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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 10:48 PM
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I just joined and just started my build as well. Putting a 5.3 into my nova wit a pat g cam, ls1 intake, ported throttle body, ls7 lifters, and long tubes. Here's pics





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Wow so just happened to find my old build thread here that I totally forgot about lol I didn't stick to any of this aside from the cam lol. Car has been running now for about 6 months or so although I just recently started really driving it as it finally started cooling down a bit here in phx.
Basic breakdown of the car is I ditched the fuel injection Idea and went carburated.
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with my twin turbo c6 in the back
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Took the car out to a local meet and saw this pop up online and thought it was pretty cool.
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Car is running pretty good now made some minor adjustments to the carb and it runs great. I might need to rebuild my tranny as it does leak pretty good and seems to slip a little up top. Also planning to pick up a posi rear end hopefully end of this week and throw that in there and i'm sure that will help a little with putting the power down.
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Bad *** little car man. I would to have a nova eventually.
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here was the first start up. This was open headers so it was obnoxiously loud
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Bad *** little car man. I would to have a nova eventually.
yea this was my first car since i was 17 so there is no way i'm getting rid of this now.
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Lol, I slid some bullets over my headers for my first start in the current project.
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Lol, I slid some bullets over my headers for my first start in the current project.
it's quieted down a lot after doing the full exhaust. Here is a recent idle clip

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