An attempt at subtlety in a crowd of buffoons

[cblock406]

It's all good man, no worries. That car was built in 98-2003 while I was in high school all in my dad's garage with the exception of the final bodywork and paint. It was a great experience for sure and is really the car that got me into cars. Anyway, the wagon is rad, continue on

[gunchsta]

Hey sorry, didn't mean to rustle you up. And yes, I read your entire thread. Your wagon is super cool and brought back some great memories I have working on one, that's all. Pics deleted.

Updated my response to sound like less of a bitch. Thanks for the kind words!

[cblock406]

Hey sorry, didn't mean to rustle you up. And yes, I read your entire thread. Your wagon is super cool and brought back some great memories I have working on one, that's all. Pics deleted.

[gunchsta]

This was a great read. I'm baffled the front end just bolts off like that. I will hold on to that random piece of knowledge forever. I'm sure it will come of use some day.

I've you're ever attacked by a rouge Chevy II you will forever know you can paralyze it with a 3/4" wrench.

Thanks for the kind words, and keep up on the BMXin' sir.


As for the other Nova Coupe posted a few posts back: It looks like a nice car, and I'm glad you had the opportunity to turn wrenches with your Old Man on it, that's a great experience to share and bond over.

Here's some pictures, more of Aaron's Rallye and a friend of mine's bagged Nova wagon.

[SpanishEnglish]

there's a golf rallye in Minnesota? I thought the only one in the US was in Pennsylvania

second to last picture you're parked next to it

Rallye's are legal to import to america now so there's a few of them floating around

[Dave_The_BMXER]

This was a great read. I'm baffled the front end just bolts off like that. I will hold on to that random piece of knowledge forever. I'm sure it will come of use some day.

[cblock406]

Can't believe I've never seen this thread, Nice car, I love these old Chevy II's! My dad built one a few years ago that I did lots of wrenching on. He had chassis works front clip on his.

[loekaaz]

Yep. The cream white touches make it a winner

[gunchsta]

lol, that's the first thing i saw too, that rallye


hubcaps and steel look good on yours

Thank you!

[P78]

lol, that's the first thing i saw too, that rallye


hubcaps and steel look good on yours

[gunchsta]

there's a golf rallye in Minnesota? I thought the only one in the US was in Pennsylvania

second to last picture you're parked next to it

Yeah that's my friend Aaron's. 2.0 FSI and I think a K04. Was in PVW this summer sometime. Lives a couple blocks from me.

[TheTynosaur]

there's a golf rallye in Minnesota? I thought the only one in the US was in Pennsylvania

second to last picture you're parked next to it

[gunchsta]

And, just for good measure here are some bonus pictures.




I also acquired a set of 15x8 and 15x7 steel wheels which I color matched to the roof and mounted some 66 Chevelle SS poverty caps on.




Thanks for looking!

[gunchsta]

Back from the dead!

Trans was in and out a few times due to a faulty hydraulic throwout bearing.. that wasn't fun.

I was tired of the old exhaust on the car so I built a new 3" mandrel bent single with a Borla XR1 muffler. I went to the parts store and bought 2 tailpipes for a 1995 Silverado (3", mandrel bent, couple of good bends and some straight sections, and cheap). The heads on my 350 also originally came off of a similar truck. Here are some pictures of that process. Was my first time building a complete exhaust system, and as usual there are some things I would do differently and there are also some things I'm very pleased with.

Basically what I started with

making some cuts to make a Y pipe

The other side of the Y

Tacking the two halves in place

Boogered together

Flow

front portion of the exhaust, with the Y-pipe and muffler. From here it goes over the axle and dumps stealthily right at the bumper. It's barely visable and I like that. I also love single exhaust on V8 cars, which is why I made the Y pipe. The Borla muffler sounds great, it's very quiet at idle and really snarls when you're on the throttle. It's loud when you want it to be, and quiet when you don't.

Somewhere in the process of building the exhaust


Went to Back to the 50's (big pre 1964 carshow in MN) and looked at 11,000 cars. Also bought this steering wheel which I think fits the car perfectly. Slightly smaller diameter, little grippier, and cool chrome spokes. It was made by Superior Industries, and I believe the model is "The 500". They were super common on a variety of cars in the 60's.

Poor picture of it in the car, sans horn button which I've since acquired

I autocrossed the car for the first time since the new front suspension and the manual trans, which was a treat- car performed wonderfully even on 680 treadwear tires. Received a lot of positive feedback from others at the event on how well the car appeared to handle. It definitely outperformed my expectations, it was far more balanced and predictable than I had anticipated.

[gunchsta]

Mid-week mini-update!

Last night I braved the cold for a couple hours and made some progress that doesn't look like much in pictures, but was a good step forward. I manned up and chopped out the part of my trans tunnel that was interfering with the 3-4 shift linkage. The linkage hit the tunnel before the trans was high enough up to be put back on the mount and have the engine be at an appropriate angle. I notched the shift boot box I made and put a slit in the floor so I could move everything up and re-make my tranny mounting pad on the cross member.

heres a picture from stancestagram cutting up the crossmember on my wonderful workbench, also note the sweet race Lincoln in the background


hole in the floor with the shift linkage now up high enough, don't worry I'll be building some kind of a tunnel and cutting out all this ugliness... I'm thinking using some tubing and cutting it in half so it has a bulge that matches the roundess of the tunnel itself. We'll see.


some of the damage from the side, this car must have the smallest trans tunnel ever made that's what she said?


and last but not least, I had no shift-knob so I picked this one up for one whole American dollar at a swap meet on Sunday. The pattern is right and it is kinda weathered and sun faded, it fits the car perfectly for now.


thanks for looking!