Love those spindles Ron. What are your plans for steering arms?

Those are the kind of billet shiny parts worth buying. That's part of what makes you the "Good Ron":trophy-1302:



Just buy a nice Carbon Fiber drive shaft and you can eliminate a lot of the fear of it coming through the tunnel along with some weight.:D

I really appreciate all the effort you are going through to ensure somebody's car is heavier than mine.:lmao:

You're a giver:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Appears he pretty good competition! If it's based on pounds per inch of wheelbase I don't think Ron has a chance. :D

When you suggested you were going to put 19s on the front I figured that was going to be a bit much but was interested to see how you solved it. IMO the 18s will visually fit the car much better as well - old cars seem to be about maxed at 18s in that 295+ width as the tire diam is right around 25-25.5" typically which is inline an old-school 50 series 15" tire.

I pulled the 20" off of the rear of my Vette to see how it would fit in the Nova and it literally just would not fit without serious reworking of the inner fenders and rear seat area :weld: and it really looked out of place in the wheel opening. The 18s with 335s fit quite nice on the Nova while they look a little small on the Vette as GM made the fenderwells visually match the large, 26.7" diam tire it comes with.

You mention clearing large rotors in previous posts and John is very cool and he can get you an 18" that will clear huge rotors - it was either his wheels or Forgeline and I just like the looks of the 3pc Forges or I would have definitely gone with CCWs again. My Z06 has 15.4" rotors and while it is a squeeze, they fit :) The Nova is 15" rotors and that little bit of difference is more than plenty and makes installs easier.

Those LG spindles are bad a$$ - I was looking at them as well but got lucky and was able to package factory spindles at the ride height I wanted. I hear you tho' about making the geometry all work out - total PITA packaging the front end with everything that has to fit there.

Very cool project - enjoy seeing the progress.

I kind of reengineered the front clip moving the rack back where GM put it on the C6, so I don't need to cut the arms off. It uses the factory arms, and now more or less the C6 geometry. Would have made me cry to cut those new billet knuckles almost as much as I did when I cut my new glass hood.

Simmer down now, this is a pony car not a Clydesdale. LOL. Other then the main back bone and X, the whole chassis is chromoly, a really, really lot of chromoly. Scaled it once, my tears kept me from reading the scale properly. Xperimental I keep saying, I guess we'll see. :)

Mine weighed in at 3130 with gas and me on the scales at VIR this weekend :)

Just scored this dry sump off the Vette forum, looks like it will fit my chassis with no modifications. Need to scrounge a tank, and some lines. The good part is, I ended up with a dry sumped, forged LS3 for less then $3500, the bad part is my car budget is cleaned out.LOL

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That great Mills, 2900ish for a race trimmed Camaro is perfect in my opinion. I wanted to be weight conscious with this car, but like always I get out of hand.

Ron,

Great score on the dry sump set-up!! I know what you mean about the budget being cleaned out, my crappy Nova spit shined my wallet LOL Should be in color tomorrow, at least it will be nicer looking :G-Dub:

R/
Jeff

I expect to see some pictures on my/your, well our build thread. LOL

Nice stuff there Ron. I am sure it will just "bolt on" like everything else on your car. :lol:

That is really why I bought this set up, but it will probably kick me in the nuts like everything else.

Got the one fender roughed in with the 18" loaner wheel, and drop spindle. I'll bet I made a minimum of 20 different revisions to get the flares this small, and they're still humungus. This is absolutely as petite a flare as you are going to get when running a 335 on the front and still have 2.5" of up travel at full lock. You have about a credit card thickness between the tire and the flare at full lock. The sucky part is tomorrow I have to do the other side.

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If it was easy the fat chicks could do it!


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Looks great!

That look great Ron. It will look even better in carbon Fiber.:D

I know what I'm going to pay to have the molds made and a couple sets of fenders and bumpers laid up. I can't even imagine what it would cost to have that stuff done in C/F. Would be cool though. :G-Dub:

Because we are running the same subframe more or less, thought Dave might want to see how I tied the down bars to the suspension mounts, and cage, so I took a couple of pics. Just past where the firewall will be I put a Y in the down bars, sending one side to the A pillar bar, and the other to the dash bar, and trans tunnel bar. I also tied a bunch of gussets to the UCA mounts, I'll probably go back and drill some holes in the gussets later to make them more pleasing to the eye. Really didn't want to but ended up mounting the hood hinges to the down bars also.

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Looks good Ron!

GRon, the fender fabrication looks great. Progressing nicely.

Yeah that's some real metal shaping there, taking a somewhat bulbous design and making it even more bulbous. Good work.

thats nice, double down bars is great.

That made laugh out loud Preston, bulbous is a good word for it. It needs more cowbell.

Thought this car would be way narrower then my Mustang, but I'm wanting a full 5" of travel at lock with no rubbing, its stupid wide.:waveflag:

Got fender bottom roughed in after I got off work. Payton called me today, and was saying he thought the fenders were ending up looking like a C3 Corvette. I now see it.

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Looks killer Ron.

If you keep working on it, maybe you can get it to look like a C2 then you won't have to buy one of those too :action-smiley-027:

Looks strong as an ox, G-Ron. Thanks for posting.

Colin Chapman would not like it....



:>)



But I do!

Thanks for making feel stupid and have to Google someone, ya Jerk. LOL

In the future, if your going to reference someone it needs to be someone at my maturity level. Like Fred Flintstone, or Sponge Bob Squarepants.

Colin chapman was known to weld lightening holes together to make a car. Always subtracted weight.... To the point where his stuff was becoming dangerous.

LMAO!!!

Ron, I'll sent you some C2 front parking lamps to graft in :weld: It's looking pretty good dude!! Looks like I will be picking up the Thug Nova on Saturday, kinda excited about it :ups:

R/
Jeff

Revision 24, this is it, sides are not getting changed again.335's clear at full lock/full compression. I'll copy it on the other side tomorrow, push it outside and take a couple pics on the ground. As long as I don't sober up and hate it, this is pretty much it. Finish the tops, and start smearing mud.


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Well done Sir :thumbsup:

is it done yet??

nice work

Please do us all a favor and don't sober up. :happy23:

Looks great Ron... now stick a fork in her. :)

I hate to say it Ron but in the pics it looks like you may have to do something with the rear quarters just to tie the whole package together.

EDIT: Not to take anything away from the front fender.......That looks like it came out pretty good.

The rear gets a complete do over also G., not near enough cow bell. Really shouldn't be that bad, the parts are loose. Just a matter of getting a lot more bulge, and repositioning the flare. Was thinking of making molds of the quarter panels also, then I could easily make as many goofy looking AMX's as I wanted. Never before in my life have I been chomping at the bit to start smearing body putty.

I dont think I've ever heard anyone say "you know those humps on my Javelin really just dont have enough... HUMP to them..." LOL... They look awesome but does anyone else feel like we've reached that point in the movie where all hope is lost our hero is backed into a corner and there is no hope for getting out? Its that sense of impending doom. How in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks are you going to get the rear qtr's to match the front. :confused59:

ANyway... carry on. Im enjoying the show and cant wait to see whats next. Somebody get me some popcorn. :tv_happy:

Got all of the welding done on the fenders, except the top panel. I'll fabricate the fender top tomorrow, weld it in Friday, and yehaa start making dust this weekend.

Was thinking about fabbing a pin style spindle for a C6 upright. Ordered a Nascar Grand National front spindle just to see its size and shape. Had no idea how big it was compared it to a Wilwood pro spindle. It seems like a packaging nightmare, but I think it is doable.

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