66 Nova SS Project

[byndbad914]

thanks guys! Started working on floor pans yesterday, hope to get those roughed in the next couple of nights. Fronts are in, just need to do under seat and rear area, then down the road I will trim out around the factory tunnel and splice that in for a factory look and console mounting.

[SBDave]

Any updates on this car? It's been too long!!

[byndbad914]

it has been too long. Packing up and moving back to SoCal has been a rather large chore so the car has been waiting patiently in the trailer since last August We bought a house that has a nice sized 2-car garage but I still have a ton of crap in it and the Vette, so until I can get all that stuff unpacked and put somewhere the Nova sort of sits. That and the house needed some updating, which of course helped with the price, but takes time to actually do and that has been a PITA as well I keep telling myself it will be great in the end while it looks like post war Europe right now.

So while I wish I could say more, the day it went in the trailer was the last day I really even touched it. I hope in the next few months to get the last of the random crap cleared out of the garage as I pick at it each weekend and then get the car in, back up on the frame stands and leveled.

[RC951]

Hey Tim,
I followed the 914 build the first time around (my favorite build) and was always a big fan of the youtube vids. I always figured you'd move on to another build sooner or later after reading that you wanted to do the same to a Mach 1....if memory is correct. I'm pretty excited that I may get to see this thing run at willow!

[byndbad914]

thanks for the props. You are correct about the Mustang plan - I had a 70 fastback in the 90s and wanted to get another one and do a 500-inch engine build with a Pro Stock block and drop in it, detuned down to around 800-900 HP for a more streetable setup. But I also always wanted a 66 or 67 Nova and since I didn't have one before and a ton of Chevy parts from the 914, it won out.

Good news is I spent all weekend (in near record heat, not good news) adding a 100sqft workshop/storage onto my garage and hope to finish up siding and painting it this weekend, so I can start moving stuff out of the garage and into it. Then I can get the Nova out of the trailer. Just need to do a little more of this to the garage wall Halloween will mark exactly one year in the house and not touching the Nova once so I need to get my priorities straight

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by byndbad914

detuned down to around 800-900 HP for a more streetable setup.

I like the way your brain works Tim.

Hope to see progress on this soon!

[rustomatic]

In looking back through this thread, I found some firewall/pedal support ideas that I'm going to steal . . . for whenever I get back to my Falcon . . .

[byndbad914]

In looking back through this thread, I found some firewall/pedal support ideas that I'm going to steal . . . for whenever I get back to my Falcon . . .

steal away! maybe one of us can get a project done then

I like the way your brain works Tim.

funny, reading my post again it is a bit crazy to refer to 850 HP as a streetable setup. Only 1.7 HP/cube at the 500 cubic inch range so while pretty easy to do, would make for quite a tire burner haha.

[byndbad914]

Just over 4 years of radio silence. I spent right up until about April 2018 renovating the house in SoCal to put it on the market and move to TX in July that year. A year of projects with the new house including setting up my music studio and recording 7 songs, and finally dusted off the car last Fall. Spent 10 straight days over Christmas break hammering out details and welding. Then every weekend since plugging away.

Mounted the steering column, split and relocated the dash and notched around the cage tho will weld it in after I do the firewall sheeting, relocated the wiper motor inside behind the dash, fabbed up an exhaust, mounted the fuel regulator and water pump, went to PRI and ended up getting a custom steering rack from Coleman so had to make new brackets and start mounting that. I no longer have access to legit machines so will have to pay a shop to machine a custom tie rod mount bar that will have the ability to allow for Ackermann adjustments. Routed the cooling system from leftover Porsche project stuff so will get new hoses to finalize. Mounted the shifter for the sequential and the reverser lever. Will cut the shifter arm off and fab a bracket to attach a Hurst shifter for the right look when I put the SS console back in. Redid the pedal assy mount and fabbed up mounting for the fuel pedal cable and set it for wide open throttle. Refabbed my Holley carb mount to better align the springs and cable as that was always a bit janky. Crazy what can get done in 2 months, wish I had 6 months 5 years ago, would be driving it haha

[byndbad914]

See if I remember how to add a pic