Looks cool! If the roof beam strong enough, you can also install an engine lifter chain reel.
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Looks cool! If the roof beam strong enough, you can also install an engine lifter chain reel.
You could bond a porta-loo to it then you need never leave the garage.
Internal wires probably electric door lock for when u drop in ure 20p ;)
Garage looks spot on you could batton the outside and clad with shiplap and would look a load better, insulate it at same time and keep out the damp.
Roof should take a block and tackle if you bolt a runner between all or some of the beams, handy over the pit
We did wonder about it being an electric locking system, but I don't think it is (not dismantled it yet).Quote:
Originally Posted by dgbnova#1
I'm going to insulate the inside with foil-backed 40mm Kingspan, and then clad the inside with sheets of gloss white UPVC.
Cladding the outside is certainly an idea, if it doesn't look better when I paint the pebble dash.
The PVC is it plastyvan? You can get 6m lengths of soffit from Eurocell well cheap and plenty good for inside a garage. Just thought outside insulate as stops or reduced condensate and gives a nice finish to look at plus does not reduce internal size I know it's not a load but every little helps
No, I was going to use 8 x 4 foot sheets of UPVC, like this;Quote:
Originally Posted by dgbnova#1
http://www.claddingwarehouse.co.uk/h...-wall-cladding
It will keep the interior bright and wipe clean, plus hiding all of the wiring etc.
Crack on Colin.
Ye that's nice stuff, need a flat surface as its only 2.5mm and bit of a bitch to fit, it would go on ure kingspan but better on ply and real good adhesive not gripfill, the soffit is not as nice but probably cheaper and 6m x 300 mm so you could run it like t&g all around and no ply needed just batton to fit it to
As the car is having a pretty major rebuild post-accident, I'm now nearly 100% decided on converting the Nova to left hand drive.
It will give much better weight distribution, although it will naturally create quite a bit of work as well.
Obviously steering rack, steering column and pedals are the major things.
The seat and harness mountings will need moving to the left, and one of the roll cage tubes that sits in the passenger footwell will need to be removed.
The bigger headache looks likely to be the gear linkage, which passes through the bulkhead on the passenger side (as it is at the moment). I'm sure that will be in the way of the pedals.
I'm thinking along the lines of the Colin Satchell gearshift kit for the Saxo/106/205 etc., although whether it will be feasible to adapt that to fit a Nova I don't yet know.
Of course this is all work I should have done when I carried out the major shell-strip and rebuild, just before the accident!
I did think about it a lot at that time, but I elected to keep it Right Hand Drive for ease and the expediency of completing it ready for the season's racing. The RHD format on a FWD car like a Nova is always going to be an inherent disadvantage, and I'm sure there's a lot to be gained from better traction off the start line, as well as better balance if I'm sat on the same side as the gearbox, rather than the engine.
I've owned and driven lots of LHD cars over the years, including my much-missed 450bhp ex-works Escort Cosworth, so I should be able to cope.
Ask minimandan as he's done the opposite and may have the old lhd parts
^^ lol Colin is taking a visit to me on Sunday to pick up the remains of my LHD stuff
Classic recycled parts
Have you looked into cable shift stuff colin? Some GM parts with fit but I think a company in Germany make them too.
edit
http://www.shop.cae-racing.de/index.php?a=31&lang=eng
I think Steve(Duick) used a Vectra B cable shift mechanism
There is a write up on Vectra B cable shift conversion that RallyMarshal (Paul) is fitting to his F20 on his Astra mk2 rally car that I service click me.
Thanks very much for that Mieran, that is extremely interesting, I've never seen that kit before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mieran
It would certainly solve my problem, but I'll need to have a look at more 'DIY' solutions as well to try and keep costs sensible.
Thanks Harvey and Rich also, I will investigate those further.
When I corner weighted mine, I found the offside front considerably lighter than the nearside.
The cheaper alternative is from a vec cQuote:
Originally Posted by novarally
They use a F17 box (small block) and run cable shift, you will need the turret from top of the box too along with the shifter, cables etc
Must be a 1.8 btw and not any other model
Brilliant, thanks for the advice. I shall be off to my local breakers to see what I can find. It might be the best way forward in the short-term, until I can find the cash for the very trick CAE shifter mechanism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mieran
And of course I can sell the present gear linkage from my car, which is extremely nice!;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ort/002-80.jpg
i have just managed to collect all the parts for my nova to convert it too cable shift im going to be running it on a F20 gearbox
main thing i have heard is you have to make sure you buy all the bits from a 1.8 vectra c with f17 gearbox as if you use other cables or shifter will cause it not to work im hoping it works fine as the gear shift in a newer cars like vectras and astras with cables is so much better
Funk me that's stunning! I'd love one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mieran
A pleasure to meet Dan (MiniManDan118) today, who sorted me out with a LHD steering rack, pedal box and various other bits. Thanks Dan.
Also picked up some T45 tube in 20mm diameter, which is destined to become seat mountings when the seat moves to its new home on the left hand side of the car.
I am in need of a couple more LHD bits if anyone can assist;
1. A LHD throttle pedal
2. A LHD Quaife steering quick-rack or kit
you could get on the foreign bay of e sites & look for a corsa b epas rack.
James.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonlem
Did you get to find out any more about those brakes?
I noticed a post somewhere which mentioned the UPG Corsa was up for sale? Do you have any idea of the asking price?
I've e-mailed Boris about it, but not yet had a reply.
Thanks.
Colin
It literally sold within a couple of days of it being announced it was forsale.
Did it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazza808
Thanks for the update....any idea how much?
Today I've spoken with Boris from UPG in Bulgaria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazza808
The Corsa is not sold, the asking price of 25k Euros (about £21,000).
on the steering rack, is there no way to use the right handed bits in a left handed casing? i know the pinion is on angle but the rack is a flat straight thread? maybe you can just buy the left handed pinion from quaife?
It had crossed my mind, I will dismantle both racks and compare.Quote:
Originally Posted by lee303
cool, be interesting to see if it can be made to work
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps658b86d4.jpg
Look what I just stumbled across...
Dan, you are a star. Thank-you.
Anyone got a link to a Nova which has this cable shift gear set-up fitted to it? Or some photos?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mieran
It would be interesting to see one fitted onto an F10/13/15 in a Nova.
some pics of one fitted in a rwd nova that was on here.
http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/...a/RIMG0480.jpg
http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/...a/RIMG0526.jpg
An hour in the local breakers yard at the weekend got me this for £24;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps2dd78546.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps57b8367e.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps5c569007.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps85be50fb.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...psc8d8f6f0.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps58813467.jpg
It all bolts up to my F15 gearbox, apart from the cable support bracket which will need a bit of fabricating as there are no holes in my gearbox casing like there are in the Vectra F17.
And it selects gears!
The gearbox turret part is a little heavier than the rod-change unit I've removed, but overall I suspect it will be about the same.
Whether the cables are the right length remains to be seen.
Thats very cool
colin, are those little metalastic bushes on the mount bracket for the cables??
it might be worth you making them solid to improve the shifting
Trent's?
It certainly was.Quote:
Originally Posted by 8valve-craig
A little more progress on the build of my garage, the roof trusses are all painted, the side door is fully installed, and the rear door is partially fitted;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...psad042729.jpg
If it stops raining I will be out there today to fit the purlins, and then it will be ready for the roof panels.
I also picked up the new inspection pit, so I have to dig the hole for that. But more concrete to pour and the roof to be fitted before the pit can be installed;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...psde828744.jpg
And a couple more goodies which may or may not get used. Ultra-trick brake pipes from an F1 car, with titanium fittings, which I hope can be used for my rear brakes;
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps4decfb5c.jpg
And a little AH Fabrications alloy fuel tank which I might install under the bonnet (not decided on this aspect yet);
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps37f355dc.jpg