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Thread: 1966 Nova Turbo Build
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12-30-2019 #1Registered User
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1966 Nova Turbo Build
Hi guys. I just recently found this site, so i figured i would join and share my project. Lots of cool builds on here that interest me. Ill start off and say that i am about 2 years into this project. I bought the car in July of 2017 and started to do work in December of 2017. A lot of the work got done in the first 6 months of working on it, then to a break from it with kids/summer/side work/life. Picked away at it over the last year but now i have the car back at my shop and I'm really getting to it. This is a father/son project. Some pictures that you see will be at my place and at my dad's place. I have a ton of pictures but ill skip most of the detailed pictures and just get to the good stuff. if anyone would like some other detailed pictures that interest you, just let me know and i can post some. A little history on the car is its a 1966 Chevy 2 Nova hardtop. I bought the car with no motor no transmission. Its a true California car and i have paper trails of it leading into Wisconsin. The car hasn't been on the road for 15 or so years. the car is in really really good shape with only a few(3) spots of rust that would need to be cut out and replaced. I do auto body/ restorations for a living and finding a car in good shape is getting hard to come by. The plan with the car is a fun street car with drag/auto cross weekend fun. The engine is a 4.8 LS (truck motor) with a 4l80e behind it. It will be getting a 78/75 turbo. I put in a cam, springs, trunion kit, harden push rods to make the top end nice. I took the pistons out and gapped the rings for boost. i installed a transgo shift kit and put a yank 3600 converter in. The front subframe is a Total cost involved (TCI) pro touring clip. The rear is a TCI torque arm. I had a ford 9inch housing made for the car. 35 spline axles, and a strange pro "n" 3rd member with 3.25 gears. I mini tubbed the rear with using the existing metal so i could put a 275/40/17 nitto nt05 out back. i could fit a 315 no problem, but a 275 will do right now. The front has a 255/40/17 nitto nt05. I sure i missed some other stuff, but ill let some pictures do the talking for now. thanks for reading/looking.
I had to widen the transmission tunnel so the 4l80e could fit
Seats are out of a 2000' mini cooper.
i made a oil pan baffle out of aluminum sheet metal and door hinges
the one i made on left and stock on right
Everything painted and installed
Dad excited with the new wheels installed and back into a roller to get it to my shop. This is where we kept the car stored and worked on it for a bit while i had my shop tied up with other projects.
Silver base coat and clear on the front sub frame. All the silver is a Chrysler paint code "PSC"
This is where i am at pretty much with the car. A lot of work has been done in the last 4 months. Right now we are working on the brakes and routing of the lines. more pics for that to come. Here is my YouTube page, W.O.T. 5th, (stands for wide open throttle 5th gear) for some other quick updates or how i did some things in my shop. I just started videos for the nova so not too many videos on it but lots more to come.