quaife straight cut box into the nova

[fearless]

Pics sent via email Matt - let us know how you get on

Dave

[John]

stunning chap, love it!

[Adam]

Stunning indeed, i like how the bay, even with the let fitted, still looks simple, clean and well laid out.

[matthew172]

thanks guys,
adam, ive just tried to keep everything as tidy and neat as poss, its a tight squeeze but im happy with how everything fits in now

dave, thanks very much for the pics thats a massive help, my new inserts are the same as yours apart from they have 5/8 unf thread, ive just got the parts ordered for it now

[matthew172]

well ive been having some problems with the front suspension just recentley due to one of the decarbon inserts leaking and also not allowing full travel, so i thought oh well ill just get myself a new insert, not just quite as easy as that though was it !!

decarbon no longer make inserts, so i got myself 2 new 270/120 bilstein inserts only to find out the top mount area was completley different to my old decarbon ones in that the part where the top cap sits is a d shape instead of just round and the threads were a 5/8 unf thread instead of my old m12 size so my top mount/cap werent just going to fit straight on to the new inserts hassle free

so anyway after thinking about what the best way to go about it i decided to ditch the 4" dia spring setup in favour of some 2.25" ones as they are more readily available in different lengths and rates and i could buy the top cap and 5/8 unf nut off the shelf to fit my bilstein inserts

so here are the new parts


i bought 2 new lower spring seats too as you can see in the pic but i then found out the pilbeam strut bodies have a unique 2mm thread pitch unlike all the normal ones that have a1.5mm thread pitch so i gave hockly a call and he told me he wasnt aware of anywhere that would have any on the shelf with the correct thread size but he could make me a set as a 1 off at £70 + vat + carriage!!!

so i took my wide platforms to my local fabricator guy to see if there was any way of utilzing them for the 2.25" springs, there was and this is how ive adapted them to work

as they were in std form


machine up a collar to sit in the centre to provide a flat surface for the spring to sit on like so




spring sits nice and snug inside the seat




and built up

[Old man Jimbo]

Your hands are so butch and yet look so soft..

Touch me with them....


Your bits look nice too....fnar..

[Benn]

Christ that's some work on the shocks, great job with the platform tho. Like how the springs sit in them.

[njc11]

Not been on here for quite some time!! Still see the same people are are busy tweaking there novas!!

Matthew... What can I say! Awesome! Improved an already amazing car!

Not missing my old car, simply wouldnt have the time to do anything to it other than drive it, if I had kept it who knows what I'd have done! Same situation as DIY Dave I reckon.... Sit there for years untouched !

Let me know what shows your going to in this beast and I'll try my hardest to come and have a gander!
Cheers
Nick

[krobinson]

Looking forward to seeing this at Billing

[Joe Richardson]

hooligan car , very nice