My Nova 16v Project

Olz my man,it has to be said that that pic of the nova is absolutely awesome mate!!! I take it back,it looks the dogs!!!!

Al - all speed bumps have been taken into consideration lol, luckily there are none in between Me & Donington, apart from those on the actual entry to the circuit itself.

Between Me and Cadwell though, is another story, if my plan comes together, it will be a case of setting up circuit side :thumb:

Cheers Keit', "have you still got water, on the murrr?"

Matt, thought you'd like it lol

OK, so the plan was for James (The Count) to come over tomorrow night for a bit of a session on the car with modifying the topmounts, and/or turrets if need be... but the plans changed, as I hadn't prepared for it enough.

Thats now happening possibly at the weekend.

But whilst the leg is off, and the topmount off for modification, I thought I might aswell up my spring rate, and reduce the length for the unsprung weight advantage which I wanted to do aswell.

So tomorrow I will order my new front springs, I'm going to change from 8" 313lb, to shorter, but higher poundage spring at 7" and 350lb, I'm also going to reduce the diameter from 2.5" to 2.25" again to aid more tyre/ spring clearence, so I'll take the spring seats on the coilovers to get turned down to 58.5mm to accept the narrower spring. Like I did on the rear adjusters.

Whilst everything is off, I'm also going to take my hubs to get the TRE hole drilled out to 12mm, ready for the rosejoints.

And so I'm not taking things apart over and over, I'll also cut down my steering arms to give me the full tracking ability that I've lost with the positive castor.

Makes sense doing it all in one go, as the leg would have to come off, and the top mount off the leg to do the original clearence mod anyway!

it can get a 'melee' with coilover springs, ull soon have as many springs as you do wheels n tyres..
I have to say i am a bit suprised youve stuck with the spax and not gone with a more track-based make/model of coilover, but i guess theres probably not a lot of difference..
Its hard to keep up with your thread so sorry if ive stated the obvious/ repeating.. Spax still going arent they?.. as a company..?

Until Spax fail me, or they're not upto what I class as acting how I want them to act, then I'll keep them.

The only "Spax" part of the coilover 'kit' I bought now are the shock absorbers themselves, all the springs have been upgraded along with topmounts.

I hear what you're saying, but I won't spend on things that don't need spending on, but then again, I'm not too sure what other coilover kits are around, and how they differ/ are better, than what I have.

I know GAZ are around, Leda are no longer I hear, and Avo I used to have and hated them which only leaves FK... which are very entry level...

Not stating the obvious pal :thumb: tis whats forums all about :)

top work olly

ill probably pop over on the weekend olz,once ive done a bit of spraying!

Not sure if anyone else has said this but If you are going to extend the tabs on the shock go easy because the heat build up might cause it to explode lol

You've been busy as a beaver! Looks superb Olly, I hope it all pays off where it counts, On track! :D

Peester almost cost me a lot of money today lol i called Leda for some prices on their coilovers, and for two front legs alone, shocks only, no springs, no topmounts were £350 per leg, plus carriage, plus VAT totalling £840 to my door lol :eek:

Needless to say I didn't go ahead, kinda dawned on me that this car is simply "only a track car" it's never going to be competing, but we all know its easy to get carried away, or at least, our minds do!

Hmmm, in the cheaper world of Olly, I ordered my 7", 2.25" ID, 350lb front springs today which came to £49 which was nice... also arranged with machine shop to drill my TRE hole out to 12mm, and get my spring platforms turned down to 58mm tomorrow :thumb:

So we'll be 'at it' at the weekend :)