LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Finished up the intercooler last week, man that was a lot of welding but I'm pretty happy how it turned out...

And the super fun update, I got it running! I only managed to take one video last night, which I uploaded to Instagram in the below link. I'll try to take a couple better quality vids (running and maybe driving) this weekend...

Here is the valvecover breather setup, which was the last thing to make/install on the engine...

I made little aluminum cradle brackets to hold the breather hoses how I wanted, and are secured using the intake and fuel rail bracket hardware...

More almost-symmetry on the breather hoses!

Intercooler and radiator are very visible thru the grill in raw form.. once the car is properly sorted I'll remove the intercooler (very easy) and fog it black...

The charge piping and clamps are fairly visible, will see if there's anything that needs to be done about that once the car is on the ground...

Radiator gets some nice fresh air down there. Again, once it's on the ground I'll see if I want to make some mesh grill for the radiator or how much room I'll have below/around the radiator for an air dam...

- make support brackets to reinforce the turbo inlet aluminum tubes to the compressor housings (see below pics) so the filters around flopping about with engine vibration
- make rad support top cross brace to secure the rad/IC in place (althought things are pretty rigid as-is)
- make aluminum filler panel that attaches to rad support brace, to add foam to which seals the entire rad support to the hood underside
- figure out some front air dam as described above to Trevor's post
- fill in the gaping holes in the rad support (holes were for previous intercooler piping)

My plan with the car so far is fun street car. I will eventually try to road race it and auto-x it, but for that I should still need to make a front sway bar setup.