So, just who is this company, and
who are these people doing all this work???

Aircooled Technology is located in a small town in Northeast Georgia, named Cleveland. We are about an hour Northeast of Atlanta. Many people are familiar with the alpine village of Helen Georgia; it is located in our same county and is just a few miles from our facility. Here we enjoy living in my home town, and all the luxuries of small town life as well as the freedoms of it. In our entire county there are four traffic lights and until recently there were only two! I could move our facility to California, gain a ton of customers and be like everyone else. I won’t do this because I love where we are located, and I have worked on this same property all my life. I get totally engulfed in my “Zone” as some call it and I doubt I could function as well anywhere else! Make sure to read about our shop on these pages as well, it has a rich history behind it. I often feel sorry for Archaeologist a few thousand years from now because the entire property is pretty much littered from “VW Remains” from the last 20 years of my playing with VW’s…

Okay, enough rambling….. On to the real stuff.

We are dedicated to a quality product and achieve this with a combination of the best parts available, coupled with superior workmanship, and the most advanced research and development.  We ship engines worldwide and accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover, for your convenience. We are distributors for:

Scat

Web Camshafts

DPR Machine

CB Performance Products

Electromotive Engine Controls

Weber Red Line Carburetors

Simple Digital Systems

TWM Induction

Jenvey Dynamics

LN Engineering

DRD Racing heads

Hoffman Automotive Machine

Tangerine Racing

Carrillo

Pauter

R&R Racing Products Pro Connecting rods

Stebro Performance Exhaust

Tarmac Motorsports

CSP USA

JE Pistons

Kennedy Clutches

Performance Research “Pro Extreme” valve-train components

Schubeck Racing

Performance Cryogenics, Custom Thermal Cycling

We utilize the performance coating services of Calico Coatings, HPC, and Anatech Ltd.

I have utilized these companies as well as other proprietary contacts in our network to create the best engines on the planet for your Aircooled VW or Porsche. These companies have also been key players in our latest achievements with modern Research and Development for the engines that we all love.

We are not a mass producer of engines! Most companies in the aircooled engine business do more engines in a month or even a week than we do in a complete year! The average amount of engines that we complete per year is a whopping TWENTY FIVE!

Each engine is custom built for its application, it’s built for the driver, and it’s built for your car in your climate.  The reason for this is to assure that the engine will retain a long life, while having peak power at a very usable power range, good economy and low maintenance. We build for efficiency as all our testing has proven that all good things follow it directly.  We are an “all around” strictly aircooled establishment that caters to every breed of enthusiast that loves the VW, Porsche or Pinzgauer. This includes those hardcore SCCA Porsche racers, right down to the little old lady with a 36HP Type I in her beetle that she bought new in 1956. If you want to know more about why you should choose us for your engine project be sure to look at “Why choose RAT” from the menu.

Our VENOM PERFORMANCE division has now been abandoned as we have chosen since 2003 to only concentrate on the VW Type 4, Porsche 356 and Porsche 911 engines. We cut our teeth on type I engines and haven’t forgotten them! We just don’t do as many as we once did. We don’t have the time and need more variety in our lives than the regular old routine.

MASSIVE Type 4 is our department that specializes in making dreams come true.  Everyone dreams of big power, low maintenance and reliability.  These are not dreams, we make them reality.  The “big block” engine used by VW and Porsche can be outfitted for use in your Type 1, Type 2 or any other vintage VW or Porsche.   Raby’s Aircooled Technology has set the standard in Type 4 power and conversions and has led the way with recent developments that make these engines the “Modern Aircooled Alternative”. If you want Modern power, (160HP of it+) and want it with the possibility of Air Conditioning that you can run while you cruise 85+ MPH for sometimes as long as 100K miles. Check out the possibilities in our MASSIVE Type 4 department….

The “Porsche Corner” of our facility and thinking specializes in bringing back to life all 4 cylinder Porsches from 4 Cam Carreras to 356 and 912 engines and even the 911 six cylinder through the 2.7 liter. These engines are hard to find parts for, extremely detail oriented and right up our alley. I Love to rebuild these stock, or go insane with making them more modern while really aggravating the purists from time to time.

In summary, if your aspiration is a correctly assembled engine, using correct parts, modern advancements and ready to drop into your VW or Porsche Vintage vehicle you are our kind of customer.  We do not believe in short cuts or poor workmanship; we take our time so do yourself a favor and don’t rush us.  We do the job right or not at all…Each job takes as long as it takes, customers that are in a hurry should seek another creator for their dream engine!

We hope you will cruise through our site and book mark it.  We will constantly be adding new and exciting pictures and stories of our ongoing projects. Be sure to look at our individual biography pages here and our personal vehicles. Our business is owned by an enthusiast and our entire staff is enthusiast based, we love VW’s and Porsche’s too just like you. Working with them everyday brings us more pleasure than the paycheck that comes with it, and for me it’s a childhood dream come true. 

Jake Raby

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