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Offering Advanced Aircooled Engines for Vintage VW and Porsche!! If you have a desire for RELIABLE PERFORMANCE, we have you covered with Type 1, Type 4, Porsche 356 and 912 engines too! No task too challenging, or too exotic...
In this video you'll experience the thrill of a 235HP, 3 Liter MassIVe daily driver engine. Running on pump gas, the engine provided excellent drive-ability while attaining better than 25 MPG for it's 14,000 mile stent in our test vehicle. Since this video was recorded the engine has been re-developed on 3 different occasions and its most recent version is now being employed in Beth Raby's MassIVe 79 Vert as depicted below. To learn more about the engines and other services offered by Aircooled Technology, use the navigation menu to the left. To purchase parts, kits, and now even turnkey engines, visit the Type 4 Store by clicking here. To visit our online discussion forums, click here. You'll soon see why our work is Internationally recognized!!! Sharing our information with the World!!!! Raby's Aircooled Technology has it's very own internet podcast, produced in house! This podcast is hosted by Jake Raby, Founder of Aircooled Technology and is both informative and entertaining. New shows are released on a monthly basis and feature technical information, as well as interviews with Industry leaders and other notable members of the VW and Porsche Aircooled Community. Tune in to "Aircooled Technology Radio" on Itunes and download current and previous shows. With your FREE subscription to iTunes you'll be able to download future shows when they are released!
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AIRCOOLED TECHNOLOGY RADIO Now available... Generation II MassIVe engines... The latest releases of advanced aircooled engine development! Employing the V2 DTM, Roller camshafts and lifters, Twin spark plugs per cylinder and EFI!!! Daily driven reliability has never been this advanced, or this FAST!! Here at Aircooled Technology we specialize in highly developed, application specific engines for any Vintage VW or Posche, our first generation of engines stunned the aircooled industry and the second generation are bigger, faster, lighter, meaner and all this with no loss of reliability or longevity!! Pictured above is an example of what we are capable of with a Generation II MassIVe engine. This 2.9 lter engine features our proprietary twin spark plug arrangement and produces 249 HP and is installed into Beth Raby's 1979 VW Beetle Convertible!! As a full daily driver, this engine has achieved better than 30 MPG, even with monsterous 52mm IDA Weber carburetors!!!! All Aircooled Technology MassIVe Type 4 Turn Key engines are now available in Generation I or Generation II format!! Inquire today!
Pictured above is Jake Raby (left) and Garth Knowlton during our June 2008 west coast support tour. Garth's 1972 VW Bus has given him many years of service, but a few years ago while on a cross country trip the engine let him down. Disgusted, Garth parked the Bus for several years, but our program has rekindled his love for the Bus. Garth sealed the deal on his new Camper Special TurnKey engine with Jake during the 2008 west coast expedition with a hand shake. Garth's new Camper Special will be completed before the end of 2008, ready to carry he and his Wife cross country reliably!
Above is Jim Snyder's 1973 VW Bus, equipped with a RAT Turn Key Camper Special engine. Jim was another customer Jake visited on the 2008 West Coast Expedition... Jim's engine needed a tad of fine tuning and had an oil leak that wasn't acceptable, so Jake and Jim pulled the engine to repair the oil leak! Click here to read Jim's Testimonial regarding Jake's visit.
Pictured here is Ken Arnett's Meyers Manx, Jake traveled to Lake Tahoe to make some high elevation tuning changes to the EFI system during the 2008 West Coast Expedition. This ultra rare vehicle was the very last signature series Manx ever built (#100 of 100) and features a RAT 2.4L Super Hero engine built in 2006 with RAT/SDS EFI,Carbon Fiber custom DTM cooling system and over 200HP of output! For more details on the 2008 West Coast Excursion see Jake's Blog here. Own a Porsche 914??? Want it to haul ass without the weight and complexity of an engine conversion???? The videos below illustrate what a 2.4L MassIVe Type 4 engine can do when installed into a dual purpose Porsche 914 for autocross and track events. We even offer a street legal, "pump gas" version of this power plant, making equal power!
Remember.. Aircooled Technology doesn't specialize in "Racing" engines... We work with a few select Racers and even have our own Porsche 914 SCCA F Production Race Car, but most of our efforts are focused on dual purpose street machines that are reliable and longevity filled, and fast as hell too! If you have a 914, consider a Turn key engine, or Engine Kit from our catalog and you'll love the ability to smoke six cylinders while keeping your car original, nimble and much lighter!
In May of 2006 Jake Raby and Bill Kanz set off on a 3,450 mile trip across America to test out the "Type 4 Torquer" engine created by Aircooled Technology and featured in the "Hot VWs" article bearing the same name that spanned from March- september 2006. (engine pictured above left) Over 4 days the Duo gathered data from 3 computers that were monitoring every aspect of the engine including temperatures, speed and etc with a digital GPS based Data Logger from Race-Technology. The Duo experienced temperate changes from 25F in the Mid west- sub 100F degree temperatures in Nevada while on their way to a final destination in Sacramento California, all the while gathering 2Gb of data! The test work was done in the Aircooled Technology test car, "The Bluebonic Plague" pictured above right at the sumit of Loveland Pass, the Continental Divide at 11,990 feet above sea level! On the way 50 simple tests were completed, six different engine oils were analyzed and the duo averaged 76 MPH @ 24 MPG average! To accomplish this speeds in the higher 80s, up to 100 MPH were necessary at times.. For extended periods of time... The 2270cc MassIVe engine never missed a beat and needed ZERO maintenance along the way, even while being punished! After a 3,450 mile trip the overwweight beetle, filled with test gear and support equipment still managed a 14.1 second quarter mile at just under 100 MPH on street tires with a driver thats far from a drag racer!!! For more information on this trip see ALL our data, videos and a map of the excursion here at www.aircooledtechnology.com/crosscountry Here we practice what we preach and develop it to the maximum!
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    Jake Raby's Porsche 912E, (pictured above) equipped with a 2056cc MassIVe Type 4 engine, built in September of 2002 has logged 140,000 miles in less than 6 years of service!! Making a modest 127 HP this mild mannered daily driver still averages 35 MPG and is quite effective on the track as well! The engine has been purposely neglected, poorly maintained and has seen 23,000 miles on a single oil and filter change! To date this engine has needed ZERO un-scheduled maintenance and hasn't had a valve adjustment since February of 2003! We can create a mirror image of this engine for your Porsche or VW!  Aircooled Innovations Racing 2008 @ Road Atlanta - Driver Len Hoffman Engine Builder - Jake Raby  TWO SPARKS ARE BETTER THAN ONE!! Twin Plug Type 1 performance engines, now available!!! Aircooled Technology has re-established our Type 1 VW engine program effective Spring 2008!!! For several years RAT discontinued production of VW Type 1 Performance engines, primarily due to dramatically reduced component quality, mostly due to a lack of quality control on behalf of the parts manufacturers. In 2007 this changed as Bugpack Performance Products stepped up to work with RAT to increase the quality of their engine components. This relationship, once again gave RAT the ability to hand select engine components and work hand in hand with the manufacturer to achieve an end result worthy of our intricate assembly and thorough testing processes. The Aircooled Technology Type 1 engine program is unlike any other in the VW Industry. We have a long list of very effective engines that date back to the early 1990s, each of these have been recreated with our newest technology employed and that includes roller camshafts, Twin Plug cyinder heads with CNC porting and EFI! To best share the information on this new division within our engine shop, we have created separate websites just for the Type 1 engine offerings. Please follow the below links to be directed to our Type 1 Turn Key offerings as well as the Type 1 DIY Engine Kit that comes fully prepped, and ready for assembly with our step by step suport DVD! we can even provide assembly tools with your kit!!! Click here to be directed to "Type 1 Turnkeys.com" for complete TurnKey engine information. Click here to be directed to "simplehorsepower.com", the Aircooled Technology Type 1 DIY engine kit program support site.  "Blow It Up" Here Muffler Mike Sheldon pilots the Aircooled Technology/ Beck 550 Spyder during the May 2006 recording of the Speed TV pilot "Blow It Up"... The show aired in July of 2007, but unfortunately due to poor production and a total lack of preparation, was a failure. In just under 3 weeks the Aircooled Technology team, coupled to the "Ring of Aircooled precision Performance" created this 550 Spyder and built it into a safe, fast drag car making 250 HP from 2.7 liters on pump gas at only 8.5:1 CR.  Aircooled Technology also applies leading edge technology to create performance Porsche 356 and 912 engines. In development at the present is the RS 2100, a true 2.1liter 356 based engine making 200HP ON PUMP GAS on the street! This engine couples our RS CNC cylinder heads with the largest displacement ever created for a streetable 356, using LN Engineering internals with 21st Century engine design. For more information on the 356 and 912 engines and engine kits for the Porsche 356, see the following links. www.356hotrod.com www.356diy.com  In October of 2007, Jake spent a week working with Bill Doyle, of Rennwagen Motor Company. Bill is the foremost authority when it comes to rebuilding the famed Porsche Fuhrmann 4 Cam Carrera engine found in the 550 Spyder, Carrera Speedster and Carrera II coupe as well as the RS 60 and 904. Bill has rebuilt and serviced more than 1/4 of all the 1,600 Carrera engines ever produced, no one knows the Carrera engine like Bill Doyle! While on the visit, Jake was doing the research necessary to recreate the Carrera cooling system for the 21st Century on both Type 1, Tyupe 4 and pushrod Porsche 356 engines. Look for Version 3 of the DTM cooling system, deemed "X4CS" in mid-late 2009. It'll be the most effective, most asthetically pleasing cooling system ever created! Featured Customer Testimonial Another Happy Customer writes Aircooled Technology: Driving without worry Visit our other sites to learn more about Raby Enterprises Inc. http://www.rabys4thdimension.com http://www.aircooleduniversity.com http://www.simplehorsepower.com http://www.flat6innovations.com http://www.rabyproductions.com http://www.aircooledtechnology.com Copyright 2008 Aircooled Technology, a division of Raby Enterprises Inc. |
