1969 Yenko Nova

[fpcopo]

In response to Keith's last post: When new the 68 Chevelle L78s which I was most familiar with having tuned several that raced at the strip ran well into the 12s when equipped with good headers, at least a 4.10 rear and slicks. The best ones ran 12.60s and most ran 12.70s and 80s. This was at our local strip which had an altitude of 1200 ft. My own 68 had a 350 hp 396 and was stock except for an L78 cam, headers and slicks ran a best of 12.78 @ 109. Rob, I always thought the Novas did NOT hook as good as the Camaros beacause of 3 inches extra wheelbase all of it in the passenger compartment. This seemed to put more weight on the front end and also made a longer moment arm with the extra length to transfer weight to the rear tires. I don't have Excel or I would go to the NHRA site and look up the shipping weight for a 69 L78 Nova and similar Camaro. Do you have Excel? All of their classification guides are in that format. If you know this info please post it. I do know that most of the current A/S NHRA Chevies are Camaros, although the Nova can fit into the class most Novas run B/S.
Although not related to this discussion, all of the good running A/S Cars are 396s but the A/SA cars run 427s. Let me know what you think. Frank Payne

[Chevy454]

Frank: Camaro is 8.67*375=3251, Nova is 8.74*375=3277...

[Salvatore]

Frank Payne, In my opinion you are right on. Love the novas but why build a BB nova for NHRA when the camaro is a better choice. ALL (I know a bold statement) BB camaros running in A/S are 375 horse cars. A tad lighter, aluminum heads without a penalty and rev much better than their big brother 427 cars. I don't recall seeing anybody at least in DIV-1 running a 427 in A/S. But....guys experiment all the time in Stock Eliminator. Ed Bednaz runs A or B Stick with his nova in DIV-1. Always a contender but I never saw that car in the nines with the weight out of it. He uses the 396 motor. Very fast, very competitive and a good driver!

[Kim_Howie]

I really think that Yenko's statement about the Nova's was for covering his a$$. The camaros came COPO factory warrenty and liablity. Whereas the nova's where all his baby. JMO

[Kim_Howie]

Now this is B/S Nova

[Chevy454]

Where is that Howie? Looks NHRA so it ain't Cordova...[until this year!]

[Mr70]

This looks like our own Route 66 Raceway in Joliet Il.

[Kim_Howie]

You Win, Jolliet!!

[Salvatore]

That is a good runnin DIV-5 car!