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Originally Posted by novarally
This is the contents of the box of goodies;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...cort/004-6.jpg
Now just have to make it all fit a Nova...........
if anyone has anything to do with Minis (classic Mini, not BMW!) I could do with a pair of rear stub axles, or even a complete rear beam please.
minis run subframes and swing arms not a beam and theres no such thing as a mini stub axle in the same sense as a nova.Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
http://www.somerford-mini.co.uk/pdfs...ydrolastic.pdf
colin, check out your local car trailer place, a lot of the old indespension stuff was the same size as mini ones.... what is the pcd like?
Good thinking, thanks for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
The PCD is 4", which I believe is 101.4mm, so it's very close to Vauxhall.
I can either use 'wobble' nuts with Vauxhall wheels, or I have some 13" Mini alloys available.
I did mean swing arm, not beam, sorry. A lot of race car Minis converted to a rear beam set-up which is where my confusion comes from.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgo
Thanks for the PDF file, that will be useful.
some nice bits you got there!!
101.4mm PCD sounds familiar. I think 4stud Hyundai's might use that figure.
Nice work all round Colin, keep it up. Hoping to attend some hill climb events this year as spectators as we did Jersey a couple of years ago and throughly enjoyed it.
Thanks Harvey. I trust you are well. I've always fancied going over to the Channel Islands for a hillclimb, or even better into Europe. One day......Quote:
Originally Posted by Harvey
I will be taking this Nova to the PNG National Weekend, so anyone who wants to have a nose around it will be welcome to do so.
I was thinking of asking you. Try & keep me off it. Can I sit in it & make noises? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by novarally
Clarification needed on these noises before you're let within 100m I think lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
Just hissing,spooling, wastegate type noises.
i now have visions of you in a toad of toad hall outfit, yelling toot toot etc...
toot toot, parp parp.
I've wanted to know more about this Nova for probably 10 years, now I know who owns it & I'll get to see it. Think I'll bring a memory card just for this one!!
Oh dear...... i can here the missis sighing now as im with you lot poking round this for a few hrs! lol
Cant wait to see it tbh, as it's something very special really.
Scott
shame im on holiday so wont see it :(
gutted im not going i wanted to have a nosy round this!!Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
With this sat there, Nothing will get done on rysee's nova conversion lol
Great nova anyhow, Loving the steering rack snapping lol
if its raining, then rysee's nova will be done in no time at all...Quote:
Originally Posted by AW06
Not taking any chances on the brakes after the last time, so now with rebuilt calipers, plus brand new discs and pads (X-drilled discs to save weight, naturally);
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...cort/014-4.jpg
You will see I have also converted to studs and nuts instead of the oh so annoying standard wheel bolts.
And for the moment I have fitted a standard steering rack just to get it mobile again, as there don't appear to be any quick racks for sale anywhere currently.
Bumping this thread just in case anyone has, or knows of someone with a spare quick steering rack (2.5 turns lock to lock ideally)?
I am racing again soon and don't really want to use it with a standard steering rack.
I'm surprised you have vented discs on there, I would have thought that was overkill on a sprint/hillclimb car of such lightweight.
oddly enough, we discussed that very thing at the nats day.
Also passenger door bars on the rollcage could be removed (certainly one of the crosses is redundant from a stiffness point of view) got to be couple of kgs there, door seals, rear quarter plastic vents, lighten the door handles (200g there!), the firewall panel at the back of the bay could be removed along with the motor and linkage and replaced with an Uno direct drive motor, and what about removing the front wheel arch splash-guards and venting the front wings at the rear, may draw out some heat and also reduce lift as well as saving weight.
looking at this car close up, i can vouch that it is seriously light. there really isn't much more to remove. apart from colin going on a diet, cough cough.....
Plenty to be saved ;) My list above is just the tip of the iceberg!Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
his class has a lot of restrictions on chopping stuff out, i believe
I'd be surprised if anything I've listed contravenes the regulations. There are already non-structural parts of the car cut-out and replaced with aluminium so non-structural mods are obviously permitted, and nothing I've listed affects the silhouette (normally a restriction in hillclimb regs). I obviously haven't read the specific regs for his class, so you may well be right of course :)
he was toying with making a lighter rear beam.
We're not allowed to do any lightening of the bodyshell between the hub centres (excluding the doors).Quote:
Originally Posted by dhdev (Oli)
So I can't cut away the splash guards, the bulkhead or anything like that.
The list of (legal) things I have on the list do is;
1. Remove more metalwork outside of the hub centres, including some from the doors
2. Fit lighter wheels (13" split rims on the cards)
3. I have some oversize polycarbonate windows on order so I will be bonding those in and losing the rubber seals
4. Polycarbonate windscreen also ordered
5. Fabricated rear beam. I wanted to talk to Austin Nova16 about the one he made, but I'm not getting any reply from him
6. Fit the lightweight KAD Mini rear discs in place of the Nova drums
7. There's also a lot of tiny areas where weight can be saved, such as shortening bolts, and replacing even more fastenings with alloy/titanium
8. Go on a diet myself, as so rightly identified by Mowgli!
Could you loose the bumper irons?
gotta save 5kg there.
Could you loose the bumper irons?
gotta save 5kg there.
matt, there are none...... there is hardly any plastic left in the front one
unless you've been up close, you just can't appreciate how much work there is in this car
Try and find his saloon WIP on mig, as he's normally on there more often I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
I stand well and truely corrected then! My point about the passenger side door bars still stands though, as that is obviously not part of the original chassis! :)
Both of them brace into the strut tops from what I can see?Quote:
Originally Posted by dhdev (Oli)
i don't no if cars need to be logbooked for hillclimb? but on my rally cars msa log book it list's the cage configuration. it states it only has one door bar per side and extra diagonal bar and harness bar etc. would it be a problem if something is listed to be there but isn't?
The one that goes diagonally down at the front terminates very close to the floor, so the the moment from the floor to the mount point would be minimal. So this one could definately be removed IMO. I'd imagine the tube stiffness would make the top one redundant also IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by MK999
The shell has been lightened already by the removal of seat mounting brackets, so are the regs slightly flexible, or is it a matter of what goes unoticed is ok? Also door/boot seals aren't technically the shell, so they could be ejected.