985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[Jonlem]

Sent you a email Colin.

[Benn]

Wow am loving the brake set up. Discs look huge.

[_Jake]

New brakes look very nice colin how do you get away with running rear coilovers but not having turrets? as i know you not allowed to remove metal in such areas

[novarally]

New brakes look very nice colin how do you get away with running rear coilovers but not having turrets? as i know you not allowed to remove metal in such areas

They're just small coilovers, so no metal needs to be removed. 1.9" ID springs, rather than the normal 2.25".

[novarally]

In an effort to fund my engine rebuild (just got the first part of the bill!), I need to sell a lot of stuff.

There's a batch of bits on EBAY now, search for HILLCLIMBESCORT as my User Name to find them.

Items include;

ISR 4-pot calipers
ISR floating discs and alloy bells
STACK dash display system
STACK 52mm boost pressure, fuel pressure and wide-band lambda gauges
Carbon fibre dashboard
and lots more stuff to follow soon..........

[Benn]

That lot is gonna go thru the roof^ Looking at the way it it wants me to bid...

[novarally]

It needs to go through a very high roof to cover the costs of this engine rebuild.

My 2012 crash is proving to be an extremely expensive mistake!

[Benn]

Funny, crashes at full speed arnt normally cheap....



And put it this way, the bit i thought i'd try a price on wanted more than 65 pounds....

[novarally]

Not a huge amount to report on, but I have just got the front disc bells, the rear hubs and the steering rack mounts back from the anodisers.

I had a slight re-think, and I'm now going to use the smaller diameter brakes and the 4-pot calipers, rather than the big 280mm discs and 6-pots.

The freshly coloured bells are now re-attached to the brake rotors, and look quite nice;





My latest plan is to utilise mountain bike brakes on the rear end. I will get some stainless steel brake discs laser cut to suit, and use these Hope Mono calipers.



I reckon if I use a big master cylinder, plus a pressure limiting valve, the back brakes will be doing so little work that they shouldn't overheat and self-destruct.

That's the theory anyway. The back brakes have to be functional if a scrutineer wanted to check, so as long as it can stop a back wheel turning when the car's jacked up, that's good enough.

[Benn]

Will the hope ones have enough power? I know they lock a bike wheel up but a car one is a lot heaver.