Michiana Monthly

Treasurer’s Report: December 2009

Income

Christmas Dinner Pre-pay 30.00

This Month...

10 Blair Knaak 12 Howard Barrett 17 Elizabeth Pasternak 17 Diane Reed 17 Marion Williams 29 Curly Long

Happy Anniversary!

2 Curly & Karon Long (48 years) 4 Terry & Theresa Sarul (40 years) If I missed your birthday or anniversary, please let me know. Thanks!

Membership Anniversaries

Marty & Kristi Hughes 1 year

New Members!

Bill Evans, from Milford, IN, with an ’83 GLX convertible Thomas Phillips, from South Bend, with a 2008 Coupe

Welcome to the club. We’re looking forward to getting to know you!

Membership Dues December

Terry & Lola Gunderman Terry & Theresa Sarul

February

Dick & Gloria Cornman

Notes from the Christmas Party

It was good to see so many people at the party, and it seemed that everyone had a good time. It was especially good to see a couple of our ‘walking wounded’, Dick Spitaels and Shirley Wachs, with us and in much better form than the last time we saw them.

For those who did not make it to the party, Curly Long was announced the winner of the 2009 Pumper Award.

We had a solemn moment when Diane Reed announced that Hal McClure was not at the party due to an apparent heart attack suffered earlier in the day. Thankfully we learned the next day that it was not a heart attack, though it was not clear what had happened.

In lieu of a 50-50 drawing this month, tickets were distributed to win gift cards to local restaurants. The lucky winners were Scott Anderson, Kathleen Bringman, Bob Relos, and Pat Sauerbeck.

A big ‘Thank You’ goes out to everyone who brought a dessert to the party. As we all know, there are many wonderful cooks and bakers among us!

I was going to add captions, but I thought it might be more fun for everyone to add their own as they look at each picture!

Getting to know…

Family:

Location: Occupation(s): Member Since:

Current Mustang(s)

What got you ‘into’ Mustangs?

Your Favorite Mustang? Your Dream Mustang? Your favorite Mustang

experience?

You might be surprised to know that…

Howard Barrett

Wife Karen, Children Thad and Candy

Elkhart (34 years)

Retired

2001

2000 Red GT Convertible

I became interested when they were first produced. I purchased a 1969 Mach 1 and later a 1971 Mach 1.

My first one; a 1969 Mach 1.

I would like to own a 1993 Cobra.

I had my 1969 Mach when Karen and I really started getting serious and after I returned from Vietnam. We were married in 1970 and we still had the Mach. In fact, that was the car we took on our honeymoon.

The 5.0 Mustang is Back!

jalopnik.com

Ben Wojdyla , Detroit Associate Editor

The 2011 Ford Mustang GT doesn't look much different than the 2010 on the outside. But underhood? The return of the 5.0-liter V8! Only now it's making 412 HP and 390 lb-ft of torque with an expected 25 MPG.

There is no discussion of the 2011 Mustang GT without discussing the return to a five liter V8. The 5.0-liter, or 302 as it was known in the pre-liter era, has become irrevocably tied to the Mustang, when the 4.6-liter was introduced the Stang-faithful praised the improved power delivery but moaned over the loss of their favored displacement. This time the fans get their five liters AND a whopping 412 HP and 390 lb-ft of torque.

The power comes courtesy of an all-new clean-sheet design which started in only 2007 and sliced 12 months off the normal engine development project without sacrificing any of Ford's durability and quality testing. What they've come up with is a laundry list of nifty goodies. Beginning at the block, the all aluminum unit is designed for light weight and high-power durability. The forged steel crank is factory counterbalanced and clamped to the block with cross-bolted four bolt mains which, if you aren't keen to that kind of thing, means a potential for huge power. The connecting rods are a forged powder metal design with floating pins retaining hypereutectic pistons, each with their own oil squirters to keep things lubed and cool. Those are important as this engine is a high-compression design and employs active knock suppression so keeping the pistons cool to prevent predetonation is important.

The mandate for the 5.0 team was maximum breathing for this engine and it can be seen in the design of the heads. The initial thought was to strap heads from the Ford GT on the engine, but they didn't deliver the power targets so all-new aluminum heads were designed. The heads are designed with race-inspired vertical intake ports to improve flow. The four valve heads use a dual overhead cam pushing a simple roller-finger valve train with automatic hydraulic adjusters. Those cams on both the intake and exhaust sides are part of the good stuff on the engine though, featuring what Ford calls "Twin Independent Variable Cam Timing" or Ti-VCT, which to the rest of us not constrained by copyright laws call variable valve timing. The front of each cam shaft holds a mechanism which uses engine oil as an incompressible fluid to hold the cams, leaving the shifting duties to the inertia in the shafts.

The new 5.0 ditches the valley-mounted alternator in favor of a low-mounted long-runner intake for good low-end grunt. Maximum torque comes in at 4,000 RPM but the entire curve is nice and flat. This new engine pushes the redline for the Mustang V8 up to 7,000 RPM, with maximum horsepower arriving at 6500. The engine is paired with Ford's new 6-speed automatic and new the Ford/Getrag 6-speed manual, both shared with the V6 model.

Despite the new engine borrowing an old theme, the 5.0 is an engine designed for now and into the future. Though it's still a port-injection engine, it's projected to make 17 MPG city and 25 MPG highway, oil changes have been pushed up to an impressive 10,000 miles between changes using 5W20. It delivers a stout 83 HP/ liter and does it while weighing only 10 lbs more than the outgoing 4.6-liter, tipping the scales at 430 lbs. The best part is, according to Ford engineers, this design is "protected for future applications," meaning the block and bottom end are overbuilt and we'll be seeing much more coming out of this new mill. That supercharged iron-block 5.4-liter in the GT500 is getting pretty old, and all the kids seem to like turbos these days. Just sayin'.

There are, of course, otherimprovements to the 2011 Mustang. The steering switches to Ford's Electronic Power Steering system. Like the V6 Mustang, the chassis on both the hardtop and convertible are stiffened with a combination of bracing and structural foam. There's a 14 -inch Brembo brake option which requires new 19-inch wheels. The lower front fascia is tweaked for 2011, there are improved aero bits here and there, the gauge cluster gets a standard information center, there's a MyKey option, universal garage door opener and various other tchatchkies. None of these things will matter to the Mustang buyers who have been anxiously awaiting two little digits. 5 and 0.

http://jalopnik.com/5434979/the-50-mustang-is-back

More of the 2011 Mustang GT

From the Back Seat…

Welcome to 2010! I don’t know about you, but I was more than ready to use my foot to help 2009 out the door. Let’s hope that, as I heard a radio announcer say, that ‘2010 is a ‘10’.’

A few thanks are in order to start the year:

• Thanks to everyone who sent me items for last year’s newsletters. This job is so much easier with that kind of help. I hope the ’lull’ in contributions at the end of the year was temporary—you folks write better than I do!

• Thanks to those who sent messages about the newsletters. Each one was thoroughly appreciated.

• Thanks to Jack Krallman for loaning me his newsletter collection for scanning. With his help I now have virtually every newsletter since mid-1994. I will be getting g them back to you, Jack! If anyone has older newsletters, I really would like to borrow them. I hope to be able to do a Club History feature each month.

I don’t think you’ll see any major changes to the newsletters this year. You will see more pictures from club events. I’ve been studying newsletters from other clubs this fall, and that is one thing that I have noticed consistently.

As always, if you have ideas for the newsletter, please let me know. I don’t want this to be ’my toy’ - the newsletter should reflect the membership as a whole. I will warn you, however… the begging for Member Profiles, My First Mustang and Pony of the Month stories will continue.

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I imagine some of you, if not most, will have seen the information on the 2011 Mustang GT by the time you get the newsletter. Even so, I thought it would be proper to follow up last year’s story about the 2011 Mustang V6 with the new GT. Both cars should cause some excitement at Ford dealers when they start to arrive.

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If you would, please let David or I know when you buy or sell a Mustang, move, change phone numbers or e- mail address, etc.

Aside from the obvious parts of the addresses and phone numbers, this will help me keep things like the membership breakdowns that I shared last fall up to date, and may help us plan events or programs for the club. Thanks

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I’ve spent some more time with the club roster and came up with the following information about our members:

• 30+ years of membership (1)

• 25-29 years of membership (0)

• 20-24 years of membership (5)

• 15-19 years of membership (11)

• 10-14 years of membership (19)

• 5-9 years of membership (20)

• 0-4 years of membership (29)

I’m not certain what these numbers tell us. I just hope that those of us in the first few groups can help the newer members find reasons to become senior members.

Have a good month...

Strange Trivia

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

• And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

• No word in the English language rhymes with month , orange, silver, or purple.

• ' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. (Are you doubting this?)

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

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