i need help!!!!

im in this forum becuase nobody is responding to me in the nova one.i have a 73 nova, not ss.350ci.4 barrel carb,(500cfm)intake mani, headers, exhasut.i need helo on what i should do next to inxrease power so i can shut up these rice burners.im in high schoool and there are tons of hondas with spoilers, ther fart cans, and stickers and i need help on what i can do over the summer to shu them up(or atleast some of them)i havea job ,but cant afford a "supercahrger" or anything like that.any help would be much appreciated.thank you very much

Sorry man you are not going to shut them up. Your ride is to heavy and no matter how much power you have you have to get it moving to top speed very fast. Just make it sound great and look sharp then tell them to eat crap. You have a ride you should be proud of there rice will be dead and gone when it is over 30 years old, Again enjoy what you have.

what kinda intake do you have, you could get a bigger carb, maybe a 750 db, and a better cam

73 nova? youre gonna have to be more specific cause there's is a bunch of stuff you can do. go find past episodes of horsepower tv, the nova they built was 73 i think, anyone know?

Its A 73 Custom. I Mite Not Be Able To Shut Up The Motor Swapped Civics, But What About The Ones With The Gigantic Wings And Stickers. The Nova On Hp Tv Was A 69'. I Know Its Not Gunna Get Too Fast,but Any Help Would Be Great.thanx

dude fuck em thats what i say you have a some badass muscle i love nova's my friends actually buying one anyway just show em how big of a strip you can lay down and be like beat that bitch

hell you have a nova, look at what they have
that 350 4 barrel should wipe the floor with them
stock, do exhaust, go with the 40 series flomaster
maybe a tune up if it needs it, and if you can afford
it get a set of hooker headers. those mods should
help a lot. but what can a stock honda do? the
spoilers and their fart can exhaust can help
them, the only advantage that they have on you
is that their cars are lighter.

well you skiped one major part of making power. the cam. you can easily make alot more power with just adding a cam. you have pretty much everything else you need to make a cam swap logical. the only thing i would say though is a bigger carb too. and yeah if you make it sound good/mean they wont want to race you anymore. its gay, i drive my dads 67 malibu around that has relativly ok paint except for the odd fender that we had to put on, stock 283 and powerglide(matching numbers and all), it doesnt sounds anything other than stock but looks ok and everyone wants to race it, now my 68 chevelle that is in my sig, doesnt look the greatest, but sounds good as hell and no one wants to race it, and i can easily walk away from 95% of cars that will want to play. the only things that want to run my 68 are the faster things like WRX's and sutch, i cant even catch up with one of those until about 65MPH but then i just walk away. im running the 40 series flomasters like someone mentioned before. swap the cam and muflers and your good to go.

well you skiped one major part of making power. the cam. you can easily make alot more power with just adding a cam. you have pretty much everything else you need to make a cam swap logical. the only thing i would say though is a bigger carb too. and yeah if you make it sound good/mean they wont want to race you anymore. its gay, i drive my dads 67 malibu around that has relativly ok paint except for the odd fender that we had to put on, stock 283 and powerglide(matching numbers and all), it doesnt sounds anything other than stock but looks ok and everyone wants to race it, now my 68 chevelle that is in my sig, doesnt look the greatest, but sounds good as hell and no one wants to race it, and i can easily walk away from 95% of cars that will want to play. the only things that want to run my 68 are the faster things like WRX's and sutch, i cant even catch up with one of those until about 65MPH but then i just walk away. im running the 40 series flomasters like someone mentioned before. swap the cam and muflers and your good to go.

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Thank U Very Much Everyone. My Next Move Is Definitely Gunna Be A New Cam, From Wht Ive Been Hearing Forom U And Otheres. And Its Possible That I Might Step Up To A 650cfm Carb Or A 600 Cfm.but Anyways Thank You Vary Much.

i'd do something with those heads if they're the stock ones.

and change the rear end gears.

yeah if you have the money, your next thing should probably be the heads, if they are stock. thats pretty much the last thing engine wise you need to make some really good power.

Well, First Off, What Cam.im Thinking About Sticking Wiht Edelbrock Since I Have Edelbrock Carb And Manifold(performer Series)so I Figure Get The Performance Series Cam, But I Dotn Know Much About Cams.what Shte Lift And Shit All About. I Am Clueless On That, If Anyoe Can Help Me With That, That Would Be Great. Then About The Heads.u Mean Like Get New Like Aluminum Heads Or What. And I Dont Have Posi Rear End By The Way.not Sure If U Thought I Did Or Not.but Any Helop With Cam Info And What The Lift And Stuff Means.and What I Need With The Heads Situations.and Maybe A Ball Park Figure About Expenses.thank You Very Much For All Your Help. Sorry If Im Asking Dumb Questions,but Im Into Cars And Trying To Learn As Much As Possible.thanx

well as far as cam, there are alot to chose from. personaly i like comp cams. they have been making cams for ever and know there crap. if you wanted you can call them up and ask, they have a help line or whatever they call it, and you can call them up and tell them what you have and what you want to do and they can help pic out a cam and tell you about how much power your making. i myself am running there xtreme energy 262. its a pretty good all around cam.

as far as heads, if money is a problem you might want to stick with something like a set of vortec heads. then you would need a new intake though to fit the vortec head design. you can get them for like 500-600 complete ready to go from GM. otherwise places like scoggin-dickey part center off kits with the heads and intake and all the gaskets and everything i thinkg, and for anywhere from 700-1200 i think. http://www.sdpc2000.com/cart.asp?action=catalog_start&catid=2172
a set of those and a new cam and your looking at probably about a grand and making some good power. depending on the cam probably somewhere between 300-400HP. more or less depending on the cam and how good your engine is running.

my engine is running pretty good, i mean it only has 75K ORIGINAL miles!!!pretty sweet huh?but yah i am going to look into a cam, and then heads. thnk you 68chevelle u have helped alot. and about the posi do i need it or am i ok with out it.

umm, it kinda depends on if you have traction or not. so its probably mostly going to be decided by what cam you choose. i know i need one. if you have traction without it there is not a lot of reason to get it, but if you dont then the answer would be yes.

alright cool. and u said u had a 262 cam(comp cams) and that owuld go fine with my edlebrock carba nd intake?after i add the cam, with the exhaust, headers, carb, and intake, what kinda power am i gunna have?if u know, thanx

umm, well yeah, but mine if from the xtreme energy line. they have differnt ones like hight energy and magnum cams and stuff but i dont know if they use the same grind number for anything else(meaning the number 262). sence your asking about that cam, your kinda lucky. that is one of the cams that comp cams used in an engine and dynoed and then posted the dyno sheet on there web sight. your probably going to be a little less depending on your spacific combination, especialy heads and mabe compression. http://www.compcams.com/Technical/DynoSheets/XE262H-10_001.asp
if you notice they used the edelbrock intake and it gives the other info on what they used. i would defenetly sugjest getting a bigger carb if you do a cam swap. you should be able to figure out about how much power you would be making roughly by comparing what you have to what they ran in the dyno.

what od u mean bye compression.like how do i get better comnpression, or do i need to? how do i figure compression out??so what is the name or whatever of thta cam that they tested, iks that the 262?would a 600cfm carb be ok?yah i found the name, its is the 262, extreme hydraulic or whatever.

you could changed compression by milling the heads , getin differnt pistons . smaller head gaskets lots of things but iw ould check it first you gota get a metter(cant think of it atm)you just remove your spark plug and turn the motor from what i understand