Track Day with PCA

Our friends at the Central Coast Region of the Porsche Club are having a driver education day at Buttonwillow Raceway on Friday, May 27.  We are invited, so I will forward the registration information to anyone who's interested. 

Here's a sample photo from the MS car show yesterday at Jason Len's ranch in Corbett Canyon.  There will be more photos on Frank Cowan's blog later this week.  Jason's business is XK's Unlimited (near the airport), so Jaguar is the featured marque.  But there is wide variety of interesting machinery including hot rods and classic motorcycles, plus 15 entries from the Corvette club.  There were a number of beautiful Jaguar's, causing one to contemplate using the home equity for something truly meaningful........

Members of our group showing cars were Tom Elerding with his 1966 Mustang fastback and Richard Cole with his Ferrari Daytona.  Hamp and Sue Miller were helping out in a big way, running the gate and event registration. 

Our next event is the North County Tour on May 22 with lunch at McPhee's in Templeton - the E-vite will be out soon.

Dennis Harrold

SLO Area Contact

26 March drive to Mullin and Murphy Auto Museums, Oxnard

Thanks to Fearless Leader Dennis for arranging today's fascinating trip.

Where is everybody?

Hey! We're over here!

German factory

Amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

March 26 & Update

For those going on Saturday's tour of the Mullin and Murphy museums in Oxnard, here's a link to the lunch menu at Yolanda's:

 

http://www.yolandasmexicancafe.com/menu/lunch/

 

They will do separate checks, so a suggestion from Captain Obvious - bring ca$h.  Easier and faster for everyone plus you'll get to the Mullin sooner.

 

>>  Our next GGC chapter event is May 22, a tour of northern SLO County ending at McPhee's in Templeton for lunch.  An E-vite will be sent with all the details - meeting time is 9:30 at Tina's in Santa Margarita.

 

>>  There is a local event I encourage you to support, the MS car show at Jason Lenn's ranch in Arroyo Grande, 1771 Corbett Canyon road, on Sunday, April 10.  The show starts at 10:00, so I will to be at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Pismo Beach at 9:15.   We can have a coffee and hang out for a while, then head for the show, about 15 minutes away.  Admission is $10 and there is also a $15 BBQ lunch, all proceeds going to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.  It is an eclectic collection of everything from classics to hot rods, motorcycles, and there have been rare models where only a handful still exist.  Jason is the proprietor of XK'S Unlimited, and there will be an open house at his shop on Friday, April 8.  It is located at 850 Fiero Lane, just north of the airport.

 

Notes from March 5 Service Seminar 

 

>>  We were well served by Rob Rogers and assistant Glenn, and Coast provided donuts and coffee.   

 

>>  Their preference in the Perpetual Saga of Auto Trans Servicing is to leave it alone if it already has significant mileage - 60K+?  They've had trouble with the high mileage ones they have serviced at the owner's request.  Another thought to consider is doing what a writer to Roundel has done with his '95 525ia still on it's original trans.  He does a "service lite" every 30K, simply draining and replacing the fluid instead of several flushes to completely change it.  And of course he cleans the filters and screens.

 

>>  The subject of oil capacity on M-cars was brought up, not unknown by a couple of our group to have them over-filled.  The capacity for the V-10 is 10 quarts, and the S54 (6 cyl.) is 6 quarts. 

 

>>  The factory actively reviews major warranty issues, with link from each dealer to Munich.  They have a significant computer setup to make this possible.

 

>>  The tech inspection of new member Stephen Thompson's 335i coupe consisted of checking tires, brakes, suspension bushings, axle shafts and for any oil or fluid leaks from the drive train.  They did the inspection gratis, and also ran through the Porsche Club list which is 5 pages (BMW's is two).

 

>>  And finally we were reminded to take our cars and really drive them when the situation permits.  They are designed and built to be driven hard, and can actually suffer from too much chugging around town.

 

>>  Pictures of the tech seminar from Frank Cowan's blog (if you look through the archives you can find pix from last year's MS car show):  http://ccbmwdrivers.blogspot.com/

 

 

One more thing - how many would be interested in getting together for breakfast roughly once a month?  The 356 group meets at Scottie's in Pismo Beach on the 3rd Saturday of the month, pretty central for our group.  We could have our own table on the same day since there's nobody else in the place at 9:00 when they open.  Let me know..........

 

Cheers, Dennis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tech Session Q&A, Coast BMW San Luis Obispo, 5 March 2011

Many thanks to Robbie and Glenn!

Robbie explains the mysteries of German engineering

Glenn explains injectors