Herbold Racing!

Last Saturday I took the car to Speedworld for some Test & Tune.  I wanted to be sure that the car would still run okay after having a lot of work done with it over the summer.  I was especially concerned about the rear suspension – which was the biggest change.  Nobody was able to [...]

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Last night, I bled the rear brakes.  That was my first time bleeding brakes.  I had bought a brake bleeding kit, the type with the hand held vacuum pump, a while back.  However, when I tried to loosen the brake bleeder screws I found that they were seized!  After a quick look online to figure [...]

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With the smaller front tire and whole car lowered because of the new Caltracs rear suspension, the car can no longer go on or off the car hauler without having the transmission pan hit it. So, I went to the local Pep Boys auto shop and grabbed a couple of their heavy duty plastic [...]

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Today Keven and I went out to pick up the new tires I ordered for the car and to have the place I ordered them from (Desert Rat) mount them on the rims.  The place had no problem mounting the new 4.5″ x 25″ ET Fronts on the front rims.  But they ran into a [...]

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On Saturday Keven, Tiny, and I spent a lot of time taking the car to the primer stage with the stretched quarter panels.  Keven also took the time to teach me a little bit about welding, and I welded up something for the first time in my life!  That was pretty cool.  What did I [...]

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When Keven and I sanded back the paint in some areas on the quarter panels to straighten them, I noticed something interesting.  A pattern that looks like tree rings.  I asked Keven what it was – it is the body paint history of the car!  The silver is obviously bare metal. The next ring up [...]

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