985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[novarally]

Race shuttle?

Sprint Shuttle (a little easier for the towing as I don't want to be using a juicy 4x4).

[Mike]

Sprint Shuttle (a little easier for the towing as I don't want to be using a juicy 4x4).

Oooh nice one.

[Harvey]

unfortunately the hubs are too big to fit in my friends lathe, so I need to find someone else to do that job.

http://www.derbyracingservices.co.uk

Myself and mates have used them a few times now and they are very good. They did the hub machining for Iain, drop him a note and see what he says about them.

[novarally]

http://www.derbyracingservices.co.uk

Myself and mates have used them a few times now and they are very good. They did the hub machining for Iain, drop him a note and see what he says about them.

Thanks, but I need to find someone local as we always seem to be coming up with machining jobs that need doing on mine, and various friends race cars.

Hopefully I have found the place today, I'd never heard about it before, but just a couple of miles from me there's a farm, and one of their buildings is packed full of ultra-serious machinery. The boss wasn't there when I dropped in, so I'm going back later to meet up.

[novarally]

Just got the rear hubs back this morning after having 5mm machined off them;





I'll get them re-anodised at a later date, I want to get the front alloy bells done in gold anyway, so I'll get everything done together.

In combination with trimming back the arch lip, it's allowed me to drop the back end right down, it looks miles better and should improve the corner weights/handling;

[calibra-keith]

How are the bike brakes colin, did you get the idea from autograss/spaceframed cars ?

[novarally]

How are the bike brakes colin, did you get the idea from autograss/spaceframed cars ?

I'm not 100% sure yet......the engine was running so badly at the first race meeting the brakes didn't really get stretched. The feel is OK, but I'll reserve judgement on overall performance until I get chance to do more testing.

Put it this way, I haven't sold the old Wilwoods yet. They will only go up for sale if/when I am completely happy!

[istf]

No Centering on rear hub?

[mowgli]

conical nuts... proper old school

[novarally]

Inspired by conversations at the National Weekend, and seeing an Autotest Nova at the PPC Show at Mallory Park, I decided there's still more weight to come out of the doors, so tonight I attacked the passenger one;





Including lightening the locking mechanism there's nearly half a kilo out of that door, and the same to follow from the drivers door.