You don't hang around good work
You don't hang around good work
Glad to hear the car is coming back together, sounds like quite a shunt although any shunt in a nova tends to finish it off so glad to hear it is atleast repairable.
Holy sh1t Colin well done for not ramping the thing over, if it was a LHD you might have had a lot more to repair.
It's always a funny situation when driving & all you can see out of the windscreen is the ground below ;O
Got the T45 tube bent up today to form the front spaceframe, so that can be welded into place now.
All the rose joints and fittings have been ordered for making the new TCA's, tie bars and steering arms.
The revised, lightweight rear beam is now back from the blasters, and freshly painted in a nice shade of pink primer.
I'm after an Irmscher rear spoiler, or a fibreglass/carbon fibre GTE Mk.1 spoiler if anyone knows of anything. I had arranged to buy an Irmscher one, but I appear to have been let down by the seller.
We started dismantling the engine, and are thinking about a different camshaft for it. But before deciding on that, I want to find out what camshaft is in there at the moment - see my post in 'Mechanical' in case there are any 8v Vauxhall camshaft specialists on here..........
CT Turbos have rung me to say my repaired turbo unit is ready to be collected, and they also informed me that the wastegate has never shut, because the actuator rod was wrongly adjusted (presumably by the people I bought the turbo from). So for 2 years I've been racing it with a lot of lag that shouldn't be there.
To contact me please use E-MAIL to colinesmith@aol.com.
thousands of Nova (plus other Vauxhall and motorsport parts) available.
It's gonna be a totally different animal once all back together.
Would you not want to run some sort of bespoke carbon wing on top of the tailgate rather than a larger MK1 GTE item?
Not allowed in our rules, only standard fit stuff is accepted.Originally Posted by BRoadGhost
To contact me please use E-MAIL to colinesmith@aol.com.
thousands of Nova (plus other Vauxhall and motorsport parts) available.
another update for you colin,
the new bottom arm's have been mocked up along with the tie bars
and the new space framed front is ready to be cut and fitted.
also the new rear ARB design is finished, looks like i'm in for a long weekend
pics pics pics!
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Ahh thought that might be the case. From what i'm aware of the GTE spoiler is fairly efficient for what it is.
Does standard fitment stuff not rule out carbon/fibreglass copies as you could make them slightly different?
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