66 Nova SS Project

[byndbad914]

I just received a formal offer from a company I worked for in SoCal today so it looks like we are moving back to the LA area While I am looking forward to being back to the hustle and bustle and beach air I am not looking forward to the downsizing on the house and being back to a 2-car garage. I will literally buy half the house for twice the money v. where I am at now but then again I will be within a few miles of the beach and never shovel fricken snow ever again.

I am going to hammer as hard as I can during the next month but then the car will have to go into the trailer for hibernation until I find a new place and get situated. We have 5 cars right now + the enclosed trailer so it is going to get exciting fast...

[Flash68]

Well selfishly I like the news Tim.. as I will more likely be able to see the car sooner and run on the same track.

Best of luck with all that. Kinduva big deal.

[Ron in SoCal]

Congrats Tim (!), I think?

[byndbad914]

Yeah, it is gonna be a really good thing, just stressful trying to get it all in line. We have lived in CO for 7.5 years and I was ready to move somewhere else for about the last 5 but finally Kristi came around within the last couple so we have been wanting to make something happen. We were discussing Texas or back to CA (if Austin had businesses in my industry we would probably already be there); fortunately my previous employer just won a big contract and her old employer offered her a job as soon as she called them so that is all in order.

I really need the humidity! I developed allergies and all sorts of weird sinus crap living in the desert here and, as an example, we were in Chicago for the weekend last week and literally in less than 12 hours I was able to breath, my throat cleared up, and I generally just felt right! Same thing happens when I visit CA - everything clears up almost instantly. Austin last year was the same thing. I grew up in IA and worked farm work every summer and never once had an allergy or barely a sneeze. Kristi developed some weird allergies as well. So, heck yeah, looking forward to being back! Just dreading the house stuff - we ended up finding a really nice house out here but it is pretty much the only thing I am going to miss other than new friends.

I really cannot wait to get back on Willow Springs The track here just east of Denver is really nice and damn close at 60 miles but WSIR is just too cool.

Back on topic, the longer shock showed up from Penske today and the quick mockup looked promising tonight so I hope to confirm it will work this weekend and keep plowing on the suspension. I have to get this car in a trailer in roughly a month

[bonecrrusher]

OT - Allergies...

So you developed weird allergies living in the desert?

I was born in Ohio - grew up in the Chicago area - I moved to Charlotte, where there is plenty of humidity, and my allergies are off the scale down here in the spring.

I blame all the trees in the Appalachian Mountains - but what do I know...

[byndbad914]

yeah, seems counter-intuitive but there are allergens out here that affect me pretty bad v. anything in the areas you would expect me to have them. I had friends growing up with bad allergies but I can go to CA or the Midwest in the spring and have no issues, put hay up in barns and have no issue, so forth. There are different plants/trees of course in the desert than wetter climates and they wreak havoc on me. There is some funky tree out here that causes Kristi's eyelids to get raw and itchy and my co-worker's wife has the exact same reaction coming from NorCal and this year it has been wet actually but that makes that tree bloom like mad. I have heard this year is the worst for allergies actually because we have had a lot of rain.

Maybe fresh air is bad We maybe need a little smog to grease the pipes hahaha.

[bonecrrusher]

Crank up the SBC and kill the ozone/green allergen trees!

LOL.

[byndbad914]

Disclaimer: I cannot be held responsible for erections lasting longer than 4 hours

Been a mad dash trying to get to this point... car is officially on the ground and ready to roll into the trailer! This is a pretty big milestone for me as it is the first time I have built a complete chassis by myself and did all of the welding as well Car has a nice ride height in the end; I wanted it to sit up a bit and mostly just look like a hot rod and mask the fact the central frame and all running gear is 6" off the ground and how wide the tires are. Unfortunately, pretty much can see how wide the tires are without much effort and the transmission in the back is pretty obvious, so I will definitely need to make a diffuser that covers most of that up.

I am really digging the rake that I built into it! The car is set up at exact ride height here with all lower A arms parallel to ground, the frame is parallel to ground, but as you can see, the car rakes down which IMO gives it that cool 60s car look and again, deceptive in that the frame is flat to ground. Of course, there might be another advantage to this, say, I dunno, 160 mph at Willow Springs maybe, the air might be pressing the car into the ground and expose any aero mods I might add in the future like a large spoiler to the rear. Maybe. Just sayin'. Not lookin' at a top fuel funny car and gettin' any ideas on body wedge...

Finally, stuck the old bumpers on it just to put them somewhere, I have new ones I will save 'til the end to install. Actually the pics are okay at best but not great, I will get more once I roll it out of the garage and get ready to winch it up into my trailer in the next week or so.

[Rick D]

Nice work Tim, looks bad azz!!

[Flash68]

Looks great Tim!