Aircooled Technology Forums closed, Tired of spammers, hackers and constant headaches! Options

[Jake Raby]

I wouldn't post this here, but I keep getting messages about our forums being down and a lot of them are PMs here. I figured making a post might clear things up.

I opened my forums back in 2006, we had tens of thousands of members and I shared a ton of our info there that I would not share anywhere else. The past two years have been filled with spammers, hackers and headaches that have pulled my focus away from other things, like updating websites, finishing my Porsche M96 Engine Bible and etc. The time to deal with forum hiccups simply isn't there anymore and it was time to prioritize where my time and money would be spent in the future.

I finally had enough with the last attacker and copied the technical directives and articles and then killed off the rest of the database. We will now add those technical articles to the www.aircooledtechnology.com website.

We have taken all links to the forums and have directed them to the Aircooled Technology facebook page, found here:
Aircooled Technology Facebook Page

We share more and more on facebook and post a ton of project pics there, as its both faster and easier than the forums, and we can still share technical data on facebook as well. The best part is its easier to manage and maintain security.

Maybe without the forums to pull me away I can even have time to send out more of our newsletters and those who were on the forums and want to stay up to date with all our cool stuff that continues to evolve can sign up here if they don't like to interface with Facebook.

Thanks to everyone who shared on our forums and took the time to become a member!

I just posted this pic of the 2.6 liter MassIVe engine in my 64' 356C Outlaw to facebook this morning. Its not 100%, but you can get the picture :-)
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This post has been edited by Jake Raby: Oct 2 2013, 12:55 PM

[Jake Raby]

I started my own forums after making 22,000 posts at the shoptalk forums and being reminded that the info was no longer mine after posted there. It was a copyright issue more than anything.

I don't do much in the way of tech articles and etc anymore, so just keeping what we had in the forums should be enough to suffice for a good long while. Facebook is just a way to interact more than anything else. Our focus has gone full circle and the only thing I am really concerned with is the evolution of my turnkey engines and supplying those. Almost every engine we build today fills the engine bay of an early 912 or a 356 and thats mostly due to the prices, which have skyrocketed. The crazy part is that the engine shop is very busy with 10 month backlogs, even at these prices.

The forums worked well for supporting the components that we sold, but today parts sales make up for about 2% of what we do.