Paul 996

Hey Jake,

Sounds very promising. Will you offer various size accusump or will one unit fit all? Canton makes the accusump in a variety of capacities. Also, will your kit use the manual engagement switch or the electronic switch?

Best,
-Paul

ivangene

How does that compair to this
http://www.ogracing.com/catalog/2-Ca...CHE-996BOXSTER


I have this installed on my car.....

Tippy

That kit tries to encapsulate the oil around the pickup whereas the method Jake has will pressurize the oil system if oil pressure drops through a accumulator.

The accumulator simply fills up with oil and compresses a spring inside. If oil pressure drops, the accumulator bleeds off its oil supply to ensure temporary pressure is maintained.

Paul 996

Actually all the BK kit does is make the oil sump a little deeper allowing you to carry 1/2 quart more oil.. Nothing more. It actually works against containing the oil near the pickup by completely defeats the factory baffle (the black thing that looks like a box). Oil now freely sloshes out the bottoms since you raised the containment piece up and didn't seal under it.

Absolutely worthless if you ask me.

What they needed to do was make the sump deeper allowing the containment area to hold more oil and also lowering the oil pickup by the same amount.. Like what Mantis Sport did.

-Paul

Jake Raby

The issue with the BK kit is that it does not include an oil pick up extension... We do have one of these that can be added to the BK kit, or we sell our own as well. The BK arangement also uses the factory rubber oil control windows as well as the plastic containment package. Our goal is to remove rubber and plastic from the internals of the M96 engine wherever possible as it is failing over time.

The accusump is a pressurization system, when the oil pump loses prime in a corner the accusump accumulator will discharge filling the system with reserve oil thus saving the engine.

TeckniX

quite an awesome thread and the youtube videos are nice!

the 4,5,6 pistons look kinda scary to install though. haha

Macster

candidate is just an engine that has worn out. Still runs but is worn out and down on power.

I rebuild a Dodge V8 318CI engine in my pickup truck that was so worn the valve lifters were clacking. Upon teardown I found several cam shaft bearings just gone. Worn/corroded away from probably lots of idling and infrequent oil changes. (The pickup was bought used from a guy who bought it from CALTRANS here in CA.)

After a rebuild consisting of valve job, new camshaft, cam drive, bearings, lifters, oil pump, rings, oil pump, water pump but no overbore bore and no new pistons -- I hand honed the cylinders to clean them up and while the piston/cylinder clearance was towards the large side still within tolerance -- after reassembly the engine ran so smooth more than once I tried to start the engine when it was already running.

Stay away from engines that have suffered stress end of useful life events: overheating, severe loss of oil flow/pressure, mechanical failure which infuses engine oil passages with metal debris that is hard to ensure all is removed before engine reassembly.

Sincerely,

Macster.

9NINE6

Seems you should spend less time on this forum, and more time answering phone messages and emails that could lead to business, JMO.. I for one, will go elsewhere

Roy Seyferth
Warrenton Va.

Tippy

Ouch

Jake Raby

To date I have returned EVERY phone call that we have received and I only have ONE email in my inbox that has not been replied to- it was received yesterday afternoon.

Have you attempted to email me? Call me? If so, and I have not gotten back to you, it wasn't for any other reason than the fact that I didn't receive your communication.

I will say that I have been VERY busy getting our new facility completed and there is always a possibility that I simply forgot to call you back, didn't get your email or tried to ring you back and missed you....

Either way, lord knows that we certainly appreciate communication and I do my best to return EVERY call the day that I receive it. With the current article in Excellence that means that I may have to field 30 phone calls and 75 emails a day on top of finishing a new facility, component and engine development and also manage my Air-Cooled division as well..

I'd like to know how yiu tried to contact me so I can ensure that no one else's communication is lost in the shuffle in the future and I'd like to apologize to you for not responding to you promptly.

Black Sea RD

Very interesting thread for all Boxtser/996/997 owners. I have been contemplating and looking for the oppurtunity to buy a aero 1 packaged 996 but have had some concern about the engine reliability problems that always seem to come up when perusing the 996 forums.

After reading the Excellence article I was heartened that building a reliable 996 engine that would see both street and DE duties was a viable possibilty. I have to applaud Mr. Raby and crew for digging into this series Porsche engine problems to give current and future owners another alternative than just getting a replacement engine from Porsche. To have Mr. Raby come on this list and try to answer questions about his new products is not only good business sense for him but also good for all who want to learn more about their engines.

Cheers,
Constantine