I swear, I watched this video several times, trying to see if someone dubbed over the audio of a well-built rotary motor over a Chevy Nova’s dragstrip run, and for the life of me, if it was, they nailed everything, including the tachometer reading. This, friends, is a rotary-powered Chevrolet Nova. Not a small-block, certainly not a big-block, not even a weirdo turbo six cylinder one…this Nova is Dorito-powered and is hustling pretty well. One can only assume that this X-car was built as revenge for the legions of LS-swapped RX-7s out there, or maybe this guy just felt like infuriating a huge amount of people all at once on the strip…we don’t know. What we do know is that the front end comes up, that the turbo is working, and that this thing shrieks like a ripsaw on nitrous. What do you think…is it cool and interesting, or would you get your torch and pitchfork ready?
What an engine swap!
Good rotaries can make over 600bhp when properly tuned and weigh less than the equivalent V8. So fitting one in such a large-bodied car makes a lot of sense and judging by the torque-twisting wheelie at the start its getting the power down where its needed.
More rotary swaps please – I’d like to see a rotary Corvette run in Pro Mod with a 1200 plus horsepower Curran Brothers motor in it.
Wouldn’t care if the car ran 8’s in the 1/4, they sound like shit and always give me a headache listening to them.
Rotary powerd Nova? Thats a real WTF frankenstein engine swap.
My mum could shift better.
I’d like to know how many sections the motor in this Nova has. From what I understand, you can stack or add rotors as you wish. So instead of just two, you can have three, four, five…………
Like mentioned above, Its impressive but that sound is a deal breaker. I’d rather run 14s in a good sounding V8
Kill it with Fire!!!