As I mentioned before, I had stripped my 914 race car down to build the Nova, then sort of out of the blue, got an email from a guy that had came across some extra cash and wondered if I still wanted to sell the roller. So, I took all the susp back out of the Nova, put it back, and sold the roller on Memorial Day weekend.
I got Forgelines today and fit them on the Vette and they look great. Will add a pic this weekend. I dropped a spindle in a front and measured stuff on the Nova - tho' I had already built the suspension up from my custom stuff I had in the Porsche then took it all back out of the Nova - turns out I could literally have reused everything from the Porsche with C6 Vette spindles and stock Vette wheel offsets! I had designed that suspension for the Porsche without much info on a Vette but decent info on a modern Porsche... and just having an idea of how suspension works... turns out the A arm ratios match the Vette, caster within a degree, kingpin inclination the same as a C6 Vette and the spindle height is literally within 1/8" of my spindles I custom designed and machined. Guess that explains why the car picked up nearly 10 seconds on the track when I put the new suspension in!
Good news is this means the Nova should be nearly as impressive for cornering tho' it will likely be a bit slower with about 2" narrower track width than the flared 914, a bit heavier and taller height.
Current plan forward is to get Coleman lower control arms with monoballs for the lower ball joints, Chrysler taper, then ream the Vette spindles to match. I will press the upper BJ out and make a custom spacer to replace it with a Chrysler taper, then use Speedway IMCA upper A arms with Howe Precision Chrysler BJs in the arms.All off the shelf stuff, literally nothing custom other than reaming the spindles to Chrysler 1.5"/ft taper
I am also hoping to get into the machine shop at work Friday morning and machine up the adapter for the Mendeola to the Vette hub, then get it over to Mark Williams for splining.
Will add pics as I move along... updates are boring without pics
