Cant say much ad, ive not received it in the post yet.. but im hoping to use this somehow - it rids of the nova 'S' linkage bit - goes direct to turret.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...er/gear003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...er/gear006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...er/gear004.jpg
Oh right, looks like it would need a few mods it get it to fit.
Not heard of it before though.
some nice work there mate.. keep it up
Yeah it might not work lol.. Dont know if ill use all/some/any of it.. gonna try tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
thanks guys
Throw a standard one and enjoy it! at least you will be able to get all 5 gears then too ;)
Managed to remove the surround part today, but it took me most of the afternoon lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0505.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0507.jpg
Hopefully make swifter progress next weekend.
*Update,bit overdue :-s
Imcurrently sat bored waiting for a mate to come get me and go finish repairing my vectra (cambelt went about a month ago now) ive spent the last few weeks without a car i can use, despite owning 2 lol. Not to mentioned remainder of nova budget now spent on fixing the daily hack. L
Ive had a few peeps asking how im getting on with the nova, why no updates in ages so ill try bring things up to speed..
Continuing from the last update in mid October, the only definite decision ide made with this shifter/linkage gig was that it was going to be internal, so ide made a start and cracked on with chopping and hacking at the floor of the car; doingthe usual prep work as we’ve all seen time again.
However,i was hoping to end up using this astra mk1 linkage bar, instead of keeping that so-far-cant get-on-with-it quickshift bracket/rosejoint o.e –sytle setup.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10213-1135.jpg
This meant when i got to the part where you drill through the middle of the floor for the elongated/slotted hole, im supposed to be drilling in the passengers footwell instead; like many quaife shifter/linkage users have done.
Anyway i spent weeks trying to work out how best to do this, and bar actually welding the plate over the old shifter hole; ide achieved this mess all by myself lol.
Cut carpet support, offered plate over hole:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0520.jpg
Welded plate over..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0563.jpg
..from underneath:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0561.jpg
Made hole in bulkhead. Hope its right lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...01212-1435.jpg
Offered Astra linkage bar up through the hole, connected it loosely to gearbox..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...01228-1212.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...01228-1214.jpg
Result was the astra bar is a tad too long. Needed shortning. Plus the floor , to mount it to; is too low down or the steering rack gets in the way. So when attaching it to the box selector – the whole bar sat up off the floor as in the above pic. To get it to sit on the floor of the car; it needed disconnecting from the box; so was at the wrong angle.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...01228-1219.jpg
But i was hopeful it would work and my guess work seems close enough. But In the end, for me without decent fabrication skills and tools; this was as far as i got. Went about getting it booked in for someone to do for me. Ended up being in 4 months time(!)
In the meantime i tried to get on with other jobs, fitted a vent hole in the firewall, behind the ITB’s to draw colder air through the scuttle panel area.Plus i thought it may extract some heat and more noiize lol..
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I also de-rusted, partly-cleaned and painted the battery tray area; and fitted a tray as ide never had one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10306-1648.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10311-1459.jpg
Good enough. Also at that same time, ide been umming and arring about with what, how and where to replace my ageing oasis bottle catch tank, making templates n everything!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10213-1530.jpg
Then i turned my attention to the cooling side of things.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...hoto0190-1.jpg
I wanted to replace this ugly looking 2into1return that ive put up with for ages and we’de all been about TX alloy rads onthe forums alot at the time. So the chain of events with that:
Took old header and pipes out:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10220-1446.jpg
Offered new bailey header up:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10220-1547.jpg
New rad vs old:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10221-1706.jpg
New rad fitted:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10228-1439.jpg
Fitted up new pipes arrangement:
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New fan, 11” Spal, suction; onto brackets:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10304-1648.jpg
During fitting:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10304-1724.jpg
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Finished:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10306-1647.jpg
Fan brackets a bit visible through grille/panel gaps.. oh well:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10313-1316.jpg
However,as seen in technical rooms; have experienced some leakage from the radweld/joins:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10313-1551.jpg
So with the date of linkage fabricating now looming, i thought it would be an ideal time to get the ground clearance issue i have sorted. As hopefully these parts could get fitted at the same time. So i got them prepared. For this i took the (shallower than existing z18xe) x16xe sump i sourced:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10115-1032.jpg
And got it slightly modified, just had the deepest part trimmed back a tad; to be sure lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10207-1703.jpg
Then i needed to get my BTB manifold re-flanged, as again theyre for x16xe only; so i managed to get a piper z18xe flange on its own, got the swap done. A lambda hole and boss was drilled, fitted and bunged. I then heat wrapped it; all in a bit of a last minute rush-photos missing would you believe.
I then prepped the car for the trip to fabricators; stripping out the interior,raising ride height etc.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...10313-1317.jpg
Then it went off to retropower.
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