<VV> Fw: [fastvair] An update on whats happening at the Workshop

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From: "cooterr2003" <cooterr2003 at yahoo.com>
To: <fastvair at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:13 PM
Subject: [fastvair] An update on whats happening at the Workshop


> Okay Guys,
>
> Sorry for the length of this post but a lot of stuff going on at the
> Workshop.
>
> Here's the current state of affairs for the "Performance Workshop to
> be held on March 7th in Indy. On Friday, setup for will take place in
> the afternoon. Friday morning several tours will be available for
> your viewing pleasure. First is the shop called Automotive Hammer Art
> were they bang out custom steel bodies for hotrods and other modes of
> transportation.  The next stop on the way to the workshop is a small
> company that custom builds midget race cars. For those not familiar
> with midget racing, it is an open wheel car with an open cockpit and
> a short wheel base and is very popular in the Midwest. The third leg
> of the trifecta is the Indianapolis  Speedway Museum, located on the
> grounds of the Speedway. All these activities are but a short
> distance from the hotel and workshop location. If you go to the
> Performance Workshop Website you will find a link to these different
> sites that have pictures to show what they are about.
> http://www.corvair.org/chapters/pcg/index.html
>
> Friday at six will be the start of the evening revelry at the Union
> Jacks Pub on west 25th street. This pub is well known for it's pizza
> and 24 brands of beer on tap and the theme of the pub is pure racing.
> I'm sure that this will be a good time for all. You can contact Ned
> Madsen if you are planning on attending the dinner on Friday evening
> at aeroned at aol.com
>
>
>
> The workshop will begin at 0800 on Saturday, March 7th . The address
> is:
> Freelance Lettering
> 4A Gasoline Alley
> Indianapolis, IN,
>
> Registration starts at 0800 with coffee and donuts, fruit and juice.
> A meeting of the Performance Corvair Group will be held first to get
> the officer s elected for the coming year. This will not take long,
> garuunteed.
>
> Updates From NECC, the Mitty, and others will take place during the
> day. Tom Knoblauch will do a presentation on his development of a new
> cooling fan for the vair.
>
> There will be a session put on by PROKOTE on the use of various types
> of engine coatings for the control of heat and reducing friction
> internally.
>
> Another session will be presented by, IMPACT RACE PRODUCTS. This is
> the new Bill Simpson company and they specialize in safety equipment
> for the go fast crowd. This has turned out to be rather timely since
> Dan Giannatti was involved in a serious accident while being
> certified for his racing license at Roebling Roads Race Track. Safety
> equipment saved him, but Dan now wishes he had used even more safety
> equipment. This company has harnesses, driving suits, helmets, hanhs
> devices to reduce those neck injuries, plus much more so bring your
> questions and checkbooks.
>
> Lunch will happen about this time, which is included in your
> registration. After lunch, The tech sessions take off again with a
> talk given by Linder Tech Services on ignitions and fuel injection.
>
> Plus there will be vendors set up for your perusing, Cars on display
> will be Bill Clarks very clean 66 Corsa with the Stage II motor and a
> lot of custom goodies. Another car to be shown is Max Roeder's
> Snowball. When you see snowball, you will understand the name. Max
> has worked on this car for six years. It now sports, port fuel
> injection, twin watercooled turbos, twin intercoolers, and more
> instrumentation then the Apollo Moon lander.
>
> The web site for more info is:
> http://www.corvair.org/chapters/pcg/index.html or contact Tom Miller
> at cooterr2003 at yahoo.com , Ned Madsen at: aeroned at aol.com
>
>
>
> Tom Miller
>
>
>
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