Iain's 20XE Trackday Nova

[Iain]

Carbon doorcards were second hand but bought from Performance Trim when they were still going, not sure where you can get some now sorry.

Adam that's the ultimate goal really, but I don't have a huge amount to spend on the car at the moment. Another problem is I'm insured up to 165bhp and it's already mega expensive insurance. I've sorted myself out some mild cams now anyway.

[peester]

i think cmc composites chris does carbon doorcards.

[Iain]

Just found a couple of pics on the Javelin Trackdays facebook page, looks quite nicely sat in the corners/under braking now?

[Mieran]

Could do with going a bit lower, specially the back end

[Iain]

Few pics of recent work and improvements.

I tried out an SFI box to replace the powercap. Looked nice and OE, kinda



Wouldn't fit past the rollcage bar anyway:



It seemed to smooth out the rev range and felt quite torquey in the mid range however lacked the initial throttle response I like, so I removed it.

My exhaust kept working loose at the manifold, due to lack of flexi in the system (Why on earth didn't Ashley make it with a flexi?)

You can see here how thin the metal has worn, and the groove inside where the manifold has been eating into it:



Chop chop:



Fitted:



While I was under there I was a bit shocked at the state of my chassis leg, oops!



Now some improvements, purchased a pair of reground Kent AST 1612 camshafts:



Fitted up into the head:



Slight problem to overcome, the cams are later DISpac cams, you can tell as there's a thread in them:



This meant the dizzy sat like this as the central hole is a lot shallower:



Chopped 5-6mm off the end of the dizzy and it bolted up fine:



Impressed with the feel of them. It runs quite lumpy on idle now, feels like it pulls strongly right up to the limiter now. In fact I'm after a way of disabling or upping the rev limiter while retaining the standard (or chipped/modified) ECU!

[nova_stee]

The cheap ebay chips remove the rev limiter and they run the same

[turbojolt]

nice work mate, you dont hang about do you them cams would have sat in my garage for months before fitting them

[Iain]

The cheap ebay chips remove the rev limiter and they run the same

Was thinking about those actually, if I can be 100% sure they don't mess with any fueling then that sounds like the cheapest way. Happy to get an aftermarket OMEX or something to manage the rev limiter.

Had them about a week and couldn't resist fitting them Turby, pretty happy with them although I was a bit worried they'd be coming out again when I noticed they're not early dizzy ones!

[turbojolt]

be interesting to get the nova on the same rolling road that you was on before and see the difference

[Iain]

In the meantime, I'm building up my scene points hahaha Noticed my tow eye was barely reachable, perhaps my front bumper is sitting a bit far forward.



Don't worry it neatly packs away like this so isn't on show: