1969 Nova rebuild Central coast California

[Bobbywracing]

1969 Nova Bought from Chevrolet dealership Arroyo Grande, CA Car has been through just 3 owners. Ive had the car for about 18 years bought when I was 14 .

Time for a full rebuild. 360 Chevy , 10 bolt rear end Dutchman axles. Upgraded from drums to New wilwood disc Brakes . Upgraded to power steering , going with a Hydro boost unit. I want A/c but will wait until I get the car back on the road. Had to rebuild firewall, just a few spots that we had to replace metal on the body. Cut out a few sections of flooring . Th-350 I will upgrade if the transmission ever goes out. Same with rear end, but I’ve had great luck with this rear end so far.

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Off to Body/paint. Dropped the car off last week hoping for 1-2 Months total. After taking the last year to screw around in my garage and save up the $DOE to get the nova to a real auto body shop. paint jobs are double what I had originally expected, and I realize I don't have the space or proper equipment to do the paint myself. I'm saving up / researching for the new wheels/tires to get the car more of a pro tour/ driver operation. I'm stuck on Weld RTS-70's at the moment. 17's , go with a 9/ 9.5 in rear and not sure yet for the front, possibly a 7 or 7-1/2. tires are also a hard decision do we go Toyo R888R, BFG Rivals , mickey Thompson's. or other.

[bs46488]

Following along for this project.

Nice looking build you have going on so far.

I'm hoping to have my 1970 Nova on the road in a month or so.

[c4racer2]

So do they charge extra for the woman that comes with those wheels ??

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Mark Stielows Hellfire , I’m going to shoot for a darker Red and possibly painting the molding , bumpers not sure yet.

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Wow loading photos from my IPhone is extremely complicated & frustrating . I Upload one way it goes sideways , I upload from a different program after I flip the original photo and it works .. wow still bummed about the sideway photos for everyone. Hahah

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Finally loaded the App for iPhone , wow that solved my problems with loading pics . Haha

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Almost done with the majority of paint , It was a Axalta system I wanted a darker red I have the paint code for anyone interested .

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Next week or so the car will be back In The garage , ready for the ride tech 4 link install and new coil over front end , not sure if I’m going with ridetech/ global west or qa1 for the front.

[CamaroAJ]

Wow loading photos from my IPhone is extremely complicated & frustrating . I Upload one way it goes sideways , I upload from a different program after I flip the original photo and it works .. wow still bummed about the sideway photos for everyone. Hahah

I had this problem too. When you take photos with it turn it so the home button (or bottom of the phone if you have a newer one) is in the 3 o'clock position.

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Who makes these wheels? Are these the welds? I thought they were discountinued. thanks!

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Who makes these wheels? Are these the welds? I thought they were discountinued. thanks!

Weld s70 check out the site you now can get the normal wheels and bedrock version. I’m going with 17”168019

[Beantown]

Your car looks great! Keep up the good work.

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[lbsurfer11]

Great work on this one! looking forward to seeing how you like the brakes, Just bought a similar setup.

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[thumper877]

Man that is a pretty red

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9” wheel in rear. Tires go on tomorrow 255/40 , if it don’t fit I’ll be mini tubbing the car ASAP.
Quarantine Tub Job.

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[BlackHD]

17" or 18" wheels? Looks great!

[Motown 454]

Nice wheels !

[Bobbywracing]

These are 17s , but now I want to see what the 18’s hahah .

[eze_1978]

Your project is coming along nicely. Looking nice.

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[Alwhite00]

Looks great.

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Glove box turned out great. [emoji1303]

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Engine and Body wiring complete , time to top off the fluids and Fire it up.

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Looks like your running manual brakes. What size bore master cylinder are you running? I’m looking to make a change to manual brakes and remove the hydroboost.

[Bobbywracing]

The 7/8 bore , just fired up the car, brakes are very sensitive hahah. Pretty close to the newer Gm hydrostops. I’m wondering how the brakes would perform without the hydro boost but I’ll force my foot to adapt.

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[eze_1978]

The 7/8 bore , just fired up the car, brakes are very sensitive hahah. Pretty close to the newer Gm hydrostops. I’m wondering how the brakes would perform without the hydro boost but I’ll force my foot to adapt.

Sounds good. You sure are making quick progress. My brakes are also very sensitive I don’t mind it but I seem to be having an issue with the rear brakes at low speed. Almost seems like the rears will lock up if I give mild push on the brake pedal. No sure yet what the issue may be. I’m thinking it may be the hydroboost. I decreased the pressure on the portioning valve all the way down and still have the same issue.

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Global west rear springs and del a Lum bushings

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[syborg tt]

Wow how did I miss this thread. Car looks great and nice work and vision.

[Crazy Horse]

Subscribed!

[WILWAXU]

Looking good!

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Now it’s time for more gears, I have 3.73 gears with the Th-350 . I am considering gear vendors overdrive , i know swapping to a 5 speed manual would be fun , any ideas ? I’m really open to anything , I know it’s a bummer to be cutting up my floor , I was planning on being at car shows but no car shows This year due to Corona. And didn’t know if I needed to be spending anymore $.

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[67-LS1]

I just looked back and realized you did this build in slightly over a year.
With what looks like a new born.
Go ahead and do the 5 speed. You’ll probably be done by lunch.

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Time for Holley Stealth install , make this SBC run around town better , allow my wife to be able to enjoy driving it.

[dadstoygarage]

Your Nova looks awesome! My dad has his original 1970 Nova he had back I’m the 1970’s. I learned to drive stick in that car.

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Attempted to build a package tray , didn’t turn out at all the way I wanted . This is from classic industries, I’m impressed with fitment.

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Attempted to build a package tray , didn’t turn out at all the way I wanted . This is from classic industries, I’m impressed with fitment.

That looks great. Almost wish I saw that before I installed mine. Although, I need to recover mine with the suede to match my headliner.

[Motown 454]

You are doing a beautiful job on this. Well done!

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Cut the 3-1/4 in hole in the tank , safely filled up with water after cleaning and purged. Should do the trick. Tried the carbide cut, ended up having to use the cutting wheel to finish the hole.

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Waiting on a few fuel fittings to complete the stealth install.

[Jason_Aschle]

Nice ride !!! Hope to see it at a show or on the road soon. I'm up in Paso, so we will likely cross paths

Jason

[Bobbywracing]

Nice ride !!! Hope to see it at a show or on the road soon. I'm up in Paso, so we will likely cross paths

Jason

Sounds good , I’ll be ready for a few cruises up in Templeton/ paso area next few weeks . I’ll hit you up soon.

[Bobbywracing]

Fuel update.
Stealth did not fire up, looks like tons of fuel is injected , flooding out the engine while cranking, I’m re routing lines in case radio frequency interruption/ emi. All sensors are a go , just has only cranked and not fired for more than 5 seconds and shuts down. I haven’t seen any change in the AFR gauge as I see ‘Inti’ while cranking. May be a bad o2 sensor. And will look into lowering fuel rates.

I need to check spark in all plugs I tested #1/2 wires. And I can’t really check timing until idle. I attempted while cranking and it’s not good.

[Zachalanche]

Make sure your distributor rotor is phased correctly.

Are you using the spark control, if so the ecu seems to be even more sensitive to rfi /emi. If you think this is the case, you can try running a ground wire from the holley unit to you chassis, and you could also try sheilding your dustributor with some tinfoil (not the best looking, but may help you troubleshoot).

[Bobbywracing]

Thank You for the info, yes I had to many elements of RFi . The only thing that I didn’t change/ trouble shoot was my alternator .
I ditched the Hyperspark and went back to a MSD pro billet / 6al box. Fired right up after I adjusted timing a little. 190049

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Time for rigging & re routing wires . I pulled my harness apart many times troubleshooting, will be cleaned up soon so I can start putting miles back on the car.