FLY WITH JUNK RACING'S
1977 NOVA PAGE
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Here is a little narrative on the Nova. It was written by the car
owner,driver,builder,master mind... (you get the idea) Andrew
Nelson.
"Intake is box stock Vic Jr. with no porting. 850 Holley on top.
Headers are 1 7/8" x 32" with a home fabricated collector. Two 3"
secondary pipes to a SINGLE 4" exhaust. Muffler fabbed from 5" tractor
trailer stack found on road.
Weight reduction was 1,162#. As raced weight 2,727# (with me, helmet & gas). No I
don't
weigh 500#, I tip scales at 219 1/2 with helmet. Remember it is a four door.
The Canfield heads have a shifted intake port and NO port work done. The Intake
port is
195 cc and flow 259" at 28".
Unknown converter that stalls about 2,800 on line with foot brake. The thing sounds
like it's
turning a bazzillion rpm's because of the single exhaust. Shift 1-2 at 6,700 and 2-3 at
6,900.
Through traps at 6,800 with 4.11 gear & 28.5" tire. 92 octane at Challenge because of
temp. 10.48 on posted time slip was 87 octane. NO NOS. "
