My Nova 16v Project

Yep you're correct Lee, and the right way around, I ran out of inward thread, but on Nova steering arms the shape of the arm changes shape immediately after the threads stop, as two edges go flat where you'd put molegrips when turning the steering arms to do the tracking... so the thread couldn't be cut further in.

So we lobbed off the steering arms just after (just inward) of there the molegrip flats are, and then done the above...

My TCA RJ's are actually would all the way in the TCA, or near as damn it, so I have a bit of flexibility there to gain the neg-camber back, but the top of the wheel is sitting far too out at the moment, so I'm going to alter it tonght and just keep playing until I can drive it down to the garages where I can get it up on the ramp, and weld the washers on the car, when its setup how I want it :thumb:

yeah i know about the flats, but looking at the photos it seemed the new bit added had no thread where they would be anyways and they are pretty far down the arm, but whatever, its done now:)
you probably need to be carefull with your driveshaft plunge now if your wheels are that far out though, you might end up pulling shafts out the box on lock

Ahhh Lee beat me to it there! Only just occurred to me that you'll be risking the shafts like that. I guess though there should be a good bit of thread on the end of the shafts - might be able to wind them out slightly to gain a bit extra clearance...
Suppose you could get the front in the air and lock steering in each direction - get an idea of how much pull there is on boots - if the rubber is pulling flat then you may have a problem :)

Looking good though!

The wheels aren't any further out than any other Nova :confused:... as the RJ's on my TCAs are wound all the way in the TCA itself. So they're at a standard length that a standard TCA is :)

The new threaded bar has 20mm more thread than a standard steering arm has.

Just been out, raised it by 15mm, and reduced the +1 camber back to -1.5camber which is what I want to run at, and everything still clears :thumb:

However I think its due to crappy Nova tolerences, but the NSF tyre is closer to the wing than the OSF tyre... very odd!

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Originally Posted by trackdaynova

However I think its due to crappy Nova tolerences, but the NSF tyre is closer to the wing than the OSF tyre... very odd!

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probably is nova tolerences because my old nova was the opposite of what yours is.. my offside used to catch the arch on my old nova but the nearside was miles off and both the nearside and the offside were set to the exact same height on the coilovers

Seems like reinventing the wheel a bit to me...

I just did this:-

http://www.digitalempathy.co.uk/2008/iTRe.JPG

Update your WIP flush, want to see you gear leaver setup.

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Originally Posted by trackdaynova

The wheels aren't any further out than any other Nova :confused:... as the RJ's on my TCAs are wound all the way in the TCA itself. So they're at a standard length that a standard TCA is :)

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why do they hit the wings then?, if you ovaled the holes on the struts, then wound the tcas out, then surely they are further out, also the drive shaft angle being increased will mean the shfats themselves will be pulled further out of the cv, not a big deal, and easy to fix with a washer behind the hub side of the cv, but definitely worth checking out

Because its so low, and the positive camber that I had from elongation lol... the tyre wall is completely under the arch, but now been raised slightly, as i couldn't run it as low as pictured the other night.

Simon - thats been discussed, cba repeating myself anymore

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Originally Posted by lee303

if you ovaled the holes on the struts, then wound the tcas out, then surely they are further out

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whoa whoa whoa, I've not touched the TCAs at all, never. The RJ's are wound all the way in, thus the shortest possible.

I've repeated that three times now Lee lol Not once have I even implied that I've done the contrary lol