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true colours
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love pearl paints same photos same camera angle taken one after the other one with my hand casting a shadow one without look at the colour differences
Thats a bit of a pain on the TXB but at least youve found it while youre looking for problems while its off the road and not halfway to pod with your nova on a trailor behind it:thumb:
Excellent work, keep the updates coming
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sorting wiring out extending some shortening others for tidyer routing
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engine built waiting to go back in
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What wheels will she be running on when she comes back out to play then bud:d
it will have the tubby wheels backon it but colour is yet to be decided i was originaly thinking in audi titan grey (all but anthricite) but now thinking hi bright standard silver
Tidy.
Brett's cav looks loads better with silver wheels imo
thats what i was thinking but its an odd colour when its polished up and i have smoked headlights indicators rears are smoked as standard im just a little unsure
looking good i love the caliper paint mate nice to see its coming along so well
and vts lock the txb of by adding extra clutch rings i have done a few like this and they have nevr let people down !
if the big plastic ring on the back of the txb ir red its a vts one also if it has 2 breather pipes on the top of it is also a indication its a vts box
hope this helps a little !
Ste please keep going and don't you dare think of stopping updating or I'll beat you with a blunt object lol
Love the cav but I eagerly await Nova updates ;)
thats filthy, at least its getting the love it deserves now
Mr Porter - I was going to comment on why there had been no updates. I read and enjoy the Cav upddates as much as the Nova updates.
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Definately hi power silver man will suit to a tee:thumb:
loving the work on the cav mate!! the caliper looks well good in blue!!
its a bodge mate! no offence ment but it realy is.Quote:
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i also know people that havent had a problem but i also know a few that have its also a reason why alot of people crack the casings on the tx because your using the bolts that hold the casing together as a permenant presure source by pre loading the box with more rings that there is room for to get the required amount of clamping force which is usualy more than what the standard clutch slave cylinder or casing was designed for!
prime example was the fact that i have always been sus of it sinse i refited it not only because of the whine but because it never seemed to transfer asmuch power to the rear as my white one did nomater how hot i got the v/c and now i know why by the fact that the box is riddled with shrapnel from the broken down clutch material from the clutch rings the same stuf that nackered all the bearings
in my opinion if its got to be locked its got to be done in the same mannor mike howards does them with a purpose made locking ring.
like i say mate no offence ment but its not right like that and a transfer box isnt a 2 minute job when fitted in the car to change so i dont fancy doing it again in 3 weeks so it will have locking rings
oh and its defenatly not a vts unless vts use 3 tubes of rtv sealent to seal one crown wheel cover!
No offence taken mate !
the trouble is when fitting the metal rings it transfers more pressure to the main diff in the txb if you look at turbodazzs cav turbo which had mikes rings fitted this also gave up the ghost so there is problems both ways i prefere to use the clutch plate rings as it does give a little and also turbodave has run a vts box for nearly 75k and has done trackdays 1/4 miles and daft things like that so there are pros and cons with both set ups at the end of the day the vauxhall txb is really a choclate box and will give up no matter what you do to them ! lol
but keep up the good work i look forward to the next installment
to be honest i have dug my acumulator setup out that was in my white one and im thinking about fitting one of my spare fully working tx boxes and the full standard 4x4 system rather than locking itQuote:
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the only thing im missing is the bracket that bolts to the bulk head that holds the acumulator update on its way by the way
i might have one mate i will have a look for you ! its yours
and i still run standard 4x4 i prefer it
let you know on the bracket !
didnt get anywhere near as much done as i wanted today as i didnt get down there till 4 pm but heres todays junkies fix
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also started cutting my bumper and trial fitting the cooler ect so i can get brackets welded on to hold the cooler before i paint the cross member
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Cav turbo were designed to be bigmouthed it seems! Good work Ste - is this one ur keeping or doing up to sell?
the plan is to keep it but if i come across a decent white one then it will be going in spuds direction as i would love another white one
im having this resprayed hopefully just before pvs and i debated having it sprayed white then but seems as its now the rarest colour they did them in with only a handfull left registered in its colour it would be criminal so it will just get a fresh blow over in 13l polor sea blue its current and original colour
great work mate, but seeing that big intercooler poping out the front of that bumper, just makes me want to put a cav bumper on my astra even more, even if everybody else se`s it wont look good :)
what happened to the 4x4 nova build in this thread??
what happened to the 4x4 nova build in this thread??
People wanna see the nova!
it on hold till this is done
the cav was and will be my daily when its back together mate problem was head went porous and im sure you have gathered by now if im going to take a job on i dont do it in halfs so its kinda gone from a head swop to a major overhaul and clean up of all the major components that are a pain to sort once the cars beeing used daily againQuote:
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plan is to get everything tarted up now that would need the car of the road for more than a day then when its back on the road i will be doing all the other tarty bits like hoses ect as and when
as soon as this is back on the road i will sell the beemer im running about in and start again with the nova
Love the brakes
ahhh good stuff mate, i went too thelast pages an seen a cav build an was hoping the nova hadnt been scrapped or summit, keep up the good work mate, i also have a new love for cav gsi there lovely haha
Coming along nicely!
ste ignore the hates out there who say cavs are s*/t i and im sure others have suscribed to the thread. keep up the good work mate
Errr Ste i thought you said those brakes were for the back end of something else lol
Heres hoping you finds yourself a white one then aswell:d :d :d :d
they are................................. just couldnt help myself they would suit the cav down to the ground lolQuote:
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belive it or not those 320mm brakes are going on the rear of a corsa!
doesnt seem like i have done alot today but what i have done has taken ages as i have cleaned and rebuilt my transfer box and modified my viscous coupling to send more power to the rear wheels
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testing my clutch
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the 2 pics above and the one directly below are of the inside of the vc that was in the bodged and so called locked box i had fitted as you can imagine it shouldnt be black thats because its been over heating as a result of the crap way someone tryed locking it with extra clutch rings
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rings from the above vc cleaned up
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and this is what it should look like inside a vc that hasnt been over heating notice the fluid is still blue how it should be
also i have fitted 2 extra rings already in this pic
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and all built up marked and ready to fit
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