Iain's 20XE Trackday Nova

[MK999]

Supposedly 40mm front 35mm rear, but I reckon its dropped a little more on the front and a little less on the back.

Is it a specific kit or just a generic 6 pot one/E34? If it's generic E34 the lowering might be at 4 pot values.

[Iain]

Don't know don't care it was cheap and looks good

[MK999]

Pikey Where's these new wheels then, should be picking the paint up for mine tomorrow, painted tomorrow night maybe if I'm lucky? On at the weekend! Should be maybe.

Also that other thing you're driving from the forum title and all that looks good.

[Adam]

WTFs all this beemer talk about?

[Iain]

WTFs all this beemer talk about?

THIS Brap brap brap!



Well not really done much with the Nova and the poor thing hasn't even been started in three weeks due to the weather, but I've tinkered with the odd bit.

Got some sheet carbon fibre and remade the heater blank in the bay, it was made from Nova roofskin metal before so a bit of weight saving!



Also made a fuel pump blank:



Recently had my 'powercap' off and noticed a puddle of oil in the inlet, don't think it's breathing right, so I've got myself a catch tank to monitor it a bit better. Also got a metre of fluoro lined Roose silicone hose and a Pipercross to-air breather:



Decision was to mount it to the bulkhead rollcage bar, OMG naked engine bay:



Some tabs welded on:



In it's new home with how I plan to route the new breather pipe:



Also got these, thanks Graeme, HiSpec caliper spacers to use 283mm discs with the standard 256mm ATE calipers, so I'll try these out when I source some discs...

[peester]

Isnt it best to have the catch tank sitting a bit more lower, below the level of top of engine? - just the bit of gravity will help flow..?

[MK999]

Isnt it best to have the catch tank sitting a bit more lower, below the level of top of engine? - just the bit of gravity will help flow..?

But you don't really want all your oil draining into the catch tank if you can avoid it, better if it condensates in the tube and runs back down. Water vapour (i.e your blow by) won't condensate until you take it back down to lower than about 100 degrees so that will still end up there fine. Unless it's really choking out oil and it ends up blocking the tube with gunk but you'd have bigger things to worry about then.

Anyway back on topic, you really need to sort your wheels out, Schnitzer reps look good and are fairly cheap

[scott.parker]

That looks spot on, how close is it to the bonnet mate?

[Iain]

I agree with MK999, hopefully this will stop unnecessary oil entering the tank?

Scott it's quite close tbh, there's scope for moving the breather filter to the front or shortening the connector on the top of the tank though...

[Prey]

oooooh those brackets look heavy......