to see your new engine, one question... does the DME learns by itself the optimal fuel maps (with a now larger displacement) after running for a while?

Gilles,
You saw the engine apart in my clean room during the class you attended here. It was that beast with the huge bore that I would;t answer any questions about :-)

The DME will learn, but we use different injectors and will have to tune it after it logs some break in miles. This thing revs so fast that I typically have to slow down the factory pedal mapping so the car is drivable in the rain!

That's what I call a quality problem! Blipping the throttle for downshifts could get interesting too.

Jake your description of my engine made me laugh ! I am so excited to drive this beast you can't imagine. Gilles you got to see my engine in person before I did :D .

Congratulations on your recovery. Great to see you will be enjoying your car just like the old days.

My father is having a bone scan today related to prostate treatment. He had a partial prostectomy at 77. VERY tough surgery at that age, especially with his moderate dementia, but he's not the quitting type. I'm less than impressed with the way his care was handled by the physicians. Well as it turns out the part of the prostate that was left in to avoid urinary incontinence is likely malignant. A biopsy was not done before the surgery because PSA levels were low. But as it turns out this is partly due the BPH medicine which is known to throw off PSA test and give a false negative. Everyone should know this. And some urologists seem to be skeptical on doing biopsy on elderly men -- controversial. Without biopsy you really don't know if cancer is slow or fast moving. Now after his otherwise successful surgery for prostate enlargement, his PSA is rising very fast. The doctor is still not entirely convinced that it's even cancer but says prostate cancer often spreads to bones which must be addressed immediately, hence today's test. One thing I have learned through this is you must always stay on of your treatment by doing your own research and seeing both sides of arguments when it comes to monitoring and treatment.

This is in my opinion an absolute must. I've done campaigns at my company (I've managed compensation, benefits and HRIS for many years) about the need to be activitly involved in your own health. Being old school and doing just as your health care provider says can cost you your health/life. I see it all the time.

Hope the test results are positive and provide answers that allow your family to make the best decisions.

rfuerst, please let me tell you that it wasn't easy.. :)

As I keep following Jake until he finally was by himself and ask him to take me to the CLEAN room to see his 'personal projects' once inside it reminded me of something out of 'Lockheed Martin's sterile satellite assembly room'...

Thats where I was working all day today.. This is a shot I had of the engine prior to removing it from the clean room.
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Haha it's funny you bring up Lockheed Martin that's where I work but in the Aero division in Marietta. I was the first " outsider " allowed into the Jake Raby Monroe GA. facility and I was blown away. Jake doesn't do anything half assed and that facility is just amazing. Everything very well thought out it truly is setup for an " engine surgeon " . I have said many times we Georgians are very lucky to have him in our backyard. I doubt I would have gone forward with this build with anyone else.
But back to my car it is with great anticipation that I wait for that first test drive that I take with Jake. I know the car will be a little rough because it will not have a final tune when I pick it up. Jake and I have agreed to pick the car up in this condition so the car can learn as I put on some break in miles. At some point in time Jake and I will agree it's time to turn her back in. At that time dyno tuning and results will be recorded. I'll get the car back and drive some more miles and then she'll be turned in for the final time. That's when the Raby in house camshafts will be installed and final tuning/dyno results will be recorded. So this is going to play out over the next 2 - 4 months but it will be fun :D I can't wait for some top down driving on local mountain roads rowing up and down the gears and hearing " the beast " bark through that lovely exhaust ! :cheers:

Ironically you made that visit to my shop exactly one year ago today!