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Originally Posted by geezer#99
Your Nova brings back memories!
Buddy and I built a 72 back about 25 years ago. Yanked the six and glide for his kid’s 66 gmc.
We pulled off the front subframe and used a 75 nova one for the front steer set up. Had to build some mounts and a few cuts and mods of course. We wanted room for a set of 2 1/4 inch headers for the L-88 we where gonna use. Put an m22 and 4.88 12 bolt in it.
Scary ride!
Sideways all the way thru 3rd.
I’ve seen grooved bearings like that before. Never did figure out why they where used. Maybe better oiling on that journal. Just on one journal too. Maybe a quick fix kinda thing.
If only the motor could talk! LOL!
That’s certainly a rocking piston. Saw the same on an LS6 when it was new. I bought the 70 chevelle from a buddy who was the original owner. It had 3 pistons like that and the motor was replaced by the factory.
Nice project.
Makes me wish I had a garage.
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Thanks man! That 72 sounds pretty wild!
So this is a motor I bought off the old man way back, its nothing too crazy at all, which is funny because I thought it was pretty stout back in the day. Turns out its just a basic 2 bolt 454 with a cast crank, stock rods with some arp bolts and some forged pistons which were cut down to fit the closed chambered heads. Heads have some 2.19/1.88 valves in them though so that's nice. It was actually pretty tough to resist the urge to put in a roller cam, some different pistons or a new set of heads, but in the end i just kept telling myself that id probably just end up tossing the old stuff, so might as well keep it the same. Pics of the old piston pressed off the rod, the new piston, the crank polishing apparatus, and the cylinders after the ball hone, came up sweet!