October 19th, 2010

Mike Duffy from MDRC has been busy working on Marty Chance's Mustang quite a bit here lately. If you get a chance to look this car over closely at one of the races here in the midwest, by all means do so. I shot this picture of the rims on the car during the Throwdown in T-Town at Tulsa October 16th. Look closely and you'll see tabs for mounting wheel discs to…
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Posted in Fabrication |
October 15th, 2010

One of the things I really wanted to fix on the car is a problem that occurred far too often, and cost me several rounds of racing. It's those little cheap carb microswitches for nitrous activation, which seem to act up at the worst possible time. I've fought those things far too much with issues like vibration, loose connections, or intermittent contacts. So while we've got the car all…
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Tags: Nitrous, Nova, Throttle Switch
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September 13th, 2010

More slow but steady progress during September on ol' Blue. After removing in excess of 50 lbs of "stuff" out of the doors I needed a way to open them. So I fabbed up these door handles which are somewhat like those people use in fiberglass doors. Once again I was reminded how cheap those store bought "kits" from Bickle or Quartermax really are after spending quite a bit of time making these…
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Tags: 1971 Nova, Door Handles, Firewall, True Ten Five
Posted in Fabrication, Nova |