The Bahn Stormer Volume XIX, Issue 10 -- November 2014
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The Bahn Stormer Volume XIX, Issue 10 -- November 2014 2014 Fall Color Tour Photo by Stewart & Sally Free The Official Publication of the Rally Sport Region - Porsche Club of America The Bahn Stormer Contents For Information on, or submissions to, The Official Page .......................................................3 The Bahn Stormer contact Mike O’Rear at Traction Control.......................................... ..............4 [email protected] or 734-214-9993 Calendar of Events........................................... .........5 (Please put Bahn Stormer in the subject line) Membership Page ....................................................7 Deadline: Normally by the end of the third RSR Elections ..........................................................10 week-end of the month. Fall Color Tour .........................................................12 Around the Zone ....................................................15 For Commercial Ads Contact Jim Christopher at The Back Roads .......................................................17 [email protected] RSR Racers ..............................................................18 Gmund Museum.....................................................20 Advertising Rates (Per Year) Ramblings From a Life With Cars ............................23 Full Page: $650 Quarter Page: $225 Sights & Sounds from Around San Francisco ..........25 Half Page: $375 Business Card: $100 Classifieds ...............................................................30 Club Meeting Minutes ............................................31 Material for the The Bahn Stormer may be reprinted (except for ads) provided proper credit is given to the author and the source. Copy is the responsibility of the advertiser. PORSCHE®, The Porsche Crest®, CARRERA®, and TARGA® are trademarks of Porsche AG Advertisers ARESCO, Inc ........................................................................ 17 AutoMark Collision Center ................................................. 26 Clear Auto Bra ...................................................................... 2 Edward Jones -- David Yu ...................................................... 6 Fred Lavery Porsche ........................................................... 22 Gilson Motor Sports ........................................................... 28 Munk’s Motors ................................................................... 24 Porsche of Ann Arbor ......................................................... 16 Porsche of Farmington Hills ................................................ 32 Porsche of the Motor City .................................................... 8 Rennstatt Racing (of ArborMotion) .................................... 14 Westgate Insurance ............................................................ 19 www.sellyoursportscar.net ................................................. 31 Check out the latest news on our website rsp.pca.org Check out other PCA events at the Zone 4 website -- zone4.pca.org 2 The Official Page 2014 Rally Sport Region Officers President Tech Chairperson Other Board Members Rick Mammel * Tim Pott* 248-442-9008 734-548-5378 Tom Bloom* Novi 48375 Ann Arbor 48104 734-260-0260 [email protected] [email protected] Chelsea 48118 [email protected] Immediate Past President Track Registrar Jim Christopher * Tom Krueger George Gilligan* 810-217-1280 313-570-2223 734-994-5820 Ortonville 48462 Sterling Heights 48313 Ann Arbor 48103 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Track Chairperson Michael Kimber* Tim Pott* Christian Maloof 248-310-2184 734-548-5378 734 646-2746 Bloomfield 48301 Ann Arbor 48104 Dexter 48130 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] John Kytasty * Goody Store Chairperson Insurance Chairperson 248-709-1587 Rick Mammel * Jim Dowty * Livonia 48152 248-442-9008 734-717-1060 [email protected] Novi 48375 Ann Arbor 48108 [email protected] [email protected] Ron Pruette* 248-821-8670 Advertising Chairperson Archivist / Historian Oxford 48371 Jim Christopher * Glenn Trapp [email protected] 810-217-1280 810-227-7854 Ortonville 48462 Brighton 48114 Al Wright* [email protected] [email protected] 313-610-2777 Ann Arbor 48105 Membership Chairperson Bahn Stormer Editor [email protected] Glenn Trapp Mike O’Rear 810-227-7854 734-214-9993 Zone 4 Rep Brighton 48114 Ann Arbor 48103 Michael Soriano [email protected] [email protected] (419) 843-2070 Maumee Valley Region Treasurer Events Chairpersons [email protected] Burghard Linn* Norah & David Cooper 810-227-1223 [email protected] * Denotes Board Member Brighton 48116 [email protected] Der Cranky Webmeister Emmanuel Garcia Secretary 248-635-7655 Mary Ann Kantrow* South Lyon 48178 734-347-8544 [email protected] Ann Arbor 48105 [email protected] 3 Traction Control By Rick Mammel, RSR President Have you ever been between loaded with Porsche related gifts for Stewart to raffle two mirrors witnessing your off. A Bahn Stormer advertiser and regular supporter of image replicate to infinity? If our membership, Eric is a great friend of the Rally Sport you truly focus your mind into Region. While it could depend on what your idea is of it, it becomes quite surreal. That a great gift, most in attendance were envious when Joe floating cortex feeling from the Conen won the can of 20-50 Porsche vintage oil with mirrors is the same one I just phenomenal graphics. It will never be opened or probably experienced reading last month’s never removed from its safe place on the bookshelf. Bahn Stormer. This was an issue This is the month many of us look to hibernate our that could have easily had a price Porsches. I’ll pass along a reminder of a few “storage listed in the corner and placed beside the best commercial standards” to observe to make sure your baby sparks up print at the newsstand. I have noted before that I may be first click in the Spring. biased when touting our newsletter’s quality and content, • Change the oil. Acids in used oil, especially when not but that is not the case here. A straight up comparison circulating, will etch the bearing surfaces. Not the end by anyone familiar with reading quality journalism will of the world if it happens, but bearing manufactures go agree, the articles submitted by our members are top through a lot of effort to produce a perfect microfinish of the class. Also noted before…… no matter how good on the bearing, why not keep it that way. the content, without a ringmaster to pull it into order, it • Pour in a fuel stabilizer capable of offsetting the effects would never attain the quality we have come to expect. of the ethanol now present in all pump gas. Drive it Mike and Kathy O’Rear are tireless in their efforts when it long enough to get the mix through the entire system. comes to our Newsletter. Fill the tank to the brim to leave as little air in contact At no time is the following praise intended to deflect with the fuel as possible. from the contributions of past first contributors or our • Use a battery tender. Be aware that a battery does regular contributors who are responsible for continuous give off hydrogen when it is being charged. It is not monthly content. I just want to bring attention to Peter very much in our new sealed batteries and in most Church, Jay Fash, Tom Green, Skip Kuhn, and Hieu of our Porsches there is a vent tube to the outside. Ngyen whose first time submissions of an article might Nevertheless, if you want to be Hindenburg proof, prompt other members to follow suit. After five years of there is no harm in leaving the front lid open a bit. This producing an article every month I know how hard it is is model dependent since some have air movement to come up with content. Personal, technical, or general around the battery. Also model year dependent interest, it is hard to create something new. But if you you may need to remove the light bulb for the have never submitted something, especially a page on compartment light if the lid is left ajar. Some choose your first Porsche and why you are so passionate about to disconnect the battery while charging it during the marque, you will have a hard time convincing me you the 5 month sleep. For our cars with digital controls have writer’s block. Help fill our pages so Mike does not disconnecting the power does erase the “learned” have to clip pictures of Porsches off the internet to fill our driver input algorithms that the ECU stores. This is not terrific newsletter. a critical thing, but your car will not run the same as We had another huge turnout for the annual RSR when you parked it. Once you drive a few miles in the Color Tour. Sally & Stewart Free along with cohosts Claire spring the stored memory will be replaced and your & Al Utter again laid out an unbelievable route on some car will drive as it did when you parked it. You may also of the smooth and twisty roads in Michigan. Their order have to punch in a radio code. Make sure you have the for great weather was also filled. Our final destination radio code card before disconnecting the power. for a late lunch was the Zuckey Lake Tavern. Besides • Modern lower profile tires tend to get large flat having ample parking for our precious rides they also spots when parked for a period of time. Sometimes set up some private areas where everyone could revel in this problem manifests itself in a few days, but for stories of a wonderful day with their friends. One of our some tires it takes a