Ironworks 67 Nova with Tube chassis and GM LSA Engine, Project Slow Motion
 

Every time I post up pics of this car in the What's up at Ironworks thread everyone asks for a Build thread. So here it goes.

Darrell The owner of the car came in several years back and wanted us to help him with his 1967 Nova project. He was building the car at home with the usual parts and somewhere saw Johns 66 Nova. He lived about 3 hours from my shop and his work brought him to Bakersfield quite often. So he decided to make an appointment and stop in an see what we were doing here at the shop. He saw Johns Nova and loved it it but knew it was too much for him. While on one of his initial trips I believe he met Eric Turner who had been designing a tube chassis for his Nova. Talks were made to build 2 of the frames Eric had been thinking about for years.

SO fast forward 3 years and we have been chipping away at the car little by little. Darrell has worked with us on every detail. We have put a lot of thought and discussion into every angle of the car and what we intend to do. Darrell is looking to build a really nice Jaguar or high end luxury car inspired nova that will be a blast to drive with plenty of Horsepower and we even made room to haul a few bags of Golf clubs.

SO here we go, Here is what it looked like when we Darrell dropped the car off at the shop.
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In these pics you can see how bad the metal was under the body that was on car when Darrell bought it. There was quite a bit of Bondo on the quaters and doors. So we reskinned the doors and quarters.
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You can also see the body work that was done over RUST. OH My.
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Chassis Construction - We built a tube chassis to hold corvette drivetrain and and LS engine. We also built the floor to hang down even with the rocker on the car and have a very strong sub structure to keep frame twist on such a narrow chassis to a minimum. We basically built the chassis to bolt to a very strong sub floor in the car.

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Some more pics of the complete chassis with the LSA engine. There was a point in time we were going to machine 2 sets of control arms for this chassis and the Eric's. It was later agreed that building them from Tube fit the chassis design and styling of the project. We are currently building those now.

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When the LSA engine became available. Darrel just had to have it and the required a change in the rack position since the firewall had already been built around the frame. We had no room to go back so we are redesigning the front suspension to allow for a lower rack position and clear the blower pulley on the front of the car.

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Wow, love the work going on at Ironworks.

LOOKIN' GOOD DARRELL!!!!!!!!

I really like the convertible Nova in the background!





--Eric

I think Darrell is tired of being the 67 in the back ground.

What width wheels you going with out back?

Chassis looks nice.

I have seen this car in person and absolutely stellar! Typical Ironworks fashion!

If this car is called "Project Slow Motion" I hate to know what mine should be called.....:rofl:

Looks like 18x9-10 in front and maybe 19x11 or maybe 12 in the rear.

Very Cool I like the look of that LSA in that chassis!:thumbsup:

Paul

another one worth following. outstanding as always

^ R A D your avatar cracks me up. Way funnier than the charatcter...:D

That is one sick frame. Firewall is just as sick.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Awesome work. That chassis looks great!

Thats nice :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I think there should be more photo's than you have posted. :rofl:

Are those wheels the Boze Speedsters?If so do you have anymore pictures I have a set ordered,also car looks great,really am a nova fan,thanks.

Looking forward to seeing this one done!:thumbsup: :wow:

So what. I cant give it away in one day

We just want your damn ideas boy.. HAHA

I know,Just giving you a hard time:thumbsup: .Rodger the work is amazing.Very Cool.Thank's for Sharing.:thumbsup:

I can't give it all away before the customer actually sees his own build thread. Darrell's joke about the project being TOP SECRET is now over. It has been declassified.

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I wish girls didn't think that way :unibrow:

hijack
 

:woot: :rofl:

Tom

Yes,those are Speedsters (Boze),sold them a long time ago,going a different direction.

thanks,Zak and the guys at Boze are very helpful and really like this wheel.

Yea,I still like them a lot,they make a quality wheel.

More pics please:thumbsup:

You'll have a beautiful car when its done. Awesome work.

Wait a minute...... Isn't this your car?


--Eric

Yes it is Eric,it's like this; I didn't think my picture taking skills were that great so I hired a professional photographer,he's has a high end camera and he's local :D :D :lol: :lol: :lol:

Looks good as usual Rodger!!


Doug

Well Darrell has been bugging me to quickly get some pictures up of his chassis since he is busy feeding the cows of Southern California.

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I have the rear transaxle mount to redesign and relocate, I need to build the actual upper control arms and change the layout of the front lower control arm crossmember for the improved rack design. I had an idea for a lower brace to go under the exhaust that will be pretty bitchin.

Project Slow motion continues.

Looks pretty f*ckin nice

I need that for my 66 Nova

I agree, and so do the headers. I think you better get the chair ready for another of Darell's stare sessions.

I think that is one of the nicest chassis that I've ever seen!


--Eric

Yee-oow that is slick Ra-ja! :thumbsup:

Can we have some more details? It looks quite different than fitting a stock Corvette chassis. Start w control arms fabbed (maybe for narrow track width?) and thought behind the rear set up design.

Man I got a hunkerin for some of this. ;)



Great work guys...inspired. :cool:

It's a tube chassis we designed with Eric Turner as we also built one for under his 62 Nova car also. Lengthen torque tube, LSA engine, 6 speed transaxle, Custom built exhaust, all under a 67 Nova and pretty close to the same under Eric's 62 nova also.

It just fabrication. Anything beyond that your going to have to ask.

Darrell has been an awesome customer to work with and I'm just glad to see him blown away every time he sees the the car. He has spent more money then he ever thought and still gets up early to go work to earn the money to see this project through. I'm sure he gets out of bed a little quicker after seeing the project like he does every few weeks. Here is a picture from the time Jason was referring to a few posts ago when Darrell first saw the car on the ground for the first time a few months ago. He was pretty blown away to say the least.

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