WIP- Past to Present

put the wheels in the house next to the radiator it will harden the paint then when tyres are fitted use a bit of t-cut to bring them back up.

long live the nova nice job mate :thumb:

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Originally Posted by gary_126

Fantistic thread, just read the whole thing. Love the simple modds (dont alot of similar stuff to my nova, which u will have seen on migweb (GaryVaux - red c16xe nova sri)

Glad u fitted the twin carbs, the c16xe is becomming as common as the 20xe in novas now:(

Wil you be at pvs or billing?

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Ahh hi gary, yeah read through your project on Mig :thumb: Nice

Yep it will 100% be at PV, and probably Billing too.

Cheers for the comments everyone :)


Got some 60mm rear springs from SRS1 this week, so they will be going on soon :)

Hats off for the carbs fitted.

Wheels look cool too. You made the right decision!

very nice thread, very interesting, how did you solve the port mismatching on the inlet manifold in the end then? did you dowel it to the head? and also when you had the engine running on the 1.8spi throttle body were you still running the engine on the 1.2spi ecu? i'm just asking out of interest that's all, i'm well impressed with the 84bhp you got on that set up, was it economical?

Maccas

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Originally Posted by S t e

think i'll stick to being a sheep and get softstars :roll:

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softstars do look wikid on corsa's though just like speedlines on nova's

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...4122006084.jpg

my old girly car lookedgood on them

oh and ad , hurry up with the wheels lol

looks ace :thumb:

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Originally Posted by Long Live The Nova

Just hope tyre fitter dont wreck them,Lol.

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"next time" have the tyres fitted but not blown up before you paint them ;) thats what we do at work anyway

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very nice thread, very interesting, how did you solve the port mismatching on the inlet manifold in the end then? did you dowel it to the head? and also when you had the engine running on the 1.8spi throttle body were you still running the engine on the 1.2spi ecu? i'm just asking out of interest that's all, i'm well impressed with the 84bhp you got on that set up, was it economical?

Maccas

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If your referring to the inlet not quite lining up with the head with the 40s, i just opened the head port out slightly.

I had a 1.8 throttle body on both my old 1.2i engine, and the 1400 engine.
It was the 1400 engine that made 84 ish bhp. It drove great and was very economical, 35+MPG driving foot to floor everywhere, about 40mpg on the motorway, even with a CR box.
It had the std 1.4i ecu, and 1.4i injector. Seemed to fuel ok.
I was planning on fitting the AST2, a 1.6i injector, and getting a "chip" to raise the rev limit(as it made 84bhp on the limit, a higher limit could of seen 90+), but decided go for 40s instead.


Cheers for the comments :)

Burgo, i wish you had mentioned that before i started the refurb! Lol. Sounds like a top idea so you can get paper/masking tape under the lip of the tyres.

Right, carried on with the cesaros today.
Got the centre caps smoothed, took fooking ages, many skims of filler, hours of sanding etc,Lol.
But they came out quite well, not 100% perfect smooth, but ok for me, and the time it took.
Ive not seen a set completely smoothed before, so i hope its a first :p :)
As std they have a badge, under the badge is a 1/4" hole, and a 2inch recess where the badge sits.
Im hoping totally smooth will make the wheels look bigger than they actually are.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0003Medium.jpg