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This gutted and caged Chevrolet C10 showed up to Slow Car Cash Days, a Midwest grudge racing event with an 800-horsepower wheel cap, running a small-block Chevy V8 with a comparatively simple nitrous system, and it wasn’t even turned all the way up. It still ran down dedicated race builds, leaving the crowd, and the comment section, wondering what it could do with no cap at all. Watch the runs and see why square-body owners can’t stop talking about it.
Chevrolet built just 10,100 Nova SS models for 1967, and the strongest engine on the order sheet made 275 horsepower. This one carries a 632-cubic-inch big block making four digits on the motor alone, with nitrous on top, a transbrake, and a parachute for the 160-mph shutdown. Roughly $160,000 separates the factory car from what it became.
Mark Weddle’s 1968 Camaro answers to “The Janitor,” and the nickname describes what happens to the field rather than any modesty on his part. The car has been rebuilt from a small-block-and-nitrous combination to a Torrez Performance 406 running a single Precision 106mm turbocharger, chasing consistent 5.40-second eighth-mile passes on no-prep surfaces. Here is why the turbo conversion mattered more than the horsepower number, and what a swap like that actually costs beyond the turbo itself.
A turbocharged modern Camaro and a nitrous-fed first-generation car lined up at the same Redemption 6.0 session in Tulsa, Oklahoma, finally putting decades of new-school-versus-old-school arguments to an actual test. Urban Hillbilly Videos captured the Big Tire Class run in full, unedited, letting two completely different performance philosophies settle their differences on the same strip. Read on to see which approach came out ahead.
A nitrous-fed C6 Corvette and a built-motor Subaru WRX STi put two thousand dollars on the line, and the spec sheets suggested it should not have been close. One car had displacement and a bottle. The other had all-wheel drive and a driver who knew how to use it. The result came down to a few dozen feet of pavement that no horsepower figure can account for. Read on to find out why this matchup keeps producing arguments.