Chevrolet Nova 1972 Super Sleeper

A faded green Nova that looks like a $500 driveway special is hiding a twin-supercharged engine that has embarrassed plenty of purpose-built race cars. Built by Wheel to Wheel Powertrain, it has been proven not just on the dyno but on real drag strips and road tours. Here is what is actually under the hood of one of the most convincing sleepers in muscle car history.

This 1972 Chevrolet Nova it’s anything but stock. From a looks perspective it’s nothing special, in fact most people wouldn’t put up $500 for this thing. Look a little deeper though and OH MOMMA! You see under its faded green paint lurks a twin supercharged LS2 that makes 1,160 hp… at the rear wheels. It epitomizes the term “sleeper”, and is lethal to just about every other road going vehicle it comes in contact with…

Underneath that faded green paint and a body that looks one bad parking job away from the scrapyard sits a secret most people would never guess from fifty feet away. This is the kind of car built specifically to be underestimated, and by the time anyone realizes what is actually happening under the hood, it is already too late to catch it. The people who have seen it run do not talk about the paint. They talk about the sound, the pull, and the moment they realized this thing was not playing around. So who builds a car this serious and then makes it look like nothing at all?

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The Build Behind the Sleeper

This Nova was built by Kurt Urban of Wheel to Wheel Powertrain for owner Dru Diesner. The engine is an all-aluminum LS2 stroked to 402 cubic inches, fitted with a dry-sump oiling system and twin Rotrex superchargers known for running unusually quiet for a forced-induction setup. On the dyno, it produced 1,160 horsepower and 825 lb-ft of torque on pump gas.

Proving It Was Not Just for Show

The car has been driven on the Hot Rod Power Tour and raced in Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags and Drag Week events. Its best recorded pass was 9.25 seconds at 148 mph at Cordova Dragway Park in Illinois, numbers that would embarrass plenty of purpose-built race cars, let alone something that still looks like a $500 driveway special.

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