looking good mate, hope it goes smoothly for the final stages
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looking good mate, hope it goes smoothly for the final stages
No problem Ad, enjoyed having something to do with novas !
Going to be cutting it mega fine for PV but it "should" be there depending on getting it run in and mapped.
8 days left from when I return from Italy !
Why do Novas look so cool in a garage with the bumpers missing?
Because they are cool Craig!
As you may have seen or not seen should i say the Nova wasnt at PVS.
Due to running out of time and JB/Me have waaaay to much on
I'm buying a house and going to be a dad, JB was jet setting to Italy with work so it just couldnt be done.
Will update shortly with where we are.
Well at last it runs !
I've only run it for about 10 mins max though as the dash is back at Stack having a white face and blue backlights fitted.
TB's need balancing though, they were perfect until I removed them and fitted them upside down !
I'll get a vid on you tube later, not much to hear except noisy lifters lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1ZwC1_ToY
Depending on where u stand in the workshop the solid lifters sound so so noisy but its nice and quiet inside the car .............................. NOT lol
Good to hear it alive :)
Well small update.
Most deadlines have gone out of the window due to Adam having a few important matters to attend to but it has to be ready for september when we go to the ring.
Since I lasted posted the oil cooler had started leaking which meant having it welded up twice, then the water pump started weeping a little so it was nigh on engine out to sort that fooker out
The dash is back and now fitted, just got the speed sender to fit then that will all work correctly.
Started making a seperate loom for the fuel pumps and level sender but I'm still waiting for the right sleeving to turn up as Royal mail once again are taking the piss .
Once the wiring is done nicely the seats can go in and hopefully it will be ready for a MOT, i've not got a great deal of time this week to do much but I hope to have it ready for its MOT before I go to Wales on holiday next week.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...c/stackday.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...stacknight.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...quaifeknob.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Jatec/invert.jpg
Might be more updates later this week if I'm lucky
Looking cool, liking the speedo setup.
Looks ace, i need to steal that dash!
Keith
LOL, its only in there for a bit till we can find somthing more suitable.
Obviously it has a Escort to be fitted into ;)
Update as no doubt Ads not online to mention it lol
The car is on the road, MOT is booked for 9 am, it will be run in by Monday then booked in for mapping by the engine builder the following week :)
Few issues already though, geometry couldn't be any further out lol, brakes are truelly shocking so I'm not that convinced that the 16v master cylinder was the way to go after all :(
Besides that its probably the most noisy nova I've been in, possibly not as I'm far to used to driving around in a standard cavalier but I will be taking ear plugs for the running in process.
Next question is has anyone got the MBE software as I'd like to check what the map was the previous owner ran ;)
Get some big mahoosiveee ear defenders for the ring trip!
Glad to see its all come together, cant wait to hear the figures it puts out when its run in! Should be superb.
Keith
That makes 2 red novas that handle **** at the moment and dont want to slow down at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Get Easimap 5.5 from the sbd website matey. Its free! woohoo!
Well I've got it at home now ready for the MOT, I'm quite sure the handling issue is just simply geometry, nothing is really set properly yet so the drive to the MOT station tomorrow will be different lol
Brakes work ok actually, however pedal travel is awful, I'm not sure if that is me being to used to my own car though as V6 calipers to tend to give that problem.
Either way its so nearly road worthy, got 2 A4 pages worth of bits to do ready for the ring but nothing except geometry is getting done before its mapped and we know its all ok.
Another late update lol
The car passed its mot without any problems
Its booked onto Track and Roads rollers for tuesday evening.
So far whilst running it in I can tell the gearbox is going to fall to pieces so I have another arriving to be diffed and fitted before tuesday.
Whilst out last night the crank seal on the oil pump decided to fall out just before I pulled over (which was just as well) oil everywhere as you can imagine but nothing more than belt and seal replacement so al is good there.
A few pics from last night inc the worrying moment
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...novamoving.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...gineonfire.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...novajacked.jpg
Only a few days now till Ad gets to take it for its first drive in 3 yrs and I think he will be impressed as I certainly am.
was looking well. what was the worrying moment
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Originally Posted by squealer
Car is looking mint mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Nothing like a good action shot of a clean Nova!
Hope the ring goes well for you lot!
i'm liking this alot mate..
:thumb:
Nice one, good to hear its on the road :)
Got a early start tomorrow as sourced another gearbox to go in it as the main shaft bearings are all but gone on this one.
Will swap the quaife over and that should be that problem sorted, replace the seal, fit a new belt, change the coolant and all the senders to stack ones so it reads correctly on the dash then it will be ready for the rollers on tuesday after the alarm is fitted.
Cheers Rob, the ring will be fine I'm sure, I don't think either of us will push the car particulary hard as its really not had a good shakedown and there is those small handling issues that I want to iron out before it gets used real hard on track.
I'll put a few more pics from last night up in GC if anyone wants to have a look.
The guy who took the photos is coming to the ring in his P1 so expect loads more pics of that quality, hopefully less of the nova being fixed though lol
All looking fantastic!
Cant wait to get back in the old girl!!!
New Golf's are great to drive but ive missed my Nova lol
Roll on Thursday ;D
Rollers/mapping tomorrow?
Wooo get on Ad, this has been in the makings since I did the XE on the Blue one lol!
After the first drive of the nova you will be longing to get back behind the wheel of the golf! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Moran
lmao lol
yes 6pm at Track and RoadQuote:
Originally Posted by Long Live The Nova
Rick, with brakes like it has I wouldn't blame him for preferring the golf lol
Once back from the ring it has to have the brakes looked at as they simply aren't adequate enough imo
Got a problem with the gearstick so if anyone reading this can look in technical and offer some advice I'd appreciate it :thumb:
Hmm that makes 2 novas with **** brakes then!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Its either the fact that V6 calipers just give huge amounts of pedal travel or the different m/c is making it worse.
After taking a sorted mk2 for a spin with a pedal box (which the brakes worked with 1mm of movement on the pedal) I think it will end up going down that route at a later date.
My AP's had less pedal travel than these ones !
Hmm my pedal box and wilwoods front and back are terrible on the pedal box!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Wrong cylinders then Rick, I nearly went through the windscreen of the car I drove the second I pressed the pedal !
They do indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Hope the mapping goes well for Ad :)
theres some good work there mate my mates are always down track an road (steve pitcher) top man they deffinately know there stuff there good luck
Well its been on the rollers since 8pm and the last update was 26BHP lol
Should be all done around midnight so will post back then.
I have the full range! .625, .70 and .75 and they all feel ****. Even fitted a bias velve inline to the rears and have wound that right off as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Now that was a late night !
So for a start the it turned out the cam timing wasn't quite right and without the engine builder being there we had to leave that alone rather than risk piston/valve contact.
We switched to a set of 411cc injectors as from the start it looked as if the creams were going to be at 100% duty cycle if the engine made what we aimed for.
Fuel pressure was set to a nice and safe 2.5 bar using those and the mapping commenced !
4 hrs later, lots of tea and enough burgers off the van to feed my village and we come out with 204hp, not what we were looking for at all but the blame was put down to the cam timing.
I was happy to leave it at that and get it sorted then come back after the Ring but Steve was convinced he could play around with the fuelling and ignition to get some more out of it.
I was once again asked if it had steel rods and a decent crank and so the rev limit was raised to 8700rpm !
The next few runs started to make me feel a bit nervous so I made another cuppa and started to smoke my 50th fag for the night, 10 mins later the engine is screaming its tits off and Stave gave me the big thumbs up
222.4hp @ 8640 !
Torque was down to 162lbft but Steve said there is more power left and a chunk of torque when the cam timing is exactly what it needs to be.
Being that it was 1am at this point we knocked it on the head and swiftly gave it a blat down the road whilst looking for somewhere to get some Optimax from followed by a rather long and noisy drive home.
Huge thanks to both Steves at Track and Road, they really stuck at it and got a much better result than even they thought they would get with how the cam timing was !
I'm not off to bed as I'm fooking shattered but I'll post the graphs up in the next few days as we now have to get all the cars ready for the ring.
Ad- prepare yourself for a bit of a mental ride lol
lol; crazy midnight road rolling action
What injectors are you using now? I have picos (330 cc @ 3.5 bar) and they are barely ideling! lol
Nice result though!
Thought the standard cranks could only be revved to 9k!!lol