985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

mowgli i thought they were these.

http://ramsport.com/shop/images/Stri...0kit%20004.jpg

but i guess they are on about this
http://www.croyde-bay.com/tr-june-20...ill-jack-2.jpg

it looks just like a morris minor jacking point

and a chevette, but a chevette isnt in the sill lol.

Colin, I do happen to have a proper Bilstien quick lift in my possesion lol Mr Shirlaw had one up on his site for £80 a week or so ago aswell but I dont know if its still there TBH.

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Originally Posted by mowgli

colin, are you meant to use the pipes for jacking or for actual stands?? i'm trying to get my head round how they work exactly.

if you made something out of metal tube with an L shape and put a couple of trolley wheels on the bottom corner of the L, considering the max weight per side is about 330kg, with an 8:1 mechanical advantage, you could easily lever the car up.

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The tubes in the sills are for stands, I will post a picture up soon of the car suspended up in the air on the 4 stands.

I've got this 3-legged set of stands for it;

http://www.motordrive.com/acatalog/Accessories.html

The problem is getting the car up as high as it needs to go, without the use of a heavyweight long chassis trolley jack.

The Bilstein-type quick lift jacks (originally developed for use on VW Beetles in the 30's/40's) would get it up high enough, but it would also be occupying one of the sill tubes, so that won't work.

I think I will have to accept that the sill stands can only be used in the workshop at home, unless I can be bothered to lug the big trolley jack along to race meetings.

i'll draw a piccy & send it over to you....roughly what sort of sill to floor clearance do you have, i'll do some sums.

is it not possible to just fit a jack tube as well? it only needs to be one more at the front of the sill either side

Or just change the jacking pin on a quick lift to an L shaped bracket?

If anyone fancies fitting a set of tubes into their sills, I have a complete set of tubes (20mm diameter) together with the strengthening plates for sale;

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...ort/002-27.jpg

The tubes are already capped off at one end so no need to worry about water/dirt ingress into the car.

I'm on a photo/info. hunt.

Has anybody got any photos (or actual personal experience) of cutting the complete boot floor out of a Nova hatch?

NOTE; I'm not just talking about removing the spare wheel well!

I'm thinking about removing the whole boot floor (due to race regulations it won't be able to be removed any further forward than the centres of the rear wheels).

I want to see if, and how other people have gone about it, and how they've filled the hole that remains.

I might also remove a section of the inner wheel arches (again, only as far as the wheel centres).

I'm going to cut out a similar area from a scrap Nova shell tomorrow and see how much it weighs, out of curiosity.

But making it look nice afterwards will be the big issue, unless of course I get someone to take a mould of the area to be removed and then make up a replacement 'cover' in carbon fibre.