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The Side Draft Volume 24, Issue 01 January 2017
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
1 Chairman’s Message, Jan. Meeting, Minutes, Website
2 Annual Dues,
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2016 QCNCRS Officers,
2017 Membership Renewal
2017 Swap Meet Registration
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Chairman’s Message
…… Chris Rockenfield
Happy New Year! 2016 is now behind us and 2017 is already begun. I would like to thank all the club members for the support I received in the end of 2016 as acting chairman of our chapter. On January 17th our meeting will be held at Columbia Chevy. Jerry Hilbert has already dropped off tables and chairs, so there is no need to bring one. REMEMBER it is election night and a lot of upcoming events to talk about. All attendance is encouraged. Hope to see you there! Thank you, Chris Rockenfield
Minutes December 2016 … Tom Smith
Our December Meeting / Christmas Party was held at Aston Oaks Country Club. There are no minutes from this meeting/party. All records of the meeting/party are in the pictures taken by Joe Eyl & Jerry Hilbert. They were published in our December newsletter
January Meeting Info
…. Gary Grever, Chris Rockenfield
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Columbia Chevrolet
Phone: 513-891-3905
From I-275: Take I-275 North to exit 50 Montgomery / Morrow Exit (US 22W / OH 3 South) Go south on Montgomery Road / US 22W / OH 3 South for approx. 2.1 miles.
Food: Sandwiches and soft drinks for everyone.
Features: Gary Grever always makes our visit to Columbia Chevrolet a terrific experience. Come and see what he has in store and also the terrific deals he is offering.
Elections: We will be making nominations, closing nominations, and voting for our open QCNCRS officer positions.
Website: www.columbiachev.com
. Website Information
Queen City Chapter Web Site: http://www.ncrs.org/qc/
Webmaster: Dale Maris [email protected]
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NOTICE!
Newsletter Deadlines
The deadline for getting information,
into the newsletter
is the 6th
of each month.
If it isn’t here we will publish without
you.
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2017 Annual Dues are Due
…… Shannon Urton, Membership Chair
2017 dues are due and can be paid anytime between now and March 1, 2017. Please note, if you attended the Christmas Dinner your dues are paid for the year.
Attached is the 2017 Renewal Form. Either mail it to me, along with your check for $20, or bring it to a chapter meeting.
I need every member to fill out the form whether you pay on line, by check, cash or attend the Christmas Dinner.
Upcoming Technical Seminars
…… Joe Eyl, QCNCRS Technical Representative Please stay tuned … we have a number of exceptionally worthwhile subjects to explore this year. Things I Have Noticed
…… The Indiana Playboy
As you know I am an old “back-roads” race driver and have met, and known, many interesting… and some now famous, criminals. But in getting around to be able to do all the crazy things I did, I have seen much to be curious about America. I call it… ONLY IN AMERICA!
ONLY IN AMERICA: WHY ….
Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance?
Are there handicap parking spaces in front of a skating rink?
Do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke?
Do we have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering?
Do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
And one I particularly like… On a Japanese
food processor: “Not to be used for the other use.” Now, somebody out there, help me on this. I’m a bit curious.
Government News
…… Tom Smith
There are a lot of us who cannot spend unlimited amounts of money restoring Corvettes… so just to give you encouragement that you can often get the best for substantially less… here is a story about NASA vs. the Russians.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in ZERO gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface, including glass and at temperatures from below zero to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
My Six-Speed 1976 Corvette
…… Rod Russell
My first Corvette was a 1958 290 hp fuel injector that went faster than it’s brakes could handle. It began to float at 91 mph. So at 135 mph it had very light steering and NO brakes. It went 14.6 in the quarter mile at Edgewater Dragstrip. The seats were not made from material that lasted very long so I had them rolled & pleated.
I loved warm summer evenings riding with the top down, rumbling along through my hometown with the prettiest girls always wanting a ride. When you are 19 years old what else could you want? Gas was 40 cents a gallon.
Since then there has been twelve more Corvettes, but never one that matched my first love. I used to have dreams about finding it again and buying it back. Sometimes I would wakeup exhausted from dreaming I was running to catch it. Always in my mind was the thought of how fast my 1958 was and the feelings it gave. When I was sad it made me happy. When things didn’t go quite right, it made them better. And how nobody ever beat me at the
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Always in my mind was the thought of how fast my 1958 was and the feelings it gave. When I was sad it made me happy. When things didn’t go quite right, it made them better. And how nobody ever beat me at the light.
In 1997 I met my red 1976 Corvette. It had a broken motor, sloppy steering, wandering suspension… but it WAS RED. (Matt Stansbury came to my garage to help me determine what was wrong with it… he said, “Boy that sounds really bad!”. He knows a lot. All we could salvage from the motor was the block (a four bolt main 1970’s high performance from something other than a Corvette) and six pistons that turned out to be $100.00 each TRW high performance. The cam was a roller cam that someone had decided to match to regular hydraulic lifters… this makes a roller cam become a round lobed piece of junk. Two of the pistons had been installed backwards… TRW high performance pistons are center-offset. What this does is
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2016 QCNCRS OFFICERS
Chairman: Open
V. Chairman: Chris Rockenfield (513) 836-3686
3208 Golden Fox Trail Lebanon, OH 45036
Judging: John Ballard (502) 426-2184
10102 Kimblewick Drive Louisville, KY 40223-2184 [email protected]
Secretary: Tom Smith (513) 583-5034
7335 Haverhill Lane Maineville, OH 45039 [email protected]
Treasurer: Dr. Wayne McKee (513) 489-4305
10737 Wellerwoods Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242-3406 [email protected]
Membership: Shannon Urton (513) 836-3686
3208 Golden Fox Trail Lebanon, OH 45036 [email protected]
Historian: Joe Eyl (513) 896-9563
5851 Allison Avenue Indian Springs, OH 45011-2024 [email protected]
Editor: Rod Russell (812) 657-7610
2150 Washington Street Columbus, IN 47201 [email protected]
decided to match to regular hydraulic lifters… this makes a roller cam become a round lobed piece of junk. Two of the pistons had been installed backwards… ouch .. TRW high performance pistons are center-offset. These pistons put in backwards make skirts fracture, rod bearings spin, etc. So much for the piston rods and the crank.
The heads were double hump heads that everyone wants, but not these. They had been pre-loaded wrong and were cracked down the middle (both) right through the valve seats. To get them fixed turned out to be more expensive that getting a new set of high performance aftermarket heads.
A few months later we had a 400+ hp and 378 pounds of torque motor that is just on the edge of being unhappy on the street, but good mannered enough to be driven around the world.
The red car with a two-tone tan and cream interior turned out to originally have been white with a red interior.
With a 3:36 rear-end, the performance is terrific. When I reviewed the transmission gearing with Mike Murray (it has a double overdrive with a .50 sixth gear) he said, “What are you going to do with a 180 mph car?” It seems Mike was right… I am doing 2000rpm at 90 mph. However, what I wanted was the 30+ mpg I now am getting with a 400+hp engine.
I do not know who the guy was with the C-6 who thought he could outrun an old 1976 Corvette… I hope he didn’t sell his car.
Notice: You had to suffer
through this goofy story
because no one sent me any
news. Everyone have a
boring month?
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Queen City Chapter 2017 Chapter Registration Form
Annual Chapter Dues: $20.00 First Name:____________________________________________________________ Last Name:____________________________________________________________ Spouses Name: ________________________________________________________ Street Address:_________________________________________________________ City, State Zip:__________________________________________________________ Home Phone: __________________________________________________________ Cell Number:___________________________________________________________ Email Address:__________________________________________________________ You must be an active member of NCRS to join a chapter National NCRS Number: __________________ Options for membership renewal:
1.) Attend the 2016 QCNCRS Christmas Party/Awards Ceremony on December 4th and your
2017 chapter dues are included in the $25.00 per person cost!
2.) Renew Queen City Chapter Membership online at:
https://www.ncrs.org/forums/register/chapter-membership.php
3.) Complete the above form and send payment of $20.00 (payable to QCNCRS) to: Shannon
Urton at 3208 Golden Fox Trail Lebanon, Ohio 45036
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