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i remember a black nova from a few years back with two lets in it doers anyone know if theres any vids on youtube of it iove been searching but i cant find any
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=boost+beast&aq=f
stevie-p
01-05-09, 08:37 PM
just type boostbeast
what ever happen this car?
isnt it the regal one? seem to manage one 'ok' run at pod, then blow an engine or something up, always seems to break and run crap times anyway
Yeah its the regal one but iirc they didnt build it they bought it once done and claimed it to be their own work?
Also remember it getting trounced on a jeremy clarkson vid on the quarter mile with a time like 16+ seconds, which always comfused me as it supposedly has a 0-60 time of something like 2.83seconds so rough working out says terminal speed on a quarter is usually about 100mph shoudnt it be able to manage a quarter in about 6-8 seconds then?
sulphur
02-05-09, 10:17 AM
There's vids on youtube of it running high 7, 8s. Sounds nice:)
Here's a few from last year:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/Cars/CIMG3590_Small.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/Cars/CIMG3587_Small.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/Cars/CIMG3588_Small.jpg
Saloony
02-05-09, 10:26 AM
Yeah its the 'not built by regal but blows up and fcuks up like regals work' one. Yet still people use them, never work that out.
dj_wudgey
02-05-09, 10:41 AM
no id not go to regal myself id be going courtney autosport all the way if i had a big block nova!!
id build it myself, even easier lol
can you get any more pics of the gear linkage? would be handy to see how the rears done
some german outfit built it & had it registered over here cos the germans wouldn't allow it....
That would explain it being a left hooker then too lol
sparkie1401
02-05-09, 01:51 PM
wasnt that the cosvaux nova?
novalicous
02-05-09, 01:52 PM
i think ive got an old fastcar/redline/revs mag with it featured
if i find it ill scan the pics up
i've never understood the fascination with twin engines.
a 4 litre v8 with a decent gearbox driving both ends would be a much better setup. something like the old metro 6r4. if i managed to win big lotto money, i'd try & make one
im not arsed about the twin engines as i think the car would be quicker with just one big bhp lump.(seeing as one of the engines always seems to kill its self at PODlol . i just need to see how the gear linkage is done for the rear gearbox:D
blue_peg_16v
02-05-09, 02:47 PM
no id not go to regal myself id be going courtney autosport all the way if i had a big block nova!!
it would have to be a zlet then as courtney wont touch xes and lets now due to there age
or even an LEH lump which seem to like the bigger power :D
I wouldnt goto lageR or courtenays or TMS if they were the last tuners on earth.
http://www.opel-specials.de/boostbeast.htm
it was built by a company in germany and then registered by regal over here i beleave. not 100% tho
im not arsed about the twin engines as i think the car would be quicker with just one big bhp lump.(seeing as one of the engines always seems to kill its self at PODlol . i just need to see how the gear linkage is done for the rear gearbox:D
there was a bloke who stuck an astra 1.8 in the back of a nova ages back, and it had an article in CCC mag. it was dead easy. you know the shifter box on the top of the gearbox, the shaft gets removed, and the front of the shifter box is cut off then the box is machined to take the same seal as the other side. then the shaft is fitted from the other side. then you fit a uj & a straight tube to the gearstick, which has the rod modified to stick out the back.
Saloony
02-05-09, 06:14 PM
I wouldnt goto lageR or courtenays or TMS if they were the last tuners on earth.
We should do our own stu.. with me working at vauxhall, and you do what.. whatever it is you do, we'd be onto a winner lol
We should do our own stu.. with me working at vauxhall, and you do what.. whatever it is you do, we'd be onto a winner lol
considering most tuners are just blokes who stuck some big engine into a small car, and the damned thing didn't blow up, so their mates asked them to do some more, the qualifications for a tuner are rather low...
considering most tuners are just blokes who stuck some big engine into a small car, and the damned thing didn't blow up, so their mates asked them to do some more, the qualifications for a tuner are rather low...
or ex bankers who thought becoming a superchips dealer would reap lots of respek init.... FAIL
Saloony
02-05-09, 06:21 PM
considering most tuners are just blokes who stuck some big engine into a small car, and the damned thing didn't blow up, so their mates asked them to do some more, the qualifications for a tuner are rather low...Exactly.. win win i say lol Just like good old LM solutions lol
Exactly.. win win i say lol Just like good old LM solutions lol
let us bow down at the altar of mr Mitchell.......
or ex bankers who thought becoming a superchips dealer would reap lots of respek init.... FAIL
close to home????? /\/\/\
the biggest problem with being a tuner is the customers......
they fall into 3 main groups
1. people with definite aims & money to back it up, very rare
2. people with a car they got off their mum & have used the crayola colour chart to paint it, then they finance a set of wheels & actually can't afford to do anything...but want some stickers
3. bullsh1tting wasters who get the work done but can't pay.
in a recession it would be quite hard to get setup.
3. bullsh1tting wasters who get the work done but can't pay.
Call us if you get the money together, if you want your car it's on ebay :thumb: lol
~~joycey~~
02-05-09, 06:34 PM
Regal are 10 mins away from me and all i ever hear/see is ****e work from them lol
Regal are 10 mins away from me and all i ever hear/see is ****e work from them lol
I have an old car mag that sings their praises, but it was from the mid nineties,
considering Ripspeed was a highly respected tuner in the seventies & eighties and look what they became.......
Saloony
02-05-09, 07:07 PM
I have an old car mag that sings their praises, but it was from the mid nineties,
considering Ripspeed was a highly respected tuner in the seventies & eighties and look what they became.......
Mid nineties had a bloke called Steve Meridith working for them. He is incredibly anal, but not a bad thing considering what he can do. He's now full blown saab man and can do some real special things with them. When he left and alot of the decent blokes they just highed ATS/Kwikfit blokes and the rest is history
Mid nineties had a bloke called Steve Meridith working for them. He is incredibly anal, but not a bad thing considering what he can do. He's now full blown saab man and can do some real special things with them. When he left and alot of the decent blokes they just highed ATS/Kwikfit blokes and the rest is history
I think that happens to a lot of businesses, not just in the motor trade....
davidfox280585
02-05-09, 07:17 PM
this was built by will at cosvaux i beleive as i remember him showing me pics of this as he was a friend of a friend
will is a very clever bloke helped me sort my tigra out and my mates c20xe corsa
BRoadGhost
02-05-09, 11:41 PM
Not a fan of this sort of thing at all tbh.
Car should remain stock looking in terms of panels and let the engineering do the talking from underneath.
There's no real finish to it either inside looks poor and outside has been butchered. Have fun with that extra weight, 2x the servicing and fuel bills.
DW-Nova
03-05-09, 03:53 AM
Regal auto sport have a demo car featured in this months issue of redline (MK5 Golf) they interview the owner of Regal and ask him if they had not considered turning it into 4WD, he says yeh we had all the set up but the wiring became too much ! i mean that is not the kind of thing you say in a interview in a national magazine, basicallly he said that it was too confusing for them !
Regal auto sport have a demo car featured in this months issue of redline (MK5 Golf) they interview the owner of Regal and ask him if they had not considered turning it into 4WD, he says yeh we had all the set up but the wiring became too much ! i mean that is not the kind of thing you say in a interview in a national magazine, basicallly he said that it was too confusing for them !
and imho "wiring" is the easiest part of a job like that
I sat in the car a few years back when we did a rolling road there.
Nothing on the inside was finished, switches with wiring just hanging out all ocver the place. Its allways broken cause they have no clue how to fix it.
When it was at eds it was a good car ish. Regal just dont have the knowhow to keep it working and running.
this was built by will at cosvaux i beleive as i remember him showing me pics of this as he was a friend of a friend
will is a very clever bloke helped me sort my tigra out and my mates c20xe corsa
lol not the black twin engined one wasnt.
EUROTURBO
03-05-09, 12:29 PM
lol not the black twin engined one wasnt.
true mate, it was built in conjunction with EDS Motorsport in Germany, all details on the EDS website...:thumb:
Glen
mowgli. i know how you mean do it with the autograss cars but they only use 1st,2nd and reverse. which ive done now, but cant tel if got all the gears. ive used corsa gear stick turned round, with the dogleg took out. made nylon bush to secure to the body just behind the handbrake with a uj with a rod connecting to another uj to the selector. but i left unit last night before i lost temperlol
screw pissing about with linkages... get gear cables. FAR easier
true mate, it was built in conjunction with EDS Motorsport in Germany, all details on the EDS website...:thumb:
Glen
Yeah Eds built it and for some reason let Regal use it as a demo like car..
thats why i wana c pics of that novas linkage.
i cant work out how your ment to get cables to work on the box without have alsorts of brackets n crap everywhere
thats why i wana c pics of that novas linkage.
i cant work out how your ment to get cables to work on the box without have alsorts of brackets n crap everywhere
not that hard since the F23 already does it
http://www.speedsterclub.nl/bibliotheek/technische%20documentatie/epc/H%20Transmission/2%20Gearshift%20control/1%20Gearshift%20cable/image.png
few vids b4 regal got it iirc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZ0Ss7ehYE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK49O1mnKsc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx_uzmdK7s0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-HFHb6eSk&NR=1
theres vids on YT sumwere that show it onm full boost lightin all 4 wheels up
craig green
03-05-09, 09:55 PM
I sat in the car a few years back when we did a rolling road there.
Nothing on the inside was finished, switches with wiring just hanging out all ocver the place. Its allways broken cause they have no clue how to fix it.
When it was at eds it was a good car ish. Regal just dont have the knowhow to keep it working and running.
I imagine it just gets brought over for the shows. Wheely bar cracks me up.
I imagine it just gets brought over for the shows. Wheely bar cracks me up.
Its was normaly just dumped in the corner of their car park or work shop.
Now they are trying to be more Vag tuner its hidden away or back with eds.
Saloony
03-05-09, 11:40 PM
Its was normaly just dumped in the corner of their car park or work shop.
Now they are trying to be more Vag tuner its hidden away or back with eds.
Cos the vauxhall crew have got wise to them per-chance lol
dj_wudgey
03-05-09, 11:46 PM
yea beacause they are sh*t lol
Saloony
03-05-09, 11:50 PM
Ive seen some real lemons come out of there, and not even tuned stuff.. just normal everyday mot repairs, the work carried out was disgusting and actually came out worse than went in.. seen that on 3 vehicles from theres now.
Cos the vauxhall crew have got wise to them per-chance lol
Yep, but somehow its taken along time. Vag tuning market is huge tho, so they can jump on it again with Eds and other surpling all the real stuff and them selling it on and doing damage. Till the Vag boys how them like we do.
dj_wudgey
04-05-09, 12:07 AM
Ive seen some real lemons come out of there, and not even tuned stuff.. just normal everyday mot repairs, the work carried out was disgusting and actually came out worse than went in.. seen that on 3 vehicles from theres now.
that bad yea ive heard they were bad but not that bad lol
smcgsi16v
04-05-09, 05:43 PM
Yeah Eds built it and for some reason let Regal use it as a demo like car..
The reason being because they would never have been able to register it over there because of their tuning laws, where as over it could be registered.
So built by EDS
registered in uk
regal use it as demo car
even tho they didnt build it.
lageR at its best.
The reason being because they would never have been able to register it over there because of their tuning laws, where as over it could be registered.
So built by EDS
registered in uk
regal use it as demo car
even tho they didnt build it.
lageR at its best.
Didnt think the germans had any prob with highly tuned cars?
Saloony
04-05-09, 05:53 PM
Didnt think the germans had any prob with highly tuned cars?
I know Belgium has a 'Test' that basicly requires the car to be standard, harsher than IRE NCT tests
The german road tax is based on power output (from what I understood from the german lads I was working with out there), and other deviations from standard. Plus a bit of a cow to put through the TUV test they have.
Daz9124
04-05-09, 09:16 PM
The Ford lads dont like lager either....... Wont take long for VAG to cotton on there not daft unless they are making golf/mk4/m5 rusted panels!!
letvalva
06-05-09, 12:27 PM
mate of mine had his astra vxr down to lager a few week ago, it was already 284 bhp on our local rolling road which is always within about 3 or 4 bhp of what you would expect of your car, he went to regal and got some work done, new intercooler cam etc, spent a fair bit of coin with them and car made 315 bhp on there rollers, they asked him if he wanted a rolling road print out and he said yes, andthey charged him another 80 odd quid for it!!!
a week later there was a local rolling road shoot out, so he puts his car on and it made 285 bhp, 1 bhp more than it did before lager had it, it has since chewed a spark plug and ****ed his engine, none of the plugs were tight when he removed them either,
wouldnt take a pram to them cowboys!
best engine builders/tuners are the back street jobbies;)
stevie-p
06-05-09, 12:44 PM
what about the dahlback tuners?
are they german or somewhere else i think there golf is kicking out 900hp
and the audi quattro around the same but is still on the country plates
im not sure if its german belguin or so on
Ive never been impressed with boost beast tbh, the main problem with that thing is the engines were too difficult to get close in relation to power output and when they came on boost, so most of the time the engines were fighting each other causing epic drag and drivetrain failiure.
The 'wheelie bar' pretty much sums up how useless it is. Basically the rear engine would sit the cars ass on the floor when it boosted up, rendering the front engine pretty useless under acceleration as the wheels spin up causing steering to become pretty much impossible.
Dubsport, on the other hand, know their stuff, and chose a pair of VR6 turbo's for their MK3 golf jobbie, using the torque of the 6 pot to their advantage and running low boost, eliminating the mentalist front wheels waving in the air problem. It also made matching the engines far easier. That car is the dogs cahonahs IMO.
There was also a mini clubman at combe last year running two XE's, and that thing was flying and seemed to handle well as well.
Im a fan of twin engine cars, but you have to know what you are doing to make a good car rather than a novelty item.
TBH thats the problem I have with people who put engines in the back of Nova's. (No offence to the guy who has mentioned he is doing it), but they handle like a complete pigs breakfast, and are nothing but something to do doughnuts in or make uneducated fools at car shows dribble. As ive said many times before, fair play if thats why you want to build it, but dont do it because you think your going to make something that handles like an MR2, because it wont.
Austins nova is still the daddy of RWD show nova's (im not including the many many rally variations). One day id love to make one myself, but i have to brush up on my welding which is poor at the best of times lol
the twin engined vr6 powered golf is silly quick, remember few years ago when the lad jeff lived round the corner from me, pulled out from his estate, and decked it, christ the car shifted!
he also had a S3 powered lupo for a bit, that went like stink too:cool:
dahlback are good.
maybe ill rephrase - UK vaux companies such as regal and coutenay.
but you do see alot more wilder cars come out from the quiet garages etc, rather than companies with demo cars.
btw im not doing a nova, and mine should handle very well;)
also the guy with that mini im sure was breaking it a few months ago, as there was a post on vauxsport for it.
Thats a shame cos it was properly going for it, and was going round corners well too which you dont expect from a twin engine car.
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