985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

Looking good Colin, nice brakes.

couple more pics that may help and be of interest colin
also if you want to pop over when your next this way on for a peek your more than welcome mate you know where i am.

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Also mate will give you a call mid week so i can arange with you when your about to collect that shell and and doors ect if thats ok mate

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couple more pics that may help and be of interest colin
also if you want to pop over when your next this way on for a peek your more than welcome mate you know where i am.

Also mate will give you a call mid week so i can arange with you when your about to collect that shell and and doors ect if thats ok mate

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Thanks Steve, very useful.

Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are looking like good days for collecting the shell.

Tuesday and Thursday are not good at all!

I eventually remembered where that place which does all the composite moulding is that we were talking about - it's at Binbrook (Market Rasen/Grimsby direction).

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coilsprings 89 will supply Ti springs colin, not sure on cost obviously and their website appears to be down for me at the moment, but they definitely do them, some of the supertouring cars may well have used them, don’t think the regs specified steel

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I've spoken with Neil at Coilsprings 89, and he reckons around £300 per pair to make titanium springs to my specifications.

I'll have to weight my springs, and see if a 40% weight reduction on them would justify those sort of costs.

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I've spoken with Neil at Coilsprings 89, and he reckons around £300 per pair to make titanium springs to my specifications.

I'll have to weight my springs, and see if a 40% weight reduction on them would justify those sort of costs.

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Considering a spring must weigh around 2kg+ £300 to lose 4*0.4=1.6kg is a bargain when you get to the kind of level your car is at colin!

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I've spoken with Neil at Coilsprings 89, and he reckons around £300 per pair to make titanium springs to my specifications.

I'll have to weight my springs, and see if a 40% weight reduction on them would justify those sort of costs.

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seems pretty reasonable to me tbh! and imagine the spec list kudos!:thumb: glad they were of use though, great company to deal with in my experience

Your getting some nice bits together now colin. What dampers are you running on the front? Just wondered if you spoke to gaz about getting some short bodied dampers made with less travel would save you a bit more weight?

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Your getting some nice bits together now colin. What dampers are you running on the front? Just wondered if you spoke to gaz about getting some short bodied dampers made with less travel would save you a bit more weight?

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The fronts are off the shelf Leda ones (2.5" springs I believe).

They are an area I plan to look at, I can't see why it wouldn't be possible to use 1.9" ID sturuts/springs to save weight.

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Considering a spring must weigh around 2kg+ £300 to lose 4*0.4=1.6kg is a bargain when you get to the kind of level your car is at colin!

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Agreed, except it's £600 to save 2kg!

I weighed one of my 1.9" ID rear springs, and it's about 2.2kg, so there would be a bit more to be saved than 2kg in total, especially as if I remember rightly the Ledas use 2.5" ID springs on the front end.

There is definatley quite a bit of weight to be saved then. Next time im down at the unit i will measure the body of mine and the amount of travel and let you know how much they weigh. They are certainly a lot lighter than a standard coilover.