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the gm head dosent go porous either...... it cracks but its an easy fix.
have a look for a bloke called giles on mig. hes been building an XE of scary spec for about a million years.... not sure how close to 300 hes going to get but its going to slap you into reality lol
well i know your a fair while away but with things like this you want quality workmanship i help build race engines at weekends so gradually building on my knowledge but if you would like some idea on prices i could put you in contact with who i help out check out the link in my sig GRACE ENGINE DEVELOPMENTS
Just have done with it and buy a Pulsar GTiR!
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For fukks fukking sake. How many fukking times do we need to hear this absolute Horesh1t
Go for it. If you pull it off, congrats, ill be the first to suck your cock. If it fails, dont be shocked/upset/angry when you get "i told you so" from Everybody on here!
300BHP XE, On a budget build, Hayabusa TBs...... FUKK OFF!!
BTCC cavs ran 300BHP with MEGA MEGA spec. Have you even gone done the route of turning the head around, so the inlet side faces the front of the car?? Do you know how much research/developement/testing etc went into those engines to make them what they were?
Why not, as everyone else says, build a big spec LET, for cheaper money and have the all important requirement for a 4wd monster, TORQUE.
The cally 4x4 system will sap alot of power and to give it a fukking good shove to get your "Racing car" moving your gonne require alot of Torque, which, no matter how much you spend, You aint gonna get NA!!
My integra Type R for instance is nigh on 270 BHP NA, but ill be lucky to see 200lbft of torque.
Anyway, this is all pipe dreams, youve gotta get the running gear in first!
You'd be good in the Army thinking about it, as from what i know of the Army, Most of em are full of sh1t.
right, ive seen this done many times before mainly on mk3 astras and on corsa's. cant be alot of diffarence on a nova as they share a similar base to an astra and identicle to a corsa (pretty much) like said the width does not matter as it will be wide track up front aswell and will have a wide arch kit bought or made to match up with the width the cally rear end..
the system will always give scope for turbo power at a later date. makes sense really as there wont be no transfer box problems with N/A as it will be about 25% less torque than a LET. but easily upgradable at a later date for more power. its the fact that it shoudl take a good thrashing and be reliable (in terms of transmision) and make a huge diffarence to the way the car drives in the wet, well at least off the line anyway.
as for the engine i dunno what you lot are on about but on a completely std xe over 200bhp is easily obtainable with the correct set up (not even touching the internals of the engine) and 300bhp is certainly obtainable on a normal xe engine without a swindon reversed head!! ive seen healthy 240+hp on a minimaly specced engine still running std rods and oil system whilst still being reliable..
it does help that we have Mr Rheed local (JRE) for the engine build..
the hayabus bodies are adequate for the xe aswell even in a high state of tune, maybe not enough for 300hp but definatly not too far off. not forgeting that they taper from 48mm to 44mm (ish) in a similar fasion to the SBD taper throttle bodies which have seen proven 300hp..
stu you sure your not in the army yourself?? sound like it.
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Like everybody has always said, believe it when we see it!!
Well done for seeing these high powered minimal tuned XEs, im so proud of you!
Right anyway here is the corsa we did, not that difficult. I still stand by what I said its not as easy for a nova an requires a different approach as imo just fitting a wide arch isnt going to solve it.
And also I would rather have a 2wd 200-300bhp nova as the weight of the 4x4 system is going to make it solwer round a track unless your grass tracking.
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there was only one ever made and it was a left hand drive built for rallying and the 4wd corsa that someone built twisted in the middle as there to much power from the engine and the body twisted
Must have been pigeon ****ted together to twist as I doubt the transfer box would transfer enough torque to twist the shell.
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Originally Posted by muzzy
If it'll fit in a 106 then it'll fit in a Nova !!
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