66 Nova frame complete

[Sinco]

Originally Posted by streetfytr68

Wow, those are some beautifully bent frame rails. I can't believe how narrow the front rails are. Is there room for the engine/headers?
/Steevo

It's tight but everything will fit. Not even sure which way were going with the power plant yet. If we go NA Ryan will be custom making the headers and if we go TT he will be fab the manifolds. Either way it's all got to be custom.

[Sinco]

Originally Posted by parsonsj

Doug,

Looking fabulous! Morrison does a nice job on those 2x4 rails. Wayne seems to be doing his usual stellar work too. You're in good hands. Congratulations on the progress so far.

One caution: the frame rails ahead of the wheels are too long (ask me how I know!), and will need to be trimmed back several inches to allow for things like a radiator and bumper mounts. It's likely the little round tube up front is destined for use as a vise tightener (that's what mine does). It's not a big deal yet, but don't anybody start hanging things off those frame rails up there.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

jp

Thanks John. I'll let Ryan know about the frame rails and I think he's already put alot of thought in the exhaust. Btw how's your beast coming, I've been busy and haven't been following the forum?

[parsonsj]

Doug, I'm doing all the "make it pretty" stuff now. I have parts all over the east coast getting painted, powder coated, anodized, and nickel plated. I picked up my rear end housing yesterday, and some anodized parts today. My brake lines are on order, and they tell my engine is only a couple of weeks away. I'm actually close to putting on parts that won't be taken back off again.

jp

[Sinco]

Scott will be posting some pics of new fabrication.

[XcYZ]

These are also on Doug's webpage.

[XcYZ]

[Sales@Dutchboys]

WOW! Pretty cool!

[novanutcase]

Hey Doug,

Good to see that you finally got someone to start on the floor panels and trunk. Any idea when I will be able to go by and see your car? Call me.

John

[Sinco]

Well it's been a while but we have made some progress. Just to get up to speed I had Wayne Due build me a frame for the car. As it turned out it had many problems. We had to redo fabrication on the rear end just to get the third member out of the car. I don't know what Wayne was thinking?? Also the expensive shocks he out in won't work unless I want the car to look like a stink bug. Wayne suggested a cobra r rear end which worked but my fabricator had to search high and low to get axles made.

As far as the front end all that was wrong too. Caster and camber was all wrong so we had to fabricate new upper control arms and lay back the mounts. With that all fixed you can see the progress in the pictures. We are ordering a radiator and need to decide on which fuel injection to go with.

Doug

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