Herbold Racing!

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

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Entries from October 2008

A Brief Update…

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I never did get around to doing the gallons per hour test – all my time up to now was consumed by figuring out what to get from Summit Racing. I just finally hit the submit order button and by Wednesday at the latest it’ll be early Christmas for me. In the meantime [...]

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Fuel Filter Changed Out

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight I changed out the fuel filter.  I had already gotten a replacement filter from Checker which is a Fram Racing HPGC1 filter.  But when I opened the box and took a look at the filter I was a little surprised to see that it was actually a Wix Filter.  Anyway, I took the filter [...]

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Voila! 1/4″ NPT Threads Tapped!

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

My first time at tapping threads.  I enjoyed it, and it came out great!  I added a hose end plug to the carburetor spacer so that I have a place to hook up a vacuum gauge to.  The vacuum gauge is used for setting the four corner idle mixture screws.  The only thing left to [...]

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Evil Carburetor Look

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Tah-dah!  I will be putting on the metering blocks and bowls tonight to see how it looks.  They are silver (bare aluminum) so it should look really good with the black main body.  I used high temperature engine paint, semi-gloss black.

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Carb Main Body Guessing Game

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Guess what I am going to do tomorrow morning to the carburetor main body…

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Power Valve Blowout Protection

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Last night I managed to install the Power Valve Check Ball Kit which is used for blowout protection.  Later Holley carburetors have this built in – but I have one of the earlier models.  It was pretty easy to install the check ball kit.
Basically with the kit they give you a drill bit with a [...]

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