From Patrick

Patrick wrote: I thought Dave was going to write a wrap-up and I guess he was waiting for me to do one. Anyway, with Dave now sick and the October club meeting only a few days away, I thought I’d better mention a couple things from the September meeting before I forget everything! It was the first time we've had our meeting at this particular restaurant, and the banquet room was HUGE compared to some of the places we’ve been to over the last year. If we moved a few tables there’d almost be enough room to park our cars in there! http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/search.asp?KW=Dawg&SM=1&SI=AR&FM=0&OB=1 - Dawg  and his wife, Damien and Michelle, were at a club meeting for the first time. Damien is a new member who is a machinist. One of the topics we were discussing at the meeting was his ability to weld and port the stock exhaust manifolds on the 2.8L engine.  What we’re hoping to do is to line up a bunch of exhaust manifolds for Damien to do at one time, sort of like a production line. That would cut down on the time required for each manifold, and since time is money, it could be done for a lower cost than if pairs of manifolds were just done on their own. We can talk about this more at the next meeting if people have questions about the procedure, or why it’s a good idea to have it done in the first place. We also put the word out that we were looking for a place to have a tech session in November prior to our meeting that month. Glenn ( http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/search.asp?KW=fiero052&SM=1&SI=AR&FM=0&OB=1 - fiero052 ) stepped up to the plate and has offered the use of his yard in Walnut Grove, which apparently is just a few blocks from our current meeting place. We’re hoping to spend the tech session "winterizing" our cars to ensure that they’ll survive the rigors of the next few months. So our thanks to Glenn for making his place available on November 14th. Other than the fact that I won the dinner at the meeting (for the first time), I can’t think of anything else to report.  Feel free to chime in if I’ve forgotten something!

I did not get many pics from the meeting to my lack of easy mobility.  So if you got pics please feel free to post them here.

Note this aren't the best pics, but please feel free to post up what you .  It would be nice to all the wonderful cars that showed up.  We had lots of great people and lots of great cars.     So please post up more info and for the newbs post up how you liked your first meeting.

Dave, I think you were leaning on my car while you took all those shots!

Yep, I couldn't stand with the cain and get a good smooth clean shot, so I used your sunroof glass as a make shift Tripod.  Worked good, only draw back are the only pics from your car are extreme close up shots.

That's okay, there's plenty of shots (maybe too many!) of my car in http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?FID=2&TID=1508&PN=1&get=last - the Bondo Boys thread .

Okay, here's a shot I didn't use in the other thread. Slightly different perspective...

Sorry i missed the meet

Nigel.... u win any prizes!!!?

See ya all next month, if not sooner.

marcelvdgn wrote: Nigel.... u win any prizes!!!?

Ask him about the "prize" he got for 20 bucks!

I thought Dave was going to write a wrap-up and I guess he was waiting for me to do one. Anyway, with Dave now sick and the October club meeting only a few days away, I thought I’d better mention a couple things from the September meeting before I forget everything!

It was the first time we've had our meeting at this particular restaurant, and the banquet room was HUGE compared to some of the places we’ve been to over the last year. If we moved a few tables there’d almost be enough room to park our cars in there!

http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/search.asp?KW=Dawg&SM=1&SI=AR&FM=0&OB=1 - Dawg  and his wife, Damien and Michelle, were at a club meeting for the first time. Damien is a new member who is a machinist. One of the topics we were discussing at the meeting was his ability to weld and port the stock exhaust manifolds on the 2.8L engine.  What we’re hoping to do is to line up a bunch of exhaust manifolds for Damien to do at one time, sort of like a production line. That would cut down on the time required for each manifold, and since time is money, it could be done for a lower cost than if pairs of manifolds were just done on their own. We can talk about this more at the next meeting if people have questions about the procedure, or why it’s a good idea to have it done in the first place.

We also put the word out that we were looking for a place to have a tech session in November prior to our meeting that month. Glenn ( http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/search.asp?KW=fiero052&SM=1&SI=AR&FM=0&OB=1 - fiero052 ) stepped up to the plate and has offered the use of his yard in Walnut Grove, which apparently is just a few blocks from our current meeting place. We’re hoping to spend the tech session "winterizing" our cars to ensure that they’ll survive the rigors of the next few months. So our thanks to Glenn for making his place available on November 14^th.

Other than the fact that I won the dinner at the meeting (for the first time), I can’t think of anything else to report.  Feel free to chime in if I’ve forgotten something!