PCA OCR Autocross Extravaganza - PCA - Orange Coast Region
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March 2010<br />
In this issue...<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> <strong>Extravaganza</strong><br />
• From the Driver’s Seat<br />
• How Things Work
Editor<br />
Garey Cooper<br />
gareycooper@mac.com<br />
(714) 264-0530<br />
Production Director<br />
Maryann Marks<br />
mamsy1@yahoo.com<br />
714-315-7977<br />
www.pcaocr.org March 2010<br />
Inside this issue<br />
Features<br />
8 <strong>Autocross</strong> Results<br />
9 Family Fun Team Fullerton<br />
From the Driver’s Seat:<br />
13 Team Van Arsdale<br />
15 Vanderschuit<br />
16 Greg Lush<br />
29 Jonathan Gerber<br />
Advertising Director<br />
Ken Fredrickson<br />
fast.freddy@verizon.net<br />
(714) 962-3258<br />
Classified Ads Editor<br />
Bob Weber<br />
hbobw930@aol.com<br />
714-960-4981<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
Nicole Boggs<br />
Garey Cooper<br />
Evan Fullerton<br />
Jonathan Gerber<br />
Pamela Horton<br />
Greg Lush<br />
Rick VanArsdale<br />
Lisa Goetsh<br />
Contributing Photographers<br />
Nicole Boggs<br />
Garey Cooper<br />
Jonathan Gerber<br />
Pamela Horton<br />
Greg Lush<br />
Lisa Goetsh<br />
Father & Son Quality Time<br />
Don’t Make Me Come in There!<br />
Departments<br />
2 Calendar of Events<br />
4 Contacts<br />
4 Goodie Store<br />
5 Editor’s Notes<br />
6 Membership<br />
34 <strong>Autocross</strong> Corner<br />
30 Classifieds<br />
40 List of Advertisers<br />
18 Corner Work<br />
19 Course Design<br />
22 Pre Tech Inspection<br />
23 Chairs & Instructors<br />
25 What Class am I in?<br />
26 Ready, Set, Go!<br />
26 Finding El Toro<br />
Upcoming Events<br />
7 <strong>OCR</strong> March Photo Rally<br />
13 Walter’s Driving Events<br />
Schedule<br />
16 May Fun Rally<br />
19 Zone 8 Judging School<br />
24 March Rally<br />
34 Zone 8 Frestival of Speed<br />
37 Easter Tour<br />
37 Ladies Garden Tour<br />
40 New Member Round Up<br />
41 Paramount Ranch Tour (w/Grand<br />
Prix <strong>Region</strong>)<br />
On the Cover: This month is dedicated to <strong>Autocross</strong><br />
, it’s the <strong>Autocross</strong> <strong>Extravaganza</strong><br />
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MARCH 2010
MARCH<br />
1 Deadline for the April Pando<br />
6 Breakfast Club<br />
14 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
16 Board Meeting<br />
20 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
21 Spring Rally<br />
27 Walter’s Invitation/AutoX Instructor<br />
Training – ETF<br />
APRIL<br />
1 Deadline for the May Pando<br />
9-11 Zone 8 Speed Festival-AAA Speedway<br />
3 Breakfast Club<br />
4 Easter Day Tour<br />
16-18 Long Beach Grand Prix-Porsche Platz<br />
11 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
17 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
20 Board meeting<br />
24 New Member Roundup<br />
2009/2010 <strong>OCR</strong> Calendar of Events*<br />
19 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
20 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
JULY<br />
1 Deadline for the August Pando<br />
3-8 <strong>PCA</strong> Parade – St. Charles, IL<br />
10 Breakfast Club<br />
17 Summer Rally<br />
17 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
18 <strong>OCR</strong> Zone 8 <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
20 Board Meeting<br />
AUGUST<br />
1 Deadline for the September Pando<br />
7 Breakfast Club<br />
13-15 Monterey Historics – Laguna Seca<br />
15 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
21 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
17 Board Meeting<br />
tbd Hearts & Garages Tour<br />
30 Walter’s Invitation/AutoX Instructor<br />
Training El Toro<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
1 Deadline for the December Pando<br />
6 Breakfast Club<br />
tbd Bob Savic Wine Tour<br />
14 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
16 Board Meeting<br />
20 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
DECEMBER<br />
1 Deadline for the January Pando<br />
3 or 4 Holiday Party<br />
4 Breakfast Club<br />
4 Charity Toy Run tbd<br />
5 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
tbd Laguna Niguel Parade<br />
14 Board Meeting<br />
18 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
MAY<br />
1 Deadline for the June Pando<br />
1 Breakfast Club<br />
1 Ladies Garden Tour<br />
2 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
15 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
16 South County Rally<br />
18 Board Meeting<br />
24 AutoX Driver’s Education – Auto<br />
Club Speedway<br />
JUNE<br />
1 Deadline for the July Pando<br />
5 Breakfast Club<br />
12 <strong>OCR</strong> Zone 8 Porsches by the Sea<br />
Concours – Dana Poing<br />
15 Board Meeting<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
1 Deadline for the October Pando<br />
4 Breakfast Club<br />
12 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
18 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
21 Board Meeting<br />
25 AutoX Driver’s Education – Auto<br />
Club Speedway<br />
26 <strong>OCR</strong> Time Trial –Auto Club Speedway<br />
tbd Zone 8 Timeline – RR<br />
tbd Oktoberfest Tour – Lake Arrowhead<br />
OCTOBER<br />
1 Deadline for the November Pando<br />
2 Breakfast Club<br />
16 Krispy Kreme Gathering<br />
17 <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Autocross</strong> – ETF<br />
19 Board Meeting – 2009 Planning<br />
23-24 Overnight Rally<br />
The Krispy Kreme<br />
Gatherings meet<br />
about 8:30 a.m. at the<br />
Block of <strong>Orange</strong><br />
* Event dates<br />
subject to change.<br />
Note: Italicized text represents events<br />
outside of <strong>Orange</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Region</strong><br />
sponsored events. Links to Zone 8<br />
events can be found at www.Zone8.org.
President’s Message<br />
Story and Photo by Nicole Boggs<br />
AutoX Party<br />
“Khaki is Kool!” On Saturday January<br />
23, 36 <strong>OCR</strong> members came home with a<br />
prized championship khaki AutoX jacket.<br />
To my surprise, I too was one of the class<br />
winners. Now to win a jacket it is not<br />
just about one race, instead the jacket<br />
represents the entire AutoX season for<br />
2009. My jacket symbolizes more than<br />
a trophy; it is a year of improving my<br />
personal driving skills, the camaraderie<br />
of the participants and hours of fun in the<br />
sun.<br />
The camaraderie of the group is<br />
very unique; many of us are working on<br />
competing for our jackets, so you see<br />
a lot of the same faces every month. It<br />
is also a great excuse to spend quality<br />
time with your Porsche. I like the AutoX<br />
drivers because they give so much<br />
support in helping you to become a better<br />
driver. The amazing driving instructors<br />
not only spend every track session as a<br />
passenger in your run group, but they<br />
also encourage you to take a spin during<br />
their assigned lap times, helping to fine<br />
tune some of the details you might have<br />
missed on your own runs. Then there<br />
are also the guys and gals in the pits<br />
willing to lend you some air for your<br />
tires or even a spot under their shade<br />
canopy. This is worth gold during the<br />
hot summer months.<br />
The glue that really holds the group<br />
together are the AutoX leadership team<br />
and especially the two major men in the<br />
picture, Jim Harris and Bob Scheussler<br />
2009 Co-Chairs. Every month they<br />
helped develop a brand new course and<br />
created an award winning experience for<br />
our membership. The team puts in two<br />
extra days of preparation, at a minimum,<br />
with setting the track up on Saturday<br />
and meeting two weeks prior to the<br />
event to go over the details. It kind<br />
of reminds me of a touring theatre<br />
company. They move from city to<br />
city, yet each audience, no matter<br />
where the company is in their circuit,<br />
feels like the performance they are<br />
seeing is an intimate experience<br />
just for that one night. Our AutoX<br />
leadership team puts on a unique<br />
VIP event each and every month.<br />
I hope you enjoy this months<br />
issue featuring AutoX. If you did not<br />
get a chance to make it out to driver’s<br />
training in February, join us for one<br />
of our regular AutoX events. Trust<br />
me, you will have fun and you will<br />
have the entire AutoX team behind<br />
you to show you the ropes.<br />
See you on the track!<br />
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MARCH 2010
Contact Information<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Executive Board<br />
Zone 8 Chairs<br />
President<br />
Nicole Forrest Boggs<br />
714-633-2978<br />
993nicole@gmail.com<br />
Vice President<br />
Gordon Williams<br />
Surgicat@aol.com<br />
Secretary<br />
Larry Moore<br />
lbm993@cox.net<br />
Treasurer<br />
David Piper<br />
dpiper@socal.rr.com<br />
Membership Director<br />
Eric Budai<br />
epb89@sbcglobal.net<br />
Member at Large<br />
Peter Lech<br />
PeterLech@att.net<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Board Appointments<br />
Advertising Director<br />
Ken Fredrickson<br />
fast.freddy@verizon.net<br />
Advertising Coordinator<br />
Grace Fredrickson<br />
one.graceful@verizon.net<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong> Co-Chairs<br />
James Buck<br />
capeautorepair@sbcglobal.net<br />
Greg Lush<br />
greg.lush@thelincgroup.com<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong> Registration<br />
Christine Newcomer<br />
AutoXReg@sbcglobal.net<br />
Charity Director<br />
Vacant<br />
TBD<br />
Concours Director<br />
Dick De Rose<br />
traveler3@cox.net<br />
Goodie Store Manager<br />
Monica Asbury<br />
sheamonica@gmail.com<br />
Historian<br />
Judy Lech<br />
JudyLech@att.net<br />
Ladies Committee Liaison<br />
Maryann Marks<br />
mamsy1@yahoo.com<br />
Pando Editor<br />
Garey Cooper<br />
gareycooper@mac.com<br />
Pando Production Editor<br />
Maryann marks<br />
mamsy1@yahoo.com<br />
Pando Classified Ads Editor<br />
Bob Weber<br />
714-960-4981<br />
hbobw930@aol.com<br />
Pando Distribution Directors<br />
Norm & Linda Hollinger<br />
d.hollinger@att.net<br />
Rally Director<br />
Larry Moore<br />
beechnut60@cox.net<br />
Sponsorship Director<br />
Bob Scheussler<br />
bscheussler@gmail.com<br />
Tech Activities Director<br />
Cooper Boggs<br />
cooper.boggs@gmail.com<br />
Web Coordinator<br />
Bob Scheussler<br />
bscheussler@gmail.com<br />
Zone 8 Representative<br />
Michael Dolphin<br />
carrera3@msn.com<br />
Zone 8 <strong>Autocross</strong> Chair<br />
Neil Heimburge<br />
porschebadboy@cox.net<br />
Zone 8 Concours Chair<br />
Joe Nedza<br />
jcnedza@aol.com<br />
Zone 8 Club Race Coordinator<br />
Vince Knauf<br />
vvvince@aol.com<br />
Zone 8 Driving Instructor,<br />
Time Trial & Drivers Ed Chair<br />
Paul Young<br />
pdyoung@cox.net<br />
Zone 8 Rally Chair<br />
Tom Gould<br />
tcg3@aol.com<br />
Zone 8 <strong>Region</strong><br />
Coordinator<br />
Gary Peterson<br />
gary.peterson@hrh.<br />
com<br />
Zone 8 Rules Coordinator<br />
Tom Brown<br />
tb911@adelphia.net<br />
Zone 8 Treasurer<br />
Linda Cobarrubias<br />
MS993@aol.com<br />
Got a suggestion?<br />
Need a question answered?<br />
Just want to vent?<br />
Zone 8 Webmaster<br />
Ken Short<br />
webmaster@zone8.org<br />
This email will go straight to the board of directors:<br />
opinionspcaocr@gmail.com<br />
Let us know what’s on your mind and we<br />
will share it at the next board meeting.<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Board Meetings<br />
All members are welcome to<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Board Meetings, held on the third<br />
Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm.<br />
Location is at Euromasters Classic Cars<br />
18370 Pacific Street, Fountain Valley.<br />
We thank them for their support.
Editor’s Notes<br />
Story by Garey Cooper, Editor<br />
Wings N’ Things<br />
As the frost falls off the pumpkin the<br />
sunlight in Southern California begins to<br />
melt away the winter gray. High up in the<br />
<strong>Orange</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> tower the landscape vistas<br />
from our wrap around executive suite<br />
windows reveal an awakening landscape,<br />
Here and there some plucky little plant<br />
puts its tendrils through a crack in the<br />
sidewalk... and Porsches start to play.<br />
The Play’s the Thing!<br />
Oh, and are we going to play in 2010.<br />
Just in April alone I count no less than 8<br />
events and I’m sure I am missing some<br />
of them. Starting on the 4th we have the<br />
semi-traditional “Easter Tour”, we used<br />
to call this the “Pagan Tour” however<br />
that was extremely politically incorrect<br />
and aren’t we so proper and all? This is<br />
always a pleasant day in your Porsche if<br />
you don’t plan on hunting Easter Eggs.<br />
On the 9th through the 11th is<br />
the annual <strong>PCA</strong> Festival of Speed at<br />
California Speedway. This is a multi-day<br />
series with genuine <strong>PCA</strong> Club Racing,<br />
something we don’t get that much of<br />
on the West <strong>Coast</strong>. Included are vendor<br />
areas and a chance to see some very<br />
serious, and sometimes not so serious,<br />
Porsches. If you can volunteer, you will<br />
get in more or less for free and get a tee<br />
shirt to boot.<br />
Then the 17th is our Long Beach<br />
Grand Prix, this year it features the<br />
combined Indy Car and former “Champ<br />
Car” series. This is genuine street racing<br />
and it is very exciting to watch these<br />
excellent drivers try to herd out and out<br />
race cars through the narrow streets of<br />
Long Beach. Long Beach yet, if you can<br />
imagine it. When I was growing up we<br />
referred to Long Beach as the “Seacoast<br />
of Iowa” so this town has come a long<br />
ways, assisted by the sound of unbridled<br />
race cars once per year. This is even<br />
though I still wish it were a Formula 1<br />
race.<br />
And don’t forget Krispi Kreme, our<br />
alternative to the Breakfast Club every<br />
month, right around about the middle,<br />
what the Romans used to call The Ides.<br />
Hey, anyone seen Julius Ceasar lately?<br />
“Fast Freddie” Fredrickson started this<br />
some years ago and it is a more relaxed<br />
version of the Breakfast Club, no<br />
speeches just donuts. In April it’s on the<br />
17th. Go to the Krispy Kreme gathering<br />
then get on the 22 Freeway and watch the<br />
race that afternoon, that’s a day indeed.<br />
We have a New Member Roundup<br />
scheduled on the 24th. This is the event<br />
where we specifically invite our new<br />
(Continued on Page 12)<br />
Continued on pg. 33)<br />
MARCH 2010
<strong>OCR</strong> Membership<br />
Anniversaries [5 years or more]<br />
41 years<br />
Leslie Gunnarson<br />
36 years<br />
Thomas Shubin & Jill Shubin<br />
30 years<br />
Fred Tilker & Ingrid Tilker<br />
29 years<br />
Roger Grago & Terrie Grago<br />
27 years<br />
Michael Gugert & Kimberly Gugert<br />
25 years<br />
John Dilger<br />
Sylvia Salenius<br />
24 years<br />
Leonard Davis & Jack Davis<br />
22 years<br />
Rick Norquist & Sharon Norquist<br />
Tom Coffey<br />
Paula Graham<br />
21 years<br />
Shinji Saeki & Maho Saeki<br />
David Hall & Vicki Hall<br />
20 years<br />
Greg Ford & Mary Ford<br />
Wayne Aschenbeck & Mary<br />
Aschenbeck<br />
17 years<br />
Robert Clucas & Cheri Clucas<br />
16 years<br />
Werner Puttner & Asta Puttner<br />
Terry Winfrey<br />
Bill Gibson<br />
15 years<br />
Gary Blakeney & Susan Blakeney<br />
14 years<br />
Robert Music & Nancy Music<br />
13 years<br />
Christopher Casler<br />
Nick Clemence<br />
Gerard Murray & Linda Murray<br />
John Meeks & Barbara Meeks<br />
Ed Tanaka<br />
12 years<br />
Donald Holthe & Patricia Holthe<br />
Mario Torres & Josefina Torres<br />
Martin Kendrick & Janice Kendrick<br />
Glen Nelson & Kathy Nelson<br />
Robin Sun<br />
11 years<br />
John Lotz & Michelle Lotz<br />
Michael Kunz<br />
Bill Kling<br />
Dave Humphreys<br />
Larry Slonim<br />
Jim Mahoney<br />
Scott Keller & Chris Keller<br />
Jeffrey Simonds & Kate Armstrong<br />
Simonds<br />
Kip Waterhouse & Drew Waterhouse<br />
Sonny Vo & Kieu Vo<br />
10 years<br />
Lawrence Ross & Donna Ross<br />
Pierre Bonnet & Preston Bonnet<br />
Stephen Porter<br />
Rebecca Martinez<br />
Jack Davidson & Lynne Davidson<br />
Darrin Schellin & Katherine Schellin<br />
Bruce Gorman<br />
9 years<br />
William Garrett & Pam Garrett<br />
Edward Godlewski & Elaine Godlewski<br />
Craig Oka<br />
Jeanine French<br />
8 years<br />
Patricia Taylor<br />
Charles Gazarek & Marielena Gazarek<br />
Peter Helton<br />
William Anast & Laurie Anast<br />
Stephen Yeoh<br />
Jason Flores<br />
Jerome Muno & Melody Muno<br />
7 years<br />
James Westphal<br />
John Wally & Xanne Wally<br />
Daniel Rocha<br />
Brian Cammaressi<br />
David Partono & Sanitri Partono<br />
Hanny Hassieb & Tarek Hassieb<br />
Walter Straub & Carol Straub<br />
Brent Spirlin & Aimee Spirlin<br />
Craig Fox & S. Fox<br />
6 years<br />
Michael Zarkades &<br />
Lisa Alley-Zarkades<br />
Benjamin Jung<br />
Daniel Reese & Christopher Reese<br />
Chet Sobotka<br />
Jonathan Abed<br />
Manish Dutta<br />
Greg Scott & Tim Scott<br />
Larry Stanley & Kathy Stanley<br />
New Members and Transfers<br />
John Bergeron<br />
Laguna Niguel/1967 911<br />
Ernesto Caponera & Grace Caponera<br />
Newport <strong>Coast</strong>/2006 Boxster<br />
Rob Crossan & Rebecca Crossan<br />
Los Alamitos/1994 968<br />
Wayne Davis & Debbie Davis<br />
Rancho Santa Margarita/2000 996<br />
Transfer from Cal-Inland <strong>Region</strong><br />
Marcel Dhont<br />
Fullerton/2006 Carrera 4S<br />
Robert S. Florey<br />
Woodland Hills/1984 911<br />
Transfer from LA <strong>Region</strong><br />
Juan Gutierrez & LuzMaria Estala<br />
Anaheim/1991 911<br />
Gregory Hauter<br />
Anaheim/2007 911<br />
Christian Jagusch & Julia Laquer<br />
Huntington Beach/1995 911<br />
Murray Macy<br />
Tustin/2010 Carrera<br />
Steve McDowell<br />
Irvine/1985 911<br />
Moe Mistry & Robin Mistry<br />
Aliso Viejo/2010 Cayenne<br />
Mike Pennington & Barbara Pennington<br />
Rancho Cucamonga/2010 GT3<br />
Eric Schroeder<br />
Seal Beach/2000 Carrera<br />
Barbara Sladeck & Jim Sladeck<br />
Foothill Ranch/2009 911<br />
Richard Stonehouse & John Stonehouse<br />
Newport Beach/1996 993<br />
Eric Swindeman<br />
Huntington Beach/1987 Carrera<br />
• General Membership Info<br />
• Where is my Pando?<br />
• They spelled my<br />
NAME wrong!<br />
• Potential Member Referrals<br />
Membership Questions?<br />
• Change of Address / Car<br />
/ Phone<br />
• Joining <strong>PCA</strong>/<strong>OCR</strong><br />
• Intra<strong>Region</strong> Transfers<br />
Contact: PETER LECH at (714) 992-1337<br />
or<br />
PeterLech@att.net
Save This Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Photo Rally –Remembering Benito<br />
What is required of you? Follow the route, find the photo objects,<br />
answer the dumb questions, interpret the symbols,<br />
avoid the lost competitors going the other way.<br />
“Es no problema,” Benito would say!<br />
This will be a sort-of-scenic drive through central <strong>Orange</strong> County.<br />
The route instructions will offer some challenge (7th grade IQ recommended).<br />
Estimated driving time is 3 hours and the total event should wrap by 1:30 pm<br />
Begin and End at Steelhead Brewery, Irvine (adj. to UCI)<br />
Registration opens @ 8:00AM and the event fee is $10.00 per car.<br />
Driver’s Meeting @ 8:30 am with the First Car Out @ 8:45.<br />
50% of the net proceeds go to the Club and 50% go to the WINNER<br />
(Winner prize estimated at $100+)<br />
Immediately following the February Breakfast, there will be a short pre-rally orientation by our<br />
Rallymeister, I.B.Lostagain. To allow the restaurant to plan service, please RSVP to the Rallymeister<br />
Larry Moore at lbm993@cox.net or by phone to 949-760-0789.<br />
MARCH 2010
<strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> 2009 Auto Cross Results<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> 2009 AX Results<br />
Class First Place Second Place Third Place<br />
944 Spec Chris Barrington<br />
AI<br />
Evan Fullerton<br />
AM<br />
Robert Keele<br />
AR1<br />
Morgan Trotter<br />
AS<br />
Jerry Muno<br />
CP<br />
Joseph West<br />
FI David Palmquist Christian Van Fleet Rod Taylor<br />
FIL<br />
Patricia Lynn Taylor<br />
FP Jeremy Cottrell Fred Tilker<br />
HI<br />
Bruce Witkin<br />
HP<br />
Kevin Fullerton<br />
II James Buck Bob Scheussler<br />
IIL<br />
Lisa Goetsch<br />
IP Jerry Griffin Kent Verderico<br />
IS Derek Whitacre Robert Goya<br />
IS/S Ken Fredrickson Cooper Boggs<br />
IS/SL<br />
Grace Fredrickson<br />
JP Kris Scheussler Yoichi Matsuda Bob Florey<br />
JPL<br />
Karin Scheussler<br />
JS/S Rick Neff Dennis Neff<br />
JS/SL<br />
Carolyn Neff<br />
KS<br />
Chuck Bartolon<br />
MI<br />
Gerry Kokoszka<br />
MS Hideki Okano Roger Ang Akira Kogawa<br />
MS/S Kyle Largent Guy Johnson<br />
MS/SL<br />
Bonnie Delgado<br />
NP Bob Nimtz Richard Stonehouse<br />
NS<br />
Tim Cox<br />
NS/S Adam Nguyen Christine Newcomer Brian Vaniman<br />
NS/SL<br />
Nicole Boggs<br />
OS Ed McRae George Pappagelis<br />
OS/S<br />
Tony Paine<br />
OS/SL<br />
Katherine Weir<br />
PP<br />
Randy Gates<br />
PS<br />
Jonathan Levey<br />
PS/S Greg Lush Jeremy Bernath Jan Weir<br />
PS/SL<br />
Pamela Horton<br />
QP<br />
Steve Eguina<br />
QS/S Mark Trewartha Brian Fawks<br />
X Steve Abbott Rad Delgado Attila Szilagyi
Family Fun Team Fullerton<br />
Story by Kevin Fullerton<br />
TEAM FULLERTON and IOPPD<br />
(Impulsive Old Porsche Purchase<br />
Disorder)<br />
As I entered the fast sweeping left turn<br />
at the December ‘06, <strong>PCA</strong>/<strong>OCR</strong> El<br />
Toro autocross, my thought was focused<br />
on placing the right front fender of my<br />
red 912E Porsche within an inch of<br />
the outside marker cone while audibly<br />
chanting to myself, “Stay off the brakes,<br />
Stay off the brakes”. Ten minutes earlier,<br />
on my first timed run of the day, I had<br />
entered the same turn with about a foot<br />
clearance from this cone only to exit in a<br />
spectacular spin that ended with the car<br />
stalled in the dirt between the El Toro<br />
runways. The spin ride-out procedure<br />
is termed “both feet in”. I clearly<br />
remember moving my right foot to the<br />
brake pedal and consciously directing<br />
my left foot to the clutch pedal; however,<br />
the left foot was otherwise occupied<br />
bracing against the force of the spin and<br />
would not respond in time. As I exited<br />
this corner on my second timed run<br />
with all four tires howling, the car well<br />
composed, and on to my best run time of<br />
the day, I vividly re-learned a powerful<br />
lesson about using all available track<br />
surface in fast turns. The lesson this<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> autocross taught me about smootharced<br />
fast lines through a corner is one<br />
of the most vividly remembered lessons<br />
of my life. Comparable only to vivid<br />
memories from my youth of lessons in<br />
timing and judgment painfully acquired<br />
while surfing in large waves. While I<br />
am still not the smoothest driver at slow<br />
speeds, memories of big spins focus my<br />
attention and smooth out my steering<br />
inputs at high speed.<br />
My wife Britt and son Evan are<br />
largely responsible for my involvement<br />
with <strong>PCA</strong> autocrossing. When Evan was<br />
nearly 12 years old, Britt suggested that<br />
he should have a home-school auto shop<br />
project. That was all the encouragement<br />
I needed. At that time, I had endured<br />
fourteen years without a Porsche. Two<br />
Evan & Kevin Fullerton working on their 993<br />
weeks after the birth of our first child,<br />
Claire, I had sold the ‘64 356 SC Porsche<br />
that I had bought soon after graduating<br />
from college. For Evan’s 112th birthday,<br />
a derelict white 1975 Porsche 914 arrived<br />
at our house on a trailer. Since it is<br />
difficult to have a 914 without a second<br />
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“parts car”, a white ‘74 914 also soon<br />
found its way to our house. When not<br />
disassembling both cars Evan read, and<br />
as far as we can tell largely committed<br />
to memory, most every historical and<br />
technical article available on Porsches.<br />
While I have been somewhat of a car guy<br />
from childhood, being strongly drawn<br />
to the simplicity, purposeful design and<br />
engineering of old Porsches, it became<br />
apparent from an early age that Evan was<br />
a hopeless car nut. Anything fast, loud,<br />
and shiny and he would be enthralled.<br />
As a teenager, I sustained a succession<br />
of injuries from racing and crashing<br />
motorcycles and decided early-on that<br />
I needed a plan that would help entice<br />
Evan away from riding motorcycles.<br />
As Evan’s 16th birthday approached<br />
and we neared the completion of his 914<br />
restoration, we stumbled across the <strong>PCA</strong><br />
<strong>OCR</strong> autocross registration web page<br />
while searching the internet. From the<br />
first <strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> autocross we attended,<br />
we were hooked. Evan’s 914 handled as<br />
lively as a go-cart and had us both grinning<br />
as we hurled ourselves around the twisty<br />
course. The <strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> autocross events<br />
are well organized, more so than some<br />
of the other organization open track day<br />
events that we had attended. El Toro<br />
is a safe venue for driving events with<br />
a spectacular amount of asphalt and<br />
concrete relatively free of walls, curbs,<br />
fences or other sudden stop hazards. I<br />
am one of the few people that I know to<br />
have spun sufficiently hard enough to<br />
end up in the dirt actually off the runway<br />
at El Toro.<br />
I like racing as much as the next<br />
guy does, maybe more; however, Evan<br />
really likes it. He soon started on a<br />
seemingly endless quest of coaxing more<br />
performance from his 914. Significantly,<br />
improving the performance of Porsches<br />
most often proves an expensive<br />
undertaking and Evan’s experience<br />
substantiates this. In three years of<br />
autocrossing, his relentless pursuit of<br />
speed and quicker lap times has resulted<br />
in three engine rebuilds, five exhaust<br />
systems, three changes in springs, five<br />
sets of wheels, and countless hours of<br />
tuning and tweaking. Evan funds his car<br />
projects from his part time job as a boat<br />
valet at the Cannery Restaurant. He can<br />
truly claim ownership of the line “80%<br />
percent of my money I’ve spent on fast<br />
cars and women, the rest I have wasted”.<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> autocrossing has even<br />
influenced Evan’s choice of colleges and<br />
majors. He chose to attend a college<br />
close to home so that he could continue<br />
competing in local <strong>PCA</strong> events.<br />
After our first autocross, we<br />
mistakenly assumed that driving a 34-<br />
year-old car to the limit at autocrosses<br />
would be very hard on the car and we<br />
started the search for an inexpensive old<br />
Porsche for Evan’s mother, Britt, and I<br />
to autocross. I ran across a Guards red<br />
1976 912E that a <strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong> member<br />
had parked in her back yard six years<br />
earlier when she could not get it to pass<br />
a smog check. After changing all the<br />
fluids and searching wrecking yards all<br />
over California for the missing smog<br />
parts, we were able to pass a smog test<br />
and the 912E was on its way to autocross<br />
glory. For those unfamiliar with the<br />
912E, it was a one-year-only Porsche<br />
of which 2,099 were built by putting the<br />
remaining 914 four-cylinder, essentially<br />
hot-rodded VW-bus motors, into the<br />
911 chassis. It is arguably the highest<br />
weight-per-horsepower ratio and the<br />
slowest accelerating Porsche built since<br />
the late 1950’s - still it has plenty of<br />
potential on tight autocross courses. If<br />
one is an average driver, not inherently<br />
gifted with supernatural smoothness and<br />
exceptional seat-of-the-pants judgment,<br />
then a couple hundred extra horsepower<br />
makes getting around a tight twisty<br />
course that much more complicated.<br />
However, competing in the same class<br />
as a stock 2.0 Liter 914 with the 912E’s<br />
400-pound weight disadvantage poses a<br />
significant challenge; the 912E driver’s<br />
only recourse is to out-drive the 914<br />
driver.<br />
The originator of the GM Corvette,<br />
Zora Arkus-Duntov, best described how<br />
to drive these low powered momentum<br />
cars in an article after winning his class<br />
in the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans in a<br />
1.l-liter Porsche 550 Spider. “We were<br />
applying driving techniques developed<br />
in the days of our youth on journeys with<br />
our mother…. The fundamentals are:<br />
The coaching of mother into a false sense<br />
of security and exclusion of violent fore<br />
and aft or sideways acceleration. This<br />
means limited usage of brakes, extensive<br />
use of all available road space, guts in a<br />
tight knot, and treatment of steering as a<br />
fragile tender flower.”<br />
Unlike Evan’s 914, the autocross<br />
modifications of the 912E have been<br />
minor: sticky tires, a few suspension<br />
modifications to help keep all four wheels<br />
on the ground in a turn, and fabrication<br />
of a custom set of J-tube exhaust pipes<br />
(I really love car projects that involve a<br />
welder). This car now has 175,000 miles<br />
on it, has mostly been my daily driver,<br />
remains nearly stock, is great fun to<br />
drive through the twisties, and has been<br />
remarkably reliable. All this and it cost<br />
about the price of a set of performance<br />
shock absorbers for a new Porsche.<br />
Here comes the cautionary part of this<br />
tale: Beware of the quest for continuous<br />
improvement in lower lap times – it<br />
has been known to cause otherwise<br />
logical and frugal persons to spend like<br />
drunken sailors only to achieve modest<br />
improvements in lap time. It is always<br />
cheaper to focus on improving the driver<br />
instead of the car. The conventional<br />
wisdom is that two autocross cars being<br />
equal, with one driver 10% better than the<br />
other is, it will take a 40% improvement<br />
in the car to equal the 10% better driver’s<br />
times.<br />
One of the best things about <strong>PCA</strong><br />
<strong>OCR</strong> autocross is that every month<br />
course designers Dave Palmquist and<br />
Attila Szilagyi setup an interesting and<br />
challenging new course. They create a<br />
new puzzle for drivers to figure out while<br />
averaging over 50 miles per hour. Every<br />
few months they set up what gets termed a<br />
“Corvette course” by the drivers of lower<br />
powered cars. This is when courses have<br />
about a 1/8 mile drag strip in the middle<br />
of the course. After two seasons of Britt<br />
and I campaigning the 912E, the need<br />
for more acceleration on the “Corvette<br />
courses”, my desire for another garage<br />
project and the encouragement of Evan<br />
overcame my better judgment and I<br />
bought a rough white 1975 911S Porsche<br />
without an engine. After six months of<br />
10 At the start
working weekends, it roared to life with<br />
a surprisingly strong restored Pick-a-Part<br />
3.0-liter Porsche engine. At over twice<br />
the cost of the 912E the white 911S on<br />
comparable tires, with Kevin driving,<br />
comes in roughly 2 seconds a lap faster<br />
on the average autocross course than<br />
the 912E. As a testament to the validity<br />
of the Bench Racing Index, the 911S<br />
typically corrects out about the same as<br />
the 912E would have. Evan argues that<br />
the difference in the bellow of the 3.0 liter<br />
flat-six at 7000 rpm redline as compared<br />
to the 2.0 liter 912E exhaust note is worth<br />
every penny. Not to be outdone in the<br />
dollars spent for no gain in Bench Racing<br />
Index results, Evan has sold his 914 and<br />
purchased a 993 RSR clone track car<br />
(yes, also not running and missing major<br />
components at the time of purchase). At<br />
this point in the tale, another problem<br />
is becoming apparent. It would appear<br />
that Team Fullerton have a demonstrated<br />
weakness for Porsches that do not<br />
actually run - all promise and potential<br />
but with lots of work required. This<br />
malady has been identified as Impulsive<br />
Old Porsche Purchase Disorder or<br />
IOPPD. Britt claims that one member of<br />
Team Fullerton cannot be happy without<br />
a project in the planning stages. Saving<br />
old Porsches from the junkyard with<br />
strategic infusions of actual junkyard<br />
parts seems to bring out the best in<br />
these old cars on the track. They tend to<br />
perform better than the sum of their old<br />
parts would predict. In addition, they<br />
have been great driving teachers, never<br />
shy about swatting the driver when he<br />
over does it.<br />
For the record, three of the six<br />
Porsches we have purchased actually<br />
reached our garage after purchase under<br />
their own power - barely. This, after<br />
all being <strong>Orange</strong> County and a Porsche<br />
Club, there is always some motivation to<br />
spruce-up these old cars before bringing<br />
them out to compete. It is not uncommon<br />
for someone to show up at a <strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong><br />
autocross in a car that cost more than our<br />
house did. Neither Evan nor I actually<br />
like doing paint and bodywork on cars so<br />
this work mostly falls to the senior team<br />
member to get done. Here is a word of<br />
advice for fathers contemplating a father<br />
and son/daughter car project. It is highly<br />
unlikely to be a 50/50 venture in time or<br />
money. However, time spent learning,<br />
strategizing, working with, being<br />
friends and competitors with your child,<br />
and watching them gain competence<br />
and confidence in their skills is worth<br />
something. Besides, with <strong>PCA</strong> <strong>OCR</strong><br />
autocrosses being scheduled monthly,<br />
someone in the team needs to be fairly<br />
compulsive about actually getting the<br />
projects done. A compulsive approach<br />
to getting projects completed on<br />
schedule is not typically a strong point<br />
of teenagers.<br />
A friend who has never owned a<br />
Porsche and competes in SCCA events<br />
once said that the best thing about<br />
owning a Porsche is being able to drive<br />
in <strong>PCA</strong> events. Even considering Team<br />
Fullerton’s ongoing Impulsive Old<br />
Porsche Purchase Disorder problem and<br />
our potential need for a professional<br />
intervention, I have to agree with him.<br />
We’ll see you at the track.<br />
Kevin Fullerton<br />
(Co<br />
MARCH 2010 11
Editor’s Notes<br />
(Continued from Page 5)<br />
members to in order to give them an<br />
acquaintance with all of their Porsche<br />
Club activities. It’s a very laid back<br />
affair with great food and some Porsche<br />
bench talk. If you’re new, or sort of<br />
new, plan to join us and meet the Board<br />
Members in person. If you ask nice, you<br />
might even be invited to the executive<br />
suite, although it’s not likely.<br />
I’m saving a fun one for last, that<br />
is the combined GPX and <strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Region</strong><br />
tour to Paramount Ranch. A few months<br />
back I asked if anyone even knew what<br />
an OSCA was to write me and tell<br />
me. Well, the redoubtable Mr. Marty<br />
Goldsmith, of the Grand Prix <strong>Region</strong>,<br />
wrote to tell me that not only did he<br />
know of the OSCA name but that he had<br />
pictures! You see OSCA’s used to race<br />
at Paramount Ranch back in the day and<br />
Marty knew about them. I’m going to go<br />
up with the group and nose around the<br />
old farm looking for some history.<br />
Is that a Board Meeting or a bored<br />
Meeting? Every month your <strong>Orange</strong><br />
<strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Region</strong> Board of Directors (that’s<br />
a lot of capitals isn’t it?) meets to discuss<br />
the planning and events in the upcoming<br />
months. Lately we’ve been meeting at<br />
our sponsor Euromasters and this is the<br />
coolest place. Lots of Porsches around<br />
and a restoration shop right on premises.<br />
So, if the Board Meeting stretches on too<br />
long you can go and ogle the machinery,<br />
and even buy something! President<br />
Nicole does a fine job of herding us into<br />
some semblance of order. Come on by<br />
and watch us in action. Also take a look<br />
around the shop while you’re there.<br />
Crunch!<br />
Well some Philistine ran into the back of<br />
my 2007 Audi Q7 on the 22 Freeway a<br />
few weeks ago in the rain. I am just now<br />
remembering the fun of getting out of my<br />
car and taking the information in the rain,<br />
ah life. Poor old SUV was deranged in the<br />
derriere and needed bodywork to regain<br />
her aplomb. I called our sponsor Anaheim<br />
Hills Auto Collision (not collusion by the<br />
way like my last typo!) and drove on<br />
over. They are pros and did the job, even<br />
handling some of the communication<br />
with the other guys insurance company<br />
which had to pay…to bad for them. My<br />
Audi is back and is again one fine truck,<br />
although my son calls it the “girlie SUV”,<br />
he drives a Navigator.<br />
It has Cup Holders!<br />
Well, I have to tell the news somehow.<br />
I’ve just purchased a new to me 2007<br />
GT3. This is the time to buy something<br />
that is for sure, bargains are out there in<br />
this economy. So here in my garage is<br />
a white with black rims GT3. It’s loud,<br />
brash, completely incapable of subtlety,<br />
and it’s mine. Hooha! Now I need to<br />
learn to drive this little critter, hello<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong>. Working name for my new<br />
ride is “Blanche”. P.S. it truly does have<br />
cup holders no kidding, in a GT3 yet. See<br />
you around in 2010, say hello.<br />
12
Team Van Arsdale: Four Generations<br />
of Family Fun Story by Rick Van Arsdale<br />
Rick and Allison Van Arsdale<br />
It seems like tub Porsches have always<br />
been a part of our lives. My wife, Phyllis,<br />
learned to drive in a 356 Coupe that her<br />
Dad bought (new) in 1955. While I was<br />
still in high school, my dad, Bob, took a<br />
job in Viet Nam and left his 6 year old<br />
coupe with me. Porsches were relatively<br />
inexpensive then, and more reliable and<br />
economical than anything coming out of<br />
Detroit. My uncle had one, my brother<br />
would get one and our neighbors in<br />
Whittier had two. And they belonged to<br />
a club that ran slaloms.<br />
By the time Bob returned from Viet<br />
Nam, his car had Konis, Blue Streaks,<br />
velocity stacks, aircraft seatbelts, a<br />
stinger (open exhaust) and negative 3.5<br />
degree rear wheel camber. When he<br />
bought a Pontiac and upon graduation,<br />
the Porsche was mine.<br />
Our car club was a member of the<br />
Southern California Council of Sports<br />
Car Clubs (sick, sick), so we ran almost<br />
every weekend. Other members of the<br />
council that sponsored events were the<br />
Corvette Owners Club, The Alfa Club,<br />
The Cobra Owners Assoc. and many<br />
others. Our club, the Mestizos, was more<br />
social with a mixture of Vettes, Healeys,<br />
MGs, Porsches, an NSU, and an Elva.<br />
In 1967, the Army helped me decide<br />
on accepting a position with the US<br />
<strong>Coast</strong> Guard. Bob drove the car only<br />
occasionally for the two years I was in<br />
Alaska. I took the car with me for the<br />
next two years, to Puerto Rico, and the<br />
US Virgin Islands. Bob and I drove the<br />
car to Miami and shipped it to San Juan.<br />
When Phyllis and I married in Charlotte<br />
Amalie the Porsche, still slalom prepared,<br />
became her daily driver. I should point<br />
out that American interests in the<br />
Caribbean were never attacked while I<br />
was on duty. We sold the car there, for<br />
$900 before returning to California.<br />
Twenty some years later, Phyllis<br />
and I were in St. Thomas on our way to<br />
the British Virgins. I placed a classified<br />
ad for anyone with information about<br />
the first and only, at the time, Porsche<br />
on the island of St. Thomas. I’d like<br />
to report that the car is alive and well<br />
and being enjoyed by an enthusiastic<br />
owner, but we got no response. The<br />
salt air and lack of replacement parts<br />
probably took their toll.<br />
We were still thinking of our<br />
356 when a friend from Mestizo days<br />
called to say he was prepping a 356 for<br />
vintage racing and could we get a car<br />
and join him. Kids were gone, college<br />
was paid for, YES we could, but we<br />
had to find the right car. This meant a<br />
car that was in such poor condition that<br />
it had no possibility of being restored<br />
2010 Walter’s Porsche Driving Events Schedule (subject to change)<br />
2010 Tentative <strong>Autocross</strong> Dates:<br />
Feb. 20 Drivers Clinic / Evo School July 18 AutoX 6<br />
Feb. 21 AutoX 1 Aug. 15 AutoX 7<br />
March 14 AutoX 2 Sept. 12 AutoX 8<br />
April 11 AutoX 3 Oct. 17 AutoX 9<br />
May 2 AutoX 4 Nov. 14 AutoX 10<br />
June 20 AutoX 5 Dec. 5 AutoX 11<br />
2010 Tentative Drivers Education and Zone 8 Time Trial Dates: (NEW! In 2010 <strong>OCR</strong><br />
will be holding Drivers Education events and a Time Trial event in conjunction with<br />
the other 5 or 6 Zone 8 and DE and Time Trial events.)<br />
May 23 – Zone 8 Drivers Education – Auto Club Speedway<br />
Sept. 25 – Zone 8 Drivers Education – Auto Club Speedway<br />
Sept. 26 – Zone 8 Time Trial – Auto Club Speedway<br />
(Continued on Page 15)<br />
MARCH 2010 13
From the Driver’s Seat<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong>ing<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong>...It’s a fun sport and yet, like<br />
any other sport, to get better and keep<br />
improving you need to practice, practice,<br />
practice. In Autox it’s Seat time, Seat<br />
time.<br />
Time is also well spent as a passenger.<br />
Autox is such a visual sport that you<br />
can learn quite a bit just by riding with<br />
different instructors and watching their<br />
techniques. Our club has some of the<br />
best drivers in the country and I highly<br />
recommend taking advantage of riding<br />
with them. Also, don’t be shy; invite<br />
them to ride with you. I still do this all<br />
the time - it’s a blast. You can also sign<br />
up for various driving schools. If at your<br />
first few Autox’s you don’t do as well as<br />
you would like, don’t be discouraged. I<br />
came in dead last in my first two events,<br />
but I had a big grin going the whole<br />
time. Especially, the time I spun my<br />
3800 lb. Benz.<br />
When I tell my friends about the sport<br />
it’s difficult to explain the exhilaration of<br />
the experience, you just can’t experience<br />
anything like it on the street. The Autox<br />
event is safe and the car control you learn<br />
will make you a better, safer driver. You<br />
will also find out what your car is really<br />
capable of and it’s a blast! I sometimes<br />
say it’s analogous to your car living in<br />
captivity and then Autox is its chance to<br />
experience the freedom of what it was<br />
truly made for.<br />
I have a great time instructing. It’s<br />
a blast sharing and watching people<br />
improve. It’s even more fun when two<br />
friends are out for the first time having<br />
a little friendly inter-competition. One<br />
of the things I try to pass along to new<br />
drivers, after going over the usual safety<br />
issues, hand positions, smooth driving,<br />
shifting points, and tire pressures (often<br />
they are very high), is the all important<br />
late apex. I focus first on giving a visual<br />
picture of a late apex. I explain how on<br />
the back of a big semi truck there is often<br />
a sticker saying “ makes wide turns”, and<br />
then I use this as example of how to “late<br />
apex”. On most courses you will take<br />
the majority of turns as a late apex. The<br />
early apex is when you almost hit the<br />
curb and end up still turning well past it.<br />
Story by Mr. Vanderschuit<br />
If you practice this on the street you will<br />
never hit a curb again.<br />
This sport like many others has a<br />
lot to do with anticipating or rather how<br />
early you start anticipating. The further<br />
you can look ahead, the easier and slower<br />
the track will come at you. This takes<br />
practice, as the eyes want to constantly<br />
drift downwards. I stress that the less you<br />
are reacting to a course the smoother and<br />
faster you will be. Next I try to help with<br />
setting up and remembering important<br />
breaking points. This is also be a difficult<br />
task for a novice, as the track can appear<br />
to just be a sea of cones and learning to<br />
pick a reference can be difficult (we all<br />
get lost sometimes). Focus on “Fast to<br />
each corner” but then “Slow in and Fast<br />
out”. (I recommend trying to get two<br />
course walks in). Also, I stress just stay<br />
relaxed and have fun. The relax part<br />
may not happen the first time. In fact,<br />
recently, I have had the opportunity of<br />
driving a very fast car, code named red<br />
fiat. I have to say that several times I<br />
myself would come off a lap not too<br />
relaxed, mainly caused by reacting and<br />
not anticipating.<br />
A great lap for me is one in which I<br />
drive quite relaxed, I have a good visual<br />
memory of the course, and a smooth flow<br />
of early anticipating - while keeping the<br />
car at it’s limits. Basically, not driven<br />
too consciously but rather more subconsciously.<br />
In other sports, it’s called<br />
“being in the zone”.<br />
I also highly recommend driving as<br />
many different cars as possible. You can<br />
really get a feel for car balance, handling,<br />
and how each car has to be driven. Last<br />
year my car was out almost the whole<br />
session and I had<br />
the pleasure of<br />
driving four or five<br />
different cars. Each<br />
one had it’s quirks,<br />
some were very<br />
prepped and some<br />
bone stock. A codriver<br />
is another<br />
great way to learn<br />
and one of the most<br />
enjoyable ways<br />
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to improve! Bonus, it’s a competition<br />
within a competition.<br />
What I enjoy about Autox is that<br />
there is always the challenge of learning<br />
more. Be it about driving techniques,<br />
car set-up (a topic in itself) or new ways<br />
to communicate and help new drivers<br />
progress (I might suggest the instructors<br />
do a quick round table at an event and pass<br />
along some of their tips or techniques).<br />
Not to forget to mention, we also have<br />
excellent course designers with a great<br />
big lot, enabling them to design some<br />
very challenging courses. And last but<br />
not least, hanging out with the club and<br />
it’s great group of people!<br />
Disclaimer: Warning this sport can<br />
be addicting. When’s the next fix, I<br />
mean Autox?<br />
Team Van Arsedale (Continued from Page 13)<br />
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James Buck, Jack Staggs and Jim<br />
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of our race car that slowly took shape<br />
in the image of a factory GSGT. Bob,<br />
Phyllis and our sons, all drive the car and<br />
I drove it with my high school friend at<br />
Fontana last summer.<br />
Our oldest grand daughter, Alison,<br />
is now the fourth generation driver and<br />
at 16, she drove with James Buck at an<br />
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events before leaving for college in<br />
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El Toro dates around Baylor class breaks.<br />
Her 15 year old brother, Matthew, has<br />
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soon as he gets a license. AutoXing is<br />
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Volunteerism: The Root of Community FUN<br />
Story and photo by Greg Lush, 2010<br />
AutoX Co-Chair<br />
November 2007 will be remembered<br />
as one of those un-forgettable days, the<br />
day of my first autocross. I had waited<br />
and dreamed of owning a Porsche all<br />
of my life, and finally, a couple months<br />
earlier, my dream had come true. Now<br />
that I was past the break in period on my<br />
car, it was time to really use my car the<br />
way it was intended; straighten corners<br />
at the highest possible speed. My life is<br />
normally really consumed by family and<br />
career with a little time to ride my bikes<br />
and ski. However, in my adult life I had<br />
never engaged in any type of club sport.<br />
The first several times out to AutoX<br />
were a bit overwhelming, yet I listened<br />
and started to get to know the wonderful<br />
group of folks running and participating<br />
in these fun events. As I am sure many<br />
of you can identify, when you really<br />
start to love doing something you want<br />
to put everything into it, help where you<br />
can and extract every bit of joy out of<br />
each moment. In 2008 I found myself<br />
helping out wherever I could, yet still<br />
focusing mostly on driving and learning<br />
the ropes.<br />
Towards the end of 2008 I knew<br />
that this AutoX thing was something that<br />
I would like to contribute more to, on a<br />
different level. Initially, I approached<br />
Jim Harris and expressed my interest<br />
in potentially taking over his role, as<br />
he would retire at the end of the 2009<br />
season. Jim took me under his wing and<br />
started sharing information and process<br />
on how the events ran on site and the<br />
significant amount of coordination which<br />
occurs during the month, before and<br />
after the events. Here I was thinking,<br />
cool I can contribute and leverage my<br />
organizational skills within a monthly<br />
activity that I really enjoy, what could be<br />
better than that? Well, I was hit with a<br />
bit of a curve ball when, at the second<br />
event of 2009, Jim had a need to fill the<br />
Equipment Manager job (the person<br />
responsible for loading and unloading<br />
the U-haul at each event). Of course,<br />
committed to volunteering for the sake<br />
of the program, I gladly accepted the<br />
position and worked my butt off the<br />
remainder of 2009. When I look back<br />
on the Equipment Manager experience,<br />
it really was not that bad. Although the<br />
work was pretty hard, there were always<br />
a lot of folks around to help out. This<br />
experience really taught me that many<br />
of us share a similar perspective on<br />
volunteerism; it is the root of community<br />
fun!<br />
Looking ahead to 2010, I am excited<br />
to be working with the entire AutoX<br />
2010 team and especially my co-chair<br />
James Buck. The combination of a great<br />
team and fantastic participants equals<br />
another exceptional year of AutoX. Sign<br />
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How Things Work:<br />
Corner Work<br />
Story and photo by Kyle Largent<br />
It’s 5:45AM on Sunday morning. Most<br />
people, including my wife, won’t be<br />
getting up for hours. Not me, I’m<br />
juiced. After a quick breakfast, because<br />
McDonald’s won’t be open for another<br />
30 minutes, it’s a brisk drive to El Toro.<br />
It’s important to get to El Toro early to<br />
get through Tech. After Tech inspection<br />
I head for registration and the best job on<br />
the <strong>Autocross</strong> team – coordinating the<br />
corner workers. Why is it the best job?<br />
Everyone has the same objective – drive<br />
better and faster. I get to meet everyone<br />
at least 2 or 3 times during the next 11<br />
hours. It’s a great experience because<br />
I have gotten to meet and get to know<br />
more members in the past 6+ months<br />
than in anything else I could have done.<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong> brings out many interesting<br />
people.<br />
During registration nearly everyone<br />
gets assigned to corner work. The club<br />
rule is that every participant must<br />
complete their corner work assignment<br />
or no timed runs. This is the first place I<br />
get to greet everyone. Many people just<br />
take their assignment and go back to their<br />
cars. A few lobby for quiet corners with<br />
minimal cone chasing. Some even ask<br />
me to assign their son, daughter or wife<br />
to busy corners: “they’re young, make<br />
‘em run”. I try to accommodate requests<br />
as much as possible, but sometimes I<br />
haven’t seen the course yet. Thanks to<br />
Attila Szilagyi and others, the course<br />
changes each time and that keeps things<br />
interesting. Nobody really knows which<br />
corners are the toughest until the first<br />
cars start to run.<br />
After the track walk and the drivers’<br />
meeting, the autocross driving action<br />
begins. In preparation, the first group<br />
heads out to their respective corners.<br />
This is my second chance to interact<br />
with the members. Another benefit of<br />
coordinating corner workers is that I get<br />
to go on the course “to check on them”,<br />
and that is the third time I get to connect<br />
with individual members. The truth is: I<br />
appreciate what the corner workers are<br />
doing and try to get around to each one<br />
to have a quick conversation and thank<br />
them.<br />
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Coordinating corner workers keeps<br />
me pretty busy, and going out onto the<br />
course is an opportunity to look and<br />
learn. The corner workers are great about<br />
sharing their observations. They notice<br />
when drivers are having problems with<br />
specific corners – braking late or carrying<br />
too much speed into a turn.<br />
By the end of the day I will have<br />
repeated the check-in procedure 6 times<br />
and made several laps of the course on<br />
one of the club’s bikes. The day goes<br />
quickly and is interspersed with many<br />
quick conversations, several laughs and<br />
12 exciting laps. Coordinating the corner<br />
workers is the best job on the autocross<br />
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How Things Work:<br />
Course Design<br />
Story and photo by Attila Szilagyi<br />
The Fine Art of AutoX Course Design<br />
I’d like to tell you that I have a very<br />
detailed and precise process for designing<br />
an AutoX course… but that just isn’t the<br />
case. There is no magic to it, but there are<br />
several things I consider.<br />
We have a large range of experience<br />
levels and many different types of cars<br />
at our events, so it is important for each<br />
course to offer something for everyone.<br />
A course that is lined all the way around<br />
with closely spaced cones will be easy<br />
to navigate for newer drivers, but will<br />
feel too confined and not demanding<br />
enough for experienced drivers. Too<br />
few cones, on the other hand, can result<br />
in newer drivers easily getting lost on<br />
course, which can get frustrating and<br />
be dangerous. In my course designs, I<br />
try to find a balance between these two<br />
extremes. I want to use enough cones so<br />
that the course can be easily followed for<br />
most drivers, but also leave the course<br />
open enough so that there are many<br />
different lines that can be driven. All<br />
drivers will find their way through the<br />
course without too much trouble, but<br />
finding the fastest driving line through<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong> Photos<br />
the course will be a challenge… even for<br />
the most experienced drivers.<br />
Balancing the course design for the<br />
many different models of cars we have<br />
at events is also a challenge. There needs<br />
to be a good balance between tighter<br />
and more open sections, so that certain<br />
types of cars do not have significant<br />
advantages over others. A potentially<br />
advantageous section of a course (and<br />
possibly unfair, depending on your car)<br />
could be a very slow corner followed<br />
by a long straightaway. All cars will<br />
have to slow down to make it through<br />
the slow corner, but afterwards higher<br />
horsepower cars will have an advantage<br />
because they will be able to accelerate<br />
down the straightaway quickly. A well<br />
balanced course results in a light,<br />
relatively low horsepower car being<br />
able to run similar times to a heavier<br />
higher horsepower car.<br />
Now, I am not the most creative<br />
person so coming up with a design<br />
that meets these requirements and is<br />
different from the previous courses<br />
can be a bit difficult. That is one of the<br />
reasons I volunteered to help design<br />
courses; I am always interested in a<br />
new challenge. When designing a<br />
course, I start with a print out of the<br />
site that I can draw on. I usually have<br />
some type of specific corner or feature<br />
in mind ahead of time that I want to<br />
include. Something like a certain type<br />
of sweeper or series of corners. The<br />
idea for that feature usually comes from<br />
something similar in another AutoX<br />
course I’ve seen, a race track or on rare<br />
occasions a moment of creativity. Once<br />
I have this feature drawn in place it<br />
usually determines quite a lot about how<br />
the course will look, especially with the<br />
relatively confined runways at El Toro.<br />
At that point I know the direction of the<br />
course, roughly where the start/finish<br />
will be and approximately where the<br />
rest of the course needs to run in order to<br />
reach the desired length.<br />
After some doodling, a first draft<br />
Track Design<br />
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Future Students<br />
Trophies for the Victors<br />
Ready to Rumble!<br />
Drivers Meeting<br />
Steve Equina coaching Karin Scheussler<br />
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How Things Work:<br />
PreTech Inspection<br />
Pre-Event Technical Inspection<br />
for <strong>Autocross</strong>/DE Driving Events<br />
Morning Tech Inspection<br />
The Club has established an optional<br />
program for Drivers to get their cars<br />
‘Pre-Teched’ prior to driving events.<br />
We strongly encourage all drivers to<br />
have their cars checked out, or ‘Pre-<br />
Teched’, prior to AutoCross/DE/Track<br />
Even Concourse die-hards love autocrossing<br />
events. These events may be at out of<br />
town tracks and ‘Pre-Tech’ could avoid a<br />
mechanical failure on the road hundreds<br />
of miles away from home or at the event.<br />
Additionally, every car must pass a<br />
Technical Inspection prior to Registration<br />
so getting your car ‘Pre-Teched’ prior to<br />
the event should avoid any Technical<br />
Inspection issues at the event that could<br />
potentially prevent driving your car.<br />
Cars can be ‘Pre-Teched’ anytime<br />
after their last event but not more<br />
than thirty days prior to an event. We<br />
recommend getting your car ‘Pre-Teched’<br />
at one of the stations listed below that<br />
support our driving events.<br />
• Walter’s Automotive Group<br />
• Autowerkes<br />
• Cape Auto Repair<br />
• GMG – Global Motorsports<br />
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• Hergesheimer Motorsports<br />
• Stuttgart Performance<br />
• Vision Motorsports, Inc.<br />
Please remember that these<br />
businesses are providing this service<br />
at no-cost, as a courtesy to <strong>OCR</strong> club<br />
members. Contact your station of choice<br />
and book an appointment in advance.<br />
Many businesses are busy the week<br />
before an event preparing customer cars,<br />
so don’t wait until the last minute.<br />
Once you have registered for the<br />
event, print a Pre-Tech form and bring<br />
it with you to the appointment at the<br />
Inspection Station. They will perform<br />
the specified inspections, sign and stamp<br />
the form. If the completed Pre-Inspection<br />
form is presented at the check-in table,<br />
no further Technical Inspection will<br />
be required at the event. Directions/<br />
Information on these stations is available<br />
on the autocross forum.<br />
22
How Things Work:<br />
Chairs and Instructors<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Driving Program - Chair Positions<br />
The New Year is in full swing, and our region’s autocross season is headed for another great year. Our program has been in place<br />
for several years now, and thanks to a growing number of tireless volunteers, it’s becoming a pretty smooth operation. That’s a huge<br />
accomplishment, considering what it takes to hold an autocross event.<br />
Registration, tech inspection, course design, event management, driver training, equipment, corner working coordination, and<br />
timing are some of the key components of a good autocross program.<br />
Fortunately, we have many dedicated volunteers that play a critical role in making these events happen regularly, efficiently, and<br />
safely (knock on wood). In addition to being on hand at every event to help run a smooth operation, they also meet regularly to review<br />
the last event and plan for the next one.<br />
The Chairpersons for the 2010 season include:<br />
POSITION NAME Email<br />
Event Co-Chair James Buck capeautorepair@sbcglobal.net<br />
Event Co-Chair Greg Lush ocrautox@live.com<br />
Event Chair Emeriti Jim Harris jimh@gpi-ca.com<br />
Bob Scheussler<br />
Steve Eguina<br />
seguina@cox.net<br />
Registration Christine Newcomer autoxreg@sbcglobal.net<br />
Bonnie Delgado<br />
bondelg@gmail.com<br />
bscheussler@gmail.com<br />
Timing<br />
Lorri Scheussler<br />
Kris Scheussler<br />
kescheussler@gmail.com<br />
Chris Barrington<br />
genikz@yahoo.com<br />
Corner Working Kyle Largent porsche@largent-assoc.com<br />
Tech<br />
Christian Van Fleet<br />
Kevin Van Fleet<br />
cvfncrew@charter.net<br />
Safety Chuck Bartolon woodslsman@verizon.net<br />
Course Design Dave Palmquist djpalmquist@sbcglobal.net<br />
Attila Szilagyi<br />
attilars@gmail.com<br />
Equipment Eric Budai epb89@sbcglobal.net<br />
DE/TT Programs Steve Eguina seguina@cox.net<br />
Bob Scheussler<br />
bscheussler@gmail.com<br />
The chairpersons have a lot of responsibility and put in lots of hours, to be sure. But there are many volunteers that help out each<br />
and every event, and they seldom get recognized. They are the people that come out early to help set up the track, and the people who<br />
stay till the very end to break down the track. They are the people who help load & unload the truck and take out the garbage (yes,<br />
take out the garbage). They are the people who jump up and come running when we’re a little short handed in one area or another.<br />
And let’s certainly not forget, they are the drivers who fill the roles of instructors so we can have a growing, vibrant program.<br />
Thank you, everyone, for helping make our program the outstanding thing it is today.<br />
(Continued on Page 24)<br />
MARCH 2010 23
How Things Work:<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> Driving Event Instructor Program<br />
The success of the <strong>OCR</strong> Driving Event program would not have been possible without the support and commitment of the volunteer<br />
Instructors. This group has grown over the last few years to over forty club members today.<br />
A program to develop Instructors to support the growing number of drivers has been put in place. The Club offers a one-day<br />
“Instructor School” every fall to drivers with enough event experience to begin instructing. The class consists of three hours of<br />
classroom instruction and three hours of track times to reinforce the classroom exercises. The class experience is followed with two<br />
check-out rides with the Chief Driving Instructors or Driving Team Members at subsequent events.<br />
I would like to recognize our current Instructor Corps and thank them all for their support:<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> <strong>Region</strong> Instructors<br />
Roger Ang Jerry Griffin Bob Scheussler<br />
Chuck Bartolon Chris Grivas Kris Scheussler<br />
Jeremy Bernath Jim Harris Derek Shiba<br />
James Buck Bob Keele Attila Szilagyi<br />
Eric Budai Greg Lush Tom Tanquary<br />
Michael Eguina Ed McRae Patricia Lynn Taylor<br />
Steve Eguina Jerry Muno Rod Taylor<br />
Brian Fawks Dennis Neff Walt Thurner<br />
Bob Florey Rick Neff Fred Tilker<br />
Ken Fredrickson Adam Nguyen* Mark Trewartha<br />
Evan Fullerton Hideki Okano Christian Van Fleet<br />
Kevin Fullerton David Palmquist Kevin Van Fleet<br />
Bob Goya Tom Randel Stephen Yeoh<br />
Experienced Instructors have the opportunity to attend <strong>PCA</strong> Drivers Education Instructor Training provided by the <strong>PCA</strong>. This is<br />
a one-day program with a nationally recognized Instructor from the <strong>PCA</strong> that provides a balance of classroom and track time with a<br />
test at the end of the day. Successful completion of this program opens the door to instruct with other clubs. As we continue to raise<br />
the bar for excellence within our Club, we encourage all of Instructors to go through this program. In recognition of the importance<br />
of instruction, our club is sponsoring twenty instructors from our club to attend the 2010 training.<br />
Anyone wishing to learn to instruct, please speak with the Chief Driving Instructor or any Driving Team Member at one of our<br />
events.<br />
SAVE THIS DATE : Sunday, March 21, 2010<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> PHOTO RALLY – “Remembering Benito”<br />
What is required of you? Follow the route, find the photo objects,<br />
answer the dumb questions, interpret the symbols,<br />
avoid the lost competitors going the other way. “Es no problema”, Benito would say!<br />
This will be a sorta-scenic drive through Central <strong>Orange</strong> County.<br />
The route instructions will offer some challenge (7th grade IQ recommended).<br />
Estimated driving time is 3 hours and the total event should wrap by 1:30PM<br />
Begin and End at Steelhead Brewery, Irvine (adj. to UCI)<br />
Registration opens @ 8:00AM and the event fee is $10.00 per car.<br />
Driver’s Meeting @ 8:30 and First Car Out @ 8:45<br />
50% of the net proceeds go to the Club and 50% go to the WINNER, (Winner prize estimated at $100+)<br />
Following the FEBRUARY BREAKFAST there will be a short pre-rally orientation by our Rallymeister,<br />
I.B.Lostagain.<br />
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How Things Work:<br />
Story by Evan Fullerton, The Car Czar<br />
What Class am I In?<br />
Porsche has made many different cars over the years, but no matter which model you own, <strong>PCA</strong> has an autocross and time trial class<br />
for you from pre-a 356 to 2010 Cayennes and Panameras. Car classification is a multi-step process, starting with your car as it left the<br />
factory through highly modified cars. The 2010 base classes are as follows.<br />
All push-rod 356, 912, 914 1.7 & 1.8<br />
914 2.0, 912E, 924<br />
All 4-Cam 356, ‘65-‘68 911 & 911L 2.0, ‘69-‘71 911E 2.0 & 2.2, ‘68- ‘73 911T 2.0, 2.2, & 2.4<br />
944 2.5 & 2.7, 924S 2.5, 924 Turbo 2.0, 944S 2.5<br />
‘67-’69 911S 2.0, ‘70-’71 911S 2.2, 914-6 2.0, ‘74 -’77 911 & 911S 2.7, ‘74-’75 911 Carrera 2.7<br />
‘78-‘83 911SC 3.0, ‘72-‘73 911S 2.4, ‘72-‘73 911E 2.4, ‘78-‘84 928 & 928S<br />
‘84-‘89 911 Carrera 3.2, ‘86-‘88 944 Turbo 2.5, ‘85-‘86 928S, ‘89-’91 944S2 3.0<br />
’76-’77 930 Turbo, ‘87-‘95 928 (all), ‘88 944 Turbo S, ‘89 944 Turbo, 968, ‘89-‘94 964 2&4, 964<br />
Speedster, 964 American Roadster, 964 RS America, 964 Turbo look<br />
’97-’04 986 Boxster<br />
’00-’04 986 Boxster S, ’05-On 987 Boxster, Cayman<br />
’05-On 987 Boxster S, Cayman S<br />
‘78-’92 930 & 911 Turbo, 993 2&4, 993 C2S, 993 C4S,’99-’01 996<br />
’02-‘04 996, 996 C4S, 997<br />
1994 911 Turbo, 993 Turbo, 996 Turbo , 997 C2S, 997 C4S, 997 Turbo<br />
996 GT2, 996 GT3, 997 GT2, 997 GT3<br />
The Panameras and Cayenne each have their own respective classes, which are not segregated by model designation eg. Turbo,<br />
S etc. Zone 8 <strong>PCA</strong> also recognizes every Porsche Spec race class, should you have a car prepared to one of these rule sets and wish<br />
to run in that class rather than reclassify your car based upon its base class.<br />
Now that your base class has been determined, it is time to figure out what level of preparation, if any, your car falls into. Every<br />
deviation in equipment from how your car was delivered from the factory is given a points value.<br />
Street Stock (S/S)…………..0 points (< 7 points for Classes A-J)<br />
Stock (S)……………………1 – 8 points<br />
Production (P)…………...…9 – 20 points<br />
Improved (I)……………......21 – 40 points<br />
Modified (M)……………….>40 points<br />
An unmodified car receives the suffix Street Stock (SS). Lightly prepped cars that may have sticky tires, different springs,<br />
shocks, and/or sway bars would be in Stock (S) 1-8 points. Add those sweet euro GT3 seats, some super wide sticky tires, aftermarket<br />
mufflers, and an ECU chip to that car and it is now likely in Prepared (P) 9-20 points. Now suppose you get bit hard by the racing bug<br />
and your Porsche gets retired from the daily commute so that needless things like the interior and sound deadening can be removed<br />
and a roll bar installed in the pursuit of finding faster lap times with more safety. These things will likely move you up into the<br />
Improved (I) preparation level 21-40 points.<br />
Now suppose you really get into it and start down the freefall portion of the proverbial slippery slope. You decide you are ready<br />
for a svelte racing machine so you remove everything that isn’t bolted down and replace most of the things that are with lighter racier<br />
pieces. The bumpers get replaced with thin, almost disposable fiberglass parts, the side windows come out and the rear widow is<br />
replaced with one made out of plastic. You take off most of the exhaust system because it is heavy, all in the wrong spot, and race cars<br />
are loud RIGHT? Things like the AC and heater are heavy and not a luxury that is needed in your light weight “race car”, the roll bar<br />
comes out and a custom roll cage goes in complete with those oh so cool door bars that you have to climb over, and make you feel like<br />
one of the Duke boys. Now that you have those cool door bars to protect you, you start eying those beefy Porsche doors that make<br />
that quality thud when they close as unnecessary weight. So they become either mere skins or get replaced with fiberglass silhouettes.<br />
If you have made it this far you likely have a car in the Modified (M) group and have spent a lot of time analyzing every aspect of the<br />
car and how it can be moved, modified, or replace in order to make the car faster, safer, and easier to work on.<br />
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Continued from page 25<br />
Ready? Set? GO!<br />
If you want to give <strong>Autocross</strong> a try, stop by and watch one first. Take<br />
a look, get a feel for how things work. All it will cost you to watch<br />
is your signature on the waiver forms. If you plan to participate,<br />
whatever your level of experience, following these pointers will help<br />
you fully enjoy your day.<br />
Car Czar Evan<br />
Regardless of what class and<br />
preparation level your car falls into, it is<br />
only going to be as fast as its driver. To<br />
be a better track vehicle, most Porsches<br />
benefit from tires and alignment long<br />
before anything else. A well driven<br />
and set-up A-class car can be more than<br />
competitive with much newer, and on<br />
paper, faster cars. So don’t let the car that<br />
you have hold you back from coming out<br />
to an autocross. You don’t need a GT3<br />
or a fully built track car to have fun and<br />
learn the potential of your car. Now that<br />
you have a rough idea on the classing<br />
structure, I suggest you read the rules in<br />
their entirety, paying special attention to<br />
the required safety equipment portion if<br />
you think you have a car in one of the<br />
higher preparation levels, and join us<br />
at the next autocross. If you have any<br />
questions about the rules or how your<br />
car fits into them, feel free to email me at<br />
evanfullerton@gmail.com.<br />
Finding El Toro<br />
YOU GOT TO FIND IT TO DRIVE IT<br />
EL TORO FIELD, AMCI Drive Center<br />
Address: 6500-6899 Marine Way<br />
Irvine, CA 92618<br />
From the 5 Fwy:<br />
Take the Sand Canyon exit.<br />
Northbound:<br />
•Follow ramp down to the stoplight and turn<br />
right on Sand Canyon<br />
•Immediately move to the left turn lane<br />
(25ft.) and turn left on Marine Way<br />
•Proceed ½ mile to the El Toro entrance,<br />
stop at the guard house. •Follow signs to<br />
the AMCI Drive Center<br />
Southbound:<br />
•Turn left onto Sand Canyon and<br />
immediately move to the right lane<br />
•Immediately after going under the I-5<br />
freeway overpass, go right on Marine Way.<br />
At the T, look for signs, follow to “AMCI<br />
Drive Center”<br />
• Visit the website at pcaocr.org, and follow the links to<br />
autocross registration. Register & pay online. If you must later<br />
withdraw, do it more than 5 days before the event for a full<br />
refund.<br />
• Print out your tech form, and remember to bring it. See page<br />
____ in this issue, “Pre-Tech Inspection Program”, and get<br />
your car checked out well before the event.<br />
• Arrive early: For El Toro events, 6:45 am is ideal.<br />
• Participate in the track walk to familiarize yourself with the<br />
track & any unusual or problematic sections.<br />
• Listen closely during the morning briefing, and listen<br />
throughout the day for announcements.<br />
• Monitor what’s going on; check frequently to see that you are<br />
where you should be, when you should be.<br />
• Bring a hat, a jacket, sunscreen, a chair and your own water.<br />
Bring a bag or box to put your stuff in.<br />
• Food is available near El Toro but you might not have time<br />
to get it. Bring a lunch the first few times just to be safe.<br />
Sometimes our awesome sponsors feed us, but don’t assume<br />
they will unless you know it’s scheduled.<br />
• Don’t plan anything else later in the day. You’ll be happily<br />
exhausted from all the adrenalin. Plan to stay until the very<br />
end and help clean up. You’ll meet more quality people and<br />
besides, you just might be getting an award.<br />
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Zone 8 Judging School & Concours Prep<br />
Saturday March 27, 2010<br />
The Judges & Concours school is for prospective judges, experienced judges, Concours<br />
participants and any interested individuals.<br />
Learn the “inside” secrets—You will hear from a panel of experienced judges discuss<br />
what they consider when judging your car.<br />
Special guest speaker, Michael Mankarious, from Einszett car care products. He will<br />
demonstrate some car prep secrets using an attendees car.<br />
PLUS there will be a Q&A period, judging demonstration/practice, & more….<br />
Attendance at a Judges school is required in order to be eligible as a Zone 8 Judge<br />
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Cost: $25:00 per person<br />
(includes lunch)<br />
Location: 1315 Hot Springs Way, Suite #105<br />
Vista, CA 92081<br />
760-295-3330<br />
Directions: From 5 fwy: Go East on 78 fwy to Melrose Drive. Right on Melrose,<br />
go about 3.7 miles, then left on Sycamore, then right at first signal on Hot<br />
Spring Way. Right into first driveway. Look for <strong>PCA</strong> signs.<br />
From 15 fwy: Go West on 78 fwy to Sycamore Ave. Left on Sycamore,<br />
then go about 2.2 miles, then left at Hot Spring Way. Right into first driveway.<br />
Look for <strong>PCA</strong> signs.<br />
Coffee & Donuts sponsored by TCsGarage.com<br />
Reserve your seat by sending your entry fee of $25.00 per person in by March 20 th<br />
Send to Joe Nedza, 3334 E. <strong>Coast</strong> Hwy,#319, Corona del Mar, CA 92625—Make check payable to <strong>PCA</strong>-<br />
Zone 8<br />
For more information contact Joe Nedza at jcnedza@aol.com or call Bev/Tom Gould at (760)295-3330<br />
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From the Driver’s Seat<br />
Story by Jonathan Gerber<br />
<strong>Autocross</strong>… finally I was going to be<br />
able to drive my brand new 997 C4S the<br />
way it was meant to be driven! Thank<br />
goodness the Porsche is designed to<br />
be better than I am! I was assigned an<br />
instructor for my first <strong>OCR</strong> event and<br />
after a few instructions, the green flag<br />
dropped, it was pedal to the metal, the<br />
tires squealed in protest looking for<br />
traction as I completely understeered into<br />
the first corner. This car is a beast! Lesson<br />
number 1, listen to your instructor and<br />
learn the line.<br />
Next came a sweeper, oh, this was<br />
a thing of beauty as the power came<br />
on, the weight transferred sweetly in<br />
the turn, the rear tire bit into the asphalt<br />
and I exploded onto the straight with<br />
my exhaust barking out in authority. My<br />
excitement couldn’t be contained as I<br />
hammered the gas pedal. My brain was<br />
exploding! I could see the slalom ahead<br />
coming at me at breakneck speed and<br />
with my instructor yelling, “BRAKE!!!<br />
BRAKE!!! BRAKE!!!” I braked hard,<br />
killed 2 cones and missed the third<br />
cone in a cloud of dust. Lesson number<br />
2, listen to your instructor, it’s about<br />
controlled speed, not the gas pedal.<br />
My adrenaline running rampant,<br />
I managed to get around the next two<br />
corners and then I saw a sea of red<br />
cones… my brain cried out… where<br />
am I! And I went completely off course<br />
with my instructor yelling LEFT! LEFT!<br />
LEFT! Lesson number 3, listen to your<br />
instructor and walk the course before<br />
you drive it.<br />
Confused and dazed, exhilarated<br />
and exhausted, I crossed the finish line.<br />
My hands sweaty, heart palpitating, I<br />
looked to my instructor, Bob Schuessler,<br />
and said WOW! Can we do that again!<br />
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We are so fortunate to have such a large<br />
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Schuessler for instructing our entire<br />
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The Back Seat Driver, or, How Your Porsche<br />
Saves You From Yourself!<br />
Story by Emory Pearson - Walter’s Asst. Service Manager<br />
As either an autocross participant, or a<br />
performance driving enthusiast interested<br />
in honing one’s skills behind the wheel,<br />
you are probably familiar with the<br />
“traction circle,” i.e. all inputs from the<br />
driver - acceleration, turning or braking<br />
- are limited by the traction available<br />
at the tire contact patch. A seasoned<br />
driver can balance and blend his/her<br />
inputs in differing proportions to attain<br />
all the performance both the vehicle<br />
and conditions offer at that moment.<br />
Your vehicle’s PSM (Porsche Stability<br />
Management) system is the electronic<br />
“back seat driver” whose job is to keep<br />
you safely within “the circle.”<br />
Based on inputs from sensors such<br />
as steering angle, vehicle speed, yaw<br />
velocity, and lateral acceleration, the<br />
PSM is constantly measuring the actual<br />
vehicle direction of travel, comparing it<br />
with the direction the driver desires the<br />
vehicle be going, and computing what<br />
corrective action to take if the desired<br />
and actual directions of travel differ.<br />
Through a community of programming<br />
sub-systems, the PSM can vary fuel<br />
injection, ignition timing, brake system<br />
pressure, and even throttle angle on<br />
vehicles equipped with an electronic<br />
throttle (e-gas).<br />
The PSM community and functions<br />
are: ABS, or Anti-Lock Brake System,<br />
the name itself explaining the goal;<br />
Auto Brake Differential (ABD) applies<br />
brake pressure to a slipping wheel under<br />
acceleration, e.g. one wheel on the road,<br />
the other in the dirt; Auto Slip Regulation<br />
(ASR) reduces engine power if both<br />
wheels slip under acceleration; Traction<br />
Control (TC) combines the functions<br />
of ABD and ASR in cars released prior<br />
to the introduction of e-gas; Dynamic<br />
Driving Control (DDC) compares what<br />
the vehicle is doing to driver input and<br />
can apply braking force to an individual<br />
wheel to improve control; Engine<br />
Drag Torque Control (EDTC) prevents<br />
excessive slippage under trailing throttle<br />
by opening the throttle; Electronic Brake<br />
Force Distribution (EBV) programming<br />
varies brake pressure at the wheels<br />
depending on driving dynamics or weight<br />
distribution.<br />
In addition to all the above, the<br />
Cayenne PSM system also contains<br />
Porsche Traction Management (PTM) to<br />
manipulate the power being distributed<br />
to the wheels via the transfer case and, in<br />
some cases, the rear differential.<br />
On one occasion, I met a customer<br />
who stridently protested that the PSM<br />
was constantly braking mid-corner as<br />
he made his daily commute. No faults<br />
had been recorded in the PSM control<br />
unit memory, and I was not able to<br />
duplicate the complaint on a test drive<br />
with the customer on roads available<br />
near the dealership. Since the front tires<br />
were beginning to display slight ageassociated<br />
cracking, I recommended that<br />
he replace the front tires. Unwilling to<br />
believe his complaint was anything less<br />
than a PSM malfunction, the customer<br />
and our Service Manager, Bob Juliano,<br />
allowed me to road test the vehicle on<br />
his commute route--Highway 18 leading<br />
to and from Lake Arrowhead. A few<br />
corners up and I was able to verify his<br />
complaint. Indeed the vehicle was<br />
braking mid-corner. Not because the<br />
PSM was defective, but rather because<br />
the vehicle was under steering due to a<br />
lack of front tire grip. It was a perfect<br />
example of the PSM doing exactly what<br />
it was designed to do: save a driver from<br />
himself.<br />
Remember, PORSCHES GO<br />
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Course Design<br />
(Continued from Page 18)<br />
of where the course will run is laid out<br />
and it is time to draw in cones. Cone<br />
placement is key. It not only defines<br />
the boundaries of the course physically,<br />
but it also defines the course visually.<br />
Out of all the cones that end up on an<br />
AutoX course, only a small percentage<br />
of these significantly dictate the flow of<br />
the course. Small changes (sometimes as<br />
little as a few inches) to the placement of<br />
certain cones can drastically change that<br />
part of the course as well as the elements<br />
that precede it and follow it. The process<br />
of drawing out the course usually happens<br />
in small increments over a few days so<br />
that I have time to think things over and I<br />
often go through several revisions.<br />
Once the course map is ready and<br />
it’s time to actually setup for the event,<br />
the well drawn out course becomes<br />
more a rough guide than an exact<br />
map. Sometimes, what looks great on<br />
paper doesn’t quite work as expected.<br />
Conversely, there are times when<br />
questionable areas on the map end up<br />
working very well just the way they<br />
were drawn. Ultimately the course needs<br />
to be driven to see how it flows, how it<br />
looks, what the speeds are and how safe<br />
it is. It is important that there is plenty of<br />
room around the course for cars to not<br />
only drive through it, but also for cars to<br />
occasionally spin or go off course. There<br />
are also times when although the course<br />
flows well, it is hard to follow visually<br />
and the cones need to be rearranged.<br />
After the course is driven a few times<br />
adjustments are made to eliminate any<br />
sections that feel too awkward or are<br />
very difficult to see. At that point the<br />
course is as good as its going to get and is<br />
ready for Steve Abbott to lead the course<br />
walk. Here, Steve will tell everyone the<br />
best way to easily drive through all the<br />
tricky sections I tried to add.<br />
Hopefully after everything is setup<br />
and the event is underway, the course<br />
ends up being both fun and challenging<br />
for new and experienced drivers alike. I<br />
can’t say that I am always as successful<br />
in this endeavor as I would like, but<br />
for the most part it seems the courses<br />
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<strong>Autocross</strong> Corner:<br />
Greg Lush gets promoted! Jim & Bob Retire.<br />
Over 35 Ladies put the “Pedal to the metal!”<br />
Story by Steve Equina<br />
The Walter’s Porsche AutoX Series is<br />
about to kick off the 2010 season. Thank<br />
you Ed McRae, General Manager of<br />
Walter’s Porsche and Audi for your<br />
continued support of all the various club<br />
activities.<br />
I also want to thank the Series<br />
Support Sponsors Stuttgart Performance<br />
and GMG-Global Motorsport Group for<br />
their continued support and our Event<br />
Sponsors Fairview Mortgage Capital,<br />
Racing Lifestyle, Vision Motorsports,<br />
Cape Auto Repair, Hergesheimer<br />
Motorsports, AUTOWERKS, Anaheim<br />
Hills Auto Collision Center and OMNI<br />
Platform. All these company’s provide<br />
more than just financial support and<br />
the owners are <strong>PCA</strong> members and take<br />
pride in providing the best service to our<br />
members so please support them!<br />
With the New Year another brave<br />
soul has stepped forward to help run<br />
the <strong>OCR</strong> AutoX program. Greg Lush<br />
is being “promoted” from Chief of<br />
Equipment to an Event Chairman. He<br />
will assist James Buck who will be<br />
staying on as Event Chairman on for<br />
another year. We want to thank outgoing<br />
Event Chairmen Bob Scheussler and Jim<br />
Harris for their untiring dedication the<br />
last two years. Both these gentlemen’s<br />
management skills have contributed<br />
greatly to the continued improvement<br />
of the program. I will slip deeper into<br />
my role of AutoX Emeritus. However,<br />
since <strong>OCR</strong> members have expressed an<br />
interest in track events, Bob (coming out<br />
of a very short retirement) and I have a<br />
couple new <strong>PCA</strong> Drivers Education and<br />
Time Trial events planned for the New<br />
Year.<br />
Over 35 ladies put the “Pedal to the<br />
Metal!”<br />
As I perused the results of this event I<br />
couldn’t help but notice the number of<br />
female drivers who attended this AutoX<br />
event. Patricia Lynn Taylor drives a very<br />
nice 1969 911T with her husband Rod.<br />
Lorri Scheussler and her brother Kris share<br />
a 1985 Carrera. Christine Newcomer is a<br />
regular in her 2007 Cayman S. Carolyn<br />
Neff drives the family 1987 944 Turbo.<br />
Marie GrosJean competes in a 2007<br />
Cayman. Mary Morales is all smiles<br />
driving the family 996. Nicole Boggs has<br />
become faster in her 993 this year. Lisa<br />
Taylor competes in a 997 Turbo. And<br />
Pamela Horton and Melissa Clarke’s<br />
times were less than a second apart<br />
both driving 997 C4Ss. Other ladies<br />
who have attended <strong>OCR</strong> AutoX events<br />
during the year were Thea Campbell,<br />
Anna-Lisa Lonier, Lisa Goetsch,<br />
Grace Fredrickson, Karin & Becky<br />
Scheussler, Kathleen Huitema, Georgina<br />
Stevens, Cambell Thea, Bonnie Delgado,<br />
Barbara D’Allessandro, Diana Funk,<br />
Michele Costanza, Jennie Monroe, Flora<br />
Paganelli, Judy Lech, Kelly Hudyman,<br />
Katherine Weir, Petra McRae, Megan<br />
Kim, Lisa Taylor, Tiffany Ashlund, Cari<br />
Scherr, Cari Gerber and Lisa Hunter.<br />
Sooo... YOU GO GIRLS!<br />
Till next month, have fun!<br />
9 th Annual California Festival of Speed • 2010<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> Zone 8 would like to welcome you to the California Festival of Speed, April 9-11, 2010 (formerly known as the Zone 8<br />
Speed Festival).<br />
OVERVIEW:<br />
This 3-day (Friday–Sunday) event features a Zone 8 Time Trial event along with <strong>PCA</strong> Club Race warm up and practice<br />
laps Friday and Saturday. In addition, the 1-hour <strong>PCA</strong> Enduro will be on Saturday as well as the first <strong>PCA</strong> Club Race.<br />
Sunday will feature warm up, and qualifying <strong>PCA</strong> Club Race sessions as well as Sprint Races. There will be Time Trial<br />
sessions and timing on Sunday as well.<br />
While the track is hot, there will be plenty of other activities vying for your attention:<br />
We’ll have a scintillating Vendor Row! As in years past we're expecting exciting participants on Vendor Row including<br />
SoCal Porsche Dealers, Performance Products and much more.<br />
We’ll have parking corrals all three days featuring cars on display from the Early 911S Registry, Porsche 356 Club, RS<br />
America Registry and more.<br />
Each day we’ll have time set aside at lunch for Lunch Time Track Tours behind a pace car!<br />
We will be entertained by the <strong>PCA</strong> Zone 8 Concours on Saturday hosted by Zone 8!<br />
WE EXPECT TO HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!<br />
If you’re bringing the family, there is plenty to do within a<br />
short distance. Ontario Mills shopping center, five miles<br />
from the track, has one of the largest and best selections<br />
of stores in Southern California, including theatres,<br />
skating, and arcades. Attractions like Disneyland and<br />
Knott’s Berry Farm are a short freeway drive away.<br />
We have a very fun weekend in store for not only<br />
participants, but for their families and anyone who wants<br />
to come see Porsches doing what they do best!<br />
The Course:<br />
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This event is being held at the world class Auto Club<br />
Speedway, previously known as California Speedway, in<br />
Fontana, CA. We will be using the 21-turn, 2.88 mile
Specializing in Porsche since 1980<br />
• Race car preparation<br />
• Pro racing and club racing<br />
• Custom fabrication<br />
• Electronic corner balancing<br />
• Performance upgrades and overhauls to...<br />
Engines<br />
Suspension<br />
Fuel Injection<br />
Transaxles<br />
Brakes<br />
Engine management systems<br />
• POC Tech Inspection Station<br />
• Your resource for MOTUL lubricants<br />
and MOTUL car care products<br />
Frank Hanrahan, President,<br />
Porsche Technician Since 1971<br />
3198-L Airport Loop Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626<br />
714/545-2755 • www.hausofperformance.com<br />
email: frank@hausofperformance.com<br />
It’s no surprise that TruSpeed is known around the world as a leader in pre-owned<br />
Porsche sales and service. Located in Southern California, we’ve been exceeding<br />
customer expectations for more than 10 years because we love what we do.<br />
To schedule your next service or learn more about TruSpeed,<br />
visit www.truspeedmotorcars.com, call us at (800) 498-1710 or<br />
just stop by at 365-A Clinton Street in Costa Mesa.<br />
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EASTER SUNDAY RUN<br />
SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 2010<br />
Getty Villa Museum Tour<br />
For those of you who usually do something<br />
different on Easter Sunday,<br />
we offer the previously named “Heathen Tour.”<br />
We will be departing <strong>Orange</strong> County by 8:30 a.m., for a 10:00 a.m.<br />
arrival at the Getty Villa Museum. Departure Location to be announced.<br />
Parking is $15.00 per car. Admission is free.<br />
Dick & Chris DeRose will be this years tour hosts.<br />
Please RSVP to Armand at apgastelo@yahoo.com.<br />
You will receive the tour specific details after you RSVP.<br />
YOU MUST RSVP BEFORE MARCH 28, 2010<br />
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Pamela Horton<br />
YOUR REAL ESTATE RESOURCE<br />
& <strong>PCA</strong>-<strong>OCR</strong> Member Since 1984<br />
• Licensed Broker<br />
• Skilled Negotiator<br />
• Dedicated to Your Success<br />
• Representing Buyers & Sellers<br />
• Porsche Club members receive<br />
a free home warranty at closing<br />
PAMELA HORTON<br />
949.633.6667<br />
Pamela@PamelaHorton.com<br />
S e a rc h f o r h o m e s a t w w w. P a m e l a H o r t o n . c o m<br />
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Classified Ads<br />
FOR SALE: 930- 911 TURBO<br />
‘79 930 Turbo Coupe, Black/Black lthr.<br />
34K mi. Completely original w/Factory<br />
930 headers, orig 16î Fuchs. Same owner<br />
11 yrs. <strong>Region</strong>al concours winner. Engine<br />
out for refresh & detailing at 22K mi. All<br />
records. $35,000. Tom 321/626-0563,<br />
FCR (1) web.<br />
2001 996 Twin Turbo for sale: selling<br />
Twin Turbo, license plate ìBoost 01î due<br />
to the arrival of a newer Porsche to the<br />
Cooper garage. The car has 36,XXX miles<br />
and has been meticulously maintained. I<br />
have a three ring binder with all records and<br />
photoís of the car and the work that has been<br />
done to it over the years of my ownership.<br />
There are tasteful modifications done to the<br />
car and a large amount of parts that can go<br />
along with the sale including two sets of<br />
wheels with good tires on each set. There<br />
are options for the suspension system as<br />
well ranging from fully adjustable Motonís<br />
to Porsche M030 Euro style. Please email<br />
me for full details and to arrange a viewing.<br />
I am the original owner of this car and part<br />
with it reluctantly due to the fact that Mrs.<br />
Cooper has issued strict orders to make<br />
room in the garage for her car! I am asking<br />
$49,950 for the privilege of owning an<br />
exclusive and truly inspiring Porsche. The<br />
price can be adjusted depending upon the<br />
level of equipment the new owner wants to<br />
lots of carbon fiber, including roof and<br />
wing. Stereo & pwr window delete. 3 years<br />
to build this car with all receipts, over $130k<br />
invested. Light weight, and a real drivers<br />
car. 3000 miles & only just broken in. O-<br />
CAL, multiple Best of Show winner. New<br />
project underway, must sell. $68,500. Clint<br />
Eagar 949/910-0004; clintwaves@hotmail.<br />
com <strong>OCR</strong> (1)<br />
‘90 911 Carrera 2 Coupe<br />
#WP0AB2962LS451781. 102K mi.<br />
Baltic Blue Metallic/Ivory. 2nd owner.<br />
All Service Records. Always garaged.<br />
Racing Dynamics 17”wheels. Shop<br />
Manuals. Power seats. Car cover. Drink<br />
holder. No accidents. Runs great. Photos<br />
available upon request. $17,000 OBO.<br />
Chris Varga, Huntington Beach, CA 714-<br />
847-2349; christopher.j.varga@gmail.com.<br />
<strong>OCR</strong> (1)<br />
‘02 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet, Seal Grey/<br />
Black supple lthr/Black top, 31K mi.<br />
Full power convertible top w/glass back<br />
window, 3.6L, Tiptronic, heated dual<br />
pwr seats w/lumbar & driverís memory.<br />
Xenon headlamps, 18î light alloy whls w/<br />
color crest. Bose premium sound w/CD,<br />
carbon fiber kit. Sharp car with service<br />
history, extended warranty 09/2010. New<br />
Porsche engine with 11K mi. and under 2<br />
yr/24,000 mi. Factory warranty. $39,000.<br />
Ken Hanzlik 949/218-7260; kenh@<br />
arroyoins.com. <strong>OCR</strong> (1) web<br />
‘01 Boxster S, Silver/Black, 59K mi.<br />
Tiptronic, Sirius radio. $23,000 OBO<br />
Bill 562/714-7288. <strong>OCR</strong> (1) web<br />
‘03 Boxster S, Black/Black, 9,500 miles,<br />
Tiptronic, Bose stereo, Xenons, Rare<br />
hollow alloy 18î wheels, well pampered<br />
car, never driven in rain, $32,000 OBO<br />
Ken (909) 636-3740; k_borja@msn.<br />
com. <strong>OCR</strong> (1) web<br />
‘09 Carrera Cabriolet S, Macadamia<br />
Metallic/Cocoa lthr, including steering<br />
wheel. Cocoa soft top. 7500 mi. PDK<br />
transmission, surround sound, heated/<br />
cooled seats, GPS, Bluetooth...ALL<br />
FACTORY OPTIONS! No after market<br />
additions. Always garaged. $98,500.<br />
Mark 949/933-1154 ; levinefamily@<br />
cox.net. <strong>OCR</strong> (12) web.<br />
leave on the car.<br />
FOR SALE: LATE MODEL 911-<br />
993-986-996-997<br />
‘96 993 GT2 Clone, Arancio Borealis<br />
Metallic Pearl <strong>Orange</strong>/Black custom<br />
interior. 3K mi. Charcoal gunmetal roll<br />
bar, Sparco adjustable seats w/ matching 5<br />
point harness belts. Momo ìCompetitionî<br />
steering wheel, custom silver gauges w/<br />
blue tick marks. Fire extinguisher, custom<br />
A/C, RSR light weight door panels & RSR<br />
carpet. 500+HP Twin Plug Turbo 3.5L<br />
engine. RUF racing cams, K&N filter,<br />
custom polished/fabricated intercooler.<br />
Twin frontal oil coolers & stainless steel<br />
braded oil lines. $8000 (3) piece Kinesis<br />
wheels & Michelin PS2 package. SS<br />
headers & exhaust, racing fuel cell, and<br />
‘00 986 Boxster S, Black/Black, 38K<br />
mi. Original MSRP, Lojack,transferable<br />
warranty till 4/9/11 & 68,639mi, 100%<br />
dealer service books & records, Carfax,<br />
Boxster S sports pkg, DSP sound, chrome<br />
Turbo-look 18”, color crest caps, Borla,<br />
15% short shifter, M030, adjustable rear<br />
toe-links. Never raced/AutoX, non smoker,<br />
dust cover, garaged. $19,750, David<br />
Brundage, Dana Point, CA. 562/201-4802;<br />
dlbrundage@gmail.com. <strong>OCR</strong> (1) web<br />
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Classified Ad Rates<br />
<strong>PCA</strong> Members - No charge for 2<br />
times in the Pandemonium<br />
(2 consecutive months, photos free)<br />
Non-<strong>PCA</strong> Members - $10 for 2 times<br />
in the Pando (2 consecutive months;<br />
$5 extra for a photo)<br />
Make checks payable to: <strong>PCA</strong>/<strong>OCR</strong><br />
Please contact Bob Weber<br />
at 714-960-4981<br />
or hbobw930@aol.com<br />
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Classifieds (Cont. from pg. 35)<br />
FOR SALE: 911--1980s<br />
‘88 Carrera Targa, Diamond Blue (Seal<br />
Gray)/Black lthr. 101K mi. 5 spd, Sony<br />
tape deck, alarm. Original paint, matching<br />
#s, no modifications. Never raced, non<br />
smoker. $29,900. George 310/378-1221<br />
(w); 310/377-5839 (h). <strong>OCR</strong> (1) web.<br />
‘89 911 Speedster,<br />
#WP0EB0911KS173271; Guards Red/<br />
Black lthr, Only 4,500 miles! Excellent<br />
example of a collector quality Porsche; 2<br />
time winner <strong>PCA</strong> Zone 8 <strong>Orange</strong> <strong>Coast</strong><br />
Street Division Concours; California<br />
registered; $75,000; Rick Guerrero<br />
949/547 2719; tmctguer@cox.net. <strong>OCR</strong><br />
Aase Motors------------------------------------------- 36<br />
Access Insurance Bonds------------------------------ 33<br />
Al Reed Specialty Polishing-------------------------- 2<br />
American Collectors Insurance---------------------- 38<br />
Anaheim Hills Auto Collision----------------------- 7<br />
Autobahn Adventures-----------------------------------5<br />
AutoKennel--------------------------------------------- 28<br />
Autowerkes--------------------------------------------- 31<br />
Bell Helmets------------------------------------------- 28<br />
Bill Brewster Automotive---------------------------- 32<br />
Cape Auto Repair-------------------------------------- 28<br />
Chips Away--------------------------------------------- 28<br />
Circle Porsche------------------------------------------ 17<br />
Cooper Classy Car Care------------------------------ 14<br />
Cornerstone Investment Consulting---------------- 3<br />
Doorshield--------------------------------------------- 30<br />
Einmalig------------------------------------------------ 29<br />
Euromasters Classic Cars----------------------------- 35<br />
Factory Werks------------------------------------------ 19<br />
Index of Advertisers<br />
Fairview Mortgage Capital--------------------------- 36<br />
Global Motorsports Group---------------------- 20, 21<br />
Haus of Performance---------------------------------357<br />
Hergesheimer------------------------------------------ 12<br />
Integrity Motorcars------------------------------------ 30<br />
Law Offices of Joe Nedza---------------------------- 19<br />
Law Offices of Stuart Wallach----------------------- 28<br />
Martin & Huddleston Associates-------------------- 9<br />
Metlife Home Loans---------------------------------- 30<br />
Pamela Horton, Real Estate Broker----------------- 38<br />
Pelican Parts-------------------------------------------- 32<br />
Pioneer Leather Restoration-------------------------- 33<br />
Rice’s Performance Porsche------------------------- 32<br />
State Farm Insurance/Bill Petersen-------------- OBC<br />
Sundial Window Tinting------------------------------ 38<br />
TC’s Garage-------------------------------------------- 15<br />
Tru Speed---------------------------------------------- 37<br />
Ultimate Shield---------------------------------------- 7<br />
Walter’s Porsche--------------------------------------IFC<br />
WHEELS & TIRES<br />
Would You Like to Advertise in Pandemonium?<br />
For Rates and Availability Call Ken Fredrickson at 714.962.3258<br />
or email to Grace Fredrickson at one.graceful@verizon.net<br />
20” Champion RS97 WHEELS FOR<br />
CAYENNE: Set of 4 - 20” x 9.0” forged 996 CAR COVER FOR SALE: Light weight, in good condition w/Porsche logo on front<br />
aluminum wheels. Look like new. 3 never &plastic window on the rear for the license plate to show. $50.00 OBO. Pamela Horton<br />
damaged, 1 had a 2í scuff refinished ñ all 949/633-6667; Pamela@PamelaHorton.com. <strong>OCR</strong> (2)<br />
look new. Titanium paint done by Vision<br />
WANTED<br />
Motorsports. Wheels only, tires are down<br />
to bars. Paid $1500/wheel + tires new.<br />
Asking $1600 for set of four. Scott. 949-<br />
689-4554. stsaito@gmail.com. <strong>OCR</strong> (1)<br />
MISCELLANEOUS<br />
‘70s, ’80, “90s PORSCHE MAGAZINES<br />
FOR SALE: Panorama magazines, ’71-<br />
present; <strong>OCR</strong> Pandemonium ’71-present;<br />
356 Registry ’76-present; misc ’71<br />
West <strong>Coast</strong> Weekend, ’71 Porsche Eros,<br />
Aug&Sept issues (Riverside, CA <strong>Region</strong>);<br />
í71 Gedanken Nov; Road & Track í71-<br />
’96. Long time <strong>PCA</strong> member downsizing.<br />
Highest bid takes it plus shipping. Will<br />
deliver within 100 mi. Al Keller . 714/528-<br />
2108. <strong>OCR</strong> (1).<br />
Porsche Child’s<br />
Car Seat For Sale:<br />
Bought new in 2003 at<br />
Newport Porsche for<br />
996 GT2-rarely used.<br />
For kids 30 ñ 80 lbs.<br />
Good Condition. $150.<br />
John supercup@cox.ne<br />
949/510-3738. <strong>OCR</strong><br />
New Member Round-up<br />
Slap on yer duds and whip-up your best bucket a chili! Show off yer cookin’ skills,<br />
awards will be presented! This will be a fun way to meet and greet our new<br />
<strong>PCA</strong>-<strong>OCR</strong> club members. We expect near 100 of y’all, so giddy on down.<br />
Sign-up (email: epb89@sbcglobal.net) to bring chili, salad, corn-on-the-cob<br />
or any appropriate dish; suds already provided.<br />
No cost to new members, $ 5.00 donation for members.<br />
Euromasters Classic Cars, 18370 Pacific Street (Fountain Valley, 405 & Euclid)<br />
Saturday April 24, at 1:00 PM<br />
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0am or a 1000 am sharp departure<br />
18000 <strong>Coast</strong>line r, Maliu<br />
picnic lunch & good aling shoes<br />
<br />
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Captmartyerionnet or<br />
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Porsche Club of America<br />
<strong>Orange</strong> <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Region</strong><br />
P.O. Box 6726<br />
Huntington Beach, ca 92615-6726<br />
PRST STD<br />
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SANTA ANA, CA<br />
PERMIT NO. 516<br />
Dated Material: Please deliver by 3/6/2010<br />
Three good reasons to insure your cars with State Farm.<br />
Call for a quote on your Porsche, business<br />
or personal insurance and receive a full-size<br />
Rand McNally Road Atlas….Free!<br />
Good service.<br />
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Good neighbor agent.<br />
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.<br />
Serving Porsche Club members since 1981<br />
Office: (949) 855-8325<br />
Fax: (949) 855-4143<br />
Bill Petersen, Club Member<br />
State Farm Insurance Companies<br />
23101 Moulton Parkway, Ste. 103<br />
Laguna Hills, California 92653
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