upcoming events - Cowtown Mopars

UPCOMING EVENTS
Apr 2 Mopars At The MotorPlex, Ennis, 8am
Apr 3 TMCCC, Texas Motor Plex, Ennis, 8am
Apr 9 Cowtown Cars and Coffee, 8am-10:30am,
Farrington Field (FW ISD), FW
Apr 10 TMCCC, Nor thStar Dr agway, Denton, 9am
Apr 16 Christian Classic Cruisers, 6pm-9:30pm,
Birdville Athletic Complex, North Richland Hills
Apr 17 Monthly Club Meeting, 5 pm,
Spring Creek BBQ, Bedford
7740 N. E. LOOP 820
FORT WORTH, TX 76180
817-276-7700
Cowtown Mopars Performance Team
PO Box 162413
Fort Worth, Texas 76161-2413
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Apr 2016
THE STARTING LINE
Official Monthly Publication of Cowtown Mopars
2016-2017 BOARD MEMBERS
President - Mike Moriarty
Secretary - Rich Lemmon
Membership Director - JoAnn Deering
Activity Director - Chris Sharp
Vice-President - Phillip Taylor
Treasurer - Kurt Schuster
Editor - Barry Hansen
Appointed Positions
Race Team - Mark Buchanan
Website - Kirk Maisenbacher
Show Team - Ron Carroll/Morris Counts
Cowtown Cars and Coffee, every second Saturday, 8 am to 10:30 am, Farrington Field,
University Dr and W. Lancaster Ave (FW ISD), Ft Worth. FREE. Sponsored by AutoBahn
Motorcars, usually free coffee and donuts. www.cowtowncarsandcoffee.com
Christian Classic Cruisers, every 3rd Saturday, 6pm-9:30pm, March through October,
Birdville ISD Athletic Complex, 9100 Mid Cities Blvd, North Richland Hills. $15 entry fee,
spectators free. www.christianclassiccruisers.com
Allen Samuels CDJR gives club member discounts on new vehicles and parts.
Be sure to show your membership card to the cashier/salesman. Don’t have a
membership card? Just see our Membership Director.
—Employee Pricing when purchasing vehicles—
—Cost +10% when buying parts—
BY THE MINUTES
Rich Lemmon
Cowtown Mopars Meeting
Minutes from 3-20-16 club meeting at Spring Creek BBQ submitted by Mark Buchanan for Rich Lemmon
Meeting called to order by Phil Taylor at 5:30
The new club leaders will be the same as last year. Thanks to our leadership for serving from another year.
June 25th 2016 will be the date for this year’s car show located at
SpeedTek, Southeast corner of 121 and Carson Street in Haltom City.
Along with the car show there will be a chance for you to dyno your car,
$35 for 3 pulls, no tuning. NBN Burgers will be there for anyone who gets
hungry. It will be a great day for the club at SpeedTek so plan to be
there. Mark Buchanan volunteered to help with parking and he will need
help. Also there will be numerous other volunteers needed that day so let
someone know if you will be able to help. The Saturday before will be a
cleanup day in the lot next door that we hope to use for non judged and
over flow parking. THANKS
Bill Boon
45 awards
There are
Mopars at
and Mark Buchanan talked about Mopars at the Motorplex. We have
for the car show with 3 judges and 2 helping with registration.
6 race classes with all 6 having a guaranteed payout. April 2nd
the Motorplex and April 3rd TMCCC race at the Motorplex.
TMCCC races and race shirt discussed by Mark Buchanan.
Ron Carroll talked about the Autorama as well as local upcoming shows. Ron
and several others commented on the Power Tour that will run June 11th to
18th with a Grand Prairie, Texas stop on the 14th.
Meeting was adjourned at 6:30
From The Veep’s Desk
Ok, back again folks. It appears that FCA in all its wisdom is not going to make an SRT
Chrysler 300 anymore, BUT they are going to offer the 300 with a R/T package and 3 stages of
refinement. The R/T will have the fine-tuned sport suspension, along with various luxury goodies, as that is what people want in the 300. After all, it is supposed to be a luxury car. They will
offer a Stage 1 package consisting of a cold air kit, cat back tuned exhaust and a couple of other
little gee whiz things. Stage 2 gets a different cam, valve springs, ECM tuning. Stage 3 gets all
the above and adds ported heads with port matching but the last two will not be available in
states with strict emission laws (can you say California?) Supposedly it will max out about 62K
which is where it probably would be if you bought one on your own and modified it. But this is
turn key with a warranty, so I guess you have that going for you.
Jeep is probably going to have the Hellcat engine in the Grand Cherokee and there is a
dealer that installs the Hellcat in the Wrangler but the article didn’t say who it was. Speaking of
Jeep I started on my replacement engine have started accumulating pieces-parts, including a 3key way double roller timing set, a cam that has a lift of .497” intake, .520 exhaust, advertised
duration of 300/304 degrees, with a duration of 224/234, a lobe center of 109/119, so will lope
pretty good and breath good to 6000 rpm. The pistons I am using will bring the compression up
to 9.5-10, more if I decide to deck the block and/or heads. Going to port match the heads. Got
some roller rockers, haven’t decided on valve springs yet. Hardened push rods and guide plates.
Should go well with my ceramic coated headers, Edelbrock carb, Performer Air Gap manifold,
and HEI ignition. Maybe will get better than the 193 hp and 263 tq on dyno day last year. Hope
so, maybe less than 4 quarts to a tank.
Looking forward to the Mopars at the Motorplex, I plan on being there, hope a lot of
ya’ll make it.
I just read an article on the soon to be Alfa Romeo Guilia. Looks like a Dart to me but
has a 2.0 l, intercooled, 4 cylinder, with 276 hp, 295 lb ft. of torque. Capable of 0-60 in 5.5 sec,
top speed of 149 mph. Stock with an 8 speed auto, no mention of a stick. Interior looks
fabulous, what passes for a chassis and suspension is all aluminum. Car actually looks nice,
supposed to handle really well with double wishbone suspension up front, and 4 ½ link in the
rear (their words, not mine, lol).
Anyway, guess that is all for now. See ya’ll at Ennis.
Phill
2016 Annual Cowtown Mopars Spring Car Show
The 2016 Cowtown Mopar Performance Team Show is set for June 25, 2016 from 10:00 AM
to 3:00 PM. At SpeedTek Performance, 5950 Airport Fwy (southwest corner of Hwy.121 and
Carson)., Suite 400, Haltom City, TX 76117. 682-647-0012. $20 entry fee judged show. Free
Show and Shine area nearby. Dyno Challenge in conjunction with our Show. This will cost
$35.00/vehicle and includes 3 consecutive pulls with no tuning time. Dyno Challenge entries
will be separate from Show entries and $35.00 fee paid to SpeedTek. NVN Burgers will be the
food vendor. They can be checked out on Facebook (NVN Catering/Burgers). Make your plans
now to attend and/or help.
“In The Works”
Chris Sharp, Activity Director
Possible cruise to Pop's Burgers in Waxahachie.
If you have any suggestions be sure to let me or any of the board
members know.
Chris
We continue to send our prayers and good wishes to Morris Counts.
Still recovering from a stroke and a fall, he is getting better. Please send a get
well card and consider a visit.
Morris Counts
c/o Legend Healthcare & Rehab.
Room 510A
900 Westpark Way
Euless, TX 76040-3977
817-545-4071
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
JoAnn Deering, Membership Director
Time to Renew for 2016
2016 is here. Time to renew your club membership. Remember...upon renewal
your Membership Card will allow you to get genuine Mopar Performance and
replacement parts from Allen Samuels CDJR for 10% over cost and buy a new car or
truck for Employee Pricing. Serious discounts.
Join or Renew by mail or at one of our events
Single membership New $25 / Renewal $15
Family membership New $35 / Renewal $25
All members please fill out a member ship for m with your r enewal this year .
We are updating the roles and email/mailing list.
JoAnn
Got a hot tip, event, article, update, correction, comment?
Cowtown Mopars newsletter now has its own email address:
moparnewslettereditor@CowtownMopars.com
The Go Fast(er) Department
Mark Buchanan - Race Team Coordinator
HEY FOURTEEN TIME TMCCC CHAMPIONS!!!!
We had a good day at the first race of the year at North Star
Dragway. Our second race of the year (Apr 3) will be the day after
Mopars at the Motorplex (Apr 2). It should make for a great race
weekend.
After the first race of the year I can already tell we will need
all hands on deck to make an even 15 in a row. Come out Saturday
to support Mopars at the Motorplex and Sunday to support
TMCCC Cowtown Mopars.
Congrats to the everyone at North Star Dragway at the first race.
Rick Brownell ----------------- ru street muscle
David Huffman --------------- ru super muscle
Rich Lemmon ----------------- winner king muscle
Mark Buchanan -------------- winner pro muscle
Mike Hanson ----------------- semi outlaw class
2016 Race Schedule:
March 6
April 3
April 10
May
1
June 5
Sept 11
Sept 18
Oct
2
Oct
9
Oct
30
TBA
Denton
Ennis
Denton
Denton
Ennis
Wichita Falls
Ennis
Denton
Kennedale
Ennis
banquet
Denton opens 9 AM
All others open 8 AM
5 out of our 24 racers got awards. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
—-Bill Boon has volunteered to pull the smoker to the races.
The club thanks you and our stomachs thank you—We have not had a race shirt in 6 years so we are going to do one this year. We have 4
sponsors for the shirt. Thanks to Mike Moriarty, Joe Witherspoon (Joe's Machine Shop), Bill Boon
(Texas Trailer Man) and Don and JoAnn Dering (Professional Welding) for being our race shirt
sponsors. The sponsors will be recognized on the front of the shirt along with the club logo. On the back
of the shirt we will recognize the club’s 30th anniversary (1985-2015) at the top then Bryan Carpenter's
1966 Dart in the center and all 14 years of TMCCC wins listed below that. The shirt will be blue and cost
$5 each. If you want a pocket it will cost $10 each. If it's a very large size it may cost extra as well. The
sponsors and club cover the rest. I will know more after I check the pricing. I will take orders until mid
June and you pay when you order. See ya at the Motorplex.
Stay tuned
Mark
Don’t forget we’re online:
www.cowtownmopars.com
and “Cowtown Mopars” on Facebook!!!
Off The Wing by Barry Hansen
Mopar Spotting on the road...Kansas State Troopers use AWD Chargers, I know because we
followed one for several miles down IH 70 through a west Kansas snowstorm in our AWD
Caliber. Hayes, Kansas has an automobile museum at 383 Mopar Blvd, just down the road
from Ellis, Kansas birthplace of Walter P Chrysler. Jeep Wrangler seems to be the official vehicle of western Kansas as we saw almost as many there as we see in Colorado. In Oklahoma
City a Gen III Challenger stretch limo, lime green with black racing stripes the top of the car,
10 pass, 4 dr.
Mopar Spotting...“Grandma” a gritty movie starring Lily Tomlin; she drives a primo black
1955 Dodge Royal, Tomlin's actual personal car.
Power Tour coming up, June 11 through 18. Several of us plan on driving the whole trip.
Hope you are making plans to drive some if not all of it. Consider meet us in Houston, drive to
the Austin stop and to DFW or meet us here in DFW and drive to OKC or Wichita if not all
the way to KC.
NHRA, only one race in March, Gator Nats, Gainsville, FL. Ron Capps, Charger R/T F/C runner up. Allen Johnson picked up Marathon Petroleum as a sponsor, stayed with Dodge and is
doing better than the factory sponsored Darts in Pro Stock, went out in 3rd round. NHRA continues to try to kill the new FS class for DragPak Dodges, COPO Camaros and CobraJet Mustangs. Not only do they make them run through the Super Stock classes before they get to run
each other they only give driver names in the qualifying and eliminations without the make or
model of the cars, even in the final round.
Please remember longtime member Morris Counts in your thoughts and deeds. He continues
to recover from a fall and a stroke. Take a moment to pick up and mail a get-well card to him
and if at all possible stop by for a visit. He is just a little east of our monthly meeting place,
Spring Creek BBQ in Bedford. His address is: Morris Counts, c/o Legend Healthcare & Rehab, Room 510A, 900 Westpark Way, Euless, TX 76040-3977. I am as guilty as any not following up on Morris and am remedying this right now. Let's bombard him with cards, notes
and good wishes. Thanks.
Peace, Love and Mopars
We love our sponsors...
...you will too
ITEMS FOR SALE / ITEMS WANTED
FOR SALE: 1964 Dodge 440, 2 door hardtop, Candymatic clone NSS race car.
Call Mark Buchanan for details. $25,000.00. 214-727-4324
FOR SALE: TRANSPEC (long time club sponsor, see sponsor pages)
offering some parts and transmissions cheap. Two transmissions for ‘81-’83 Lasers and
Daytona Omnis, model A523, tag number 42957755, build dates 2/08/1985. Brand new
from Chrysler, donated to a mechanic school, never used, never apart. Brand new
transfer case for a Jeep, model 242J, fits ‘98-2001 Jeeps, 4.0 and can be converted
to fit the 4.7. Call for low, low prices.
FOR SALE: 1974 Plymouth Duster w/500+ hp 440 mag. I'm interested in selling the engine, new 4 core Aluminum Radiator and possibly the entire vehicle. It's (body
and chassis) a basket case now. Contact Freddie Thacker 817.371.3597 or email at
Freddie.l.thacker@gmail.com
FOR SALE: Factory smallblock (340) steel bellhousing w/inspection cover.
Casting part #2843887. Trans input dia 4 11/32”. Good condition. $150.
Doug Gulley, 972-672-4839.
Show Off Your Mopar
Monthly:
Every Fri. 5p-9p, Truck Cruise-In, Home Depot, IH 20 and Cooper St, Arlington. Free.
Every Fri. 6p-10p, Cruise-In, Albertsons, Hwy 287 and Sublett Rd, Arlington. Free.
Midlothian: 1st Fri each month, 6pm, Texas Best Smokehouse Cr uise-In, March thru
Oct. 3rd Sat each month, 6p, Brookshires Cruise-In, March thru Nov. 4th Sat each month,
6p, El Chico Car Show, March thru Oct.
Apr shows:
Apr 9 Car Show and Dog Adoption, 10a-1p. Forest Park Medical Center, Southlake.
Apr 9 Justin Spirits Car Show, 11a-2p. 950 FM 156, Justin. $15 entry. Top 20, 5 BOS,
lots of raffle prizes, 50/50 pot.
Apr 10 Dallas Mopar Club monthly meeting, 2 pm, Spr ing Cr eek BBQ,
12835 Preston Rd, Dallas.
Apr 16 James Wood Dealership Car Show, 11a-3p. 3906 S IH 35E, Denton. $15 entry.
Full Show, 26 classes, BOS.
May 7 Flower Mound Senior Center Car Show, 12p-3p. 2701 W Windsor Dr, Flower
Mound. $15 entry. Top 30. Our own Ron Carroll, Show Team Coordinator, is helping host
this one. Let’s come out and support him.
more shows at www.HOT ROD HAPPENINGS.com
Won an award at a local show? We want to brag about you. Tell Ron Carroll
(dodge_roncarroll@yahoo.com) so we can include it in the newsletter.
Good Members, Good Products
DEAN ALLEN
972-801-7587
Dean is offering up his years of knowledge to
help members with their automotive
questions.