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Departments
Zone 5 Presidents .........................................1
Drifting (President’s Column) ......................2
Maverick of the Month.................................2
List of Officers/Board Chairs .......................4
Carey On (Editor’s Column) ........................5
Maverick Minutes ........................................6
New Wheels and Anniversaries..................31
Advertiser Index.........................................32
Unclassifieds ..............................................32
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December Trivia ...........................................7
Destination Restoration..............................10
Garage Glimpses ........................................14
Insurance Tips ............................................18
Of Special Interest......................................20
Cliff’s Ramblings .......................................22
I Get Around ..............................................24
Tech Corner ................................................26
Panorama Special Section ..........................28
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February
Board Meeting
Lewisville Lunch
Drivers’ Education 1, MSR
Monthly Social: Uncle Julio’s
Autocross 1, DR
Richardson/Southlake Lunches
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March
Autocross 2, Penn
Board Meeting
Drivers’ Education 2, ECR
2014 Parade Registration opens
Lewisville Lunch
Monthly Social: TBD
Richardson/Southlake Lunches
Upcoming Events
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Board Meeting
Lewisville Lunch
Drivers’ Education 3, MSR
Monthly Social: TBD
Richardson/Southlake Lunches
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May
COTA Club Race
Board Meeting
Lewisville Lunch
Monthly Social: TBD
Autocross Academy, DR
Richardson/Southlake Lunches
Autocross 3, DR
DE 1, MotorSport Ranch .............................5
Board Meeting .............................................7
Autocross 1 (DR) and 2 (Penn) ....................8
Maverick Lunch Series ..............................19
Monthly Social: Uncle Julio’s ....................27
Past Event Recaps
Hope Shelter Christmas Party ....................12
Maverick Holiday Party .............................16
Driving Event Venues
COTA
Circuit of the Americas, Austin
DR
Dallas Raceway, Crandall
ECR
Eagles Canyon Raceway, Slidell
MSR
MotorSport Ranch, Cresson
MW
Mineral Wells Airport, Mineral Wells
Penn
Pennington Field Stadium, Bedford
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2014 PCA Zone 5 Presidents and Zone Representative
ARK-LA-TEX
Kirk Bristol
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COASTAL BEND
Jose Carreras
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LONE STAR
Greg Platt
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MARDI GRAS
Rick Payton
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OZARK
John Bullen
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WHISKEY BAY
Henry Carter
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CIMARRON
Bill Jacobi
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HILL COUNTRY
Courtney Gross
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LONGHORN
Jack Merrell
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MAVERICK
John Hamlton
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WAR BONNET
Grady Buckhalter
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WHITE RIVER
Leonard Zechiedrich
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ZONE 5 REP
Lynn Friedman
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Drifting: COTA 2014
By John Hamilton, Region President
Y
es! We have gained agreement
in principle to return to the
Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in
2014 for a combined Club Race and
Drivers’ Education program. We
are scheduled for Friday-SaturdaySunday, May 2-3-4. Watch for more
details as plans get finalized.
“What does this mean to me?” you might ask, if
you’re not a Club Racer or DE-er? By renting COTA,
it gives ALL our members the opportunity to visit one
of the newest (1-1/2 years old) and best-designed
race tracks in the world. You can watch Porsches race
there without paying an admission fee, with the added
benefit that the COTA track is right in our back yard
in Austin, Texas. So pencil it in on your calendar and
watch for more details as they emerge in the upcoming weeks. It would make a great family outing!!!
“Inclusion”: our key word for 2014. One of the ways
in which we’re promoting the “inclusion” of more
Porsche owners in 2014 is by adding special articles
to Slipstream each month on some of our historic
and famous Porsche models. We’ve asked the 356
Tub Club, the Porsche 928 Club, and Porsche 914
owners to contribute articles about the happenings
in their clubs, as well. Porsche has an incredible
history, and the historic significance of each of these
models cannot be over-emphasized. Look for the
inaugural article on the 356 Tub Club in this issue!
Mav of the Month
As many of you know, our charitable effort is primarily focused
on supporting the HuffakerHughes Hope House in Mineral
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ALEXIS A. V. CAMPBELL, Proprietor
1235 William D. Tate Ave
Grapevine, TX 76051
Wells, which supports families in many of the
surrounding counties. For the past two years, that
effort has been headed-up by our Charity Chair,
Chris Hamilton. Thanks to her efforts, and your
very generous contributions of gently-used clothing,
bathroom supplies and Walmart gift cards, we have
been able to help provide support for the families
who desperately need our help throughout the year.
So for her many trips to the Hope Shelter, and her
work on drumming up support for
the home, we honor Chris this
month with our token of appreciation, Mav of the Month. Congratulations, Chris, and enjoy your gift
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President
John Hamilton
C-817-907-7823
[email protected]
Vice President
Gareth Maurice
C-817-821-2940
[email protected]
John enjoys DEs, Happy Hours, the
Porsche Parade, and other social events.
He and wife Chris have owned Porsches
since 1996 and joined the Club in 2002.
John’s Grandfather in New Jersey owned
a 1960 356B Coupe and later a 1965
356SC Cab which is how it got into his
blood.
POSITION
CHAIRPERSON
AX Chair
Travis Howard
TT Chair
Travis Howard
AX/TT Registrar Robyn Howard
AX/TT Rules
Charlie Davis
AX/TT Schools
Robyn Howard
AX/TT Tech Insp Position Open
AX/TT Workers
Robyn Howard
Charity Chair
Chris Hamilton
Club Race Co-Chair Jim Buckley
Club Race Co-Chair Pat Heptig
Club Race Co-Chair Joel Nannis
Club Race Registrar Wendy Shoffit
Concours Chair
Andy Kay
DE Chair
Chris Tabor
DE Chief Drvng Instr. John Sandusky
DE Equip. Mgr.
Luke Edson
DE Registrar
Wendy Shoffit
DE Safety
Bob Benson
DE Sponsorship
Daren Kirbo
Email List Moderator Bob Benson
Goodie Store
Pat Friend
Maverick Socials Paul and Veronica
Ramos
Histographer, Tenured Charlie Davis
Membership
Susan and Tom
Froehlich
On-line Calendar Brendan Eagan
Past President
Mike Brodigan
Public Relations
Linda Bambina
Slipstream
Advertising
Pat Friend
Editor
Carey Spreen
Event Ad Design Gareth Maurice
Mailing & Tech. Andy Mears
Printing
Fran Ussery
Content Wrangler Linda Bambina
Mentor
Wendy Shoffit
Social Chair
Tracy Robertson
Sunday Drives
John Harvey,
Brendan Eagan
Swap Meets
Robyn Howard
Tech Sessions
Ed Mullenix
Trivia Chair
Jerry DeFeo
Website
Denny Payne
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Gareth still remembers the cover of
the car magazine that drew him into a
lifetime of loving cars. He spent many
afternoons riding his bike as a young
kid to the local newsstand to buy and
read everything he could. He now
owns a Midnight Blue 911S and enjoys
driving it in wonderful Texas!
Secretary
Wendy Shoffit
C-972-977-9821
[email protected]
Wendy and husband James joined
Maverick Region in 1997, when
their daughter was only 9 months
old. Jasmine is now ~17. They own 3
Porsches including a 1978 911SC as
a dedicated racecar, which she enjoys
autocrossing. Her daily driver is a 2000
Boxster. She also serves as the PCA
National Newsletter Chair.
Treasurer
Jim Falgout
W-972-669-2370
C-972-345-3009
[email protected]
Jim joined Maverick Region in August,
2008. He drives a 2003 996, which is
the third Porsche he has owned. Jim
enjoys attending Maverick Region
social and driving events.
Linda Bambina
214-616-1936
[email protected]
Chris Hamilton
Keith Olcha
[email protected]
[email protected]
Bob Benson
817-457-8833
[email protected]
John Harvey
214-808-1414
[email protected]
[email protected]
Denny Payne
Mike Brodigan
817-233-0068
Robyn Howard
214-991-0873
[email protected]
Paul & Veronica Ramos
972 821-9333
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jim Buckley
[email protected]
Travis Howard
214-616-6152
[email protected]
Tracy Robertson
817-300-3340
[email protected]
[email protected]
Charlie Davis
[email protected]
Pat Heptig
214-649-7907
[email protected]
John Sandusky
817-777-0421
[email protected]
Jerry DeFeo
972-240-5800
[email protected]
Andy Kay
817-483-5258
[email protected]
James Shoffit
972-786-6246
[email protected]
Brendan Eagan
[email protected]
Daren Kirbo
254-396-2973
[email protected]
Wendy Shoffit
972-977-9821
[email protected]
[email protected]
Luke Edson
214.796.2241
[email protected]
Andy Mears
214-394-5857
[email protected]
Carey Spreen
817-422-3480
[email protected]
[email protected]
Pat Friend
214-616-2477
[email protected]
Ed Mullenix
972-231-5356
[email protected]
Chris Tabor
817-371-4888
[email protected]
Susan & Tom Froehlich
Joel Nannis
[email protected]
[email protected]
Fran Ussery
W-972-438-8344
H-817-481-8342
[email protected]
[email protected]
Please help us to keep growing!
Carey On...
By Carey Spreen, Managing Editor
February is the
shortest month
of the year, but
it is typically
when Maverick
Region shakes
off the winter
chill and cranks
up our series driving events.
The first Drivers' Ed event at
MotorSport Ranch takes place on
February 15 and 16. Registration
is already open, so sign up quickly,
because the first DE of the year fills
up fast. And while on the subject
of DEs, our new DE Chair, Chris
Tabor, has announced that we have
a new Sponsorship Chairperson,
Daren Kirbo. Daren joined PCA
in 2012 when he purchased a gray
997 Turbo. (I guess that makes
it the Kirbo Turbo!) Anyway,
Daren has already progressed to
the Blue run group (solo) and
hopes to become a DE instructor
one day. Please welcome Daren
when you see him at the track.
Our Autocross series returns to
Crandall at the Dallas Raceway
parking lot at the end of February,
and a week later is the second one
at Pennington Field in Bedford.
And for those of you interested in
learning more about autocrossing, this year's Autocross Academy
will be held later in the spring,
on Sunday, May 18. This is the
safest and least expensive way
to learn how your Porsche really performs, and is an excellent
introduction to our Autocross
and Time Trial programs.
Back to February though, and
what's in this issue of Slipstream. We
are kicking off a series of articles
that we call "Of Special Interest,"
highlighting many of the Porsche
special interest groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. This month we
feature the 356 Tub Club, and look
for articles in the coming months
about groups interested in 928s,
914s, and other Porsche models
that you may not know much about.
Linda Bambina's Garage Glimpses
series continues as well, as does a
fun column from longtime Porsche
Master Technician Cliff Blackshear
about practical jokes in the workplace. Our Tech Session Chair Ed
Mullenix and regular columnist
Ash Seidl-Staley both discuss various leaks and how to fix them. (It's
more entertaining than it sounds!)
Read on!
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Gimme a Minute: January Board Meeting
By Wendy Shoffit, Region Secretary
R
egion President John
Hamilton
began the January
8 board meeting
at 7:03 pm. He
welcomed several
guests, including
Dick Rogers, Hiram Saunders,
and Jacques & Kitty Krielen.
Now is the time for us to nominate
candidates for National Awards.
We opted out of Region of the
Year and Public Service Awards.
We would like to pursue either
Family of the Year or Enthusiast
of the Year for Travis Howard, our
2013 Selcer Award winner. If you
have other nomination suggestions, please sent them to John.
He mentioned that the Hope
Shelter Christmas party was a huge
success. Because of the generosity of Mavericks and sponsors, we
were able to give over $2400 in gift
cards to the guests and staff at the
shelter. See Chris Hamilton’s article
for all the details. Tracy Robertson
added that these gift cards were
in addition to the $3500 we raised
at the Founders’ Day Silent Auction. The shelter is very grateful!
Next, John introduced DE Chair,
Chris Tabor. He has been doing
his best to make improvements to
the program in the off-season. In
addition to securing $10K in greatly
needed UHF radios for the event
(see more about this below), he has
also been dealing with personnel
changes. One change was in the position of registrar. Joel Nannis has
done the job for the past six years
and has been an outstanding volunteer for far longer. There was nothing but love and respect for Joel as
he continues his PCA career, which
recently expanded to include being
a National Club Racing Scrutineer.
John then brought up our region
again possibly participating in a
PCA Club Race at Circuit of the
Americas (COTA) in Austin. While
last year the event was a success,
we didn’t make as much as we
thought we would. The cost of the
track has gone up substantially this
year. Lone Star and Hill Country
Regions are already on board for
2014 and wanted us as a third.
We discussed many of the issues,
including ways to save money,
increasing entrant fees, and changing the format to prevent track
time problems, etc. The financial
projection still remains that the
regions will make money, but we go
into it realizing that reality is always
different from projections. There
are many details yet to be worked
out, including obtaining new sponsors for the event, but the vote was
in favor of taking on the challenge
again. We will participate with several caveats, which John will bring
to David Gross, the event chair.
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Editor Carey Spreen was next
up. The January issue was slow
to reach mailboxes because of
the holidays. The February issue
is on track. He would like more
event chairs to post pictures of
their events online to our Flickr
account. He could then download
them for the printed version of
Slipstream AND include a link to
the online version to view them
all. He also mentioned his desire
to have more AX/TT pics. Travis
volunteered Robyn, in her absence.
Chris Tabor was next. He and
Bob Benson tested the UHF radios
before purchasing them. They
worked flawlessly in all areas of the
track. The new radios will be here
in time for the February 15-16 DE,
and they will be easier to charge
and transport. The old VHF radios
January 8, 2014
are available to other chairs in the
club, if desired, or they can be sold.
We have started advertising for the
February DE, for which Autobahn
is the sponsor. Darren Kirbo has
agreed to replace the retiring Keith
Olcha as the Sponsorship Chair.
Thanks go to KO for his great
service over the past years. Lastly,
Lone Star Region has approved our
using their document that nicely
details for entrants our instructors’ criteria for advancement.
Sunday Drive Chair John Harvey
has been brainstorming events
with his wife, BJ, and others. They
will work around the existing
driving event schedules and soon
come up with a plan. There will
be a mix of popular past drives
and some new drives. There’s sure
to be something for everyone.
Social Chair Tracy Robertson said
that the Holiday Party was a great
success, mostly due to our wonderful hosts, Lee and Linda Wilkins.
Approximately 100 people attended. She hopes to have a similar venue for 2014. Email your suggestions
for locations to [email protected].
Coming up on January 25 is the
All Member Party. It’s one of the
largest social events of the year,
in which event chairs attend to
talk about their areas. Guests
are welcome, particularly new
member recruits. Tracy requests
that everyone RSVP several days
in advance not only for the party,
but also for board meetings (the
room was a little crowded tonight). Husband David still had
Macan raffle tickets for sale.
Autocross/Time Trial Chair
Travis Howard let us know he
wouldn’t be at the All Member
Party. Sadly, he will be at the
Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is working to update the Autocross
Rules and Classifications to make sure new models
are included. He has a yearly schedule nearly
complete, with one conflict yet to resolve. He is
also working to get the final 2013 season results.
PR Chair Linda Bambina mentioned several notable
Maverick membership anniversaries, including Don
Spaulding (45 years) and Jack Griffin (25 years).
She has started a new Slipstream feature, “Garage
Glimpses.” Email her ([email protected]) if you have a
fabulous garage that you would like to be showcased.
Membership Chair Tom Froehlich reported that
we have 2270 members, a net gain of three from last
month. Stephanie Ho has been contacting new members to invite them to our monthly dinner socials. Tom
will be getting together a group to help call or email
non-renewals every month to improve those numbers.
VP Gareth Maurice has all insurance needs handled,
as well as all current Slipstream ads completed.
Concours Chair Andy Kay is ready for the upcoming
year. May at Mayo’s will happen, although as of this
writing, the date has not been confirmed due to a
possible conflict with the COTA Club Race. Maverick
Region will again participate in the Autos in the Park
continued on page 8
DECEMBER TRIVIA
It’s Easy to Play!
Play here for fun and education
and find the answers below
OR
Play for prizes on the web at
http://mav.pca.org, with the
answers and winners to be posted here
after each month’s contest has closed.
Thanks to Jerry DeFeo for putting this
and the Web Trivia together.
Congratulations to our December winner,
CYRIL REIF,
who got all five correct.
Cyril will receive a $25 gift certificate to
1.
Recently there was a survey question that asked, “Should Porsche
stick to Sports Cars?” What percentage of respondees said “YES”?
a. 44.44% b. 49.98% c. 53.85% 58.70%
Source: PCA E-BRAKE, Dec 3, 2013
2.
There is a new vehicle in the Porsche lineup called the Macan. It is a
compact SUV built off of another vehicle’s platform; which one?
a. Shortened Panamera b. VW Tiguan c. Audi Q5 d. VW Passat
Source: PCA E-BRAKE, Dec 3, 2013
3.
There are only two engines available initially in the Macan, both V-6s
of different displacements, known as the Macan S and the Macan
Turbo. What are the engine sizes?
a. 2.7L & 3.0L b. 2.8L & 3.2L c. 3.0L & 3.6L d. 3.0L & 4.0L
Source: PCA E-BRAKE, Dec 3, 2013
4.
The little SUV will only be available here with a PDK transmission,
but the Turbo model with the Sport Chrono package will run 0-60 in
_______ seconds?
a. 4.4 b. 4.8 c. 5.2 5.4
Source: PCA E-BRAKE, Dec 3, 2013
5.
But even the smaller-displacement S engine with less HP will run
0-60 in _______ seconds?
a. 5.0 b. 5.5 c. 5.8 d. 6.2
Source: PCA E-BRAKE, Dec 3, 2013
Answers: 1) a 2) c 3) c 4) a 5) a
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event at the Cooper Clinic on June
1. Andy is also looking at October
4 for a fall Concours d’Elegance
event. Stay tuned. He is encouraging the DFW 928 group to join PCA
and put aside a 15+ year-old issue.
Hiram Saunders will be working
with Linda Bambina and Andy
Mears to ensure changes are
made to the mailing database on
a regular basis. Some advertisers have long-old addresses.
Jacques Krielen (a 35-year PCA
member) was happy to be here.
He and wife Kitty live for six
months in the Netherlands and
the other six in Southlake (due
to visa regulations). He enjoys
Sunday Drives and hopes to be
more involved when he’s here.
New Monthly Dinner Social
Co-Chairs Paul and Veronica
Ramos have the January event
set and are looking for locations for the other 11 months.
Cancelled
8 February
Mike Farrar was very helpful in
the Chairperson transition, and
Stephanie Ho and Randy Csanadi
are helping a lot at the events.
The last item on the agenda was
back to John Hamilton for the Maverick of the Month. While nepotism
may have been at play, Chris Hamilton is latest choice as the Charity
Chair. She has well deserved this
recognition! Congratulations!
The meeting was adjourned at
approximately 9:00 pm.
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Destination Restoration: Pesky Oil Leaks
By Ash Seidl-Staley
W
ell the
time has
finally
come; the 914
has a visible oil
leak! It is hard
to say where and
when the leak
actually started. On one hand it
could have been a concoction of
nearly 40 years of use, combined
with the thinner oil that I had in
the car, paired with the heat of
summer, or on the other hand it
could have been those atrociously
destructive Plano roads. I am going
to go with the latter! I first noticed
the problem while I was with my
girlfriend Jenny on our way to
attend the Maverick Monthly Social
at Rio Mambo in Colleyville. We
were cruising down 121 when a
small wooden block appeared on
Photos by the Author
the road almost as if it came out of
another dimension. With not much
time to react, I swerved a little,
letting the block sweep under the
passenger half of my car. I don’t
know how familiar everyone is with
the undercarriage layout of a 914,
but mine has two little mud-flap
type things hanging down just past
the rear section of the floor pans.
I assumed that this flap would
provide sufficient protection and
deflect objects targeting the underbelly of my engine, but man was
I wrong. As soon as I lost sight of
the debris, I heard (and felt) loud
bangs and thumps as the block
flipped up and bounced around
my passenger side valve cover area.
Nothing happened immediately
after the incident; there wasn’t any
loss of power from the engine, oil
Typical 914 - no room to work!
pressure was still strong, and no
other warning lights flickered on. A
little shaken we continued on to the
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event. When we got out of the car at the Rio Mambo
parking lot we could smell and see smoke bellowing
out from under the back of the car as well as from the
engine deck lid. Shooting to the ground, I saw a fountain of oil gushing over my hot heat exchangers and
pooling on the pavement. I stayed with the car until it
didn’t look like the oil was flowing anymore and then
went into the Social Hour. I wasn’t going to miss out on
any PCA fun even if I did have car troubles, especially
since it was Jenny’s first time attending a PCA function!
In the weeks that followed I acquired a small steady
drip of oil coming from the passenger side of the
engine bay. The leak seemed to present itself while
the car was running and for a few minutes after it
had been shut off. The leak wasn’t terribly bad; it was
enough to place some cardboard under the car while
it was parked, but it never gushed out again like it did
at Rio Mambo. My first step in fixing the issue was to
find out exactly where the leak was coming from.
Shredded gasket
New cork gasket in place
wrapped in a rag so it wouldn’t scratch the valve
cover. Once the cover was off, I found what was left
of the previous gasket, and cleaned up all the excess
oil along the sealing surface. I had ordered a cork
gasket from Pelican Parts a few weeks before, so I had
all the parts I needed on hand. I cleaned the valve
cover, made sure it was straight and not blown out
on the corners, squirted some gasket seal where the
gasket was going to go, and set my gasket inside.
Five minutes later I had the cover back in position on
the engine. The only thing left was to get the spring
bar back in place. With some more time, copious
amounts of frustration and a little ingenuity it popped
into place. I finished my day with an oil change for the
car, a new oil filter, and a quick water-free car wash.
The 914 is again ready for the road. Well, at least until
the driver’s side valve cover gasket blows out.
The passenger side of the engine bay is home to the
oil cooler setup, the oil filter, exposed oil return tubes,
and the valve covers; all known to be possible causes
of a leak at some point. I grabbed a bucket, some
rags, and a bottle of degreaser, and began cleaning
underneath the car. When everything in the target
area was shiny metal, I hopped in the car and started
the engine. I walked around to the passenger side,
took my position on the floor, and looked for the
start of the leak, desperately hoping it wasn’t going
to be the oil cooler. Sure enough after a minute
of running the car, the leak appeared slowly seeping out the front lower corner of the valve cover.
Now that I had my location, the fix was really quite
simple. The hardest part was prying off and replacing the valve cover spring bar. I accomplished the
removal with the help of a large 24mm wrench
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Hope Shelter Christmas Party: It’s the Giving that is our Gift
By Chris Hamilton, Charity Chair
T
HANK
YOU
everyone,
for your generous
donations for
the HuffakerHughes Hope
House Christmas
Party. YOU give ALL year with
your generous hearts -- the gift
cards, Founders’ Day Silent Auction, and other contributions from
here, there, and everywhere.
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Photo Montage by Dave Frick
This year, fifteen Moms each
received $100 gift cards. The
eight dedicated office staff, as
well as ten teenagers, were ALL
presented with gift cards as well.
Thirty children were happy to
receive gifts from their wish list.
The Keesecker Family and Friends
performed a fun “Chicken Dance”
and many other exciting German
folk dances. Thank you, Jean Frick
and Rich Keesecker, for getting
the crowd in the spirit with some
favorite Christmas carols. Thank
you Dave Frick and Bill Middleton for helping share the spirit
of the season with our guests.
The students from Chisholm
Trail Intermediate School (from
the Keller Independent School
District in Fort Worth) gave
generous gifts of toothpaste,
toothbrushes, toys, and more.
Thanks again for your thoughtful
contributions to the Hope Shelter!
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Garage Glimpses: Rick Robinson’s Dream Come True
By Linda Bambina
L
Photos by Rick Robinson
ast month we visited Jack
Griffin’s over-the-top garage.
This month I wanted to interview someone with a more “normal”
garage space (actually it is a bit larger
than normal: 24 x 24 ft) that has been
organized and customized after 17
years of bare floor, bare studs, open
ceiling joists, and years of “stuff” that had accumulated
-- something that many more folks could identify with.
I met Rick and Becky Robinson at the very first
Maverick Region 50th Anniversary event in 2012 and
was immediately impressed with their energy, positive
thinking and an aspect of creativity that was hard to
explain. Later I discovered that Rick and Becky are
over-the-top party planners especially when it comes
to their Mega-Watt annual July 4th event on their six
acre home in Trenton, not too far from Bonham.
Rick re-purposed the garage cabinets from laminate
and aluminum-faced cabinets that came out of a commercial project demolition. (He has his own construction company called Quiet Mind Construction, Inc -you’ll have to ask him about the name sometime!) And
of course there is under-counter lighting. The pulldown air hose has an additional work light -- very nice.
The floor has three coats of marine industrial epoxy
floor paint with flakes and clear coat. Again: oh, so
nice. OH, and Becky bought a Porsche wall clock to
accompany Rick’s 46” flat panel TV with sound bar
and subwoofer (from their track trailer). Some racing
furniture was a welcome Christmas gift from Becky,
and they have been ordering some “garage art,”
including a neon 911 bar sign to finish things off. Life
is good and the “babies” now have a clean and neat
home! Congratulations on getting that Dream Garage
finished, Rick!
Rick is into DETAILS! For his garage project he
has installed additional outlets and has a dedicated
outlet from his air compressor. Of course the garage
is insulated and has been energy-sealed. The ceiling was closed with drywall, textured and painted.
James Hardie siding was used to close up the walls to
provide a durable wall surface. The attic was floored
and lighted for extra storage space. It gets pretty
cold up there in North Texas! But of course it gets
pretty dang HOT up there, too, so gee, how about
a two-ton a/c and heating unit! He didn’t forget to
put piped air lines into the wall and ceiling as well.
There are also sixteen 1 x 4 two-lamp T-8 recessed
fluorescents as well as MR16 adjustable down lights.
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Maverick Region Holiday Party:
By Michael Vatter
C
hristmas
time,
party time.
And here goes
another one.
“Honey, whose
Christmas Party
is this Saturday?
Oh, Maverick Club!” It’s at Lee
and Linda Wilkins’ house.
The weeks leading up to Christmas
feel like a part time job with all the
parties going on everywhere, and
depending on what line of work
you are in, it can become quite
challenging not to offend people
by not going to their events.
But as a committed member of
the Maverick Club, you go to the
Christmas party (unless you only
joined for the car stickers and
the magazines). So off to North
Dallas we go. Crestway Court? No
idea where that is, but we’ll find
it. But what a pleasant surprise
-- once we got there, somebody
had directed us straight to the
parking lot by putting up signs.
Outstanding, much appreciated.
A short walk and we arrive at the
house. Is this really the Maverick
Club or are we in the wrong spot?
No, we are right here, there is a
face I have seen before. It’s amaz-
Lee and Linda Wilkins
graciously opened up their home
for our 2013 Holiday Party
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Photos by Charlie Davis and Linda Bambina
ing how big this club is. Every time
we go somewhere we feel like it’s
our first time. Sometimes I think
the whole of Dallas is a member
of the Porsche Club with all the
new people you constantly meet.
Wow! We are not surprised that
the club chose this location. What
a beautiful house. Thank you
again, Lee and Linda, for inviting us into your home. I think
everybody appreciated the effort
you put in. Everything was beautifully decorated and prepared.
Don Sebert, 2013 Secretary Renee
Farinella, and Doug Koeppen
a subjective impression, but it
appears that Porsche people are
just a special breed. Down to
earth, open, and always friendly. I
remember attending another car
club’s event. Very different crowd.
I’m not going to say who it was,
but it rhymes with “Maguar.”
The hosts were even considerate
enough to supply us with outside
heating in form of gas burners so
our cigar-smoking friends could enjoy their goodies without freezing.
David Robertson and Social
Chair Tracy Robertson
Ok, the tour begins. Holy Moly,
I found my favorite room: the
garage. I have to convince my wife
that we need a garage exactly like
this one. I could have just spent
the entire evening there. Except
for the food of course. Maggiano’s
Little Italy catered the buffet, and
it was phenomenal. I especially
liked the cheese pile on the dining room table. For a moment I
wondered if I should just take it
home with me, but there were
just too many witnesses. Yummy.
As always, tons of really really nice people. Maybe it’s just
I could write much more about
this wonderful event but space is
limited and I don’t want to bore
the readers. One thing is for sure:
whoever plans and organizes
next year’s Christmas party has
some pretty big shoes to fill, and
I think I speak for every member
in attendance when I say:
“Linda and Lee, job well done. You
can be proud of yourselves.”
Former Parade Chair Jan
Michel with Monda Hanna
PCA National Club Race Chair
Bryan Henderson with Tenured
Histographer Charlie Davis
Jasmine Shoffit and mom,
Region Secretary Wendy Shoffit
Charity Chair Chris Hamilton and
former Parade Chair Teri Davis
Rick and Melanie Dyer
Tricia Henderson,
Club Race Co-Chair Jim
Buckley, and Stephanie Ho
Jasmine Shoffit and Geneva Spreen
AX/TT Chair Travis Howard, AX School
and Swap Meet Chair Robyn Howard, Club
Race Co-Chair Pat Heptig with wife Flossie,
and Club Race Co-Chair Joel Nannis
Past Region Presidents Fred
Seipp and James Shoffit
Erika Nannis and Myra Sutton
Christi and Matt Wilson
with Monthly Dinner Social
Co-Chair Paul Ramos
Michael and Susan Vatter, James
Shoffit, Jeff Wiggins, and Lee Wilkins
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17
Insurance Tips: Insuring a Classic Car
By Justin Husman, The Phoenix Insurance
Editor’s Note: Justin Husman is one of the principals
of The Phoenix Insurance,
an independent insurance
agency specializing in classic, custom, and exotic car
insurance. Justin has been in the insurance business for
a decade, and was awarded “Best of Dallas 2013” by D
magazine. Justin is on his second 944, and can generally be
found in and around car shows with his daughter in tow.
I
n our last column, we discussed how best to cover
either a daily-driver type Porsche, or a modern
weekend Porsche. Since Porsches have such a timeless design, and are as beautiful and desirable at 50
years old as they are brand new, there are a fair number of classic Porsches on the road. As an insurance
guy, I can’t tell you how much I cringe when I hear
“Oh, I never drive it, so I just put it on my policy when
I want to take it out”, or “Oh, I just have it on my regular auto policy.” Neither one of these is a good answer
for how you should best cover your classic Porsche.
First, I’ll address what I mean by “classic” Porsche:
for the purposes of our discussion, a classic Porsche is
anything older than 1998. Most insurance companies
consider a “classic” anything older than 25 years, but
there are some that will write a “classic” policy on a car
that’s only 15 years old. When you get in to a “classic” type policy, you generally get great coverage at a
fantastic price, mostly because of the limited miles that
come with a classic policy. The companies know that
you are not going to drive the hell out of your 1959
356, or commute in crappy weather, or text while you
drive, or even let yourself be surrounded by Tahoes.
They know that your classic is special, and that you
are going to make every effort to keep it that way.
So what is a classic policy? What does that mean?
A classic auto policy is a policy based on “agreed
value” of your car – up front, when you call my office, we determine what you want to insure your car
for. No, you don’t need an appraisal, because I have
a good idea how to value a car, as do the underwrit-
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ers. As long as you are in the reasonable range, we
are able to simply let you decide what dollar amount
you insure for. Now, if you tell me you have a 944
worth $600,000, I’m going to need some documentation on that, but otherwise it’s pretty simple.
Once we agree on the value of your car, we then
figure out how many miles you drive per year, and
purchase a policy accordingly. Just as an example, a
classic Porsche valued at $30,000 that is on a 1200
annual mileage plan would cost $204 a year. That is
a full-coverage policy with comprehensive and collision coverage with $0 deductible, roadside assistance,
and a guaranteed $30,000 payout if the vehicle is
totaled. No negotiation, no waiting with bated breath
to see what they will offer, just a simple process. It
is exceedingly rare to have a non-specialty policy
that has agreed value. At best, some companies offer “stated value” coverage, but that means that at
claims time, they will either pay the value you gave
them, or the actual cash value, whichever is less.
That’s not much better than a regular auto policy.
I do want to address the “I don’t drive it so I only
insure it when I do” folks. Lots of those people assume
that their car would be covered on their home policy,
should the house burn down, or whatever. That is
100% wrong. An automobile cannot be covered on a
home policy. Anyone that tells you different is wrong,
whether they are an insurance agent or not. Likewise,
if you put your classic car on for a week or two a year
and wreck it during one of those weeks, your insurance
company is not going to smile and write you a check.
There will be an investigation, lots of questions, and
even then, if they decide to pay you (which is entirely
up to them) you are going to be looking at the lowest
possible dollar for your payout. Why take silly risks like
that when there are policies available that will protect
you properly all year, and pay out what your car is
really worth if something happens? If you have a classic
Porsche, you owe it to yourself to take a serious look at
insuring it on a classic policy. It’s cheap, easy, and you
get to work with me. What could be better?
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Of Special Interest: The 356 Tub Club
By Linda Bambina
Photos by the Author
A
s most Porsche fans know, the
very first Porsche model was
the Typ 356. Even though the
last one rolled off the assembly line in
1965, there are still lots of 356s in existence, and lots of clubs around the
country and the world that celebrate
their existence. One of those clubs
is right here in the D/FW area: The 356 Tub Club.
The Tub Club began in 1988 “when a group of
356 Porsche enthusiasts, wanting to enjoy, maintain
or restore their Porsches, met at Zims Autotechnik in Bedford TX.” According to their website,
www.356tubclub.org, “Anyone with an interest
in Porsche 356s, or for that matter any Porscheengineered vehicle, is welcome.” Ownership is not
required. While the club has no formal organization,
constitution, or bylaws, it does have a President, as
well as three volunteers for Membership, Treasurer
and Communication. It is a very social and laid back
group for their approximately 100 members.
Their website lists activities for this coming year.
Generally, there are monthly breakfasts and several organized weekend tours to interesting places and roads.
Of course, there are local social events. Their calendar
also includes events such as the Porsche 356 Registry
Holidays, Hill Country Rallye, the Maverick Region
Swap Meet, and Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing.
The President of the 356 Tub Club, Jim Usher (who
is also a Maverick Region member), invites anyone
interested in this model to their annual “Service
Clinic at Zims in March for those who want to have
their 40+ year-old ride checked over by our technical
experts.” Contact Jim at 817-891-2989 for more info
on this club, composed of those “who enjoy good
company revolving around our beloved 356s!”
At a weekend stop on a tour to Utopia, TX
The 356 Tub Club has no affiliation with the Porsche
356 Registry, the Porsche Club of America 356 Register,
or the Maverick Region of PCA.
Editor’s note: If you are a member of a special-interest Porsche
group and would like to publicize it in Slipstream, please send
an email with the details to [email protected]
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The Tub Clubbers at a post-breakfast tour stop on Eagle Mountain Lake
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21
Cliff ’s Ramblings: Porsche Tech Pranks
By Cliff Blackshear
A
couple of
weeks ago,
at the end
of a work day, Tim
drives his truck
into the shop,
parks it, and runs
into the service
drive area. Parking in our shop late
in the day with multiple techs who
are still around finishing up is a big
mistake. Mark B. immediately grabs
a handful of tie wraps (long plastic
strips made for tying things down),
slides underneath the truck, and
straps them to the drive shaft. This
will produce a whack-whack-whack
noise as the ends of the straps slap
the bottom of the pick-up bed.
increases to a really loud level. The
brake lights come on and he stops,
then slowly backs up and comes
back into the shop. “Ya got me,” he
exclaims getting out of his truck. Of
course none of us own up to doing
it, and he has to crawl underneath
his vehicle and cut the straps off.
Next morning he calls one of the
guys and says “Man, my truck has a
horrible shimmy in the front, can
you maybe take a look at it for me?”
We finally own up to everything.
Meanwhile, Robert M has hightailed it to the tire mounting room
and grabbed nine ounces of wheel
weights, which he then applies to
the left front inside wheel. Tim
comes out and we all appear to be
busy with ending our day. As he
backs out of the shop, the whacking
noise is pretty loud. I don’t know
how he does not hear it; maybe he
is on the phone or has the radio on
at high volume. He backs out the
door and it auto-closes. I immediately run down there and go outside to watch him leave. He turns
to go out, applies a mild amount
of throttle, and the whacking noise
Soooooo, I posted a note on PPN
on the Aftersales Forum. This
forum is read and commented
on by technicians in all 250-plus
Porsche dealer workshops in the
US and Canada. I asked all the
techs to share pranks we have
all seen and/or participated in.
We are a pretty tight group, and
Porsche allows us to speak very
freely on a forum over which they
have complete control. Everything
routes through Germany before it
appears on our screens, and they
have never censored or taken issue
with us in any way. It sometimes can
be heated on this site, let me tell
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This is not unusual behavior in
an automotive repair workshop.
I started thinking about all the
pranks I have seen over the years,
and realized this would make for a
fun article to write for Slipstream.
you. It is interesting to say the least.
Anyway, the responses were amazing. I had never dreamed of some
of the stuff my colleagues replied
with. Some of the pranks I have
seen and even participated in,
but a number of them are things
I have never seen, and are quite
industrious undertakings.
• Pouring a few drops of oil
under a car on which a tech
has just completed an engine
overhaul, or a car on which
he just resealed something.
• Wiring an alarm siren to a
tech’s toolbox drawer, locating it in a very inaccessible
place,making it difficult to
turn off. This requires a connection to a power source and
adding a micro-switch, lots of
wiring, and an alarm horn.
• Connecting an alarm horn to
the brake light or turn signal
circuit.Wiring this in is not too
difficult or time consuming.
I have seen this many times.
• One tech wired a train horn
to a service writers desk.
It was activated when he
opened a drawer. This had to
be time consuming to do.
• Take a cap from an empty
one-gallon coolant container
and drill a hole in it. Epoxy
an air hose fitting into it.
Attach an air hose that has
no pressure on it, but which
is connected to an air outlet
with a shut-off valve, and put
the cap back on the container.
Place this assembly under a
car that a tech is working on,
and wait for him to twist the
key to start it. When he hits the
starter, you open the air valve
and the bottle explodes. Mind
you, this has a great impact
on a tech that has just fixed a
bad fuel leak; it is a very loud
explosive sound. This also
works well on someone operating a cabriolet top. The top
can make a loud noise when
one side works and the other
does not. This is the noise of
large metal framework shearing. Ask me how I know . . .
• Here is a good one. Decades
ago a tech worked at a shop
where they wore jump suits.
One guy there was a very large
man. They took his jumpsuits
from the dressing room and
tack-welded the zippers half
way up. When the big guy went
to pull them on, he ended
up falling to his knees. Then
he was somewhat perplexed
as to why all of his jumpsuits
had jammed zippers.
• The same tech let seven
psi out of a coworker’s left
rear tire every Friday. That
poor guy dismounted and
resealed that tire to the rim
multiple times before the
prank was finally revealed.
• Most Porsche dealers have
smoke-generating machines
that we use to track down
intake manifold or exhaust
system leaks; you pressurize a
system with smoke to find an
air leak. Well, that’s perfect for
putting under a car on which
a tech is doing major wire
repairs. He sees smoke right af-
ter energizing the burned circuit that he just diagnosed and
repaired. Talk about red-alert
battery disconnection by an
individual. This is good stuff!
• A tech starts an engine and
waits for it to warm up. He
goes off to the parts department or wherever. A fellow
tech runs over, shuts the
engine off, removes the wire
from temperature sensor,
and grounds it to the block.
This sends the temperature
gauge reading into the red.
Next, he pours a little coolant underneath the engine.
The unsuspecting tech comes
back to the car and sees an
engine that is so hot that it
has stalled and started losing
coolant. Had the symptoms
been real, they would have
indicated a catastrophic
engine failure. Good one!
• Find a vacuum connection on
the intake. Hook one end of
a hose to it, and put the other
end in a container of automatic transmission fluid. This
will produce clouds of smoke.
• This one I really like. Take a
rubber work glove and locate
it near a heat gun. Point the
gun towards a car on which a
tech is doing electrical work.
The smell is very similar to
burning wire insulation.
• One tech told a young, inexperienced parts counter guy to
call a local shop supplies company and order some squeegee
sharpeners, as theirs were no
longer doing a good job.
• One of my guys told me that
when he was in a high school
automotive shop class, there
was one character that truly
deserved to be pranked. So
one day they all grabbed him,
tied his hands behind his back
with duct tape, and hooked
the rear of his belt to an
engine hoist. They lifted him
up off the ground and pushed
him to the middle of the shop.
There he remained until the
instructor arrived at class.
• A tech got pranked by his parts
manager. The manager was
an avid fisherman, and put
a fish in the tech’s toolbox
drawer under the drawer
liner, then put all the tools
back on top of it. It took the
tech some time to determine
where the smell was coming
from. Payback? He ground up
the fish and placed it in the
parts guy’s heater vents. This
occurred in August. Ugghhhh.
• Place a mouse in an oil
filter box on the toolbox
of a tech who is deathly
afraid of rodents.
• Put anti-sieze compound or
grease on the underside of
toolbox drawer handles.
• Place an extra bolt on a
bench where an engine has
just been assembled. I have
seen this done in PCNA
engine repair classes.
• In a PCNA training facility class workshop, we once
programmed the alarms of
all of the 993s to a single
key head. The instructor
came in to move one of the
cars, hit the key remote,
and every car he was near
beeped. That was funny.
•
This is one of my favorites.
One guy wired the auto trunk
opener to the brake lights.
Every time the brakes were
applied, the trunk flew open.
Our world is different from most
work worlds. We have to be on-point
with diagnostics and repair procedures, and it can be a stressful place.
When we can, our release is to have
some fun. We love what we do.
Cheers!
23
I Get Around: I Hereby Resolve
By Dick Badler
D
o New
Year’s
Resolutions really matter? Interesting
question. They
certainly don’t,
if we don’t keep
them. So the important thing is to
make commitments that we will live
by. Resolutions that frame who we
are, what we believe in, what we’re
going to do. Otherwise, they’re just
words on a page . . . or in the ether.
That said, as the years go by, it
does get harder to write a list. I
think it has something to do with
our cumulative list of promises
kept . . . and not kept. But I don’t
care. I need the focus, and I’m
forging ahead. Here goes, the
resolutions for 2014 that I will live
up to or . . . or what? Whatever.
I resolve to not “diss” Porsche for
usury in their pricing of options.
Is Porsche worse than, say, Apple?
The reality is that they have developed product differentiation
and imagery to a level that is so
immutable that otherwise normal
people, usually sane and rational,
knowing full well that they’re
being ripped off -- big time -- are
still willing to pay with a smile.
So, more power to Porsche. If it
were an easy feat to achieve, everyone would do it. And, I assure
you, everyone would like to.
This reminds me of the Humphrey
Bogart quote. At the height of
his fame, an interviewer asked
him how he could justify an
unheard-of fee of $1 million per
picture, which was in real dollars, what, 10 times, maybe 50
times, what it is today. And he
answered, “Because I can get it.”
24 February
Courtesy High Gear, the Rocky Mountain Region Newsletter
I resolve to not see another film about I’ll educate myself on the ways of
racing for another five years, at least. the world. I’ll have plenty of time.
Because there won’t be any. As
much as we may have liked “Rush,”
if only for the racing footage,
the fact is that the film zipped in
and caromed out, after only a few
weekends at the local multiplex.
It may have done better overseas,
where the populace actually has
an interest in the sport, and knows
who the protagonists were. It
may have even made money, all
in, although we know that Hollywood is notorious for creative
accounting to make a point.
It doesn’t matter. The fact is that,
at least in this country, Formula 1 is
still a fringe sport, followed rabidly
by a minority that isn’t even that
vocal. Here’s an analogy: the joke
about NHL hockey is that there are
20,000 Ranger fans in New York
City, and they go to every game.
At least Formula 1 has company
in this country. America’s Cup
sailing. Rugby. Cricket. Soccer.
Wait a minute -- soccer? Yeah, it
belongs on the list. It’s been the
next sport in this country for at
least 20 years now. Or 30. Anybody
remember the old NY Cosmos?
By the same token, I resolve to
not criticize Formula 1 telecasts
for being lifeless, somnolent and
self-absorbed to the point of arcane irrelevance. No I won’t.
Instead, I’ll just plan accordingly.
I’ll pile up the Sunday newspapers
next to my remote control, beside
my comfy chair. I’ll prepare a
piping hot cup of joe and dig into
a few scrambled eggs. Sit back.
Turn the volume down and try
to guess the circuit the circus is
visiting that week and . . . during
the lulls between on-track passes,
And this will help; after breakfast
I’ll hoist my fully-priced Macbook
Air on my lap and call up You
Tube videos of in-car hot laps,
brazen bike vs. exotic banzai runs,
multi-car pile-ups, the sight and
sound of racing engines firing up.
I resolve to not buy a manu-matic
gearbox car this year.
This one is easy. I’m not planning
to buy a car this year, period. Now,
if I were, this resolution probably
would not be on my list. Because,
wow, with each passing year it’s
getting harder and harder to go
with a stick. When Porsche builds
a new GT3 and makes it available
solely with a PDK transmission, I
think it’s safe to say the footsteps
are getting louder and louder.
However, the good news this year
is that I can also resolve to not buy
a car with blind spot warning, lanedeparture warning, active cruise
control, predictive forward collision
warning, backup collision intervention or active lane-keeping control.
I resolve to not cancel any of my car
magazine subscriptions.
Boy, I’ve thought long and hard
on this one. When I last moved,
a year ago, I gave away all my old
issues of Road & Track and Car and
Driver. Like decades-worth. They
were all in boxes, gathering dust,
with multiple moving labels on
them, souvenirs from multiple relocations. I hadn’t cracked one open
in years. But technology had finally
caught up with me: back issues were
now all on-line. So my treasured
retirement annuity had, all of a sudden, lost all intrinsic value, except
maybe to an itinerant collector
with more storage space than me.
Nowadays I don’t devour the
mags like I used to. Most of the
feature stories I’ve already read
on-line, thanks to the publishers’
habit of pushing stories my way
by e-mail, way in advance of their
hard-copy publication dates. And
they’re just so repetitive. I really,
really don’t care to read the same
impressions of the latest whatever
from the same ride/drive event,
multiple times in multiple pubs.
So what am I doing, keeping the
subscriptions? It’s tradition, damn
it! It hurts me! The joy of opening a
full mailbox, of thumbing through,
of wiping ink off my fingers . . . of
. . . I don’t know! All I do know is
I’m not ready to go fully digital.
Although, some months it
looks like the magazines have
been mainlining too much SlimFast. If this keeps up, I may not
have to make a resolution on
car mag subscriptions at all.
parks, to be let out in the sunshine
for carefully scheduled monthly
sojourns around the block, to keep
the fluids flowing. Or for parades.
Or car shows. Or auctions, where
they’re swapped out for another
hulking behemoth with bad brakes.
I resolve to not rant and rave about
the pointlessness of collecting an- But, no. I resolve that, if it
floats your boat, so to speak, go
tique automobiles.
forth. Just, please, watch your
I will not mull over the ratio-
nale of paying a king’s ransom
for something that long ago
outlived its usefulness at the
intent for which it was created.
What do people do with them?
Most of the people I see with
classic cars, today, stuff them in
unmarked warehouses in industrial
mirrors and yield to passing
traffic when you’re actually out
and about, whenever that is.
Ok, that’s it. I resolve to have the
happiest of Happy New Years, and I
hope you do, as well. See you
‘round the bend.
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Tech Corner: Too Much of a Good Thing
By Ed Mullenix, Tech Session Chair
D
r. T has a
beautiful
blue ’99
Carrera that is now
on water pump #7.
Sadly, the water
pump on the Boxster, 996, and 997
cars is not the most reliable part of
the design. The life expectancy of
the water pump is unpredictable.
I have customers with well over
100K miles on their cars and they
still have the original pump. I also
have some that have had to replace
the pump at as little as 30K miles.
Dr. T’s car has around 60K miles at
present. Not nearly enough miles to
expect seven pump replacements.
His first pump replacement was
about five years ago at about 40K
miles. That pump lasted slightly
longer than a year. The number
three pump went about a year and
a half later. Dr. T. Decided to take
his Carrera to a different shop
when #3 started leaking. Pump #4
lasted less than a year, as well as #5.
The good Doctor brought his car
to my shop and was concerned
about its chronic water-pumpitis. I would have started looking for some anomaly with the
cooling system after the third
pump started leaking. True, the
pumps don’t last all that long,
but three in a year should have
caught someone’s attention.
Modern cooling systems use a 50%
mixture of anti-freeze and water to
protect the engine from not only
frigid temperatures but also to
improve the boil-over protection.
To further improve the boil-over
protection, the cooling system is
provided with a pressure cap (used
26 February
to be called a radiator cap when
it sat on top of the radiator).
In 1977, when Porsche introduced
the wildly popular 924, the pressure cap maintained one bar (14.5
psi) of pressure on the cooling
system. The pressure caps on the
current cars maintain 1.5 bar (22
psi). This pressure raises the boiling point of the coolant to about
265 degrees F. The components
of the cooling system, i.e., pump,
reservoir, and radiator, are designed to withstand that pressure.
The lonely pressure cap sits on
top of the coolant reservoir. It’s
pretty reliable and doesn’t get
much attention, and therein lies
the problem. When a car comes in
for servicing and the coolant level
is low, standard procedure is to
pressure test the system and look
for a leak. Apparently, many of my
colleages don’t test the pressure
caps. When I tested his pressure
cap it went to 50 psi, the max
pressure on my gauge. His pressure
cap never vented any pressure, so
excessive pressure would develop,
with the resultant pump leakage.
I am surprised that he didn’t have
other components fail as well.
Thinking that all was well and
I had cured the water pump issue, pump #6 that I just installed
started leaking; it didn’t even
make it out of the shop. No
pressure problems this time
-- just a pump that was made on
a Monday morning after Oktoberfest. I SO enjoy a challenge!
More Too Much of a Good Thing
Porsche recommends Mobil 1 synthetic oil be used in their engines.
The viscosity of factory-fill is 5W30,
an acceptable oil for most climates
and uses. Bring a Porsche to Texas
in August, take it to the track, and
see what happens to the oil pressure and ultimately, the engine.
Oil is a cushion that separates
the metal of the crankshaft from
the metal of the bearings. I like
to compare oil to one’s shoes. I
can walk barefoot on pavement.
I prefer to wear running shoes if
I am out running. I wear hiking
shoes when I go hunting. I don’t
run barefoot or in hiking shoes.
Bill, a 996 customer of mine who
suffered an engine failure a while
back, is keen on doing some of his
own maintenance. After the engine
rebuild, I recommended he use Valvoline VR-1 20W50 racing oil, since
he tracks the car a lot. The parts
store he goes to didn’t have VR-1
20W50, although they did have
VR-1 straight 50-weight. That’s the
oil he installed when he changed it.
The car performed great last winter and this past summer. This year
when it got cold, the 996 developed
a running problem. Bill lives in
Sherman, where it is usually ten
degrees or so colder than it is here.
I brought the car into the shop
and ran the test protocol. Nothing,
no component or sensor issues.
Great compression, ran great.
I left the car parked outside
overnight. The next morning when
I drove the car, it started up fine
and ran about a block when the
engine died. I had to wait about
a minute before it would restart.
It would crank over but would
not start unless I waited a minute.
Thinking it must be an intermittent
sensor issue that only manifested
when it was really cold, I replaced
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parked it outside again, but the next morning showed
the same result -- it died after driving about a block. If I
let the engine warm up a bit before driving, it ran fine.
Sitting in a chair in the shop, staring at the uncooperative 996, I pondered what it would be like to
be a lottery winner instead of a mechanic. Then I
had the “light bulb moment.” The M96 engine has
hydraulic valve lifters. It also has valve springs with
reduced tension (in order to improve fuel economy).
I called Bill and asked him what oil he used when he
changed it. He admitted to using the straight 50-weight
because he couldn’t get the 20W50. I changed the oil
in Bill’s 996, using 20W50. The problem went away.
With the straight 50-weight, the oil was so thick that
when it was cold, it would allow the lifters to hold the
valves off of the seats, with resultant compression loss
until the engine got warm and the oil thinned a bit.
I maintain some club racers and serious track cars
that use straight 50-weight oil. Those cars don’t sit
outside overnight so the 50-weight oil isn’t a problem.
Oil viscosity -- a little is good, more is better, but too
much is NOT just right!
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Panorama Special Section: Maverick Region featured 50 years ago
Images courtesy RJ Wilmoth, PCA National Historian
A
ccording to RJ Wilmoth, PCA National
Historian and long-time member of the
Longhorn Region (San Antonio area),
Porsche Panorama ran 35 “Special Sections” devoted to certain Regions, from 1961 to 1967. RJ was
kind enough to send a copy of the Special Section
from February 1964, featuring Maverick Region.
Presented here for your nostalgic enjoyment if
you were around 50 years ago, or perhaps for your
historical education if you weren’t around to experi-
ence 1964 personally, are images and articles from
that issue, written by Charter Members Jeff and
Alverne Horsfall, as well as “missed Charter Membership by one month” member Tom Clayton.
All three held offices in Maverick Region’s early years.
Jeff and Tom were Region President for two years
each, and Alverne was Region Secretary for three
years. Jeff also designed the Maverick Region logo that
we still use today. Enjoy!
continued on page 30
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New Wheels
By Susan and Tom Froehlich, Membership Co-Chairs
Anderson, Victor
(Mike Steed)
Grand Prairie, TX
1999 Boxster
Donaldson, Jill
Dallas, TX
1985 911
Dufresne, Henrik
Baczynski, Edmund (Peter) Arlington, TX
Weatherford, TX
1986 944
1996 993
Fonolla, Paul
Burk, Richard (Vicki)
Plano, TX
Plano, TX
2014 Carrera
2013 911
Goldberg, Bruce
Bustamante, Michael
Highland Park, TX
2013 911
Southlake, TX
2002 911
Hanson, Phil
Castro, Marci
Weatherford, TX
1983 944
Dallas, TX
2014 Carrera 4S
Havins, Wade
Dallas, TX
Cernicky, Andy (Stacey)
1995 911
Allen, TX
2013 911Carrera
Lane, David
Rockwall, TX
2013 Cayenne
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Members ~ 1,375
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Mann, Mav
(Winn Reese)
Alhambra, CA
1989 928
Okuda, Darin
Irving, TX
2005 911
Smith, Stuart
Garland, TX
2012 Cayenne
Marti, Al
Fort Worth, TX
2003 911
Mason, Dennis (Linda)
Denton, TX
2011 Carrera S
Methner, Mike
Cleburne, TX
1979 911SC
Moulton, Bruce
Flower Mound, TX
1998 993
Whaley, Mark
Frisco, TX
1997 993
Wilkerson, Lance (Kim)
Southlake, TX
2014 911 C4S
Young, Rusty
Dallas, TX
2014 Cayman S
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Flashing your high beams at
fellow Porsche drivers is a
time-honored tradition . . .
keep the flash alive!
Anniversaries
Spreen, Carey R.
Benning, James D.
35 Years
25 Years
20 Years
Meyer, Jim
Packer, Ian D.
Whitman, Richard B.
Gruber, Conrad
Wood, Benjamin J.
15 Years
Allen
Dallas
Plano
Dallas
Plano
Cartwright, Elroy P.
Peddicord, Paul I.
10 Years
Southlake
Dallas
5 Years
Amirkhan, Nelson
Brown, David N.
Looney, James D.
Nussbaumer, Bernard Lucien
Richardson, Doug
Robinson, Dick
Dallas
Keller
Dallas
Dallas
Dallas
Arlington
Dallas
Flower Mound
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