68 Motion Preped Nova

[brent396]

GO over to steves nova site a motion 68 chevy ii spoted look at the facts http://www.stevesnovasite.com/forums...d.php?t=143825

[427TJ]

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I don't think there is any hard and fast rule you can apply. I suspect there were customers who may have had their 396 warmed over with a cam, intake carb and such. There are also cars which probably had ther short blocks switched out for 427s. I also think there were pleny of L88 conversions.



I read a comment about this engine pic still having exhaust manifolds on it. Probably isn't a pic of a Nova. Also noted is the fact that the 396 option was not available till after this article was written. I guess if that is the case, any early 68 Chevy II 427 Motion cars probably were full engine swaps from a small block car.

I don't know how long it took form ordering a car to delivery. Don't think Baldwin/Joel would have calculated to take orders and wait for the 396 option to become available. From a salesman's perspective I would either "up-sell" the customer into a BB Camaro or "up-sell" into converting a SB Chevy II.

All these points changed each year, so again- no hard and fast rules.

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I have several of these S&S and Cars magazines with B-M articles and I'd bet that engine photo was used several times in several B-M articles. I think it's the photo of the very first 427 Camaro conversion's engine--the Tahoe Turquoise car that was a 350 to start with. Maybe that helps explain the manifolds and manual MC? I'll go dig out my copy with the original 427 Camaro article if you want.

[Plowman]

The color photo of the engine with exhaust manifolds is interesting. Oversparay on the intake. How did Joel source that engine? Is it a 396 or 427?

Pretty sure a CE enigne came without paint, and most of the time without an intake or exhaust manifolds.