DER PORSCHEAUSPUFF CLUB OF AMERICA SANTA BARBARA REGION Road Trip! A 356 in Need of an Engine Hundreds of Miles Away Page 12 Valve Stems Everything You Never The 160 mph Needed to Know Turbocharged 911 Page 20 Brutally Fast, with a Well-Deserved Reputation Page 16 930 FEBRUARY 2006 Cover Story 16 Porsche 930 The return of the 911 Turbo Special 18 Tribute to Bud Ewbank The passing of a good friend 16 Features 12 12 Road Trip Why crate a new engine when you can drive there and swap it out? 20 Technology Valve Stems - The century-old device that holds air in your tires 20 22 Detailing Mother’s California Gold car wash soap – It’s more than just bubbles 18 Events 8 Camarillo Breakfast Club 10 Santa Barbara Breakfast Club Departments 2 SBR Board of Directors Der Auspuff , which translates as “the exhaust,” is the offi cial publication of 3 SBR Appointees the Santa Barbara Region, Porsche Club of America. 3 Zone 8 Staff and Websites Chartered regions of PCA are granted permission 4 President’s Column to reprint any material herein provided full credit is given to the author and Der Auspuff (with the exception of copyrighted material). 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Auspuff are available for $18/year (12 Join PCA’s Santa Barbara Region today! monthly issues). Contact the Editor. Visit www.pca.org PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA SANTA BARBARA REGION FEBRUARY 2006 1 Santa Barbara Region Board of Directors President Activities Advertising Joe Carastro Barry Weinstein Lynn Kuchera 480 Vereda Del Ciervo 2820 Blazing Star Drive P.O. Box 2692 Goleta, CA 93117 Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 Camarillo, CA 93011 Tel. (805) 968-9962 Tel. (805) 241-5641 Tel. (805) 484-0101 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Activities Membership Gary Gasperino Valerie Weinstein Jeanette Bassett 1967 La Ramada Drive 2820 Blazing Star Drive 6143 Armitos Drive Camarillo, CA 93012 Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 Camarillo, CA 93012 Tel. (805) 484-0182 Tel. (805) 241-5641 Tel. (805) 388-2195 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Secretary Goodie Store Insurance Karen Turek Mike Hodson Jansen Martin 1230 Ebony Drive 6076 Tahoe Place 29406 Promontory Place Oxnard, CA 93030 Camarillo, CA 93012 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 Tel. (805) 988-9827 Tel. (805) 279-2252 Tel. (818) 889-3583 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer Goodie Store Der Auspuff Editor George Barrett Pamuela Hodson Michael C. Harley 1908 Johnson Drive 6076 Tahoe Place 207 Via Inez Ventura, CA 93003 Camarillo, CA 93012 Newbury Park, CA 91320 Tel. (805) 684-3465 Tel. (805) 279-2252 Tel. (805) 499-6331 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2 FEBRUARY 2006 PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA SANTA BARBARA REGION Santa Barbara Region Appointees Archivist Concours Safety Burt Misivic Joe Carastro Mike Furnish 617 Valley Vista Drive 480 Vereda Del Ciervo 951 Skeel Drive Camarillo, CA 93010 Goleta, CA 93117 Camarillo, CA 93010 Tel. (805) 482-7076 Tel. 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(805) 338-6000 Tel. (805) 964-5305 Tel. (323) 721-8511 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA SANTA BARBARA REGION FEBRUARY 2006 3 President’s Column Gerade Aus! By Joe Carastro The mood of the Santa Barbara Region’s fi rst meeting of the Board of Directors can only be described as very somber as we had just learned of the passing of Past-President, Bud Ewbank. I fi rst joined SBR in 1998, the fi rst year of a seven-year stewardship of the region by Bud and Carolyn. The list of accomplishments achieved by SBR in that period is too long to print but includes Region of the Year recognition and no less than three Heinmiller awards. That much of what we all enjoy of our Porsche Club experience is due to Bud’s hard work and giving nature goes without saying. The Board of Directors, in Bud’s honor, has named the American Heart Association as our designated charity for 2006. In addition to a contribution from our treasury, SBR will accept donations from individual members in Bud’s honor. Our sincere condolences go out to Carolyn and Bud’s family. We will all miss Bud’s cheerful demeanor but what he has accomplished will live on in the spirit of SBR. We are in the planning stages of a Memorial Drive to visit some of the places where Bud’s leadership was instrumental to the successes of the region – information will be made available at the February Breakfast Meetings. Joe Visit Porsche Santa Barbara and Rusnak Porsche to see the new Cayman S in person! 4 FEBRUARY 2006 PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA SANTA BARBARA REGION of Porsches will do the same through the canyons of Malibu… twice! Editor’s Column Nature supplies the weather and scenery. Your taxes built and maintain the roads. The Santa Barbara Region organizes the event. All If I were a Porsche, you need to do is bring a Porsche, a smile, and enjoy yourself! I’d want to live here too On another subject… over the next year, each issue of Der Auspuff will feature a Porsche either owned, for sale, or visiting the Santa Barbara By Michael C. Harley Region on the cover. Even better, we will include a feature article in the center spread of this publication with technical information and a driving experience. If you own a Porsche that you feel other members will fi nd interesting (rare, fast, slow, colorful, customized, etc…), please It doesn’t take more than a few seconds of watching the national contact me and we’ll see if we can arrange something (even if you’ve weather report to realize how lucky we are in Southern California. Our never attended an event with us we want to feature your car). Porsches don’t hibernate through a frozen winter, locked and cold under plastic tarps. We don’t add fuel stabilizers, pump up the tires, and One last mention… I wanted to thank both of our local Porsche put mothballs under the car hoping to keep the critters out. retailers, Rusnak Porsche in Westlake and Santa Barbara Porsche, Instead, thanks to our very accommodating climate, our Porsches for their support over the years. Both retailers have been extremely accompany us to breakfasts on the pier overlooking the Pacifi c Ocean in generous to our Region.