985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

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Originally Posted by novarally

Hi Jezz.

The owner of this car lives about 5 minutes from you........I will introduce you to one another.

Colin

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Please do Colin ,I would love to take my engine builder to see them and talk about the engine

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Originally Posted by toymex

Please do Colin ,I would love to take my engine builder to see them and talk about the engine

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Kevin built this engine himself (with input from Steve at SBD), and he's done a brilliant job on it.

Very good power and excellent torque on standard cams, and there's potential for more yet (I won't post the numbers on here!).

I will pass on your number to Kevin so you can get together.

BTW - with reference to our Mad'In split rims, I have now found out that Gotti centres are the same bolt pattern, and therefore interchangeable. Might be useful info for you.

The carbon fibre tailgate from UPG in Bulgaria;

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This is going to be bonded into place, so it won't be removable in future. Which is a problem as my fuel tank filler currently resides in the boot.

So, I either need to relocate the fuel filler position, or move the tank completely. I think this is my preferred option, so I picked up this 3.5 litre tank to experiment with;

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It fits rather neatly above the gearbox;

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It will mean I need to remove the one-piece front end every time to fill the tank, but it does away with all the pipework inside the car, saving a fair bit of weight.

Could you not make the front flip forward?

Started work on making the rear caliper mounts - as luck would have it I can just weld 2 captive nuts direct to the axle!;

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and a rather neat packaging solution to mating the fuel pump to my new tank;

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps43c4ed11.jpg

Just need to make up new fuel lines for that and sort out a tank breather.

A friend of mine has machined up some alloy brackets to mount the front calipers, they should be arriving on Monday so I will post up some pictures.

That rear brake set up is the bollocks

Other than possible bleeding problems (pressure bleed or remove to Bleed) that looks like a nice easy modification :)

Please see some of my FAO posts

How come you're mounting the caliper at the bottom?

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Originally Posted by novarally

A very successful return it was as well. The car previously used a 2.0 XE, but following the rebuild it has a 1639cc smallblock 16v engine with an XEL head, couple to an F20 Quaife SCCR gearbox with ATB.

Note the wheels - ex-works Astra 16" magnesium in ET49. Looks great.

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Do you know if that is a Z16XEL or X16XEL head Colin? The cam cover is Z16 but that doesn't elude to below ;-)