PERFECT, When I was 4-5 years old my Dads buddy had a 66 Nova Brand New and they built a Drag Racer Almost exactly like this one. I believe it was even the Same color. My Dad was one of his Group of Friends with a Garage. So his buddy's brought their cars to our house a lot. I was bitten by the bug early on. They fired that Chevy 2 up and the Down spouts fell off the house and the windows where Rattling. I was in love. My Pop had a lot of Nice old Chevys and Drag Raced OUR FAMILY 1966 biscayne 283 -4 speed on the Weekends. That man Could Shift a Car!!! And come off the line like a Pro. I Remember hanging on the Chain link fence at Lapeer Drag Strip in Michigan watching him. Thanks for this build it brings Back Good Memories. I lost him 4 years ago.
Why can't more Hot rod TV shows be like this?? No BS or foolish drama. Just cool cars being built...the right way...and in realistic time frames. Fantastic project from start to finish. Black steel rims on back are super cool.
Fantastic nice team of guys working on that machine yes I'm 62 and I've had at least $10 I made a four-wheel drive and convertible 2ss has a 6 cylinder and a V8 all Factory very nice machine they made
I can agree with that a lot of these UA-camrs getting paid per view, seem to get a lot of Pride out of opening packages and bolting stuff on we never had a UA-cam sugar daddy and had to go to the junkyard or fabricate our own parts
If I used the Jerico Tranny 1st gear would be 2.36, 2nd gear- 1.88, 3rd gear 1.53, 4th gear 1.17 and 5th gear 1.00... That's what I run in my Pro Comp. If I used the Muncie, 1st gear is 2.20, 2nd gear is 1.64, 3rd gear is 128, and 4th gear is 1.00. as always. The M - 21 Muncie is the best ,spaced out, close ratio transmission that they ever made. Sometimes with the Jerico I've had to experiment with different gears many time to feel like the gears feel all the same while I'm shifting. Process of elimination, but it works. The ones that I gave you are the closest to the muncie feel except the 1.17 4th gear which keeps me pulling along. Good Day Sirs.
Thank you so much. Gassers bring back many happy memories of when my dad took me to the drag strip on Friday and Saturday nights. Great video and thanks for sharing!!!! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication. I really appreciate it.
after breaking the upper A frame in my chevelle i took the straight axle out of a old dodge pick up of my dad's and worked it in under my chevelle, also giving way more fredom to modify the frame when later in the next year spring when i dropped the hemi into it. Up side was i no longer had to carry to diffrent rim styles as i all ready had a ford 9 inch front load diff in it on leafsone alternation i done was i used leaf springs from a Datsun pick up on the front axle wanting the shorter length spring than the dodge had. as well as the datsun springs had a softer arch because i did not want the stance or a air plane in take off mode as i call it, back in my drag racing days things were alot diffrent rules for modified street if had a roll cage and brakes and no steering peices held with bailing wire was about all you needed to build some thing to go faster than the guy beside you. now the as i callem woosies pout if some one is smarter to know how to modifie things like valves crannks ect ect to make hidden inside mods to pound out more ponies. in my eyes drag racing is how to build more power more speed to beat your oponant in the same bore bracket and flat estimated et brackets
Great build guys! The one thing that I didn't like was putting that much time and effort into a great car and then putting drum brakes on the back........
dad had 62 nova 2 i think 4 doors which needed key to unlock from inside back doors,dad loved it ,needed to put key into back pop-up latch,child proof at time
Great build, the car will never pass tech at the track without driveshaft safety support. that be really bad to have u joint or the tail shaft break and drop down at speed it launch that car end over end. you guys are doing great job. Why is the battery not level shouldn't it. I've never seen one installed like that ???
love the build but those air scoops are dangerous af. the "filters" can catch on fire real easy. they are basically just shop vac foam filters cut into a circle
Great build im building a 1955 chevy gasser, but the tilt column is a no no not period no tilts untill later and most novas ,camaros and chevelles with tilt column's were rare and never used in gassers too heavy!
a period Correct Gasser will never be built because it never came off an assembly line. even the original Builder can't remember all the modifications he did using the best technology at the time, why waste all that time arguing while endangering your safety trying to drive your rendition of a replica and build one using the same spirit of the original builders?
It does but actually they do a lot of body and prep and paint work before they start filming due to there’s not enough guys to build a full car with all paint and prep work plus then the full build in one week but I get what your saying lol
A local drag strip had a chevy II with a built 292. It sound like a crop duster idling. I loved watching it take the winner light against the big v8's.
have you ever heard of disk breaks and independent suspension all round? it's quite an old thing fron the end of the XXth century. Holley sniper EFI direct injection maybe ?
Not everything has to be built like a modern car. Cars like this are 10,000 times more fun to drove then your moms toyota. It's a replica of a 60s gasser, bare bones and tons of horse power.
you guys plumbed the fuel line incorrect the regulater should be on the return gas line so it has unrestricted fuel flow to the carbs the regulater inhibits theflow of fuel so it should be unrestricted to carbs and have a t after carbs and you install regulater after the t after the carbs get there fuel set pressure and it will let any fuel above 7 lbs go back to tank
so what you're saying is to let the pump hit the carbs with 20psi of pressure? the carbs have to receive a regulated set amount of psi, or it will hold the needles and seats open.
Y love the nova vous aurier du lui monter un chassis de courses a non c est vraie c est mono coke avec un compresseur elle aurait beaucoup plus de classe et de puissance
I just can't understand all that time and labor in a low budget 2dr post model (something an old lady would drive to church). A 2dr hardtop would've looked so much better....Guess I'll have to build one....
you guys hooked up n fuel regulator wrong ,in the wrong place it needs to be on the return line to fuel tank so it has unrestricted flow to the injection or carberator what ever feed you have so the fuel line is totally open to carb then you have a t after the carb fuel intake then on the return line you regulate the pressure that way no restriction to engine ther regulator restricts fuel flow
If you're talkin about that blonde headed girl Jessie that worked on extreme 4X4 with Ian Johnson got killed in Oregon on the Salt Flats trying to be the fastest woman in the world with a car she was trying to do like 350mph and she crashed killing her
Last but not least. I would never stroke an engine. It is ALWAYS FASTER with the 3.76 stroke in a Big Block Chevy. I have never lost with my 402 SS Chevelle to a 458 or any stroked motor. My 477 CID Big Block with a 4.500 Bore and a 3.76 stroke ate every car that ran next to me. My 402 , 1970 SS 402 would eat that 496 stroked motor for lunch. I would put $10,000.00 on it right now. That's how sure I am.
@@James.Richter Not arguing the merits of either (I really don't care what someone else prefers). I'm saying that when someone refers to a gasser, it is generally understood to be a 4 speed manual.
@@n.b.5258 yeah. No worries bud. I think of an automatic simply because gassers were the cutting edge of speed for the time and an automatic would provide much more consistent et's. It does realy come down to doing whatever the owner or customer wants. That's why we love this hobby. If we everything the same as one another we'd be all driving prius's 🤕😵
Thus they used a powerglide vs a th 350 / 400. The powerglide would have been available in that era. Now I myself break the rules and have E85, th 400 3 speed auto and modern tires. I am not period correct. Again. Do what feels right 👍
Look at Mike Finnegan's Blasphemi, he has driven that thing 1000s of miles with no problems and if you built one and drag raced it, you'd definitely get into it, I promise you that
A lot of these UA-camrs getting paid for View, seem to get a lot of pride out of opening packages and bolting stuff on ,we never had a UA-cam sugar daddy paying the bills ,we had to go to the junk yards or fabricate our own parts and that's where a lot of the fun was . I'm not hating I'm just pointing that out.
Is this impressive?...hard to say. Without prices, who knows...My guess is $50K in this sled...is that impressive?...NOPE. What was the cost of the car to begin with...superclean and probably worth a few bucks.
Impressive that you can make this with almost purely bolt on parts and considering the condition and if it was a numbers matching engine, you could be looking at a reasonably decent price tag on the nova, money isn't everything, you see guys build gassers for less than $10k and have insane amounts of fun at the drags and on the street
Ruined a perfectly beautiful car. All it needs is more horse 🐎 power and the right set of tires and rims. I owned a 1967 with the two speed six banger. It was a beautiful car 🚙 but I was young and could not afford to build it up the way I really really wanted two . I was a in the 11 graders in high school. That was way back in 1975. It was a shower not a goer .
Yeah it's cool but don't get your hopes up finding this clean of a car to build. Like nothing in the real world and not on a show goes together like this. You will spend an hour fighting a bolt and hating life for a while.
PERFECT, When I was 4-5 years old my Dads buddy had a 66 Nova Brand New and they built a Drag Racer Almost exactly like this one. I believe it was even the Same color. My Dad was one of his Group of Friends with a Garage. So his buddy's brought their cars to our house a lot. I was bitten by the bug early on. They fired that Chevy 2 up and the Down spouts fell off the house and the windows where Rattling. I was in love. My Pop had a lot of Nice old Chevys and Drag Raced OUR FAMILY 1966 biscayne 283 -4 speed on the Weekends. That man Could Shift a Car!!! And come off the line like a Pro. I Remember hanging on the Chain link fence at Lapeer Drag Strip in Michigan watching him. Thanks for this build it brings Back Good Memories. I lost him 4 years ago.
Great post! HA HA HA!
Why can't more Hot rod TV shows be like this?? No BS or foolish drama. Just cool cars being built...the right way...and in realistic time frames.
Fantastic project from start to finish. Black steel rims on back are super cool.
Those chrome wobblie's explode! DANGER!
Fantastic nice team of guys working on that machine yes I'm 62 and I've had at least $10 I made a four-wheel drive and convertible 2ss has a 6 cylinder and a V8 all Factory very nice machine they made
Pretty cool, more or less a bolt together project, wish they ALL were that easy!! This car/project brings back a lot of memories, great build guy's!!
I can agree with that a lot of these UA-camrs getting paid per view, seem to get a lot of Pride out of opening packages and bolting stuff on we never had a UA-cam sugar daddy and had to go to the junkyard or fabricate our own parts
Oh Man !, watching this build took me back to the days of me youth. TY
That is so cool y'all have Steve on the show. I read everything he's talking about back in the day. Love the shoe box too.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I LOVE MY GASSER FAMILY!!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!! GREAT VIDEO AND EDUCATION. THANKS FOR SHARING!!!! ONE OF MY FAVORITE BUILDS!!!!
If I used the Jerico Tranny 1st gear would be 2.36, 2nd gear- 1.88, 3rd gear 1.53, 4th gear 1.17 and 5th gear 1.00... That's what I run in my Pro Comp. If I used the Muncie, 1st gear is 2.20, 2nd gear is 1.64, 3rd gear is 128, and 4th gear is 1.00. as always. The M - 21 Muncie is the best ,spaced out, close ratio transmission that they ever made. Sometimes with the Jerico I've had to experiment with different gears many time to feel like the gears feel all the same while I'm shifting. Process of elimination, but it works. The ones that I gave you are the closest to the muncie feel except the 1.17 4th gear which keeps me pulling along. Good Day Sirs.
66-67’ nova is my all time favorite car and you guys definitely did it justice 🤘🏽😁🤘🏽
Thank you so much. Gassers bring back many happy memories of when my dad took me to the drag strip on Friday and Saturday nights. Great video and thanks for sharing!!!! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication. I really appreciate it.
That cars something, great job guys 👍😎
Mr Know-It-all Magnante needs to lighten up on the caffeine lol
after breaking the upper A frame in my chevelle i took the straight axle out of a old dodge pick up of my dad's and worked it in under my chevelle, also giving way more fredom to modify the frame when later in the next year spring when i dropped the hemi into it. Up side was i no longer had to carry to diffrent rim styles as i all ready had a ford 9 inch front load diff in it on leafsone alternation i done was i used leaf springs from a Datsun pick up on the front axle wanting the shorter length spring than the dodge had. as well as the datsun springs had a softer arch because i did not want the stance or a air plane in take off mode as i call it, back in my drag racing days things were alot diffrent rules for modified street if had a roll cage and brakes and no steering peices held with bailing wire was about all you needed to build some thing to go faster than the guy beside you. now the as i callem woosies pout if some one is smarter to know how to modifie things like valves crannks ect ect to make hidden inside mods to pound out more ponies. in my eyes drag racing is how to build more power more speed to beat your oponant in the same bore bracket and flat estimated et brackets
Car starts out just like my grandma's
66 chevy 11 nova, two door sedan
Bought it in Coolidge Az,
Steve is like the Sheldon Cooper of the hot rod world. LS-1 might be a boo- boo! 🤪 Cool!
Great build guys! The one thing that I didn't like was putting that much time and effort into a great car and then putting drum brakes on the back........
Perfect, I had a 64 SS Nova and a 69 SS high boy and man do I miss those cars.
what's a 69 ss high boy?
13:00. Oh, all those shavings into the tank! I love it.
Toss that bearing grease cone gadget and get some on your hands. Pack it in there, man.
I like the color chops good too
Good work ❤️👍🏻👍🏻
Beautiful work guys. ❤️
dad had 62 nova 2 i think 4 doors which needed key to unlock from inside back doors,dad loved it ,needed to put key into back pop-up latch,child proof at time
Definitely favorite
Awesome build but, what sucks is we did not get to see it go down the track.
Never , never tighten poly bushing until weight is on the car . If not for speedway , you couldn't fine a pig in a tree .
Great build, the car will never pass tech at the track without driveshaft safety support. that be really bad to have u joint or the tail shaft break and drop down at speed it launch that car end over end. you guys are doing great job. Why is the battery not level shouldn't it. I've never seen one installed like that ???
Gotta love gassers, I want to build n old International pickup, gasser style but put a built up 7.3 diesel in it...
Gassers Rock!
Like the show...But thats a 66 nova guys!
That is so sick
love the build but those air scoops are dangerous af. the "filters" can catch on fire real easy. they are basically just shop vac foam filters cut into a circle
Great build im building a 1955 chevy gasser, but the tilt column is a no no not period no tilts untill later and most novas ,camaros and chevelles with tilt column's were rare and never used in gassers too heavy!
a period Correct Gasser will never be built because it never came off an assembly line. even the original Builder can't remember all the modifications he did using the best technology at the time, why waste all that time arguing while endangering your safety trying to drive your rendition of a replica and build one using the same spirit of the original builders?
Cool!!!
wtf that was fasttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheeeeeessshhhhhhh....
So what happened to the old parts, I'd be interested as I have a 67 ss
Where did you get the headers for that car thanks
That car would be super cool with a 348/409!!
they come back more to youtube again
didnt see you guys degreeing the cam should have a jessel belt drive for the cam and set the lobe centers
Never assume anything when dismantling a car.
A GM power glide is an overlooked transmission,IMO.
Really. It's small and strong and it's a proven tranny!
Overlooked? Nearly any competitive small tire car has one. Lol
Oil cooled or not? I have one but dont know what to do with it since id rather use a 200 4r to get twice as many gears for daily driving.
A gasser is only made to have a 4spd. I'm so old school it's terrible. Bmp.
Kind of looks like a resto and upgrades were already done except they left the original drive train in for the show guys to do.
It does but actually they do a lot of body and prep and paint work before they start filming due to there’s not enough guys to build a full car with all paint and prep work plus then the full build in one week but I get what your saying lol
Nice.
I didn't see any seatbelts?
Whats the song at the end?
Can the A pillar bars be any further from the A pillars?
Everyone's a critic yet never have bent any tube or held a tig torch.. you should build a car.
Complete assembly of the front clip, front and rear brakes and suspension. Not a torque wrench in sight...
Love the camera affect at the end slow the film car down to appear the project car is launching that hard good job
What brand are the new shocks?? Noticed in the last couple of seconds in the video right before the road test is has a different set of shocks... why?
Afco standard shocks
I have always wanted to build a inline 6 drag car
ronald Dale I built several. 67 Plymouth Fury and a 70 Barracuda. Built Slant sixes.
ua-cam.com/video/AJJm5CwD-6Q/v-deo.html
Yhere is a vid here on YT someplace that is a 1st gen nova with a turbo on a 194... a 230 built to take it would be cool
A local drag strip had a chevy II with a built 292. It sound like a crop duster idling. I loved watching it take the winner light against the big v8's.
Not one bolt torqued.... Should go over well....
have you ever heard of disk breaks and independent suspension all round? it's quite an old thing fron the end of the XXth century. Holley sniper EFI direct injection maybe ?
You are missing the whole GASSER thing dude. How old are you 15 ? Noob
Not everything has to be built like a modern car. Cars like this are 10,000 times more fun to drove then your moms toyota. It's a replica of a 60s gasser, bare bones and tons of horse power.
Yee yeee
Are you going to add world greatest drag race 9
Did that dude at 1:48 just drip brake fluid on that painted fender???
Why Drum brakes on the rear??
I hope somebody smart snatched the old engine and parts for their build or to use when the very datable gasser trend passes and nobody wants it.
I'm not a gaser fan but dam I'd have some fun in that just looks and sounds mean good job
Why does no one ever put seat belts in these cars?
you guys plumbed the fuel line incorrect the regulater should be on the return gas line so it has unrestricted fuel flow to the carbs the regulater inhibits theflow of fuel so it should be unrestricted to carbs and have a t after carbs and you install regulater after the t after the carbs get there fuel set pressure and it will let any fuel above 7 lbs go back to tank
so what you're saying is to let the pump hit the carbs with 20psi of pressure? the carbs have to receive a regulated set amount of psi, or it will hold the needles and seats open.
Plumbed fine, eliminates excess line.
@@danswrld I concur.
You dont need a back seat in a 60s dragcar?? Where's the ladies gonna sit when you take it out for a nite on the town cruising. Lol
She can sit in her own car, lol. Don't need to hear the screaming.
Great car if it only had a 4 speed !?
would be interesting to know the cost of all this modification
Marco Ghinassi If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
@@daviddonaghy7568 that's a pretty retarded saying. This isn't like buying a yacht.
Real Gassers have 3 pedals.
Y love the nova vous aurier du lui monter un chassis de courses a non c est vraie c est mono coke avec un compresseur elle aurait beaucoup plus de classe et de puissance
I just can't understand all that time and labor in a low budget 2dr post model (something an old lady would drive to church). A 2dr hardtop would've looked so much better....Guess I'll have to build one....
you guys hooked up n fuel regulator wrong ,in the wrong place it needs to be on the return line to fuel tank so it has unrestricted flow to the injection or carberator what ever feed you have so the fuel line is totally open to carb then you have a t after the carb fuel intake then on the return line you regulate the pressure that way no restriction to engine ther regulator restricts fuel flow
Who told you such a thing?
chevy talking
I have a wet start up every morning...
Burger Punk I'm not suprised.
watched the whole build.. looks great. then they ruin the whole thing at the end with music that drowns out the sound of the car.
I guy with glass , is a weasel
жаль что из русского авто не получается достойный спорткар(((
Were did the host get the hood vents for his wife’s car?
Whatever happened to that blonde girl Jessie so used to work on Motor Trend 10 years ago
@@muddyslaughters106 I'm not I'm serious
@@muddyslaughters106 I meant jessi lang
she's still around; she got her phd in cultural studies, and she's still working on cars.
If you're talkin about that blonde headed girl Jessie that worked on extreme 4X4 with Ian Johnson got killed in Oregon on the Salt Flats trying to be the fastest woman in the world with a car she was trying to do like 350mph and she crashed killing her
should of ran electric water pump it would free up horse power
Not period correct
Last but not least. I would never stroke an engine. It is ALWAYS FASTER with the 3.76 stroke in a Big Block Chevy. I have never lost with my 402 SS Chevelle to a 458 or any stroked motor. My 477 CID Big Block with a 4.500 Bore and a 3.76 stroke ate every car that ran next to me. My 402 , 1970 SS 402 would eat that 496 stroked motor for lunch. I would put $10,000.00 on it right now. That's how sure I am.
I thought a gasser was supposed to have a manual 4-speed. Is that wrong?
Auto is the way to go.
@@James.Richter Not arguing the merits of either (I really don't care what someone else prefers). I'm saying that when someone refers to a gasser, it is generally understood to be a 4 speed manual.
@@n.b.5258 yeah. No worries bud. I think of an automatic simply because gassers were the cutting edge of speed for the time and an automatic would provide much more consistent et's. It does realy come down to doing whatever the owner or customer wants. That's why we love this hobby. If we everything the same as one another we'd be all driving prius's 🤕😵
Thus they used a powerglide vs a th 350 / 400. The powerglide would have been available in that era. Now I myself break the rules and have E85, th 400 3 speed auto and modern tires. I am not period correct. Again. Do what feels right 👍
@@n.b.5258 I totally agree.
i wanna put 2jz on that
or old vw golf mk1
ORANGE WINDOW TINT.
Automatic and gasser do not go in the same sentence...
MissionRestomod They do if you want consistency.
David Donaghy GINO, gasser in name only. Lol
Pour some exlax in the tank, that car will be bagged out by the time they all learn to drive it.
11 ads in a 40 minute video. You guys are greedy
0 Ads for me, surely you can figure it out!
bruh u are watching this for free stfu
You should ask for your money back...
Sooooo... i was hoping to hear why its called "Week to Wicked"... is it just a spelling goof???
Someone tell Steve to calm tf down.
I want my 45 minutes back!
This guys mannerisms r annoying...idk y motor trend is trend to sell him so tuff..
Roger West The tats sure don't help.
I just can't get into the gasser thing. It pretty much makes cars undriveable
Look at Mike Finnegan's Blasphemi, he has driven that thing 1000s of miles with no problems and if you built one and drag raced it, you'd definitely get into it, I promise you that
Not in a straight line
Bump steer blows.
Waist of a clean car
Third
Wow, an LS engine!!!
FFS!! strap some C4 to that thing!!!!
Dont cut yourself on all that edge...
Ffs
Steve M is cool , that other guy is not
Automatic...... wack
A lot of these UA-camrs getting paid for View, seem to get a lot of pride out of opening packages and bolting stuff on ,we never had a UA-cam sugar daddy paying the bills ,we had to go to the junk yards or fabricate our own parts and that's where a lot of the fun was . I'm not hating I'm just pointing that out.
You might like halfass customs here on youtube. He makes and fabs and uses a lot of used parts.
I think you would be suprise just how little views on UA-cam actually pays...
Is this impressive?...hard to say. Without prices, who knows...My guess is $50K in this sled...is that impressive?...NOPE. What was the cost of the car to begin with...superclean and probably worth a few bucks.
Impressive that you can make this with almost purely bolt on parts and considering the condition and if it was a numbers matching engine, you could be looking at a reasonably decent price tag on the nova, money isn't everything, you see guys build gassers for less than $10k and have insane amounts of fun at the drags and on the street
Gassers do not have autos.
If you wanna win races they do
Ruined a perfectly beautiful car. All it needs is more horse 🐎 power and the right set of tires and rims. I owned a 1967 with the two speed six banger. It was a beautiful car 🚙 but I was young and could not afford to build it up the way I really really wanted two . I was a in the 11 graders in high school. That was way back in 1975. It was a shower not a goer .
Yeah it's cool but don't get your hopes up finding this clean of a car to build. Like nothing in the real world and not on a show goes together like this. You will spend an hour fighting a bolt and hating life for a while.
Finnegans is faster
You mean Finnegan?
Blasphemi?
Brian Suderman true
Brian Suderman amen