985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

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Originally Posted by novarally

I'm ahead of you there Oli, that's exactly the kit I am hoping to make work on the back of the Nova! Managed to find a brand new kit on EBAY at a good price.

Apparently the parcel of bits has just arrived at home, so I will be having a play with mocking it all up next week.

2.8kg for each hub and disc assembly will be a huge saving over the Nova rear drums.

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This is the contents of the box of goodies;

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...cort/004-6.jpg

Now just have to make it all fit a Nova...........

if anyone has anything to do with Minis (classic Mini, not BMW!) I could do with a pair of rear stub axles, or even a complete rear beam please.

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Originally Posted by novarally

This is the contents of the box of goodies;



Now just have to make it all fit a Nova...........

if anyone has anything to do with Minis (classic Mini, not BMW!) I could do with a pair of rear stub axles, or even a complete rear beam please.

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minis run subframes and swing arms not a beam and theres no such thing as a mini stub axle in the same sense as a nova.

http://www.somerford-mini.co.uk/pdfs...ydrolastic.pdf

colin, check out your local car trailer place, a lot of the old indespension stuff was the same size as mini ones.... what is the pcd like?

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Originally Posted by mowgli

colin, check out your local car trailer place, a lot of the old indespension stuff was the same size as mini ones.... what is the pcd like?

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Good thinking, thanks for that.

The PCD is 4", which I believe is 101.4mm, so it's very close to Vauxhall.

I can either use 'wobble' nuts with Vauxhall wheels, or I have some 13" Mini alloys available.

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Originally Posted by burgo

minis run subframes and swing arms not a beam and theres no such thing as a mini stub axle in the same sense as a nova.

http://www.somerford-mini.co.uk/pdfs...ydrolastic.pdf

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I did mean swing arm, not beam, sorry. A lot of race car Minis converted to a rear beam set-up which is where my confusion comes from.

Thanks for the PDF file, that will be useful.

some nice bits you got there!!

101.4mm PCD sounds familiar. I think 4stud Hyundai's might use that figure.

Nice work all round Colin, keep it up. Hoping to attend some hill climb events this year as spectators as we did Jersey a couple of years ago and throughly enjoyed it.

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Originally Posted by Harvey

Nice work all round Colin, keep it up. Hoping to attend some hill climb events this year as spectators as we did Jersey a couple of years ago and throughly enjoyed it.

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Thanks Harvey. I trust you are well. I've always fancied going over to the Channel Islands for a hillclimb, or even better into Europe. One day......