Nice 70 SS396 Nova on Ebay

[RonNova396L34]

BBDON
I tend to agree with you on the offset on the engine. I've been looking at photos of my engine from about the same angle from the front veiw. I can see all of my brake booster. In his picture, the lower left corner is partially blocked. BB cars have the rubber flap over the radiator support. It looks like a small block cover instead. L34 cars did not have an aluminum high rise manifold. The carb is also wrong. These minor detail parts can be very expensive to replace especially dated correctly. Right Allen? I have to wonder about the rims also since reference is made that they are the correct size but I wonder if they are XT rims? Obviously the spare is gone too. XT rims are very hard to find. Just my 2 cents since you guys wanted it.
Ron [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]

For those of you NNN members, look at the January 2003 issue of Nova Times on my feature article. Look at page 6 where it shows the same frontal shot of my engine compartment. Now look at where the center stud of the air cleaner lines up on his photo versus where it lines up in my photo in Nova Times. Doesn't his valve covers cover up more the the brake booster? It sits too far to the driver's side if you ask me.
Ron [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

[Allen]

Yes, Ron, I'm quickly finding that out. It's an expensive lesson to learn when I committed to buying a restored "correct" 7040205 carb after realizing my carb was replaced somewhere in the Nova's 133K mile life and is now runing a '75 Q-jet (anybody need one?). Chuck (Yountto) is supposed to be getting back to me on a water pump.

After that, I'm thinking I'll stop the obsession. I all ready have lots of NOS trim and some other parts stashed away. When the time comes, I'm going to try to avoid being concerned about the color of bolt heads and whether or not my disk brake calipers are correct.... especially considering one froze up on me several years ago and I swapped it for a remanufactured unit just to get it rolling again quickly!

Maybe I'll have to follow that "Day 2" label... especially since I'm not giving up my Hooker headers (original manifolds are stashed away) and Hurst shifter (original shifter is now garage decoration). [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img]