I ran a '71 nova back in the day.  I used the same set up in it as I did in my '75 nova I have now. 900 lf spring, 1000rf spring, ~175 leafs,  as much left and rear wt as you could get (which wasn't much in my case) and around 49% cross.

The problem I had with my old nova was not handling but durability.  the ball joints and steering linkage was just more fragile on that old car.  It seemed like I was replacing a ball joint or die rod every couple of races.

CD

I think you are in the ball park.  I just ran bako a week ago for the first time in like 4 years and wasn't very competitve so may be I am not the one to take advice from. lol

You can probably get better info from some of the locals.


CD