1972 Nova Turbo Lsx Build
05-07-2012, 02:37 PM
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Launching!
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Another monumental day for me, the car for the first time in almost 2 years started and drove out of the garage on its own power.
I changed out my s10 mastercylinder for a aluminum early vette master that is for disc/disc manual. I made new lines putting an adjustable prop valve in the rear circuit as well as a 10psi residual presure valve. I plumbed the front brakes with the hurst line lock. got them all bled and started filling up the transmission. I fired it up put it in gear and got it out into the driveway to clean the year old dirt off of it and snap a couple progress photos.
The car needs alot of work on the tune still due to it being a base file but Turner is coming over on weds to work on it a bit more and maybe cruise it around the block a few times before its ready to get an alignment then goto the dyno for some real tuning.
I changed out my s10 mastercylinder for a aluminum early vette master that is for disc/disc manual. I made new lines putting an adjustable prop valve in the rear circuit as well as a 10psi residual presure valve. I plumbed the front brakes with the hurst line lock. got them all bled and started filling up the transmission. I fired it up put it in gear and got it out into the driveway to clean the year old dirt off of it and snap a couple progress photos.
The car needs alot of work on the tune still due to it being a base file but Turner is coming over on weds to work on it a bit more and maybe cruise it around the block a few times before its ready to get an alignment then goto the dyno for some real tuning.
05-07-2012, 03:05 PM
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Thats SICK! We have abunch of Novas, between my father i believe 12 of em, ranging from 68`-72`, aswell as various camaros and a 68` bird. My baby is my 70` SS my father gave me when i was 8 years old! SUPER sweet car! Congradulations on the 10 foot drive !
05-08-2012, 03:05 PM
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custom mount down low for the coils and as far as the the intercooler pipe, things get real tight when trying to maximize flow in the crossover and still mount the turbo in a manner where there was tire clearance. I have seen different ways to do it but other cars also either run no intercooler or are a/w so my situation is unique, not many turbo ls novas running around to copy from
05-12-2012, 08:51 PM
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Got the car all aligned today, getting it ready for its time on the rollers, proly sometime next week we will be digging into get some boost in the engine.
Got some bugs to work out. Some sort of small transmission fluid leak coming from the stupid lokar flexible dipstick. Ive heard to put a tophat grommet in place of the orings on the dipstick to solve that and I need to make sure its not a touch overfull and blowing some out of the vent tube.
The only other thing Im going to do is get my Co2 tank filled for the ams500 boost controller and get the solenoids plumbed in.
Fill it up with e85 and let it eat
Got some bugs to work out. Some sort of small transmission fluid leak coming from the stupid lokar flexible dipstick. Ive heard to put a tophat grommet in place of the orings on the dipstick to solve that and I need to make sure its not a touch overfull and blowing some out of the vent tube.
The only other thing Im going to do is get my Co2 tank filled for the ams500 boost controller and get the solenoids plumbed in.
Fill it up with e85 and let it eat
05-14-2012, 10:32 PM
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Dumb question but I gotta ask, what size silicone coupler are you using on the tb to charge pipe? I have that same tb and it's an odd size so im not sure what to use.
