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Category: Fabrication

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Fabrication

Nova Deck Lid Mounting

January 10, 2011 by John Heard

This weekend I finally got the mounts done for the deck lid. Of course I couldn’t do it the “easy” way and use the store bought dzus mounts, I had to make my own when turned in to a longer than expected project. One of the main reasons I used dzus rails instead of the […]

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Dzus Rails Fiberglass Trunk Lids Nova Shrinker Stretcher

Fabrication

Spy Shot – Mike Duffy’s Wheels at Tulsa

October 19, 2010 by John Heard

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 […]

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Omron D4C1620 throttle switch

Fabrication

New Omron Nitrous Switch Mount

October 15, 2010 / December 17, 2016 by John Heard

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.

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Nitrous Nova Throttle Switch
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