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dan16v
21-10-03, 10:45 PM
as above do they throw your rear wheel further out as if they do i cant be arsed to do it! :lol:
miles
21-10-03, 11:30 PM
Mine dont.
Mark
22-10-03, 06:50 AM
Not if done properly!
dan16v
22-10-03, 10:09 PM
may do it then been offered a rear beam with golf gti calipers on
?Marty?
23-10-03, 02:09 AM
Mine brought the wheels further in, so am now running spacers on rear.
Rick Draper
23-10-03, 11:17 AM
Mine brought the wheels further in, so am now running spacers on rear.

Well yours werent done right was it :roll: . Dan i would be wary about using the Golf rear calipers, your better off with the astra GTE setup. I can supply spacers for this if you needed them? Rick
Mark
23-10-03, 01:27 PM
There are a lot of rear beams out there at the moment with Golf calipers as the handbrake setup is better than the Astra setup.. - Motorsport direct has a Nova rear beam with Astra brakes ?100 and a rear beam with golf brakes ?150!!
dan16v
23-10-03, 01:52 PM
sod paying ?150 make one for ?50 i rekon?
rgv_stu
23-10-03, 03:12 PM
mine only cost me the time to build and a few pence on welding wire
BigRuss
23-10-03, 11:25 PM
The works Group "A" nova's were homolagated with Golf Gti rear brake set up. If You go this route You will have to run 15mm spacers to put the wheel back in the std position in the arch.
dan16v
24-10-03, 12:15 AM
15mm spacers :lol: sod that then my car will weigh an xtra ton!
ill get some 16v ones
Ste_Nova
24-10-03, 01:06 PM
The works Group "A" nova's were homolagated with Golf Gti rear brake set up. If You go this route You will have to run 15mm spacers to put the wheel back in the std position in the arch.

ste goes to check his grp a book
rgv_stu
24-10-03, 02:27 PM
so is that 15mm on top of the spacers that are allready there ?
rgv_stu
24-10-03, 02:27 PM
so is that 15mm on top of the spacers that are allready there ?
Austin_Nova16
24-10-03, 09:53 PM
The works Group "A" nova's were homolagated with Golf Gti rear brake set up.

this is what i have also read. I'm sure they must be a bit lighter than the Astra/Cav set-up aswell...
RJM25R
31-10-03, 08:46 AM
I thought it was because when the Nova grp a was homologated, astra's didn't have rear discs????

I MAY BE WRONG! but astra 16v were releases in 89 but weren't Nova Sport's homologated for group a back in 84?? Golf discs fit behind Revolution RFX 6.5x13" wheels allegedly. I found this out when researching a 13"wheeled euro beasty a couple of years ago
Paul16v
01-11-03, 02:23 AM
my disc beam on my old black valva was perfect no spacers etc with 16in speedlines.my mate woody(rich)built it for me and it cost about ?75 to do inc new discs, pads, shoes and bearings