Lax Power
15-09-04, 11:56 PM
First of all hello everybody. :' )
This week i bought myself a 1985 1.2 Nova Luxe for ?450, shes pretty tidy and has a mint shell, she was originally my mates first car, has gone round the block and come back again. lol
She has some modifications done already, it has had a skimmed, ported, polished and gasflowed head 1.3 head fitted with a pierburg carb, K&N, piper fast-road cams, 4-2-1 manifold, standard centre section and a cheapo peco backbox. By my mates account he has seen her rolling roaded at 90bhp but i havent seen any paperwork to back this up, i do have a couple of printouts that came with the paperwork tho which show 75bhp at 6300RPM with 71lbft of torque. The engine is solid as a rock and runs brilliantly, my mates a Vauxhall Tech. and has checked her over for me.
I havent actually passed my test yet but have bought the car ready for when i do, whilst its of the road my friend is going to be fitting an F13CR box for me and doing a top-end rebuild, she doesnt need it but we may as well! He has said to me that we may as well go the full stink and put a 1.4 sr bottom end in there or possibly 1.3, cant remember which he said. Would this be a good modification to go for with the head i have?? Also i've been looking into maybe fitting twin Delorto 40 DHLAs, has anyone any experience of these? Are they as good as the webers? Its just that theres is a guy on ebay who sells mint sets of em for like 150 quid!! What sort of performance gain can i expect?? Also the Peco backbox is getting a bit ropey, i was recommended an Ashley Motorsport full system are these any good?
Sorry to jump straight in with all these questions when i havent been a member 2 mins. lol
Thanks for taking the time to read all this guff and i hope you guys can help me out!!
Oh yeah btw how much can i expect to pay for a budget full respray if i was to do all the prep myself?? I only want it redone in base-black, nothing fancy.
Cheers,
Lax Power
This week i bought myself a 1985 1.2 Nova Luxe for ?450, shes pretty tidy and has a mint shell, she was originally my mates first car, has gone round the block and come back again. lol
She has some modifications done already, it has had a skimmed, ported, polished and gasflowed head 1.3 head fitted with a pierburg carb, K&N, piper fast-road cams, 4-2-1 manifold, standard centre section and a cheapo peco backbox. By my mates account he has seen her rolling roaded at 90bhp but i havent seen any paperwork to back this up, i do have a couple of printouts that came with the paperwork tho which show 75bhp at 6300RPM with 71lbft of torque. The engine is solid as a rock and runs brilliantly, my mates a Vauxhall Tech. and has checked her over for me.
I havent actually passed my test yet but have bought the car ready for when i do, whilst its of the road my friend is going to be fitting an F13CR box for me and doing a top-end rebuild, she doesnt need it but we may as well! He has said to me that we may as well go the full stink and put a 1.4 sr bottom end in there or possibly 1.3, cant remember which he said. Would this be a good modification to go for with the head i have?? Also i've been looking into maybe fitting twin Delorto 40 DHLAs, has anyone any experience of these? Are they as good as the webers? Its just that theres is a guy on ebay who sells mint sets of em for like 150 quid!! What sort of performance gain can i expect?? Also the Peco backbox is getting a bit ropey, i was recommended an Ashley Motorsport full system are these any good?
Sorry to jump straight in with all these questions when i havent been a member 2 mins. lol
Thanks for taking the time to read all this guff and i hope you guys can help me out!!
Oh yeah btw how much can i expect to pay for a budget full respray if i was to do all the prep myself?? I only want it redone in base-black, nothing fancy.
Cheers,
Lax Power