LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Today I made a 1/4" Aluminum adapter plate to mate the Hydroboost to the existing firewall bolt holes of the manual master cylinder my car originally came with. The main hole is a little jagged I know, I couldn't holesaw it because of the tab for the keyway, so a good 'ol jigsaw and file got the job done reasonably well...



Mounted on the Hydroboost...




Painted the Hydroboost. I'm really excited to make the rest of the engine/bay these flat black/matte black/matte silver colors ...

5-30-2009

Hooray, got something in the mail yesterday (finally this car is slowly turning into an actual performance car)....

Today I made an aluminum radiator shroud for the '95 S10 radiator I picked up a while ago. It's not perfect, but I'm happy with it considering I did the bends with a vice and a dead-blow hammer

It's not fully complete, I still need to sand it to a dull finish, and pick up some stainless buttonhead fasteners.



Although it doesn't look it, the shroud is spaced out about 3/8" from the radiator fins so that the fan can suck air from all parts of the rad...