Panel Lightening

[chimp007_uk]

Hi everyone,

I've decided to take my nova off the road and purely use it or trackdays. Going to look out for a full cage and fit the R1 carbs i'm picking up today :D

I want to lighten the shell as much as poss... Boot, doors, bonnet(?) etc

Anyone got advice and pics?

Thanks all,

Chris

[NovaLad]

Fiberglass Panels?

[burgo]

^^^ is the best way to go but for the cheap option you basically chop as much of the insides and frame out as you dare

[chimp007_uk]

Would love to go fibreglas... But just no an option atm :(

Cheers for the hint Burgo :) I was wonder what extent whitout making the panels too weak or dangerous

[EUROTURBO]

just cut the door frames, rear quaters, tailgate insides back as far as you can to the edge of the internal frames.the stiffness comes from the skin edge mainly and will only slightly be affected by taking these out.

But yea id say fibreglass too, but if its not an option, hack away...!

[burgo]

well i assume you will be having door bars? if so completely gut the door out, bonnet you can cut away pretty much all the strengthening bar the stuff along the front if you know what i mean. the tailgate you can butcher and it'll be fine

[BIGS]

Just look though this

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61599

[nova ian]

Im in the same boat, not really got the cash for fibreglass pannels atm so went for the chop out unwanted metal approach

Bonnet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/cruisindude/nova/DSCN2297.jpg

Doors (Note that you can only do this if your going to run polycarb windows and dont need the winder mechanism)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/cruisindude/nova/DSCN2287.jpg

Boot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/cruisindude/nova/DSCN2261.jpg

Also to loose abit more weight get a holesaw on the case too! :thumb:

[burgo]

thats a poor effort on the boot ian. plenty more to chop out of that

[nova ian]

thats a poor effort on the boot ian. plenty more to chop out of that
:( I'm sorry Burgo,

However my excuse is I want to keep abit of weight over the light backend ;) lol

[burgo]

get a real nova then ;)

[chimp007_uk]

ladies...

Thanks for the pics! I'm only runnign a half cage atm, looking for a full cage though. It was more bonnet and boot, and what i could get away with! Going to be fitting a bonnet vent for the carbs as well. Chavtastic lol