Damn that sucks. Not the 1st time its happened on here recently either.
Who did the head actually come from? (supplier)
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Damn that sucks. Not the 1st time its happened on here recently either.
Who did the head actually come from? (supplier)
no, i came off ebay, sort of. i missed the auction and then emailed her offering monies, and it was sold that way. But in the auction she did say it was for a nova, and she owns/did own a GSi. The head was bought for her by her ex, and she didn't want it any more. It is brand new tho, so i suspect i can sale it on easy enough, it just trying to find another one. I am trying to keep to a budget so that kind of rules out a new one at 500 odd quid.
Also my new nitro rc car still hasn't turn up :(
On a plus note, i had a 30 min phone converstion with John Perate which was intresting, and he's also sorted my out with heavy duty shells and some 32mm chokes for my webers, ideal
Ash
Yea, well its a 1.6 8v bigblock head, which fits the 1.8 and 2.0 8v's as well, guess it might up the compression on it as well, hence why bill used a 1.6 not a 2.0Quote:
Originally Posted by LAST OF THE NOVA SR'S
Ash
You might even make a little profit on the resale if it was cheap enough to begin with.
Sounds like the same scam as what was pulled on Chimp007 re the head he bought, turned out to be unsuitable for a 1600 small block & after I reccommended it to someone for a 1600 big block, its not even suitable for that! Its for a mk1 Cavalier 1600, not even a relative of the OHC engines as we know them.
I think you have been scammed!
ummm, blox, where can i find out which head it is? it appears to be for a j-series engine, same layout and every thing but bigger than my e16se head. anyone got a photo of a bigblock 8v head? i'll pm Chimp007, see what he did.
Ash
Chimp sold his to my GFs Dad & its turned out to be wrong for that too!
Bad news about the head. It must be from a 1.6 (16sh) engine.
How much did you pay for it? If you dont mind me asking.
Progress is sounding good. :)
mate is hopefully buying a mk2 2.0 8v astra at the weekend, so i'll try and work the head in to him :D no progress made as im away at uni, sould be home 3rd - 12th Feb so i'll get some work done on mine and my mates GTE then. Anyway here is a rough PS of how it might look, with sport side skirts, smoothed bumpers and vynal.
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/339/novasrt40yq3.jpg
Enjoy
Ash
Hmmm that looks spanky Ash... nice twist with the side skirts and graphics.