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DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Date: October 2006 Event: The inaugural PCA Club Race at DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Daytona, FL. Assignment: Prepare and Support our customers’ cars. Results: All Great... some Extaordinary! Greg Brown: Winner of the very competitive GTC3 class enduro in his GT3 Supercup Car. Dana Martin: 1st in class and 4th overall in the GTC2 class enduro. Bob Cohen: 3rd in GTC1... running the entire 90 minute enduro solo. Barry Brensinger: 2nd in class in sprint after starting last overall... setting another B class track record. Andy Jenks: 3rd in class of 26 F cars and 4th overall in enduro after a dramatic spin dropped him to 30th early. Caryl Brensinger, Bruce Hauben, Wayne Mackie and Steve Boris: Finished off the podium but ran safely without problems or issues. CONGRATULATIONS!! to our customers and friends on their outstanding performance at Daytona. While not all our customers race their cars or even participate in the PCA drivers education program, we believe all our clients deserve the same level of personalized, professional care we have become known for in race paddocks all across the country. Our commitment to excellence shows in many ways, through our flexible scheduling, our cost effective approach to proper repair and maintenance and our unique ability to help make your Porsche ownership pleasurable and rewarding. So, the next time your Porsche needs a little TLC... even if your not planning on driving the banking at Daytona... call or drop us a note. It’s often said “Racing Improves the Breed” and we at EPE believe that it’s true, not only for the car, but the technician that works on it. 10 COCHITUATE STREET . NATICK, MA 01760 . PHONE 508-651-1316 . FAX 508-651-3448 . EMAIL [email protected] Date: October 2006 Event: The inaugural PCA Club Race at DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Daytona, FL. DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 DECEMBER 2006 Assignment: Prepare and Support our customers’ cars. Results: All Great... some Extaordinary! FEATURES 14 16 17 DE Ground School... Calling all Students for 2007 18 New England Ramble First Announcement 18 Newcomers Meeting on the Schedule 20 20 A Report 24 A View of the Sky, please... 24 Greg Brown: Winner of the very competitive GTC3 class enduro in his GT3 Supercup Car. Dana Martin: 1st in class and 4th overall in the GTC2 class enduro. Bob Cohen: 3rd in GTC1... running the entire 90 minute enduro solo. Barry Brensinger: 2nd in class in sprint after starting last overall... setting another B class track record. Andy Jenks: 3rd in class of 26 F cars and 4th overall in enduro after a dramatic spin dropped him to 30th early. 16 Caryl Brensinger, Bruce Hauben, Wayne Mackie and Steve Boris: Finished off the podium but ran safely without problems or issues. CONGRATULATIONS!! to our customers and friends on their outstanding performance at Daytona. DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS COVER 4 8 Anniversaries Out In The Passing Lane Cover Photo While not all our customers race their cars or even participate in the PCA drivers education program, 14 Calendar 5 The Driver's Window Jon Barron took this picture 37 Marketplace 6 Four Speeds & Drum Brakes of a bright red Speedster at we believe all our clients deserve the same level of personalized, professional care we have become known the 2006 Porsche Parade in 38 Board of Directors 7 Around The Cones Oregon. Check out the full for in race paddocks all across the country. color cover on the web and Committee Chairs 8 Minutes Of The Board site at www.porschenet.com. 38 New Member Roster 9 Check Your Mirrors Our commitment to excellence shows in many ways, through our flexible scheduling, our cost effective 10 Tail Wagging approach to proper repair and maintenance and our unique ability to help make your Porsche ownership 12 Upshifting pleasurable and rewarding. So, the next time your Porsche needs a little TLC... even if your not planning on driving the banking at The NOR’EASTER (ISSN-0199-4425) is published credit is given the NOR’EASTER and the author. No equivalent. All advertising inquiries and all monthly for an annual fee of $15.00 by the Porsche material may be reproduced if the NOR’EASTER advertising copy should be submitted to: Bob www.porschenet.com Daytona... call or drop us a note. 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Half page - $83/issue new features, updates and All communications should be directed to the Discounts are offered for three months (5%), six One third page - $68/issue changes in schedules. editor. Permission is granted to reproduce any months (10%), and one year (15%). Copy Quarter page - $52/issue material publishedherein, provided the full should be supplied photo ready or Business card - $37/issue 10 COCHITUATE STREET . NATICK, MA 01760 . PHONE 508-651-1316 . FAX 508-651-3448 . EMAIL [email protected] Out In The Passing Lane Dave Weber hy do I spend almost three hours convert- trouble. Well I did have to reposition the garden Wing my garden tractor from lawn mower to tractor several times, and find a two by four to snow thrower, when I could just call Maestranzi help with the lifting and positioning process. And Bros and have them send a serviceman to my I must confess that I did bend over to look under home to do the work in less than an hour? Then the garden tractor, managing in the process to repeat the whole frustrating experience again in smash my mouth against a bracket that somehow the spring reversing the setup? Last weekend I got in the way (injury number two – no blood, just tackled the annual fall project with anticipation, a fat lip). feeling certain I knew how to do the work in a The drive belt was easily pushed onto the ap- reasonable amount of time. propriate pulley, and a few minutes later I had I was feeling pretty confident when I was able the support bars in place along with the lifting to remove the lawn mower attachment in just mechanism. I was feeling pretty good about then, a couple of minutes (it took me probably two even though I’d been at the project for an hour or hours to mount it last spring). I even took time to so. I fired up the garden tractor and attempted to reorganize the storage shed, feeling certain the lift the snow thrower attachment. Nothing hap- conversion project was going to go smoothly this pened! time. I shut down the garden tractor and made a With instruction manual for the snow thrower quick survey to make sure I hadn’t forgotten in hand, and plenty of time to do the work on a to connect something. I didn’t see anything so, pleasant warm Saturday morning, I went about just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke, I restarted the assembling the various components. I immediate- garden tractor and tried again. Again, nothing ly ran into a delay when I couldn’t locate several happened when I tried to lift the snow thrower. I reread the instructions and realized I was feeling pretty confident when I was able I’d attached the lifting mechanism to the wrong bolt location (the ending to remove the lawn mower attachment in just slot instead of the middle slot), and a couple of minutes. I hadn’t inserted a couple of pins that hold part of the mechanism in a higher location. Off came the support bars, and off I went to get a hammer clamps and one key support bar. and screwdriver to force out the bolt holding the Multiple trips into our shed looking for a baggy lift mechanism in place. Time started slipping by containing the clamps yielded nothing. I started quickly as now I was redoing things. Then I real- to feel a mild form of panic building; I knew I had ized I didn’t have the two pins I needed. I found the parts, but where were they? Then I stumbled one on the ground, whew, but the other was on them fastened in place on the snow thrower missing in action. No problem: I’d use a bolt and itself (rather logical, right!). I’d done that last fall to nut instead. Of course, finding the right size took make sure I’d find them, and then forgot I’d done more time. so! Thirty minutes later, everything was back The project was already taking longer than together and working properly.