December '01 feature car

[JoeC]

Pete, Does your Nova have the rear sway bar? I wonder if the Hurst has something to do with Yenko's 9737 COPO number.

[Casey Marks]

Interesting stuff guys !!!

The 3412 is kinda interesting for my car too. Mine weighed in at 3636 in Stanton, with my 165# lard-ass in the seat. That puts the car at right around 3471. Not bad ........

[COPO PETE]

Joe: Yes the car came with and still has the rear sway bar.
Peter
Also the number on my GM micro film shows 9010 BE and 9737AA. Is there a different version of the 9737 as in 9737BA? or something like that???

[Edited by COPO PETE (12-06-2001 at 02:21 PM).]

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Pete;
I will check my copy of Yenko's order form to GM for the Yenko Deuces, he listed both COPO's on the form but I don't remember if he listed the suffix letters.
M

[68l30]

Marlin,all I have on that photo is car #134 and I believe a AHRA decal on the rear Qtr.Sorry no help on the class.


Steve

[Rowdy Rat]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><HR>The Corvette incidently came with a 355hp factored from the NHRA (370hp from the factory) and an 8.89 pounds per horsepower factor. But, they also listed a 350 Corvette with a factory 350hp rating that carried an NHRA factored 370hp, and an 8.65 pounds per horsepower.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There was a post on the CorvetteForum board recently where someone found an NHRA rulebook from 1972 and posted the factored horsepower for Corvette engines. The 1970 LT-1 Corvette engine (350/370) was factored to 400 horsepower (for the 1972 racing season at least).

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=194037

The 355 horsepower figure seems awfully low for a 1970 LT-1... Misprint maybe?

Regards,

Stan Falenski

[Edited by Rowdy Rat (12-08-2001 at 09:39 AM).]

[Chevy454]

Stan:

This is the current NHRA rating of the LT-1. It lists the 355hp rating for the Corvette and the Camaro, in more than 1 place, so it doesn't look to be a misprint.

Now, as it turns out, I was over at the Super Stock site in the chat room, and was asking about what class the Nova might have been in. A couple of them mentioned that they new of a Camaro or 2, running the LT-1s, and they weren't too impressed with the combo. Said that it wasn't under the index, so they were curious about the Nova as well.

As best as I can tell, the NHRA ratings have fallen over the years. Remember, it was NHRA who rated the L-72 at 450hp for a while, but now it's down to 425hp. We've got several old NHRA rule books somewhere, so I will see if I can dig them out and see what's in them.

The NHRA site has some really interesting stuff on it, and is worth the time to dig for the info.

[Note: when looking for info, make sure which specs you are getting. The NHRA posts both "Stock" and "SuperStock" ratings/factors, and they are VERY different!]


[Edited by Chevy454 (12-08-2001 at 10:08 AM).]