My turn at a project...

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engine bars look bitchin, it gave me a great idea for my car. thank you

[Bad94]

New shocks for the car.
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I have been working on the car every free minute I have been getting. Got everything painted and back on the car.

[mdes0]

Looks friggn awesome! Are you running manual brakes? Do you miss power brakes? I'm debating what direction to go with my Camaro, I'd love to nix the brake booster from the firewall but don't want to sacrifice streetable braking.

Thanks, Matt

[Bad94]

I love the manual brakes on the auto x and road course. I don't mind manual brakes on the street. On a street car, power brakes all the way.

Looks friggn awesome! Are you running manual brakes? Do you miss power brakes? I'm debating what direction to go with my Camaro, I'd love to nix the brake booster from the firewall but don't want to sacrifice streetable braking.

Thanks, Matt

[Bad94]

Well after driving the car for a few days letting the Holley EFI self tune, The tranny started to make a very bad grinding noise. So im going to put in a built T56 out of my brothers truck in it while I have my T56 fixed.

We pulled the exhaust, driveshaft, and tranny in under a hour.




Under the hood has changed some. Made some custom shock reservoir clamps for the ridetech shocks.

[mdes0]

Did you fab your trans cross member?

[rchaskin]

Interior is done other then driver seat and driver side door bar.

I have that same huge shifter boot. I made some custom rings so you can cut the bottom pleat of the boot off.
It makes the ring about 1" narrower on each side, and still covers the hole.
One ring welds to the floor, and a matching ring holds the boot down.

I can send you the drawings / dxf if you are interested.

Car is killer!!

Randy

[Jimmypetersfit]

Your car is pretty damn nice! My dad and I are working on building up my 72 Nova... I see from your covered up license plate that you are located in Ohio. I live in Columbus. I would love to check out your ride and pick your brain a bit. If you are headed to any shows and are up for meeting, let me know. Here is the link to my build: https://www.pro-touring.com/showthre...-build-in-Ohio
Jimmy

[craigs73]

dan (bad94) is from around the cincy area...... im not far from you jimmy...i live in washington court house.....bout 30-40 from columbus.....im gonna go check out your thread now!!

so dan have you got a chance to look and see what was wrong with your tranny?

[Bad94]

I put in a new tranny monday night. This has some viper stuff inside. Everything is back together and test drove it. Shifts like a hot knife in butter.

When i get some free time i will pull the tranny apart and see what went wrong.

[BuddyP]

This is a fantastic build Dan! I wish I would've done the "step by step" process and been driving the car for the past few years. Instead I've "waisted" 10 yrs of my life looking at it in the garage.

Are you going to the autocross in Aurora the first weekend of May?

[Bad94]

This is a fantastic build Dan! I wish I would've done the "step by step" process and been driving the car for the past few years. Instead I've "waisted" 10 yrs of my life looking at it in the garage.

Are you going to the autocross in Aurora the first weekend of May?

No I wont be making that event, I will be at the Heidts event the weekend after.

[BuddyP]

No I wont be making that event, I will be at the Heidts event the weekend after.

Cool, I'll be a "spectator" hopefully at that one also. I'll have to look you up if I make it over. With all luck maybe I can actually have a car at Gingerman.

[Bad94]

Made some adjustable sway bar endlinks.


Scaled the car, and aligned. With me in the car it weighed 3690.(Not bad for all steel, Full cage, full interior, Heat/AC)



Im counting the days down until the Heidts event.

[HectorM52]

Nice going Dan, car is looking great. I'm getting a ride this year at RTTH, too!

I got those ridetech endlinks for the truck and I'm loving them. I could literally feel the difference in how the truck 'tracked' in the front end.

[Jimmypetersfit]

Dan,
What is the clearance on your frame at ride height? We are working on getting ready to work on putting a c4 IRS in my nova and i would like your advice for the height in the rear? Currently my rear frame is 6.5 from the ground. I plan on running an 18" wheels...
Thanks!
Jimmy

[tumper93]

Just curious as to how much the rear frame rail will flex since you have made it so thin going an additional 1/2" thinner than suggested. I am getting ready to do the mini tubs and would like to do what you have done but wondered if you sured up the frame some in another way. I am running a g-link so rigidity is a must just as yours is.

[Bad94]

The month of May was a blast with a event every weekend. Heidts was the first event for the car, and overall im very happy with the car. Now the driver we wont even go there. Nashville Goodguys, the crew from ridetech were helping me with the shocks and the car was getting faster every run. And Sunday Jimi Day rode with me and pointed out a few things I was doing wrong, and when I changed I went faster.
Then Midwest Muscle Car Challenge, You cant go to any other event and get almost 100 runs in 2 days. They had a different course on both days. Saturday after about 25-30 runs I stiffened the rear sway bar up and it helped. Then I asked Tom Farrington to drive the car and he went 2 sec, faster then me. He told me to just drive it harder. Sunday it rained and we still ran. That was a blast. AJ from BFG picked me for the BFG award.

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[HectorM52]

Car is looking awesome, Dan! I'm with Tom, drive it harder!!!

[tommycomfort]

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Then Midwest Muscle Car Challenge, You cant go to any other event and get almost 100 runs in 2 days. They had a different course on both days. Saturday after about 25-30 runs I stiffened the rear sway bar up and it helped. Then I asked Tom Farrington to drive the car and he went 2 sec, faster then me. He told me to just drive it harder. Sunday it rained and we still ran. That was a blast. AJ from BFG picked me for the BFG award.[QUOTE]

And you did drive it harder right?