10 second Sbc Nova built for cheap!

Published 2024-04-14
Main caps, piston rings, bearings, hardware and a timing chain were the only things purchased new.

All Comments (21)
  • @user-ly3tm7mc7l
    You’re way ahead of the curve …a lot of people got away from what you’re doing . Great job 👍🏾
  • @andysteele4056
    Every running engine runs on used parts. I love a good "spare parts build".
  • @user-cm1yo7uq5k
    At my track when i got my car in the 10s i had to put in a roll cage ,10.99 1/4 mile is the threshold at my local tracks for a roll cage
  • @robertwest3093
    Nothing I like better than a build it as cheap as you can engine build. Especially one with the goal of 10 second quarter miles. I consider buying second hand speed parts like buying a car that's a couple years old. Let the original buyer take the new price hit. You can find some great deals most of the time but every now and then you come across a seller that thinks their 5 year old used parts are somehow worth the same price as new parts (or more LOL).
  • @rickhaile2190
    Depends on your definition of cheap I guess! Your average guy does'nt have $10,000 worth of parts laying around!!!!
  • I can look at that engine and the car, and I know you are not "broke"!
  • @mcorle1
    Great vid!! What transmission is in it and what gear set do you have in the 8.5? Thanks.
  • @ratzo9063
    Thank you for the reply on the headers are your heads angle plug or steaght
  • @tomwagers6335
    Take your set up and let's see the best times you can get
  • @ratzo9063
    Im interested in going fast cheap budget builds since everything is so expensive id like to copy you engine you should to a partlist but i would build other cheap motors like a 327 it would be fun to see what yoi could build with a 305 or 307 or 283 just to be different
  • @mikebuckley5740
    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
  • @davidreed6070
    In the day the world sportsman ll was the head to have. It took work but they would make power.
  • @Comet-hn3gm
    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.
  • 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🙂👍
  • @qball1of1
    Front of the heads have a "sort of" GM style appearance..your other set as well?