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President, Buckey McChesney
FROM THE DRIVER’S SEAT Another month has gone by. The flooding, storms and damage is hopefully behind us. Were you lucky to have flooding or much damage around and in your dwelling? Boy did we get rain. We are now above what we normally get from the monsoon season. Enough of that news. What is happening at your place? Are you working on your car? Are you driving your MG now that the nice weather is upon us? Do you have any newsworthy information for the newsletter. Bartlett Lake drive is next up on the calendar. It doesn’t matter if you drive your MG, modern car or Vespa. The idea here is to drive and have fun too. We have a great bunch of people in our membership. I hope you can plan on attending many of the activities on the calendar. If you need some help on your car, call a member. Many of us like to help when we can. We strive to have fun and different activities so we can see more members and their cars. Once my Magnette is back on the road, I plan on attending the free car show at 67th Ave & Bell Rd. behind the Mextecca Mexican restaurant. Free and a good crowd as well. Also the car show at the Pavilions is nice too. So, I am suggesting we go out and show our cars. I see less and less MG’s on the road. Let’s show Arizona that our cars are on the road and in car shows. So Please join us. Call a member nearby and ask if they are attending. It is always more fun with someone you know. So get out there and show your car.
Buckey
Highlights in This Issue ….
Membership. . . . . . . 2 Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . 7 Calendar . . . . . . . . .3 Tech Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Board Minutes . . . . .4
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AZ MG CLUB EXECUTIVE BOARD 2014
President Buckey McChesney (623) 979-4302 [email protected] Vice-President Richard Glass (623) 572-0394 [email protected] Vice-President Elaine Glass (623) 572-0394 [email protected] Secretary Karen Timian (480) 899-3272 [email protected] Membership Tracy Sattler (602) 547-2317 [email protected] Treasurer Bob Bandera (928) 232-9633 [email protected] Website Manager Ed Striffler (623) 478-0282 [email protected] Newsletter Editor Don Pottenger (602) 548-8774 [email protected]
How do I send money to the AZ MG Club? With PayPal, you can send money directly to the AZ MG Club Treasurer's email address. Here's how to send money: 1.. Log in to your PayPal account. 2.. Click Send Money. 3.. Enter the AZ MG Club's PayPal email address, [email protected], and the amount you want to send. 4.. Select Purchase or Personal, then choose the reason for the payment. 5.. Click Continue. 6.. Review the amount and the payment method. 7.. Add a message letting the Treasurer know the purpose of your payment (ex: due, etc.) then click Send Money.
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DON’T MISS RENEWING YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Watch for your name in this section of the newsletter and if you see it,
mail your check and the Fast Registration form (on the last page of every newsletter) to the address on the form or via PayPal. Thanks!
Ettore Balletto Karen and Dave Campbell Mason and Terry Corbin Debra Davis Michael Griffis Art and Lee Kaplan John and Linda Snider
September Renewals—Thank you!
Jim and Kim Anton Dennis and Karen Bueschel
New Members—Welcome!
Chuck and Jan Campbell 79 MG/B John Pepin 76 MG/B
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Arizona MG Club ---- Events Calendar
October 8th 6PM: Board meeting at The Original Hamburger Works, Phoenix October 11th 9:30AM: Bartlett Reservoir and Lunch – See newsletter for details
October 18th:* Our Lady of Joy Cars for Charity Show ‐ www.carshowscottsdale.com October 18th:* Tatum Ranch Golf Club Car Show – For info [email protected] October 18th:* Car Show Benefit Boys/Girls Club Apache Junction ‐ Contact [email protected] October 19th:* Annual Orphan Car Show – For info Jane Rigby 602‐978‐5622 October 25th 9AM: Breakfast at Vincent’s – See newsletter for details October 26th:* Gina’s Team Car Show – For info Chris 480‐354‐1475 October 26th:* Special Cars fore Special Athletes, Prescott Golf Club – www.sc4sa.org November 1st:* Mountain Bridge Car Show in aid of Sunshine Acres‐ www.MountainBridgeCarShow.com November 9th:* Brighton Motors Car Rally – Contact [email protected] November 12th 6PM: Board meeting at The Original Hamburger Works, Phoenix November 22th 10AM: Dwarf Auto Museum and Breakfast – See newsletter for details December 6th:* Boys in Blue Car Show – Contact [email protected] December 14th: Christmas Party – Save the date December 20th:* Christmas Lights Tour – Save the date
* Indicates not an AZMG Club Event Need more information? Have an idea for an event, send comments to Richard and Elaine Glass, Vice‐Presidents at [email protected] or [email protected] or 623‐572‐0394
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The date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
The time: Meet at 10am.
Meet at the Chevron station, exit 162, Wild Horse Blvd. The station is on the west side of the freeway. The Chevron station is located at: 5139 E Wild Horse Pass Blvd, Chandler, Az 85226.
The Dwarf Car Museum is located at: 52954 W Halfmoon Rd, Maricopa, Az 85139. The trip itself is roughly 30 miles, for the most part on back roads. We'll go first to the museum, then have
lunch, so we can compare notes
We'll have lunch at the Raceway Bar and Grill: 49237 W Papago Rd, Maricopa, Az 85139 You might recognize that name from American Pickers. .
It's a very simple drive, but if you would like to print directions, go to MapQuest, and enter the addresses.
RSVP; John and Maura Elmgren 623-214-0844 or email [email protected]
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Dear Antique and Classic Vehicle Enthusiast, Cool autumn greetings from downtown Phoenix! Do you have an antique or classic vehicle (auto, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, travel trailer...) from the 1900s through the mid 1980s that you like to exhibit? Help us celebrate Heritage Square's 35th anniversary at our annual Motoring Thru Time event on Saturday, February 7th, 2015 from 10am-4pm. Space is limited - while free, registration and pre-approval is required (event registration form attached - it's easy, just print, fill out & mail or contact us via email!). We're located at Heritage & Science Park, 6th St. & Monroe in downtown Phoenix (1blk. south of Van Buren & 7th St.). Last year's Motoring Thru Time was a fun event with lots of super folks who brought all kinds of vehicles from bicycles, autos, trucks, vintage travel trailers, and fire trucks to exhibit! Not to mention all the nice visitors who came to see the wonderful vehicles and their owners! New for MTT in 2015! A People’s Choice award & canned food drive to benefit a local food bank - vote for your favorite exhibit vehicle on event day (1 can = 1 vote) with the winning exhibit vehicle being prominently posted on the event's Facebook page and part of next year’s event poster. For past photo highlights check out Heritage Square's web page at https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/parks/alphabetical/h-parks/heritage or the Motoring Thru Time Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Motoring-Thru-Time/290954367621827 Event Sponsors? If you know of anyone that would like to participate as an event sponsor or donate item(s) for the volunteer exhibitor drawing please contact us - it's a great way to promote a business! Feel free to share this event information with fellow enthusiasts, if you have any questions or MTT event suggestions please let me know. Happy motoring and may your autumn be a joyous and safe one! Tammy Parker, 602-262-5071 City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department Heritage Square - Heritage & Science Park 115 N. 6th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
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TECH TALK WITH BARRY ROSENBERG Peach Tree MG Registry newsletter. June 2014
There has been some discussion at the shop recently on fuel additives. Let me give you my three cents worth. The only thing you should be putting in your gas tank is:
1)gas 2) BG44K and 3) Stabilizer. Now there may be a: 4) EFS Combust and 5) BG Ethanol fuel system drier.
To those that do not know of BG products let me give a quick explanation of their BG44K. One can in a tank of gas every 20,000 miles or once a year in an old British car, will dissolve the gunk build up in your tank, pump, carbs or injectors and remove the carbon buildup on your intake valves. I know this stuff works from the days when we worked on cars with fuel injection.
In those days, you used to have a shop use special cleaners to clean out your injectors. Some worked fine but never cleaned the cold start injector, as the car was always hot when worked on. At that time, BMW was having to pull intake manifolds to clean the carbon deposits from the intake valves with crushed walnut shells under extended warranties. This was costly. One Atlanta dealer started using BG44K at service intervals and they never had to pull another intake manifold. Now they could charge a customer for a product that save them money. This convinced me to try it and we sold it to our customers instead of cleaning their fuel injectors. We never had to connect our injection cleaning stuff to another car because BG44K works so well at cleaning all the injectors and the carbon deposits on the valves. Back then, it costs $12 per can and injection cleaning cost cover $120, a great savings. On our old British cars, we did not have injectors but we did get a gunk buildup in the carbs and a lot of carbon buildup on the intake valves. Why? With the poor design valve stem seals most of the old LBCs have, oil drips down past the guide and lands on the backside of the valve. There, the heat evaporates the volatile components of the oil and leaves behind the carbon. This carbon acts like charcoal in your grill; you have to saturate it with lighter fuel to get the coal to light. Trying to start your MG or Healey is the same, you have to saturate the carbon buildup before much gas gets into the combustion chamber to start the engine. I have seen the buildup so bad, it clogs the intake opening by 50%. It also disrupts the smooth flow of fuel/air into the cylinder. And if you are on that is running the manganese-bronze valve guides that require .004” clearance so they do not seize the valve, then you need BG44K more than those with stock guides. Customers have reported a 2 to 4 MPG increase from using BG44K because it cleans so well. Put one can in at a fill up and drive the car until it almost empty. Doing this before a long drive works great. It only restores fuel mileage back to what it should be; it will not add any more miles. Fuel stabilizer has been around for a long time and the best is still Sta-Bil. They have a new one for ethanol and in our LBCs, it is a good idea to use it. Most of our cars are not driven daily and some sit for weeks at a time. Sta-Bil dose help, especially if your car sits over the winter with very little use. If storing your car for a few months, fill your tank as full as you can and add the stabilizer at the gas station. Drive the car straight home and park it. This method gets stabilized fuel into the pump and carbs to offer the best protection for fuel system. With the tank full of gas, there is less room for condensation to build up and create rust and water problems.
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Tech Talk—cont. This leads me to the BG Ethanol Drier. Again, everyone knows that ethanol is bad for our cars. And some will say it is bad for the economy and environmentalist. The corn farmers seem to like it. But for car enthusiasts, it is bad. In simple terms, ethanol absorbs water from the air; the saturated ethanol drops out of solution with the gas and forms water bubbles on the bottom of the tank. These get sucked into the pump and cause all kinds of corrosive problems along their way to the combustion chamber. The BG product takes the ethanol/water droplets and allows them to be completely reabsorbed into the gas. There is stays until it is burned in the engine. No more water problems from ethanol. The demonstration compared several top competitors such as Heet, Seafoam, and several others. Seafoam caused the water/ethanol mixture to form a cloudy mixture but the BG mixed it so well, it was as clear as fresh gas, no sign of the separation like the others. If you drive your car like my wife and I, 150 miles a day to and from work, you may not need this as the gas never stays in the tank long enough to cause the separation problem. But, with a LBC that sits most of the week or month, there the separation can occur and you need this to protect your fuel system. Lastly, there is EFS Combust. Like most experts, I have always said that fuel additives alone can not improve power. I never recommend octane boosters or any of that crap. It is good only for your ego and the bottom line of the producers. However, along comes EFS Combust and Grassroots Motorsports and I may have a second opinion. This product works best with 87 octane fuel so you can quit using high test in your LBC. It says one ounce of this per 12 gallons of gas is all you need. According to Grassroots Motorsports, on a test they did on a rental car showed a 5 horsepower increase and a bigger torque improvement. This was a computer controlled engine and it will improve as the computer learns how the engine is reacting. The computer will change the mixture and timing as needed over a few tanks of treated gas. In our cars, there will still be an improvement but to get the most, you will need to retune the engine. You will be able to advance the timing and lean out the mixture. Combust causes all the gas to burn, not just 85% of it. Once all the gas is burning, performance increases with less fuel. A cooler internal temperature created by the complete combustion in the engine allows an increase in timing. This can cause an increase in fuel mileage. It may be a little like taking medicine, take too many and they react with each other or counteract each other and more harm can result. I cannot say about using more than one of these at a time. The BG44K is a once year thing so it should be ok to use with the Combust. So is the BG Ethanol Drier a once a year thing so it should be safe together. You can add the two BG products and on your next tank start trying the Combust. One would think that the Sta-Bil can work with them all but it is used when your car will be sitting for awhile. It should be ok also. I only recommend products that I have seen work and these do. I do not know where you can get the EFS Combust but Google it and it will turn up. Do I consider all other products snake oil, yeh, I do. Save your money, use these and you will help your car run better, save on repairs, and save the environment by using less fuel (does that satisfy the environmentalists) I own no stock in any of these companies! See yall somewhere soon. Barry Rosenberg British Car Service.
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Would you like to be notified of additional opportunities to socialize with fellow classic British car owners of other marquees?
If so, consider sending your email contact information to Shirley Blahak, President of the
Arizona Mini Owners and organizer of the British Motor Enthusiasts, a sort of umbrella entity over the many individual clubs. Learn about upcoming car shows, monthly breakfast drives, and regional car show opportunities open to members of all of the various British car clubs in
the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Would you like to be notified of additional opportunities to socialize with fellow classic British car owners of other marquees? If so, consider sending your email contact information to Shirley Blahak, President of the Arizona Mini Owners and organizer of the British Motor Enthusiasts, a sort of umbrella entity over the many individual
clubs. Learn about upcoming car shows, monthly breakfast drives, and regional car show opportunities open to members of all of the various British car clubs in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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