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Treasure Trove: This Collection Of Donovan 417 Heads, Blocks, And Assorted Parts Is A Steal (and Amazing!)

It’s funny how fickle racing tends to be. One day you’re Ed Donovan, a visionary who created the first true aftermarket drag racing engine in the early 1970s. Up until Donovan came out...

Novakill: NASCAR-Powered, 9,400 RPM Nova From Hell On The Burnout Pad

Looking at all of the footage from Summernats 33, it’s easy to think that you are on another planet with the amount of smoke from the bushfires in the air. The daylight is orange, the haze...

Nova Monster: Steve Spiess Has A 565ci, Twin-Turbo Ford Boss Engine In His Chevy And It Flies – Drag Week Car!

Steve Spiess is a bad ass. In the event you do not know who tis guy is, he’s knocked down championships in the world of IHRA mountain motor pro stock, he has started, grown, and sold companies,...

Classic Dash Adds AEM CD-5 Digital Dash To The Digital Dash Lineup For Camaro, Nova, And Civics!

We love the Classic Dash insert in our 1987 Chevrolet pickup, and have used them in a variety of rides over the years, but when they came out with their Digital Dash series of inserts that house...

It Might Only Have 153 Cubic Inches, But This Survivor 1969 Chevrolet Nova Is An Ultra Bad Ass Ride That I Want!

I don’t think that owning a 1969 Chevrolet Nova, with only 153 cubic inches under the hood, is on anyone’s bucket list, but I sure do think that in this case it is ultra cool. With just...

The Starting Shift: A Gear Banging Pass in A Clutchless Five Speed Nova!

We’re freaking BangShift so we need to start our week with manual transmission violence, damn it! We’re getting back on the horse with a good one here. This is a Chevy Nova driven by a...

Rough Start: 1976 Oldsmobile Omega – Mostly Camaro, Kind Of Nova, Plenty Of Potential!

It’s small wonder that I like Olds Omegas…I grew up in one. We had the 1975 with the bent-nose, a Chevy straight-six, and the cool floor-shift automatic. My brother and I rode in the...

A Diesel Stroker That Isn’t A Cummins: Innovative Thinking And Machine Work Make This 383cid Power Stroker Fly

Normally when we talk about stroked diesel engines around here, we’re talking about Cummins inline six power plants. There are multiple options out there on the market for stretching the...

A Culture of Competition, Innovation, and Winning: Steve Matusek Talks About Aeromotive’s Success

There are certain people in any industry that are easy to look up to. They are successful in their business, they are successful outside of it, and they take the time to lend a hand, an ear, or...

Finnegan And David Get The Nova Back Up And Running. Or Do They? And Why Doesn’t It Have Doors?

Mike Finnegan and David Newbern both made it through Drag Week 2018 but not without hurting a lot of stuff. In fact, David’s 1971 Nova finished the week with a different engine than it started...

Door Slammed: Watch The Zombie Wagon Get Into The Side Of A Nova At Bradenton Motorsports Park

When it comes to drag racing craziness, we’re thankful that two car incidents are a relative rarity in the sport. Yes, we see them in videos like this but the reality is that seeing two cars...

The Parting Shift: Ripping A 4-Speed Lenco In An 8-Second Single Turbo Small Block Nova

As much as the world is fully on board the LS train, it should be noted that there are PLENTY of other great ways to make obscene horsepower these days and the tried and true, 23-degree headed small...

Watch Jader Krolow Use All The Wheel And Every Inch Of Track To Run 6.60s at 218 In His Brazil Based Nova!

Sometimes I watch people drive race cars and wonder where they get the guts to do what they do. Where they get the guts to make those split second decisions that determine whether the run will be a...

Cause Who Doesn’t Need A Nova Wagon Gasser In Their Garage?

We think everyone should have one! Just look at this thing! Sure we’d do some more stuff to it, but it sure is a hell of a start to the project. The nicely fabricated rectangle tube front clip...