Post some videos when you get it done! Would love to see it.

It will be a blast. I had a Nova SS with a Dart 509. It is a real mover.

The 455 Olds Buick and Pontiac engines are the lightest of the oem cast iron big blocks I think? A complete 455 Pontiac engine aircleaner to oil pan wieghed only 140-150 lbs more than a 70 355ci SBC If my memory is correct and Not a bad trade off for another 100ci

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Lots of Fathom Blue Chevelles. Not sure on the ‘70 Nova. Headers really made these cars come alive. Really choked from the factory. The fact that this car is now running 12.7s with extra tuning is remarkable.

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As the owner said, he’s never known an L78 to make “only” 375 horsepower. All were over 400.

For sure.

Glad you like it!

I had a ‘72 SS. Wish I still had it.

@@musclecarcampy9922 Very true statement! My dad had a triple black 71 SS 350 car loaded,a 1972 cylinder, a "K" code 73 SS. Apparently a Penske Canadian special built SS high comp 350 big radiator, only 100 made?

@@rajcam80 I’ve never heard of one. Do you have pictures of it?

Tell me how much I like to see what it is it's beautiful

Thanks for watching. I had a ‘72 SS350 with a 4-speed, but dropped in a 509 Dart big-block.

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Thank you for watching.

Me too.

Absolutely.

The NHRA Record for B-Stock Automatic was 11.65. My 1970 Nicky Nova with little more than Hooker Headers and some slapper type traction bars and good tuning ran the quarter in 12.01. This was my street car, so I never changed the gearing or the torque converter.

Unlike computer-controlled muscle cars of today, I’m sure some of those old vehicles could be inconsistent in the hands of journalists.

I actually owned a 1970 nova 396 375 hp absolutely horrible performance, and you needed 4.10 or 4.56 gears to make it run.

@@jaybramble2029 I never heard of anyone saying this before. This one runs 12s on bias plies with 3.55 gears and the factory exhaust system. I have to think yours came from the dealership in need of a serious tune.

​@musclecarcampy9922 You are quite right. I had a '70 SS Nova that came from Nicky Chevrolet in Chicago. It was equipped with the L-78, 402cid/375hp Turbo 400 and the lighter bench seat. I had my dad pick it up on a business trip to Milwaukee and he was lucky to drive it to Birmingham, AL. without catching fire.They had never done a pre-delivery inspection and the fuel lines on the Holly Carb was leaking when i first opened the hood. It was also in such a poor state of tune I that I wanted to send it back. After addressing the fuel leak and discarding the first smog pump I had ever seen I replaced heavy fixed steel radiator fan with a Flexalite one. Rejetting the carb and changing the springs in the distributor made a world of difference. Eventually, with slapper type traction bars, better tires, Hooker Headers feeding into Corvair mufflers, and further tuning (re-jetting again and 38° total advance all in at 2000rpm), the car clocked 12.01 secondsin the quarter mile. This was my street car so I never changed the gearing or torque converter...It was within .5 second of the NHRA record of 11.65 for B/S-A.

​@@jaybramble2029I don't know what my rear gears were, but I had my '70 L-78, T-400 running a 12.01 quarter mile wiith basic tuning and a set of Hooker Headers.

Those Yenko Deuces were mean machines.

I built a friend of mine a 1970 L T1 350 replica. Literally we went with the 11 0 1 compression and a comp Cam's nostagal replacement cam that was revised a little bit but still considered a accurate replacement. Oh Is that engine Had such a Great-Power band and it would pull through the RPM and loved 6800 RPM. The valve train noise of the solid lifters Was music to our ears.

@@PatandDoopypoopy LT-1 was an amazing small-block.

They were monsters.

Get in line behind me!

It was nothing if not versatile.

Me too! Thx for watching.

Love the period 70's look seeing the 12-bolt rear tastefully painted black and with the 12 rear cover bolts in chrome or painted silver. 😎

With carb tuning and a couple of tricks, he is now running in the high 12s as you see it here. Amazing.

Deluxe interior, console and power disc brakes, but manual steering. Gotta love old cars.

@@musclecarcampy9922 power disc brakes became standard equipment on all SS Chevys starting in '69

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Oh, indeed.

Nothing like it!

Dont remember ever seeing a big block Chevy with a Turbo 350.

@@ashleyjennings5224 not ideal. Have a few th400s ready to go in.

Same engine rated at 425 hp in the ‘65 Vette. That car had much better exhaust manifolds and the’70 had a lower profile intake, but those cylinder heads were incredible.

@@musclecarcampy9922 Was not aware of the shorter intake?! Thanks for sharing!

@@badgerbait8351 I had one and my car did not have a shorter intake. Actually, I thought it was what was considered a factory hi-rise. The L-78 had a dual line Holley, the factory hi-rise intake, solid lifters, THE factory exhaust was at least 2and a quarter- maybe two and a half inch, and if my memory serves me well I think mine had a 373 rear-end and a muncie 4-speed. I bought it brand new in the fall of 69 but it was a 70 and it got 8 mpg in town and 8 mpg on the highway. It came with D-70 by 14 tires. I bought it brand new for 3200 dollars. wish I still had it, only car that ever got me was a Vette

That restriction ended in 70, so there were 454s, and in the other divisions 455cid available in the mid-size GM's that year. Notable the 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass W-30, Buick Skylark GS, etc.

@@therealtech833 And a year later they started to de-fang all of them. Can't imagine what this would have all led to had the government and insurance industries hadn't cracked down on them.

If you can make the last turnoff at the drag strip, that is all that matters.

Some run 10s, but you can’t compare new to old. I only compare them to the cars of their era. 13.40s is moving compared to a stock 383 Road Runner or GTO with a 400.

Also consider that new muscle cars run way wider tires, have launch control have 6, 7, 8, 10 speed transmissions etc. The closest would be a muscle car with slicks and a gear vendors unit. There's no point comparing old vs new muscle. I prefer vintage muscle, but I like the new stuff too. 👍 My personal ride is a 1968 Barracuda fastback powered by a 512 stroker, backed by an A833 4 speed manual. 👍

I put a 700-hp Dart 509 in my ‘72 Nova SS. Ram mid 10s at 130.

In the Corvette it did.

@@musclecarcampy9922 that was the L88 427 not an L78

@@kevinbender1754 The L88 was rated at 430 horsepower at a very low rpm ('67-69) and only available in the Corvette. In actual dyno testing, the L88 made 540 horsepower with open headers. The 396 made 425 hp in the Corvette and was rated at 375 in the Nova, Chevelle, Camaro, etc.

I came to say the same thing, it was rated at 425 in 1966 Corvettes, then the same unchanged engine was used in Nova's and chevelle's but rated at 375......same engine.

@@jimmiematho8082 Corvette had far better exhaust manifolds, but yeah, 375 was a bit of a joke.

LOL.

Going 12.70s now on bias plies. Something is working at the track. That is all that matters.

Technically speaking …

It is Fathom Blue.

¡Gracias por verlo!

Thanks for watching.

THAT STATEMENT IS TOTALLY FALSE, i HAD A HEMI FOR YEARS, RACED ON THE STREET, AND IN STOCK AND SUPER STOCK ON THE TRACK.. THE ONLY STOCK VEHICLES IN MY CLASS WERE OTHER HEMIS.. SAME WITH SUPER STOCK. THAT WAS ANS STILL IS THE WAY IT GOES IN NHRA STOCK AND SUPER STOCK CLASSES... THE L78 WAS NOT PUTTING ANY HEMI ON A TRAILER..

@@walterneville2625 Even if you type in all caps it doesn't mean you are right. A few of my friends had Hemi cars in the early 70s. They would spend a few hours on Saturday afternoon tuning on them to go street racing that night, and by the time they drove down to the gas station and put in a few gallons of Ethel they had to go home and tune on it again. There were many times they hit the gas off the line and you would hear the motor pop out of the carburetor. Most of them sold their Hemis and bought 440 cars.

@@anthonynelson9136 Tell that to Sox and Martin, Dick Landy, or Mancini Racing, the Hemi cars dominate to top Stock and Super Stock Classes... There are zero BB Chevies in those Classes... Anyone who has a car backfire throught the carbs does not know anything about racing.. They deserve to lose..

@@anthonynelson9136 For the mechanically challenged, a single Holley Dominator carb, on a Rat Roaster intake would cure a lack of mechanical knowledge... The Hemi is still used in Drag racing today, all the Top Fuel and Funny cars race a hemi engine... It was, and still is the best of the best..

They made over 13,600 of them from ‘68-70. That is a fairly decent amount.

@@musclecarcampy9922 I was meaning a 1970 nova SS with the L78, there are only 3700 and change of those. Cheers👌👍

There were prettier women than Mona Lisa, but she is the classic.

Period correct rubber May look better, but modern radials ride, turn and stop 100 times better. To each his own.

@@musclecarcampy9922 i know they do but it's not a daily driver, just bugs me when I see cars being advertised as restored 100% original and there sits a pair of Cooper Cobra radials.

On the plus side, you rarely have to work on new cars. I never changed the plugs or wires on my 142,000 miles 6.0 LS and it ran perfectly when I traded it in.

@@musclecarcampy9922 OMG If there's car hell....142k?🤣

@@jackshaftoe1715 I changed enough plugs in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Car ran perfectly and got 24.5 mpg on the highway (ran13.39 at 103). Why mess with it?

My 72 monte 454 cost 14k. I refuse to make house payments for a car. Chrome not plastic. Compression not turbo. I can throw on a turbo and run 1100 hp easy.

It doesn’t.

they never sold them on the showroom floor with headers and yours has headers…

@@richgallagher725 Did you watch the video? It has factory manifolds.

@@musclecarcampy9922 you mention in the video that it has headers

@@richgallagher725 At the 1:43 mark, I stay it is stock down the manifolds and you can see the stock exhaust manifolds in the video. If I said that somewhere, I misspoke.

Guess again.

@@musclecarcampy9922 Quote "No vehicles had the original 396 after 1969 with the exception of C/K trucks." The L78 396 put out 425 horses, last produced in 1969. The 1970 big block was a 402 CID. The 396 was used in the Nova only in 1968 and 1969. You may have a 396 in your '70 Nova, but not original.

@@AmmoDude It is common knowledge the SS396 had 402 cubes in 1970, and it was still available in the Chevelle, Nova and Camaro and called SS396. The 396 was only rated at 425 horsepower in the '65 Corvette. It was never offered in a truck in this configuration as far as I know.

@@musclecarcampy9922 My info is from General Motors.

@@musclecarcampy9922 In 65 it was also rated 425 HP in the Impala SS.

Well, he is a drag racer and this is how you do a burnout. Whatever floats your boat.

I believe the Chevelle would be most comfy.

@@musclecarcampy9922 thanks man

@@TD-il6ju Muscle Car Campy is here for his viewers!

Not a 70 Nova, a 70 Monte Carlo, it's a glorified Chevelle.