Visiting Jake Options

[Ian Stott]

My best friend is the proud owner of his first Porsche, a 996 and he has now heard of Jake Raby and knows Jake is doing stuff for those engines. He wants to visit him and has the means to do so, should we let those water cooled guys horn in Jake's time? Seriously I'm very happy for him, he is a hard working guy and has always been a Porsche fan, and he loves my 914 and was the first person I let drive it without supervision! Just finished having a great evening of dinner and drinks with him where he was strongly suggesting I join PCA. I thought we were kinda just tolerated there but please set me straight if I am wrong.

Ian Stott
Moncton
Canada

[Jake Raby]

Thanks Mike!!
We are blazing new trails with the M96, but it has been a painful road as this engine is nothing easy to work with..

As I type this I see that one of my adversaries is browsing the thread... I'd expect some sort of a smart assed comment from him at any time now, regarding my development of a "water cooled Porsche engine"... I hated water cooled Porsches and still don't care for them very much, but I continue to be doing this type of work for the next 30 years, so its imperative from a business stand point to diversify into the "Modern 914"... Plus the engines are filled with issues just like the 914 and everyone hates them and no one builds them and that makes me even more interested in them! (Just like the 914)

Let the fact be known that we are continuing aircooled development as well, as a matter of fact the water cooled work is providing added capital for aircooled development work... My most significant development in the last 5 years foir the 914 engine is the roller camshaft package, which was conceived, developed and tested during the time we have been working with the M96.. I added on to the facility and added new hands to work on the water cooled engines along with me, so we have added gears- not changed them..