JANUARY PLANNING MEETING

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JANUARY PLANNING MEETING
2012
Sacramento Jaguar ClubYearly Planning Meeting
Sunday, January 8, 2012, 1 PM
Jaguar of Sacramento. Fulton Ave., Sacramento, ca
CALENDAR
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I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
President’s Musings
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Editor’s Ramblings
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Upcoming Events
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Water Alcohol Injection
8
Project Report
9
Club Info 10
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In attendance: Andy & Linda Banta, Bob & Natalie Olson, Bruce & Judy Dunow,
Richard & Susan Starch, Steve & Joellen Veirs, Mike & Ruth Hunter, Glynn & Diane
Kerr, Jim Collipriest, Raul Rodriguez, Jerry Nuijen, Jim & Valerie Stewart, Chuck
Freeland, Randy & Janis Jones, Steve & Cela Whitney, Ritt Rittenhouse, Frances &
William Smith, Robin & Jeanne George, and Richard Farler.
President Linda Banta, extended a warm welcome to all the members who attended.
Introductions were made and fines collected to support the Jaguar at the Sacramento
Zoo.
Copies of the minutes of the December meeting, agenda, and proposed event ideas
were distributed.
Richard Farler, from Jaguar of Sacramento, was introduced and welcomed everyone to
the facility. He provided a very nice lunch for our meeting which was held in the service bay as the show room is presently under renovation. He spoke briefly on what we
can expect from Jaguar in the next months and years. Things such as diesel technology, a 4 cylinder car and a crossover SUV are things presently on the drawing table.
He showed us a beautiful, bright blue XKRS in which several of us were invited to
have a test ride. Since there were less than 100 of these cars built it was a real treat.
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A fine collection of members’ cars
And a fine lunch provided by Jaguar of Sacramento
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SACRAMENTO JAGUAR CLUB 2012 PROPOSED CALENDAR
JANUARY
th
8
Monthly Meeting
FEBRUARY
16th Monthly Meeting
11th Valentine's Day party
Giusti's on the Delta in
Walnut Grove
(Olsons’ lead)
APRIL
th
19
Monthly Meeting
MAY
24th Ride to Corning: Olive
oil tasting & visit to New
Clareveau Winery
(Olsons’ lead)
rd
3 & 24th judges’ training
9th to 11th AGM
JUNE
th
17 Monthly Meeting
19th--Ride to Clear Lake
Wineries & Overnight
(Hunters’ lead)
20th Woodland
Drive around Folsom Lake
& refreshment stop at
Glynn & Diane Kerr’s home
Late April
JULY
MARCH
15th Monthly Meeting
AUGUST
19th Monthly meeting
21st Monthly Meeting
Coppola Winery & Napa
Tour, details TBD
(Steve Whitney lead)
SEPTEMBER
20th Monthly Meeting
16th Monthly meeting
Delta Loop Drive: details
to follow
(Steve Whitney, lead)
OCTOBER
Museum Tours & picnicPlacer County, TBD
(Michael Hunter)
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
15th Monthly Meeting
9th Holiday Party
18th Monthly Meeting
25th Possible tree decorating
& pot luck at Sacramento
Auto Museum--to be discussed
7th Niello Concours
23rd SJC /JCNA Sanctioned
Concours: Place to be determined
(Starch’s lead)
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Linda put out a request for someone to consider being our second delegate to the upcoming AGM which is
scheduled for March 10, in Phoenix. Bruce, our club representative, will be attending but we are allowed two
delegates. Since Bruce has expressed a desire for this to be his final year as club rep, Linda suggested this year
would be a good year for a replacement to become acquainted with the process.
Andy continues to have back issues of various Jaguar magazines for sale. See him if interested.
Richard Starch gave us an update on plans for the concours our club is planning this year. He has recently
learned that our judges’ certifications have expired and need to be renewed. This will involve a refresher session
followed by testing and certification which will be provided by a member of the Reno Club. The plan is to hold
the concours in September but the date depends on when the certification can be scheduled. Once the date is set
we will be looking for venues which include suggestions of Sacramento State campus, Folsom Lake College and
Consumnes River College. Richard will be contacting those who have indicated interest in helping to plan this
event to inform them of planning meetings.
The meeting moved on to activity planning for the upcoming year. (See photos page 4) There were many good
ideas and suggestions, some new, some repeat favorites. Following are some of those ideas:
Suggestions for various drives included a tour through the Gold Country including a visit to the Empire
Mine, a drive from Coloma to Columbia or Murphy’s, a river delta area drive, including s visit to Bethel Island, a Napa Valley drive with visits to wineries such as the Francis Ford Coppola winery, a
drive along the old Lincoln Highway and a drive around Folsom Lake with a visit to some of the abandoned mines in the area.
A show at Three Stages Theater at Folsom Lake College preceded by dinner at a nearby restaurant and/
or our monthly meeting.
A tour of Placer County Museums in August sponsored by the Historical Society. For a nominal fee
you can purchase a pass to visit any museums in the county. This could be combined with a drive, winetasting, lunch/dinner, etc.
A visit to the Reno Auto Museum or Blackhawk Auto Museum.
Olive oil tasting in the Corning area including a visit to the New Clareveau Winery located in a working
monastery and owned by the monks.
Tech sessions or demonstrations on various topics of interest. Jerry Nuijen is willing to arrange something like this and said they were very successful in his previous club (Continued on page 4)
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Gymkhana, slaloms, agility courses or autocross events. Robin George who is a member of the Miata
Club suggested we attend the monthly autocrosses held at Mather Field and sponsored by SCCA. Possibly the CHP training facility might be a source for something like this also.
Halloween poker rally, scavenger hunt.
Oktoberfest at the Tyrolean Inn in Ben Lomond.
Drive to Clear Lake sponsored by Ruth & Mike Hunter. This would be an overnight event involving a picnic lunch, wine tasting and dinner in the Upper Lake area.
Christmas tree trimming held at the California Auto Museum in Sacramento in November.
Regular yearly events that include the Woodland Show & Swap Met sponsored by UBSCC, Neillo’s
Serrano Concours, Euro Sunday in El Dorado Hills and our annual holiday brunch in December.
Linda asked for a show of hands to indicate the amount of interest in the various suggestions and a came up with
tentative calendar schedule as follows with confirmation, dates and other details as they are available:
February – Valentine’s weekend event/ theater/dinner
March – Olive oil/ wine tasting tour
April – drive around Folsom Lake with lunch/meeting/dinner ?? at the Kerr’s house.
May – ride to Lake County sponsored by the Hunters; Woodland Car Show & Swap Meet
June - Napa area drive and wine tour, Steve Whitney to sponsor this
July - Delta/Bethel Island drive
August – Placer Co Museum tour
September - SCJ Concours with Richard Starch chairman, Euro Sunday El Dorado Hills
October – Niello’s Serrano Concours, Halloween rally-scavenger hunt and/or Oktoberfest at the Tyrolean
Inn in Ben Lomond.
November – tree trimming at the California Auto Museum – weekend after Thanksgiving
December 9th – annual holiday brunch
After a very productive meeting with many ideas being discussed the meeting adjourned at 2:50.
Respectfully submitted,
Judy Dunow, secretary
Planning events for 2012
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PRESIDENT’S MUSINGS
I was very gratified by the turn out
for the planning meeting January at
Sacramento Jaguar and especially
want to THANK the dealership and
Richard Farler for their hospitality at
that meeting. I don’t know which
was more appreciated, providing the
venue and food or offering drives in
the newest superb Jaguar model!
We, as a group, want to express our
appreciation for the developing
warm relationship between the dealership and our club.
As you can tell from the EXTRA
JagWyre, we have many fun activities in the offing– several of which
already have members taking the
lead for the details involved in each.
Others are waiting for some one to
Consider what you might do to share
set the dates, exact venues, etc. As the fun!
you will see in this JagWyre, dates
have been set for preliminary train- Linda Banta, President
ing sessions for concours judges with
follow-up polishing by a chief judge
leading to certification as judges –
important steps on the road to September’s concours. Steps are under
way to establish an appropriate
venue. When these are set, JCNA
will officially sanction our concours.
There are many other jobs, both
large and small, that need to be in
place. Some require considerable
fore-thought and preparation, others
are needed only the day of the event.
This is a fun event with opportunity
to interact with some fabulous cars.
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EDITOR’S RAMBLINGS
Hill who finished 3rd driving an XK
First, a thanks to Judy for the very
complete minutes of the planning
120.
meeting, to Natalie for the calendar
and to Jerry for his article on page 8. According to the September 1949
“Radio and Television Mirror“ he
In mid January I was watching the first became interested in cars when
NBC “Today” show and found they he lost his schoolgirl sweetheart to
were celebrating their 60th anniver- the banker’s son who had a Rolls
sary. The first show was on January Royce and eventually married the
14, 1952. So what does this have to girl. Years later, with the onetime
do with Jaguars? As most of you
friend out of a job, Garroway
probably know, Dave Garroway was bought the Rolls for $200.
the first host of the Today show and
as some of you probably know he
Between doing radio and television,
was a car enthusiast owning, among late at night he brought cars to his
other things, an SS 100. It turns out shop, called “Tree House” for restohe actually raced the SS 100 five
ration, while listening to records
times between 1949 and 1951 with a which were sent to him for audition.
7th place being his best finish.* In
He often did interiors to his own
1951 Frank Bott out of Chicago
tastes. Apparently he had a cream
drove Garroway’s SS 100 at the
colored Jaguar with the seats, instruSCCA National at Elkhart lake,
ment panel and steering wheel covWisconsin, competed against Phil
ered with alligator calf (I believe
calf skin with alligator trim). He had
a Lincoln convertible with rough
tweed seats which matched a favorite suit.
Quoting from the 1949 “Radio and
Television Mirror “You need only
drive down the street behind Dave
P a say,
g e as6 heads turn
and hear people
enviously ,“There’s Garroway” to
understand a car to most men is
what her house is to a woman—a
means of self expression”.
Andy Banta, Editor
*In researching this article, I came
across an interesting web site http://
www.racingsportscars.com/make/
results/Jaguar.html
which has 88+ pages of race results for
Jaguar dating from 1936 to 2011 and a
search feature
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UPCOMING EVENTS
FEBRUARY
DRIVE DOWN THE DELTA TO GUISTI’S PLACE
WHAT:
WHEN:
WHERE:
WHY:
HOW:
Drive down the Delta Road to Guisti’s Place for lunch
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Meet at Bill Conlin Complex/Park at 10:00 AM
Celebrating Valentine’s Day!
Caravan from the Bill Conlin Complex
Directions to the Bill Conlin Complex and Park:
Traveling south on I-5, take the Meadowview/Pocket Rd. off-ramp. You'll see a large,
elevated, water storage tank ahead of you. At the end of the off-ramp there's a stop light.
At that light, turn left/east back over the freeway, less than 1/2 mile, to Hwy.160/ Freeport Blvd. Turn right/south on Hwy 160 for 0.7 miles to the Bill Conlin Complex/Park on
the left. There's a good-sized paved parking lot there where we will gather. We will
leave the complex for our drive to Guisti’s at 10:15 AM. From the Park, the ride will
take approximately 30-45 minutes through the old town of Locke, past pear orchards
and vineyards and of course the Delta waterways.
Come and share the fun. Giusti’s is the oldest restaurant and bar in the Delta and has been operated by
the same family for over 100 years. It’s fun, it’s funky, very casual, and the food is good. $11.95 lunch
includes a glass of wine!
MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW SOON !
Monthly meeting, 6:30 PM, Thursday, February 16th
MARCH
Ride to Corning: Olive oil tasting & visit to New Clareveau Winery Date TBD
15th Montlly meeting, 6:30 PM, Thursday,
3rd First concours judges’ training session with Jerry Nuijen; time and place TBD
24th Second concours judges’ training session and testing with Gerard Garra from Reno; time & place TBD
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WATER ALCOHOL INJECTION
We all know that the way to squeeze more power and better fuel economy out of an internal combustion engine is to
raise the compression. The problem is that the more you raise the compression the more chance you have that your
mixture is going to ignite instantaneously and at the wrong time and, instead of putting a smooth power pulse to the
piston, it will create a detonation that will be destructive to the engine. Another problem with high compression is
high combustion temperatures that cause production of oxides of nitrogen, one of the destructive constituents of
smog.
One approach to being able to raise the compression is to cool the intake charge. This can be done in a number of
ways. On supercharged (including turbocharged) engines compressing the air that goes into
theg cylinder
heats that
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air, so an intercooler is employed. The original intercoolers were nothing but fins on the intake manifold. More recently they have been radiator-like devices know as air-to-air intercoolers.
Still another approach is to put something into the intake charge that cools it. Raw gasoline, if it isn't overdone, can
do this. There are fluids much better than gasoline that can be used to cool the intake charge. Plain water works
amazingly well, especially on air-cooled engines that run very high combustion chamber temperatures, especially.
around the exhaust valve. Adding methanol to the water or using straight methanol works even better because of alcohol's latent heat of vaporization cooling effect.
I have an early high compression V-12 with many miles on it. For years I have had to either retard the timing, use a
fuel additive, or mix unleaded racing gasoline with the best premium I can buy (91 octane in Calif). When Jaguar
originally designed the V-12 leaded fuel of 100 octane was the norm. By the time it got into production the phasing
out of lead was underway and octane ratings plummeted. A few years ago I installed a water/alcohol injection system made by Snow Performance (www.snowperformance.net) and modified by me with the help of Snow. The system is really designed for blown engines and is activated by a pressure switch. The basic system consists of a reservoir, (it looks like a windshield washer tank which it is), a high-pressure pump (about 125 psi) and injectors in the
intake manifolds. In my system the pressure switch is replaced by a vacuum switch and a positive shutoff switch is
installed between the injectors and the pump to insure that high manifold vacuum doesn't drain the reservoir when
the pump isn't on. The vacuum switch turns on the pump and a mixture of water and methanol is injected into each
intake manifold. I chose the location on top of the manifolds because it was the easiest to install.
Straight water works, but I still get some detonation when the engine is really hot. In the pictures you can see that the
fluid in the tank is blue. It looks like windshield washer fluid because that's what it is. It's winter windshield washer
fluid that is about 30% methanol and sells for about $1 a gallon at Wal-Mart.
As always I invite your comments, criticisms, and corrections contact [email protected]
Jerry Nuijen
(This article has been edited considerably to fit the space available ; for a PDF of the full article contact the Editor)
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SJC Concours d' Elegance, September 23, 2012
MEMBER VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES (details later)
Registration and Documentation
Judging and Scoring
Site layout and Services
Publicity and Communications
Hospitality and Guest Services
Special Events/Entertainment
Contact Richard Starch for information and TO VOLUNTEER at [email protected] or 916-774-9669
The Jaguar Recovery Team (also known as the “pit Crew”)
While waiting for a new “project”, the Crew decided to replace the timing chain tensioner on Larry Starch’s 2000
XKR. The Jaguar was backed out of the workspace so we could get Wally’s 1992 SJ6 off of the lift. With
Wally’s Jaguar out of the way, the XKR wouldn’t start. Several hours of diagnostics led us to conclude the problem was failed fuel pumps. That’s right, this model uses two pumps and they are in the tank. More hours spent
trying to take the tank out through the trunk make us realize there were two fuel lines at the bottom of the tank.
More investigation from the bottom revealed a large sound proofing/heat shield panel covered the fuel line tank
location. More hours cutting the center section of this panel away and we could finally see the lines. Now all we
had to do is reach in to elbow depth through the 2” narrow gap between the differential and the body pan and engage special extractor tools to disconnect the fuel lines. The rest was easy (kind of).
The XJ6 on the rack and the XKR beneath.
Richard up to his elbow in the tank.
With the tank out of the car, the old pumps were removed. One tested open circuit and the other was shorted.
Putting the new pumps and filters into the tank and getting the tank in through the trunk was relatively easy. Getting the fuel lines reconnected to the tank wasn’t, but it was finally accomplished. Five gallons of gas in the tank
and success, it now starts and runs. More work putting everything else back together and we are ready to tackle
the chain guide and tensioner job.
The search for the next project.
Over the past four months, we have evaluated a number of distressed Jaguars. They included 1960,62 & 65 Mark
IIs, 1951,52 & 57 Mark VIIs, 1959 & 60 Mark IXs, a 1989 XJ-S Coupe and 1987 & 88 XJ-SCs. All three XJ-S
models were V-12s. In the final analysis, the most promising prospect was to tackle the 1987 XJ-SC that had suffered “a minor engine fire”. Having done that once before with the Phoenix, I really didn’t expect to do it again,
but here we go.
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The XJ-SC has a straight body and good interior. This is minor engine fire damage?
This 1989 XJ-S runs and drives fine but needs paint and a new interior.
The 1989 will become a donor and parts car. Together the two Jaguars will make one whole one. At least that is
the plan. The XJ-SC designated a Cabriolet or Targa top is a rare model produced in limited numbers and has a
higher market value than the Coupes. Jim Collipriest
FOR SALE 1959 Jaguar Mark IX Serial # BW790337BW (Non Runner) always a Californian owned and registered vehicle. It retains the original Cotswold Blue paintwork. The bodywork and
frame appears to be in good condition. The engine manually
turns over and has fair compression. The interior would need
attention with seat upholstery and carpet replacements. The
car appears almost complete with its original parts. It is presently on private property near Dixon I have the Title to this vehicle. Reasonable offers considered. Interested, please contact
me at (707) 481 7125 or E-Mail me at [email protected]
SACRAMENTO JAGUAR CLUB
President: Linda Banta [email protected]
Secretary: Judy Dunow [email protected]
JCNA Council REP: Bruce Dunow
[email protected]
Past President: Bob Olson [email protected]
Membership Chairman: : Bob Olson [email protected]
Vice President/ Activities, Natalie [email protected]
Vice President/Operations/Jag Wyre
Editor: Andy Banta
[email protected]
Webmaster: Jim Collipriest (interim)
[email protected]
Copyright 2012 Sacramento Jaguar Club
Treasurer: Steve Viers [email protected]