New Rad Rides by Troy Project--'70 Nova

[stang97]

Whats the plans for interior? any new photos?
Thanks

Havent really discussed this part of the project at all. We were thinking about doing a recaro style seat in the front with a short backing to it. As for the rear sear we will go with the bench style. More then likely it will all be black interior with some sort of insert on the seat. No new photos, camera has been acting up. I will tell you that the build is going well.

We stopped by the shop last sunday and had dinner with Jared. He is doing most of the work on the nova. We talked about some stuff related to what he was doing to the suspension. According to him, subframe connectors and engine placement are the next things to be accomplished on the list.

In the beginning we were so ahead of ourselves with everything due to the initial overwhelming excitement for the car. Now that we are back on earth again we are approaching each step of the car as it comes to us. Like Troy said to us in the beginning...we can decide on a paintjob as the car is being built, but our ideas/colors will change 100 times before we get to actually painting the car!
Peace.
-derek

[NOVA]

Any new updates?

[stang97]

Not too much new. I guess they are working on smoothing the firewall and finished the trans tunnel. The front of the tunnel needed to be reworked to make room for the 4L80e. After this is done they are going to do some work to the rear and front of the car.
-d

[syborg tt]

Not too much new. I guess they are working on smoothing the firewall and finished the trans tunnel. The front of the tunnel needed to be reworked to make room for the 4L80e. After this is done they are going to do some work to the rear and front of the car.
-d

Tranny tunnel was done on Tuesday and Levi was working on cutting off the old firewall which was incrediblly loud.

Jared said that Levi has a way of making any tool he uses louder then it needs to be. It was funny.

ps - the car looks awesome and nope i didn't take any pictures

[stang97]

QUOTE]Jared said that Levi has a way of making any tool he uses louder then it needs to be. It was funny.[/QUOTE]

I know! I was talkin to Jared and he was using the grinder and it was loud as helL!

[NOVA]

Time for an update please.

[stang97]

As of last week the tail lights where being fitted. This proved to be more work than originally thought. The problem is that Novas have a slight curve to them in the back. So you are trying to fit a straight light in a surface that is slightly curved. Rear bumper was also cut up in a bunch of places and refitted. Now its only protruding out of the body line about a 1/2 inch. All of the gapping has just about been complete. Once the rear end is complete the front will be the final part of the body work. The brakes finally arrived as well. They are baer 6 pistons with "rad rides" inscribed on them. They are massive, something like 15" front 14" rear. Check this out.

http://www.radrides.com/home.php

Later!
Derek