Oh hey Steve. Hey hey Jason I like this. Well I figured you know
we're doing a very kind of old-school gasser type I though I'd bring in
something that you know very modern Pro Touring style. I mean could any Chevy
II's be more different that was built for a little gasser or a straight-line
drag race we just won a Pro Touring. What ya got on the hood? Got a V8 376 LSX GM
performance block and that was the foundation of the engine and kind of
built it up in there. Very cool now of course yours is a Chevy Nova with a
hardtop we got the Chevy II 100 series base model otherwise basically very
similar under the skin including the 14 fasteners you bolt the front clip to the
firewall how'd that work out for you? Very good it's full chassis but same
concept mounting points are exactly in the same area.
Very well done I hear your wife drives this car? This is her car I built it for
last year debuted at SEMA and she drives it to work quite often yeah yeah.
Sinister looking car I mean it's got a whole different vibe and it's very
similar to the Chevy II we're doing here we got a lot done yesterday. Yeah
speaking of a gasser it is day three of our Car Craft Week to Wicked presented by
Speedway Motors looks like you've stayed a little late last night and you wrapped
that header. Yeah yeah got that protective the fuel line doesn't vapor
lock in percolate yeah keep the heat away from it. Well we still have a full day
ahead of us you know radiator core support like the
sheet metal back on the wiring done on the engine yep
you should get back to work let's do it.
Okay so I'm finishing up the fuel line going to the carburetors once they do
that I'm gonna start wiring this puppy.
Alright so that fits good now just like that alright so the alternator is in
place we got about an inch clearance here so we have about an inch of swing
just gotta find the proper belt and we'll be good to go.
Alright we're getting ready to put our tail light in the Nova here this is a
really nice piece because it comes with the gasket and the lens is already
installed so it's as simple as bolting it right in. You know I worked at
Hot Rod Magazine and still work for Car Craft love them both but when
I was at Hot Rod Gray Baskerville the late great Gray Baskerville said that a
lot of hot rodders mix metaphors and what that kind of means it's like you
know painting your 32 Ford purple and putting a sunroof in it and then putting
a Charger Daytona wing on the back and then putting some Corvette rims on it
and mixing all these metaphors into something doesn't really make sense in
the end well the great thing about a well built gasser is staying true to one
principle metaphor and one of the best ways to do that is to study vintage
copies of Car Craft and all the old great magazines just look at stuff that
was done before 1967 for instance or whatever model year and borrowed that
look and stay away from modern stuff. That really comes down to the engine as
well a lot of guys here to put an LS1 in a gasser might be a boo boo.
Rollercoaster ahh. So obviously you need some sort of power
source to fire our car up and keep it running with all those lights and
switches and stuff like that so you turn to Odyssey and we're gonna install that
into this battery tray fits in there like a glove then we got this hold
down like that up and over far enough away from the negative and
positive so you don't worry about any grounding issues and all do is put the
nuts on there and trim it to size.
The cooling module has arrived nice.
Made by DeWitts it's and I think it's just two
rows and I think they're inch and a quarter wide too big close next yeah big
wide rows so yeah. You know one of those things about extra rows is thing called
delta T the change in temperature as the air goes from front to back is it moves
from row to row it actually picks up more heat the more rows the less
efficient the radiator in a long run better to have two big tubes and a bunch of little tiny ones. Right.
We're putting these inner fender supports in these tie the car to the
core support and just offer a little bit extra support so the fenders aren't
aren't taking up all the load and they'll also give us a place to mount
put hinges if we decide to run a hood.
Over and then in over that fender yeah I
think we got the same the same deal with the front we've got it between or do we
go inside? Go over.
Well every car has a face or in the case of this Chevy II it's the
headlamps these are the eyes figley speaking of the guard they're being
installed right now day three this thing's coming together.
This drive shaft line you guys do? Yep we do custom order custom link driveshafts. Oh you do.
Then they ship from axle exchange. Chromoly? This one is chromoly
yeah. We've got billet yolks front and 1350 u-joints so
that they're up to the job.
Alright so we are ending our day three and that was a productive day it was yeah
the car has a face now the fenders are on and a lot of progress
brakes are bled. We had some you know some tedious things to do today and it
may not look like a whole bunch was done but trust me there was a ton of wiring.
Yeah a lot of wiring and little things like you know the the steering box and
the bottom of the radiator fought a little bit for the same space clearanced it
made it work little things. Yeah and you know it was a good day it's a
shame that you're leaving. I know I gotta head back to Massachusetts get some
writing done. I am glad you came I appreciate it it was fun yeah sure and
you know the wealth of knowledge was awesome it brought a lot to the show so
thanks for that. I'm glad you guys are doing this you're keeping the spirit
alive the 60s drag racing and the street freak thing and all that you know modern
Pro Touring cars and handling cars are great but let's not forget straight
liners. That's right it was fun so thanks for coming again and I know you had a
plane to catch so we'd better get out of here. Thank you for watching.