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    Quote Originally Posted by novarally View Post
    Once again I’m back to looking at the possibility of having centrelock wheels. I’ve found someone with the engineering capability do it at a sensible price, just need to borrow one of the appropriate size wheels and check that I can get it to clear everything.

    These are the wheels in mind;

    https://www.motorsport-tools.com/evo...-lock-set.html
    I want to do this on the nova aswell

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    i had the same throttle body setup many years ago,

    i just used the same method as sbd use for the C20xe cable..

    like this but made a different bracket.

    much more simple than a jenvey linkage.


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    What front hubs are you using?
    how extortionate would it be to have some made from titanium?

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    Quote Originally Posted by stt View Post
    What front hubs are you using?
    how extortionate would it be to have some made from titanium?
    At the moment, standard ones.

    Magnesium and billet aluminium is common for manufacturing uprights on race cars, titanium much less so. I was quoted £1500 each for custom aluminium ones.

    I shudder to to think how much that would rise for titanium.
    To contact me please use E-MAIL to colinesmith@aol.com.

    thousands of Nova (plus other Vauxhall and motorsport parts) available.

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    Quote Originally Posted by novarally View Post
    I shudder to to think how much that would rise for titanium.
    Our ones at work, for this years car are around £12k a corner. All made on site aswell.

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    Have you gone into how much each gram of weight saving has cost you?
    I guess £1500 for a significant weight loss of un sprung mass isn’t too horrific once you’re chasing the ultimate gains

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    Quote Originally Posted by stt View Post
    Have you gone into how much each gram of weight saving has cost you?
    I guess £1500 for a significant weight loss of un sprung mass isn’t too horrific once you’re chasing the ultimate gains
    I haven't done those calculations.

    Right now now I don't have the money to develop things to that level, I need to get the car out on track and see how it performs, then I'll decide where to go next.
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    thousands of Nova (plus other Vauxhall and motorsport parts) available.

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    Have you seen ‘aubrey_boy’ mini build on turbo minis? It’s a really interesting project on weight saving and a superb project.
    Im getting too old for spending ages on forums and there are only a few builds I follow now (this being one) but it’s well worth a read
    http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/i...=vt&tid=479642

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    Quote Originally Posted by stt View Post
    Have you seen ‘aubrey_boy’ mini build on turbo minis? It’s a really interesting project on weight saving and a superb project.
    Im getting too old for spending ages on forums and there are only a few builds I follow now (this being one) but it’s well worth a read
    http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/i...=vt&tid=479642
    I am a member on Turbo Minis, but I haven't looked at the build threads.

    I will look at that one though, thanks for the tip off.
    To contact me please use E-MAIL to colinesmith@aol.com.

    thousands of Nova (plus other Vauxhall and motorsport parts) available.

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    Hope it doesn’t distract you too much reading it. It certainly shows the snowballing of a project.

    the only problem I have reading all these builds is it highlights how poor my ability is!

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