TurboNova Posted March 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 ^ thanks mark that means alot, I love the vette. I can only hope my car will some day day be within a second and a half of your car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted March 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Slow progress as usual but the trans is back in with the new ptc converter and braided lines from the remote cooler to trans. All the feed line and return fuel line is installed. Installed some new wilwood brakes up front and bought new aluma star wheels for the front. At this point all that is left is to hook up the shifter cable, make the spark plug wires and run the battery cables....and install the wiring harness. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0343.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0348.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0346.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0344.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex L. Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Looks great. Going to debut at one of the track days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2pointslow Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Nice screw driver wheel chuck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted March 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Lol there's always the one guy that finds random stuff about the pic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted March 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Looks great. Going to debut at one of the track days? Yeah I want to be there in April I'm sure the car will be running but it's been this long, hate to rush the small stuff so we will see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn1647545492 Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 I still smile every time I look at the "Head light" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKilbourne Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 I'm looking forward to seeing this car in action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CARkid Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 That's going to be bad ass. 69-72 is the best year for the nova. +1:leghump: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted March 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Well lots of progress has been made but much of it is just alot of minor stuff not worthy of photographing. My wiring skills are shit but for me I am proud of some of the stuff I have been working on. I wired the fuel pumps and the cut off switch along with mounting the yellow top. The fuel pump relay is a leash board and is pretty sweet looking. Made the plug wires and got them routed to the remote mount coil packs I now have power to the cockpit and all the exterior lights. Time to start wiring the gauges, 3 step, trans brake and boost controller. At this point depending on my mood and free time I would hope to have it ready for a tune here in a couple weeks. Some pics of the trunk wiring and then a layout idea of a control board I want to make to put between the trans tunnel and the dash for ease of adjustments and lack of another place to put it and make it look clean. going to do some measurements in the morning and cut that abs plastic to fit the best I can http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0354.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0356.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0357.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/1972nova/IMG_0355.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 I still smile every time I look at the "Head light" reminds me of this. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Mr_peanut.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Cranium Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 That work looks unbelievable. I love it when the work is done and in the end it looks like it was originally made to be that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS69 Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB30Cory Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Just read through your build, setup looks very nice from the pictures. Any reason your jumping straight to E85 and not just using pump gas? With your compression, turbo and CI this thing could easily make the #'s your talking about on the stock block. Whose doing all the fabrication work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patterson Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Car is coming along killer Dan. Great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Just read through your build, setup looks very nice from the pictures. Any reason your jumping straight to E85 and not just using pump gas? With your compression, turbo and CI this thing could easily make the #'s your talking about on the stock block. Whose doing all the fabrication work? 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Car is coming along killer Dan. Great work. thanks erik, I am getting so close just trying to work through some bugs will post vids of it running here soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB30Cory Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 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 You can get to around 1000whp on pump because you have a 6.0 liter.... I just notice a trend with v8 guys that I really don't see anyone pushing pump even at much lower hp levels than your talking about. Basically I was getting your reasoning for not using it. Do you plan to street this car at all or is it purely track only? Martins work does look very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted May 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattsv8 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 why melt parts with pump 91 when we have e85 everywhere arround us. cheaper than gas and way more power potential, lot less broken parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1647545505 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Love this build. Did you get your injectorish issues sorted out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted May 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNova Posted May 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 why melt parts with pump 91 when we have e85 everywhere arround us. cheaper than gas and way more power potential, lot less broken parts. 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex L. Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Looks great, can't wait till it debuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbomb Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Very nice man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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