My nova turbo

looking good rick :thumb:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...h_CIMG2409.jpg
Sounds miles better now. Just been for a drive, all seems well. Does seem a bit more noisy tham before but its down to the noise of the solid lifters been amplified by the inlet plenium. Got good oil pressure and temperature, decent EGT's and good AFR so all is well.
One thing of concern is the brakes are utter pap again, i have really ran out of ideas for things to try to get them better.

When you say the brakes are crap, in what way?
They just dont slow you enough? Pedal hits the floor?

Cant seem to see any reason why they should be crap?
Should be fooking immense compared to a std gm setup(even those work well enough)

Shortly after the sest drive and it looks like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/CIMG2411.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/CIMG2414.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/CIMG2415.jpg
I have dropped the oil and filter and am going to run a bit of sealer around the oil cooler take off plate as i am sure this is where the oil leak is coming from. I have also done a full nut and bolt check and am going around it tomorrow marking all the nuts and bolts with paint so i can ensure none of them are coming loose at any stage.
One loose exhaust clamp:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/CIMG2412.jpg
Tightened:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/CIMG2416.jpg
Looking into the braking issues, going to try deglazing the front pads and disks but my mate recons its a combination of my not warming them up and myself been a panzy on the pedal.
I have also adjusted the gear linkage as getting into 1st and 2nd was a bit of a bitch.

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Originally Posted by Adam

When you say the brakes are crap, in what way?
They just dont slow you enough? Pedal hits the floor?

Cant seem to see any reason why they should be crap?
Should be fooking immense compared to a std gm setup(even those work well enough)

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Brakes feel like metal on metal! Fells like i would have to do a flintstone to get the pos to stop.

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Originally Posted by MAD_Rick

Looking into the braking issues, going to try deglazing the front pads and disks but my mate recons its a combination of my not warming them up and myself been a panzy on the pedal.
I have also adjusted the gear linkage as getting into 1st and 2nd was a bit of a bitch.

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You run no servo, so thats going to make them feel a lot different to say the brakes on everyday driver?
Are the pads/discs bedded in?

Pads and discs bedded in !!!

They might be 5 years old but its only covered 100 miles on them lol

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Originally Posted by Jonlem

They might be 5 years old but its only covered 100 miles on them lol

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They have done 500 miles.

Did you do much braking in those 500 miles though?

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Originally Posted by Adam

Did you do much braking in those 500 miles though?

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Quite a lot of heavy breaking from 120 spoons + lol