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Well when its actually together I have run it at Great Lakes Dragaway but most of its time at Byron Drag Strip for the Meltdown Drags. I am apart...
Brought back from the DEAD... Funny how 4 years went past and I have learned so much, I ended up not choosing either of these but a weiand...
Haven't been on here in awhile, what are all you slow ass ladies up to ? Okie doke popcorn machine better bring it this year....
Just getting around to seeing these, you got me in 3 shots and there perfect !!! Thanks much, only thing I didn't get was a video in the water...
The group I was with had a blast, for me it was the 1st time racing my Nova ever, best time was 13.06 @ 109.6 My 60' were horrible or else I...
Seeing as this was brought back up to the top, my update is that I'm getting leafs and shock mounts from bzrods, I will then have a update when...
SmokinBill, thank you !!!
How do you know ?
Thank you !!! Our setups are very similar and were both sbc so I betcha our total weight up from is with in a hundred or two pounds. :D You...
Smokinbill I was thinking about your car, what is the length from Eye to eye of your leafs ? Thanks man !
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Nova-Gasser-Style-Front-Leaf-Spring,68166.html These are the same springs used on our '62-'67 Nova Gasser...
Yea I did just mention that, good to see this conversation as this thread and my other will help others.
Lets say I remove the middle spring, if then my setup has give and my shocks then function I could very well bottom them out. seems that I...
I was thinking about that, but man every other Nova I have seen has more then my setup, it has me thinking :D Now I do know speedway sells just...
Updated my 1st post !!! Bouncy... It just feels as if my front end doesn't give any when I hit bumps, a little more adsorption would go a long...
I should have really taken pictures and then posted this :cool: I will snap some pictures tomorrow. In my 1st post of the old thread the leaf...
Last year I received some incredible information from you guys, just by pictures you were pointing out what is going wrong, long story short I...
I guess my line is fine then :D
I always thought my line was to wide, I do see many guys getting the line much thinner.
1.6 rockers and 7.800 rods After my new cam and springs I'm re-evaluating my valve train and going over everything, I did measure the push rods...
As I stated ill check them again after work. Maybe ill do 1/4 turn and take note of oil volume
What is generally normal at idle ? Ive personally never have done this but I know the 3' in the air is odd. What is also odd is that both lifters...
Edelebrock heads with Crane 1.6 rockers, correct length push rods, new Howards Hyd. lifters and .450 cam. I had a rocker get a little noisy on me...
Time for some tunnel ram tuning !!! With that in mind Ive had my carbs apart twice, once to find out what the hell was in in and another to...
Well I would think if my dial caliper gives me a # and there all consistent I'd just have to match it up to whats available. But..... the numbers...
Hmmmm I wouldn't think wear there all the same size... I'm 90% positive there original to the edelbrock rpm heads
I'm going to be ordering new retainers and locks for my heads, from summits list I can see the following sizes .342 ( there are 165 locks on...
I emailed Howard Cams a few days ago, gave them all my info from top to bottom and they recommend...
Hoop98 I ended up diving into my setup a bit more, installed my magnetic dial indicator on the top of the valve spring retainter and got .430...
Do I need to worry about small cam base circle for rod clearance on my 400sbc with any of the cams listed, also my 1.6 rockers to be a issue ? As...
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