Loving the progress matey TURBO is massive!!!
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Loving the progress matey TURBO is massive!!!
Out of interest, have you any pictures of your old miami blue nova?
Could fit a rad in the boot? Had a look at civic rads? They're so small but efficient. Half the size of a Vauxhall one.. Just a thought..
£300 for the bars of doom though matelol If you do want em i'll throw in..... some carbon:thumb:
Did you pick up the tear drops to mount them? iirc theres 2 sizes depending on how you want to do it.... or atleast on how i was going to do it. If you terminate engine side with a single tie in use the 5mm tear drops then you can cut the rest of the bar off. If you go beyond then tie in front and back and use he 3mm tear drops. If going beyond then the tube should realy have a plate in it but tbh once the tear drops are welded it'll make the bridge redundant.... it'll just look better:cool:
Dash is mint mate, dunno why i dint try one in, tried everything elselol
Dont worry about picking the logbook up, ive a new red one at home anyhow:eek:
Before you do owt drastic have a butchers at a t3-t3 intermediate angle section that may put the turbo in a better location.
no rob never got any tear drops, im going to see chris on wed i think, could you give him a call and let him know where they are please, is the carbon there too ;-)
Where to find them,lol. **** knows mate, likly to be in the blue trays behind Stevens car i rekon. Carbon only comes with purchasing BARS OF DOOM!!!!!
Have a fuel cap that'll cover that hole nicely aswell.
this one i do believeQuote:
Originally Posted by Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVZx8Qe25A
Yer thats the one, it looks good in the video but just wondered if there were any more pics floating about of it
nice project! It's a good thing more and more nova z20let come.... Good thing I've got a old 84 nova and a z20let in the shed. ;)
i dont seem to have many pics of my old nova, im making sure i take plenty of this one though
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By heds28 at 2010-03-12
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By heds28 at 2010-02-07
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By heds28 at 2010-05-09
wish id never sold it tbh
decided the turbo wasnt gonna work the wrong way round and i refused to start chopping up a rather expensive bit of manifold so set about making an adapter plate.
went to see dave dixon at griffin autosport for a t28 & t25 flange then went for a small piece of angled 5mm wall 314 stainless. tacked it up and took it to be tig'd
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
few hours later i picked it up but the heat had warped the flanges rather badly
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
soooo dropped it off with my mate at the machine shop to have it faced
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
well done little pete for sorting the flange out!
got it mounted up and works a treat so set about piping up the intercooler, ideally id like to keep the charge pipes at 3" but ive used some 2 1/4" stainless piping i had to trial fit everything
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
its going well, id love to keep the engine bay looking like this with no wiring/pipework
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
woah thats going to be so good to see running what you predicting on power outputs? n that exhaust on the blue one was massive!?
ha ha i loved the back box on the blue one, was a bit of a comedy thing, people would look at it and laugh like i was a 17yr old in his first car with a big cherry bomb on, occasionaly id give it some beans and watch there jaws drop other times id just sit there and let them laugh ;-)
power wise the turbo is good for 500 apparently and the engine should be upto that so as long as i can get someone to map the **** out of it it should see good figures
Both the cars look beautiful, well done Sir!
ordered a civic rad today to try and free up a bit room up front and hopefully allow me to not have a header tank and keep the engine bay nice and neat, intake is going to go down over and up into the drivers side arch, ill weld a box in there to protect the filter from tyre splash and to create an air box, i already have an air intake on the front bumper for it so thats a bonus.
ive ordered a couple of black silicone hoses to finish off the boost pipes that are on show up top and the intercooler is all piped up now just need to make some brackets to support it.
ill pick up the engine bay harness tomorrow and get it plugged into the in car harness and see if i have power to the starter motor then set about reworking the harness so its invisible
What mk civic rad you got?
I looked into a civic rad and couldn't work how it could be plumbed into a nova bay
Also looked at 106 ones to get rid of the header tank
not sure, went on ebay found one that was about to finish and bought it lol, it might need a little bit of modding on the water pipe locations but its still gonna be cheaper than a full custom rad setup
looking good buddy :)
seen vid of it on youtube launching you old nova off the spot :)
credit to you mate. the blue one was beutifull but words cant describe how nice the red one will be :)
Coming along nicely mate, good work.
And taa for the pics of your old beast, looks a nice example, looks and sounds epic on the vids on youtube, especially the launch one :p
Heds throw that shonky top pipe in the bin:mad:
2.5" hard pipe with tb relocation so you can bring it tighter toward and square with the cam cover:thumb: Doooooo it:cool:
Dare you to get the loom down the legs, double stealth ftw:cool:
is this the nova off of the vid on youtube doing the ring? if so what spec was it also did it have a diff as seemed to do really well :)Quote:
Originally Posted by heds
Heds wouldnt you be better going for a custom inlet like a Swedish or something for the figures your after?
my blue nova never made it to the ring im afraid.
inlet i do have an idea in my head, id like an upside down one almost, keep it hidden at the back of the block nearly out of site and just a pipe coming round the side of the rocker cover. i wish i could TIG weld!
harness im just gonna chuck it in and make sure i can get the thing running but if theres one thing i hate its wires! so i will be trying to hide any wires i can.
Loving the progress matey, your old blue nova looked and went really well but iam sure this one will be even better mate, keep it up.
+rep :thumb:
went and got a corsa c EPS column today so tried it in place with the dash and fitted a seat in place to see how it works before any brackets are made or cutting is done.
Ive set the seat position as low down and as far back as possible and with a longer column and deeper dash this helps keep the driving position as far back as poss which is ideal.
next task is to make some brackets to hold the dash in place then make that column fit :-(
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By heds28 at 2011-11-28
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By heds28 at 2011-11-28
was a bit worried about the front half of the cage fouling the dash but looks like it will be fine
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By heds28 at 2011-11-28
then pushed it out for a daylight pic
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By heds28 at 2011-11-28
LOVE how low that is :d
Nice work
interested to see how the dash/column works out
not done much the last few days, but got my hands on a civic ally rad to try in place.
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By heds28 at 2011-12-02
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By heds28 at 2011-12-02
and a carbon fiber scuttle panel cover
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By heds28 at 2011-11-28
Hurry up with the civic rad! I've meant to try it for years but never got round to it lol
im just wondering how to do it, obviously ill not be using a header tank anymore, ill still run the pipe out of the thermostat to the top of the rad, and the out the bottom of rad up onto the water rail above gearbox, metal water rail abouve exhaust onto breather on rad? 2x matrix straight off back of plastic water rail???
Nice build, sacriledge putting GM's worst dashboard in there though.
worst dashboard??? you ever been in a corsa b/tigra, or even a corsa c in fact nova dash boards arnt exactly epic are they, only reason i tried the astra dash was cos i had one laying in the garden, but the centre consoles on them have room for at least 9 gauges.
Yeah sounds about right. Does it look like it'll give you much more space for the turbo? I never thought of getting a uprated one TBF I just remembered form my bodyshop days thinking how small and compact they were in Lsi and the like. I thought they'd sit over to the side of the turbo maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by heds
Whatching with great interest and +rep as that seems the thing to do on here!
what is this +rep everyone keeps saying? lol
thats the idea with the rad it should sit over to one side giving more room in front of the manifold and turbo, should allow more air to cool the block/manifold/turbo and not heat up the rad as much, someone mentioned using a civic rad so looked on ebay and the first item in the list was a brand new civic ally rad finishin in 5 mins with 0 bids starting at £29, so a cheeky last second bid secured that. ill try it in place tomorrow and get a couple of pics up, shame now my black silicone TX hoses wont be any good lol
Yeah it was me who mentioned it! lol That was the thinking I had that it would be great for extra clearance if it sits over enough to one side.Quote:
Originally Posted by heds
This rep lark is the little green bars under your name. I had no idea what they where either but acquired a few lol so I thought you might like some aswell. It's nice to try and fit in.
Look forward to the pictures etc when you trial fit the rad.:thumb:
ah right, in that case give me some rep guys if you like the project, ive only got one green bar.
Heds that pipe under the cap is for overflow and should only be open if the system pressure overcomes the cap pressure.
If your running a matrix then pipe it up as normal if not then just blank/loop the matrix out/inlet. Tbh even if yo not running a heater box and matrix i'd be temted to put a small rad in to regain capacity youve lost with the civic rad etc. If you do that..... then yo might aswell chuck some clowling on it, a bit ducting and a fan, hey presto 1 pikey screen demister/feet warmer. Hmm, saying that yo might aswell chuck the full astra heater box in then,lol...... **** sake just buy an astra and bin off that shonky nova.
I quite like the Astra MK4 Dash, i know i wouldn't want a Nova one in My Astra! lol
Interesting to see how the rad works out...
well just been out and sat the rad in place, looks like it could work, ill probably have to get the in/outlets moved on the top and bottom to suit but theres plenty room around it and plenty room for a nice big fan.
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By heds28 at 2011-12-04
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By heds28 at 2011-12-04
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By heds28 at 2011-12-04
also thinking about moving the intercooler off centre and over to the right which would allow the intake to the turbo to come straight off turbo and out front of bumper, would look a bit odd not having the cooler centred but would work great, what you lot think?
its still centred in the pics but shows how the intake can point straight forward
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By heds28 at 2011-12-04
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By heds28 at 2011-12-04