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We would like to thank all of those who attended the Smooth Jazz Festival and brought their cars to show. Due to the weather, judging the cars was not possible. We apologize for those that couldn’t be judged.
October
14th Autocross It was a beautiful day for our last autocross. Just the drive to Marshalltown and back was a great fall ride. We are sorry for those who missed this fun day, now you will have to wait for next spring to try your driving talents at the track. Results: Dave Everett 1:24.73 John Dyson 1:24.99 Tracy Everett 1:25.00 Bob Dideriksen 1:25.62 Jaey Sedlacek 1:26.77 Jason Walter 1:27.13 Wayne Witten 1:27.50 Tanya Meyer 1:27.96 Darrell Frett 1:27.98 Tom Rusk 1:31.29 Maralee Dyson 1:32.36 November
Event – A Party for Tom Bruch The Tom Bruch Retirement Party is confirmed for Saturday, November 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the ARA Art Gallery. This will be a PCA/family affair at the new ARA Art Gallery at 3525 First Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids. It is only about ¼ block from the Towne & Country shopping center. It has a small lot so the Towne & Country parking lot will need to be utilized. However, if you arrive early and are driving your Porsche, the owner would like to have as many Porsches parked in front of the establishment as possible. We'll make it a mini Parade! ARA Gallery has been newly remodeled, featuring all kinds of original art (pottery, sculptures, paintings, custom framing, porcelain, glassware) mostly in the contemporary theme. They have seating for 65 people, a wet bar, many contemporary couches and large counter for buffet. It will be catered by Kristeena's with heavy hors d'oeuvres, desserts and wines with classical or jazz music in the background. The attire will be dressy but not formal. The best directions to get there is to take I-380 to Collins Road exit, go east toward Lindale Mall, turn right at C Ave NE, turn left at 40th Street, turn right on First Avenue, turn left into Towne & Country Shopping mall. It would be best to park close to Buck's as it is only ¼ block from the corner of 36th Street NE & 1st Avenue. It is located on the same side of street as Towne & Country Mall. Dear
CIA Members. On October 2, my father, Jim Dideriksen, passed away at the young age of 78. He appeared to be in excellent health, took no medications of any kind and was still actively farming 550 acres of land in southwest Iowa. I wish to thank all those and especially the Dyson’s, the Anthony’s, and the Elseman’s, and all PCA members and Porsche owners everywhere who have been so kind and gentle during these past difficult weeks. I believe that I learned my passion for Porsche sports cars like my dad’s passion for John Deere tractors. Both of us took great pride and pleasure in our own respective vehicles. If there is a Heaven, then surely my dad is farming and driving a John Deere with shiny yellow wheels. NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE. PORSCHE , THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE. Thank you, Jim’s boy, Robert (turbo Bob) October
22nd Fall Leaf Drive President Dideriksen called an impromptu fall leaf drive for Sunday, the 22nd. We had a great attendance but the weather was not very cooperative. It was a fun drive anyway with 10 cars wondering through south east Iowa. We had lunch in Burlington at the Big Muddy. After lunch we drove the Porsches down Snake Alley. There were some pictures taken and they should make the street look great with the cars all winding down the street. Just the Details by David Bynon, San Diego Region (from THE WINDBLOWN WITNESS) Without a doubt, one of the most dreaded car care problems we face is the bird. Beautiful to watch fly, but vial to our car's finish, a bird's droppings can quickly cause damage to your paint. A bird's droppings are very acidic (pH 3.5 to 4.5). When they fall on your paint, the acid begins to burn and etch the paint's surface. The longer the bird droppings remain, the greater the damage. I've had bird bomb incidents with my Speed Yellow 996 (the seagulls just seem to think it's a target) that have created damage as deep as 2-3 mils. To give you an idea of what that means, notebook paper is approximately 2 mils of thickness. Your car's paint is only 6-8 mils thick. The result of bird dropping damage is a dimple in the paint's surface, often as large as an inch or more in diameter. This damage is permanent, but can easily be repaired. Repairing Damage The only way to repair the damage caused by bird droppings is to polish the paint. You must use the polish to blend the surrounding paint, bringing it down to the same level as the damaged area. This may sound drastic, but it works very well. The only concern is that you're making the paint thinner. So you must be careful not to polish all the way through to the primer. Do so, and you'll have a more noticeable problem than what the bird left behind. Any good paint polish can be used to fix the damage with a fair amount of rubbing. I've found that it's better to start with a mild compound, as you would find in a scratch remover (Eagle One Scratch Remover is a good example), followed by a good hand polish. Preventing Damage While it's not really possible to keep birds from bombing your car with their dirty little surprises, you can take steps to limit the damage. The most obvious protection is a car cover (please, not while you're driving). But, even the cover won't help you on the road. To limit the damage when you get hit, you need to remove the offending slim as quickly as possible. Don't wait. Get it off of your car. I've found the best way to clean
up after a bird is with a good detailing spray and a cotton terry cloth towel.
As I'm a clean car fanatic anyway, I keep a little detailing kit in my trunk. It
holds a spray bottle of quick detailing spray, a couple towels, and my favorite
rubber and vinyl dressing. Another way to protect your paint from bird damage is to keep your car waxed. While a standard carnauba wax offers limited protection against a juicy attack, it makes cleanup much easier. Acrylic polymer sealants protect a little better against the harsh acids, but it's not enough to create a damage-free barrier if the bird poop sits too long. You still need to remove the mess as quickly as possible. Ed: Visit David Bynon's website at www.Autopia-Carcare.com Information Needed and/or UpdatedWe would like to thank all of you who have responded and sent your information to us. We still hope to hear from more of you and we are in need of your phone numbers and e-mail address. There are times that we might need to contact you about an upcoming event that we don’t have time to send a mailing. Please consider getting this information to us. The bad news is that some of you have changed you e-mail and forgotten to let us know about the change. We have been making it a practice to send e-mail reminders just before an event. This has prompted us to check on some of the e-mails that did not get through. Send information to : Editor, Maralee Dyson: jmdyson@home.com, or 837 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240, or (319) 337-5367. President, Bob Dideriksen: bdideriksen@webtv.net, or 2335 Mulberry St.,#6, Coralville, IA 52241, or (319) 338-8403. The Club's Web Page Jason Walter is our Porsche-webmeister. He is doing a great job of keeping up the Central Iowa Region page. If you wish to look at the page go to, www.pca.org/cia If you have any ideas for the site or contributions please let Jason know at jasonray@sbt.net . Factory Sport Exhaust by Kerry Maguire, San Diego Region (from THE WINDBLOWN WITNESS) I recently had the Porsche Factory Sport Exhaust system installed on my 2000 Boxster S. For years I have enjoyed the 993 motor sound package offered by Porsche and have been awaiting a similar offer for the water-cooled cars. Finally, the upgrade sound package arrived and I couldn't wait to have it fitted. Does it sound like a 993 motor sound package? Not in the least. Does it look like a factory part? Not in the least. Does the Sport Exhaust have a nice growl at idle? It doesn't even do that. So why am I so enamored of this new accessory? The Sport Exhaust Package for the Boxster doesn't wail and scream so much as it whooshes under load while accelerating. The sound can be described as a mature sound, not an annoying, tiresome growl every time the camshaft turns sound. The sound produced by this exhaust system is best described as what one would have expected a Boxster to sound like the first time you heard it, but were mildly disappointed that it didn't sound as good as the car looked. There is absolutely no boominess nor drone in the cockpit. As a totally unexpected plus, the car sounds marvelous on deceleration, like a jet winding down. I have learned from personal experience, and by talking with other folks, that people who buy after-market exhaust systems for their daily drivers usually end up doing one of two things. The sound gets to be so tiresome that they either remove the after-market exhaust and reinstall factory equipment or some even go so far as to just sell the car. I have done both. Tom Muehl, lead Porsche technician at Pioneer Centres, installed the new exhaust system on my car. When the installation was complete, Tom hooked up the Porsche computer to the Boxster and electronically controlled the exhaust passageways, opening and closing them by varying the speedometer on the tester. The car opened the passageways at idle, closed them at 6 mph and then reopened the passageways at 27 mph whereupon they stayed open from then on. As Tom controlled the speed of the car via the computer, I looked underneath the vehicle while it was on the lift and could see the passageway flaps opening and closing. I have never before witnessed such a sophisticated exhaust system. On the 993, the technician simply removed the stock exhaust and then bolted on the new motor sound package. The new Boxster Sport Exhaust Package required the running of extra wiring to the control unit of the vehicle to electronically operate the passageways. The rear bumper was removed, the soft top was released at its mounting points, and even the driver's seat was removed to facilitate this install. The complete installation time is about 7 hours. Lennie Yee, the Parts Manager at Pioneer Centres, tells me that the Factory Sport Exhaust System is still a relatively rare product since Germany only ships 4 to 5 total assemblies to the U.S. at a time to serve over 200 Porsche dealers. Lennie is awaiting the arrival of the Sport Exhaust System for the 996 models and those units should be at the dealer soon, possibly by the time this article is in print. Don't be hesitant to consider this Sport Exhaust System. If you are looking for it to growl and wail on start-up, you will be disappointed. However, if we happen to be cruising down the highway side by side, lower your window and you will be treated to the most melodic tone to ever come out of a Boxster. The Sport Exhaust System does not burn your ears with loud noises but, instead gives a nice, subtle but powerful note that one could enjoy for several hours of driving like when one makes a San Diego to Vegas run. By the way. the Sport Exhaust System is available for all 2.5, 2.7 and 3.2 litre Boxster engines.
The Porsche SUV (again) by Skip Carter, San Diego Region (from THE WINDBLOWN WITNESS) Virtually every article, conversation and e-mail I've heard or seen in the last year has been critical of the upcoming Porsche SUV. Personally, I didn't feel much one way or another about it. Now, when I heard that owning the SUV makes you eligible to join PCA, that was another story. I can't figure out how that is going to work. I only hope that one day soon we will get a report from National letting us know the logic of that idea. Until then, I'm trying to be patient (one of my, ah, stronger personality traits). The logic of producing an SUV finally does make some sense to me after listening to a couple of people much closer to the factory than I'll ever be. Much of what I'm saying here will be paraphrasing those people. We all know that back in the dark days of the recession Porsche was in very hot water. Rumor has it that many dealers were operating on a day to day basis. Anyone out there who doesn't think we'll see another recession, please raise your hand. Ummm, that's what I thought. What part of the auto industry goes in the tank first in a recession. If you guessed Sports Cars,you get a gold star! Second tough question: What would be a stable seller in a recession? Trucks, minivans, economy cars and Sport Utility Vehicles, right? Gee, if I was Porsche AG and wanted to protect myself in a recession would I rather produce an economy car? (Yuk!), a minivan or truck? Market surveys show the SUV market is the best market to expand into. Most Porsche owners own 2-4 vehicles and SUV's are a predominant part of that. The biggest complaint about current SUV's are their poor handling, their lack of good brakes and lousy power. Gee, do we know anybody who can build cars with power, good brakes and handling? Hey, how about building the best Sport Utility Vehicle in the world? How about building the first SUV where the word "Sport" actually means something! Who better than Porsche to do this? How about the world's best SUV to provide the stability to weather bad economic times and to resist the threat of being gobbled up by one of the Big Three (it is three, isn't it?). The Cayenne will come in three models: a V6, a V8 and a Turbo V8! My wife and 12-year old daughter have been talking about trading in our Dodge Caravan for a Nissan Xtera. Wait a few years dear, I think I may have a better idea! Also (and this came from a
Porsche factory rep at the Sacrament Parade), once the SUV project is in
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