View Full Version : My turbo nova project!
Looks cool :cool:
Indeed it does..... top marks Dan :thumb:
let_nova
26-10-09, 08:43 PM
stunning mate
Dan did you do anything with that template cover i sent?
Scott, yes mate cleaned it all up, and the place that done the vin tag lettering also have the matt vynal, so once i get some time i will pop it in to be covered!
Thanks for comments lads!:thumb:
discoinferno
27-10-09, 07:43 AM
Yes mate, fully mapped, but had to stop at 1.2 bar/ 1.6 over boost as injectors were about 90% duty cycle, poss the fuel pump as it's on bosch 803's, so should be ok for more, but was told to enjoy it for now then go back later for more!
Was 20 deg+ the day i picked it up, wasted my e46 m3 on the way home, spins it's wheels all through 3rd and some of 4th so was chuffed!
sounds promising mate, should be pretty powerful!:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Aslong as it's enough to have some fun! although i did set out as a personal goal about 5 years ago for it to run a 12 something down the quarter lol
If i can ever achieve this i will be very happy, power wise it's a bit restricted due to running a hybrid garret T3, but it seems to drive great with this setup with almost no lag!
discoinferno
27-10-09, 05:02 PM
Aslong as it's enough to have some fun! although i did set out as a personal goal about 5 years ago for it to run a 12 something down the quarter lol
If i can ever achieve this i will be very happy, power wise it's a bit restricted due to running a hybrid garret T3, but it seems to drive great with this setup with almost no lag!
power isnt everything a no lag quick spooling turbo lump makes a great nova much better and fun to drive than a huuuge turbo'd engine!
:thumb: looks ****ing awesome tbh mate top top job
krobinson
03-03-10, 08:26 AM
We going to see this at Billing?
I certainly hope so!!
lol, do pigs fly???????????????
Rick Draper
04-03-10, 10:57 PM
We going to see this at Billing?
I certainly hope so!!
****ING lol lol lol lol
Post of the year so far goes to Keith!
scott.parker
04-03-10, 11:51 PM
lol, do pigs fly???????????????
Well Stelios did come up with Easy jet, so...........
krobinson
05-03-10, 09:22 AM
****ING lol lol lol lol
Post of the year so far goes to Keith!
lol lol
Prove Rick wrong Dan!
P*ss taking homo's!!, Will get it sorted, just need to find a car with a tow bar so I can take it back upto Mark, to find out what i have messed up lol
krobinson
05-03-10, 07:29 PM
Hurry up! It's almost spring!
Rick Draper
05-03-10, 09:18 PM
P*ss taking homo's!!, Will get it sorted, just need to find a car with a tow bar so I can take it back upto Mark, to find out what i have messed up lol
Just need a car with a tow bar to take it to weigh it in. £2k off a new M3 if you traded it in!
If it goes i will call it the Rick Draper tribute car pmsl
mikeycc2009
06-03-10, 03:29 PM
This is a really nice looking car pal!!
Rick Draper
06-03-10, 05:33 PM
If it goes i will call it the Rick Draper tribute car pmsl
Its never going to go though is it!
discoinferno
06-03-10, 09:05 PM
do you not water cool the cossie t3 mate???
Yes mate, i still run the watercooling on the T3, second pipe to the header is the return.
discoinferno
07-03-10, 02:01 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/dan16v/DSC00402.jpg
ahh i see now! :d:d:d awesome car by the way mate, wish my engine bay looked as organised and tidy as yours!
is it on the road now or does it need mapping at mad?
No mate it's all fully mapped, but last year when i got the car back the engine bay was really dirty so i stripped loads of parts out, but in doing this i must have disturbed something as now the car sounds like its running on 3 or the timing is some how out!.
Rick Draper
07-03-10, 06:47 PM
Epic Fail
krobinson
27-05-10, 01:40 PM
Fixed?
hybridturbo
27-05-10, 03:19 PM
Does the bear ride a unicycle through the woods?
Rick Draper
27-05-10, 03:52 PM
I am been honest here he is looking to trade it in for a new M3. He is just holding out for the right monies.
Does the bear ride a unicycle through the woods?
I thought it shat in the woods?
chrisnovaturbo
27-05-10, 09:50 PM
just use it !
HOMO'S!
No nothing is sorted now as we have put our house on the market and putting all my spare cash into that, god bless min 10% deposits and stamp duty!
Possibly for sale at the right price! lost intrest.
No Ben, drove it home from Berkshire and was told not to **** around with it!, so with that in mind i took it apart to clean it all up and now it wont start, must have disturbed something electrical!.
If i had the time again i would fit a non abs disk rear beam, as there isnt much meat betweek the bolt holes, and re do the cross member as i used stupidly thick metal back in the day!
flol your a pain in the ass!
The Simps
28-01-11, 05:56 PM
If its a non-runner I'll start the bidding at £500 and you have to give me a blowey on collection.
MattBrown
28-01-11, 06:06 PM
£500, no blowey.
krobinson
28-01-11, 06:07 PM
Possibly for sale at the right price! lost intrest.
Whats the right price?
If you were anyone else, i'd say keep it, but its easy to see you've totally lost interest, so hopefully it goes to a good home!
Keith
Wish he had sold it to me when i asked last year, fooker!
Get it up and running again Dan and you will feel ten times better about it. The show season is still a little way off and If you could make it to at least one Im sure you would thoroughly enjoy it. We all get down in the dumps about them occasionally (Me more than most currently!) but after some hard use Im sure those feeling will be just a distant memory. ;)
Nick.
The Simps
29-01-11, 01:22 PM
True Nick but he has an M3 and a cossie now. I can understand why the nova is off little interest tbh.
Rick Draper
29-01-11, 03:23 PM
True Nick but he has an M3 and a cossie now. I can understand why the nova is off little interest tbh.
He has sold the M3.
If i was Dan i would remove the autronic, stick a LET loom on it, AFM and phase 3.5 and sell it as a runner.
Still in 2 minds with it! put me off last year all the hassle i had with insuring it, but i did like driving it, was massive fun!.
M3 is now sold, picking up a focus rs next week.
Rick Draper
29-01-11, 04:09 PM
Get rid of that **** ecu and go back to basics imho.
The Simps
29-01-11, 06:34 PM
Listen to Rick. He has experience with breaking/selling cars.
Rick Draper
29-01-11, 09:51 PM
Dans such a faggot he does not want to get his hands dirty!
Mornings job to change it all back over and have a spot on nova. IMHO Finished its up there with the best on the scene. Its just the SM2 is pre-historic and has never got on well with vauxhall engines!
He has sold the M3.
If i was Dan i would remove the autronic, stick a LET loom on it, AFM and phase 3.5 and sell it as a runner.
Why de-spec it, I appreciate SM2 may not work well with the Vauhall engine as you say, but go for a tried and tested method, such as Omex/DTA etc.
Emerald isnt brilliant so I hear, after the amount of trouble Fenny had with his.
At least then the map will be correct for the car, and not just close-ish.
peester
29-01-11, 11:00 PM
^^ hear hear speaketh senseth
Rick Draper
29-01-11, 11:34 PM
Because Dan's interest is I believe no longer in chasing round having it mapped or spending out a fair wedge on another ecu. He just wants to use it and therefore the easiest, cheapest and least time consuming way is to fit motronic.
Because Dan's interest is I believe no longer in chasing round having it mapped or spending out a fair wedge on another ecu. He just wants to use it and therefore the easiest, cheapest and least time consuming way is to fit motronic.
Id say that the 3.5 option is as expensive as Omex/DTA or very close.
Rick Draper
30-01-11, 11:43 AM
Id say that the 3.5 option is as expensive as Omex/DTA or very close.
Phase 3.5 ECU can be had cheap, for a omex or DTA your looking at the best part of a grand by the time you have bought it, made the loom and mapped it.
krobinson
30-01-11, 02:39 PM
Dan.. Fix it!
Ricks option is the most sensible, but the main thing i cba with is re fitting a AFM as there is no room the way things are set up at the moment. But he is right, im fed up of taking things here there and every-where to be sorted, and im done with spending big money on the car. But all i need to do is take the car back to Marks and it would be sorted. Not sure at the moment it's driving me mad also owning 3 cars.
Still in 2 minds with it! put me off last year all the hassle i had with insuring it, but i did like driving it, was massive fun!.
M3 is now sold, picking up a focus rs next week.
thats exactly why you should fix it ;)
Easier said than done dude when you are trying to look for a house, then the house needs 2 garages or a double to house them both, and trying to resto an escort rs cosworth isnt cheap either as it needs a re-spray.
kevster
30-01-11, 10:09 PM
just tryed to pm you dan16v but inbox is full
thanks kevin
Easier said than done dude when you are trying to look for a house, then the house needs 2 garages or a double to house them both, and trying to resto an escort rs cosworth isnt cheap either as it needs a re-spray.
Sell the ford lol
Novas are cheap and cheerful
I think realistically you need to have some fun out of it Dan, I mean you've been building it since I first came on here near enough, and done what a few hundred miles in it!
Even if you use it for one summer only then break/sell it. Its a lot of time/money and effort to go to waste.
Your car, your choice though...
Thanks Paul, yes thats what i need to do, i just got really hacked off with the insurance side of things last time and that put me off a little. I know it would break for alot more than i want to sell it for, but due to having no house im abit in limbo at the moment!.
sr jack
31-01-11, 01:30 PM
Dan.. Fix it!
HEAR HEARRRR!:thumb:
hybridturbo
31-01-11, 11:22 PM
First dibs on the escort if it ever comes up please Dan
Will do mate, though i don't think i will ever sell it, not driven it since ive bought it! about 4 years agolol
First dibs on Nova bits if/when you break it.. lol
Will do mate, though i don't think i will ever sell it, not driven it since ive bought it! about 4 years agolol
lol any patern emerging gen lol
Still tempted, 3.5k could take it as it stands, it's not mint, but would break for a fair bit more.
First refusal on the front bumper/'cooler combo if you break. Sorry to sound like a vulture, I'd like to see the car in the flesh at a show really
MattBrown
19-02-11, 10:03 AM
If you break, I'll be interested in the blue hoses, header tank, brakes and possibly the shell.
kevster
19-02-11, 04:01 PM
I would be tempted to have it as a hole car ,if I could shift the st :-(
Thanks for intrest guys, if it goes it will be complete, will know more in a few days, the problem is we are trying to buy a house at the mo has a large plot of land and loads of potential, but at present has no garage and wont have for some time as it looks like we may have to pay the asking price to secure it if we are even lucky enough then.
Let me know if you do wanna sell it as whole
will do Tony, still in the dark with this house, offer has not been accepted or declined yet lol
hybridturbo
22-02-11, 11:59 AM
Do i need to hoover out my garage for the escort yet? :p
The Simps
22-02-11, 03:45 PM
I'll take the ole girl for £3.5k. Do you mind sending me a deposit via Paypal before I come and collect the rest?
TARD!! lol
+rep
Truth hurts :(
Do i need to hoover out my garage for the escort yet? :p
Not yet mate! that is staying in storage, not selling that.
find out 2moro on this looking at 11k in stamp dutylol
shed-on-wheels
23-02-11, 08:28 PM
you tried the nock sensor as my let went dodgy and running on 3 cyl but i cliped him back in and it went well then
im on autronic mate, car does not run a knock sensor
shed-on-wheels
23-02-11, 09:23 PM
ahh sorry dude my bad
find out 2moro on this looking at 11k in stamp dutylol
didnt know buckingham palace was up for sale lol
If only mate! it's a run down 3 bed chalet bungalow with no garage in just under half an acre, stamp duty is now 11600k had to pay full asking price, find out 100% tomorrow.
If any one is intrested PM me and i will let you know all the things i think need sorting on the car.
THE END.
Feel pritty gutted tbh:(
Sold complete ? Or broken up ?
discoinferno
27-03-11, 09:37 AM
gutted i wouldve had it :(
scott.parker
27-03-11, 11:01 AM
gutted i wouldve had it :(
lol why do people always say this??
Did it sell to someone on here then Dan?
lol
It was sold complete, i think they are on here mate, ive been asked to stay quiet untill it's in the new owners hands.
Strange but i was so gutted the first thing i done was come on here and minced around in the cars for sale section.
discoinferno
27-03-11, 11:51 AM
lol why do people always say this??
Did it sell to someone on here then Dan?
as i dont live on here scott i dont really look at what is for sale etc i log on for any pm's then quickly leave. so i failed to see dan was finally advertising his nova ........ hence my post "gutted i wouldve had this:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: "
scott.parker
27-03-11, 08:09 PM
What i was saying was in general PEOPLE always say, oh i would of had it etc, after its sold, like my trialor... Anyway i thought most people knew Dan's been getting shot of it for years..lol
What i was saying was in general PEOPLE always say, oh i would of had it etc, after its sold, like my trialor... Anyway i thought most people knew Dan's been getting shot of it for years..lol
Yeah I had about 5 people say they would have had it after I scrapped my shell, it'd been up for sale for around 6 months, at times with parts worth more than I was asking for the package, truth is most of the time, they only think they would have had it because it's no longer a real opportunity, and actually didn't have a way to pay for it or pick it up anyway.
Shame, was an awesome car. I saw it move twice.
You were one of the lucky ones Benn lol
Think they didn't tell you the truth...
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/items-sale/466489-high-spec-c20let-breaking.html
Being broken all ready.
on here as well!
such a shame!
to be fair guys i said to kev he would make money breaking it! I just wanted the cash to pay for the escort and start the triple garage build. Iam gutted to sell it tho
oh well these things happen its only a nova at the end of the day, would prefer the Ecos myself :)
Im not knocking Kev in the slightest, was definately money to be earned at what the asking price was, just a shame its been split as was a great car (bar the the fact it never ran lol)
kevster
01-04-11, 06:26 PM
have the shell back dan :)
I cant do anything guys untill i know the cost of the Escort. If i was to get it back i would go champion wheels and a basic TB set up. But i dont think i will have the spare cash for the min.
Buy it back and throw a standard XE in it, cheap and cheerful
kevster
01-04-11, 09:48 PM
sell me the cozzy and every think will be fine lol
Ok Kev, 16k and you can take it?
Any pics of said cosworth :p
Project thread here Connor http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89502&page=13
Should have some decent updates on it soon when it goes away to be painted/put back together. Undecided if i should have an underside resto done and get the underside done white etc, seems the problem with this is they then never get used.
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