|
|
| The Build ~ April - June 2009 |
| |
| 06.24.09 ~ Updated Interior Pics |
 |
- What's been done since I started:
- interior color changed to black
- bucket seats installed
- new carpet
- new sunvisors and brackets
- original-style AM radio installed
- new kickpanels with speakers
- new package tray with dual cone speaker
- cd player with aux input installed in glove box
- armrests-
- bases - sanded and painted
- pads - vinyl dye
- door panels - vinyl dye
- tachometer installed (will be moved to center of instrument cluster)
- new windlance/pinch molding
- What's still needed
- headliner install
- windlace end caps
- corner pieces for rear window molding
- a way to mount water temp and oil pressure gauges
|
| |
| 06.08.09 - 06.21.09 ~ Painting the Offy valve cover |
 |
- Traded some 'So Cal Novas' shirts and some cash for an Offenhauser valve cover
- Took a few hrs to clean up casting and prep for paint
- Painted with the following:
- Sides and top of fins -
- the rest - POR 15 engine enamel
|
| |
| 06.13.09 - 06.14.09 ~ Dimpling the 250 Oil Pan |
 |
- To use a non-nova L6 block, you have to drill the block for the dipstick or modify the oil pan
- 'Dimpled' a rear sump 250 oil pan to clear the steering components
|
| |
| 06.01.09 ~ Painting the Stovebolt Cast Iron Headers |
 |
- surface rust removed and painted with POR 15 Manifold Grey Paint.
|
| |
| 05.10.09 - 5.23.09 ~ Custom Center Console - FAIL |
| |
- Decided to make a center console. I wanted it to have:
- hidden cup holders under the arm rest pad
- a way to mount tachometer, water temp, and oil pressure gauge
- ipod hookup
- inverter to charge laptops, video camera, etc
- Came up with some preliminary designs, based on other consoles I found online
- examples I found can be seen here ~ ::Pics::
- the best design can be seen here
~ ::Pics::
- my sketch, based off of this design, can be seen here ~ ::Pics::
- Used a Dodge Stratus console as a starting point, but it needed major modification
to fit between the seats:
- Buckets seats left very little space for a console, so major cutting was required
- It appears that the tranny tunnel isn't perfectly centered in the car - the passenger side floor pan is about 1/2" narrower than driver's side floor pan.
- After hours of cutting, sanding and fiberglassing, I gave up on it for now. The result of my efforts can be seen here ~ ::Pics Coming Soon::
|
| |
| 05.03.09 - 05.13.09 ~ New Seats |
 |
- Found front are rear seats, supposedly out of a 63 Nova, reupholstered and never installed. Cost less than getting my orginal seats recovered
- Had to created brackets/spacers to install them. Some oberservations:
- Front buckets may not be out of a 63 or a nova period.
- Fold straight ahead, not tilted towards tranny tunnel like 63 seats should
- 65 seats fold forward, but are narrower than these seats are
- It doesn't appear that the after market brackets they sell to mount bucket seats in a bench car would work with these seats
|
| |
|
