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by 71 Nova
Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:43 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!
Replies: 6
Views: 6183

Re: Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!

Christmas was great. Hope everyone has a great and quicker (ET-wise!) New Year!
by 71 Nova
Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:42 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Old Fuel Drums
Replies: 20
Views: 14848

Re: Old Fuel Drums

Cut it in half, add some legs and make a BBQ out of it!
by 71 Nova
Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:21 pm
Forum: Engine
Topic: Oil restrictors for Small Block Chevy
Replies: 5
Views: 12170

Re: Oil restrictors for Small Block Chevy

Thanks guys.

Supernova, do use o rings on the restrictors?
by 71 Nova
Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:43 pm
Forum: Engine
Topic: Oil restrictors for Small Block Chevy
Replies: 5
Views: 12170

Oil restrictors for Small Block Chevy

My son and I are putting together a 377 Small Block Chevy for drag racing and limited street use (it's 10 miles to the drag strip from my son's house). It's a relatively high rpm motor (cam peaks at 7800 rpm). Solid roller Comp cam, SS roller rockers, 400 block, AFR alum. heads, COLA 4340 crank, Lun...
by 71 Nova
Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:40 pm
Forum: Chassis and Suspension
Topic: Need help with Nova 4 link launch
Replies: 2
Views: 7978

Re: Need help with Nova 4 link launch

"Kinda hard to see real good on those poor quality videos, but looks like the wheelie bars are close to the ground to start with. The squat you're seeing is the tire wrapping up at the hit best I can tell. Real soft sidewall big slick is going to drop quite a bit at the hit. Can you raise the ...
by 71 Nova
Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:06 pm
Forum: Chassis and Suspension
Topic: Need help with Nova 4 link launch
Replies: 2
Views: 7978

Need help with Nova 4 link launch

My 69 Nova has a 4 link rear suspension, which is all new to me. We took it out to the track a little while back and had a little trouble hooking up as the day wore on. The wheelie bars are hitting the ground almost immediately and it seems the car is squatting a bit. Take a look at these launch vid...
by 71 Nova
Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:06 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Back on (the) Track!
Replies: 11
Views: 9678

Re: Back on (the) Track!

What tire pressure are you running and what is the weight of the car with the driver? And where are you as far as 60' right now? We started at 10 psi which gave the best time of the day (1st run of the day in the am). We tried lowering pressure to 9 psi with no improvement. We also played with the ...
by 71 Nova
Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:22 am
Forum: General BS
Topic: Back on (the) Track!
Replies: 11
Views: 9678

Re: Back on (the) Track!

From the picture it looks like the wheelie bars are hitting early and unloading the tires. Raise them up until the front end gets too high. Yea, I noticed that last night when I was looking at the video frame by frame. The bars seem to hit almost immediately. Is that from the car/rear end rotating ...
by 71 Nova
Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:56 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Back on (the) Track!
Replies: 11
Views: 9678

Re: Back on (the) Track!

waterdog wrote: Sounds all good, the other day I was think about the thread about your yellow car, the new ride looks badass. Walt
Thanks, I'm real excited at the potential of this car. I still have the yellow Nova, although it doesn't have an engine in it at this time.
by 71 Nova
Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:11 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Back on (the) Track!
Replies: 11
Views: 9678

Back on (the) Track!

Well, I haven’t posted anything for a while because, frankly, I haven’t really been racing much (none) in the last year or so. For those of you that remember, I started out with a 71 Nova with a warmed over 350 and 150 HP shot of N2O and was running 11.40’s. I added a roll cage and picked up a 640 H...
by 71 Nova
Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:46 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Merry Christmas!
Replies: 6
Views: 5922

Re: Merry Christmas!

:smt111 Merry Christmas! :smt114
by 71 Nova
Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:57 pm
Forum: Chassis and Suspension
Topic: TH 400 Slip Yoke Travel
Replies: 1
Views: 4066

TH 400 Slip Yoke Travel

Question guys. I swapped out the TH350 in my Nova for a TH400 and swapped the driveshaft yoke for a 400 type yoke. The slip yoke travel from u-joint fully seated on the rear end yoke to slip yoke fully seated in the back of the trans is just under 1/2", which is too tight. Nova is a leaf spring...
by 71 Nova
Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:11 pm
Forum: General BS
Topic: Classified Ads
Replies: 22
Views: 14276

Re: Classified Ads

Works for me! :thumb:
by 71 Nova
Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:41 am
Forum: General BS
Topic: fav pic of 2011
Replies: 22
Views: 15484

Re: fav pic of 2011

I gotta picture like that... Well, kinda :-)
by 71 Nova
Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:09 pm
Forum: Chassis and Suspension
Topic: Leaf Spring to Coilover Swap
Replies: 4
Views: 6197

Leaf Spring to Coilover Swap

My Camaro presently has ladder bars with mono leaf springs and some kind of non adustable shocks out back. I would like to switch to coilover shocks. Looks to be pretty easy to do, but I'm not sure how to figure out how much travel I should use. Any suggestions on how to figure this out? :scratch: D...