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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Drove my 1st Raby powered Teener

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jul 23 2005, 09:30 AM

Whoo HOO! I gotta get me one of them. one of the 2316 Nickie motors with Carbs. I'll be saving up extra hard now. Can't even imagine the torgue and smoothness of the engine.
Yup given the lite wieght of the red neck racer and all the suspension mods it is going to be one hell of a car.

Shoot I'll be able to hit cones twice as fast and probably twice as many.

Posted by: kwales Jul 23 2005, 10:16 AM

Yup,

A Rabymobile is on my list of cars that I want to drive someday.

Ken

Posted by: olav Jul 23 2005, 10:46 AM

How much would that set a fella back?

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jul 23 2005, 12:49 PM

Well it's hard to nail a price down. 1st of all wasn't my car. So it's hard to ask a person that. But as he was going through the list of goodies the motor had. Well more than a stock rebuild The last rebuild I did for a guy was 2500.00 About as cheap as you can go and make it "hopefully last" stockish power.

Massive power ??? well go Jake's Web site and look at his kits. Not good at mechanical stuff? he'll build you a motor for you and stand behind it REALLY. If you ever get the chance to mat the gas of one of them motors in a 914 your eyes will roll back and the money will jump out of your wallet. Pretty painless that way.

Posted by: anthony Jul 23 2005, 12:53 PM

If you go with a complete engine from Jake with the SDS fuel injection and the full Tangerine header/muffler I'd be that you'd easily break $10K.

Posted by: DNHunt Jul 23 2005, 07:23 PM

It ain't cheap but the guy bleeds for his motors. I know cause he bent over backwards for me. Mine's not the current kit but kind of a custom kit and when it didn't work i could tell it hurt. He did right by me.

Right now it's kind of hard to be patient cause I got a sniff of what it's gonna be like when I put it together the last time. Trying to seat the rings I hit the gas hard in second and hit my head off of the headrest. After that I tighten up my neck first before I nailed it.

It turns out I met a guy today at Walker's swap meet that works about 2 miles from where I live. He's got a 2270 from Jake that dynoed 165. I bought a fuel pump from him at his asking price cause it included a ride in his car. Gonna be a hell of a ride.

Dave

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jul 24 2005, 07:39 AM

So Dave, what's the ETA of the motor pushing your car down the road with your hair on fire?

Posted by: Jake Raby Jul 24 2005, 01:11 PM

Joe,
Glad you enjoyed the ride/driving experience...

Its okay, you can tell them who owns the car that you drove......

To everyone else- Glad you guys appreciate what I have done to help make the engines better. I really love for things to work correctly, the best they can.

Dave, hurry up and get that engine together! while I may not have liked what happened to your kit I did gather extreme data from it that I was not able to gain from the spintron, or my test engines. The failure that you experienced played a key role in the lifter/camshaft solution that followed a few weeks after we inspected your parts.

Posted by: Jake Raby Jul 24 2005, 01:42 PM

BTW- I got tired of too many questions about pricing, so I added a page on the site dedicated to it...

It still won't tell you exactly how much Raby power will cost you (only I can do that after we talk) but it will give a good idea of what you'll spend. So go check out the pricing page....... AND if it costs too much for ya, keep your mouth shut and buy a "Kit" to assemble yourself... My labor on the full engine is whats very expensive.

Posted by: anthony Jul 24 2005, 02:36 PM

Jake, the pricing page is great. It will give people a ball park idea of what to expect. I will definitely buy a kit some day from you. I've decided that it's the way to go for me instead of spending $10K to put a used 3.2L six in my 914.

Posted by: DNHunt Jul 24 2005, 06:59 PM

Jake, it really going together. I can't believe how much easier everything is the second time around. The only delay is parts coming in now. I'm waiting on a ring and a stud. At that point it's choose the cylinder shim and bolt it together. I'll check the geometry but, I hope the pushrods will work. My guess is 2 weeks.

Dave

Posted by: Jake Raby Jul 24 2005, 08:36 PM

I make it a point to never *try* to convince anyone- I want the customer to totally make their decision before coming my way- Customers that are not 100% sure that they want my product can become a detriment pretty quick. This normally happens 1/2 way through the project when they change their mind- that doesn't make me a very happy camper at all...

So its always much better for all of us involved to look at every aspect.

Many of my customers are doing conversions UP to TIV power and thats my main interest these days.

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jul 24 2005, 08:45 PM

Ok, Jake's car IS FAST.
My car with his engine would be WICKED FAST.
My co driver, my car, Jake's engine Geesh I don't even want to think about it.

Posted by: Headrage Jul 24 2005, 08:54 PM

I want one. Jake, can you send me one of your 3 liter motors to put in my car? I will tell everyone I whip down the straights that it is a Raby motor...

Promise