BRAKES & TIRES
The theme here is big. Wilwood 14-inch
rotors (drilled and slotted) fit the spindles
and are in league with Superlite six-piston
calipers. The same assemblies were
applied to the 9-inch axle ends, except
that the calipers are four-pot. The Nova
has never been known to provide much
room beneath its wheelwells, especially
in the rear. Grant built tubs to fit forged
Boze 20x10 Pro Touring hoops wrapped
with 285/30ZR Toyo T1R tires. Up front, he
posted slightly less spectacular 18x8 Boze
and 245/35ZR T1R stickiness.
CHASSIS
"I gotta say that up here in this country, we just aren't as attuned
to stuff in the lower 48 as we might be," Grant says. "A `for
instance' would be the wheeltubs that I made from scratch about
a month before DSE came out with their catalog item." A lot has
changed in the Nova's four-year birth but Grant plowed ahead
with what was available at the time. At the spearhead, he injected
a MacGuyver's Mustang II subframe equipped with upper and
lower control arms, a 3/4-inch diameter antisway bar, and QA1
single-adjustable coilovers. He lapped the ends of the car
together with Competition Engineering subframe connectors,
then hung the Chassisworks G-Bar canted four-link (spherical
rod ends, not bushings) with the Fab9 housing. VariShock
double-adjustable coilovers (175-pound rate) complete the
installation. A Flaming River manual rack-and-pinion points
Mustang II spindles perfectly. Grant recants: "I really like the
look of DSE's hydroformed front clip. That will likely be the next
step in this endless project." Check out that symmetry of that
understated elegance in the engine compartment.