985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[peester]

crickey, some pretty serious gear. So have you pinched parts off a hydraulic f17 from the corsa C cheap ebay win?

[novarally]

looks like it will fit nicely with a little work, nice! and good shout on the box, i believe BigRon on MIG has a source for round nose bearings to fit the hydraulic slaves, will ask him and let you know...

Thanks Lee, that would be some very useful information if you can find it.

[novarally]

crickey, some pretty serious gear. So have you pinched parts off a hydraulic f17 from the corsa C cheap ebay win?

Not sure if it's an F17 to be honest, it doesn't seem to be marked up with an 'F' code like the old Nova/Corsa 'boxes. But it's a small-block 'box so I can use everything in my F15 casing, so far as I can tell.

Tonight I picked up some damaged front wings from a Clio 197 Sport, I want to get the vents from the wings grafted into my wide front arches - photos to follow to explain my thinking!

[calibra-keith]

these ?

[novarally]

these ?

Photo doesn't seem to work Keith? I'm glad I'm not the only one who's having problems with Photobucket.

Here's a link to one image I found;

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cli...8&tx=158&ty=67

I don't think I have the bodywork skills to attempt the job, but I'm sure I can find someone who can.

Unfortunately the drivers side wing I got from the Clio is beyond saving, so I need to find another one of those. God knows how much they would be from Renault, just the black plastic mesh piece which goes into them is over £70 each!

[calibra-keith]

those are the ones, be interesting to see the way you do it, are you thinking flat to nova wings or similar to clio and bring that area of nova wing out abit ? if that makes sense

[novarally]

those are the ones, be interesting to see the way you do it, are you thinking flat to nova wings or similar to clio and bring that area of nova wing out abit ? if that makes sense

My Nova already has wide arch wings, and looking at them side by side with the Clio ones, the profile seems to be very similar, so I don't think it will be too difficult to achieve.

I've just done some photos so I will (try to) post them up for people's views.

[novarally]

The nearside Clio wing, pictured with the (repaired) carbon fibre wide-arch wing from my Nova;









I can't see why the vent and surround couldn't be tranplanted into the Nova wing?

The drivers side wing is not useable, as you can see;

[calibra-keith]

Something similar to this ?

[novarally]

Something similar to this ?

Yes, that looks good, although I think I would move the vent toward the rear of the wing, as it is on the Clio?