'83 Nova Saloon Side Project

[Novaloony]

Must admit, i prefer the mo's and the SR steels!

[Spudly]

MO's definately matey!

[ratboy01]

1st and 3rd ones down for me

[boffer8]

Well not updated in a while, here a few pics of the build prior to billing:

Empty bay:



New GSI rad from ebay, bargain at £38 with a £12 10" fan also



Assembling the gearbox with the changed final drive



Engine finally fully assembled



New clutch (Kevlar stage 2, awesome guys at Stage 2 Motorsport sorted me out, really good price also!) and flywheel (nice and light!)



Engine all up and bolted in, few things connected



Fuel system all piped up and wideband lambda fitted in the exhaust



Took it to the rolling road after i had completed all the work just so the carbs could have a base set up carried out to all the engine to be run in and for me to drive down to Billing and back in it.

Got to billing and all was fine a dandy, awesome trip down with 5 Nova's in a convoy.

Bit of bumper work when i got there, made a massive difference!



Couple of billing pics



On the way home though, bit of an issue



Which resulted in a lift for the lats 50 miles home :-(



So engine back out again and few alterations to be made. Issue was created due to a used (Hardened) camshaft in combination with new (soft) followers and so the wear occured allowing the follower to jump off when cruising at 65mph on the M1. Some new shiney bits ordered though and will be back together for Retro Rides :-)

Mmmmmmm Shiney new bits!!!

[cuatrolatas]

that engine looks really nice, how it runs with the weber carbs in the 1.2?

[scott.parker]

Ben is that rad fan one of them eBay jobs? They any good? How deep are they? Trying to figure out if there worth getting...

Oh good to see your getting it sorted after the post billing fail.

[blue_peg_16v]

Scott I run one never had a problem and loads of clearance for the turbo have now mounted mine on the other side of the rad though

[boffer8]

Its a 1.4 now but my old engine was a 1.2 and it ran spot on, nice 102bhp at the fly from the 1.2 and sounded awesome!

Cheers for the comments Scott, the rad is fine, no fitment issues or quality issues, was off ebay and would get another, for the price you cant go wrong!

[boffer8]

On with getting this back together this week and hopefully have her all sorted this weekend for RRG next weekend, fun times ahead!

[nova_mike]

looking pretty good mate

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