Hell, or fire sleeve/heat barrier on those heater hoses!

Good progress, keep it going!

He won't have issues. I have no fire sleeve on mine and it doesn't show even a hint of melting the nylon braiding.

Boosted too funny you were doing your AN line solution at the same time I was putting together my list for it as well, great minds think alike. Took some serious thought to get every single fitting correct!

Great progress, as always. You and Jeff have such similar cars hahaha, both so awesome.

The drain is fine.

Haven't had a chance to get back on here since the weather was so nice this weekend that I kind of took it as a chance to take a break from the car for a couple days and actually have a social life lol. Thanks for all the feedback!

There's a bunch of little things to wrap up and still figure out. And then after all the parts are there and installed its still going to be a bit because I need an engine harness built and need to figure out what I'm doing about that. Don't know if I'm going to try to teach myself how to do it or pay someone to build me a harness.

It's actually just the eBay rad I was running last time. I'd like to upgrade to something "better" but the money just isn't there right now. It is near the top of the list of things to upgrade over the next few months after the car is running.

For the fans I just asked Bryan if he could get me some slim fans and next thing I knew they were ready to be picked up. That's one of the reasons I keep going back to him for parts lol. But yea, Fab9 can get SPAL slim fans, just send him a message and I'm sure he'd be glad to help you out.

I do need to get my hands on some thermal sleeving though.

Good to know about the drain, I was a bit unsure but from the little bit of reading I did it seemed like it would work.

I'm with you on all the planning for different fittings, can't believe all the different fittings and adapters that could be easily overlooked. Still waiting on some fittings for my fuel setup and my -4AN line for the oil feed but hopefully those will be in this week sometime.

Thanks Vlad! It means a lot to me when my car can be compared to Jeff's in any way. It is not nearly as close to perfection as Jeff's but I'm trying to do a lot of learning as I go to keep making it better and better.

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Something I completely overlooked due to the overwhelming amount of work going on and feel like an idiot for doing so is that I'm only setup for using the stock CAS right now. I haven't had a chance to look into it much more but I feel like I should be doing something more like a crank sensor w/ trigger wheel which sucks because my ATI damper is already on and I really don't want to take it off again. But at the same time, I don't know how well the CAS will do on a 4-500+whp car. Thoughts?

As I get closer to firing this thing up I'm getting some terrible anxiety that I overlooked something while putting it together and I really don't like that feeling.

A friend of mine ran a cas on a 400whp e85 car, and it worked, but looking at the rest of this build that does kinda seem like a shortcoming, since it will definitely have timing scatter and be inferior to a proper timing wheel setup

Yea, I mean the CAS could work but wouldn't be the best option. I just really do not want to take that harmonic balancer off with how hard it was to put on.

Today was terrible. I was on track to have the car ready for wiring Friday until I went to get ready to do my oil feed. When I pulled the bolt out of the block it fell behind the flywheel. Tried to get a magnet in there. No luck. Tried harder, magnet got stuck. Pulled turbo to try to get different angles and better leverage, still stuck. had to pull the driveshaft, exhaust, trans, and adaptor plate. Fml. Got it out around 11:30 and called it a night. This thing is never going to run.

Got the car back to the point it was at yesterday before my stupid mistake. Went to pull the ATI damper off but the pulley puller I had only had one bolt that is the right thread for the ATI damper. Will go out tomorrow morning to pick up the right bolts and hopefully get this thing off. I just keep telling myself this set back of adding a trigger wheel will be worth it for the reliability. If it wasn't for this I'd probably be ready to start wiring this weekend.

To do list looks something like this before I can start on wiring:
- Trigger wheel
- Crank sensor
- Brake lines
- Clutch line
- Fuel line from rail to regulator (waiting on AN fittings)
- Mount fuel pump, in pump line, bulkhead, and fitting on the feed line (waiting on fittings)
- Mount FPR (waiting on fittings so I can make the line and know where it'll work well)
- Turbo oil feed (waiting on -4 line) and water lines (waiting on banjo bolts)
- Seal fan shroud and install the rad
- Intercooler piping (waiting on couplers)
- Catch can lines
- Make a mount for LS coils
- Mount the battery

So I guess I'm not too far away, just need to finally pick up all the little things I need to finish this.

All the frustration will be worth it in the long run.This is going to be a mental car :P had no idea the car was going to get this crazy.

Keep up the good work

Thanks man, appreciate it.

So with how stressful wrapping up a giant build like this has been I've totally lost any excitement for this car. Part of me wanted to just tone it down a lot and go for smaller goals while another part of me wanted to just part out and start fresh with a nice and simple build. Before making any decisions I'll regret I think I'm just going to take a step back from the car for a bit, build my bank account back up a bit and maybe come back to it a bit later. With everything that has been going wrong for me while working on the car lately I just don't feel like dealing with it for a while.

Way to keep your head about this man. Stay sensible, no need to part out or do anything crazy. A break now won't hurt in the long run at all.

Paul, take a break man, trust me, it will be really healthy for you when you hit the "fuck it" zone of working on the car.

Just step away and don't even look at the project for a couple days/week and I guarantee you will feel differently afterwards.

Trust me man, you will regret it. I had similar thoughts before I got Bryan's manifold and turbo all running, and after I tuned it I literally can't imagine selling the car. The best part of my day is going for a small cruise around town in the afternoon.

What's the rush? And what's the point in hobbying if you're not enjoying it?
In any hobby I try to get to the shop for 1 hour per day during the work week and probably 5-10 hours during the weekend.
I've found that as long as I'm making progress, I stay content.

I've done marathon weekends to get my DD back on the road, but that's not a hobby, it's something that I need to get me to work.

Shit, i work on my car maybe once a week for a few hours... haha
Some people take decades to build a car.
You're fine.

Get a cat.

Thanks guys. The rush is that the nice weather is here, I haven't driven my car in 11 months and I really just want a car to drive again. Plus there are more and more car events coming up that I want to be able to drive my own car to for a change.

I might pick at it here and there a couple nights over the next few weeks but probably won't dedicate full days to it for a while.

I've had the past two weeks off work as an opportunity to finish the car and they just weren't productive days because of things going wrong.

There was also a rush when it was at the other garage since it wasn't my space it was taking up. Now that it's home I can leave it on jack stands in my garage forever lol

I'm with you. Just getting my engine back together has taken longer than I anticipated the whole process taking. Slow it down for a bit and get back into it gradually. It's going to be genuinely epic!

Well after taking pretty much a week off from the car and all car related things for the first time in a long time I decided to start picking away at it again. Except that the picking away at it turned out to be super productive.

Got the trigger wheel from Bryan, pulled the Ati pulley, mounted the trigger wheel, and got the pulley back on. Reset timing but didn't have an extra pair of hands/eyes so I think I may be 1 tooth off on the belt but I'll redo that later.

Made my oil feed line.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469

In my last update I started mocking up intercooler piping while I waited for a coupler. Well that was a waste of time because after I got the coupler on there the pipe I made up didn't work, but the same general idea would work so I made a few more cuts and got a new pipe mocked up. Seemed to work out alright.

Next up was the hot side intercooler pipe. This one was kind of a pain because of how tight everything is. I thought the cold side pipe was going to be the hard one but I was wrong. Still, got it all figured out. I ended up getting a 2" to 2.5" transitioning 90* coupler to come off the turbo to make the tight bend away from the manifold. Never realized how expensive quality couplers were until putting this stuff together!

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469

Used all new bends I bought rather than the black piping I had but needed one straight so you can see where i was in the process of cleaning off the black coating on the one straight section in this pic.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469

Dropped the pipes off and had them welded up followed by some scotchbrite to clean them up a bit. I'm really pleased with how this all turned out, especially for my first time doing something like this and how nervous I was going in to it.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469

Next up was finding a way to mount my LS coils. I originally wanted to mount them along the intake side of the valve cover but didn't have the tools to make a mount like that look as good as I would have wanted. Decided to go with this setup. I'm still kind of on the fence about it but it seems to do the job pretty well so I might stick with it. Any comments/suggestions welcomed on this mount. It cost me under $10 since the girl working at the store forgot to scan out a bunch of the aluminum and threaded rod I got.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469

The metal brackets that hold the coils still need to be cleaned up and repainted.

Started doing catch can lines and other small things in the engine bay too as I try to wrap things up. Brought the camera out and took some pics of how it looks now.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431661469
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Still need to
- respray and actually install VC
- brake lines
- clutch line
- fuel pressure regulator & lines from rail and to return
- turbo water lines
- seal the fan shroud
- finish up catch can lines
- fire sleeve heater core lines
- mount battery
- mount meth pump/run meth line
- crank sensor & modify CAS
- spark plugs & wires

At this point I'm leaning towards teaching myself how to properly do wiring and doing that myself as well. I've managed to figure out how to do everything else on the car, may as well learn how to do that too.

Small update since Friday was more of a garage cleaning day. Pushed the car out to clean the garage up since it looked like a bomb went off in there since the car was originally pushed in

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431793495

Got the car back in and sealed up the fan shroud with some self-adhesive and expanding weatherstripping. I hope the adhesive on here will hold up to heat, it was super sticky so I'm not too concerned but it'll be something I keep an eye on as time goes by. Also did a strip at the top of the rad and rad support to seal that up. Need to work on sealing everything else up between the bumper, intercooler, oil cooler, and radiator.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431793495
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After today I'll hopefully have my meth line figured out and meth pump mounted as well as figure out how I'm going to mount my battery.

Battery and meth pump mounted.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431831383
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431831383

Started going through the old harness labeling all the connectors and started peeling back the old loom and electrical tape.

I've been trying to decide the best way to do this harness. The fact that our cars don't have a separate engine harness is kind of annoying because I really don't see a need in messing with the chassis harness, it's just my engine harness I wasn't happy with because of how many times it's been spliced into and the unreliable signals I was getting (like my super noisy TPS that couldn't be fixed before).

I also do not need any of the airbag wiring which runs through the entire harness so that's another thing.

Now I'm not even going to try to hide the fact that I'm new to wiring. I've done little things here and there but I've never done anything this major. But what I'd like to do is run all new wiring for everything from the firewall forward and then obviously wire up gauges and switches on the interior on a separate sub-harness. Basically I want to end up with a separate engine harness if possible, or as close to that as I can get.

This will also let me delete any unnecessary wiring and hide/cleanly run any wires that I actually need.

I have no idea how long I should expect this project to take me but it is the last step in this entire build so I'm really excited about that.

Got the harness all labeled, peeled back the old tape and loom, and took out all the airbag wiring. Tomorrow I'll probably start de-pinning the connectors I'll be using and maybe start running the new wires.

My "workbench" for this entire process. Would be nice to have something a bit bigger but it'll do
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431901956

Stripped down OEM harness w/ out airbag wiring
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431901956

The pile of garbage that came off the old harness. This is just the tape, loom, and airbag wiring. There will still be a bunch of wiring that'll get deleted since I don't need it anymore. (potatocam)
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1431901956

wow incredible build. Amazing how much junk came off the factory harness.

If I was re-doing the whole wiring I would definitely make the engine and chassis harnesses split-able, so good call on that.

Doesn't Bryan sell those fancy connectors for the engine bay making engine wiring a 1-plug affair? I'd look into that.

Thanks Mr. Chow! That's not even getting into pulling out unnecessary wires.

@Vlad, it's already in the works! Texted Bryan about those bulkhead connectors already, hopefully I'll be able to pick them up sometime this week.

DEI fire sleeve showed up today so I did my heater core lines, turbo water lines, and a section of fuel line just because it would rub against the upper rad hose and I had some left over fire sleeve. I have some left over 1" sleeve that I might use on the oil drain just to be safe. But that's a lot of effort so we'll see lol

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432084383

Also got an air filter from Vibrant so figured I'd toss that on, except I need a small straight section of pipe to get my catch can line in there. (I think that's where it's supposed to go from what I remember)

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432084383

And more wiring things. Just been separating the engine harness from the chassis harness, eliminating all the wire that will be replaced by the new harness. Very time consuming and I really hope I didn't accidentally take out a wrong wire lol. A friend is bringing over a bunch of wire he has tomorrow after working so I might be able to start running some wires.

Bigger pile of garbage.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432084383

Also on the lookout for a '99 valve cover since I think I'll just run a 99 cam sensor rather than messing around with modifying the CAS.

So I just spent way more money than I wanted to on connectors and terminals. Ordered extra pins/seals from EasternBeaver just in case. Then I searched around and found out OnlineComponents was the place to get ECU connectors and the pins for them, except they have a $50 minimum order. So I ordered 6 of both the ECU connectors with enough pins to terminate them all. So if you want ecu connectors and terminals lmk.

Whenever all that stuff gets in I can hopefully terminate all the connectors and get that all sorted. Just waiting for the wires to show up to route all the wiring.

Also finished up most of my fuel things. Just need to figure out how to mount the Walbro 450 since its huge.

Bulkhead at the sender. All AN everythang
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432176139

FPR mounted and the line from the rail to the regulator done. Just waiting for 1 fitting to get the return finalized.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432176139

And because I like looking at this so much
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1432176139

I'm getting a quote on a GM coil bracket that I designed. I have to think you'd be interested. :)

Glad to see you are making so much progress. I'm quite jealous!

When you know how much it'd be send me a pic and I'll see. I was originally going to mount the coils along the intake side of the valve cover but didn't have the tools to make a mounting bracket nicely so i settled for my current setup.

Okay, I just want to make sure I have everything right here rather than thinking I'm right and then finding out when I go to turn the car on that I was wrong.

Crank sensor/trigger: I'm using the Fab9 12+1 trigger wheel with a 99 crank sensor. I will wire in the crank sensor into the correct pin on the ECU for crank signal.

Cam sensor: I will be using the OEM 99 cam sensor with a 99 intake cam gear. I need to grind off the double nubs on the cam gear, leaving only one nub for the cam sensor, correct? Again, the signal will be wired to the correct pin in the ECU for cam signal.

This setup should work with the Reverant built MS2 I'm running; correct? Do I just select 99 miata for ignition settings? Or is that only if I had the FM trigger wheel and no nubs ground off the intake cam gear?

Taken from here: https://www.miataturbo.net/megasquir...2/#post1074289

I can handle doing all the mechanical stuff but when it comes to tuning, megasquirt, or setting up anything on the ECU side of things my 10 year old nephew would probably be better off than me. Should probably throw that out there lol

Wish I could help. I went with the $20 FM 36-2 trigger wheel due to it being supported by the MS3X firmware and not needing to modify anything.

Their wheel is pretty damn cheap if you can stand waiting on another part

<p>Part of me wishes I put that one on. &nbsp;It's not so much the waiting on a part that bothers me; its the entire pulling that crank pulley off again that bothers me. &nbsp;I mean if it will make things a lot easier it may be worth it but I need someone that knows about this setup to tell me if its worth doing or not. &nbsp;</p><p>I also need to figure out if I should be trying to get a new base map from Dimitris&nbsp;for this pretty much completely new car or if I should be getting a local-ish&nbsp;tuner to do things for me. Part of me wanted to learn how to do megasquirt things but when you're dealing with a $4-5000 motor, $3500+ hotside, and a whole bunch of other high value parts it is a little intimidating. &nbsp;I know if I break something expensive because of my own stupid mistake I'll be done with this car, at least for a very long time</p>

COP Bracket - Still working on pricing. Should be pretty reasonable. I'm not looking to profit off of these.

http://i58.tinypic.com/rlatkp.jpg

You will also need to grind the extra (odd) tooth from the 12+1 wheel, and an additional tooth as well, to make it a 12-1 wheel. This will allow for a faster startup.

<p><br /><br />So grind off the double nubs on the intake cam, and I guess the double teeth off the trigger wheel? Would it be worth just putting an FM trigger wheel on there instead? Also, should I be contacting you about a new base map/msq file?</p>

So I'm still alive, just haven't been making much progress. Waiting til Friday or Saturday when everything I've ordered over the past few weeks for building this harness arrives in Detroit so I can go pick everything up.

I've just mostly been trying to figure out all the things I no longer need in the harness and how I'll be routing everything. The ECU connectors are starting to look pretty empty.

Here's a picture of what I'm pretty sure will be the pinout of my ECU connectors. I'm mostly throwing it up here so you guys can let me know if I've deleted something I shouldn't have or if there's something in there that I don't actually need anymore.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1433437743

Here's the original for reference

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1433437743

I'm starting to understand the wiring side of things a lot more, the one thing I still am very unsure about is wiring my LS coils. I want them wired for sequential with my enhanced MS2 from Rev. Still doing some more reading about that but if someone wants to spoonfeed me, feel free ;)

Hopefully this weekend I'll actually finally start building this harness!

Still have to mount my fuel pump, run brake & clutch lines, swap the intake cam gear/grind two nubs off the face, and grind off the double teeth on the trigger wheel.

I should buy that lol

I never want to do a full wiring harness repair again. Saying that, I no longer fear wiring the Miata anymore.

Good luck dude.

Haha thanks Jeff! If you don't fear wiring a Miata anymore you should fly here and take care of this one for me. With how fast you work it could be done in a weekend! ;)

Went over to Detroit today to pick up a bunch of stuff. 99 Valve cover, shielded wire, all my connectors and pins, shift light, etc.

First up was the valve cover, it is currently flat black, tossed it on there to see how it looks compared to the blue before I sand it and paint it. Thoughts?

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1433526693

Next is all the wiring stuffs and things. Just need to pick up my milspec bulkhead connectors from Bryan and figure out how much of what size loom I need before ordering that. DEI fire tape is on the way too so I can avoid using any electrical tape on this harness. Hoping to keep it as clean as possible.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1433526693

Totally epic build! Keep the valve cover blue.

<p>Aren't the LS coils similar to the Toyota COPS. 1 shared 12V line. And individual trigger wires to each COP. So you should have 4 inputs on your ecu harness for ignition.</p>

So I actually did stuff on the car today surprisingly. It was a nice day out so I figured I wouldn't totally waste the opportunity.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434262229

Got some paint stripper for the 99 valve cover
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434262229

Still did some more cleaning after this point but didn't take a pic
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awww yisss
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Also ground off the double timing marks on the 99 cam gear and finally installed that/reset timing. Hopefully everything is good.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434262229

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Getting bungs welded on to the intercooler piping tomorrow for my IAT sensor and meth injection nozzle and picking up my install kit for the Walbro pump.

After I get all that stuff on I think all the mechanical stuff will be done. All that'll be left are the brake/clutch lines and wire harness.

Had a couple bungs welded on my coldside intercooler pipe for the IAT sensor and meth injection nozzle and put that back in

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434422723

Meth line running to the intercooler pipe
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434422723

Then I had some friends come by to help me finish up the brake lines. I considered routing them through the car but didn't want to deal with pulling the dash in case something went wrong with one of them. The come back out on the other side of the engine bay and just run down the firewall.

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Then I finally did some more work on mounting the fuel pump. Looking for opinions on this setup. I wanted to run 3/8 line from the pump to the rail so that meant finding a way to get 3/8 line coming off the pump.

It goes from the pump into the rubber line that comes with the install kit, into a 3/8 line that goes into the bulkhead fitting with a brass crush fitting that is supposed to seal it. Then from there it'll go into the -6 AN line to the front of the car.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434422723

Not a great shot but gives the idea of the bulkhead
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434422723

Now all that is left is dropping the pump into the tank and the wire harness which I'm too uncomfortable with to actually trust myself to do lol

Thanks for posting up that lower rad hose #. Found it on rockauto for $7 and there's enough of it to do both my upper and lower hoses. Used your "brake line behind cowl plate" routing for my booster hard line since I lost my space in the bay from the new engine position.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1434464304

Glad it helped you out!

I kind of like that routing for the booster. I should've done that lol. Oh well, way too lazy to change it now.

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So I'm trying to figure out what I want to run for wheels and tires. The car is mostly going to be street driven, being totally realistic it won't make it out to a lapping day for a while. It will however make it to the drag strip since that's at least close by, but I'll have separate tires for that.

I'm trying to decide if I want to do some 15x9's with a 225/45 RS3 v2 or if I should just buy these:
https://www.miataturbo.net/miata-par...is-245s-83891/

I'm just concerned the Maxxis will just go to waste on the street.

If I got the RS3's I was going to buy 2 more wheels to put some drag radials on for those late nights in Mexico ;)

Thoughts?

I don't mind driving on my RC1's on the street mostly due to how infrequently I drive the car(when running). More of a weekend car for me so it doesn't matter much to me. Saying that, when funds allow, I'll pick up some RS3s to mount on my 15x8s to save my 9s for autocross/track driving.

I really need to stop reading these threads. You guys are making me want to start a build I don't have time/space for...

I have a couple 6ul 15x9s with Rc-1s for sale!

Boosted lookbup Dan Howard on Facebook(forgot his screen name here), I just remembered he has 15x10 245 RC1s for sale. Do it, so you have at least a desperate chance at traction! ;)

I saw those, I'm just too cheap/lazy to buy 2 more lol. Although I do really like 6ul's.

Are they the set I posted the link to a few posts up? If so I was going to send him an offer the other night but don't want to bother him until i'm absolutely sure I want them.

The car is only driven on nicer days since it'd be a bad idea to drive it in the rain lol. But I still plan to drive it a lot once its running. I'm just concerned about burning through tires that actually cost some money too quickly. Cheap $50/tire tires I'll do burnouts on all day, but some 245 maxxis I would want to last me a bit.

How are the RC1's for straight line grip?

Maybe I'll man up and make an offer on those and just see how long they last me.

I've been extremely happy with mine driving on public roads. Way less tire spin events when driving like an asshole.

That's good to hear, especially since I'd have slightly wider tires, although slightly more power too lol

Sent him a message. Looks like it could possibly be just the tires. He's in Ohio though so I could probably pick them up one weekend when I'm down there to save money. It would be awesome if it was wheels too.

The JPreston ad (15x10 Jong's w/ 245's) you linked earlier still seems to be available. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I've convinced several local guys to run them for autox and they are quite potent.

I'm really leaning towards those just want some more opinions from people running them on the street

Hmmmm

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1436411160

needs moar poke

Holy Shit Paul...I don't think any stretching/pulling in the world is gonna help with that.

Going with fender flares or widebody rear&front fenders?

I'll give you more poke ;)


Bro I'm just gonna buy some camber, should fit no problem then! Lol


I may have something in the works haha. Just a test fit for now, mostly just looking at buying these wheels now because they're my dream wheels for sale locally. Deciding if I want to spend the time doing flares this year or not though

Building the boosted smurf
 

Just get some air shocks and jack up the ass end like a Chevy Nova.
http://www.chevymonkey.com/mediac/45...c5ffffe415.jpg

Great build!
Do you have any news about the driveshaft?