Alot of big words coming from you.  

how 'bout more off the beaten path models of non-brand X marquee's? 

Where does one find a "brand X marquee?"

All the theaters in my area use name brand marquees.

1.  White Camaro - running 14's?  That is pathetic.  What's more pathetic is your hair-brained scheme to put nitrous on it and run 13's.  That sounds like something out of Bernie and Krass - or god forbid - Hot Rod (juiced and blown GTO anyone?).  I know its a project car, but $5,000 better be faster than 14's.  It really looks dumb when you have a 10-second El Camino in the issue just pages away.  What's next, bling-wheels, a wing, some subs, graphics, and more poseur-wannabe-slowpoke, don't-race-me crap?

When I first read this I thought I heard the sound of my kid crying, but it was just mirthfuldragon whining. As I understand the article, they are in the process of making the car faster, and unlike most articles of this type they are showing all the problems and misfortunes of most projects. If it was simple and cheap to build a smog legal fast car time after time then I have apparently been doing it the hard way for about 20 years now. As for the El Camino, did I miss the part about building it to 90's smog compliance for around $5,000? (you were comparing it to the 'bird, weren't ya'?)
Though I do see your point on bashing the whole let's use a car that the normal person can afford aspect (insert sarcastic smirk here).

 Disco Nova - who really own a race car?  I don't even want to imagine trying to justify that to the wife.  If the readership is anything like me, and I've been a reader for over a decade and I'm only 21, (raised on Car Craft and Hot Rod), then the project car isn't some saturday-night special race car - it's something that we can take out on the the weekends, take to the cruise night, chirp the tires around the block, annoy some neigborhs, and take to the track a couple of times per year.  Some of us, with bigger budgets and more forgiving families may even have a bad-ass street-car that REALLY scares the neigbors.  What you won't find is a pure-bred race car by any means.

Like a '91 Firebird?

Bench-Rebuilt TH350.  That is an article I could use.  Then I would learn something.  Instead you farm it out to some shop, which may have done a terrible job (water in the tranny?  WTF?).
 
You wanted them to explain the process of a transmission rebuild in a magazine article?
Buy a Chilton's repair manual and shut the hell up.

Well put, dude!

The reason for the race only approach for the Disco Nova is obvious considering the 91 Fire turd project

SMOG LAWS

There are no options to hop up a 75 single cat super crapo emissions car such as the Disco Nova.  Most car crafters trash the single cat and run dual exhaust with headers.  Well in most states this would fail you horrilby for you inspection, let alone emissions testing.

Of course they could have used a 73 Nova instead!!

Oh we can and will build high compression. Thanks D.F for turning us on to the small chamber Iron  Eagles. Been waiting for these for more than a couple of years.  

ALCHOL!!!!!GET REAL DUDE!!!!! TURBO,SUPERCHARGERS,AND ALL THE OTHER CRAP LIKE THAT IS JUST NOT FOR THE AVERAGE CC GUY OR A PURIST LIKE ME WHO BELIEVES IN NATURAL ASPIRATION AND NO SPRAY!!! YOU NEED TO GET A GRIP YOU HAVE BEEN READING WAY TOO MANY MAGAZINES AND DREAMING UP STUFF TO TALK ABOUT.......  

does the cart pull the buggy or vise versa?  

you must get left at the light alot.

and i thought that Twin turbo maro was a major bad ass machine.

I agree.

With Anderson Ford Motorsports selling "Mr. Freeze" for less than $200 and a slew of other alcohol injection systems selling for just a little more than that, I don't think alcohol injection is something beyond the scope of budget car crafting nowadays.

http://www.andersonfordmotorsport.com/mr-freeze.html

http://www.snowperformance.net/

http://www.smcenterprises.com/

http://www.coolingmist.com/categories.aspx?action=set&res=800

http://www.alkycontrol.com/

http://www.aquastealth.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=239

"**my untested theory is that really, really large amounts of N20 and boost (with alcohol and conventional intercooling) could partially compensate for the weak heads, wimpy emission-legal camshaft and plugged exhaust on a properly built short block"

Interesting theory--almost like a fuel car runs on CH3N02 (a/k/a nitromethane) with relatively minimal amounts of actual air  (AFR of approximately 1.7 pounds of air per pound of CH3NO2)--but N20 still takes a fair amount of plain old air to initiate combustion (a cubic foot of N20 has over two times the amount of oxygen as regular air, but it doesn't split from nitrogen until heated to 296 C).  Thus I suspect the point of diminishing returns (and exploding parts) would be reached fairly soon into the process.

Still, I don't see how anyone can go very fast on an emissions-legal combo without some help from power adders.

Maybe CC or HRM will "pop" a small block to test your theory.