Added another car to the garage. 67 Nova

:) When I built the cross member it was for the Richmond 5 speed which is what the GForce modeled their GF5R after. The shifter location, and linkage did not fit the newer crossmembe, so I had to cut it apart, and make a new shifter side. I found a kink in the rear brake line that needs to be fixed, The fuel line from the tank needs to be run, The MSD, and the Race pac need to be wired, the digital dash has to be mounted, the roll bar has to be painted, the interior reinstalled, then the distributer needs to come out, and reprime the motor for oil circulation. The trailer hitch has to be fabricated(drag, and drive), and start it and drive it befor I race it.:eek 2:
 
Soo . . . by Saturday?

:grin::grin::grin:

Actually, thanks for the list. I can almost smell the burn out.
Stay safe. I think you're having plenty of fun.
 
Shifter tunnel is closed up, super boot is on, the shifter is for a bench seat, that will be changed out. I stole the seats out of my 70 Chevelle, and got those installed today, the carpet is pretty badly sun bleached, when I get irritated enough it will get higher priority. I still need to bleed brakes, hydraulic release bearing, wire the MSD, prime the motor, it hasn't run in awhile. Then we'll see what the gremlins have instore for me.
 
Waiting for my new MSD box to come, I swapped out some parts. The repop bumper was toast from the salt air here and being neglected, NOS headlight bezels, new grill, and a 67 Nova take off front bumper were added.
 
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It's a crappy video, a little long, and the electric fans are noisy, BUT it's running. :drink:
The file size must have been too big to get all of the video in, it cut off moving to the front. Click on the picture, and unmute. I hope it works.
 
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I had to pull the transmission because of too much finger to release bearing clerance, so I ordered a new adjustable hydraulic with spacers. the spacer combinations did not give me the clearance I wanted, so some calculations, material, and machines, I got what I wanted. Now to see if it works...

 
It was not a good day, I ended up hurting the clutch. In the rush to get the car running I made a bunch of bad assumptions, on my first start up the motor was missing, and doing the diagnostics found the wires were on in the 184 standard firing order, and should have been 4-7 swap switched to a 4-7 swap order it ran but was still rough. I confirmed with Bullet that it was a 4-7 swap cam, and went back to searching, a spark plug boot was loose, and it ran much better, but in my mind it should have been better than it was, so I chased other causes. Long story short the car launched horribly, chased clutch settings, and made 2 more full power runs, and hurt the clutch. One of my smarter friends put a heat gun on the pipes, and found that 4 and 7 were cold, we went back to the 184 firing order, and it made everything better, and tried another launch but the clutch was done for, and we went home. If I had better skills it would not have turned out this bad, kind of a blow to the ego, but live to fight another day :)
 
Aukai said:
It was not a good day, I ended up hurting the clutch. In the rush to get the car running I made a bunch of bad assumptions, on my first start up the motor was missing, and doing the diagnostics found the wires were on in the 184 standard firing order, and should have been 4-7 swap switched to a 4-7 swap order it ran but was still rough. I confirmed with Bullet that it was a 4-7 swap cam, and went back to searching, a spark plug boot was loose, and it ran much better, but in my mind it should have been better than it was, so I chased other causes. Long story short the car launched horribly, chased clutch settings, and made 2 more full power runs, and hurt the clutch. One of my smarter friends put a heat gun on the pipes, and found that 4 and 7 were cold, we went back to the 184 firing order, and it made everything better, and tried another launch but the clutch was done for, and we went home. If I had better skills it would not have turned out this bad, kind of a blow to the ego, but live to fight another day :)
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We use to say, speed costs how fast can you afford to go. Personally I had a lot more fun once I stopped trying to turn the hobby into a job.
 
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