Figured Id post in this sub forum as well



Starting a new chapter in the life of the nova, car started out 2 years ago as a 250 inline 6 cylinder 2 speed powerglide bench seat car. I quickly changed that for a mild 350 sbc/th350. Started reading alot of about the lsx platform and was quickly sold on the potential. Got rid of the gen 1 sbc and have been buying parts for the last 3-4months. Have 90% of parts now so the build begins!

Car is going to be built over the winter and hopefully be ready for a tune come spring. Initially this was just a motor swap but it quickly turned into transmission,driveline and chassis upgrades. Would like to have the car ready for some track days this year and the lsx shootout in indy.

New Parts

Engine
6.0 Iron Block
Pro Flo Intake
Custom Grind Cam
AFR CNC 230 Heads
Weisco Forged Pistons
Eagle Forged H Beam Rods
Upgraded Valvetrain
Autokraft Oil Pan
GM 7 layer MLS 6.2 head gaskets
ARP 12 point head studs
All factory gasket replacement


Fuel System
Twin Aeromotive A1000 Pumps
Aeromotive Boost Reference Regulator
16 Gallon Poly Cell
-10 feeds
Fast -8 rails
-8 return to tank
160lb injectors
Will be drinking E85

Turbo Setup

Precision PT4788
Custom Stainless Turbo hotside
JGS 60mm WG
JGS 60mm Bov
Ebay 4" A/A intercooler

Transmission
Abruzzi Racing built th400 with brake
Remote Transcooler
PTC Converter

Rear End
Factory 8.5 10 bolt narrowed
Big ford Housing ends (so I dont have to run c clip eleminators)
Moser full spool
Moser 33 Spline alloy axles
Moser Rear end girdle
tubes fully welded to housing
1350 Pinion yoke
3.23 Gear

Chassis:
Energy suspension body mounts
TRZ Motorsports Tubular Chrome Moly upper and lower control arms
QA1 Pro Coil over
Calvert Split Mono leafs
Calvert Caltracs
Martin motorsports custom bent 10pt cage cert to 8.50
Going to be going with a 275 DR, I am a big fan of the what these 275dr can do

Shooting for 8.50@160's once I get the suspension all dialed in and 1000+ RWHP

 

Engine Mocked up nothing really bolted down yet


Maybe about 60% of the parts that are overfilling my garage

 

wow man super cool looking car!!!! should be bad ***

 

Where you going to put that intercooler? Will it fit anywhere?

 

Sounds like a great build! That H3 pan is going to hang lower than you will like. It will be interesting to see if that Mp 76 meets your goals. You will need around 700rwhp to get it into the nines. I would also recommend a tube frame radiator support to make life easier. Keep up updated.

 

I may switch to a 3" core, but we will see how/if it fits. I feel pretty confident that my chassis setup is about as good as it gets and think that my choice in turbo will be plenty for a sub 10 sec capable pass

 

some work I finished up in the past week was cleaning the 40 year old dirt from under the car, the pans are pretty solid, I do have about a 3" square section of rot in both front pans I plan on patching but here is a before and after pic, lots of wire wheel action went on, just trying to get the underside clean and prevent any further rust.

Next will be getting the front subframe off and cleaned/painted and install all the goodies so I can get the car to the chassis shop to get tied and caged

 

My 250.00 engine from deer creek




LS1 Intake sanded down before base/clear


to its current state

 

Geeee thanks, no wonder you wouldnt sell me the car on YB.....


Looks good, my mom had an identical car when I grew up. I want another red one soon.

 

Wife did well for Christmas and got me a pair of 275/60/15 MT DR and a Moser Rear end Girdle





And then a Big Thanks for VS Racing, I initially bought a mpt70 q trim 1.0ar for the nova and once I bought the abruzzi th400 and decided to do all the chassis work and have the rear end built I figured more boost was in order. VS racing gladly returned my mpt70 that was brand new in box after about 3-4 months and upgraded me for the additional cost to the mpt76 q trim wheel

 

...Why are you using an ebay intercooler?

 

Because they work well there are plenty of 650+ whp cars using these intercoolers without problems

 

Heatsoak's a bitch, that's all I'm saying.

And make sure you have ducting routing air through the rad. I had problems with overheating without ducting.

 

great build so far... 1.0 AR and 8.6 CR wouldn't it be a bit doggy of the line.

 

Looks nice! I have a 69 going together this spring

 

As opposed to what?

 

Nice ,I have ran novas for years,just dont have one that I would do that too again,most of them are long gone!,nice choice on the intercooler I have ran 20 psi with 93 octain in my goat no issues,even before the alky injection..
I am building a lsx 427,for my 1970 monte,it should be a beast.love the old muscle cars,but the new cars whip em all day on comfort and braking /handling,unless you upgrade most if not all the car..

 

I have the same one,im making 930ish to the tire on 93,I just love it when I hear people throw crap out that have no idea,I have built 10 turbo setups for the street they all have had just this same intercooler,actually fort 5-6 were the 3 inch think ones now I use the 4 inch think ones,put it in watch our IATs it will be fine,use some electric fans for extra cooling if needed!

 

From my experience, an ebay core heatsoaks a hell of a lot faster than a quality core such as a precision, garrett, etc.

When tuning and making back to back pulls on the dyno, i noticed little/no changes in IAT's with a precision FMIC, but with an ebay core they went through the roof.

 

yeah this really started out as a budget build once I get things together and tuned, I will start weeding things out (if anything) that does not work for my combination.

Most tuners I talk to think with e85 the 8.6 will be fine and should build boost fairly quick in the low 3k so I am more than happy with that