8 second Destroked LS Nova for Cheap 

This is where RU-vid needs a "Love it" tick box rather than like it.

High dollar builds are neat and all, but it is far cooler to see great performance done on a budget. Kudos for this build :)

8.60s @ 160+ is no joke. Congrats

Awesome car! Budget building is an art form in itself. Anyone can run 8s with a fat wallet. Doing it on nickels and dimes is incredible.

I'm old enough to remember when funny cars ran in the eights Love the Handel

I have another motto for you, rust is lighter than carbon fibre. Love the build

Wow 8s is a major feat no matter what the build is. 160...pretty impressive man. Car looks like it leaves real well!

Wow, this was a really professional video. We can see perfectly what you are showing, and understanding what you are explaining. In 2013 our mustang blew up a coolant hose at the Grassroots Motorsports challenge at Gainesville. Your dad was the top dog on the quarter mile, but he took the time to help a rookie. I was not the only one you guys helped as he shared his knowledge to a mostly autocross audience. Your family is a great example of teamwork and devotion to the sport, where a well seasoned team, helps every body in the paddock. Wish you all health so you can continue to do your good job.

I absolutely love this, love the green and black,thats its kinda rough but still an absolute monster.

Just fucking brilliant. I love this man's mind. I tell people this about making just enough torque to get you going and they look at me like I'm crazy smh.

Key to the video for me,,,, MOVE THE MOTOR BACK! a great investment of labor most people are not willing to make. Great job !

This is my first time seeing your channel but I love how straight forward it is

I have seen this video about 10 time this is the inspiration for my car

Found it!! A car channel about cars! Not a boring vlog about some dude that throws tons of money around and shows nothing but his face on camera

Destroking for "No Prep" is genius. Couple of smart guys here!

Save weight and save parts, i like the make it strong where it counts and let the flaws shine. None of mine are near show cars but im never worried about a scratch or dent on them either, love the Studebaker build man always love the classic iron

Thanks for the info, what a great dad you got

Also man love your down home build style what u have use it attitude 😉 😎 cool as heck and no cussing and acting a fool on videos like a lot of channels do thanks for t h e content and integrity 😀

Thank you for your advice, and your time. And again, love your builds.

Excellent approach to the build and a really great video - love the car and appreciate you sharing !

Third car I ever built was similar to this and made 850 on the dyno with a 6 liter Lq4 engine we added a cam trunion upgrade oil pump and a forced inductions 7675 with the precision injectors had a blast out of that car anything over a thousand your maintenance goes up big time that’s real talk nice build guys.

Your style of car and build are my favorites because you encourage the working class racer love every aspect of this congratulations on your accomplishments

Well young feller y'all got ya all a fine runner. Love the Olive Drab paint too.

Fantastic "Tour" LOL Super interesting and educational. Obvious you guys know what's what. Thanks much!

I would love a parts list of everything to do with the engine/drivetrain, would be awesome to recreate, please and thank you!! Love the car and the channel

Holy Smokes! That thing is a white knuckle rocket at the end! Love it!

Great build. I need to go to your flea markets!

Love all your builds but this one is special! 8 sec quarter times are nothing to overlook! Good job as usual to you & your pops man!

I think this is my favorite build! Great job!

This is awesome!!!! Love the car and thank you for sharing. I am doing a 72 nova with a bunch of the same type SBE stuff. Great work!! Get that 7

That's really neat how you guys built that. Interesting what you said about the cam choice, I found with my project that a narrow lsa oval track cam works good in a sbc with a big turbine and free flowing ex

Such a badass car!!! Total nova dude! Orb into it!! Keep it up big fan of y’all’s!!

Great video, straight to the point. Nothing wrong with being frugal with your money. Also your right about keeping light. Weight to horsepower ratio & traction is everything in drag racing.

Great video! This should be a tutorial for those who are building within a budget and those who make car overviews. Thank you for this video - you have a new subscriber

This was a GREAT video, and you are a GREAT teacher. A born GURU. 👍👍👍

I love Chevy Nova's also. 1970 i was born and so was the Nove i Love..

Very nicely done! Amazing the power that car has love it!!

it idles like the EGR is stuck on!! I like you and your father's way of thinking. smart.

Nova is the compact Chevelle and admire your frugality recipe. Destroking sounds like my cup a tea. Cam it and get in the meat at high rpms that makes your gearing longer increasing ET, 3:15 rear is also the secret sauce. Big props to pops. Love it and its one off fabrications!

This is one of the most BEAUTIFUL Novas ive ever seen!! And especially i mean externally beautiful! Perfect! The stance, paint, colours, rims, tyres, front & rear ect ect. With all its blemishes and corroded sheet... Looks awesome. And not to mention the engine and drivetrain, sound and everything else! This is 5/5 love it, good job and keep going the 7s will come eventually

Give Mahle a ring or e mail. They had some really great catalogs for their pistons. You know they weighed within 5 gms of the 4.8 piston but they are fit for a 6.0 bore. I'm betting there won't be more than one or two likely candidates. That is a nice piece of "racer knowledge"! FR

1973 Nova project owner here! The car looks killer, and definitely looks good with the tucked rear bumper. Since my car will be a street car, Ill need to figure out how to tuck and use the factory fuel fill port. Definitely an inspiration!

That’s the best looking and fastest $50 car I’ve ever seen!

This is what living is all about.... You guys rock....

Amazing a i want retore a 72 Nova for my dad as well , my uncles and my dad had Novas .

Love this car! Always loved those novas

I never was a generic motors fan but i did like the way novas looked

Love all your videos keep them coming

Nice work nivlac.

MAN THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WATCHING YOU WOW GREAT VIDEO, THANKS

Good to see someone else running a destroked 6.0

I really, really like this car!

I'm 31 and have never drag raced before. I have a 5.3 L33 that ill be budget building for either an n/a street car or s10, or build it up with a turbo or 2 for a full on drag car. I absolutely LOVE doing things on a budget! Thanks for all the awesome content!

Very nicely engineered!

Did not see that turbo ls coming, lol shocking ! But you cant argue with badass. very cool

Badd ass stuff as always thanks look forward to more content like this 🙌

Nice Build Love to hear RPM ,s Fast👍

Great job young man 💯💯💯💯

Didn’t even mean to click on this video but man I’m sure glad I did that thing is awesome!

Turbo's like oversquare more than NA's do!!! COOL!

Would really like to hear your experiences in tuning / setting up the suspension. Building power is one thing - making it actually work is another.

I'm hoping to see u guys at beaver next season, my car will be ready, I have the white foxbody with black racing stripes

Love the car great content

This is why most guys just love project cars they are fun to work on, more affordable than a brand new electric car and you can actually work on them lol. Keep up the good work guys love it!

Too funny. I have nearly the exact same set up in a 1964 AMC Rambler. Wanted to kill bottom end torque due to the smallish 275 tire. 4.8 crank, gen 4 rods, 6.0 block, square port heads, Wiesco flat top piston's for a stock stroke 6.0 are a drop in minus the balance needed., mild camshaft, single 80mm turbo though. Holley Terminator X Max, 4L80e, Ford 8.8 with 3.73 (probable a little steep), Hoping for 800whp. Yet to fire it. Getting close though. Car should come in at 2800lbs. Looking for 9's in a street car for the power tour.

Built for go, not to show. Like the paint gives it a kinda military look,wich is appropriate for a track weapon 🔫.

Well done guys!!!!

Great video

LOL I have had 10 back in the day! My first was a 73 SS 307 dog! But it was fun to drive! Then it had a 400 4 speed then a 350-350 Auto!

That is a sweet well built race car you guys built. Love it. I’m also building a destoked 6.0. 4.8 crank and rods. Cheap pistons .4.040” but one thing I will have to highly dis Agree on. Cathedral port heads when ported correctly can make way more power than a Ls3 style head. I’ve dyno’d 100’s if set ups. And a proper cathedral port head makes power across the whole lower range that the rectangle port heads just can’t do. Yes they can flow awesome at wide open top of the rpm curve. But can’t touch a 862 with good work done to it. But agin. Love the car. Sick.

It's fun to learn about other people's projects and what makes them tick. I just gotta say, though, an 8.62 isn't teasing 7s... though I am sure with some tweaking you can make 7s happen.

I like & I subscribed! Thumbs up! 👍

Love this car. Subbed.

this is not 'Street Legal'!!......& I'm OK WITH THAT!! Great 'JOB'! Keep Them 'LIGHT'...That's The 'KEY'!! cheers From Canada!

FANTASTIC. THANKS

awesome car love it.

ahhh i want a nova so badly. gonna import one to the uk eventually

"... the sheet metal is there to hold stickers." Love it! XD I also love how this car could humble all of the Tesla S Plaid's I've been seeing videos of that are running low 9's. More fun to see experience, passion, and a barn full of old parts beat out some rich guy's $150k toy.

I like that nova🔥🔥

Yeah people neglect everything but the trans you have to have a good converter and trans and rear end etc.

Ebay build woo love it guys

Simple recipe. I was shocked about the stock 4.8 rods thats nuts lol

Cool, fun and interesting build! Only thing I felt missing is the actual weight of the car, especially since you pointed out the big efforts to cut weight everywhere (which is smart!)...

I've always wanted to split a turbo in half. So the hot section in not close to the intake section, & connect them via a carbon kevlar rod housed inside aluminum tube. Another idea I've had is to put timken circular split ceramic needle roller bearings on the main bearings, con rod bearings, with a hole drilled in them the same place a race bearing would have it, to give the bearings oil pressure. I would also put caged roller needle bearings around the wrist pins like on outboard engines. I would also insert ceramic circular needle bearings in the block where the cam main bearings go. I've always wanted to make a cam that would fire two pistons at the same time. Say the piston furthest back on the right side of the block, & the piston in the front on the left side to balance out the V8 when running. The next pair would be the next one up on the right side, & the next one back on the left side & so on. I think destroking an engine is better also, high rpm, equals horsepower, don't need more torque when the horsepower is over 800 horsepower.

The title had me thinking you were selling it. 😃

I love this

Don't judge? I WILL judge. I LOVE IT.

Nice car

The hole in the shirt made me LOL. 😁

Great effort, what else can I say?

i love this car

I luv my 74 use too drag ! Know she sets empty hul all lonely missing her small 400

Sweet my kinda build I'm doing a 1979 monza myself now radical little beast it is I build the same with no garage in the elements outside in the gravel it sucks but 8 get em done for sure 💪 😉 😀 😎 love the simplicity u and I use and a lot of spare parts I save and hoard to use later love em let's see some of the nova runs please sir any links for it running and racing 🏁?

cool took a 73/74 and put a pre 72 nose on. i'd like to see that kinda mash up on the tri 5s

Nice!

I understand Holley efi if you can afford it. However, $1100 for the Holley vs $250 for the microsquirt makes it fairly enticing. I am quite profiecient when it comes to mechanics in general, and again with electronics and wiring. If you HAVE heard of people getting it to work, I would bet that i could. Where as i agree holley is hands down the way to go if you can, I have much more time and ingenuity than i will ever have money. And thank you for replies and opinions, i value them much more than just about any other builder i have seen.

I can’t find anything less than thousands man. If only I could find a roller to get things started, hey if your dad still has a nova he’d let go let me know

Subbed!

Very cool....................... 👍👍👍👍

8 sec for a q mile is awesome in a heavy car