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leebo
17-12-05, 06:25 PM
I have a old nova that aint worth puttin on the road and have allways wanted to do a rwd nova as a learnin experance. It will never be on the road so it dont need to be a great job, just fun. Anythin you can tell me would be class. Cheers Lee
Lee
18-12-05, 01:25 PM
I have a old nova that aint worth puttin on the road and have allways wanted to do a rwd nova as a learnin experance. It will never be on the road so it dont need to be a great job, just fun. Anythin you can tell me would be class. Cheers Lee

Either you could weld the engine bay and turrets from the front of another Nova welded in the back, much the same as just Novas did in another topic somewhere. Or the other way is to spaceframe the front end and transversally mount the engine using RWD parts such as a carlton Gearbox and diff etc.

I would have said if you just want to throw a toy together, the first option is the cheapest and easiest.
leebo
18-12-05, 02:01 PM
cheers, i tryed to use the search engine on the top of the page to look for earler post but it brought up nout. would there be pics or somethin from someones earlyer build so i could get a better look? cheers lee
Stuart
18-12-05, 02:06 PM
the search feature dosent/hasnt ever worked lol

Austin made a RWD front mounted engine nova... maybe worth bugging him
leebo
18-12-05, 02:22 PM
is that austin with this blue nova? http://photobucket.com/albums/v11/Austin/rwd%20nova/

looks well
Philsutton
18-12-05, 02:26 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/0809200501.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/05092005003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/RearEnginefly017.jpg
took a weekend to make and it worked quite well, just looks very rough lol
leebo
18-12-05, 02:47 PM
cheers man i can see how that would be alot easyer. i also have a notehr 2 spare novas so i can cutr the front outa it lol. were ya able to put the car round? did u take the engine out ot of the front just? cheers lee
leebo
18-12-05, 02:55 PM
how ya even work the gears?? more i look the more im impressed
Philsutton
18-12-05, 03:00 PM
turned the selector on top of the gear around and ran a bar to the gear stick, worked fine. Clutch and throttle were done with bits of wire which went from the front through the bulk head an then through the passager side
leebo
18-12-05, 03:31 PM
a rite, you more pics? so i can see a bit more? how did u work brakes?