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OLDSMOBILE CLUB OF AMERICA EASTERN MA. GMO CHAPTER ROCKET POWER NEWSLETTER!! Spring Dustoff 2006 By Paul Iantosca It was maybe March of 2001 – 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 2006 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 25 “New” members by the time our “Dust off” show was completed. Want to guess how we did? Try 18 paid “New” members. As of today – May 15th – If you came to our dust off on May 7th, you would have noticed that, of the 85 or so cars in attendance – 42 of them were not members – so, we achieved a 50% conversion rate.

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

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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.

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 2 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!

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 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.

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 1929. People like him and his family just like the Berejiks made Oldsmobile, then the GM execs killed it.

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, 2006 BSAAC Show at Endicott Estate - Dedham, MA August 20, 2006

Upcoming GMO Events

Mass Cruisers Auto Show - Medway, MA

June 18, 2006 Elm Bank Car Show & Picnic - Wellesley, MA Newton Area Special Needs Athletes - Newton, MA June 24, 2006 Extinct Auto Day at Lars Anderson Museum Brookline, MA June 28 – July 2, 2006 OCA Nationals – Addison, TX

August 26, 2006 Cruisin' New Englands's All Wheels Nationals Falmouth, MA September 10, 2006 NEOC Show - New Britain, CT September 24, 2006 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.

Technical Corner SUPER-TUNING SPECIFICATIONS FOR 1969 & 1970 OLDSMOBILE 350 AND 455 CID ENGINES AND "W-MACHINE" OPTIONS Published by Oldsmobile - Spring, 1970 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: 1. 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. 2. 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 15 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 2-3 SECONDS. Scribe the marks clockwise from the present mark per the following chart: Degrees BTC 30 35 40

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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. 1969 - W30: Distributor Number 1111933 o

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Production initial setting of 14 degrees BTC at 1250 RPM provides 27 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 15 degrees BTC at 500 RPM or less, or 17 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees above 4000 RPM.

1969 - W31: Distributor Number 1111930 o

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Production initial setting of 12 degrees BTC at 1000 RPM provides 30 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 15 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees above 4000 RPM.

1969 - W32: Distributor Number 1111989 o

Production initial setting of 14 degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 37 degrees BTC timing above 3000 RPM.

1970 - W30 SMT: Distributor Number 1111977 o

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Production initial setting of 12 degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 34 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 13 degrees BTC at 850 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM.

1970 - W30 AMT: Distributor Number 1111979 o

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Production initial setting of 10 degrees BTC at 850 RPM provides 33 degrees BTC timing above 3000 RPM. Change to 12 degrees BTC at 850 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 3000 RPM.

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Production initial setting of 14 degrees BTC at 1100 RPM provides 30.5 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 15 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM.

1970 --- F85, 4-BBL (310 hp): Distributor Number: 1111975 o

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Production initial setting of 10 degrees BTC at 1100 RPM provides 26.5 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 15 degrees BTC at 800 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM.

1970 - 4-4-2 (Except W30): Distributor Number 1111982 o

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Production initial setting of 12 degrees BTC at 1100 RPM provides 30 degrees BTC timing above 4000 RPM. Change to 15 degrees BTC at 600 RPM to provide 35 degrees BTC above 4000 RPM.

The timing indicator (tab) is marked (in degrees) -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc. The top edge of the tab is 14-15 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. 1966294. 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 www.442.com.

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 1½ gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge 426 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 1.7:1 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 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 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 200 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.

Eastern Massachusetts GMO 2006 Spring Dustoff Winners Class 1

Description 1897-1949 All Cars 2 1950-1959 All Cars 3 1960-1969 Full Size 4 1961-1966 All Starfire 5 Toronado All Years 6 1970-1979 Full Size 7 1980-Present Full Size 8 1961-1967 F85, Cutlass - Open 9 1961-1967 F85, Cutlass - Closed 10 1968-1972 F85, Cutlass – Open 11 1968-1972 F85, Cutlass – Closed 12 1973-Present Compact, Midsize 13 1964-1967 Performance - Open 14 1964-1967 Performance – Closed 15 1968-1969 Performance – Open 16 1968-1969 Performance – Closed 17 1970-1972 Performance – Open 18 1970-1972 Performance – Closed 19 1973-Present Performance 20 Modified All Best of Show To 1950 Best of Show From 1951 Dealer’s Choice Superwheels Pick Doug Stavros Cup

Place 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

Owner Al Maurer Donald Hughes Bob Porter Bill Herman Steve Sordillo Paul Gaeta Chuck Scheil Mark Baravella Mark Ringer

Car 1947 Model 66 Cvt 1942 Sdn 1956 Super 88 Cvt 1954 Dynamic 88 Sdn 1966 Dynamic 88 Cpe 1963 98 Cpe 1964 Starfire Cvt 1964 Starfire Cpe 1984 Toronado

Car # 8 78 28 56 38 35 15 31 10

Andrea DesJardins Brad Stearn George Oliva

1971 Delta 88 Cpe 1973 Delta 88 Cvt 1988 Delta Royale 88

2 58 29

John Cosimini

1967 Cutlass Cvt

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Carol Danforth Adrien Adam Robert Arakelian Dana Wilson Scott Wilcox Paul Cannata Stan Kana William Nye, III

1964 F85 Sdn 1966 Cutlass Cpe 1971 Cutlass Cvt 1968 Cutlass S Cvt 1968 Cutlass Cpe 1971 Cutlass Supreme Cpe 2001 Alero Cpe 1986 Cutlass Cpe

43 55 23 41 69 36 16 25

Robert Brainard David Blackman Stephen Oberto Jim O’Brien Frank St Elmo Glenn Johnson Jack Bielinski David Consoli Tom Verrochi Brian Becker Gary Bosselman Mike Laudarowicz John Matthews Scott Williams Al Maurer Chuck Scheil Al Maurer Mark Baravella Ted Loranz

1964 442 Cpe 1964 442 Cpe 1969 442 Cvt 1968 442 Cvt 1969 442 Cpe 1969 442 Cpe 1970 442 W-30 Cvt 1970 442 Cvt 1972 442 Cpe 1970 442 W-30 Cpe 1986 442 Cpe 1987 442 Cpe 1983 Cutlass Cpe 1966 442 Cpe 1947 Model 66 Cvt 1964 Starfire Cvt 1947 Model 66 Cvt 1964 Starfire Cpe

71 12 17 32 6 13 66 16 51 54 33 72 39 19 8 15 8 31

Eastern Massachusetts GMO Chapter 114 West Street Medway, MA 02053-2226

First Class Mail

GMO Officers President & Editor Paul Iantosca – 617-543-0777 [email protected]

Events Coordinator Bill Reilly – 781-820-6552 [email protected]

Vice President Rich Santucci – 617-899-9109 [email protected]

New Member Recruiter Karen Santucci – 617-899-9109 [email protected]

Secretary / Treasurer Ted Loranz – 508-561-7613 [email protected]

Club Representative Everett Horton – 401-435-7139 [email protected]

GMO Chapter Website – http://clubs.hemmings.com/olds-gmo