Herbold Racing!

The chronicle of my adventures with a 1973 Plymouth Duster 340 drag car.

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Entries from May 2008

Day 3

May 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

And yes, Day 3 is indeed the very next day after Day 2. I’m excited about making tons of progress on the car in a short amount of time. We’ll be burning rubber at the track with this car before we know it!
We were all pooped from yesterday so we got off to [...]

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Video of Day 2

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

And here is the video of day 2!

Enjoy.

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Day 2

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Day 2 has come and gone and we made tons of progress on the car. Jerad mainly focused on getting the new seat in and I worked on getting the headers off and replacing the header gaskets. We also added a couple of steel bars underneath the new fuel cell to make the [...]

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Tags: General · Parts · Tools

Day 2 Offically on Saturday

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s official! Day 2 of working on the Duster with Jerad will be tomorrow, Saturday. I’ve gone ahead and bought some parts from Home Depot that we will need for installing the new seat. I’m now cleaning up the garage so we can work on the car unfettered by clutter.

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New RCI Jacket and Tranny Pan

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The last of my most recent Summit Racing order has arrived from Ohio today. I got my new blue RCI racing jacket in one box and the TCI deep transmission pan in another. Of course I tried on the jacket, and it fit really well. It even looks a lot better than [...]

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Day 2 Ready To Go

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve got all the parts I need to start "Day 2" of getting this car ready to race. When will Day 2 be? It will be whenever Jerad can come over to help me out. In the pictures below you’ll notice that I took a picture of the boxes just as UPS [...]

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