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Capitol City Rockets —Oldsmobile Club of America Sept-Nov 2009 A 2008 Old Cars Weekly Golden Quill Award publication Volume 20, Issue 4 Scott Phillips—Editor The Rocket Review Quarterly Super Fall Edition This year‘s All-GM show at Montgom- ery College on Au- gust 8th again worked out great. Inside this issue: 129 cars attended, with almost half Gary S. Update Treas- 2 pre-paid. Right is urer’s Report Mark Levine‘s ‗72 Delta 88 Converti- Jetfire Rebuild IV 3-4 ble. All-GM results, pictures 5- 11 VP’s Message—Cory Correll Local/National Calen- 12- CCR members, dar, Classifieds 13 PayPal option work for online dropped his trophy, breaking The 2009 All-GM Show is now a registration after months of his pump, and Denney Keys fading memory as we head into Membership Directory/ 14 tweaking the set-up. came to the rescue with a spare fall. It was a great effort on Renewal Form Much refiguring and one from his truck. both club's parts and it would redesigning of the new field be impossible to do it without was necessary due to the heavy The food vendor and the combined efforts of both construction across from the Mikey-the-Music Man were at sister clubs. I am proud to be Club Events—Save duck-pond, and many thanks their best. The GM-history associated with everyone in- the Dates: go out to various members of trivia questions were a hit to volved and am glad that it was both clubs who helped to make make the door prize winners more fun than work in the end. Sat, Oct 24, it work. Many thanks as well work for their prizes. We will We did feel the effects Rockville Civic go to the Montgomery College try that again next year if we of the economy this year, as we Security & events folks for can get enough new questions. had 48 less entries than our Center Show, helping me at every turn going It was unanimous that the new record breaking 2008 show of out of their way to make things show field was a favorite over informal 177. We noticed that more than work for us. I have been told the others and I will try to get it half of the cars & trucks coming meeting at that they love our show and again for 2010. in were pre-registered to save look forward to it. Also thanks go to Elsie one at Cory’s $5, which was something to- Lot of kudos go to Bell and the Browns for gra- tally new. We streamlined gold 1966 To- CCR members for taking in the ciously hosting the bag-stuffing much of the work at the front pre-registrations and handling party and last minute planning ronado gate like just alphabetizing the the ever impatient return calls meetings that helped make the pre-registered cars and split- and ferrying the money to the whole show work. Again, I am Sun, Nov 8th, ting the driveway in two. This Buick club to keep track of it. very proud to be part of the made more cars move quicker regular club Finally many thanks to our best group of car nuts that and the complete laptop tabu- laptop vote counters and tabu- make all this crazy Herculean meeting at lating of the registrants before, lators and for their help with effort called a car show worth it during and after the show Kilroys in VA, antique gas pump assembly. It in the end. It was fun! ------------ greatly improved efficiency. We saved the day when the "Best 1:30 pm were also able to make the of Show--Modified" winner -Cory ThePa ge Rocket 2 Review The Rocket Review Volume 20, Issue 4 Volume 20, IssuePa ge 42 Gary Sutherlin’s Engine Update Editor‘s Note: CCR mem- time" with no engine in, posable brush, touching ber Gary Sutherlin shared with me made it easier for me to up a few rust/bare spots. in an email this update on his new add my makeshift junc- ZZ454 GM crate engine for the I know the engine blue 1966 El Camino he brought to tion block, add the miss- is a BIG block, it just the All-GM. As I know many of ing wire and correct to doesn't look that big in us look at and consider engine re- how it is supposed to be the engine bay. I suppose placements, I thought members wired. It also gave me a Paul Seleckmann and his once the rest of the stuff might find Gary’s update interesting. better view and access wife drove this maroon 1962 Thanks Gary for the info! is actually bolted on it'll HereCutlass is Gary convertible Sutherlin‘s down ‗66 for looking for the get a bit more crowded My El Chevyfrom El PA Camino to show at offthe its All new GM proper ground straps, between the fenders. I am interior and rebuilt engine. Camino engine update is this past August. and I added the negative still wondering what 440 still on-going. The new terminal to frame miss- HP and 500 ft/lbs of engine is sitting out on ing wire. With the old torque will feel like at the floor and the "GM steering column out, WOT. Since I will do the Performance Pan Kit", replacing the speedome- "valve train conditioning" made in Taiwan, pan has ter cluster lens was a I guess I'll find out soon been painted and is wait- whole lot easier and get- enough... ing for the mechanic to ting the thing back to- get some non-normal cus- gether correctly was not Since I never tomer need-it-now time. something I was com- knew what the old engine This is something I agree pletely successful doing had when it was running and support. They have with the column in. To- well, I don't know what customers with daily driv- day I found a couple of to expect. I didn't get on ers, work trucks that "hot air holes" in the it that much before and really need their vehicles firewall I'll stuff with probably won't that much fixed sooner than later. dum-dum. While the in the future either. The These rear wheels will have a Besides I enjoy driving mechanic was taking the mechanic started it yester- little more power behind them my Olds as my daily trans day and it already in the near future... headers and loose, driver. I was underneath with a sounded MUCH better than the old engine! Actually the "idle can of POR-15 and dis- Treasurer’s Report—Ken Quincy CCR Treasurer‘s Report as of 10-5-09 Balance 8-11-09: $1815.17 Expenses: -0- Income: Show reimbursement $ 919.70 Balance as of 10-5-09: $2814.86 Remainder of ½ GM Show profits* $ 49.99 *$71.30 was received from PayPal Dues $ 30.00 registrations booked on 8-10-09. Total Income $ 999.69 ThePa ge Rocket 3 Review The Rocket Review Volume 20, Issue 4 Volume 20, IssuePa ge 43 Jetfire Engine Rebuild, Part IV—Rise of the Turbo Last issue con- he said something like formed through pictures cluded with balancing the “I‟ve built a bunch of of his progress on the crank and internal circu- these, and this is the turbo, which took him lating parts. Having cov- worst I‟ve seen by far!” about 2 months to finish, ered the block, the valve Regardless, he with the biggest delays train, and the bottom end, was extraordinarily me- coming from his recondi- now came the tricky tioning the scored bearing Paul Seleckmann and his ticulous in his disassem- parts—the turbo, carb, wife drove this maroon 1962 bly, rebuilding, and reas- race inside the turbo itself The turbo/carb setup as it ap- and fluid injection system. Cutlass convertible down sembly of the turbo and and special ordering (they peared when shipped out to Jim from PA to show off its new I had inquired carb. The turbo is an were non-existent) a set Noel.interior Ugly and and rebuilt rusty. engine. when I first got the en- AirResearch model that of ruptured diaphragms gine back in 2001 about creates between 6-8 lbs. for the waste gate. parts and rebuilding ser- of boost before a As you can see vices from the main 215 wastegate opens. In or- from the pictures, Jim‟s company in the US, der to control detona- work was cut out for him, D&D Fabrications in tion as temperatures and he did a tremendous Michigan. Essentially, from the exhaust driven job. The hardest part was they said it was turbo can exceed 1400 actually plumbing it once “unobtainium” - their degrees, a fluid injection I had it back, on the term for there were no of 50/50 methyl alcohol manifold, and on top of parts sources or rebuild- and distilled water (with the engine. The great ers. They were able to, a touch of water pump thing Jim did was to label however, give me the lubricant) pressurized by each connection (52 in Internal wastegate gasket was phone number of a gen- manifold vacuum is in- all!) with its mate on little hardest part to find. Jim tracked tleman named Jim Noel, jected into the throttle key fobs. There are many down the original manufacturer. who resides in Minnesota. body between the single different sizes of vacuum, Fast forwarding to last barrel side draft Roches- fuel, and coolant tubing year when I began to re- ter carb and the turbo.