Project 67 Nova Sedan LS1TT

[kadettcqp]

Made a little progress yesturday on the Nova. Worked for about 1½ hour so not that much, but it gets me further.

I can't wait to get it back on the ground. And hopefully i can start on mounting the engine next week.

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Just a little more photos.

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Now it is time for a little more updates. I have had vacation for a little over a week and i have made some progress on the car. Not as much as wanted, but nevertheless quite alot of progress. As always there has been a number of "problems" where i thought everything was thought of. I had planned on using the pedal assembly from the camaro, but this seemed to take alot of work to get in place and I instead decided to mate the clutch assembly from the camaro to the "auto" brake-part of the original pedal assembly. And then i might add the throttle-pedal from the camaro as well.

I have mounted the engine, but i am not sure whether i will raise it up about 1½-2 inches since i think the clearance under the transmission is rather low. And the car should sit as low as possible. But in doing this i have 2 issues at the moment. One is the engine and transmission, the other is that if it gets much lower i do not think there will be sufficient clearance under the crossmember. At the moment there is 2.75 inches of clearance which is enough nevertheless, but judging by the look i would like to get the stance atleast 1" lower in the front. And i do not think that i can go lower than 2" clearance under the crossmember. This means that i somehow needs to gain a lower stance without getting the crossmember lower. I will actually have 17" wheels on the front instead of the 14" there is on the pictures but i will have low profile tires on so the overall diameter will not change that much. So as i see it the only option is to raise the entire front clip this will also raise the engine and transmission. But then i have to adjust the radiator support so that the front and fenders will mount up properly. As always, there is no easy solution, but this is why it is fun to make everything yourselve. You have to figure out a solution to everything. But if you have any thoughts then please share them.

[kadettcqp]

Here are a little more pictures:

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[kadettcqp]

As you will see on the pictures, i decided to raise the engine and further more i moved i a little more backwards. But know i have it exactly where i want it, and after looking at the clearance and where it sits now i am glad that i took the time to redo the engine mounts and mount it a little higher. I needed to do a lot more of cutting to mount it higher and i still have a little cutting to do, but i think it will be as i wanted nevertheless. I also fabricated the supports for the frame rails. Unfortunately i do not have a tube bender so this is the way they are going to be made, atleast for now. They really put a lot of strength to the front. Before the fenders did not match up that good when the car was on the ground because the entire front clip "leaned" slightly upwards when on the ground, but now they just fit perfectly. That was very nice to discover.

I have a little idea that i might cut a bit of the bottom of the crossmember to gain a little clearance under there. After what i can see i can almost gain an inch of clearance with a little cutting and reinforcement. That would really help when the car gets lowered further.

I also started working on mounting my door handles, unfortunately i did not take any pictures. But i got a quite nice idea on how to flush mount them, but you will se that later on.

[kadettcqp]

A little more pictures. As you can see the transmission now no longer is the lowest point.

Please note that the transmission mount is the old one for an TH400 that is stacked up with wood to support the transmission and not the final one.




It sits nice on the ground but i would like to have it at least 1½-2 inches lower. And there is plenty of clearance everywhere else than under the crossmember, but that will be fixed.

[kadettcqp]

Wow I cannot believe it has been 3 years since my last update on this site. I know I have not made that much progress on the car the recent years, but 3 years is quite a long time.
But then again now I have some motivation, and I am sure that there will be some progress made the next couple of months, therefore I will revive this thread.

I can see that I have made some changes that has not made its way to this site, but i will try to post some pics the following days and explain what has been done, at least that will make me feel like i have accomplished something in the 3 years.

First of a picture with the rims I am planning on running. I lowered the front another 2" as I could see, I talked about on the last update. This was done by moving the entire front-clip 2" up.



Then today I finally started welding in my door handles after quite some time, figuring out how to mount them on the back, and connect them to the door mechanism.

[coolwelder62]

Cool home built project.I love those chevy II's. Scott

[kadettcqp]

Got the door handle for the driver side welded yesturday. It is nice that the idea looks at good on the car as I hoped.





And finally a picture from last time it was moved outside to make room for a party.

Have not decided whether to use that hood or the original.