Chesapeake Region
Patter
Volume 57, Issue 659
Slot Car Racing!
March 2018
Tech Sessions Engine Build!
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Events Calendar Month
Day
Event
Time
Venue
March
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9:00 AM
Porsche of Silver Spring
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Spring New Member Party Home & Garden Show – Free Entry MD Fair Grounds, Combine with Community Service Event WERK’S REUNION Concours D’Elegance
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Volunteer Appreciation Party
6:30 PM
16-18
Zone 2 DE MAR Tour & Rally School / Driving Tour
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April
20
Social
23-24
Zone 2 Presidents Meeting
24 25
TECH Classic Car Autocross Instructor School followed by a Test & Tune
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Board Meeting
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Intro to Autocross School
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Social Hershey Porsche Swap Meet tour
21 25-28 May
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Treffen Garage Crawl with Tech Committee
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Autocross Event #2
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May Social Memorial Weekend Gimmick Rally
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Timonium Fairgrounds
Amelia Island Carson’s Creek Restaurant 1110 Beech Dr, Middle River, MD 21220 VIR Collector's Car Corral, Owings Mills
6:00 PM
Houlihan’s—Columbia
8:30 AM
Porsche of Towson
Santa Ana Pueblo, NM Baltimore County
TBD Howard County
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Porsche Silver Spring
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Inside This Month! The Porsche Patter is the official newsletter of the Chesapeake Region of the Porsche Club of America. Contributions to the Porsche Patter should be sent to the Editor at least one week preceding the month of publication in Microsoft Word format via email to editor@pcachs.org.
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Events Calendar ............................ Editor PCACHS Board Member Directory .... Editor Membership & Anniversaries ... Minta Miller 8
Ron’s Ramblings ........................ Ron Farb History Channel PCA-Style ........ Bob Rassa Porsche in the News ....................... Editor Engine Build ......................... Aaron Miller 23
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.Upcoming Events MD Home & Garden Show.. ... Jay Plummer
Advertising: For questions about advertising rates and placement in the Porsche Patter, please contact Editors @ editor@pcachs.org.
Letters to the Editor are welcomed. They should be brief and may be edited for length. Please include PCA membership number and contact telephone number for verification.
Monthly Features President’s Message .......... Michael Murphy
Please send images in their original size. Co-Editors: Al Saxon, Ron Farb Contributing Photographers: Lynda Sobus, Aniano Arao, Al Saxon, Bob Zach Contributing Writers: Bob Rassa, Aniano Arao, Steve Graham, Terrell Williams, Ron Farb, Al Saxon
Club Information
March New Member Party ....... Minta Miller Tour and Rally Schedule.. ...... Aniano Arao March Tech Event.. ............... Jim Earlbeck 27
Past Events Reflected Images—Tech.. ...... Jim Earlbeck Super Slot Cars.. .............. Terrell Williams
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Market For Sale ....................................... Editor Name & Car Badges ....................... Editor PCACHS Jacket .............................. Editor PCA License Plates .... Bruce & Laurie Tarsia
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PCA-CHS is...
The Chesapeake Region of the Porsche Club of America (PCACHS) serves it’s club members and hosts activities within the Baltimore, Annapolis and surrounding geographic area, including Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The general objectives of PCACHS are, as indicated in the by-laws: • •
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Cover Photo: Richard Chitty
Promote the highest standards of courtesy and safety on the roads. Promote the enjoyment and sharing of goodwill and fellowship engendered by owning a Porsche vehicle and engaging in such social or other events as may be agreeable to the membership. Promote the maintenance of the highest standards of operation and performance of the marquee by sharing and exchanging technical and mechanical information. Establish and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with Porsche AG, Porsche Cars North America (PCNA), Porsche dealers, and other independent service sources to the end that the marque shall prosper and continue to enjoy its unique leadership and position in sports car annals. Promote the interchange of ideas and suggestions with other PCA Regions throughout North America and the world, and in such cooperation as may be desirable. Establish such mutually cooperative relationships with other car clubs as may be desirable. Establish a community service initiative with the goal of engaging members to participate in activities that benefit the community through fundraising or volunteering of time. The Porsche Patter is published monthly. Articles from members are welcomed and encouraged and should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word format to editor@pcachs.org at least 1 week before the end of the month preceding publication. The editor reserves the right to edit or reject all material submitted for publication, including advertisements, and the right to cancel advertisements at any time, for any reason, at the editor’s sole discretion. Statements appearing in the Porsche Patter are those of the contributing authors and do not constitute the opinions or policy of the Chesapeake Region, Porsche Club of America, its Board of Directors, or the editor of this newsletter. Unless otherwise reserved, permission is granted to reproduce material published, provided full credit is given to the author. The Chesapeake Region, Porsche Club of America, neither endorses any advertiser nor warrants any product or service.
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PCA CHS Board
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President ........................................ Michael Murphy
president@pcachs.org
Vice President ...................................... Lynda Sobus
vicepresident@pcachs.org
Treasurer ............................................ Vincent Rock
treasurer@pcachs.org
Secretary ............................................. Aaron Miller
secretary@pcachs.org
Past President ..................................... Claude Taylor
pastpresident@pcachs.org
Autocross ............................................... Pat Walker
autocross@pcachs.org
Autocross ..............................................Ryan Golom
autocross@pcachs.org
Editor.........................................................Al Saxon
editor@pcachs.org
Editor........................................................ Ron Farb
editor@pcachs.org
Publicity ................................................. Pat Walker
publicity@pcachs.org
Social............................. Eugene & Sharon O’Dunne
social@pcachs.org
Tech Session .........................................Jim Earlbeck
tech@pcachs.org
Tech Session ...................................... Randy Richter
tech@pcachs.org
Tour/Rally ............................................ Aniano Arao
tour@pcachs.org
Tour/Rally ............................................. Randy Moss
tour@pcachs.org
Safety Chair .......................................... John Jensen
safety@pcachs.org
Chief Driving Instructor ............................. Ellen Beck
instructor@pcachs.org
Community Service .............................. Hanna Golom
communityservice@pcachs.org
Community Service ........................ Rebecca Earlbeck
communityservice@pcachs.org
Concours d’Elegance ............................... Ron Gordon
concours@pcachs.org
Concours d’Elegance ............................Doug Ehmann
concours@pcachs.org
Concours d’Elegance ............................ Donna Brandt
concours@pcachs.org
Chesapeake Challenge ............................. Minta Miller
challenge@pcachs.org
Chesapeake Challenge ........................... Jay Plummer
challenge@pcachs.org
Historian ................................................. Bob Rassa
historian@pcachs.org
Membership ..............................Minta & Aaron Miller
membership@pcachs.org
Webmaster ................................. Terry DellaVecchia
webmaster@pcachs.org
Insurance .................................................. Lee Rock
insurance@pcachs.org
PCA License ........................... Laurie & Bruce Tarsia
pcalicenseplates@pcachs.org
PCA Zone 2 Representative ......... Rose Ann Novotnak
zonerep@pcachs.org
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Membership & Anniversaries Primary Members: Affiliate Members: Life Members:
919 513 1
Total Members:
1433
March 2018
Aaron & Minta Miller
New Members: 8 Steve Heier Andrew Keffalas Eric Kuehn Kevin LaTulip Bill Layman Mark Miller James Parker Samuel, Wright
Kingsville, MD Pasadena, MD Forest Hill, MD Lutherville, MD White Hall, MD Westminster, MD Glenn Dale, MD Harve de Grace, MD
2016 Macan S, Grey 2015 Boxster GTS, Carrera White 2015 911 Turbo, Racing Yellow 2006 Boxster, Gray 2008 Cayenne Turbo, Meteor Gray 2006 911 Carrera 4S, Blue 2017 718 Boxster 1999 911 Carrera, Blue
Test Drive Participants: 2 • •
Gary Haines – Bel Air, MD George Riley – Severna Park, MD
Transfer In: 5
Transfer Out: 2
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Seth & Alyn Breger From: Potomac (POT) Ryan Carignan & Crystal Powers From: (POT) James Parker From: Potomac (POT)
William Druschel Nauman Siddiqi
To: Keystone (KEY) To: Potomac (POT)
Anniversaries: 30 Years • John Masti 10 Years • Ngoc Chu • Thai Giang • Robert & Katherine Laws 5 Years • Patricia Bender & Mary Elizabeth Crow • Marcus Frank • Brett Gordon • Stuart Gordon • Reginald Hightower & Milton Johnson • Dennis Perez • Kiva & Angela Smallwood
1 Year • David Emerson • Kenneth & Magdalene DeVault • Chris Frederick • Bruce Herwald • Michael Niedwiecki • Mike Pierce • Rob Sass • Jonathan Silverman • Arlene Simms • Nicholas Smeresky *** Please excuse us for any inconsistencies in reports as PCA HQ continues to improve our system.***
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President's Message sche mechanic. Get the latest information directly from the source at Porsche Cars North America's Area East Training Facility and Parts Warehouse. Topics range from how to balance carburetors to understanding how the new hybrid systems work”. To read further and see photos of the facility at the time of the event, log onto https://www.pca.org/ event/2018-01-08/tech-tactics-east-2018. This is a must attend event for anyone who wants to “look under the hood” and learn all things technical about their Porsche.
Now that we are into the month of March, we are into winter’s home stretch and I for one am looking forward to getting outdoors and driving my Porsche. Looking back at February for a minute, there were a number of events that I and other Chesapeake members were most fortunate to attend, including: “Techtactics East”, the “Super Slot Car Night” and the “Social” at Carrabba’s Hunt Valley. “Techtactics East” was held on the 17th and was organized by PCA National at Porsche’s mid-Atlantic training and vehicle parts distribution warehouse in Easton, PA. To quote the event description from our PCA National website: “Tech Tactics East is a long-running PCA event in which attendees learn about Porsches new and old and other technical subjects. A mix of Porsche employees and independent authorities in the Porsche world bring their knowledge to one place for a day of presentations and Q&A.” The description continues: “Tech Tactics is a day dedicated to Porsche technical information. This event is for the casual information gatherer to the everyday Por-
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As a Region, we are also fortunate to have Terrell and Lori Williams as our super Chesapeake Region volunteers who run the annual “Super Slot Car Night”. But let’s not forget that without additional assistance from Ellen Beck, Bob Gutjahr and Minta and Aaron Miller, this event would not be the success that it is without their effort. Were you aware this event also included a Chili Cook-Off? Guess how many Chili entries there were? To learn who had the best Chili, you’ll need to go no further than read Terrell’s comprehensive article in this edition of the Patter. We closed out February with our monthly Social organized by Eugene (Gene) O’Dunne at Carrabba’s of Hunt Valley. Over 34 members signed up to attend our monthly get together to share good camaraderie with your fellow Chesapeake Region members over a meal and libation of your choice. What a great turnout and to see so many Porsche vehicles so early in the season!
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President's Message Now, let’s take a look forward to the month of March and see what we have planned. There are no less than 10 events on the calendar for March! Starting with our first New Member Party of the year hosted by Casey Parkin of Porsche of Silver Spring. Come out and meet the New Members and have a pastry and coffee with long-time members such as Laurie and Bruce Tarsia who have been members since 1979 or National Safety Chair Dan Dazo who has been a member since 1974! So please sign up at www.clubregistration.net so our Membership Chairperson, Minta Miller, will have an accurate count to pass along to Casey so he may provide the appropriate number of bagels, pastries and coffee. The very next day on March 4th, we are headed to the Timonium State Fair Grounds to attend the spring Home & Garden Show. Jay Plummer, our Chesapeake Challenge Co-Chair, along with Rebecca Earlbeck, our Community Service Chair, have arranged a Porsche only parking coral, and 100% of the $12 entry fee will be donated to charity. Don’t forget, there will be a group photo at 1:00 pm! If you are in Florida on Friday March 9th, head over to Amelia Island and attend the PCA National Werks Reunion event where PCA is celebrating the 356 Outlaws! Check out www.pca.org under “Events” for additional information.
you too can join in next year’s celebration. Just let me know in person or by email president@pcachs.org that you would like to help out with an event and I will make sure you are matched up with the type of event that you would like to make even better. In addition to the Chesapeake Region, did you know there are an additional 9 Regions in PCA Zone 2? Track drivers from those 10 regions gather on the weekend of March 16th through the 18th at the Virginia International Raceway for the annual Zone 2 Driver Education event. Drop by if you are in the area or make a special weekend trip and check out what PCA Driver Education is all about. The non-track members love our Tours, and who wouldn’t when Aniano Arao and Randy Moss are your Co-Chairs. Aniano and Randy are conducting a Tour & Rally preparation season event on March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day), where attendees will learn the ins and outs of enjoying a Tour to the maximum. In fact, this will be a special session, as Aniano will introduce everyone to Porsche’s “app” “GTS Routes”! So bring your “smart-phone” to the session and you will learn how to install the “app” and learn how it will be used during the 2018 Tour & Rally season.
Now the next event in March is very special. On the 14th we honor all of our great volunteers by breaking bread and lifting a glass of cheer at the Volunteer Appreciation Party at Carson’s Creek Restaurant in their honor for all the hard work they did in 2017. So make sure you volunteer to help out in 2018 and
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President's Message Next up is our monthly Social at Houlihan’s Restaurant in Elkridge, MD on March 20th! This date is special as it will mark the 57th Anniversary of the Chesapeake Region, as we were chartered on March 20, 1961. In 1961 the Porsche Club of America was six years old and held its sixth national Parade that year, which your Chesapeake Region members attended. So please come out and celebrate our Anniversary with your fellow members! Our Tech Committee Co-Chairs Jim Earlbeck and Randy Richter have arranged for us to attend the “Classic Car” event at Porsche of Towson. Porsche’s “Classic Car” Program is best described as the opportunity to have your older Porsche vehicle restored by factory trained mechanics using only genuine Porsche parts. So you want to learn more about this program, I know I do? So come join us at Porsche of Towson on Saturday, March 24th to find out what is involved and what are Porsche of Towson’s plans to add this service to their repertoire.
will include a classroom session in the morning and course driving in the afternoon. So get your Autocross gear ready and join your fellow members to learn all things Autocross! Last but not least, come on out to the bi-monthly Board Meeting on March 28th where we will discuss each Committee’s needs in detail and vote on various motions placed before the Board to improve our fun activities. Remember, the Board Meeting is open to all members and starts at 6:30 pm and typically ends around 8:30 pm. We are always interested in hearing and receiving feedback from our members, and especially new event ideas. For example, how about a DO IT YOURSELF day where you get to learn how to service your Porsche and save some money as you learn? How about an authors and/or artists night? We have several authors and artists that live within the Chesapeake Region that we might be able to persuade to provide a presentation on their work. So, let’s keep in touch, talk to me at an upcoming event, or email me with whatever is on your mind at president@pcachs.org and I look forward to seeing you on the road real soon!
Have fun and Drive Safely! Pat Walker and Ryan Golom, Autocross Co-Chairs, want each member who is interested in Autocross to be properly educated and trained in what it takes to be an Autocrosser and do it safely. The Autocross instruction course will be Sunday, March 25th and
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Ron’s Ramblings — Ron Farb Today’s ramblings are going to sound like a 30minute infomercial because I’m going to be pushing “high performance driving” instruction at Summit Point West Virginia. This is the perfect time to talk about this because the registration for their “Friday at the Track” (FATT) program just opened on 1 March and spots can go quickly. If you have never taken your Porsche to one of these events, you need to! Driving fast on the highways and back roads around here is not the same thing as performance driving. This area is just too congested plus if the police catch you going over 100 MPH, you’re probably going to lose your license. I saw it happen once in traffic court when the judge refused to give a young man his license back and literally started yelling at him after he was caught going over 100 MPH. “Performance driving” to me is when you are pushing your car close to its limits and you still have the confidence that it’s going to hold on during a turn when you are going way faster than should be possible. At the same time, the tires are squealing madly and your body is falling over. And then 5 seconds later do it again in the other direction. This is fun and this is what everyone should experience at least once in a safe and controlled environment! I am only going to talk about Summit Point in this article because that is the only track I’ve been to since it is closest to my home. However, there are other tracks or programs that also provide instruction in the near-Baltimore area that I will mention at the end of the article.
The FATT program at Summit Point is a great program where an instructor goes with you in your car for four (4) 20-minute sessions around their 10 turn track. This is enough time to do 11 to 13 loops depending on your speed. You will also get two instructional sessions in the classroom and a chance to use their cars on a skid pad (bring Dramamine). The FATT program is divided into four different experience groups ranging from “novice” to “advanced solo” and if you have never done this before, you will most likely be put on the track with other “novice” drivers in their cars. Typically there will be about 20ish cars going around the 2.0 mile track at a time from your group. Once on the track, just listen to your instructor and they will talk you thru where you should be on the track for the best line, and when to brake and accelerate. I have always had great instructors and most of the ones who want to help you have Porsches themselves so they know what they’re talking about. The key thing is to go at a pace you’re comfortable with because you are NOT, I repeat – NOT, racing anyone. You simply are learning how to drive on a complicated track as fast as you and your car are comfortable with and everyone’s goal is to drive their car home at the end of the day. Passing other cars is strictly controlled via a hand wave and I have never seen a problem. 11
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Ron’s Ramblings As for the experience itself, it truly is amazing and all encompassing. The first time or two you do this, it is absolutely sensory overload and I guarantee you will be mentally and physically exhausted by the end of the day. You will need 101% concentration the entire time you are on the track and yet you will still miss things. I had no idea there were building and flag stations around the track until I watched some YouTube videos later on. One time I took my buddy in his Mustang Shelby GT350 and after the first session he said I’m just going to leave it in 3rd gear and forget shifting from now on because there is just so much going on that it’s overwhelming. You truly are completely focused on the track and keeping your car on it. Plus you have all the engine and road noises along with the tire squealing hitting you while feeling major gforces at every turn and acceleration or deceleration. It is overwhelming – and FUN!!! I guarantee that at the end of each 20-minute session you will feel a combination of relief that you survived and yet you can’t wait to get back on the track and do it again.
Pretty much anyone with a fairly recent generation Porsche will hit over 120 MPH in the straightaway
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with some of you exceeding 130 MPH. Surprisingly though, this is the “easy” part of the course and you can actually relax a little, breath, and flex your fingers. After all, it’s really not a challenge to floor the accelerator and go in a straight line. The fun part starts near the end of the straight where you play a game of chicken to determine when to take your foot off the accelerator and mash the brake in order to make the sharp right hand turn below 40 MPH. Fortunately they have this section well marked and your instructor will be guiding you. The first time I did it, my instructor yelled “brake”, then “BRAAAKE”, then “BRAAAAAAAAKE”. Thank goodness he did because that saved me from flying off and not making that turn. I learned. From that point on, the rest of the course is small straights (that you still might hit 100 MPH on) and great curves and you will truly learn “performance driving”. Each 20-minute session is bliss and you will certainly improve as you learn “the line” and get familiar with the course. Don’t expect to be perfect by the end of the day since that’s not even realistic unless you have been there at least 10 or 15 times (or more). Even though I am far from perfect, there are two things I find extremely satisfying when doing the course. The first is when there is no one in front of you or behind you for a lap or two. When this happens, you truly can just concentrate on your driving and not worry about anything or anyone else. This time is really magical (like having the track to yourself) and unfortunately doesn’t happen to often. The second is when you’ve started getting a feel for the course and driving it smoothly and then you start passing other cars in your group. I know I said you are not racing but it still feels great and shows that you are pro-
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Ron’s Ramblings gressing with your instruction. The last time I was there, I consistently in all four sessions passed a new high powered Corvette and a Ferrari California even though they both had over 200 hp on me. However, they didn’t know the track or their cars as well as me so it really was no match but dang it feels good when you do it. There is a great story in January’s Panorama that describes how to get ready for an event like this entitled “Preparing for a De Event” so I won’t go into all those details. The main thing for me is to make sure my tires and brakes are in perfect condition. I have seen people go home early when their brakes started fading so don’t let that be you because it would suck. Also, everyone will need an approved helmet of which details can be found on the Summit Point web site. My advice is not buy one off the web but instead to buy one locally so that you can try it on and make sure it fits properly. In my case, I went to Ellicott City Motorsports guessing I needed a large helmet. No kidding – I needed an XXL. My kids always said I was an Ogre and I guess they were right. Initially I was incredibly apprehensive the first time I went to Summit Point by myself but I found it to be an extremely well run program at a nice facility. They have vending machines, a snack area for lunch at reasonable prices, and decent restrooms. They provide you with a personalized schedule so that you know where you need to be throughout the day. And if it makes you feel better, they have an ambulance standing by the entire time with its engine running just in case (fortunately I have never seen it used). Plus, both the staff and the other drivers are all very friendly and they love talking about cars – yours or theirs. Speaking of cars, you will see other Porsches
along with lots of Corvettes, BMWs, some Mustangs, some Subaru’s, and maybe an Audi or Lamborghini. Regardless of the car, everyone in the “Novice” group will be new drivers to this experience so it really makes no difference what car they are driving as you will all be learning, and again, you’re not racing.
This article is getting long but I do want to give you some idea of what to do when you first get there. Once you turn onto Motorsports Park circle, you will have to go thru a gate where I believe they have you sign something. They will also give you simple directions to the track. Follow them and you will enter into a big parking lot where you will see other cars parking and getting ready. Find a spot and “claim” it for the day by putting a container or bucket in front or back of your car. Obviously put everything from your car into this container just like at Autocross. Nothing loose in the car is allowed. You will see some folks parking over by the fence next to the track but DON’T do this if you have Summer tires - I made this mistake my first time. I parked close by the fence and then after my first session I took P BXSTR and his hot/sticky P Zero tires back to my spot. I got out and then noticed the tires were 100% coated in gravel. I then drove over to the parking lot and brushed all the gravel off by hand from the very
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Ron’s Ramblings hot tires. Never again. Anyway, once you park and set up your area, go to the main building and register (everyone can point you to it). When you register, they will tell you what group you are in (probably novice), and give you a wrist band and your schedule. You will then have to go back to your car and drive it to the inspection station (a covered stall). The “inspection” for P BXSTR seemed like it was simply reving the engine but I’m not sure what they do with other cars. Once you pass the inspection, they will ink a number on your car and you drive back to your parking spot. Once there, just make sure your car is ready to go, walk around and check out the other cars/meet some people, and go to your classroom session at the appropriate time. From then on follow your schedule.
experience this is bull-loney. I found everyone, including me, going very slow because no one wanted to slide off a wet track plus both you and your car are getting soaked since you have to drive with your windows down. It was not fun or educational. Unless of course those driving purists want to give you their car to drive. Secondly—fill up with gas at the Sheetz in Charles Town on your way there —you’ll thank me. The third thing is there are tons of Summit Point videos on YouTube you can watch but don’t expect to learn the track by doing it. You won’t get a feeling for the scale of the track and you won’t be feeling the g-forces you will experience when you actually are going thru a curve and trusting your car to hang on. Finally, if someone catches up with you at some point, then let them pass you at one of the designated passing spots even if you know you can out accelerate them on the straightaway. Leave your ego at home and don’t frustrate the other drivers since everyone is there to have fun and they will just catch up with you again. Wrapping this up, I hope I have convinced a few of you to give it a go. It is completely different than Autocross and a heck of a lot of fun. Just make sure you sign up early because the novice group fills up fast. If you do go, look for me in P BXSTR (gray ’13 Boxster S) and we’ll swap track stories.
A couple of final words of wisdom. The FATT program is nice in that they allow you to reschedule one time if something comes up and you can’t make your scheduled day. Frankly, in my opinion, if it’s going to rain on your day, then reschedule. I know the driving purists will say something like “you really learn how to handle your car if it’s raining” but from my novice
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Ron’s Ramblings Driver Education Information Links Summit Point FATT—nothing more for me to say but to look at their web site and check out some of the You Tube videos. New Jersey Motorsports Park also has a performance driving program that might be closer to you if you live north of Baltimore but I am really not familiar with it. Additionally, Porsche of The Main Line is sponsoring an exclusive customer Porsche Track day here on 22 April for their customers. Sounds like fun but it is very expensive. Contact the dealership for more info and to register. Zone 2 Driver Education—Sponsored by PCA Zone 2 (i.e. PCACHS in this region) at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) on March 16-18. Registration is now open. TrackDaze—A company called TrackDaze also provides high performance driving instruction at multiple tracks in the area including Summit Point and Virginia International Raceway (i.e they rent out the track for the day or weekend). Surprisingly they charge slightly less than the FATT program and give you four 30-minute sessions. I have friends who have done this program and they have been very positive about it. My only concern with it is that your car better be in amazing condition to go full out for a 30 minute session and it starts very early in the morning. Both are real concerns – my friends do say that cars break down during it and you will probably want to stay in a local motel the night before if you plan to do it.
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History Channel PCA-Style A monthly feature depicting some highlights from past years, 50, 40, 30, 25 years ago Bob Rassa—Club Historian
40 years ago in March 1978, the Region was still in the MD legislature that would require an annual meeting at Peerce’s Plantation Restaurant on
inspection of motor vehicles, physical as well as
Dulaney Valley Rd at Loch Raven Reservoir, and
emissions. Members were encouraged to contact
membership stood at 174 members. Upcoming
their House representative, and apparently enough
events announced for April included 5 Autocrosses,
did as the annual physical inspection part didn’t
one by SCCA and The Autocrossers Association, one
pass. And it was reported that the January after-
by Potomac Region, one by South Jersey Region PCA,
holiday party, hosted by Doc and Alyce Sullivan, was
one by an unnamed sponsor and held at Fort Dix in
a rousing success.
New Jersey, and one by our Region, at the AAI lot in
30 years ago in March 1988 the Region was
Cockeysville. Region President Ted Goodwin lament-
meeting at the Country Fare Inn, our autocrosses
ed that the soon-to-be-introduced Porsche 928 was
were being held at one of Towson State Teacher’s
expected to sell for $25,000, and he allowed as how
College (yes that was what it was called) parking lots
that would put one in the hands of the very rich on-
(lot 18), and the Chesapeake Challenge No. 20 was
ly. An article by the PATTER staff lamented that since
discussed and its autocross site at Towson lot 18 was
there would be no new Porsche available for under
confirmed. It was reported that the Porsche factory
$15,000, this would cause a forsaking by the very
was closed down for 47 days to allow buyer demand
people who made Porsche a success. The PATTER
to catch up with inventory, since Porsche sales for
staff also noted that since PCA had its roots in dyedin-the-wool owners who would attend meetings, rallies, and autocrosses and were willing to get their hands dirty, that the high prices would effectively eliminate those elite, non-hands-on buyers from club ranks. “We would hate to see the day when PCA becomes a group of antique collectors scrounging for parts among their number. Move over 356 Regis-
1988 were down significantly from 1986 and 1987. For a mere $302,000 you can own one of the 26 competition version 959s that were being imported to the US, all of which were to be sold by Al Holbert up in Warrington PA. Tischer Autopark, Silver Spring, was going to host a DIY tech session next month, with a 10% PCA discount offered on all parts. The guest speaker at the April meeting was scheduled to be Ron Spangler, of Prancing Horse Farm in Bel Air, a
try, the 911s are coming” said the staff. A rumor was
collector of Ferraris among other marques (such as
reported that Ab Tiedemann successfully mated a
Porsche). An extensive listing of Porsches used in
356 with a 928. It has 12 cylinders, no transmission,
movies was presented, including such items as the
and only runs downhill. Ab has apparently named it
black 911 in “Flashdance”, the silver 356 in
the 1284. PCA’s Legislative Liaison Chair (also your
“Breathless” and the white 928 in “Middle Aged Cra-
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Porsche in the News If you know of a good article, please bring it to the attention of the Editors at editor@pcachs.org.
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Porsche cartoon
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Porsche Is Tired Of People Com- Watch the video for everything you never knew about bake squeal plaining About Brake Squeal. Porsche Classic supplies classic parts from a 3D printer
Porsche can now produce “extremely rare parts that are only needed in small quantities using 3D printers” for their classic cars
The new 911 GT3 RS.
A great video by Porsche for the new 911 GT3 RS which looks amazing/stunning/stupendous in green. The runner, not so much.
Porsche is working hard to sell its Porsche has begun to convince us that electric is good. I think Gordon Gekko said it first. electric transformation Here Is Why The Porsche 911 Is Still Rear-Engined
Make sure you watch the video for a good downto-earth explanation (or at least as much as you can)
Next –Gen 911 Turbo caught Playing in the Snow
Dream job—Who wouldn’t want to test 600 hp in the snow!
Tech Tactics East 2018
PCA write-up from this event on 22 Feb.
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Engine Build Article by: Aaron Miller (Chesapeake region) & Sean Martinez (Southern Arizona region) The Beatles famously exclaimed they got by with a little help from their friends and the sentiment certainly rings true for the Porsche community as well. Through my Porsche obsession, I’ve made some wonderful friends who share the passion of the marque and more importantly understand the unique challenges of keeping a stable of 30 year old sports cars in prime driving condition. A few months ago I started to notice the tell-tale signs of an impending head gasket failure on our 1987 944S; coolant disappearing mysteriously, water temperature spiking in stop and go driving and a general lack of power. After performing a compression check and an exhaust gas test on the coolant my fears were confirmed which brought me to a crossroads. Should I pull the cylinder head, refurbish it and replace the head gasket or should I search for a second option? Compounding the problem was the 944S’s duty as a daily driver which meant the time the car was down would create scheduling and logistics challenges for the female half of Team Miller. Then, shortly before Christmas 2017, a second option appeared in the form of my good friend and Southern Arizona region member Sean Martinez. Sean is an engineer by training and trade who regularly prowls the local Pull-A-Part junkyards in Tucson, AZ keeping an eye out for old transaxle Porsches, rare BMWs and other parts of interest. Our Christmas miracle came in the form of a 1990 944 S2 Cabriolet in the local junkyard. The yard informed Sean the car was complete and the previous owners, and current Cayenne owners, had the non running car in their yard for a few years and finally lost the desire to have it fixed. Sean called from the junkyard to tell us about his find and ask if we needed anything. Once we confirmed the car was complete, we told him simply, “We need the engine as soon as you can pull it.” Sean set about raiding the donor 944 of it’s valuable brakes, suspension, wiring
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harnesses, Turbo and S2 specific trim and interior parts before running out of time to remove the drivetrain. I spent the next week in suspense, certain some keen-eyed junkyard wanderer would spot the S2 and help themselves to the engine I so desperately needed. But the Porsche Gods were on my side and the next Saturday, Sean enlisted the help of a few local friends and was at the Pull-A-Part when the doors opened. Within a few hours Sean sent a picture of a very dusty, but otherwise complete powertrain hanging from the ubiquitous self service junkyard A-frame engine hoist. With the prize in hand, we set about planning how we would get the motor 2,000 miles from Arizona to Maryland.
As I mentioned before, Sean is an engineer and isn’t known for doing anything part-way. Naturally, he recommended a full rebuild for the motor before shipping it to Maryland due to the unknown history of the engine. Luck would have it that I was finishing a large project at work and really needed a break from work and the winter doldrums of Maryland. We blocked off a week in February and I set about ordering the parts necessary to complete the project. There were still a few unknowns which we had to address before we could complete the project plan, with the condition of the cylinder bores as the primary concern. In early January, Sean popped the head and crank girdle off, noting the bores were free from scuffs and the bearings were in good shape with normal wear for a 130k engine which meant we could proceed as planned.
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Engine Build I departed from Baltimore on a cold, gray morning bound for Tucson and the warm, sunny weather it promised. After a hilarious layover in Las Vegas watching people excited for a weekend of hedonism, I arrived in the early afternoon in Tucson. You can imagine my surprise when Sean picked me up at the airport wearing the same Blipshift 944 Turbo shirt! We cruised off from the airport swathed in sunshine looking like Porsche brothers from another mother on a mission for tacos trucks and engine parts.
Sean’s rapport with the local machine shops ensured the head received a thorough, professional and shockingly cheap refreshing in a matter of days. The next step was to clean all of the parts, normally a laborious and solvent intensive task but again, thanks to great friends, a heated, aluminum safe parts washer was available courtesy of Allen Godard. In a matter of hours, mostly spent waiting and contemplating the upcoming task of a short schedule
engine build, all but the most stubborn of gunk was liberated from the castings and brackets. Once we had a clean palette to start work, we set about reassembling the bottom end before disaster struck.
With a timeline of six days to completely reassemble the motor, prepare it for shipping and drop it off at the shipper, we knew we had to work quickly and efficiently to meet our goals. Fate would throw us a curveball first though. During routine chasing threads in the block to clear out old Locktite 574 and other contaminants, our M6 tap broke off very deeply inside one of the threaded holes for the oil pump. For those not acquainted with breaking taps, or where the oil pump is located on the 944 engines, I would highly recommend you never become familiar with breaking taps and if you do, to not do it on the oil pump! Internet advice and machinist lore provide a number of remedies and Sean seemed confident the broken tap was merely annoying but not a critical failure so I continued with the reassembly while Sean attacked the tap. With the benefit of Amazon’s same-day delivery option we quickly acquired a tool meant to extract broken taps. Later, once it failed in an underwhelming fashion, we found out tap extractors rarely ever work. Next up was to TIG weld a bolt to the tap, this broke a piece of the tap off but the tap was now too deep in the 19
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Engine Build hole to weld to it. Ultimately we removed the remaining piece of the broken tap very slowly by grinding it with a carbide burr, diamond coated abrasives and breaking it into small chunks by tapping on it with a hardened punch. We benefited from some metallurgical knowledge and counted on the tap breaking apart due to it’s brittle nature. An E-Z Lok thread replacement insert saved the day and allowed us to continue the reassembly with the oil pump being mounted to the block and torqued to spec. Confident Sean had salvaged victory from the jaws of disaster, we completed assembly of the bottom end, top end and the laborious task of routing wiring harnesses, vacuum lines and various hoses all while working with cleaned and in many cases, bead blasted parts.
One of our last tasks before we could palletize the engine for shipping was verifying the camshaft timing. When Porsche designed the 16 valve engines for their S and S2 models they made the camshaft timing mechanically adjustable in relation to the crankshaft. Naturally, in order to properly install the cams, check and set the cam timing Porsche specifies multiple special tools. Over the years I’ve acquired very nearly every Porsche special tool for the 944/968 and I brought almost all of them with me! TSA wasn’t amused however and when I opened my checked luggage I was greeted with a card informing me they had conducted an additional inspection. At least they were kind enough to tape my box of care-
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fully wrapped tools closed again so my socks and irreplaceable wardrobe of Porsche themed T shirts did not serve as padding for the delicate tools while being tossed from conveyor to baggage cart and back. With the proper special tools arranged we were perplexed when the cam timing appeared to be severely retarded, nearly at the end of the adjustable range. Sean’s engineering prowess answered the question when he pointed out the head’s thickness was now slightly less than new and it therefore affected the valves in relation to the pistons. Our concerns of a poor installation of some unknown part allayed, we completed final assembly and started a wood project Bob Villa would be ashamed of. What is to be expected of a couple of car guys with limited carpentry knowledge. Armed with a pair of old cast away pallets and a sawzall, we disassembled one pallet to use as blocks and mounting to support the engine during transport. I can personally attest from first-hand experience with enough wood screws you can hold anything together. Eventually our engine cradle took shape and once we were satisfied the engine wouldn’t crush the oil pan under it’s own weight we secured the whole thing in place with ratchet straps connected to eyelets installed on the pallet. To stave off the possibility of damage or missing items, we wrapped the engine in hundreds of feet of cling wrap, building a buffer between the refreshed engine and whatever came its way during shipping.
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Engine Build I would like to thank and recommend the following shops in Tucson for their excellent work or support; Racers Edge for their excellent cylinder head work, North American Powder Coating for their quick work blasting parts, “The Big” Ace Hardware in Tucson for their incredible selection of fasteners (who else carries an M10x1.25x50 bolt in stock??). Porsche of Tucson provided an assist in the form of critical orings for the oil cooler which were mysteriously omitted from the seal and gasket kit. The parts specialists engaged in an enjoyable conversation about Porsche Classic models but you can imagine how surprised they were when I told them about the project! Even with unexpected challenges we were able to meet our project timeline. John, Paul, George and Ringo would have been proud. My aggressive timeline and desire to see this engine disassembled, cleaned and reassembled before shipping it home for installation meant I had little room for error and had to place great faith in my friend’s ability to coordinate with the necessary machinists, technicians and parts suppliers to ensure we could reasonably expect to finish on time. Even with nights stretching into the early morning and one of us maintaining a professional day job, Sean continued to attack the project with a refreshing gusto but when we finally had the pallet loaded for transport I know we both breathed a sigh of relief. With a good friend like Sean, I knew my brief respite from the freezing Maryland winter would be fun and memorable. Like Vu says, it’s not the cars, it’s the people!
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Porsche of Annapolis
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MD Home & Garden Show
As part of our community service program, we would like to invite you to attend the Maryland Home & Garden Show (mdhomeandgarden.com) - Sunday, March 4 from 10 AM – 6 PM at Timonium Fairgrounds. The show has 500 exhibitors including home improvement, landscaping, crafts and much more. The theme for the gardens this year is “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” so the gardens will incorporate some aspect of the theme We will have special into their beautiful gardens and patios. Porsche club members Porsche Club parking can purchase tickets on club registration for $12 and 100% of your (FREE) so bring your ticket will be donated to the Maryland Agricultural Education Porsche! Foundation (maefonline.com) which strives to promote the understanding and appreciation of the importance of agriculture in our daily lives. They also have a Mobile Science Lab that goes to schools to educate kids on agriculture and it will be on display at the show. Weather permitting, we will have special Porsche Club parking (FREE) so bring your Porsche! We would also like to meet at the MAEF Mobile Science Lab at 1 PM for a photo op so plan your day accordingly. See you at the show!
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Chesapeake Region PCA New Member Party Hello and Welcome
Chesapeake Region PCA New Members!! This party is to recognize and welcome all New Members to PCA and/or Chesapeake Region. New Members are anyone who is new to the club in the last 2 years and has yet to attend one of these fabulous and social events. There will be breakfast type refreshments complimentary of our proud sponsor Porsche of Silver Spring. New Members will get Welcome Swag Bags filled with great PCA and Chesapeake Region goodies. We will have people to answer questions and help you gauge your interests within the club: •
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Also, we will raffle off some fabulous door prizes and offer discounts on Chesapeake Region Name Badges ordered at the party.
Want to get to know this crazy bunch of characters? Well we want to meet you too!
This picture was taken at the 2016 Porsche Parade in Jay Peak Vermont. Members of the Chesapeake Region not only work hard, they play hard too! We are a fun loving group who not only love our Porsches, but are pretty good friends too. We enjoy celebrating each other and our cars, as well as giving back to our community.
Not a New Member? Then please come and out and help us welcome those who are!! We could use all the help we can get. Let's show our Newest Members a good time and how awesome it is to be a member of the coolest and most fun Region in PCA!!
Who: Everybody (All Members) What: New Member Welcoming Party When: Saturday March 3, 2018 9:00-11:00 AM Where: Porsche of Silver Spring 3141 Automobile Blvd. Silver Spring, MD 20904
REGISTRATION: NOW OPEN!!!! Register at www.clubregistration.net
Why: To meet New Members and for them to meet some of the Coolest Porsche People AROUND!!! How: Driving your Porsche
or RSVP to New Member Party via email (membership@pcachs.org)
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Tour & Rally Schedule Get Ready to Join the Chesapeake Region’s Car Rallies and Driving Tours This Year The Chesapeake Region’s Tour & Rally Committee has 16 events on the drawing board for 2018. We are pleased to present here an overview of all the fun we have in store for you. Dates and events are subject to change, especially those marked “tentative.” Registration for most events will open about one month before their scheduled dates. Log on to your account at www.clubregistration.net and click “Search for Events”, then “Find Event.” (02/27/2018) Mar 17 Apr 21 May 12 May 26 Jun 1 – 3 Jul 14 Aug 4 Aug 25 Sept 8 Sept 15 Sept 22 Sept 29 Oct 20 Oct 27 Nov 3 Dec 9
(1) Tour & Rally School and Driving Tour, Collectors Car Corral, Baltimore County (2) Porsche Swap Meet Tour, from New Freedom to Hershey, PA (3) Garage Crawl in Baltimore County, jointly with Tech Committee (4) Memorial Day Weekend Gimmick Rally in Howard County (5) West Virginia Grand Tour 2018, from Owings Mills to WV and back to MD (6) Tentative Ice Cream Tour … or Gimmick Rally rain date (see #4) (7) Catoctin Mountain Summer Tour, in Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Counties (8) Tentative Eastern Shore Tour (9) Tentative Keystone State Jaunt (10) Chesapeake Challenge 49 Gimmick Rally (11) Garage Crawl, jointly with Tech Committee (12) Oktoberfest Tour, Car Show & Lunch, jointly with Concours Committee (13) Driving Tour to “356 Registry Concours” in Ocean City, NJ, from Hunt Valley (14) Horse Country Fall Colors Tour through Baltimore, Carroll and Harford Counties (15) Baltimore Suburbs Fall Colors Tour, through Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Frederick Counties (16) “Kindertime Toy Drive & Linda’s Legacy” Driving Tour, jointly with other committees
Details about the upcoming tours are available at www.pcachs.org, in the Chesapeake Region’s Patter newsletter and at www.clubregistration.net. They are also disseminated regionwide via e-Blast and through Facebook. To receive advance notification about our events via e -mail, join our Tour & Rally Registry by sending a message to tour@pcachs.org indicating your interest in joining the registry. -- Aniano Arao & Randy Moss 25
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March Tech Event Our past is our future March’s TECH Event is at Porsche of Towson discussing the new factory backed Classic Program and what it means to keeping your Classic Porsche running properly. On March 24th 2018, Porsche Towson welcomes the Chesapeake Region PCA to join us for a tech session which will focus on the Porsche Classic program. We at Porsche Towson see this as a tremendous opportunity to serve our core client, the Porsche enthusiast, and have eagerly embraced this factory backed initiative. Only around 100 Porsche dealers worldwide will be awarded Classic Partner status. The Porsche Classic program is for cars discontinued from standard production at least 10 years ago. In other words, the 356, 914 and 911 up to and including Types 964, 993 and 996 / 986; as well as four and eight-cylinder Porsche sports cars such as the 924, 944, 968 and 928. Porsche has a commercial that summed the Classic Program up rather nicely. See- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtdsmFuk_4 Some of the topics that we will discuss are the history of the program, the training involved, current Porsche offerings- which already includes around 52,000 Porsche Classic Genuine Parts- and what it means to be a Porsche Classic partner. Priority 1 Auto Group has other initiatives to encourage servicing of older models in a factory-backed facility, which we will also go in to detail on.
WHEN: SATURDAY, MARCH 24th 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM The doors open at 8:30 AM for coffee and donuts Presentations will begin at 9:00 AM Conclusion by 11:00 AM
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Porsche of Towson 700 Kenilworth Drive Towson, MD 21204
REGISTRATION: Register via ClubRegistration.net. Drop Jim Earlbeck, our Tech Chair, an email at jearlbeck@earlbeck.com if you have a problem, but please try to use ClubRegistration. Registration via ClubRegistration will make you eligible for the $250 gift certificate raffle!
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Reflected Images Tech Event
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Tech Event @ Reflected Images —Jim Earlbeck It is February in Maryland. We hate driving our Porsches down highly salted roads and watching them turn white. So what do we do? We tuck them away for a long winter’s nap and head over to Reflected Images to learn how to keep our cars looking their best. Hot coffee and donuts greeted the forty eight Chesapeake club members as they entered Reflected Images of Forest Hill for a Tech Session on ceramic paint coatings. To chase away the winter blues our members received a greeting gift as they walked into the shop. Reflect Images graciously supplied everyone with a wash bucket with a sediment stand, micro fiber cloth and various cleaning supplies. Now there are no excuses for a dirty Porsche showing up to an event! Brian Daly, the owner of Reflected Images, had quite the layout ready for us. Three Porsches were in the shop that day. Two were there as models of what the finished product looks like. One was recently done and the other had a couple of years on it. The third car, a Guards Red 2007 GT3 with some 50,000 miles on it, many of which were track miles, was there to serve as the demonstration piece. It was positioned up on a quick lift with the wheels off so that we could see the before and after cleaning of the suspension components.
tional waxes, consumer based ceramic coatings and professionally applied ceramic coatings. The application techniques of each were presented in order to help us understand the product performance differences. After years of testing Reflected Images has settled into using only one coating- CQuartz.
It was then time to get into the nuts and bolts of the coating process. Painters tape was placed on the driver’s door of the GT3 so that two segments were created. In doing so we would be able to see a side by side before and after. Brian managed to pull the air out of our lungs as he approached the GT3 armed with a Rupes 15mm machine equipped with a unique microfiber cut pad. The pad looked aggressive enough to pull the skin off of a rhinoceros! He meAfter some brief introductions Brian launched into thodically loaded a very small amount of product onthe history of Reflected Images. He then discussed, at to the pad and danced the Rupes machine over the a high level, the warranties and expectations of tradi- paint surface of the door, reloading the product only once. Leaving the product on the door he advanced onto applying the second product. After removal of that product a third product was applied. It was interesting to note that Brian used products from several manufacturers including Meguiars, Griots and Car Pro. Upon removal of the third product the door was ready to receive its coating of CQuartz Finest Reserve. Actually three coatings of CQuartz Finest Reserve were applied before the door was IR baked to 150 degrees to promote proper adhesion to the paint surface.
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Tech Event @ Reflected Images —Jim Earlbeck As the coating cured we moved into another bay of the facility where we were greeted by a buffet of pit ham, turkey, beef and all the trimmings. All courtesy of Reflected Images. The food was fantastic. No one walked away hungry. After the lunch break Chesapeake’s famous $250 gift certificate raffle was conducted. This certificate is payable to the vendor that hosts the event. It is our way of thanking and supporting that vendor for opening their facility specifically for us that day. The winner this time was Rob Eldringhoff. Brian was once again center stage as he wrapped up the presentation with Q&A. Spontaneous testimonials broke out from several of our Club members, some of which have had several cars coated by this shop. As the Q&A died down Brian invited us to sample some outstanding draft beer from Falling Branch Brewery of Street Maryland. They had several varieties on hand and every one was a winner. It was an extremely complete winter event. We learned about how to keep our cars looking their best, had a wonderful lunch and left with a belly full of superb craft beer. Even a representative from the DuPont Registry was there. His write up on this event can be found at https://blog.dupontregistry.com/videos/reflectedimages-custom-detailing-porsche-tech-session/ . Obviously, the folks at Reflected Images know how to do things right. Keep on eye open for additional information on this event in an upcoming Patter. Reflected Images has commissioned a video documentary of a 57,000 mile Guards Red 1996 993 being treated to the CQuartz coating. This documentary will show you, step by step, the entire process. Additional photos of the event were taken by our Vice President Lynda Sobus. Her photos can be found at: https://www.flickr.com/ photos/pcachesapeake/ albums/72157690334398932/
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Slot Car Night 2018 Recap—Terrell Williams No doubt, this year’s Super Slot Car Night was a bonafide hit! Despite treacherous weather conditions that ended up dumping 3 inches of slushy snow, more E-racers participated in this midFebruary family classic than ever before and as usual, some fierce racing was a common theme throughout the afternoon.
It’s the Chesapeake PCA Regions 26th year of hosting our Super Slot Car Night. The Slots Chair ordered plenty of tables and chairs for this year’s record breaking attendance after last years near calamity when we were slighted 12 tables and 32 chairs. This year the racers met the challenge of the Baltimore Grand Prix layout. Remember that spectacular race we had in our hometown for 3 years in downtown Baltimore that ended prematurely in 2013? Careful coordination by our Club President Michael Murphy and our fine Board ne-
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gated a conflict with the national PCA calendar. This perhaps led to our record breaking attendance. We had around a dozen first time racers and a total of 66 people in attendance, besting last year’s large crowd of 50. Minta got the festivities started by announcing the PCA Juniors program created so kids can enjoy PCA events, learn about Porsches and build the enthusiasm that runs through all of the Porsche Club of America. PCA Juniors will receive a welcome package that includes an age-appropriate gift and a PCA Juniors ID badge. And it's FREE to join. This afternoon Minta provided each Junior with her famous PCA Swag Bag that was full of great Porsche goodies. After 30 minutes of warming up the cars and the track, the Juniors started the afternoons racing with youngsters from age 4 to 16 taking their turns at conquering the 4-lane slot car layout. Young Racers were especially eager after practicing on the second track layout in the rear of the activity room. Once again, Chesapeake Club guest Sean Ricketson, ably setup a wonderful track on the floor atop green indoor/outdoor carpet for all who needed a little extra practice. The juniors competed in 6 brackets - yes, we had 24 juniors participating this year which easily eclipsed the number of men and women racers. The top 6 all received trophies, but the Juniors Champion was James Beavan, 2nd place went to Avery Schultz and 3rd place belonged to Maeve Geiger.
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Slot Car Night 2018 Recap—Terrell Williams The Lady Racers filled 3 brackets of competitors who all raced very carefully. These weren’t the evenings fastest races because the Ladies proved to be very cautious drivers. Being careful not to have their slot cars leave the track, many fans pleaded for the Ladies to “Go Faster”. Nevertheless, those ladies who balanced racing for speed, with caution around the sharp turns ended up in the championship race. The Lady Racer Champion was Kathy Ricketson and 2nd place went to Vicki Saxon. This year’s Men Racers filled out 4 brackets of entrants. The Men’s field of racers was a little thin this year totaling just 16 racers compared to 35 last year. The Slots Chair who is a two-time champion decided not to race and keep his talents under wraps this year leaving the field wide open. The four finalists for the championship race included two first timers. When all the racing had concluded, Sean Ricketson repeated as the Men’s Champion and Rick Merriken
claimed the 2nd place trophy. Sean has won the Men’s title three times. His wife Kathy is also a multiple Ladies Champion. The Juniors Enduro team race of 20 laps were competitive early on, but ultimately dominated by Team Schultz consisting of Sadie Schultz, Quinn Schultz, Avery Schultz and Braden Hopkins. The Schultz’s are the grandkids of Donna Brandt and are clearly very talented as they’ve won this race several times. Team Vipers with Enzo Puopolo, James Beavan, Bill Kearny and Ethan Dashiell were strong second place finishers and the Blue Hair team of Lucas Rausch, Julien Rausch, Sophia Alban and Maeve Geiger finished in third place. The Faster Team comprised of Sean Ricketson, Rick Merriken, Lee Raskin and Marco Alban completed 40 laps of racing to win the Adult Enduro race besting Team 935, Champions, Fast and Champions Holiday Racing Teams.
tie for first place. The Chesapeake PCA Chili cook-off winners were Ellen Beck (one of last year’s winner) and Brian Funk.
We again want to thank the Parkville Family Y for their continuous support and being a great place to hold our annual Slot Car Night. We thank all those who attended and brought along several family members to enjoy our Perhaps the highlight of the after- great event. After the trophy noon for foodies was the Chesapresentations everyone stepped up peake PCA Chili cook-off that and helped break down the track, attracted 10 crock pots of tasty tables and chairs, gathered trash chili. The variety of chili was so and cleaned the room. We can’t awesome that we had more tasters thank enough all those great than racers. The Slots Chair often PCA’ers. The Chesapeake PCA Refound it difficult to find volunteer gion members continue to set the lap counters because the room was standard for social gatherings and abuzz with chili connoisseurs. Par- enjoying club events. ticipants gobbled, sampled and simply enjoyed a tremendous variety of chili making it very difficult to select the best. When the votes were tallied, there was a two-way 31
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SLOT CARS!! Photos by Richard Chitty
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Porsche of Towson
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For Sale 235/40R19 Boxster/Cayman Summer Tire - $125 One brand new unmounted 235/40R19 Pirelli P Zero Nero max performance summer tire. I bought this from Tire Rack for $281 when I thought my mounted tire had a puncture, which it didn't. Buy this now before you have a problem and save over $150. Beats paying more later. Fits base 981 Porsche Boxster or Cayman. Thanks—Ron - rifarb@yahoo.com
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Name and Car Badges! Now you can obtain your Chesapeake Region Name Badge! Go to www.pcachs.org and use the “GOODIE STORE” menu from the main page. Click the button and complete the order form page. The Name Badge cost is $25, inclusive of handling and shipping.
This is your opportunity to purchase a heavy “gold- plated” Chesapeake Region metal car badge.
Each metal car badge comes complete with stainless steel slotted retaining plate, screws, washers and nuts to mount it through your car grille or separate mounting plate. You can order right now! The cost per metal car badge is $30 or two for $50, inclusive of handling and shipping. Here’s how you order your metal car badge: Go to www.pcachs.org and use the “GOODIE STORE” menu from the main page. Click the button and complete the order form page and make your payment by check or Pay- Pal. 35
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PCA Jackets!
If you want one of these killer jackets, please remit $70 to our Treasurer, Lynda Sobus via check or PayPal. If by check, send your check to Treasurer P.O. Box 767 Havre deGrace, MD 21078. If by PayPal, send it to: treasurer@pcachs.org from the PayPal.com website. In addition to your payment, complete the online order form at www.pcachs.org and indicate: a.) Color, b.) Style (male or female), and c.) Size from the Sizing Chart on the following pages.
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Order your PCA Embroidered Jacket!
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PCA Jackets!
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PCA License Plates Chesapeake Region coordinates PCA Organizational Maryland License Plates issued through the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA). The license plate program promotes the visibility and camaraderie of PCA and serves as a fund raiser for Chesapeake Region events. The total cost for the PCA license plates is $35, which includes the $25 MVA fee and a $10 Chesapeake PCA fee. If you would like to obtain the PCA License Plate(s), complete the information sheet available on our website: http://pcachs.org/pca-maryland-license-plate Once we receive your Information Sheet, we will mail you the MVA ApplicationCertification form for Organizational License Plates. The MVA form is a two-part State form, which requires the owner and any co-owner’s signatures. Please complete the MVA Application form and mail the form along with your checks to the address below. Make your $25 check payable to MVA. Please enclose a separate $10 check payable to Chesapeake RegionPCA to cover a one time fund raising fee. PCA License Plate Coordinators PO Box 8144 Elkridge, Maryland 21075-8144 Important: Do not mail the MVA form and checks directly to MVA. Requirements: You must be a PCA Member and the car must be registered in Maryland. The PCA Plates are not limited to Porsches. You can apply for PCA plates for all your cars registered in Maryland!
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