008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 M 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 you’re 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 VOL. 36 Event: The inaugural PCA Club Race at DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Daytona, FL. ISSUE NO. 3 Assignment: Prepare and Support our customers’ cars. 008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 MARCH 2008 M Results: All Great... some Extaordinary! FEATURES 12 12 14 DE Ground School... Thrill Rides! 16 Newcomer’s Meeting @ IRA 18 18 20 DE @ NHIS 21 DE @ NHIS 24 DE 2008 Schedule/Information 28 20 27 Porsche Clash Needs Help 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. 28 Barry Brensinger: 2nd in class in sprint after starting last overall... setting another B class track record. 30 News from Porsche Andy Jenks: 3rd in class of 26 F cars and 4th overall in enduro after a dramatic spin dropped him to 30th early. 32 Caryl Brensinger, Bruce Hauben, Wayne Mackie and Steve Boris: Finished off the podium but ran safely without problems or issues. 32 Automobilia Mecca - Barrett Jackson CONGRATULATIONS!! to our customers and friends on their outstanding performance at Daytona. DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS COVER 8 Anniversaries 4 Out In The Passing Lane While not all our customers race their cars or even participate in the PCA drivers education program, Cover Photo we believe all our clients deserve the same level of personalized, professional care we have become known 12 Calendar 5 Upshifting Another beautiful cover shot 41 Marketplace 6 Four Speeds & Drum Brakes courtesy of PCNA... zoom, zoom! for in race paddocks all across the country. 42 Board of Directors 7 Around the Cones and Committee Chairs 8 Minutes Of The Board Our commitment to excellence shows in many ways, through our flexible scheduling, our cost effective 42 New Member Roster 9 Double Clutching approach to proper repair and maintenance and our unique ability to help make your Porsche ownership 10 Flat Sixer pleasurable and rewarding. 11 In The Pits So, the next time your Porsche needs a little TLC... even if you’re not planning on driving the banking at Daytona... call or drop us a note. 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EMAIL [email protected] Out In The Passing Lane Dave Weber et’s start this month’s column off with some that my brothers and I raced around our neigh- Lgood news for a change. For those of you borhood back in 1959. As I’ve said, I believe my following my comments concerning Verizon FiOS interest in cars and racing started back then in I can report that our first two months’ experi- the seat of a little fiberglass-bodied lawn mower ence with the service has been fantastic. The TV engine powered primitive go-kart. What fun it service, channel selection and picture quality are was. I probably should have bid on the go-kart at terrific. The high-speed Internet service is unbe- the auction just for sentimental reasons. lievable. Susana and I are constantly singing the Dealing with winter day after day is a challenge praises of that service to each other. The down- no matter how well prepared you may have been load and upload speeds are incredible — when I at the start of the season. Back in November I ar- upload the new online issues of the NOR’EASTER it ranged to have our garden tractor/snow thrower literally takes a couple of seconds versus a minute serviced, with a special request that they really go when we used Comcast, and at least ten minutes over the snow thrower attachment. The service when we used Earthlink’s satellite service. I rag work was completed quickly and nothing special my IT department staff at work, complaining that needed to be done. I figured I’d spent money us- our office T1 line is really slow in comparison. ing the ‘ounce of prevention‘ approach for main- When and if you have the opportunity to sign up tenance of the machine. The snow started falling for FiOS my strong recommendation is that you in large quantities early in December and for the jump on it — especially if they’re running the free first couple of cleanups everything worked per- TV promotion at the time. We just received our fectly on the snow thrower. Then things started free Sharp 19-inch HD TV yesterday! I did learn happening; first a shear pin broke (for reasons from Verizon’s Customer Service Department that unknown as I’d not hit anything). Repairing that problem wasn’t a big deal once I Dealing with winter day after day is a located and cleared the remains of the broken pin. Then I apparently challenge no matter how well prepared you nodded off one morning while clean- may have been at the start of the season. ing up after yet another snowfall, and managed to wrap a substantial metal driveway marker around the snow thrower’s blades and drive shaft. That they are currently out of HD receiver boxes — ap- took several tools and lots of force to unwrap the parently Motorola can’t keep up with all the new now tightly bound marker. Then, just before we installations being made by Verizon. were to leave town to attend the Barrett Jack- I had a couple of requests to run a picture of son Collector Car Auction, while cleaning up yet the ’59 Corvette go-kart that we discovered at another heavy wet ten-inch snowfall, the drive the recent Barrett Jackson Collector Car Auction. belt on the snow thrower attachment snapped The one pictured here was identical in all aspects (making a sound like a gun shot). except the color (red versus blue) to the one Again I figured I’d be able to quickly replace the belt but, when I started that task, I discovered that when the belt broke it bent the mounting bracket holding the idler pulleys.