Today

[Rick Draper]

First of all big thanks to Turbo Gav for trailering my nova down to London and putting up with me, and to Mark, the lads at the rolling road and Steve milton for all his calls and concern at the issues.
Early start this morning at 6am:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3561.jpg
Down in london:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3563.jpg
On the rollers:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3564.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3566.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3574.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3570.jpg
Gav Working!:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3573.jpg
Final figure after issues:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3575.jpg
Little video:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/th_CIMG3572.jpg (http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/?action=view&current=CIMG3572.flv)
A site i am getting used to seeing lmao:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3576.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3577.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3578.jpg
Back home:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3579.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3580.jpg

[Rick Draper]

Been here before:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3581.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3582.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3583.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3584.jpg
That would be the issue then:
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3590.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3589.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3595.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3591.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/Draper1981/CIMG3599.jpg
Valves will be ordered on monday morning and the head sent back to steve for a check over.
Worse things happen at sea, got some areas to improve the engine in and i will be working away again.

[novacabrio]

Chin up son! Rome wasn't built in a day!

[Rexy]

shut the bonnet, and put a 1.2 in it...

[NovaBoi92]

what engine is it in that?

[twistysnovagte]

my god that is such a awsome looking car.and awsome power figures to go with it!must be one of the powerfulist novas out there???is that through the front wheels???.mate you have been blessed with such a beautiful car awsome right up there with the best of them.

[Lee H]

Its a Calibra/Cav turbo lump (C20LET) with quite a few go faster bits on. Car is still front wheel drive. Sounds like there is more power to come.

[NovaBoi92]

o rite what mods can u do to make it up to 432 bhp then

[Breeny]

Chip, filter and zorst innit ;)

Unlucky Rick, I'm so gutted for you :( Glad to hear you're not giving up though, you'll get there eventually!

[TWAG]

what happened then?

[burgo]

did you say it made 430 after the valves fooked??? that turbo comes in strong aswell dont it

[R1CH]

Unlucky fella, 3rd time lucky ???
Who's been spec'ing / building the engine ? I'm not wanting to come across all negative but your obviously doing something wrong (2 engines gone tits up !!), fair doo's there isn't really anybody out there thats made that kind of power so you are kinda being the 'guinee pig' but for 2 to fail before its even been mapped !?!?!
I'm sure your probly a bit pi**ed with it at the minuet, but hope your gonna get it sorted again and on the road (abit quicker than last time hopefully tho).

Sh*t happens, it could've been worse !!
lol

[novacabrio]

Chip, filter and zorst innit ;)

Unlucky Rick, I'm so gutted for you :( Glad to hear you're not giving up though, you'll get there eventually!

You missed the ebay electric super charger

[Jim]

Unlucky Rick, hopefully things will be sorted soon.

[Stoo]

not a bad figure for a failure though

what exactly went worng then?

[Rick Draper]

Valve began to fail due to det. We believe it was damaged before it made it onto the rollers but there is no way of knowing. Will be making some decisions with spec this week.

[Stoo]

gutted

waht spec were the valves? and how come it was being run under heavy load with det?

surely that should have been sorted before it was loaded

[Rick Draper]

As close to a possible diagnosis as we will ever get is the one i have now thanks to Steve and the chap looking at my head. Its believed that it was down to catastrophic valve failure possibly due to a faulty valve however this is as close as we could ever get to a true diagnosis. There was no damage at all to the other exhaust valve on that cylinder. Looks like i have just been very unlucky once again but you win some and you loose some.

New cams have been sorted, valve pockets are been checked in the pistons for clearence with the new cams.

Valves are made of 214T.