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Happy Hour - Fox Sports Grill - Plano By John Hamilton What a turn-out! Over 50 people came out to our first warm-weather Happy Hour of the year, including several firsttime attendees. Relocated from the San Francisco area, Ben and Suzanne Hidalgo and their niece joined us and met their Porsche cousins. David Visser brought Denise, a first time attendee, and they met quite a few friendly Mavericks (is there any other kind?) Plus, the former Miss Georgia, Kristyl Evans, was in attendance and plans to attend the Porsche Parade in Savannah this summer, so I hope you do! Our overwhelming turn-out surprised us and the restaurant, so they kept on moving in tables and chairs to fit the demand. Fortunately, we had reserved their big room which barely held us all! So we had yet another great Happy Hour get-together, where we caught up with old friends and made new ones. The rest of the February Larry & Donetta Ramsey Happy Hour is best reviewed in the pictures. See anybody you know? We can’t wait until our next Happy Hours in <strong>March</strong> at Abuelo’s and in April at the Wildwood Grill in Southlake. Hope to see you there! Photos by John Hamilton & Mike Lockas Come join Allan, Cathy, Mark & Randy at our next Happy Hour! Ben, Suzanne,and their niece with our President John Hamlton. 24
Come and join our table! Denise & David This was one of our best turnouts... Cliff Rambles on & on: continued blocked with broken debris. Cleared debris and reassembled. Only thing I could deduce was that we had some kind of intake air management issue. The car ran as if it was running lean or that is to say “false air was entering combustion chambers that MAF could not see.” Bryan Bell comes by as we are accessing engine compartment and got involved. We all agreed that it had to be an air leak somewhere based on everything we knew. All of us looked and looked in engine compartment and listened for the noise of an air leak. That’s not easy on the water cars as they already have a lot of air movement noise that is inherent to design. Finally I put my hand on throttle valve housing to rev up the engine and by shear accident I found the leak. A tube coming off intake that is normally blocked by a closed plug for race application had come off. My index finger covered it as I reached for the butterfly shaft cable mount and the engine perked right up. How funny and lucky is that? About a 3mm inner diameter pipe was allowing air into the engine that was not being managed by DME system. Next we had to find a plug. Could not find the one that came off and no one in paddock had one… Jeeeze. Then in just the right light Bryan spots it. We fish it out after some trials and tribulations. It had a huge crack in it and apparently the impact forced it loose. I repaired it with some shrink tubing Michael had and all was well once again. John drove it around paddock for final determination of suspension clearance, looked to see if steering wheel was on center and determine if suspension might be suspect. We had found no suspension damage that was apparent to that point. Plus Thomas had reported that 3rd gear was starting to be a problem on upshifts (grinding). John came back and indicated trans was not good and suspension needed alignment assessment/adjustment. So at 7pm we began replacing trans with a spare we brought along. At 10 pm trans was replaced and working correctly. We had to wait till morning and get Topp to align and give us vital numbers for suspension geometry. That morning Todd at Topp was overwhelmed with things to do. John went over and eyeballed the suspension into what he thought would be close. Todd checked it with his equipment and it was dead on. How cool is that? During warm up runs the repaired radiator let go. While we pulled off nose another radiator was found and borrowed. Installed, bled and here we go. Whew! Ninety minute enduro. Each car had to come in for a mandatory 5 minute stop. I talked with drivers and each gave me the time they wanted to pull in. Michael was coming in at 30 minute mark. Thomas wanted to come in at 45 minute mark. John at 1 hour and Greg at 1 hour 5 minutes. Thomas suddenly showed up at 18 minute mark. I went over the wall in hot pits to see what was up (only driver with a radio was Michael so had no idea why he was in). He reported a huge vibration from the rear. I looked at right rear wheel quickly and found dirt fully packed around the wheel. continued on page 27 <strong>March</strong> 25
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