Spot on:thumb:
On Olly's car he just has to cut the IGN feed to the MBE system.
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Spot on:thumb:
On Olly's car he just has to cut the IGN feed to the MBE system.
Woo! :D
i always have a tendancy to be non-commital and put IIRC, as I'd hate to fook someones car up haha!
Didn't read all of the 101 pages but nice project you got going on there! :eek:
Love the airbox!
As for that fia-cut-off-switch: we usually cut off the ground wire from the battery to the chassis ;)
thanks to Dar for helping me out verbally, and also to burgo who had left me the same information on MSN as I asked him then went back out to the car, and also to Oli who was also correct - all sorted, and it works - YAY!
so out of the jobs that had to be done this bank holiday weekend i have:
> DONE - increase passenger positive castor to match drivers wheel to wheel measurement
> DONE - refit seats & harnesses, also raised drivers seat by 1 notch
> DONE - get distribution block from halfords to extend cabling to battery
> DONE - wire in fia switch > DONE - check gears as changed to internal shifter
> DONE - make rear spring retainers
> DONE - test drove it
still to do tomorrow and monday
> rear springs on
> get down to get it tracked up for now, and for donny
> get to Ashley, Walsall to have new exhaust made
> slightly adjust gear shifter, as I can easily get R, 1, 3, 4, 5 but not 2 for some reason lol
> lighten door handles
> hole cut rear bumper
I've obviously pre-loaded my new quickrack waaaayyyy too much, as I can hardly turn the wheel, I know it's going to be heavier, but its way too heavy lol so when it's up on the ramps, the big 22mm preload nut is easily accessible so I'll sort it then :thumb:
PS: how the hell did I do all those trackdays quickrackless - they're awesome!
Good work Olz, really coming along now :)
OK - so my days work in photos...
Airbox & Ducting
First off, after giving airbox several coats of good ole; satin black, i fitted it, loving how it looks, and I nabbed our tumble dryer ducting which is a perfect fit @ 102mm ID, considering "special air ducting" is £25 per metre, in which I'd need 1.5 metres, which means paying for 2metres lol
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0785.jpg
So, I finally got to mash up my passenger headlight I bought from Craig Green ages ago (ta again), so I cut a 100mm hole in the back of that
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0787.jpg
Ran some of my favourite rubber edging around it
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0788.jpg
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0789.jpg
In risk of it coming off, I applied a small bead of clear silicone under the flaps and secured them with clips for an hour
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0790.jpg
All done!
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0791.jpg
Love this pic looking through the headlight I've made, up the tubing, might make a small sticker for the base of the headlight saying "AIR THIS WAY" and an arrow lol
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0801.jpg
FIA Switch
Next up, not many pics as it's just wiring, but this is the said junction block I bought from Halfrauds to extend my 35mm2 wiring to my battery after going to my FIA switch, now runs down the passenger side of the exhaust tunnel instead of the drivers sill
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0792.jpg
The resistor looked quite dainty and didn't want the wire snapping, so I added bullet connectors and wrapped it black tape so it doesn't get caught on anything
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0793.jpg
Rear Spring Retainers
Then onto my rear spring retainers, take a 4mm thick steal right angle 'heavy duty shelf bracket' from B&Q (0.79p), and mark out the OD of the spring (82mm)
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0794.jpg
Drill out the centre hole to 10mm, to accomodate a M10 bolt
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0795.jpg
Weld on some 4mm sides to "hug" the spring, so it's seated correctly and cannot slide side to side, and spray matt black, of course
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0796.jpg
Now if you think where my fingers are, on the head of the bolt, this is going to be welded to my chassis and then the nut will be tightened thus holding the spring up to the bottom of my car, I'm aware the Nova rear beam pivots, which is handy because the retainer naturally sits on an angle on the spring, which will allow me to position it correctly
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0797.jpg
Castor shots
Just some pics of front wheels with castor added
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0798.jpg
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0799.jpg
Interior back in with shifter
Seats & harnesses back in with shifter, still need to tweak gears, drivers seat one notch higher, and fia switch now in and working (can see battery live cable (not fastened yet))
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0800.jpg
Once again, thanks for reading :thumb:
Looking funky mate, nice mod with the rear springs, certainly more classy than my fitting idea lol
Really looks ace olly!
Michelle must be so forgiving ;)
Nice to see a different approach to retaining the rear springs -
The method I use (And a lot of the rally boys !!) - Cut a section of seat belt webbing - one end secured with a bolt/large washer through the hole in the bottom of the rear beam near the shock mount, the other end bolted via the lip on the rear chassis leg - this restricts the rear beam from dropping too far causing the spring to drop out !!!
Glad you like the quick rack - Totally transforms the whole driving experience - Won't be long before you start thinking about EPAS !!!! Especially running a plate diff !!!!!!!!!!
Dave
nice work ols, neat fab for the spring bracket i like it!
hi bud thats one mint shell there nice job uvedone with engine brings back memories lol ,your garage looks mint aswell wanna pop round an sort mine lol (roof leakin again ) at the moment my gsi is standard thinkin of c20let what u think with ur project is it easier to fit the c20xe or go full on ,only way ide do the turbo converstion is to 4wd it as itll be more controlable more of the time anyways wat u think just tryin to get some ideas cheers chap
Ad, Jon & Paul - thanks for the comments.
Dave - very interesting about limiting the drop on the beam, I might well do that aswell.
I've been doing some measurements, full droop on the beam with the bottom shock absorber bolt in (obviously) is 6inches, from the beam spring seat, upto the chassis.
Now, my spring is 4inches, and my height adjustable platform is 0.8", so at very least, my minimum total heigh (as previously said I think lol) is 4.8 inches, which could mean that I have 1.2" drop too much (should I ever get major airborn)
But I'll have to see after my cornerweighting session, as if they are mid-to full height, I won't have any gap even with the shocks at full length :thumb:
I like the idea though, should I need to limit the drop on the beam! :)
Seconded/thirded on nice work on the spring retainers, I think I'll either go that route or the beam straps at some point in the near future, think my cable tied rear springs are frowned upon :cry:
Well, the beam straps are OK - but I'd personally wouldn't like the springs not being "held" in.
I know I know, standard Novas, and 99% of cars on the road don't have rear springs held in, but then 99% of the cars on the road don't have them this small.
I'll end up doing both, the retainers to hold them up to the car, and the straps to get rid of the "banging" should there become a gap...
We'll have to see after my visit to JamSport :thumb:
Thanks again for the interest! :)
Cool work as always.
Liking the spring "retainment" system :)
ols cant you use the same retianers on the beam too? so its all solid??
Good work going on there - love the air box and light intake mod. Your car does you credit - very effective modification:thumb:
BTW got any advice as to the best buys available for snap off steering wheels? With my new seat in place I cant get out lol
Cheers Ad.
Paul - not really, as thats where my height adjuster is going to be sitting, so a similar retainer will restrict the height
CP - thanks mate, really chuffed with how it's come out. Regarding 'Snap-Off' bosses, I bought mine from eBay for £27 delivered, I'll find you the link and PM you :)
OK, on with progress from today, in short - rear springs are sorted, and fixed in position! yay
Before I go any further, I must say a massive massive thank you to Matt Newey (m17tty), Rob Hirst & Andy Clay for all their help today - was wicked fun... also thanks to Michelle for the drinks and doughnuts, and also Rich!
Photos/ How To - as always from me lol
When you remove your rear spring, on the chassis you will have a locating nipple so the spring knows where to be seated
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0802.jpg
Our weapon of choice, a 40mm hole saw, after deciding a angle grinder wasn't approprate due to space
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0803.jpg
Matt gets with down and dirty with it lol
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0804.jpg
Action shot, gotta love a bit of action
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0805.jpg
Then you will be left with this
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And this can be desposed off, unless you'd like to keep it of course
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0807.jpg
Then zapp a flap disk over it to get the metal nice and shiney, so you can see your face it in
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0808.jpg
Then cut a 3.5" by 3" section of 2mm steel, which hits the circular part of the chassis perfect corner-to-corner, measured by Matt
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0809.jpg
We decided to weld the M10x35 nut onto the steel plate as it'll be stronger, a better weld, and would be easier to weld to the car, so I did this
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0810.jpg
Better pic of the B&Q brackets that I put together
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0824.jpg
And then along with the top rubber seat, this is how it will be seated
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0811.jpg
Enter Rich... (not literally) after faffing about for hours trying to get my poxy welder to work, a call to Rich, 10 minutes later he arrived and did this for us
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0812.jpg
The add the rubber seat, then the spring, then the retainer, then the M10 nut with nylock, to get this - perfec'
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0813.jpg
From below, be sure the spring is sitting central... tis!
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0814.jpg
Here you also see how its held
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0815.jpg
The rear springs naturally sit at a "pointing back" angle, the same way the beam pivots forward, so we tried lifting the beam, and they sit absolutely perfect
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0816.jpg http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0817.jpg
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0818.jpg http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0819.jpg
Next up, remove the shims from the beams, to allow the heigh adjusters to seat correctly, and get rid
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0820.jpg
Here is a side on view of the setup
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0821.jpg
Seats on minimum, beam lifted up to springs
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0822.jpg
All bolted up - oops too low
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0823.jpg
So we raised it 25mm lol
And even at the shocks at full droop, the spring height cannot fallout - we tried yanking them out and they wouldn't come! so all good
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0825.jpg
Really enjoyed today - learnt alot - I hope others do too from the pics!
Thanks for reading!
like it mate, real thought gone into that setup.
looking ace olz.
:thumb: nice work
Excellent work, some awesome ideas gone into this project.
Not sure how you thought up with the rear spring retainer idea, but it looks like it will work perfectly!! :cool:
What welder was that bit of welding done with, a gasless mig? Looks well
very cool....
i want a set lol
Ad - Rich used a Clarke 160 Turbo Gas with that last piece of welding :thumb:
Ste - I made another set of retainers, and also have had made another set of turned down heigh adjustable platforms to 58mm, all you'd need to do is buy yourself some 4" or 3" springs
Thanks for the lovely comments - i'm pissed as newt at mo! haha too many Kopparbergs me thinks
Could have fooled me lolQuote:
Originally Posted by trackdaynova
Good work Captain Cheese :thumb:
oh ya bstid that made more snese tha nmy roginal postQ!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by trackdaynova
need to get some of my own beer goggle's to read that lol
Nice finishing touches there Olz,
Look forward to hearing how Friday goes :)
Could Captain Cheese be moving towards the third nickname in as many weeks?
Colonel Sloshed lol
lol lol lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Lee
How come it was too low on the lowest setting?
may be scrubbing on the tyres....
50 profile, so a little ballonish lol
Just looked too low, and we couldn't match it at the fronts, due to running 3mm spacers to clear my Wilwoods, and any lower it rips the front wings to bits...
Not doing it for cosmetics, just to get it to the best it could possibly be.
lol lol lol @ my posts last night... ffs
and MSN lol lol lolQuote:
Originally Posted by trackdaynova
Olz says
hiya ste
Olz says
long time no speak
Olz says
how are you matey ?
Olz says
i fecking love you
S t e - Roll on Silverstone in July (H) says
im not bad, you?
S t e - Roll on Silverstone in July (H) says
why haha
Olz says
just do
:p
OWNED lol
No1 rule when pi55ed, stay off the pc lol
Not quite as bad as when Spanish came on VS talking crap when drunk LOL
Last time I told Olz I loved him he asked me to stop as he thought I was sounding a bit gay