This is going to be a slow long term build. I’ll try my best to stay with it and document and update as much as I can. But here’s the first step. Brought the car home from storage this weekend. A little background on me and the vehicle first. I grew up around NHRA stock and super stock racing. My father had raced since the late 60s and this was actually his first race car. Ran stock with the factory 303. It has been in our family for all but 4 years since 1966. I started racing super stock in 98 when I turned 16 also running an Olds G body. Had decent success won a national event had a couple divisional finals, held class records. Spent a little time running some local area small heads up races. First with an 88 Olds sbe 6.0 single turbo set up. Then moved to a fox body with the same drivetrain. Got it to run low 5.40s and had put together everything to build a good lsx 370 and was switching from the billet 80 to an 88 but realized my budget wasn’t going to allow me to be as competitive as I’d like. So sold it all and put my 6.0 into a 70 nova I’d had since I was 14. Been running that the last 3 seasons just as a bracket car. Pretty basic carb’d 6.0 running 10.50s.
That brings us to this. I wanted something that was more daily use friendly to take on some weekend trips and have some fun when I felt like it. After lots of internal arguments on how I wanted to do this. At the end of last summer we ordered a full Scott’s Hot Rods chassis. coil overs, 4 link rear with a 9” 3.50 rear gear 12” Wilwoods. It will be powered by a twin 66mm turbo’d 6.0 backed by a 4L80 using a Holley Terminator system equipped with a Vintage Air unit. Like I mentioned in the beginning this will be a long slow process but should be a fun build with lots of sentimental family meaning behind it.threw in a pic of the nova

 

Got word yesterday and got pics this morning that our new Scott’s hot rods chassis is done. Excited for a big piece of the puzzle to be ready. Heading down to Knoxville in a couple weeks to pick it up.

Also getting started on doing some rust repair along the way.

 

Get this home yet...???

 

Lever shocks and airbags - not a combo seen everyday....

 

Picked the chassis up in Knoxville yesterday and just about back home with it. It exceeds my expectations and the guys at Scott’s are awesome. It’s truly a first class facility. Excited to start to get things mocked up

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Finally got to spend a little time in the garage this weekend for the first time since i got the chassis home. Didn’t get a whole lot accomplished but got the radiator support blasted so it can get powder coated. Progress is slow but it’s still progress

 

Slow but sure usually works well for good results...

 

Had access to my friends shop and 2 post for a day this weekend. Didn’t get quite as far as I’d hoped. Lost some time do to the switch failing on the hoist when the body was halfway off and took a couple hours to get it all back together and working. Then ran into some issues with the body fitting. Had to cut off the front cowl mounts and will have to build our own to make them work. the front four link mount is also hitting the floor so need to modify the floor a bit to get it where it’s supposed to be. But it’s sort of on the chassis now enough know where everything needs to be trimmed out. Will definitely need the ride height adjusted a bunch in order to drive it on my local roads but i like the look so far.

 

Any updates on this project...???

 

Been pretty slow going. Haven’t had much time. Have a 13 year old that is involved in summer travel baseball and basketball along with running some junior Olympic track. So progress has been minimal. Been chipping away a little bit trying to get the body closer to sitting where it’s supposed to sit. His sports slow down here in the next couple weeks so hopefully I can start to make some headway.

 

Finally been able to spend a little time on it the last couple weeks. Body is essentially down where it’s supposed to be. Not fully mounted but I believe this is where itll end up sitting. Starting to mess around with turbo locations and mounting. I think we have settled on low and in front of the radiator and condenser. So I guess we’ll be adding a scavenge pump to the build since the turbos will be pretty low. Have to get some piping this week just to make a mock up hot side to see if it’s totally feasible. Only other option is to use the armageddon style manifolds. Exhaust piping will be a bit of a trick. It has to come through the radiator support and then will run similar to how the factory ran there fresh air duct which is up inside the front fenders. Still a long way to go but inching forward.

 

What a cool project! Can't wait to see more updates on this one.

 

Didn’t get much time on it this week. But did manage to get a couple filler pieces made for the radiator support where I had to trim around the frame horns and got one of the turbo supports mostly out together so I can start fabrication the hot side piping and make a plan for the exhaust

 

Looks good. Nice to see the progress.

 

Haven’t had much time the last few weeks to work on anything but. Picked up the second turbo this week and had a chance tonight to get the mount made up quick so I can get an idea of how it’ll actually look. Got the front bumper up into place to make sure it cleared the turbo mounts. I love the placement. The compressor housings will be black so you won’t even really notice the turbos unless you really get down and look for them.

 

Looks great! What's your plan for the intercooler?

 

Our current plans are no intercooler. It is being run on E85 and honestly won’t be crazy boost pressure numbers. Power wise we will only probably be seeing 600 wheel. We will give it a try and see how it goes. If it doesn’t work then we will have to get creative to figure out what we can make work.

 

This I’m Started to put together ideas for the transmission tunnel. I’m on the right path but it needs a few modifications to make it a little cleaner. But for my first go around not terrible. At least a got a little more practice playing with the bead roller. Have a few weekends open over the next two months so hopefully can make a little more progress.

 

pictures didn’t load last night but here is what I got so far

 

Haven’t had much to report on as far as progress the last 6 months. Between kids sports and new job I haven’t found much time or motivation to get out and work on the Olds. However, last weekend I did finally get my new short block together for the Nova posted earlier. Set bearing clearance on it 18 months ago and finally put it together. Hopefully be able to finish that engine up the next couple weeks. Have two more engines to do then hopefully get back on the Olds.

New engine is a bracket race engine. 415” LSX block based. Mahle pistons, compstar crank and rods, TFS245s, T&D rockers, Bullet solid roller, Holley split intake and 4500 series Accufab TB. Compression should come in right about 13-1 should make for a fairly rowdy setup.