Hi, guys, I am Stefan, some of you know me from the Vauxhall Nova Facebook page where I have been buying and searching a lot of parts for my 2 Novas.
Little bit of history, bare with me, I will try to be brief. I moved to UK to study Automotive & Motorsports Engineering in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire and throughout my years there I learnt a lot about the industry, spent a placement year at Helical Engineering near Blackpool as an applications engineer and bought and brought a lot of parts for my Novas in Bulgaria.
Now graduated and back in Bulgaria I finally managed to put together my first (rotten really) Nova GSi and finally start racing with it after dreaming about this for almost 5 years.
Here is the Nova I bought, it is a 1991 GSi Irmscher C16SEi engine (It uses Bosch Motronic 1.5, I do not think you had these in UK)
It is a Corsa A here of course but that don't matter now.
Little did I know how rotten it was
That should be solid :D
If you are interested, I will go on with details on the restoration.
Ended up with a new front end with turrets
And hit the track on 12th of September this year
I did not know that I can wind down the GAZ Coilovers at the back to make ET49 wheels fit, so I fitted ET30 7J 15" inch wheels and in order to avoid rubbing the car was set up very high. The car is also poly bushed with Powerflex all round, GAZ Coilovers all round, 256x20mm front brakes, Engine is fitted with a C26NE throttle body (63mm) , AFM from C20NE and lightweight flywheel of 4.1 kg. Also fitted GTE body kit on it as I want to keep the GSi one spare for the other Nova.
Our first race was horrible, there was too much air going in and not enough fuel and the engine was very sluggish so finished last in both 1.6 N/A and 2.0 N/A class, the alternator broke down so we got on our way back to the garage and after I parked it starter gave up as well.
Will continue in the next post.