Thread: The Nova Project according to John-The Whole Story

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Originally Posted by Mike in Motown

Is it for SEMA or a magazine?

Or just a quest for da coolest nova on the planet!

Last one but by doing that the other two tend to follow!!!

John

Just saw the new issue of Popular Hotrodding and my car got written up...............

I thought it looked familiar .Hank

Awright! I actually squeezed blood from a stone and got Rodger to send me some progress pics! J/K

New Quarters(I love new sheetmetal! It makes me all warm and fuzzy!!)



Rear tire mockup with the 335's to make sure we have clearance!





Trunk to quarter transition(Mmmmmmmm......new sheetmetal....goooood!!!)



As always, comments, suggestions, complaints! All are welcome!!

John

Originally Posted by REGs

Looking good John.

Nice little write up in PHR too.

Paul

Thanks!!

John

Got the Front UCA geometry all set up. Tubular UCA's are for mockup only. We wanted to make sure all the measurements were right on before we started CNCing the UCA's!



Drivers Side UCA Pick up point.



Brycen putting the headers back on! LOL!



We had to figure out how we were going to get the Transaxle and diff out if they needed to be fixed so we used some Step Joints(Thanks Pauza!)



The guys wanted to get car off the jig and on the floor so they've been finish welding a lot of the joints on the frame. Forking it off the Jig!



Rodger borrowed some wheels, since I'm a dumba$$ and I can't decide on what wheel I want, and put them on the car! Jake the wonder dog taking it out for it's maident voyage!



Whatever Sean may lack in stature(Yeah! like I'm some basketball player!!) he certainly makes up for in his fab skills. He's 5' 7"! The man is magician and the TIG is his wand! Sean standing next to the car to give you a perspective of ride height!



What do you think?

John

Howdy John,

This has got to be in the top 5 nova projects EVER.

Outstanding kraftmanship. Outstanding design work.

Out & Out just a great project.

Paul

If not the best.. There is plenty of Novas out there but i dont think anyone has been done with this kind of craftmanship. Outstanding!

looks great john . when do we get it for paint and finish ? lol

Thanks Guys! We still have a lot of tweaking to do but it's nice to see it on the ground! Rodger is going to have an Open House this saturday at his shop so we should see the reaction from the media on this. Hopefully, they'll like it!
I can't wait until all the finish welding is doen and I can send it off to the powdercoater!

John

Just posting the little video I made playing with Movie Maker..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5opS8RjAgc

Oh!.......................and a few update photos to boot!

Drivers side view of crossmember tie-in to subframe downbars! I like the lightning holes they cut out of the box-in sheetmetal!


Passenger side view of Crossmember tie-in to subframe downbars!


Overview of engine bay with Crossmember tie-ins! I think I may move the A/C compressor up to where the passenger side Tie-in is to fill the void!


Removable crossmember to complete structural rigidity of subframe!


Close up view!


How's it look so far? Any questions or concerns?

John

NO CONCERNS JOHN & IT'S LOOKING GOOD.

Keep up the good work.

Regs

Updates:

Time to lengthen the torque tube and drive shaft now that the scattershield is on!


Steering column mock up!


We had to notch the CA fender supports otherwise the tires would hit them on bounce along with lengthening them since we cut the cowl back! I think it looks great!
Driver side:

Passenger side:


Stainless gas tank. We're doing something a little different with the tank but once we get farther along I'll post up a pic!


Should I hit it or quit it! LOL!!! Just kidding!!

John

Finally got her on the ground!



Builder wants to paint the car Orange! What do you think?





John

You guys are doing a great job! The stance is wicked and that is one of the best looking chassis I have seen. Offering an honest opinion, I do not like the large diameter wheels on this type of car. They just don't look right "to me". Others may like them. I also question how well they will perform and I already know they tend to be rough riding.

Orange seems to be in right now. Saw a lot of orange cars at a recent car show.

Thanks for sharing, I really like your project.

Pat