''Austin'' 's Nova?

[db_1.2]

Does anyone know about Austins blue nova with the front end lift up? Where all of the front panels lift up revealing the engine? Ive been told its ''Austins'' - means nothing to me! Lol i seen pics of it before and found it very tastey so if anyone has any pics and info id appreciate it muchly :D thanks all

[doherty]

id like more pics of this too...i have one an its my screen saver:eek: ...its fluckin sweet...unreal work:thumb: :thumb:

[craig green]

Its a space framed rear wheel drive Nova. Austin16v on here IIRC.

If you like the look of it just buy a Breeze Blue SR & get some white Compomotive MO's

[doherty]

rear wheel drive :eek: :eek:

wat is he running??? :wtf: :eek: :)

[Mike]

Its a space framed rear wheel drive Nova. Austin16v on here IIRC.

If you like the look of it just buy a Breeze Blue SR & get some white Compomotive MO's

lol lol an a feckin big disc cutter to hack it up with! lol

[Adam]

rear wheel drive :eek: :eek:

wat is he running??? :wtf: :eek: :)
An xe on twin carbs iirc.

Does look mentalllllll.

[Mike]

rear wheel drive :eek: :eek:

wat is he running??? :wtf: :eek: :)

big bhp id imagine!:D

[db_1.2]

.....so no pics?! come on please!!! lol doherty you said you had one, share with uslol:D

[Adam]

Pic off Rb.
http://forums.roybacer.net/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=773

[mikey14sr]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/PV2006/IMG_0173.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/keithrobinson/PV2006/IMG_0168.jpg
nicked off JOV

[Ste L]

me and sean (SRS1) was stood speaking to him for about 2 hrs at pvs, lol, telling us how he build it, and future plans etc, is an amazing machine

[Stuart]

its not "huge" power.. but its fun to see.

due to the emmese ammount of climbingframe in the front and back its rather heavy so dosent run as fast a 1/4 as you'd expect but i imagine on track is hillarious

[Ste L]

yea, weird seeing a nova doing dougnt's, when i looked over seeing him doing them lol

[doherty]

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5221/pvs63wv.jpg

thats the only pic i have (until now hehe)

think i seen it on here:wtf: its from this years pv

when i first seen it it made my willy twitch irratckly(sp):eek: :eek::D

any vids of it diffin

i always wanted to have a RWD nova jus to diff at a cruise an see peoples faces:eek: :eek:
"ummm is that a nova"
"yeah"
"wat the fluck were we smokin!!"lol and/or
simply "WTF"lol

[bainyboy sr]

that is 1 sik nova thats class the guy musta spent a bomb on it

[Ste L]

its been a budget car, not cost the earth, everything been on the bought on the cheap, second hand ect... think only next thing were the poly carb windows, and rear prop shaft(had to be custom made)

[srs1]

austin is a top fella. me and ste (as said) chatted to him for ages on sat night.

cant fault him.

[Tim]

Hardcore, i want 1

[Austin_Nova16]

Good to see there is still great interest in the car! There was loads at PV anyway...
Nice chatting srs1 and ste , and all the other geezers I talked too! Had a great time...and made it back in 1 piece..

Got a 14.2something as my fastest time... Got off the line really well each tiime, but ran out of beef 3rd upwards really. I'm sure a touch of NOS or some cams would sort it, but thinks its probably time for a new car soon anyway...

Have not done that much to it recently (other projects on the go), but did wait 3 months for the diff to be re-built. Recently fitted some adjustable TCA's and tension struts and did some further modding to the rocker cover which i'm well happy with.

May head up there this weekend with it with a new set of leads on it as teh old ones have had it and I was suffering from a few miss-fires on my runs...

Nice one for the comments though! and see you at the next event..

[SRlew]

iv seen pictures of it before and still when i see them i think it is amazing!

but never seen one of the inside untill now, that looks good aswell mate.

top work fella!

[db_1.2]

i was just thinking about it and i really want to know where he got the drive shaft, rear diff, rear quarter shafts etc from? rascal van?! lol

[Mike]

cut down cavalier or calibra? Rascal van transmission is really weak! I know that as my mates got one, brilliant fun to drift in the rain though...lol

[db_1.2]

Lol cool does that mean you would be able to use the tansmission from a 4x4 calibra but cut down the drive shaft to the rear diff? therefore giving you a 4x4, single engined nova?

[Mike]

id imagine so yes. thats how corsa's get converted to 4wd for rallying though. I honestly reckon it would be very easy to 4wd a nova. One day, when ive got the space im gonna do it

[db_1.2]

not before me! muhahahaaaa!:D

[Ste L]

i was just thinking about it and i really want to know where he got the drive shaft, rear diff, rear quarter shafts etc from? rascal van?! lol

mk2 escort iirc

[125scouse]

thats me in the last pic!! on the right.

me and me 2 mates was talking to austin for quite a while about his car, i just shut up and listened, its an amazing car alot of hard graft gone into it and paid off!!!!

also spoke 2 his mate who had the MINT reshelled GTE engined F-reg nova, he was an interesting fella as well.

2 top lads, minds full of useful information!!!! thanks for your time boys :thumb:

[TommySR]

very impressive car, seen it at PV for the first time and had to look twice when i seen it lighting up the rear wheels on the line lol, Top Car

[Geth]

mk2 escort iirc

I seem to remember hearing that as well. It just so happens I have a Mk2 escort rear diff in my garage. Actually, I have mk2 escort shell and mexico engine in my garage as well.

[doherty]

has anybody got any videos of this lighting up the rears???:thumb: :thumb:

[rednova]

is there any WIP pics of this about?

[stuartp]

I seem to remember hearing that as well. It just so happens I have a Mk2 escort rear diff in my garage. Actually, I have mk2 escort shell and mexico engine in my garage as well.


Dont get me wrong i love nova's but Please let the escort live my next prodject once the nova's done!

[Mike.]

its a great nova, i had a good look at it, when i was a PV

[Martin]

i wanna see more pics:D and some WIP n Vids NOWWWWWW haha

[Matt2107]

I dont see what all the fuss is about...... Just kidding. :D

[Chris@Mcfc]

Before It Became RWD...

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2568/873biggv6.jpg

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/5193/873big2jy0.jpg

[craig green]

Didnt realise thats the same car. Had those pics from the gallery made into a poster at work.