Day i drove it home 

A lot of people think that 1971 or 1972 was the last year for the muscle car. Emission regulations and safty took a front seat to performance and by 1974 the bumpers were wide by huge and the engines were shells of there former selves. With the cost and mistque asscoiated with the cars from the muscle car era that dream is out of the reach for your adverage under 30 something male youth wanthing the experiance and joy of driving a true high performance machine. In walks the 1973 and 1974 model year cars just a blank canvas of hotrod waiting to be shaped and molded into something above and beyond anything that came off the showroom floor. 

This is my 1974 chevy nova. Its different its fun, and most of all it was built for a much smaller dent to my pocket book when compaired to a true mucsle car. When i took possesion of the car it was stock. the only things on the car that were not stock were the aircleaner and the two gauges under the dash. I had my work cut out for me. My nova had a 350 with a 4barrel qjet carb a th350 trans and a open 2.73 gear rear end. It is no wonder people say the muscle car died after 72. Over the span of about two years i took it from bla to bad. Ive had my share of hickups along the way but everytime i fire my "muscle car" up and take it down the road letting it suck as much air as it can at wot and run it through all 5 gears wow it just brings a calming to my soul. 

I hope you enjoy the pictures and vibe my car gives. I wish all of you luck on your projects. One more thing dont throw out that old car just because its not on the chopping block at the Barrett Jacksons auction, build it, break it, and run it hard. 

PIC DAY

pictures Above taken by Q.

After new wheels

Burnout fun 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrFD8iuVmw link to video

Running 650# springs up front and 250#springs out back with kyb gas adjust all around. new poly bushings have been installed in the subframe and control arms. along with a new hodgkis sway bar. the upper control arm pickup points have been re-drilled for the guldstran mod to help camber curve. upgraded the brakes from drums to factory disc setup and just finished removing them for a wilwood 4 piston setup on front. Wow what a difference some modern brake pistons can do to the stopping power or a car. 

Wilwoods Best 700 ever spent 

trans is a tko-600 5 speed installed by me. rear end is the stock 8.5 with new gears eaton posi and superior axles. *** update *** took the car to the track last weekend and launched it on my new cal tracs at 2400 rpm it decided to hook and hook hard twisting the dif on the axle tubes and twisting both of my new superior axles trashed the housing *** update 2 took the car back to the track with the new rearend and superior chrome moly axles made 4 passes set the caltracs to stun did a nice burn out ta get the mt radials hot and proceded to snap the drivers side axle in half :)***  

Soon to come dana 60 with wilwood brakes built for 1200 ft lbs of tq.

broken again

eng is a year one crate engine with a 750 double pumper holley headman hedders and magna flow exhaust. car has manual brakes with a cpp mpv1 master cylinder. the brakes i think are as good if not better then the 4th gen fbodys as is handeling. ride comfort no but it will hang with em :) thanks for lookin
just upgraded the motor old one was worn out its a 355 with vortec heads .525 lift roller cam 1.6 stamped rocker arms 750 holley dp ran a best of 8.5 at 80 miles a hour with only a 2.0 60ft on mt drag radials at the local 1/8 mi track (its in the parking lot of qualcom aka charger stadium) after running i had a friend help me check wot and it was only opening 3/4 of the way so next time its open im expecting some low 8s at least over all happy with the motor its a rhino crate motor same motor that year one sells under their name

DRAGS

old wheels

Last Minute Fix 

Its 2 am youve had a beer or two and you go to check wide open throttle and snap the pedal brakes in half oh no you have to leave for the track at 5 well thsi is what happened to me a while ago and this is what i came up with enjoy lol

Wideband O2 Sensors are the only way to tune

just finished installing the new fast wideband o2 sensor meter this thing rocks but i couldnt fidgure out a nice place to mount it for now i have it mounted in the center ac vent this thing works its so simple to tune a carb its not even funny

Drags 

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