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Category: Fabrication

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Home Made Top Dead Center Piston Stop

Fabrication

How to find TDC and make your own Piston Stop

April 2, 2012 / April 8, 2014 by John Heard

While putting together the engine and setting up the Jesel Belt Drive, I needed to check Top Dead Center (TDC) and when I went to look for my tool to screw into the spark plug hole, I couldn’t find it.  So it was time to make a new one. Last time I took the trouble […]

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Home Made Tools Piston Stop TDC

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Building a Nova Rear Wing – Part 2

April 4, 2011 / April 8, 2014 by John Heard

Finally getting around to documenting the rest of the wing project here. After getting the brackets and rods all setup, the next issue I ran into on this project is that after I attached the wing strut brackets to the rear bumper, I had too much movement going on – not up and down, but […]

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Building a Nova Rear Wing – Part 1

March 2, 2011 / April 8, 2014 by John Heard

Chris and I have been hard at it and have been making some progress on the ol’ gal over the last couple months. I haven’t had much time to post on the blog due to work, but thought I’d grab a few minutes and start posting this wing project – which took a lot longer […]

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Nova Rear Wing
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