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Where are you located? I'm about 80 miles from Lebanon Valley.

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Take your set up and let's see the best times you can get

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I got a chevy Nova team nova

Looking forward to seeing you run again!! 😎

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You don’t have enough head for the cam you have , tighten up the stall and regear.

What does this car weigh ? Sorry if I missed it. Roll cage/bar ? My 383 71 Nova with power steering, interior, street drag radials mufflers and tail pipes over the differential and pump gas runs 10.28 just the way its driven 2000+ miles a year. I have about 8k in the engine.

We built 706 out of a 468 stock block and sprayed 250 so it made 950 the block held up and is still a good engine today.

Did you take Daren Morgan's advice and get a big block and stroke it. What power adder are you using?

Hey Joe, where you goin with that Nova steering wheel in your hand.....😁 Hey, you're in the Maryland area if I recall correctly right, if so are you going to Cecil dragway Memorial weekend? If you are a friend of mine is going to be there with his '70 Nova for some test and tune.(Not sure what day though) He has a page on here called Hatch's Recreational Engineering. He's a big Nova guy, he just did a bunch of work to the engine in his '70 Nova to see what kind of improvement he will have. It's not going to be anywhere near 10 seconds but should be in the 13s I'm guessing? That's not a bad improvement from 15.9 with the same engine. Anyway maybe you can say hello to him for me if you see him there, tell him Derek said hello, if you get a chance? Maybe you guys can do a collaboration video or 2 together? Ok, you can put bigger valves in, just make sure to knotch the block. They do that to big blocks all the time to unshroud the intake valve as it rises off the seat. The BBC head gaskets even have that area open so a knotch can be put there. Do a search on it and you'll see. I say that because with the kind of cam you're going to want to run you're going to want a bit more support for the kind if spring pressures for the cam you'll want to run?😎👍

Drill both out, it will be fine.

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You’re way ahead of the curve …a lot of people got away from what you’re doing . Great job 👍🏾

Well, they average Joe only makes so much money and I never had it so I never could afford to really build an engine like I wanted to so it doesn’t work even secondhand parts were expensive. You should know that I do admire everything that you seem to know what to do for as young as you sound, I’m 72 years old

Whats up cool what kind of tran are u running is a trubo 400 ?

They sell a tool, it's kinda a drill bushing that guides a drill bit to slot the push rod hole. Or you can drill it big enough for a brass sleeve that will give you the clearance you need.😎

Are you running a rev kit?

Broke Joe the car is awesome and fast. I love it! What rear gear, tire height and size converter are you running? By the way...good luck and keep the vids coming man! Thanks nephew!

My dream car dad had one wish 4.3 v6. Face speed and traction bars beat up on 5.0 mustangs 🎉

When you can swing it, get a gopro and some mounts (they come in packages with lots of stuff) they stabilize themselves and you don't need the bestest and newest ones, old ones work good. I have an 8 and it takes really nice video when I use it.

Pretty decent bracket car ya got there. Low dollar to build it and tons of fun racing it. Thats how its done man.

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Good job filming nephew. Are you hiding the finish line mph on purpose? I wanted to see what mph a 10.50s pass is.🤷 Anyway looked like the car is running great.😎👍

I wanna go fast 🥲

Depends on your definition of cheap I guess! Your average guy does'nt have $10,000 worth of parts laying around!!!!

Dude I just subscribed to ur channel especially ur from Connecticut to

Great channel man are you guys out of Connecticut ?

First thing you made some passes. Second thing you didn't break the car you will have minor glitches keep tuning 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

This channel will blow up major watch I can feel it

Maybe they'll let me comment now, its been a few days. Back in the 90s when I was bracket racing my 79 Formula, I picked up .4 in the quarter by repacking the wheel bearings, trued the front rotors, greased the caliper pins so the calipers could move freely, set the rear drums for no drag and removed the adjusters. I put a dab of high temp grease on the backing plate tabs where the shoes rub against it. Doesn't take much grease in there, just make sure it all moves freely. Also did an alignment, I was taking classes at the local VoTech so I had a heated shop to work on my stuff in winter, and I could do alignments for free and get credit for them no less. Since the front end is up under power, I did the alignment with the nose 2" above static ride height. Zero camber, 3 degrees caster, couldn't get one side to lean back any farther than that, and half a degree of toe in Not only did the car go faster, it went straighter down the track and in the burnouts. It went from a work out pushing the car through the lanes, to leaning against it and it would roll. Then I blocked off the grilles in the bumper with some thin sheet aluminum and cracked the hood up at the back as well as removing the rubber strip that seals the hood and the cowl. That got me another .3 reduction in ET. At 3750lbs without me, and I was 260 at the time, and a 4.10 gear which slowed it down compared to 3.42s, it was running 12.1-11.9 and would be VERY consistent. The 4.10 moved the 455 through the RPM range too fast, and with 28" tires it was out of RPM before it hit 900ft. So the last 400ft of the track it was at 6000rpm, which is not a good place to be with factory Pontiac connecting rods. Besides the factory iron heads I was running won't flow enough air to spin a 455 higher than 6000 anyway. Thats nearly half the track where its not pulling, and yes it slowed it just as much in the 1/8th too. Your SBC is quite different, a 2.73 to 3.55 gear will make it slower, but my 455s run faster with those gears than anything deeper. You also don't have nearly 600ftlbs from 2500 to 4500 rpm. Back then 11.99 required a roll bar. I couldn't afford that so the 4.10 gear slowed the car from 11.40s so I didn't need to put one in. Not bad for a car with power windows, all steel, with a really mild Pontiac engine in it that I could take on road trips and even with the 4.10 gear and 850 Holley it got 15mpg, but going faster than 55mph had that 455 turnin lots of RPM. The brake and suspension work paid off huge, and I had to slow it down again to avoid the roll bar requirement. The outlaw 1/8 mile track near my base in South Carolina didn't care about roll bars and tech inspections, so I put the 3.42 gears back in it and it went from 7.7-7.8 to 7.4/7.3 ETs. I had around $4000 in the entire car. Today that Firebird is a lot lighter, still has the stock doors and power windows, but it has an aluminum headed 461 stroked 400 in it, and its around the same weight as your Nova. Haven't raced it yet... busy with the 68 LeMans and the Bird is going to be a fun street car again.

What is the motor combo?

Good looking car! You might try leaving ay a lower rpm, some cars like to flash the converter more than others. Sounds like it’s laboring a touch off the hit in the video. Car has a great sound to it!

Stu pid fart can muffler cars!😂 What's that weigh what about 3,000 lbs? Wow, 8,000 rpm!😯 How often do you have to change springs? Man 10 is about 1.5 seconds faster than I want to go. Car is running great.😎👍

Awesome build! Big fan of your content

Happy birthday Joe! 🎂

I realy enjoy your channel i have a 68 id like to build a similar engine as to yours. What sportman heads are you using? And your camshaft part number. Id like to see 9s that would be awsome.

Nova looks and sounds great

Broke Joe, I gotta give it to you man you sure can build an engine. I got me some sportsman series heads hopefully my 350 will be done next year maybe sooner. 😎

SNOT Rocket !!!!

Happy Birthday BROTHER! No better way to spend your bday than at the track. Car looked strong, you're putting down some good times with that. You never did post any times with the Vette, what was that thing with that engine in it, 9s?😯😎👍

a little aerodynamic inner fender wells mifgt help

In the day the world sportsman ll was the head to have. It took work but they would make power.

Try a Carb Cheater, lets you change your air fuel ratios with an app on your phone. I think it's about 300 bucks but some air fuel gauges are more than that. This gizmo lets you know your ratios displayed on your phone. I think it can data log as well? But not 100% sure. With one of those, the carb guys can tune with a computer(phone) just like the fuel injection guys. Haven't seen anyone use one for drag racing yet, only have seen install vids for them.😎👍

If you can find the parts used that you'll need and they're good nothing new about using used parts. Every engine I've rebuilt was from a junkyard or second hand. Those JE pistons aren't cheap good find if they fit the bill. FYI pretty much everyone selling aftermarket rods are getting the casting from China even scat.

Dude be a man a man and do what you can do with the big block and stop playing around with a baby motor you are vary smart and you know it🙂👍

The 60's were the era for some great car names. Tempest just has that "wanna play around and find out"rings to it because you never know what someone ordered under the hood. I had a 71 LeMans that had a Corvette 327 and Tirbo 350 in it, fun car when it was tuned right.

What block are you using? An about what weight is the car?