Awesome :)
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Awesome :)
good luck in germany mate
been following thsi project for years glad you got through the tough times to finish it,
great work, have fun!
Sounds good Andy. Likewise about my local dealers. Bunch of useless, miserable old men.
You cant imagine how quick the words 'No longer serviced I'm afraid' can roll off the tongue. I'm sure they say it with an undertone of pleasure too.
Car sounds fantastic. New grille badge yeah?
Had the tracking sorted at the weekend, Mart took it for me while i was over in Germany, Drove it down to Birmingham lastnight so Karl can take it into Radtec for me while i'm away for a few days to finish a few things with the coolers. That was fun, absolutely hammering it down with rain and ended up coming off the motorway at Cannock because of traffic on the motorway, driving through the floods was fun.... Just odds and ends to do once i get it back, vinal and stickers to fit, then going give it a oil change, a proper good clean and polish as everything is filthy underneath now! and then it will be ready for Germany. Just got to sort the gearbox again when i get back, that should be fun!!
Took out for a good English summer, soaking already!
sounds like your cracking on chap :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by andybishop
I was going up the M6 (to stoke) and coming down again last night to cannock, and the visibility was appualing!! so much spray/standing water going through stafford that everyone slowed down to around 40mph!
It made it to Germany and back!!! Now done 1700 miles since rebuild with no major problems.
Rob picked the car up from Radtec for me on the Saturday before i was due to go to germany in it, i was struggling to get it as i was on my way back from a 3 day works incentive (pi$$ up) in Puerto Banus and would of been in no state to get it... Radtec had changed all the pipes to Black as i'd originally wanted and fitted the fan temp sensor in the radiator which they had forgotten to do. Over the next few nights we sorted some wiring out and sorted some alarm problems we'd been having, and on the Tuesday night Mart and I were working on it till around 1am, fitting all the pipe work for the heaters which we had'nt done when we threw the dash in for the MOT, this almost involved removing the dash again. All the dash components were fitted, door builds, wiring for speakers and door cards were fitting. New Roose motorsport pipes were fitted to replace the red samco and overbraided pipe i had going to the top header tank outlet. It was finally in a decent state to get us to germany.
After work on Wednesday we loaded the car up and left Stoke to head for Dover, picking Karl up from the services on the M6 on the way and also fitting the new Ipod head unit that i'd had delivered that day on the way. We made it for ferry in plenty of time, however a different story for beastie who had forgotten something vital for a european trip.. narrowly making the ferry in time!! On the other side we drove through the night in the rain and arrived at the hotel at around 8 in the morning. Met up the rest of the group who had caught an earlier euro tunnel crossing, and later on Novaneil and his group turning up.
Over the following 5 days i did 5 steady laps in the Nova and started to give it a bit more stick after running the engine in with a couple of trips to Koln Bonn airport to pick up and drop off some friends who had flown out.
I only encountered two problems while over there, one being that it was overboosting to 20psi and the ecu was cutting it back, i adjusted it back bit by bit and eventually got to the end of the thread on the actuator. It now cuts only in 5th and 6th under heavy load. I'd just taken the turbo off the Cavalier i had and not set it up, the cav ran a superchipped ecu and bleed valve which was used to control the boost. I will be chipping it at some point soon to sort the problem and will be able to run more boost.
The other problem was that the i could hear the clutch cable snapping a strand at a time as i drove round the roads surrounding the ring, whilst trying to diagnose my gearbox problem i'd stuck a old cable on it which was past it. This was easily sorted with a trip to the guest house and swapping it with a another from my comprehensive spares stockpile i'd taken with me.
Car needs a damn good cleaning now ready for Trax, also need to sort my wheels out, fit the vinal and stickers and do the final tidy of the engine bay and sort a scuttle cover out, oh and get my gearbox rebuilt, fit it and give Marts his back...
Only pictures i can find on the net of it...
http://www.nova-turbo.co.uk/images/nurburgringcam.png
Being overtaken by a porsche...
http://www.nova-turbo.co.uk/images/ringlap.jpg
Good to hear things went well mate :)
Well built car to have done that with so few/non breakdowns etc.
Need some proper pics now mate :)