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Porsche Club of America – San Diego Region: Dyno Day at JBA January 14, 2012

btucker — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:05:00 +0000

JBA welcomed the San Diego Region of the Porsche Club of America to a Tech Session/Dyno Day on Saturday, January 14, 2012. The day started early with donuts, coffee and German engineering winding high on JBA’s Dyno Dynamics chassis dyno. We ran 18 or 19 cars on the dyno…three pulls each to document power-to-weight ratio for an upcoming open track event. In addition to an excellent collection of street and race-only Porsche’s, we dyno’d a BMW M3 and a little American muscle, namely a 2005 GTO and a 2007 Z06 Corvette. The dyno action only let up long enough for everyone to enjoy barbecued hot dogs, chips and drinks. Hopefully, everyone had a great time. We know the crew at JBA did! Many thanks to Jim and the PCA for a fun dyno day!

JBA Coffee & Cars – January 2012

btucker — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:38:45 +0000

Bombin’ turn-out for the January 2012 edition of JBA’s Coffee & Cars! Featuring the most vehicles we’ve ever had at one of our Sunday morning get-togethers, cars overflowed our huge parking area into neighboring lots. Blue skies and burn-outs! Check out the pictures and note the wide range of vehicles, including a 1933 Riley right-hand drive sports car, an early ’50′s Chevy gasser, members of the San Diego Car Enthusiasts Club, a very strong Mopar contingent, new and old GTO’s, Chevelles, Corvettes, Cobras, Mustangs and much more. Thank you to everyone who came out to support the event. See you next month!

JBA Coffee & Cars – December 2011

btucker — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:26:18 +0000

Great turn-out and burn-out this morning at JBA’s Coffee & Cars on the Mesa. Lots of cool rides and even nicer people. Hot coffee, donuts and dyno pulls thawed the chill. Check out the pictures for more of the story!

JBA Coffee & Cars – November 13, 2011

btucker — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:39:56 +0000

Another fine turnout for hot coffee, hi-cal donuts and cool cars. Big thank you to the Challengers for the burn-outs, and to everyone who brings their machines out for the morning. We got rollin’ around 7am and before you knew, it was 10am and folks were headed for their next destination. If you’re in the San Diego area and haven’t caught one of JBA’s Coffee & Cars get-togethers, next up is December 11th, 2011. Browse through the images for more of the story. Thanks!

JBA Coffee & Cars October 2011

btucker — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Hot coffee and cool cars at JBA this morning. Always surprises and today was no exception! How about a turbocharged El Camino? Or an Allen-supercharged Police Interceptor? Or a ’54 Studebaker with a 348 Chevy? The trees around JBA are all changing colors and might make you think San Diego has seasons! Many thanks to all our friends who came out for our October Coffee & Cars. See the pictures for more of the story!

Competition Sway Bar Improves 2011 Mustang GT Handling

btucker — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:32:05 +0000

Jan Wagner is an avid autocrosser and also co-hosts the weekly “You Auto Know” show (from 8-9PM on Sunday evenings with Dave Stall) on KCBQ AM 1170. JBA recently installed a Steeda competition front sway bar on Jan’s 2011 Mustang GT. Here are Jan’s thoughts on the results: “The Steeda Competition front bar surprised me because it does not seem to have had any negative effect in terms of ride quality on the street. On the track is where its presence became apparent. I noticed that in hard cornering there was considerably less drama. I had the sense that I was not fighting the car nearly as much as I had been before. Despite the common wisdom about what happens when a large front swaybar is used, I think my car actually understeered less, which was my hope – my thoughts being that with significantly less front end lean, the load would be shared amongst both front tires instead of mostly by the outside one.” We’ve attached a few pictures of Jan’s Mustang on-track courtesy of Impressions by Elliot Photography.

JBA Coffee & Cars — 9/11/2011

btucker — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:09:19 +0000

Special edition of JBA’s Coffee & Cars. Today it was more than just getting together to talk cars, eat donuts and drink coffee. It was an opportunity to celebrate the American way of life and remember September 11, 2001…the innocent victims, the police and fire department heroes, and those USA Armed Forces lost and still defending our freedom and homes! Never Forget – God Bless You and America!

JBA Coffee & Cars — August 14, 2011

btucker — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:19:31 +0000

Another fine batch of cars rolled into JBA this morning, including two brand new Boss 302′s, a Superformance GT40, an open-header Mopar drag car and a Nissan GTR the owner picked up only 62 hours earlier. Special guest Don Prudhomme stopped by as well. Thanks to everyone who came out to drink coffee, eat donuts and bench race. Now we’ll let the pictures do the talkin’.

JBA Coffee & Cars – July 2011

btucker — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:20:28 +0000

Mucho thanks to everyone that rolled into JBA this morning for coffee, donuts and most of all, cars! Another good turnout. Pick of the morning was the really slick Studebaker with a Bonneville license plate frame that reflects the great land speed racing heritage of the Studebaker marque. Check out the pictures of the engine compartment (348 or 409?), the interior and pin striping. Another highlight was J. Bittle’s lap around the parking lot in his historic 1968 Mustang Trans Am race car. You had to be there to see and hear it (although there may be some videos floating around). Then again, if you were anywhere in Kearny Mesa you could have heard it! See the pix for more of the story and we’ll look for you on Sunday morning August 14th for our next Coffee & Cars!

JBA Coffee & Cars – June 2011

btucker — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:42:47 +0000

Another cool collection of hot rods, muscle cars, vintage iron and more rolled into JBA this morning for the June 2011 edition of Coffee & Cars. Despite the “June Gloom”, everyone seemed to enjoy each others rides, the donuts, fresh coffee, bench racing and burnouts. Big thanks to all the enthusiasts who came out to hang out! See the pictures for more of the story.