TurboNova

plan on stopping by to watch

thanks everyone, yes you have proly seen it elsewhere I have 3-4 other build threads...yellowbullet,turboforums,ls1tech and some nova site.

would like to bring nova out to run in outlaw street we will see

cool build, if I ever complete mine in its entirety I am going to build an ls notch for sure. with a turbo of course

porn related... /thread

Another monumental day for me, the car for the first time in almost 2 years started and drove out of the garage on its own power. I changed out my s10 mastercylinder for a aluminum early vette master that is for disc/disc manual. I made new lines putting an adjustable prop valve in the rear circuit as well as a 10psi residual presure valve. I plumbed the front brakes with the hurst line lock. got them all bled and started filling up the transmission. I fired it up put it in gear and got it out into the driveway to clean the year old dirt off of it and snap a couple progress photos. The car needs alot of work on the tune still due to it being a base file but Turner is coming over on weds to work on it a bit more and maybe cruise it around the block a few times before its ready to get an alignment then goto the dyno for some real tuning. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0366.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0364.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0363.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0360.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0369.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0371.jpg

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yeah thanks for your input on the system. It took alot of research on ls1tech and other sites to gather they had two grounding systems and of course when you run 411 pcm and truckharness and bunch of other mixed up shit I had no clue what 4 wire ls o2 to buy and of course i bought the wrong ones. Alot of hours spent for just having incorrect o2 sensors. Oh well I knew there would be plenty of bugs. Ill be sure to get ahold of you when the time comes

Well I have tried to embed it but I cant Here is a first start up vid of the nova. Its is merely a base tune file to get it to start and listen and look for leaks. I need to get the mastercylinder back on the car and bleed the brakes so we can get some road tune time and get the car aligned then put it on the rollers. It is a very proud moment for me I have spent countless hours and way too much money but its starting to pay off for me to see it light off. http://youtu.be/0WvgL_jH3Yw?hd=1 0WvgL_jH3Yw maybe someone can embed it for me

like what you did there george, Im sure it will get its share of fri/sat/sun deals but I really just dont see it getting more than 1000 miles a year, thats just a ton. I am using a 411 pcm from an 01-02 fbody and a standalone wiring harness that was made for a truck engine cable drive. Fuel injectors/coils are on a seperate relay power 12v ignition trigger. Every other component is on a relay as well... trans brake/2 step/trans fan/radiator fan/gauges/line locks...etc Finally got the o2 issue figured out so once my new mastercylinder gets here and I get the brakes all bled it should be ready for some road tuning then hit the rollers The o2 issue was apparently gm had two styles of o2's isolated ground and case grounded and depending on where your wiring went on the diagram and the pcm you use either the pcm grounded the tan wire internally to energize the purple wire or the case of the o2 grounded it. I was using a white connector o2 and it was an isolated grounding sensor. The harness and pcm needs a case ground to complete the signal. Man that was almost the most difficult thing for me to figure out. And no one else online even came close to coming to that conclusion. I do want to thank Brian Turner and Scott Cordell for their support in the matter and great wisdom, The o2s now read and the injectors are scaled right and working like they were meant to so we can hopefully start the fun stuff with very little issues (fingers crossed)

quoted for truth, id rather having the tuning cushion of e85 so it will take the timing and boost that it wants to have to be most efficent

Yeah we did thanks to Brians work on them and putting the 160s on a 30amp relay they are working great. I love the sound of the car at idle its got a fairly large specd cam from cam motion in it. just trying to work our way through some issues with o2 not responding. We spend more hours then I care to say going through all the wiring on the c1 connector from the ecm and trying another ecm. Everything checks out for what we can tell so I got two new o2 sensors coming tomorrow. Its crazy that these bugs always take the longest. Kind of upsets me, I did not want to make my own harness so I got a real nice standalone harness and I think it is good to go but there tech support is non-existant. Either way she lit off with little effort and we have something to work with now. I will post a vid here soon as we get the o2 stuff figured out.

^ thats a damn good price. was that forming it up and foundation as well

I disagree on the 1000rwhp on pump with my turbo but either way my fuel of choice is e85...love me some corn. street/track not sure on percentages it depends on what races I can make. The car might see 500-1000 street miles a year at best so no worries on finding e85

thanks erik, I am getting so close just trying to work through some bugs will post vids of it running here soon

E85 is pump race fuel for only 3 bucks a gallon. I could not get to around 1000rwhp with pump gas at the same price point. How can I make 1000rwhp on a stock block and pump with an a/a and no meth and drive the car? the cage, turbo hot parts and cold stuff was done by martin motorsports, he does amazing work. I have done the rest

Well some know but now but many dont, Brian got the job for tuning the Nova. I have known brian for a while and he has done some tune work in the past with impeccable service. I live out in the pataskala area and of course Brian is Far West. He came out Monday afternoon and spent some time getting a base tune file into the nova to get it to light off so we could check for leaks and get it trailer ready to come to the dyno. No fault on brian, I had some electrical kinks in the system. Problem with the pumps not running while cranking and voltage supply issues on the injectors. We got the pumps figured out and the car fired up... ..... He left and I wired the injector/coil circuit to a seperate 30amp relay (160lb injectors love the juice) Brian made a 2nd trip out to my place tuesday and worked the tune some more and got the injectors figured out and got it to idle on its own. Of course some more issues surfaced. We spent a great deal of time looking at wiring diagrams trying to figure out the oxygen sensors and why they would not read. Brian left and went home so I could do some wiring checks I did some pinout tests and continuity checks and narrowed it down to what we believed to be a faulty ecm. Brian had another ecm and and contacted me at 10pm to see if I wanted to try the ecm he had. So he locked his house and made a 2nd trip in the pouring rain from the west side all the way to the far east side to bring the pcm to see if that would solve the o2 issues. we spend about 2.5 hours going through every wire and option to get it narrowed down It sucks things happened as they did but everything is new and nothing is a copy of someone elses setup identical so its hard to plan for what bugs will pop up with a swap of this nature. I have yet to experience customer service like this at all in the past!!! The car really sounds mean as fuck and really excited for the potential. Sorry for the long winded post but Brian deserves a bunch of props CLIFFS: Dynotune rocks and you should give them all of your business. you wont find a more personal honest upfront person in my opinion.

lulz

thanks anthony, I think we have a small issue with supply voltage to take care of I wired in a relay on the injector circuit. These 160's are power hungry, if I still need them ill hit you up tomorrow.

really does not matter what size, stock mustang ones will work or whatever you have that are 100% known good injectors. I need to just borrow a set of 8. Dyno Brian and I are working on the nova and got it to light off but having some issues with the 160's in it. before jumping conclusions we would just like to rule it out with some known good injectors just to tune it for a clean idle. please let me know if I can borrow some for tomorrow night. need these bad.

I know alot of the quality playback is in the sd card you use. What is everyone using for the best quality picture?

pataskala...ehh I am just down the rd from you. welcome

Super interested, make a good crazy compacts car at cms lol

Very nice man I try to do all My work but you got some skills bud good job

I always buy from jegs, they will match ANY online price and the tax paid is a small change for the security of knowing you can return/exchange/warranty stuff without return shipping. JEGS FTW