sounds ace colin, novas with 230 bhp are where its at ;) although i imagine your torque curve will be somewhat fatter than mine!:cry: :thumb:
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sounds ace colin, novas with 230 bhp are where its at ;) although i imagine your torque curve will be somewhat fatter than mine!:cry: :thumb:
230hp sounds very much better. and just what does it weigh with you in it??? under 600kg yet???
I've lost weight, but not that much just yet..........Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
I reckon it will be 620kg with me on board.
371bhp/tonne is some rapid method of transport....
Please tell me you're have the crank breathed on too
breathing on a crankshaft wont do much tbh
lol lol lol lol
i think the crank has proven itself to be quite strong so far.
it has such a short stroke & being turbo means it is not exactly running f1 revs, so it should cope with 230 hp.
Frame looks really good; love the chassis leg transitions & is that a 4th mount to the front too?
Just think of the weight you could loose from the crank giving it a knife edge ;)
Do you have pictures or spec of proposed steering arms / UJs? Be interested to see how small you dare & how they'll attach to the rack.
Welcome back good to see the old girl will it make national weekend this year?
Love the engine mate wish i could aford that type of set up.
stu
Scarcely an update, but I did visit my Nova on Monday, which was the first time I'd seen it in nearly 6 months.
I forgot to take the camera with me, sorry.
The new spaceframe front looks even better than the photos indicated, so I'm well pleased with that.
The tie bars and new steering arms are still to be fabricated, but will hopefully be done fairly soon. Once those are complete it's just the pedal box fabrication to be done, and then the car will come back to me for the engine and gearbox to be re-fitted, along with new air intake, radiator and intercooler to replace the ones damaged in the crash.
I also had a catch-up with the engine at Brett Sims' workshops, he's waiting on the custom con rods to be made (at huge cost!), and then everything is ready for it to be put together again.
I'm not worrying too much about timescales now, as I won't have sufficient time/money to race this season anyway.
Nice to see you popping up again Colin, will be nice to see her finished and running again once complete;)
Planning on popping to any shows this year colin?
Probably not I'm afraid, the cost of travelling is prohibitive, not to mention a house which needs complete renovation taking up my spare time.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgo
Have you given up on this Colin? Hope not i enjoy following your progression
No, I haven't given up on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallypvc
Other things have got in the way, such as house renovation and building a garage to put it in.
I have been playing about with the gearbox today.
I've decided to convert it to use the Vectra hydraulic clutch release bearing.
I know Lee303 did this on his Nova........anyone got a list of the parts I need to fit onto an F15 garbox please?
Is it just a question of getting an F18 with hydraulic clutch and robbing all the bits from that? If so, anyone got one of those they want to sell?
Nice to see you back on here Colin, 2014 will be your year ;)
If you can get under a Vectra down the breakers you can liberate the plumbing easily and the ally bleed piece that goes on the top of the gearbox casing, then the part number for a new slave cylinder is CSC007 for QH equiv: MSC007
You may want to look into whatever self adjusting mechanism this system has if it's on the gearbox end... each of the X18XE1's I've taken apart so far (both from Vectras which would obviously have the setup you mention) have had serious thrust wear issues. One to the point of munching about 1.5mm out the crank which isn't easy to do with a soft metal bearing! The only thing I can put this down to, since there are no other forces acting on the crank assembly and the clutch is obviously OE spec, is the hydraulic cylinder stroking beyond what's needed to disengage the clutch and forcing the crankshaft assembly against the thrust bearings. Although I would have thought this would make a godawful noise as clutch spring hits clutch plate, so it may well be an oiling issue to the thrust bearings themselves, but thought I'd mention it so you can make sure all is well with your setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
I'm not sure if this is a common problem as it's generally not picked up on in your average family runaround, the engine would just get 'noisy' or lose comp due to thrust wear in the bores and it's sent to the scrapyard with no further investigation. However I have a 2 out of 2 stripping them down so I figure it can't just be coincidence.
hi colin, yeah its that simple, but you need to make sure the slave has the correct sized seal for the input shaft, as some of them are larger diameter, dont have the part numbers sorry, can find out thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by novarally
the other option is to fit the external actuation version as fitted to some corsas and chevrolettes as this means you dont have to split the box if you have issues with the hydraulic side as it just actuates the normal release bearing with an external slave cylinder, and also you can get round nose release bearings more readily if you're running a 7.25'' clutch
yeah its essential to have a decent clutch pedal stop, setup so the clutch just releases at full stroke of the pedal, fairly easy to do thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by MK999
I wish there was more to tell on the progress of rebuilding the Nova, but the truth is there is little movement, which is mostly because I still don't have my new garage built so I can bring the car back home.
But I have been acquiring the odd part here and there, so just to prove it hasn't been forgotten, I thought I'd update on things;
It's always been my intention to reduce weight with the use of a lighter exhaust system. At one stage this was going to be with the use of aluminium tube, but the company who were going to make that for me went out of business. So I may try and utilise this titanium and carbon fibre motorcycle system, which is very lightweight;
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Photobucket seems to be largely impossible to use now, so I will have to find a new photo host.
When I get this sorted I will update on;
Repairs to the carbon fibre bumper and front wings which were heavily damaged in my accident
New Pace Products alloy intercooler
Carbon fibre air filter housing
Development of a carbon fibre front splitter
New lightweight alternator
Modifying the gearbox to use a hydraulic clutch release bearing (thanks to Lee303 for his help on this one)
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front lower air dam looks great, be nice to see it going back together!:thumb:
It's from an Integra Type R, I've cut and shut it a little, and it's not too bad a fit. Needs a bit more fettling to improve things now.Quote:
Originally Posted by lee303
I bought a Corsa C gearbox from EBAY for £2.22 (!), and that's got me the clutch release bearing and the pipework to connect it all up. I'm using a 5.5" Superclutch (single plate), so I will need to modify the bearing assembly to accept the round-face type of bearing, rather than the flat-face which the OE clutch uses.
I haven't weighed all the bits yet, but it should be a bit lighter than the old steel clutch arm set-up.
Will be good to see this upsetting the mini boys again soon. :)
good to see you working on it again colin.. soon as you have any events booked, let us know, i'd love to see it at full chat
looks like it will fit nicely with a little work, nice! and good shout on the box, i believe BigRon on MIG has a source for round nose bearings to fit the hydraulic slaves, will ask him and let you know...Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
crickey, some pretty serious gear. So have you pinched parts off a hydraulic f17 from the corsa C cheap ebay win?
Thanks Lee, that would be some very useful information if you can find it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lee303
Not sure if it's an F17 to be honest, it doesn't seem to be marked up with an 'F' code like the old Nova/Corsa 'boxes. But it's a small-block 'box so I can use everything in my F15 casing, so far as I can tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
Tonight I picked up some damaged front wings from a Clio 197 Sport, I want to get the vents from the wings grafted into my wide front arches - photos to follow to explain my thinking!
Photo doesn't seem to work Keith? I'm glad I'm not the only one who's having problems with Photobucket.Quote:
Originally Posted by calibra-keith
Here's a link to one image I found;
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cli...8&tx=158&ty=67
I don't think I have the bodywork skills to attempt the job, but I'm sure I can find someone who can.
Unfortunately the drivers side wing I got from the Clio is beyond saving, so I need to find another one of those. God knows how much they would be from Renault, just the black plastic mesh piece which goes into them is over £70 each!
those are the ones, be interesting to see the way you do it, are you thinking flat to nova wings or similar to clio and bring that area of nova wing out abit ? if that makes sense
My Nova already has wide arch wings, and looking at them side by side with the Clio ones, the profile seems to be very similar, so I don't think it will be too difficult to achieve.Quote:
Originally Posted by calibra-keith
I've just done some photos so I will (try to) post them up for people's views.
The nearside Clio wing, pictured with the (repaired) carbon fibre wide-arch wing from my Nova;
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I can't see why the vent and surround couldn't be tranplanted into the Nova wing?
The drivers side wing is not useable, as you can see;
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Something similar to this ?
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Yes, that looks good, although I think I would move the vent toward the rear of the wing, as it is on the Clio?Quote:
Originally Posted by calibra-keith