I hit a guy and then my car spun around and kind of slung my head into the door post and
nocked me out for a second but that was about it.
My name's Logan Duvall, I work at Holley Performance, I'm a welder in the exhaust division, I've
been doing that for about a year for them now.
We started running demolition derbies probably about 5 years ago, the way I got into it really
was, when I growed up, all my childhood I watched my father and my uncle, they always
done it, and so I was always around it and always had a lot of interest in it, you know
for childhood memories with my dad and just for love of the sport, you know, it's a big
family thing for us, we do it here at the house.
You know me and my dad is in the garage together every day and mom helps us and all of our
friends, you know we all go together as a family and it's a group effort, and that makes
it better you know.
This car started as a 2001 P70 Crown Victoria, P70 is the cop car of course, we use those
because they got a little bit better suspension parts to start with, sway bars and what not,
and the frames on the newer model Crown Vics compared to the old ones are also a little
bigger and they have more, that's why we like to chose that car.
I took us, me and dad together and help from friends, to about probably close to 3 months
to get it from the vehicle straight off the road to what we have here ready to go to a
derby.
The engine we chose that we started out here was
a Chevy 350 beginning, and my dad Jeff, he's the one who does most of the engine work,
we went inside and put all the RP studs, it's got scat rotating assembly, flat tops, you
know roller cam shaft dart heads, the best part to top it off, it's got the Holley truck
avenger carburetor, and MSD ignition, fuel and the fire is always the 2 most important
parts, we got to make sure we got the best.
The reason for the upright header that I helped design was, I'm around headers all day and
in my opinion we make the best quality stuff, so being around that, I seen a lot of ways
that me myself could improve on the product that we've been using in the past for our
demolition derby header choice, so I got with some people and we started the design on this
header, and when we done the upright header, we didn't only want it to look good, we also
wanted it to preform good, so along with the looks of the stainless, the performance we
added nandro bent tubing of course, merge collector design with the merge spear inside
to help flow the exhaust together, just improvements all around in my opinion.
Use Earl's plumping, Holley HP125 fuel pumps with Holley post and pre filters of course,
and that's pretty much everything we use for now.