H-I-J '76 Nova re-fit.

[Nmbr1GMfan]

Originally Posted by 6130

Well, not much of one. I give my daughter gas, telling her that when she stands sideways, I can't see her. I offer to buy her a sandwich every time I see her. I don't think she necessarily finds humor in old Dad's jokes.

You already have a proper Stocker engine for it, with a decent carb, right?

And you have your new headers, which you kind of played down, but looked VERY nice to me.

And I'm assuming the gearing is either correct, or close to it, because you're not changing the combo or the class.

And you have your new, lighter rear brakes.

And it looks like all the work that you've done was certainly of high quality...

I suspect that any teething issues with this one will be pretty short. The clutch needed some help, right? I can't remember if you said whether you did anything about that.

And I'm sorry, but those valve covers have to go...

Are there a lot of H, I, or J stick cars where you live? Do you have any significant reason to be concerned about heads-up races anyway, or is reliably running under index good enough?

I feel like we have a real solid combo, I think .70 under is no problem. I'm pretty sure the gearing isn't perfect because the starting line ratio is off a LOT (by 700 lbs car weight) so 2nd and 3rd are way off too. I have a new clutch linkage system I built (I won't show here) that may be hard on the clutch so I'm not putting the new one in till we test this out but here is what we will use eventually, when the racepak goes in.
http://www.blackmagicclutches.com/nexgenclutch.html
We need to be over a second under here at home so Indy is no problem. And yes, the valve covers and the rims will be dealt with, more on that later.