<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tommy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think they are night and day, LT1's rock and the L79's are junk! JK of course, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
</div></div> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> It's kinda like a prehistoric Yenko Deuce! Anyway, I would have loved to turn it into a Pure Stock car and seen just how fast it would have been capable of. It would have been a great race between a '68 Nova L-79 vs. '70 Yenko Deuce LT-1.</div></div>
I'd like to see it too! That L79 would probably suck the stripes off that Primer colored car when it motored on by [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
Tommy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>
Ahhhh Grasshopper! We all wish the same, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
Food for thought, just my recollection from my time at the Pure Stock Drags.
A truly stock LT1 Nova is easily capable of running very low 13's without headers, traction bars or slicks - just ask Pete Simpson. My own shiny-primer Deuce has run 13.5's at near 106mph with a rookie driver, tired leafs, air shocks and a few spring clamps: there is plenty more left in my own car!
A truly stock L79 Nova might pull a mid 13 with a Pete Simpson tune. I'm suggesting that not because of Neal's L79 Nova that he ran at the pure stocks, bec quite frankly that car was the furthest thing from stock (it had some 600+ lift roller cam in it, talk about idle quality [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] ), Neal's best time that weekend was 13.09 I believe, close box, 4.56 gear. I'm rather suggesting that because of what I believe was a truly stock L79 Chevelle that was running in the low 14's possibly high 13's. Factor out the weight diff and an L79 Nova is good for mid 13's.
Now, if someone were to throw down and lay out a LT1 Nova vs. L79 Nova....... that would be fun, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]