985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

good result.. find any vids on youtube..?

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Originally Posted by novarally

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3rd place, so my first trophy with this car.

Unfortunately the event was cut short due to a major incident involving a 650+ bhp Mitsubishi Evo that rolled into some trees. Driver OK, fortunately.

I couldn't race the car without the roll cage, but I would say the cage is around 25-30kg.

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Great result!

Yeah I realise you need the cage for the regs, but was wondering how light you could get a Nova to.... looks like 550kg would be about the limit for a road car then...

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Originally Posted by milko96

Great result!

Yeah I realise you need the cage for the regs, but was wondering how light you could get a Nova to.... looks like 550kg would be about the limit for a road car then...

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If you can build a road legal Nova to 550kg, then the drinks are on me.

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Originally Posted by djbrowney

you can take out the floor bar that the seat normally bolt to aswell, not need with a cage imo :)

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He cant remove anything in between the wheel centres that is part of the main shell of the car.


I think Oli D's car was around 600-650kg, but he obviously had the option of removing the boot floor and replacing with ally, taking out metal from the centre of the car, his B pillars etc were holesaw'd IIRC and much less of a cage... I'd probably say your cage is more around the 35-40kg mark Colin unless it's T45.

http://www.customcages.co.uk/Rollcag...ype=Multipoint

Cage will be the best part of 50KG if its CDS and with your extra bars.

Good result Colin!

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Originally Posted by Paul

http://www.customcages.co.uk/Rollcag...ype=Multipoint

Cage will be the best part of 50KG if its CDS and with your extra bars.

Good result Colin!

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Mine is T45.

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Originally Posted by novarally

If you can build a road legal Nova to 550kg, then the drinks are on me.

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I was under the impression Oli's Mk2 mentioned above got down to 630kg with cage, so a non caged car would easy be under 600kg, not too far from 550kg with a little more work (and expence)...

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:thumb:

I was under the impression Oli's Mk2 mentioned above got down to 630kg with cage, so a non caged car would easy be under 600kg, not too far from 550kg with a little more work (and expence)...

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If you can take 50 kilos out of Oli's car with "a little work" you need to get a job in F1 lol

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Originally Posted by milko96

:thumb:

I was under the impression Oli's Mk2 mentioned above got down to 630kg with cage, so a non caged car would easy be under 600kg, not too far from 550kg with a little more work (and expence)...

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no chance,oli's was like a rizla paper!

Easiest way to then loose weight is off of yourself. when you are really pushing for wieght loss