Herbold Racing!

While I was under the car taking pictures of the transmission fluid leak, I discovered a few parts of the car that I haven’t seen before. The first part I saw was something in between the transmission and the engine. It looks like it has teeth of some sort but I don’t think [...]

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I found a tiny puddle of transmission fluid under the car on the floor. Looks like I have a small leak coming from the transmission pan - through one of the bolts. That will get me booted from the drag strip. Just something else I need to fix before I bring the [...]

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I am back from GDC. Another package has arrived for me - this time it is the 1:18 scale die cast model of a 1971 Plymouth Duster 340. As soon as I opened the box I knew that the seller was wrong about the color of the car. This is definitely a [...]

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The engine building books that I ordered from Amazon has arrived, as well as the factory service manuals that I won on Ebay. They got here just in time, I am leaving for GDC (Game Developers Conference) tonight. I will be back from GDC on Friday night. The books should give me [...]

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After two failed attempts to get the car running, I decided to take a MoPowerStyle forum member’s advice and applied the “nervous foot” technique.  And boy, did that work!  So here is the video showing the car running…

I quickly got out of the car and closed the garage door, just in case a neighbor called [...]

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I tried starting her up yesterday with the batteries fully charged, but was not successful.  What is weird is that the charger is telling me that the batteries are fully charged, yet the built in indicator is showing red when it should be showing green.  When I use a voltmeter to check the batteries they [...]

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