Herbold Racing!

Today, I ordered a bunch of new parts from Summit Racing.  I ordered the MSD 6AL ignition box, a 3-step RPM limiter, and a bunch of RPM chips for that 3-step.  The idea is that I will wire up the RPM limiter to the line lock button on my shifter.  When that is done, I [...]

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Today was race day!  I had the day off work.
First thing I did was check the ignition timing at a higher RPM.  It looks like the motor comes in at around 39 degrees at 4500 RPM.  I had most of my tools and stuff already packed into the truck from the last time I took [...]

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Andy wanted me to check the ignition timing.  It turns out the timing is at around 30 when it is at idle (which is 1000 RPM) and 36 at 2500 RPM.  I thought I had the RPM higher than 2500 but the sound of the new mufflers confused me. I’ll have to check it [...]

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My pal from way up north sent me a care package.  "2 /10 ths " in a box he calls it!  We will see about that!  He wouldn’t tell me what was in it.  I got the care package today and opened it up.  Immediately I see an odd looking device that [...]

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Here is a video of Keven taking the car out of his shop and putting it on the trailer. There was a slight panic moment when the car started going up the ramps, the truck started sliding downhill – the back tires were almost off the ground. Note to self – don’t load [...]

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Yesterday I went back to Keven’s place to do some more work with him on the car. We checked out the lower suspension bumpers and the Gorilla Glue we used to fix them seems to hold pretty good, so we threw those back on the car.
Next step was to check out the idler arm. [...]

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