Project 67 Nova Sedan LS1TT - Lateral-g Forums

kadettcqp · #1 02-26-2008, 05:24 AM

Now i will start a thread for my project. Is has been "on" more or less a year or so, but not much has happened because of different circumstances. But now i have a deadline for when the car should be running. Or atleast when i would like to have it running. Therefore if everything goes according to plan there should be quite alot of progress the next couple of months. I recently bought i new house, which has an nice garage that i am also upgrading along the way.

The car is an 1967 Chevrolet Nova Sedan. I bought it a year and some months ago on ebay, and it arrived to Denmark propably a year ago. This is how it looked when i picked it up:

The car was bought without engine and transmission. But it had got an minitub, 9" rear with detroit locker and an aluminum fuel cell. Everything was with the car except for engine and transmission. Later on i bought an LS1 with 4L60E of ebay. My first plan was to mate the LS1 up with an TH350 or TH400 but half a year ago i came across an T56 on ebay with everything from clutch to pedals. This was much more suitable with my plans about building an Pro-Tourer. Very early in the progress i also decided to go for twin turbo's for the LS1, and i have 2 GT35r turbo's that i also bought of ebay. But the twin turbo build will be part of "stage 2". First of all i will have the car running and approved with the LS1 engine.

Here are some pictures from when i moved the car to my new garage:

I will be building a new front clip around an mustang II crossmember. At the moment i have the crossmember and all the suspension components are ariving to Denmark in the beginning of March hopefully. I could might have been cheaper to buy an entire frontclip but the transport of an entire frontclip to Denmark would have been very expensive, therefore i will be building one myself.

I have not really decided what wheels to go with. My original plan was Foose Nitrous 2 polished. In 7-8X17 in front and 10x18 in the back. But i would like to run some wider rims on the back. Therefore i am currently with Boyd Timeless 5 17x8 front and 17x11 rear. These will still be in my budget. But if you have any suggestions please feel free to speak up. I would not mind going for 18x12 but there arent that many in those sizes that do not exceed around $600 a piece. Not that i have found nevertheless.

This was an short introduction, i have propably missed out on quite alot of information, but more will come along the way, and otherwise please feel free to ask any questions.

kadettcqp · #2 02-26-2008, 05:25 AM

Here are some pictures from when i took apart the frontend:

kadettcqp · #3 02-27-2008, 12:59 AM

Got started on mocking up the front framerails yesturday. Need to do a little more adjustment before they get some more tack-welds. Then i will mock up the entire front and fenders in order to make sure that everything fits perfectly before welding them solid. And then it is on to the Mustang II components that needs to be welded in. Hopefully it will not be long before i have the controlarms etc. Then i will be able to put the car back on the ground and see how it looks.

Will also be ordering my new air compressor one of these days.

**XcYZ** · #4 02-27-2008, 06:38 AM

Awesome, keep this thread going.

kadettcqp · #5 02-28-2008, 11:47 PM

A little progress from yesturday. Was a bit excited to mock up the front fenders and radiator support to see if i had done my maesurements properly. But it did fit very nicely! Also adjusted the framerails a bit so that they now point excatly straight ahead and are parralel. Hopefully i will have the framrails done in the weekend and maybe mocked up the crossmember. When that is sorted out i can start thinking about putting in the engine and making a new transmission tunnel for the T-56.

For now everything is going according to the plan and i have not run into any mayor obstacles that i have not foreseen yet.

By the way, does any of you now where i can buy an weld-in cage for the Nova where i will be able to get people in the backseat?

deuce_454 · #6 02-29-2008, 02:40 AM

most of the weld in cages ive seen fit like crap.. and shipping to DK will be cost prohibitive... you have two options IMHO, renting a mandrel tube bender and doing it yourself, i have seen some that bend up to 50mm tubing for about 100-150 DKK/day, or have a rally shop do it for you.. they have the aprovals that you will need to get the car thru "bilsyn" also considder that a cage might look cool.. but you will need to get the tubes as far away from your head as possible, i assume you dont drive arround with a helmet, and hitting your head on a rollcage will crack your skull and kill you like nothing,

novanutcase · #7 03-02-2008, 06:50 PM

Go Brother Go!

Good to see you got everything sorted out and can now really dig into the car!

As far as a cage, I don't think it's doable and still be able to have an accessible back seat!

John

kadettcqp · #8 03-03-2008, 01:50 AM

deuce: I could imagine that the weld-in cages would fit rather badly. But i should be able to get it to denmark rather cheap nevertheless.

Where can you rent such a bender? I have not yet asked what the requirements for the cage should be in order to get it approved. One of my main concerns is to rigid up the car a bit and if i attend any streetrace it will most likely be required with the ET's that the car will pull.

John: It is really nice to finally make some great progress on the car. I have studied your car quite a bit, and really loves the details. Thought about doing something a bit similar for the front but i am not sure yet. It looks cool on your car nevertheless!

If I could make or buy a 6-point rollcage then I should still be able to have a functional backseat. Or at least that was what I had in mind.

Kendall Burleson · #9 03-04-2008, 09:04 AM

The car is going to be nice went you put the front end on, love the sedan chevy II

Garage Dog 65 · #10 03-04-2008, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by kadettcqp

If I could make or buy a 6-point rollcage then I should still be able to have a functional backseat. Or at least that was what I had in mind.

Option might be to have Rodger at www.ironworksspeedandkustom.com take the measurements off John or Brian's car - and bend one for you that's close to the sidewalls and roof line. He could ship it over to you. They may not have time right now with all the cars they are trying to finish up - but take a number and be first in line.

Jim