little bit of spring fever/mods

[foxwar71]

with the nice weather startin to come and some extra time to myself, i decided to get some work done on some of my projects.


first up was the 72 nova. the holley on it had the wrong springs, a hacked throttle setup, and the vacumn advance on the distributor wasnt working. picked up a new holley 4160 600 CFM, a new mallory GM HEI distributor, and a jegs billet aluminuim throttle bracket
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out with the old stuff
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all put back together. had to get a 1/2" air cleaner riser to clear the throttle linkage
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the dash panel had some holes cut in it and a crude opening for a stereo once there (relocated hidden Alpine in the glovebox) so out that went
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had to swap over the speedo, headlight switch, and wiper switch too
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all back together. i have a new dash cover for the top but didnt get to it. also rerouted the tach wires and cleaned up a bunch of wires under the dash
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got some work done on the jeeps too. pounded some more clearence into the front inner wheelwells
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shot of the cut and fold i did on the back at school in a body class
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[RichP]

Dam, you got motivated fur sure, me, I planted my xmas tree finally and dropped the top of the TJ and started installing the rail for the bikini top.

[sidriptide]

yeah this sun a a good motivator.. my CJ is calling me to get it running again...

[Waterhammer]

Finally welded my drivers seat back together, so much better on my back now...

Those cut and folds look great, thats my next project.

[Art Triggs]

Nice Nova, Nice cut and fold too, After my fuel pump tank, and a few other things stb.. I finally spent some quality time with the heep.....more project than I intended but the outcome might just be nice, I plan on having the tank bottom flush with the "frame" ....
Here's part of what I found when I removed the fill hose cover - it wasnt rusted at all, they are riveted and glued to the floor and body...go figure...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/artyart/Mods/liftgastank/tank1.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/artyart/Mods/liftgastank/tank2.jpg
Here's whats left......
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/artyart/Mods/liftgastank/tank3.jpg
I will end up plating the seam, covering that hole, and re-inforcing the rear xmember.

[warrior]

Nice Nova, It's good to see another muscle car/Jeep person. My nice weather projects was to replace the hard top with the soft top on the TJ. I
don't even wan't to get into the wife's nice weather projects she has for me.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f156/mjtj/IM000043.jpg

[mjma]

you didn't happen to buy that nova from a guy in montague, did you?? it looks very familiar!