Awesome Colin, love the Chase HQ arcade too!
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Awesome Colin, love the Chase HQ arcade too!
Be fine Mike hes only removed one from what i see...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Don't worry, I've since braced them up with steel, so they are stronger than before. I'm also going to brace down onto the posts of the lift itself, just to be 100% sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
One of the great arcade games, but sadly it stopped working recently. I believe it's the monitor which has gone, so if anyone knows where I can get a 20" Hantarex MTC-9000 (circa 1988!), let me know.Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
Actually a lot of woods have a higher youngs modulus/density than steels, so if you've replaced it weight for weight it may not be stiffer.Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
It will be fine braced with steel, obviously, but there's a little fact for you to surprise people with lol
Wow just catching up on this thread that is some power your getting now from that tiny engine.
Picked up the Nova yesterday from BTEC Racing, so the hard work for me begins now to get it ready for testing, and then the first race weekend 16/17th April.
There's an awful lot of stuff to do, so panic time.
what no pics :(
Sorry, here you go, not much to see though really, as there's lots of re-fitting and things to be done;Quote:
Originally Posted by stupot89
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Also got myself a rather flash Dymo label printer, which will allow me to do some fancy labelling for switches, fuses etc.;
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The new exhaust system now exits on the passenger side;
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It's currently unsilenced, and may well be too loud to get away with at race meetings. The old exhaust system has been modified so it can be re-fitted in case of emergencies........
The new STACK dash is lovely, but the boost pressure sensor that came with it seems to be faulty, and at £250 +VAT for a new one, I'll make do with a temporarily rigged up separate boost gauge for the moment;
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The boot floor will be covered with carbon fibre, I will make up a cardboard template first, based on the Vauxhall-supplied carpet template;
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Ian Bennett has kindly made me up some rear light stickers to go along with the headlamp stickers he did for me earlier;
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Did a trial fit on the new Compomotive Turbo split rims on the back;
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Without major surgery to the mechanicals, it's certainly going to need to be wide arched.
Also trial fitted the new 2mm plastic windows, which fit perfectly (thanks to ACW Motorsport Plastics);
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I'm tempted to fit a tailgate with a GTE/SR spoiler moulded into it, which I have already, but it's laid up in pretty thick fibreglass and is going to end up adding weight;
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The rear piece of the bodykit which incorporates the rear light blanks is ridculously heavy for fibreglass!!;
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And I think I'll do away with the rear towing eye, saves a small amount of weight, but more importantly it reduces the overall length which it needs to fit into my enclosed trailer;
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The rear anti-roll bar can be used as a towing point without a problem.
The ARB has another useful purpose, I can stand in the hole cut-out in the boot floor and lift the whole rear end off the floor with ease.
now THATS a tight fit lolQuote:
Originally Posted by novarally
loving the comp turbos :d
Amazing build :)
+rep :)
Looks great Colin. Just thought of a few more possible areas for weight removal.
The door handles. What people normally do and remove the plastic leaving the metal frame.
The part of the shell where the rear bumper mounts on the sides of the car. Surly it can be chopped similar to the front wings.
I plan to do away with the door handles completely at some point. The passenger door will be quick release, and I intend to use an alternative fixing method on the drivers side.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmw156
The rear wings could be cut away as you suggest, although that will allow water and mud into the car.....I could replace the steel with something else to seal it up though.
Colin I respect the car & yourself, but if were mine i'ud go all out for the stock look rather than easier option. Make the push & reengineer that beam so those monster slicks live behind standard looking arches.
Very good point, Colin certainly appears to have the skills to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRoadGhost
Would it still be within Hillclimb/sprint regs?
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Originally Posted by novarally
What's that little yellow toy we see in the garage
Wide arch C20XE rally car ??
More pictures/info please :thumb:
Dave
Thats the Mattig wide arch kitted nova ;)
here you go dave:
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=165506&page=4
Looks possibly like a mattig kitted vauxhall nova dave?
I really must keep upto date with Colins projects :)
Cheers boys
Glad you received the stickers, hope there ok for you.
The cars looking like a seriously light weight weapon now. It'll be interesting to see if you can notice any major differences from the last time you drove it.
Ian
more weight saving?
remove the bulkhead/ firewall panel
take the hole saw to the metal panel inside ( that the dash normaly covers)
cut off the lower part of the rear bumper
remove the front towing eye an replace with ne of those fabric loops found on touring cars
This has been covered dozens of times previously........I cannot lighten the bodyshell anywhere between the wheel centres.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan23
The alloy tow eye is without question lighter in weight than a tow strap.
And I guess that the bumper could be cut down, but would look daft I suspect.
looking great colin, loving the light stickers! only thing i can see that would save decent weight is to make the passenger door bar a single rather than a x, yes it makes it slightly less safe but you are sat a long way from there...and of course the regs may say you have to have a x bar
but really, its so skinny now finding big losses will be hard, probably more performance gains to be made elsewhere on the car, love it!:thumb:
Dragged it out into the sunshine this morning to get a bit of work done on it;
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More detailed photos later, depending on progress!
colin, i can't remember.... are you swapping the bonnet or not?? the cooling scoop does look a touch odd, is there a tidier way of doing it?
I'm not planning to swap the bonnet.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
The cooling scoop is a hangover from an earlier intercooler installation from quite a few years back. It's redundant now.
I have a carbon fibre scoop that could be fitted, or I could just glassfibre over the hole. It's not on the 'high priority' list with all the other jobs that need doing though!
Bit of playing with the kevlar door skin I have for the passenger side. It's going to need some imagination with quick release clips to get it fitting nicely;
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Made up some rear light 'blanks' using the stickers which Ian did for me. They save just over 100g each compared with the cut-down rear lights I was using;
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And I made up some quick-release door hinge pins for the drivers side. Naturally they are aluminium to save on weight;
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This afternoon I will be experimenting with (yet another) wide arch kit which I've got hold of.......
If anyone wants to wide arch their Nova, get in touch with me as I have lots of bits.
I have one complete rallycross-style kit (all in fibreglass, including bumpers, wings, rear quarters and sideskirts). I also have a pair of steel wings with the wide arches fitted to them, and a complete pair of Mk.1 fibreglass wide arch front wings.
Whats the blue and yellow wide arch nova colin? looks an interesting bit if kit
read the last couple pages, i put a link to pics.
Looks like you have your work cut out on the car as you said! Its coming on though, and you can tell from looking at the pics that its been on a massive diet! lol
Stickers look like they have gone on well, nice and flat. Good Stuff.
Mattig-kitted with 8" x 15" Compomotive split rims, Redtop 2.0 16v, unused for 10 years (when it was built). Very much a stripped out track/sprint car, but it is road legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by boffer8
Just got a new MoT on it, and it is up for sale....
Usual e-mail address for those with cash burning a hole in their pockets
A quick question for anybody who is expert on Vauxhall colours.......
What shade of red do you think this Nova of mine is?
I'm thinking Carmine Red, but could it be Flame Red? Or something else?
I spoke to Andy Bradley who built the car in 1999, and he had a vague recollection it was Carmine Red, but wasn't 100% sure. It's definitely a Vauxhall red though he says.
my money is on carmine. mine is flame red & i reckon the carmine is a deeper shade.
Thanks, I did just find an old can of Flame Red in the shed, and it does seem to be a little bit lighter than the car, so it looks like Carmine is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
It looks to be Carmine red, paint code is 76L. It's a tad more orange in colour than Flame red.
carmine is mk1.
flame is mk2.
AFAIK
martin..... mine is both mk1 & flame
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Originally Posted by mowgli