Herbold Racing!

Yesterday was a very good day with a bitter ending. So I am going to break up yesterday into two posts - and starting with the bad (this one). We loaded the car up after me getting eliminated in the second round of the ADRA memorial race. Then as I was driving [...]

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I have been very busy with the car lately.  Last Sunday I took the car out to the track for a little bit of test and tune.  That was a success, although there were some noteworthy moments that I will talk about a little bit later.  Then all week I’ve been working on the car [...]

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Remember that in my last post I mentioned I nearly set the car on fire.  Here are the pictures of the melted wire.  In another picture you can see the burn mark on the gauge where it short circuited.  The voltmeter gauge was badly designed - it had a cardboard insulator on the positive side [...]

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Just a brief update - some things have been happening with the car.  First off, while I was hooking up the voltmeter gauge I nearly set the car on fire.  Lots of smoke and I had to replace 3 melted wires.  Turns out the Summit gauge is very badly designed and quite dangerous - but [...]

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Last Sunday, I wired up the radiator fan and got that working. Then on Monday, I installed a belt for the alternator and mounted the radiator. I also filled up the radiator with straight water and tested out the water pump. The pump didn’t seem to be really working but that may [...]

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Today was a major day for me.  Jerad was coming over to help me out with my car!  We were going to try and do as much as humanly possible in one day.  The first thing we did when Jerad showed up was to try and start my car.  Remember that I have not run [...]

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