The Counts Track Day Nova Build

looking good mate, love the wideness:thumb: if you use a 600 w&d you can paint a final coat over with no scratch opening when it drys. Have a look at the guide in articles for the front slider windows. I used it and the seals in question and it worked perfectly for me ( in my project wip aswell )

keep up the good work

ste

Im liking this car a lot, some detail going into it, even though its being built for being abused, have some rep that man!

Thanks for the advice, i'm looking into sealing options for the windows atm and i'm trying a few different ideas :thumb:

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Originally Posted by Count Vaux Alot

Cheers for the comments, the turrets are quite a big job so would be costly

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how much we talking fella,send me a p.m if you want:thumb:

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Originally Posted by t`s novat

how much we talking fella,send me a p.m if you want:thumb:

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I will have a think and get back to you :)

How long did your arches take you start to finish mate? Michael took basically 3 1/2 days to do mine. Full 8/9 hour days at that.

This is looking better and better with every post! really enjoying watching this come together!!

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Originally Posted by Benn

Oops sorry dude, looks great tho. And yeah that was me thinking on the rims hence the off set talk. Widing the wheels wont affect the offset at all.

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Just to clear this up....

in-set, or backspace is the distance from the inner edge of the rim to the hub face and determines your inner arch clearance. This is a function of offset and width and is what youre concerned about benn to stop them hitting your tie bars.

Offset is the distance from the wheel centre to the hub mounting face and determines how the car handles with respect to scrub radius and various other geometric considerations.

When you widen a wheel on only one edge of the rim, the backspace doesnt change, so it will clear the inner arch, but the offset changes, so it will handle like a bag of ****e.

This is why most folk building 8" + wheels use them only up pod with slicks in a straight line, and most people on track stick to 7 inch wheels with an offset of more than 45mm as this is the max width that can be accommodated if you add the same to both edges before you run into issues with tiebars and the inner arch.

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Originally Posted by Count Vaux Alot

I will have a think and get back to you :)

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cheers fella :thumb:

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Originally Posted by alistairolsen

Just to clear this up....

in-set, or backspace is the distance from the inner edge of the rim to the hub face and determines your inner arch clearance. This is a function of offset and width and is what youre concerned about benn to stop them hitting your tie bars.

Offset is the distance from the wheel centre to the hub mounting face and determines how the car handles with respect to scrub radius and various other geometric considerations.

When you widen a wheel on only one edge of the rim, the backspace doesnt change, so it will clear the inner arch, but the offset changes, so it will handle like a bag of ****e.

This is why most folk building 8" + wheels use them only up pod with slicks in a straight line, and most people on track stick to 7 inch wheels with an offset of more than 45mm as this is the max width that can be accommodated if you add the same to both edges before you run into issues with tiebars and the inner arch.

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Well put.

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Originally Posted by alistairolsen

Offset is the distance from the wheel centre to the hub mounting face

When you widen a wheel on only one edge of the rim, the backspace doesnt change, so it will clear the inner arch, but the offset changes,

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Anless i'm reading that wrong your saying two things.

Offset is center to hub face, that wont chance when cutting the lip off and adding a larger lip to it. As your only adding the extra size on the front surely..

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Originally Posted by Benn

Anless i'm reading that wrong your saying two things.

Offset is center to hub face, that wont chance when cutting the lip off and adding a larger lip to it. As your only adding the extra size on the front surely..

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Offset is the total distance from the centre line of the wheel from front to back faces then you take a measurement from that line to the mounting face where the wheel joins the hub/disk/drum. It will change for certain by adding a deeper lip:thumb:

Ah thought it was all taken from the center now the outer lips.

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Well put.

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Agreed - very well put

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Originally Posted by Benn

Anless i'm reading that wrong your saying two things.

Offset is center to hub face, that wont chance when cutting the lip off and adding a larger lip to it. As your only adding the extra size on the front surely..

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It is taken from the centre, and it will change, if you make something wider the centre moves.


|...|...| if you add 4 dots to the LHS side of that it becomes: |.......|...| but the centre is now in the wrong place, it should be: |.....|.....|

Make sense?

I know, see my other reply, thought et was center back.

Ok, your reply didn't make sense to me lol Long as everyone gets it it's all cool, just trying to help :thumb:

So what exactly is ET?? lol

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/ma...T_53686645.jpg

ET is an abbreviation for ETA

Therefore, it stands for Estimated Time lol

Einpresstiefe - insertion depth ;)

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Originally Posted by Count Vaux Alot

So what exactly is ET?? lol

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Another name for offset.

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So what exactly is ET?? lol

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Another name for offset.

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Wrong!

A small wrinkly thing that played with Drew Barrymore at a young age.

I'd play with her at a teen age...

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I'd play with her at a teen age...

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http://thewarrenreport.com/wp-conten...arrymore_1.jpghttp://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rafix/drew.jpg

Glad we have cleared another mystery up there lol

I thought this was a nova build thread? lol

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Originally Posted by AW06

I thought this was a nova build thread? lol

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who cares lol them pics will do for updates

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Originally Posted by novashed

who cares lol them pics will do for updates

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Agreed lol

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Originally Posted by novashed

who cares lol them pics will do for updates

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You said it lol lol

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http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/ma...T_53686645.jpg

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FPMSL +rep

Looks just like some guy who works where i am at the mo! lol

I ask the missus that all the time :p

christ, what happened here? an Alien invasion and the corruption of minds?

Sorry for spamming your build thread!

ET is offset, some german abbreviation I believe.

offset is centre to hub face, centre moves when you make something wider on one side, hence my comment earlier int he thread as I did the calces for some wheels for my locost and adding 1.5" to a 5.5J wheel to get a 7J wheel would change the offset from 49 (standard corsa steel) to 31 which is obviously not ideal!

Alistairolsen thanks for explaining again but i was joking when i asked lol

Sorry, i was trying to explain to benn that the centre moves but cba going back 3 pages to quote the post!

anyway, updates...!

No time to update as i'm too busy getting bits sorted for billing :thumb:

Does that mean the car comming with....

i spotted this today.
Just a shame i didnt see till on the way out the site.
Sorry James.

Car looked good today bud :thumb:

Trailor queens ftw! lol

how mint does this look in the metal, nice one james, see you and it at trax, Hopefully on track too :D