Looking great! I would assume that the poster on Steve's site are a bit younger...possibly?

One thing is for sure-they have no tact:rolleyes:

Bruce

How close are they to completing the fab work and moving it to paint, finish and final assembly? where will the car debut this spring/summer? what seats are they using,Teas?

Hey, you asked :D!

Thanx......

Anything about paint:
 

Kevin id like for Troy to talk about paint application and finish.
All of the cars that Troy does the paint flaws you :wow:
Thank KO

update!
 

Visited the shop today and work is progressing. They are basically finishing up on some last minute touches. Pretty much everything has been finish welded. Rear shock mounts have been reinforced for extra strength. Exhaust is fully completed.

Work has been concentrated on some last minute touches to the front end bumpers and fenders. Like i said the last minute things before the body shop gets it. The big part is the engine bay. The way this thing is set up is awesome. What you'd expect from opening the hood in a supercharged car, you can pretty much forget about. Totally different way of plumbing the supercharger (procharger) and a few other things regarding it that ive been sworn to secrecy about!! :lol: I have never heard of a supercharger being setup the way they are doing it. Procharger really stepped up and overnighted pretty much everything we needed to supercharge the 572 beast. Their supercharger looks sinister and its cool to work with them on it.
-derek

We postponed our trip to tomorrow because of the weather... we'll see how it goes tomorrow.

- KO

Updates...we need updates!
 

:thumbsup:

We shot the car yesterday... it's super bad!

We'll post the video later tonight or tomorrow.

- KO

:willy:

thats why anyone who really knows cars know he is the MAN ! customers like you are why we love to build cars , you are enthused (sp) about the build makes us more creative about the car . great job

v8tv
 

Very excited to see this.

I dont know how you couldnt be excited for something like this. My dad always wanted to get a Nova since he parted with his 30 years ago. Its going to be bad ass to ride with him in one after hearing so much about the original car he had.
As far as troy goes and any builder for that matter...they are only going to build so many cars in their lifetime and its awesome to be part of a build like this. Anyone with some $$ can walk into a dealer buy a porsche, ferrari, or other high end sports car (which are still cool)....but in my mind these cars are where its at! :thumbsup:
-d

I agree. Troy's stuff is more that a cool car. They are works of mechanical art. He is the best. I will be down there before the car goes to body shop for more build pics for my magazine. I can't wait to see the progress. I love Nova's.

Nova Video
 

We visited Rad Rides by Troy the other day to shoot a quick interview on the 1970 Nova project... it's going to be killer!

http://v8tvshow.com/content/view/475/97/

http://www.v8tvshow.com/images/stori...ogNovaLead.png

outstanding
 

notorius

:woot: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dare I say street machine of the year!!!

Xcellent Video!
 

That Troy has a great sense of humor too!:lol:
I'm excited for these guys (notorious1970) that is going to be one bitchn Nova:thumbsup:
Thanx for the Video!

........ NOVA . . . .

notorious!
 

Awesome video, and I had wondered where that first nova went! thanks for the compliments guys. :thumbsup:

Little lateral-g plug right in the beginning too!

-d

:lateral: :woot:

Great video, Kevin and Kelle.

Love Troy's sense of humor.

What a fantastic car.

I'm just glad you guys had the opportunity to have a killer car built and you took it! The car is awesome, it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun to drive. If it does go to YearOne, we'll shoot a full feature of it there.

The video is great and that is one BADASS car. I can't wait to see it on the road.

procharger idea sounds really cool I will be interested to see how well it works.

I agree, will be nice, and that is something thats cool. Wonder if they just used a left mount one or if had one built. If you had one built then you may want to go ahead and get a few extra parts so downthe road you are not scratching your head...

It's actually pretty similar to the way many NMCA type street-legal drag cars work, plumbing the forced air charge back into the icewater filled intercooler in the pass seat or trunk, then back through the cowl into the TB.

As for "having one made", I'm pretty sure it's all in-house at this point...

Can I suggest you guys get a light put on you camera. cause the video is real dark

is this set up intercooled? I have seen the plumbing come throught firewall but never the throttle body mounted near the charger.....

That one compressed really dark... we're going to post another version that will look brighter.

Thanks!

I don't think this car is, but the design is similar to the intercooled race cars, by running the compressed charged back to the cabin and then forward.

We just posted a re compressed version that is much brighter.

Thanks Kev for the video - really enjoyed it ! And thanks for all the hard work of going around and getting all the interviews, meeting people and shooting the footage/editing you share with us - that sounds like a blast !!

Jim

Outrageous...
 

Troy seems like a real,down-to-earth car guy too...wow,very impressed!:thumbsup:

Killer car and really enjoy your V8TV features:thumbsup:

I agree, these videos are great to watch.

Killer Video!
 

I cant wait to see this car done! gotta have love for the novas! :thumbsup:

Im normally not a big nova guy(except your body style chevy2boy333) But the third gen there building is down right impressive as all rad rides by troy cars are.

thanks for the compliments.

your car is going to be beautiful I just know it.

The car will not be intercooled, but John Meany came up with a way to get the compressed air as cool as an intercooler can. I am told I can not go into any more detail than that. They will be able to make at least 1000hp with the original compression ratio.

MAn thats gonna be a bad mother! Heres a pic of my Nova.
 

Should be done by mid summer.

one more pic
 

one more pic

Great car! Great video! Really cool to see the 'masters' talk about what they do and why. And to see that they're just big kids like all of us around these cars ;).

Great job V8TV:thumbsup:

update
 

New picts on radrides website of notorious. Theres a few of the supercharger setup. Also check out the renovations they are doing to the shop.

-Derek

PS I hate the snow in chicago and am ready for summer already!