Nice looking Nova. My uncle has a 69 as well and I am trying to get him to do something like this. Nice work.

thanks. shes comin along.

ok i know its been awhile. life and its problems happened. had a scumbag who was workin on the car with me end up taking practically all my tools and stuff. so ive been regrouping from that and had to take time to finish up school and graduate. but im back at it. shooting for the hot rod nationals in october. ive got the new trunk in and new floors in. pics coming soon

The fire wall looks great, its all looking good. Nice work.

heres a few pics of some things ive painted so u guys know im not making it up when i say i do paint and body work.

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motorcylce tank i did as a decoration piece for my teacher who retired. (the lighting was kinda weird)

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friends bug i sprayed

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kicked the nova out for a weekend and sprayed my dads car in the garage lol

now we go some progress going again. Got some of my floors all painted up and looking good. then i got the nice subframe and got it under the car and bolted up. SHES ON 4 (ugly and 2 reversed) WHEELS AGAIN!!!!!!!

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now that i can move the car around it was time for a much needed cleaning. fenders, doors, hood, and trunk lid soon to come finally :)))))))

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starting to look like a car again! i see alot of people starting to build sweet novas so i gotta hurry up and get it done!

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will be in primer soon just got it on wheels to do body work. will be sitting low soon. more pics to come!

got a friend to do a quick drawing. got the second style stripe drawing coming soon. (second stripe is similar to the yenko stripe down the side)
lets see what the thoughts are.

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dang man i'm impressed! I'm 25 and you are getting more done than i ever could on my car when i was 17.

As advised don't go too far! but i think you have already done that haha. Get the body work done and back on the road! If you move away to college or something its hard to get a project finished. Ask me how i know! lol

Anyways, good luck on the rear end. Those 10 bolts are kind of a weak link on the LS1 cars from the factory, just don't put a lot of power to it and you will be fine. Factory wise, they attach the torque arm to the transmission which is hard on it. Since the wheelbase is obviously not the same, all the aftermarket company's sell a bracket to bolt the torque arm to a cross member which would be a good way to go i'm guessing.

What about cutting the brackets off your factory rear end and welding them to the new one? I know the leaf springs aren't ideal but i would think it would be cheaper in the long route maybe?

The first rendering i dont care for, looks like an 80's-90's style paint job. if your other rendering looks like yenko stripes i'd go for that!

Hopefully i wasn't being too much of a negative nancy