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alxlaw
06-05-05, 12:31 PM
how come no one has ever put a 3.0 senator engine in a nova?, or have they and iv just not looked hard enough, just wundering coz theres a j reg opel senator (in gold :? )at the end of my road for sale at 300 quid....bodyworks a bit fooked but id only be lookin at it from the point of veiw of whippin the engine out, (not that id have the balls to do it in the first place), iv seen a v6 in a mk1 a while back, dunno wether its the same thing, anyone got any pics?

thx alx
Jack
06-05-05, 12:55 PM
Straight six aren't they?

I wouldn't want to try and fit one of they in a nova! 205bhp N/A though...
Stuart
06-05-05, 02:26 PM
yep straight 6 so it will be a nightmare to package into the bay, in either orentation.

it might just about squeeze in the back but your be lucky.
ANDYRACER
06-05-05, 04:38 PM
Its been done it was in a completly standard 5 door saloon nova. They had to remove the bulk head to get it to fit.
Nick
06-05-05, 05:51 PM
did they mount it longitudanally ?
epo
06-05-05, 06:16 PM
Its been done it was in a completly standard 5 door saloon nova. They had to remove the bulk head to get it to fit.

bollox you beat me to it am sure the pics were in tecnical last year or maybe 03 iirc
ANDYRACER
06-05-05, 06:33 PM
Epo was it red with like some astra gsi wheels or similar?
epo
06-05-05, 06:35 PM
i remember it been red\burgandy but canny remember what wheels was on it

i asked the lad for some pics and so did snowface iirc and he put a post up titled
"fao epo and....."
Dave
06-05-05, 06:52 PM
Thought the red one was the v6 one??
epo
06-05-05, 06:53 PM
Thought the red one was the v6 one??

thats a hatch mate this one was a salloon
Dave
06-05-05, 06:57 PM
that must mean there is more than one red nova in the world lee you've shattered my fragile mind! lol
epo
06-05-05, 07:38 PM
lol is that why yours changes colour so it never looks the same :lol:
Philsutton
06-05-05, 08:17 PM
surely thats gonna be a bitch to fit as the engine is very long, longer than a V8 anyway
Mike.
06-05-05, 08:21 PM
anythings possible isn't it, it would just take alot of work
epo
06-05-05, 08:51 PM
surely thats gonna be a bitch to fit as the engine is very long, longer than a V8 anyway

could always make it rear emgine
Philsutton
06-05-05, 08:56 PM
could do but you have to mess around fitting an different gearbox to it fit it transverse. Ah well people have made fwd V8 mini so its possible :D