Herbold Racing!

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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More parts have arrived from Summit Racing.  They include the new fuel line, fittings, alternator with brackets and crank pulley, electric water pump fittings, radiator fan and shroud, spark plugs, steering wheel and accessories, line cutter, and a couple of other things.  That should be everything I need to finish putting this car back together [...]

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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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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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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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