nova rear beam fits early corsas apparantly?!

[The Simps]

A mate of mine has taken my disc beam i had up for sale to try on his corsa. Apparantly they fit on early corsa's (pre R reg). Should know for sure later in the week but just wondered if anyone knew the answer?

[Adam]

Corsa have a wider track,thus a wider beam

[novasrikev]

arnt they 2 inches wider?

[The Simps]

thats whta I thought but apparantly the earlier ones might be different! shall know by the end of the week!

[Graeme]

I've tried fitting a Nova beam to a p plate corsa and it didn't fit it was fifty mm too narrow, but I'll stand corrected if he manages it

[mowgli]

considering that a nova is an early corsa, I'm guessing its a parts book error

[Benn]

No chance, hub end to hub end the corsa is over 40mm wider.

[Mike]

Was going to say! Not a chance in hell a Nova rear beam will fit!!!

BUT, Corsa Beams DO fit on 106's believe it or not :thumb:

[mowgli]

Corsa Beams DO fit on 106's believe it or not :thumb:

please explain why you would do it......

[DW-Nova]

/\ What are you being serious ? theyre absolutley completley different, i sure hope your taking the piss ? everything is different, the only place you'll fit on on a 106 is in the boot !

[brucer]

are they bolted through the boot floor like 306s?? but if they do fit would be the first upgrade you would do as the 106/306 or could be pug in general have shxt beams/bearings.

[The Simps]

Well his is an L reg I believe so only time will tell now!!

I would have thought all corsa' shell would be the same but he was telling me that his made had an early L/M reg shell and got a beam off a newer corsa B and it wouldn't line up for toffee thats when they found out there different!

[Mike]

please explain why you would do it......

To run tubbed rear archs for immense travel rear coilovers on rally cars :thumb:

[Mike]

/\ What are you being serious ? theyre absolutley completley different, i sure hope your taking the piss ? everything is different, the only place you'll fit on on a 106 is in the boot !

So yeah there completly different. And? Only the same as fitting an XE in a Mk2 Escort really.

No, im not taking the pish.

[16v Nova Kev]

So yeah there completly different. And? Only the same as fitting an XE in a Mk2 Escort really.

No, im not taking the pish.
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[The Simps]

doesn't fit! lol

[draper]

o rly


lol

[DW-Nova]

Well anything will fit anything it just depends on how much work your prepared to do hey, i just thought you were implying something stupid like they are a easy swap. To be honest i think you'd be better off spending all the time to make another axle fit instead of a corsa/nova one after all they are very crude, surley you'd be better off fitting something like a multilink setup with loads of adjustment.

[The Simps]

I wasn't claiming anything. ;)

A mate new I was selling my disc'd beam and asked if he could try it on his corsa because he'd heard they fit the early corsa's. I thought it was a long shot aswell but worth a check.