Herbold Racing!

I got the car back last Monday – it now sports 4.10 Strange gears in the rear end. So far there are no leaks or anything like that, so I am happy about that. Unfortunately Nate didn’t tie down the car properly for the return trip to my house and one of the [...]

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Nate of Arizona Differential Specialists has taken possession of the Duster.  I am having him swap out the existing 4.86 gear with a Strange 4.10 gear.  I should have the car back on Saturday if all goes well.

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I’ve got the new tachometer mounted properly and the shift light hooked up. I’m not really done with the mounting of the shift light – I need to cut out a couple of plates from left over sheet metal and use that to mount the shift light on the dash. Right now it’s [...]

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I quickly wired up the new tachometer that I got to replace the defective one that I sent back.  I basically wired up the new tachometer while it was still in the box because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of mounting it and properly routing the wires if it wasn’t going to [...]

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The replacement tachometer that I ordered from Summit Racing arrived while I was out on vacation last week.  This is a much more expensive tachometer and is eligible for contingency awards.  The reason I got this tachometer is because it has a lit needle – that will make it much easier to see where the [...]

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In order to figure out what heat range I should get my new spark plugs in, I pulled out one of the spark plugs that are in the engine right now. It turns out that I have the NGK GR4 plugs.  Anyway, I’ve taken a few pictures of it:

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