ROCKET POWER NEWSLETTER!!

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1 OLDSMOBILE CLUB OF AMERICA EASTERN MA. GMO CHAPTER Issue #8 ROCKET POWER NEWSLETTER!! Ma rch June 006 Spring Dustoff 006 By Paul Iantosca It was maybe March of 00 I went to a GMO meeting at Berejiks about 8 members were in attendance, the President announced his retirement and it appeared the club was dying. Well, its 006 now and one can only be very proud of being a member of the Eastern Massachusetts GMO Chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America. Our goal was 5 New members by the time our Dust off show was completed. Want to guess how we did? Try 8 paid New members. As of today May 5th If you came to our dust off on May 7th, you would have noticed that, of the 85 or so cars in attendance 4 of them were not members so, we achieved a 50% conversion rate. on a mug or t-shirt - Erick will be in touch with you. Dave Pelletier manned the back lot to control parking. Rich Santucci and Bill Reilly handled parking and judging, while George Berejik was busy bringing his Shelby Aurora for everyone to see and he made sure Billy s grills were fired up, trophies were on display and managed to fit in an interview with a TV reporter about our club and then he MC d all the awards. Everett Horton came hobbling along (he recently injured his knee), but at least he came to lift our spirits. So, my pledge has been and remains, we need to continue to grow. New, young blood has resulted in more energy, enthusiasm and excitement (Sounds like an Oldsmobile commercial)! Our usual core of members who are always there to help out showed up Saturday and we had a great time! Then on Sunday, these same generous and enthusiastic souls came at 7 am to be ready for all the Oldsmobiles to come. Pete Agris picked up breakfast for all, Ted and Karen manned the registration table and Chuck & Debbie Schiel helped set everything up. David Consoli, greeted everyone as they pulled in, gave out name tags and directed the owners to the next step. Greg R made sure Erick Reed got everyone s car picture taken for our website postings. You will be able to put your car Jim Maffeo, another very new member, took over name tags while I showed David Consoli how to judge. Judging went fine with all those were caring enough to be brave and offer their help. Thanks, thanks and thanks to everyone! This year, Rich and I purchased six walkie talkie way radios to assist us in all the coordination of events so we did not have to run around looking for certain people. Now, if we can only get George B. to Use the radio and not yell clear across the parking lot!

2 Well, enough of that, I do want to also thank my friend Mike Oliver and the rest of the guys at Haskins Motorcars who arranged all of this for us. Alvan Haskins Bob Haskins General Manager Dave Dorrwatcher Sales Manager Mike Oliver Service Manager Wayne Thomas Sales We were all pleased to have Al Haskins introduce himself to George Berejik as his former competitor and reminisce about Oldsmobile. Mr. Haskins said he was so proud and so happy to see such a gathering of Oldsmobiles at his dealership. He really does love Oldsmobile. He still has his Olds sign up in front (see picture). Haskins has been selling Oldsmobiles since 99. People like him and his family just like the Berejiks made Oldsmobile, then the GM execs killed it. Mike Garron - sales You guys are all now Honorary Members of our club. We hope you ll enjoy the newsletter and attend some of our other 5 shows this year! Haskins Motorcars was great. We interrupted them, we asked them for full use of their facility, we asked them to move all their cars on Saturday and handed them more than 85 display cars on Sunday and they thank us. People like that are rare today; true Oldsmobile lovers.

3 If you did not make the show, well I m sorry. We missed you and you missed a proud moment! I hope you make one on all of the next 5 shows. (See attached schedule of all events). Thanks to all you guys from the NEOC who were able to come. We appreciate it and enjoyed your company and your cars. July 9, 006 BSAAC Show at Endicott Estate - Dedham, MA August 0, 006 Upcoming GMO Events Mass Cruisers Auto Show - Medway, MA June 8, 006 Elm Bank Car Show & Picnic - Wellesley, MA Newton Area Special Needs Athletes - Newton, MA June 4, 006 Extinct Auto Day at Lars Anderson Museum - Brookline, MA June 8 July, 006 OCA Nationals Addison, TX August 6, 006 Cruisin' New Englands's All Wheels Nationals - Falmouth, MA September 0, 006 NEOC Show - New Britain, CT September 4, 006 All GM Show - Hanover, MA There is an application form for the BSAAC show at Endicott on July 9 in this newsletter. Other Preregistration forms, show flyers and additional information is available on the clubs web site.

4 Technical Corner SUPER-TUNING SPECIFICATIONS FOR 969 & 970 OLDSMOBILE 350 AND 455 CID ENGINES AND "W-MACHINE" OPTIONS Published by Oldsmobile - Spring, 970 A. SUPER-TUNING Super-tuning is a term that means bringing every component within the engine up to its peak. Many times off-road operation calls for different settings and adjustments than are proper for street use. A well tuned engine requires proper ignition and carburetor settings, a good performing valve train and non-restrictive air cleaner and exhaust system. IGNITION Stock distributors on each of the W-Machines have mechanical advance curves which parallel best spark timing. The mechanical advance curves, vacuum advance curves, and initial timing settings on all models are selected to give best performance with the normal carbon build-up and street equipment. For offroad use in a car where the amount of idle and low speed operation will be held to a minimum, higher timing settings may be used. However, precautions must be taken:. Disconnect vacuum advance hose at the distributor and plug the hose. Leave the distributor vacuum connection open. This will preclude road load detonation which must be avoided for long engine life.. Use super premium fuels to further avoid detonation. 3. Be conservative. Increase timing in small steps, listening for any detonation ("knock") The important area to watch in changing timing is the advance above 4000 RPM with vacuum disconnected). For off-road use, timing should be set to give 35 degrees advance BTC above 4000 RPM. Advance beyond 35 degrees should be done in small steps against a timer and in conjunction with changes in carburetor jetting, slight richening until ultimate potential is realized. To set timing accurately above 4000 RPM, a new set of scribe marks will have to be added to the balancer, since the normal timing tab stops at 5 degrees BTC. These marks must be made on the balancer below the present mark (clockwise from the front of the car). Timing can then be read using the 0 degree mark on the tab and the new marks on the balancer, while revving the engine to 4000 RPM momentarily. CAUTION: DO NOT LOOSEN THE DISTRIBUTOR HOLD DOWN BOLT AND ADJUST WHILE REVVING THE ENGINE. MOVE THE DISTRIBUTOR A SMALL AMOUNT, TIGHTEN, AND REV TO 4000 FOR -3 SECONDS. Scribe the marks clockwise from the present mark per the following chart: Degrees BTC & /8 -/5 35-3/6-3/3 40 -/ -9/3 The production method of setting the timing may be used if the mechanical advance curve is known (check curve on a sun machine). The following chart lists the production distributors with settings, along with suggested settings to achieve 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM W30: Distributor Number 933 o Production initial setting of 4 degrees BTC at 50 RPM provides 7 degrees o Change to 5 degrees BTC at 500 RPM or less, or 7 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees above 4000 RPM W3: Distributor Number 930 o Production initial setting of degrees BTC at 000 RPM provides 30 degrees o Change to 5 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees above 4000 RPM W3: Distributor Number 989 o Production initial setting of 4 degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 37 degrees BTC timing above 3000 RPM W30 SMT: Distributor Number 977 o Production initial setting of degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 34 degrees o Change to 3 degrees BTC at 850 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM.

5 970 - W30 AMT: Distributor Number 979 o Production initial setting of 0 degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 33 degrees BTC timing above 3000 RPM. o Change to degrees BTC at 850 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 3000 RPM W3: Distributor Number 975 o Production initial setting of 4 degrees BTC at 00 RPM provides 30.5 degrees o Change to 5 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM F85, 4-BBL (30 hp): Distributor Number: 975 o Production initial setting of 0 degrees BTC at 00 RPM provides 6.5 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. o Change to 5 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM (Except W30): Distributor Number 98 o Production initial setting of degrees BTC at 00 RPM provides 30 degrees o Change to 5 degrees BTC at 600 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM. The timing indicator (tab) is marked (in degrees) -4, -, 0,, 4, 6, 8, 0, etc. The top edge of the tab is 4-5 degrees BTC. To insure against point bounce with high RPM usage, double springing of the production point springs may be done. The best method is to use Corvette Delco points No These points are good to 7000 RPM. Additional Oldsmobile suggested Super Tuning suggestions will be published in future newsletters. If you are impatient, they are listed in the FAQ section of In Case You Were Wondering One NHRA Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than all the cars in the first four rows at the Daytona 500. Under full throttle, a Top Fuel dragster engine consumes ½ gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 5% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge 46 Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger. With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the stoichiometric.7: air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After / way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 00 mph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8G's. Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence. Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light. Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. The redline is actually quite high at 9500 rpm.

6 Eastern Massachusetts GMO 006 Spring Dustoff Winners Class Description Place Owner Car Car # All Cars Al Maurer Donald Hughes 947 Model 66 Cvt 94 Sdn All Cars Bob Porter Bill Herman 956 Super 88 Cvt 954 Dynamic 88 Sdn Full Size Steve Sordillo Paul Gaeta 966 Dynamic 88 Cpe Cpe All Starfire Chuck Scheil Mark Baravella 964 Starfire Cvt 964 Starfire Cpe Toronado Mark Ringer 984 Toronado 0 All Years Full Size Andrea DesJardins Brad Stearn 97 Delta 88 Cpe 973 Delta 88 Cvt Present George Oliva 988 Delta Royale 88 9 Full Size John Cosimini 967 Cutlass Cvt 64 F85, Cutlass - Open F85, Cutlass - Closed Carol Danforth Adrien Adam 964 F85 Sdn 966 Cutlass Cpe F85, Cutlass Open Robert Arakelian Dana Wilson 97 Cutlass Cvt 968 Cutlass S Cvt F85, Cutlass Closed Scott Wilcox Paul Cannata 968 Cutlass Cpe 97 Cutlass Supreme Cpe Present Compact, Midsize Stan Kana William Nye, III 00 Alero Cpe 986 Cutlass Cpe Performance - Open Performance Closed Robert Brainard David Blackman Cpe Cpe Performance Open Stephen Oberto Jim O Brien Cvt Cvt Performance Closed Frank St Elmo Glenn Johnson Cpe Cpe Performance Open Jack Bielinski David Consoli W-30 Cvt Cvt Performance Closed Tom Verrochi Brian Becker Cpe W-30 Cpe Present Performance Gary Bosselman Mike Laudarowicz Cpe Cpe Modified All John Matthews Scott Williams 983 Cutlass Cpe Cpe 39 9 Best of Show To 950 Al Maurer 947 Model 66 Cvt 8 Best of Show From 95 Chuck Scheil 964 Starfire Cvt 5 Dealer s Choice Al Maurer 947 Model 66 Cvt 8 Superwheels Pick Mark Baravella 964 Starfire Cpe 3 Doug Stavros Cup Ted Loranz

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8 Eastern Massachusetts GMO Chapter 4 West Street Medway, MA First Class Mail GMO Officers President & Editor Paul Iantosca iantosca@comcast.net Vice President Rich Santucci ourw30@comcast.net Secretary / Treasurer Ted Loranz ted@teds-olds.com Events Coordinator Bill Reilly william.reilly@comcast.net New Member Recruiter Karen Santucci ourw30@comcast.net Club Representative Everett Horton antiqolds@aol.com GMO Chapter Website