<VV> Corvair Performance Group Workshop 11 Report(long)

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First of all, the weather cooperated. Turns out we were between storms. The 
PCG Thursday evening arrivals walked a block to a restaurant to eat 
together, then gathered in the lobby area moving to the breakfast room and 
began bench racing.

The next morning, Friday, March 7th, it was a beautiful day with temps up 
into the mid-fifties. We started with our tour of Advanced Racing 
Suspensions. ARS provides technical analysis of suspension issues, they make 
and repair shock absorbers for all types of racing, including a line of 
quarter midget shocks. All are custom valved with various combinations of 
disks and orifices to give desired low speed and speed high responses in 
both directions. After that, many went to LeVair Performance to sample their 
open house. Others toured Dallara and/or the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 
Museum.
Friday late afternoon was vendor set-up at TKO Graphics, in Plainfield, just 
west of the Airport. We met at the Coachman for dinner, a restaurant that 
has served us well and did so this year too. All returned to the host hotel 
for a get together with racing videos, snacks and drinks.

Saturday began early. Registration started at 7:30 am. It went well as many 
pre-registered. 92 paid attendance. We began our program with announcments 
of the V8 Drag racing event, a Mini Convention at Branson, MO and the NECC 
Track day in NY in May. We held elections. Tracy LeVeque is our new 
President. She has experience holding large gatherings and already has plans 
for next year.

The program went very well and followed the schedule as posted on the PCG 
web site. The much appreciated door prizes contributed by Clarks and John 
Sweet  were raffled at the end of the on-site lunch break. Lunch was good, 
provided by Circle City Corvairs, the Host Club. After the afternoon 
program, the big door prizes were drawn for. They were the Charlie Doerge 
book  "Don Yenko and the Yenko Stinger", the rod end lateral control arms 
donated by Ken Hand of Handy Car Care, the special custom rear springs from 
David Clemens, owner of Stinger Motorsports, and the Flaming River Quick 
Steering box. Our thanks to all of the door prize providers.

Saturday evening, the Mexi-fest was hosted by Michael and Tracy LeVeque. 
Very good as usual and a lot of fun.

Tom Miller with help from Kathy and Randy Clark and other Circle City 
Corvair folks were instrumental in hosting the event providing everything 
the PCG needed to present a program. Randy was able to get TKO Graphics to 
allow us to have our workshop there. Quite an operation.

Thank you to all of our presenters. Talks were very good and informative. 
Micahel LeVeque bought his Monzter orange car for display. Very nice.

Seth Emerson of Silicone Wire Systems provided the majority of the effort 
toward developing presentations. He single-handily did the A/V set up, the 
computer operation, and connection with the CCC-provided projector. He is 
the glue that held the presentation/workshop together and made our program 
so good.  I applaud him for his efforts.

Chuck Sadek
Recent President
Performance Corvair Group

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