Saxo rear beam on a nova

[ANDYRACER]

I was wondering if u could get a saxo rear disc'd beam to fit a nova due to them being roughly the same width?

[Nick]

1 - Why ?

2 - It's a torsion bar

[burgo]

why

[Nick]

on a simlar note, i've noticed a camel is a similar legth to my nova, could i put camel legs on my nova, burgo ?

[burgo]

hmmmm i doubt it, the hump would make a good bonnet bulge though

[Nick]

what about a Shorter Wheelbase mamal, lets say an Antelope ?

i've heard antelope are fast, what Performance gains would i be looking at ?

[boredbloke]

My new cheater one will av ur antelope ones for lunch nick, espically as i mounted it head as my grill!

[-Bruce-]

Andyracer,

I think if you want rear disks on your nova there is a much easyer way to go about it. You can get a astra/cavi rear beam and use some of the parts to fit the disks on your original beam.

This is the way most people fit rear disks to a nova. I have not done this convertion so could not tell you what parts to use or what to do. sorry.

Bruce

[Austin_Nova16]

Use either vaux rear diaks (stub axles), or golf gti - like the rally boys..

[peester]

yeah but does he want torsion bar too? ide luv to slap the nova - 90mm at a few clicks of a torsion bar - and still have a good ride..

[Stuart]

torsien bar would need a fcukload of work to fit. ie not worth it!

and torsien bar is totally pap for decent handling anyway, its just too unpredictable lol.

[Chris]

not sure about that camb, my mates 106 is only lowered on springs and a few clicks on the torsion bar, standard shocks and that is like its on rails

Chris

[Aragorn]

problem with torsion bar is that by lowering it your removing spring force too

similar to chopping springs with a grinder

the spring effect comes directly from the amount its twisted and as u undo it you are not only lowering it but removing spring force which is generally bad for it

[ANDYRACER]

Na the only reason i wanted to know is because i noticed saxos came with rear discs and due to them being roughly the same size i thought it would be easier than the astra/cav beam way. And i didnt think it would work coz of the torsion bar but thought i would see wat u thought of it.

[Philsutton]

cav/astra rear disc are near enough a straight swap after youve fitted a bracket on. Sounds like to much work for some that isnt going ot be that great.

[Snowface]

do Pug 106's have torsion bar's? i.e. same as saxo.

does the VTR/S - Pug GTi also have torsion bars?

arn't they meant to handle well?

[Philsutton]

106's are near enough damn it a saxo

[Nick]

yes, even standard saxo's handle reasonably well...

a freind of mine had a LAD (hmm lol) converted 106 GTi, they claimed it had 176bhp through headwork (hmmm) and it was lowered -80mm on the front, and a little more on the back, it handled very well indeed

altho it had a tebndencie for the wheels to come of the ground on sharp corners

[ANDYRACER]

Well the golf gtis rear wheel comes off the ground it looks cool, but would be scary in the wet.

[Riggy]

106's are near enough damn it a saxo

lol you mean saxo's are nearly a 106 :wink:


the 106 was voted the best handleing car in some poll a couple of year back

although std 1.1 series 1 106's like my misses handle very bad on corners doin anything over the speed limit