My Autograss Junior Special Build Thread

[Calamity Josh]

Right... where to start, i'm 15 at the moment and have been on the forum for a while now, as i have finally learnt how to add images :tard: i am now doing a thread! Some of you may know my brother who was is on here (spunkey monkey) who used to own stevie p's nova saloon.
So, my car i built it four years ago now; starting with this :
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and building this:
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[Connor]

Oh hai josh.

[MK1_Ben]

Looking forward to build photos :D

Oh, welcome to to PNG :)

[Calamity Josh]

I will let the pictures do the talking abit but for those of you who don't know about my class it is called JUNIOR SPECIALS , you can race from 12- 16 and bacically the car is powered by a 1.2 8v i engine and running gear with minimal tuning allowed therefore it is left as a competitive class for the juniors. You can buy ready built cars new but they can go for around 2/3 grand for a rolling chassis so we build our own, it took a resonable amount if time and persiverance but finally we got there and i have won my club champion ship this year:d

So anyway the build pictures as i have time to add them:
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[Calamity Josh]

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[Calamity Josh]

And nova we got given! in the meantime and sold to a bloke who turned it into a hotrod:cry:

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[scottish]

i want one just to go the shops with

[Mazz]

Very cool....

[Calamity Josh]

Yeh, we are building one for my dad at the moment with a Volvo T5 engine in the back on emerald management!

And the pictures continue

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That pretty much covers my first two seasons, after that i decided it was time the car had a full strip-down and rebuild before the fast approaching season

[Dervy]

that awesome mate, nice work, bet its a right laugh to drive

[MK1_Ben]

Does look awesome, how much does it weigh?

[Calamity Josh]

It weighs 479kg! Which overall equates to around 100bhp per tonne and when cornering it will lift the inside wheel quite happily, the interesting thing is we started running it on the yellow bilsteins and they were useless, so we went over to the cheapest KYB's and they are much better and cost alot lot less

[mk1nova_rich]

yelllows too stiff on such a lightweight car? looks good pal

[Calamity Josh]

So here are the pictures of the rebuild from last winter:

First things first the chassis needed angle grinding down to a bare metal and primering:

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Next step was painting the chassis in the usual howard rotavator orange:

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to be continued...

[Calamity Josh]

Then it was a case of cleaning up and painting old parts and then resembling it:

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AND THEN MY ENGINE ARRIVED FROM MY ENGINE BUILDER! :d
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[Calamity Josh]

So that was fitted and i concentrated on getting my freshly powdercoated pannels fitted:

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Then my signwrighter Roy Fuller was booked to come and hand singwright my car:

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[Calamity Josh]

Then i got it back on the floor and it sat quite nicely:

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[Calamity Josh]

And some odd pictures from this racing season:

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[Calamity Josh]

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[Calamity Josh]

So, that was pretty much my racing so far, i will try to update after every meeting from now on with pictures and how i got on and will also add pictures of some of our previous cars, but for now here is a video of what happened when my brother raced my car!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00LiRuRvIRs