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Nice to see updates Coiln, so do you reckon you'll get to abuse your Nova this year and if so where at?
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A Vectra C in the local breakers yard kindly donated its cable gearchange set-up, which I attached to a spare F10 'box to try out;
It seems to work rather nicely, so I shall now start trial fitting it in my Nova. There's a lot of stuff around my gearbox turret which may need relocating, water pipes, header tank, oil recirculation tank are all contesting the limited space in that area.
This is the old gear linkage I removed;
When I look at that I can't help thinking it's no surprise that the change quality is poor, the route it has to follow with straight rods is so convoluted and indirect. Plus it has to go through a bulkhead tube with a nylon bush at each end. The potential for wear and misalignment must be huge.
I'm hoping that cables are the way to go.
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Ultimately the weak point is the 4 mount points on the lever housing itself; you wanna fill that with as much tigerseal / solid bush it as possible. IMO you want it further back than I have it here, but the handbrake then must be relocated. The vauxhall cables are long & the route will determine how good / if at all it works; I went bottom right under the rack next to the clutch pedal to allow them to come up over a greater distance.
If you want f off & die precision (not that it really needs it) you can go RJ if you do the work, this then however puts a greater strain on the shifter mount points (weak link becomes weaker...)
I'd recommend a mod of the gate to ease 3rd into 2nd & just getting into 1st generally else you'll fuss with how precise you have to be ~ you can do it to 5th also with no ill effects.
Thank-you Broadghost, very useful photos and information.
No handbrake at at all in my car, so nothing to worry me there.
Is is that a Vectra gear lever housing you're using? I've been told that the Astra H one has a shorter throw. Maybe other models are the same.
Have you done done anything to modify the throw on yours? I have an Astra H road car and the throw between each gear shift seems a long way.
Your gearbox turret is different to mine, what car did that come from?
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I'd focus mainly then on optimising shifter location in the car meaning the cables have a good route.
Yes; I have also shortened the gear lever above the pivot point (maybe 25MM) and below (about 8MM); makes it short as you'd expect. ~ Below pivot shortening only effects up down motion not side to side.
You are right in spotting the other design of turret, but I have removed counterweights & reworked it so cables bolt up. I have had the plastic end pop off shifting hard (didn't ever want this again!) It's from a 2002 Vectra as I'm aware. TBH most important thing is all moving parts are oiled to F. Turret is internally sprung to return as is the shifter, I've just taken the spring off my shifter as it felt too strong returning & hindered 3rd into 2nd.
Nice set up BRG.
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Does anyone have a tubular exhaust manifold for the 16v small block which isn't made by BTB or Tony Law?
if they do I'd be interested in borrowing/seeing photos of it installed in terms of sump clearance.
Thanks.
I'm still working on the cable gear change conversion, that is also being complicated by the fact that my engine has been lowered in the bay.
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