Wow!!!......How many chances does a guy get to own

[Lynn]

Still won't help you at idle!!!
But, man would you have a lot of room to plumb the thing.

[Schonyenko2]

11227 Vin ID for a 4cyl. I've seen a few.Joe had the motor out of a cranberry red 70. Sold it to Technova, a member here, and SNS. Many came with torque drive autos. Semi air cooled, manual shifted, less than powerglide. Yes, lots of room.

No open chambered AL heads on them either.

[PLATINUM6BBL]

I had a customer once tell me that after a purchase went bad on a new Challenger T/A 340-6 4spd at Stu's Chrysler/Dodge that he went and bought a new L89 70 Nova but had to settle for an automatic when he preferred the 4spd in the T/A.
Also had a neighbor when we lived in our old house that told me he bought new and ran a 70 L89 Nova in B/MP. I wish I had the video's from Newbie Dragway that Bill Thompson had once loaned me so I could see some of these cars that would of run there.

[Schonyenko2]

I chased one down in Moline that was bought new with 842 heads. As soon as it was unloaded off the trailor before delivery, they changed the heads from cast iron, to 842s. So the story was, it was a factory piece. I've ran across two others like that, but no sent from the factory cars. Guess we'll have to wait for that dead bang documentation, and original owner confirmation.

[brent396]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1970-nova...=item4d0aba69e3

[markjohnson]

Many people don't realize that Novas (for several years) were available with four different engine family options: 4-cyl, 6-cyl, SBC, BBC. That's pretty unique. Can anybody think of another car that did the same?

[markjohnson]

Also, those 4-cylinder Novas are actually very hard to find these days because that particular engine was popular in some kind of midget dirt track roundy-round car and the motors were always scooped up quickly out of junkyards.

[kwhizz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I chased one down in Moline that was bought new with 842 heads. As soon as it was unloaded off the trailor before delivery, they changed the heads from cast iron, to 842s. So the story was, it was a factory piece. I've ran across two others like that, but no sent from the factory cars. Guess we'll have to wait for that dead bang documentation, and original owner confirmation.</div></div>

I would say that this is where these cars fell out of the sky from........But.....as time passes......They become &quot;Real&quot;.......

[Schonyenko2]

Hense the term, &quot;urban legend&quot;.

Mark, I believe those 4cyls were called iron dukes as they could be bored way out, and were almost indestructable.

[olredalert]

I had two Iron Dukes in one of my boats, but yanked them for two small-blocks. They are relatively bullet proof!!!.......Bill S