as said when we were round other night lee , fukcing love it :thumb:
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as said when we were round other night lee , fukcing love it :thumb:
thats a nice looking nova you got there fella :thumb:
thats lovely mate
Looking spot on Lee!
Cheers everyone, finally can see where some of the time and money has gone.
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nice
cars stunning mr h.
i'll pop over some time when we are mincing again and have a look at this peice of modern art work.
very nice bud, i remember seeing pics of this in the features before there was even a forum on here, thats years ago now, although, just my opinion, maybe loose the splitter? its low enough it dont need it!
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said it before, and say it again. This is one of the cars that got me into Nova's! I funking love it!!!
Have you had it out a run Lee? How doe's it feel on the 40 profile tyres compared to the 45's?
No, gear linkage won't work so need to try and sort it out when I can be bothered with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by krobinson
PV seems to have inspired me a bit.
Finally I have sorted the gear linkage after modifiying a rose jointed one Rick Draper put together for me. I can now get the 6 forward gears and reverse every time. MOT time after my holiday I reckon!!
Also fitted a billet flywheel and new clutch, F28 is a total **** to get back in without removing the engine.
Sweet.
Going Trax/Billing in it???
Don't do Billing and don't think i'll be doing the show thing with it to be honest, will be hammering it up the drag strip in York instead I think.
looks really really nice.are you going to york this sunday?
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Originally Posted by Lee H
I found out the exact same thing when changing my clutch! lol
On the linkage, I had to "tap" my gear surround to get all 6 gears smoothly with a rose jointed linkage.
Its PPC £999 challenge on Saturday and i'm in that in the red shed so don't think i'll be doing Sunday too.Quote:
Originally Posted by adam c
lol Box off, about 45 mins :) box back on, about 5 hours :mad: and lots of swearing/not enough hands!!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Mine seems ok now but i'm using part of a quickshift kit so it doesn't have as much movement side to side. Couldn't get reverse at all with modified standard linkage.
i either had to sacrifice 5th or 2nd on mine. I could get them but had to push the lever down to clear the gate, so i just tapped out the gate! lol
did you make a scuttle cover in the end?
Scuttle cover is on my to do list when I have got the car MOT'd and on the road.
I had to sacrifice Reverse or 5th on mine.. thought it would be better having reverse, however as Simps says if you dip the lever down 5th works fine. Will be having a look into that.
Chop a bit off the side of the stick or remove the rubber sliders fitted to either side of the stick tunnel
as said on phone nice one fella :thumb:
Already done that. Still not enough movement, although think mine might be catching on the gearbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by MAD_Rick
Extend the length of the rod that attatch's clesest to the pinch bolt.
Sure you lot are setting up the rose joints to the correct angles? i spent about 45mins on myne, and its spot on! all gears with no problems and i have not had to chop any thing!
Goow work Lee, when I was talking to you at PV you seemed pretty stumped regarding the linkage situation!
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Originally Posted by MAD_Rick
We pulled out the rubber strip on the drivers side, tapped it out a litte then refitted the rubber strip. Has been great since! We spent ages adjusting the threaded rod but ended up putting back to the length of a standard one and tapping out as said.
I suppose the differences also come with the fact everyone welds the f28 mount in slightly different places.
Had this problem last week. You need to extend your top bar of the linkage, if poss. Or as said it maybe grinding out on the box casing.
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Originally Posted by Ash
:wtf: :confused:
Assuming Andy is running a similer R/J'd linkage to me, the nut under the rose-joint on the right (with your knees to the bumper) needs to be ground down so it doesn't foul on the gearbox casing. This grinding out cause me not to be able to select reverse or 5th, and then eventually broke my linkage lolQuote:
Originally Posted by andybishop
ah I see!!
lol
the ones i done for simps/andy/keith and me, i ground down that thread and also bent a small upward kick so it would not touch the box casing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I've not tried mine yet, but will be in a few weeks, i'll let you know how I get on!
The way i did myne was; Jam the box into reverse, then connect the linkage up along with the selector fork, and put the gear stick into the reverse position and nip the gnurled part of the linkage up so everything is tight. Adjust the two rose joints at the bottom so they are at max throw in that direction thus leaving max swivel on the rose joints to select 5th and 6th in the opposite direction.
Then i moved every thing into neutral, undone the linkage, then did it back up again!. (gear stick will not need to move as far back and forth as it is short shifted).
The top two rose joints that adjust the throw, should not need to be adjusted as they are set to standard length!
Finally got my finger out and insured the thing. Got MOT booked on Tuesday now so going to have to check everything over this weekend as brakes still feel spongy.
Also on a quick spin up my street noticed i'm getting blue smoke under boost, hope it clears up and is just oil sat in the manifold from when the turbo failed originally.
Its due back in the bodyshop for finishing on the 18th October so its first proper trip is going to be about 100 miles, should have timed things a bit better really. Can see an epic breakdown looming already.
OoOoOOoo take me for a drive lol.
Glad to see it's nearly all done.!