DHdev WIP thread (56k No!, lol)

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Originally Posted by Lee

3rded. Olli D can get away with it because his car is slow lol. You have a proper engine in yours, therefore I would flare your steel wings as mentioned. I plan to do mine at some point next winter as well.

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lol lol quality humour - well done Lee made me laff

Jesus the network goes down at uni for a couple of days and the vultures are in taking the piss lol
I run 25mm eibach spacers on the front, they're the hubcentric jobbies so not a total bodge :wtf: TBH from the limited track work I've done with them on, I can't fault it so far! My wheels are ET45 iirc and 7inch.
Here's a clearer pic of how they sit

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...404resized.jpg

And without spacers

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...v/DSC00190.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...v/DSC00191.jpg

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Originally Posted by trackdaynova

lol @ proper engine

I'll look into some serious flairing, as I'd like it to go lower somewhat at the front :)

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I'm not saying it can't be done or anything but i would say that its not easy. Trouble is with lowering is that just about every other aspect of handling is affected. I suspect that deviating too far from std set-ups or those quoted in the competition Nova handbook (which incidentally is all geared to rallying only) might only serve to spoil the otherwise good handling charactersitics

Mr Oli, took some pics for your build thread

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker07.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker06.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker05.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker04.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker03.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker02.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/danker01.jpg

seen this myself, love this car

seen this car at the pv show and looked better than it does in the pics. quality car mate :thumb:

Cheers for the comments guys :)

And big thanks to Olly, the pictures look great (dare I say, even better than the Total Vauxhall pics ;) ) :thumb:

great car:thumb:

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Originally Posted by CP

great car:thumb:

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High praise indeed coming from someone with a car as genuinely innovative as yours, thankyou very much :D

i seen you coming in to pvs and was going to come over and speak to you but the traffic started moving and i never got the chance lol never mind though maybe next time? :thumb:

edit: i would keep the round light personally.

Still ony of my favourites Oli !

Keep the Polo Lights, it looks mean.

Cheers Nick :) And Steven, you should've come said hello, always keen to chat with fellow enthusiasts :thumb:

Here's a pic with one nova light fitted, I lost the drivers side light when I moved out of the workshop, so I'm currently borrowing one of Nova neil (cheers buddy!)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...v/DSC00620.jpg

I think I will return to the polo light setup. I'm going back to work next week and I know we had some Lexan kicking around that I can fashion into some headlight covers, then smoke them up with tint film or similar for a funky look :cool:

now that just looks like any normal wide arched, black bonneted mk2 nova lol

go round :D lol

Big thanks to Olly H and his mate Matt for coming over and helping to diagnose my mystery misfire, turns out the DIS pack is to blame. Easimap is a lovely bit of kit and I'll be investing in a £2 Ebay comm lead so I can look like a pro with my laptop hooked up :cool:
So I need to purchase a new DIS pack, any recommendations as to which are best and where to buy from would be gratefully received :thumb:

Also whilst diagnosing some problems with Olly's car we noticed that the spacers behind my rack had fallen out on one side, resulting in some quite severe rack wobble :tard: All fixed now tho, undid the ally mounts, slid some packing in behind and tightened it up! Its quite shocking how much the bulkhead flexes though :eek:


Cheers Olly and Matt!

Been struggling with cash flow lately, hence why no real updates :(
But I went and tried the Calibra's coilpack on the Nova today and.......WOW :eek: It's so much faster than i ever remember it being, it pulls so much harder and cleaner throughout the rev range, and feels genuinely a lot faster than I can remember :D:D:D I reckon the coilpack must've been dodgy for a long time! I will be purchasing a new coil pack next week!!! I'll try and get some cam vids tomorrow ;)

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Seriously :cool: I'm that convinced that its quicker, that I want to RR it and take it to the Pod!!!

Old coilpack was probably giving a weak spark or something?

Or youve got so used to driving that calibra with the barge big block, that the nova seems uber quick :cool: lmao

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Originally Posted by Adam

Old coilpack was probably giving a weak spark or something?

Or youve got so used to driving that calibra with the barge big block, that the nova seems uber quick :cool: lmao

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Yeah the old coilpack was funked, it has been spluttering on start up for a while, and i'd noticed that my driving style had gradually got modified to the point that I was keeping the revs quite high to avoid large throttle openings which would cause hesitation and sluggishness, now I can give it full throttle from idle and it shoots off :D And its started torque steering and wheelspinning again :eek: Might head up maccy D's and do some PHAT burnouts geeza! lol

Just goes to show how important the basics are esp. in a heavily tuned engine. Good work:thumb:

Well with the joys of a new coilpack and working engine, I thought it was high time i did some chavving - Que 7krpm launching lol

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...h_MOV00663.jpg

What that video doesn't show is the violent torque steer I'm getting, I KNOW, torque steer on a small block :eek:
I also realised that the coilpack has been breaking down for some time, cos I had problems at USC on the quarter, with it misfiring so bad I had to abort some runs.

Glad it's all sorted Ol, chuffed your coming up to TOTB too :)

What you up to today?

Probably gonna sort the heater override switch, swap back to Polo headlights and a few house chores later :cry: What you got planned?

More TOTB prep :cool:

nova ian coming over again to give me a hand with some final bits, however the list is quite long! lol

Loads of time yet, it's not for another week :tard:

Sounds SWEET!

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Originally Posted by dhdev (Oli)

swap back to Polo headlights

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excellent choice :D

Sounds cool as fook :cool:
Give me your tb's

sounds awesome and certainly fooks off

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Originally Posted by Adam

Sounds cool as fook :cool:
Give me your tb's

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Ok! not.

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Needs an SCCR now Oli, those ratios just sound too long to me :(

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Originally Posted by Lee

Needs an SCCR now Oli, those ratios just sound too long to me :(

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Oh don't I know it! I type 'Quaife' into ebay everyday hoping for an F13 SCCR Buy it now £3.99 :(

LMFAO. Me too!

Good job we're after different boxes, i want one for my smallcock and you won't something resembling the Dartford tunnel for your bigcock. lol

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Originally Posted by dhdev (Oli)

Good job we're after different boxes, i want one for my smallcock and you won't something resembling the Dartford tunnel for your bigcock. lol

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Sounds like you are looking for new girlfriends not gearboxes. Read the quote above again with that in mind to see what I mean.

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Originally Posted by Dar

Sounds like you are looking for new girlfriends not gearboxes. Read the quote above again with that in mind to see what I mean.

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Sharp as a nail you are Dar lol It was intended as a double entendre ;)

Looked through your rebuild there mate and on the 1st page I seen you had Corsa GSi alloys on with Opel centre caps

Do you still have the Opel centre caps and if so would you sell them ?

Nice mean car by the way :)

They are long gone I'm afraid Vaughan