Nova Reducing Front Fender Weight January 9, 2009 by John Heard After smacking the guardrail last summer at Wichita, losing the hood at Tulsa plus 5 years of misc. scratches it’s time to do some bodywork and repaint the Nova. I had gotten used to running it all banged up, ugly sure but it’s a race car right? When we took the car to Tulsa at […] Read more » Front Fenders Nova Weight Reduction
Fabrication How to Notch Tubing with a Chop Saw January 6, 2009 / October 26, 2016 by John Heard | 1 Comment on How to Notch Tubing with a Chop Saw [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ8nBKFdfNk” align=”center” title=”How to notch tubing with a chop saw”] View on Youtube How to Notch Tubing with a Chop Saw Check out how Jeff Holloway of Holloway Race Cars notches tubing with a chop saw! No doubt that most people will take some practice to be able to do this as accurately as […] Read more » Chop Saw Race Car Fabrication Tubing Notchers
Nova How to launch a Hood… December 21, 2008 / February 20, 2022 by John Heard | 1 Comment on How to launch a Hood… 1st round of eliminations at a Mako race in 2008 we learned how to put your hood into low earth orbit! After this I realized how much air was getting trapped under the hood and that 4 hood pins is not enough! The hood pins actually sheared letting the hood come off… I […] Read more »