The heart of any hot rod project is the engine and transmission. In the case of the Week To Wicked 1967 Nova, power is being provided by a remanufactured aluminum-block 6.2L LS3 engine from AutoZone.

It all started with the LS1 in the then-stupendous '97 Corvette. The engine was like nothing we'd seen before with all the go-fast theories applied from the factory. The problem, if you could call it ...