'71 Nova. Project "Urban Legend" - Lateral-g Forums

BBC71Nova · #1 01-19-2013, 09:08 PM

Here is a before shot of the tie-rod clearance.

Moabdude · #2 01-24-2014, 04:12 PM

So whats the status of this Nova.
Is it finished already?

jarhead · #3 09-10-2015, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Moabdude

So whats the status of this Nova.
Is it finished already?

Was wondering the same thing ?

Jay Hilliard · #4 09-10-2015, 06:39 PM

I spoke with John a couple of months ago and its still in progress.

Novacaine · #5 09-10-2015, 08:35 PM

And it will be pretty nice when finished. That's some nice sheet metal work that's been done there.

BBC71Nova · #6 09-11-2015, 08:28 AM

Hey Guys. I still have it and it is still in progress as Jay mentioned. Been a REALLY slow last couple years so I haven't been too motivated to post any updates. I've had two kids come along which was a game changer as I'm sure many of you can attest to. I have committed to keeping things in perspective as much as possible. They are big enough now that I've been able to carve out a bit more time to work on the car though so that's good. Bad thing now is my son (almost 3) has started asking when we can drive daddy's car. Doh!

I also was struggling with motivation. At every turn there were pretty big issues I'd run into. By big I primarily mean things that I can't easily do and really should be farmed out. Lots of frustration to go around. Spend $1000+ in labor cleaning up a firewall just to later find out it needs to be redone. Spend however much getting a trans tunnel redone just to have to have more work done (driveshaft raised to deal with drive angle).

While I haven't had much time to do fab work, I've worked in time here and there on the engine build. Last year I sent my heads off to be gone through and setup for the build. Told couple weeks or so. Well I sent the shop received them in July and I got them back in almost March (IIRC) of this year. Not a huge issue given my timeline but frustrating because I went with alum shaft rocker setup instead of stainless steel strictly because I didn't want the shop to be held up waiting the 8 weeks for me to get SS option built.

Anyway. I'll get some pics up here soon.

CCS · #7 06-10-2019, 10:12 PM

Congratulations!!! Very Nice project!!