We've been putting along doing little odds and ends stuff but I thought I'd show you some of what we've been doing!:)

In my last post you saw the front end all torn apart so that we could install the gussets that we could'nt get to with the motor in. Here is where we are now.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...entdetails.jpg

I was curious as to what the car weighed since we had most of the major components in the car so we had the car scaled!

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ovaonscale.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ightScaled.jpg

Not bad! 2700 lbs! I figure with interior, Glass, full tank of gas and whatever other stuff is going in the car we should be right around 3,000 lbs.(Of course, my fat a$$ doesn't figure into that weight!:fluffy:

John

Lookin' Good! You still headed to Columbus?

Yup! PM me your email and we can correspond up until then and hook up when we're there. Maybe we can get some of the guys together for dinner and brew!:cheers:

John

Since I rented the Rental car, We are going to Rally's Burgers this year, I miss those fries. All we did was drive by it after we just had the biggest steak dinner ever. Oh and we need to go to Damons again, that place was Grub.

Rodger

John,
Are you going to run the supercharger?

Your PM is full -

brandon

- dot -

wiedeman

- at -

gmail

YUP!:unibrow:

John

Very cool! That lil nova is gonna haul :thumbsup:

Yea, just a little... :lol:

Roger

wish i could join ya, but I got bills to pay, so i if you could drink a few nICE cold Buds for me i'd appreciate it.:thumbsup:

Yeah i got one too John.....

Are you going to run paint someday? :lol:

'Been a while since i checked out your thread, this is getting better and better. The car looks as tough and solid as a mountain just sitting there. I can almost feel the sharpness of driving it just looking at it.

Lead.

Nope! You're going! I don't care what the boss says...... besides.....I got a size large t-shirt for you! If you don't go you don't get it! LOL!

Hey, Hey, Heeeeeeyyy Brother!

Where ya been? Pro-Streetin' that bad boy 'maro? Glad to see you post and thanks for the compliments. When she's done you better come and see her when we unveil her. Tell you what. If yoiu come I'll buy ya a drink! Deal? LOL!

John

The Nova
 

John,

Your Nova is awesome...... All I can say is that it is inspirational!

See you in Columbus.


--Eric

HA! I heard theres a soft top being designed by a rocket scientist! See you in Columbus!

John

i wish John! Columbus is a great time to chill with all the guys and i would also get to see my family but it's not shop bills that i need to pay it's my own, if plane tickets weren't flippin expensive i'd go but oh well. and i know beggers cant be choosers but is there anyway i could get a medium size T.
thanks John, and by the way your intercooler piping is coming along nicely.:D

Brycen

HAHAHA! You know I'm just kidding! I'd give the shirt off my back for you! Wait? I already did!:lol: Got a Medium with your name on it. Hopefully, I'll remember to bring it when I go up again! Did you like the black Ed Hardy T I gave you?

John

thanks John i appreciate it!:cheers:

and hell yeah that ed hardy T is one of my favorite shirts. i would like to buy more!

Forget that! Let me see if I can hook you up with a few more!:)

John

nice!:hail: that would be sick!:woot: yeah since you gave me that shirt i have seen alot of people wearing ed hardy. i've also seen some pretty sick ed hardy hoodies so i was gunna save and buy one this fall.

So we've been working on finishing off all the mechanical systems of the car so that we can get to working on the cosmetic parts of the car. One of the things I wanted to get done was the supercharger plumbing. It is TIGHT in there!

Plumbing Mockup

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...24-2008021.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...24-2008023.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...24-2008026.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...24-2008028.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...26-2008002.jpg


John

Rear Bumper sucked in
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...26-2008010.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...26-2008012.jpg

Exhaust and Tub Brackets

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...26-2008013.jpg

Opinions?

John

Where did you get the intercoolers? How much air can they flow? Did you go with a d1 or f1? Why not try and route twin turbos?

This is one hell of a build! :thumbsup:

P1SC1. Not sure Rodger found those. TT? WOW! We're having a hard enough time with the SC plumbing!:willy: :rofl:

John

P1SC? Is that enough blower for a 427? I can't wait to hear this car. How big of a cam are you going to run?

Stock internals.........

John

Finished mounting the intercoolers. Now all that is left is to finish the plumbing and we should be done with the supercharger system.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...11-2008005.jpg

Exhaust system is pretty much routed. Just need to finish running it out the back and finish weld all the fittings.

Muffler placement
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...11-2008011.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...11-2008012.jpg

We're going to wrap the pipes with heat shield as they go around the tank.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...11-2008027.jpg

Rear bumper

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...11-2008018.jpg

John

John, Looking great :thumbsup: Roger and ironwork's crew my hats off to you guy's :hail: keep up great work Joe :)

Those are some pretty fancy bumper bolts you have there :lol:
J/K... Love the rear valance under the bumper. Nice and subtle. :thumbsup:

Lookin great John!

Any guesses what the final product will weigh? There is so much going on in a small package. I bet it's gonna be insane to drive.

Great all around build. The headers look good :thumbsup:

Looking GREAT John !!

1 Muffler - and not 2 ? Interesting. More info and other pics plz ? Just wondering if the single unit flows enough air for your supercharged application. Might be a great solution for my project since I have almost zero space in the back to run mufflers. (looking at something like the C3 setup)

Keep up the awesome work Team NovaWerks !!

Jim

It is a stainless muffler design for a Power stroke or duramax engine. They go through one muffler. So I think we will have room to spare as far as CFM through the muffler. It is a DNA muffler. They sound pretty good. We had to completely rework both ends to make the merge into the muffler from 2 3" pipes to one 5.5" muffler.

I might have a better pic of the merge.

Rodger

Thanks for the info. Great idea. I like how you guys always think outside the catalog !

Jim

nice to see progress going on!! :thumbsup:

G-Dog 65: I like the sound of that..... Team NovaWerks.....!!!

When I was at IRONWORKS last Friday, I counted SIX Novas....


--Eric

Great looking project, how much does it weigh?

john you an norm do good work together.
rick k:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

OH NO, You will be pulling it.
Build it now, I am sure you can afford it, LOL !!!!!!!!!!

Why go throught this whole build and do a stock internal LS7? They dont have a good track record stock with boost !

LOVE THE CAR BTW !!!!!!!!!! Cant wait till its done.

Procharger is telling us that there should be no issues as long as we don't get too crazy with the boost!:willy: :unibrow:

I know this sounds crazy but I've even contemplated pulling the LS7 and running a boosted LS3!(I know, I'm out of my mind!)

Engine Bay Gusset

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...26-2008019.jpg

I was thinking of leaving it like that but Rodger would like to add a solid sheetmetal piece that will clear the hinge. Wadda ya think?

John

you could probably run a pretty seriously pumped up LS3 for the cost of that LS7... but then again, maybe with all the trouble you'd have to go through to arrange/make the swap it wouldnt be worth it.

for what its worth, a cammed LS7 sounds pretty amazing.