1966 Nova Wagon ( now for some changes)

Thanks for that negative enthusiast comment.... will leave it at that... @Dick Stevens

 

Those will still work on your motor...

 

with the Blueprint crate engine... I may need run a thicker valve cover gasket or spacer on them... The price was right.. little concerned with the breather and PVC .. I'll mess around with them this weekend... Thank you @Deuces

 

I bought a pair new from the local Chevy store many years ago, looked just like them, don't recall if they had notches in the rails, I do know that the pre-1970 rocker covers did not have the cast-in drippers to improve rocker arm lubrication.

 

good to know , thank you @DDDenny

 

My mistake, but the general concept..........a clean basically stock appearing 4 door wagon tends to project a fair amount of street driving in its future.

I personally think that having gearing that provides for both performance and comfortable cruising is one of the most overlooked issues for many rodders. There are a lot of people who have built cars with performance gearing and then found that driving the car any distance was not a lot of fun..... Often those cars get driven sparingly. Met a guy last week at the grocery. He was driving an "unrestored" Chevy pickup (59) that sounded pretty healthy. Parked next to me and we began talking. He told me he had a 383 in it that he built with a 12:1 compression and had to run either aviation fuel or race gas in it.
Now a lot of people would be impressed. Myself, I thought it was not a good choice and would have done it where it was more driveable. But........it was HIS truck and he was apparently happy with the results.

I'm just pointing out that the choices anyone makes while building often affect how usable the completed vehicle is. Times have changed and speed limits are a lot higher, so its a lot tougher to enjoy cruising when you are relegated to the slow lane with semi's constantly approaching from behind.......or move over to the fast lane and and drive at 3500/4000 rpms for miles. A lot of hot rods do not get driven a lot simply because they aren't geared well for cruising as part of the overall equation we call a hot rod.

 

couldn't be more right..