BHP

[Mark]

What is the standard BHP of a 1200 carb Nova?

[Ste_Nova]

1.0 45bhp
1.2i 45bhp
1.2 55bhp
1.4i 60bhp
1.3 70bhp
1.4 72bhp

[Mark]

Thank you Ste, I thought you might know...lol

[Mark]

So, what would be the expected gain on a 20 year old 1200 by adding a Weber 32/34 Carb?

[Ste_Nova]

not much.. mine gained 0.5bhp

[dikharvey]

Hmm, I have this exact question. I have a weber 32/34 dtml carb sat in the garage at the moment just waiting to go on. i know corsanova_mark has just done this on his saloon. any ideas mark?

[Mark]

Well, I fitted my Weber 32/34, and after giving it a damn good clean, set it up using my Gunson Pro Tester, it was running pretty well, but I knew it was still overfueling a bit, so I took it to Spamspeed Motorsport in Bristol, it looks like a bit of a dive, but all he works on are mini's and vauxhall's for Grass track and rally. He took a fair bit of time, checking and adjusting my car and now I am greatly impressed, it has improved acceleration, top end and basic running quite a bit, he ran it up 8 times on the dyno, each time adjusting a bit more - the end result?

The first run produced 53.2hp and the last run finished off with a fairly impressive(for a 20 year old 1200 :wink: ) 60.4hp.....quite an improvement!

[Aragorn]

need to getyourself a 1300 zorst system on there along with an sr cam

prolly give u a healthy gain :)

[dikharvey]

I have a 1.3 engine in the garage at the moment and a 1.2 in my car.

Will putting the 1.3 cams in my engine give me a gain? will i need to change anything else over as well?

[Snowface]

yes you will gain from it.

[srt40]

good to see your getting some use from it mark.

best of luck with it

thanks for gearbox parts by the way - just the job :D

[Mark]

good to see your getting some use from it mark.

best of luck with it

thanks for gearbox parts by the way - just the job :D


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[mikeoxford]

gah that was me ^^^^ was having login issues :evil: said my account was inactive and i tried to see if i was banned by setting up another one - please excuse and ignore lol.