lol yeah looked awful, my parents hate my cars being there still, but i cant keep them both at the new place, specially not the track car.
Scott
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lol yeah looked awful, my parents hate my cars being there still, but i cant keep them both at the new place, specially not the track car.
Scott
Nice work Scott. You keeping this now?
The car, of course... Any one know where to get some cheep R888's? i dont want to pay £100 per corner! **** that..
not sure about 888s but mytyres.co.uk are quite cheap
Im in the same boat Scott, I'm after some 888's too... prices are pretty off putting though at the mo lol
Was just looking back through your thread and was looking at your brakes, what pads are they as they look like the sort I will need and could do with a part number or car model to go from so I can get some ordered up
Cheers :thumb:
Ian, there off Chris T's old car, so there his vectra V6 set up.. See link.Quote:
Originally Posted by nova ian
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showpos...93&postcount=6
And another thing to add the cars in the garage tonight, all we be revealed..:thumb:
Scott
Sound, nice one for that Scott :) I have the rest of the brake setup from that car, wonder if chris had the same problem as me with the brake pedal!! Lol
any luck on Tyres yet? Are you looking at getting all 4?
Well sod all has really happened since last time, lol bar the re-spray pre PV, and then getting it ready for PV fitting new temp sender AGAIN and wiring the fan into a switch etc..
(ran 13.9's at pv, bit disappointed)
So here's the pre pv-and pv pics..
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Well after the drive home from PV the car sat on the drive at my parents house and was not used until this weekend just gone 18/9/10 where i drove to Bromsgrove to meet Brakersnova to give him some rear springs, and on first turn it fired up, though ran very lumpy and had a sticky tappet again for the first 10 mins or so..Although it drove fine, and is as fast as it alway has been.
Things i need to do IF it's staying, i need to sort the fuel tank for the one Baxter gave me at billing, put a new rad on it, new slimline fan, not sure whether or not to go one front one rear, push and pull etc..
New oil cooler pipes, but need to figure out how to attach them to the sandwich plate end first??
Then IF i keep it the long term plan is to have some slight head work done etc.
Any ideas or help on oil cooler pipes to connect to the GM sandwich plate would be of great help.
Scot
Keep it. You know it makes sense! Really like the look of your car.
Oil cooler pipes, surely you can just take the old ones in, measure them up and get the correct unions? I shall be doing this for mine eventually.
Could do, lol or just find some GM/ Vaux pattern one's just the ones on the car are leaking like fook from the joint between where the solid pipe comes from the sand wedge plate/filter to the rubber piping, it then runs down the tie bar and onto my wheel.. Not god for my brakes really..
Oh also need to get my steering rack looked at, maybe fit the quick rack Ive had for about a year?
Scott
Just get a local hydraulic company to makes you two braided lines up.
Thats how mine were done & cost peanuts.
Pirtek...i got some connectors just to get mine connected up. Will get some proper ones made eventually.
re the pipes Scott, as said get a local hydraulics supplier to makes some up.
Just be warned, my local place have a habit of over-speccing any pipes I ask for & give me stuff you can barely bend, suitable for 100,000psi type stuff. I binned £90 quids worth as it was no use to me.
I ended up getting new unions from them & using oil cooler piping I sourced from Speedflow (probably MOCAL stuff) & mated it up with jubilee clips. That was for my relocated filter so its the same deal really.
Try www.speedflow.co.uk/ for any stuff, though I doubt they will know thread sizes etc if you want the unions. But if you know what you need they are great.
You can just see the ones i had made by local hydraulic company when engine came out last time.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...V/DSC02758.jpg
scott, phone me, ill do you a good deal on some hoses, will need to know thread sizes and lenght
Not got your numberer mate, and your not at the mids meet tomo now! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by General Baxter
So as it's mids meet tomo i washed the car for it's outing.
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7199/j20yel.jpg
Scott
Looking forward to seeing it tommorow scott,
cleaned mine also, shame you cant clean the rust off mine haha
So so need to do some work on this, got parts that have been sat for almost a year! lol
what's the rush! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
So.......
While over at my olds today i cleaned the mk1 and generally had a mince about etc..
I started the track car up (first crack as always, love dry cells!)
Let it run and made sure there was no leaks etc..
Then while looking it over i noticed some stupid pikey who knows nothing about breaking into novas has had a go!
Looks as if they seen the door gap, noticed the lock and thought they could prise it down like so..
(this is slightly open so you can see the latch etc..)
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2480/photo0335v.jpg
Guess they were trying to press the latch part sticking out here..
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6190/photo0334z.jpg
As they caused slight damage to paint work where a screwdriver type tool has been pushed down the door aperture etc..
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9397/photo0332h.jpg
So after seeing this i promptly decided to place it under a cover to keep prying eyes off..
Need to do loads to it, just got no cash!
Scott
Ah that's a shame.
I'll just touch it over, and try to place some lacquerer on it and hope it's OK, as it is peeling like that at the mo, just need more money so i can get it how i need it to do a few track days this year, then i think it's GOT to go, just not got enough time/money to keep/use it now I'm not living at home etc.
Not good Scott. Dont think they'd ever get in trying to do what it looks like they have.
Nova wise, im in pretty much the same situation as you atm!
gutted mate i fukin hate pikeys
Well after some **** had fiddled with my door i decided to take the steering wheel off the car, BUT then realised this was not really a good long term solution so i searched on ebay and found a nice slim 25mm / 1" inch snap off boss to wheel kit..
I thought at £39.97 it cant be a waste etc.
So it arrived today an I'm pleased to say its looking good so far, but only time will tell once i use the car with it on etc, so heres some pics.
Front on view where wheel attaches.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/849/photo0386v.jpg
Rear view, this face goes against the wheel boss..
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5011/photo0381r.jpg
Once you bolt it to the wheel and press the button in your left with this part to bolt to the boss.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2748/photo0382a.jpg
Like so.. This now shows both parts bolted to boss and wheel..
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5903/photo0380p.jpg
Re aligned them up and turn the black center collar to the right and the lock mechanism slides into place and its now firmly attached!
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9669/photo0377n.jpg
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3917/photo0378z.jpg
As you can see 25mm is nothing compared to some Ive seen that are over 2.5 inches increase toward the driver!
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2237/photo0379.jpg
Scott
any link for this as i could do with one for a future project ;) ive been looking for a snap off kit but they always seem way too dear!
That looks smart scott :) may look in to getting one
Try this mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by maddogdaz666
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SNAP-OFF-BOSS-...item27b74e4451
Scott
cheers scott, thats a tidy kit :)
So...
After a bit of info digging Ive replaced the oil with some nice and not so cheep fluids.. Mobil 1 motorsport oil 15w50 along with a nice new champion filter.
The old filter was a cont to get off, not sure why! but finally got it off, i left the sump plug and filter out/off over night to drain it all out.
Finlay found the main reason Ive had an oil leak from, it's leaking slowly from the cooler union joints, and very slightly from one of the pipes where it goes from the metal crimped end into the rubber pipe, so next on the list will be a remote filter/braided pipe setup..
So while the bumper was off i decided to fit my splitter of my Astra, i didn't want it to sit flush and blend into the GSi bumper, so set it back slightly, giving a nice flair on the corners, i quite like it..
Ordered some Eaton synflex piping for my extinguisher system, should get that sorted midweek..
Anyway a few pics i took today.
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/6250/photo0432e.jpg
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http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5827/photo0435.jpg
Rest of the fleet! lol
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9279/photo0429i.jpg
More updates by tuesday.
Scott
Oh something i would like oppions on, should i remove the opel stickers off the doors, or leave them?? im not sure if im all that kean any more on them..
Leave em on Scott they suit the scheme of the car down to a tee imo:thumb:
Ive got other vynal graphics for it as well, had them a while, think if i fit them it could be way to ott, i'll see.
personaly i like them on but what others do you have? i do agree it maybe ott though... :)
Just some checkers for the side/rear
loving the yellow wheels still!
i do like you nova pal , i mite one day get round to doing mine lol
what are the other ones ???
What do you mean Kev? other wheels?
lol at first i wernt sure, but now i dont know why i didnt do it sooner!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
So the day started early 7.30 to get ready, and off me and my dad went to cheltenham to MEKmotorsport..
Let the pics do the talking..
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153lbft
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3696/dscf2209d.jpg
185bhp @ 7347rpm
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Dave is a really nice guy, very friendly and helpful, and he was very impressed to see a standard XE on TB's get a reading the good, he said normally they only see TB'd and T45 carb'd XE's getting 177bhp etc..
I'm well chuffed, need to do some more bits to it soon though, will upload some vids another time once there ready.
Vids now added..
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/511/file14835.mp4
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7263/file19323.mp4
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http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7263/file19323.mp4
The drive home is the first time in a long time i have smiled and laughed loads while driving my ANY car, its so so much better to drive, and i thought it was Quick before, now i know its FAST!
Scott