Mmmmm very nice! AP braking goodness! Also good job on the brake cooling solution. Like!
Mmmmm very nice! AP braking goodness! Also good job on the brake cooling solution. Like!
One day I'll start a build thread. One day...
Very nice!! Good work.
You are right to do the brake cooling. In fact in my experience its a must with bigger brake conversions for trackdays. If you don't sort it, the brakes and hubs get so hot that it cooks the grease in the bearings and CV joints with predictable results. Not only that but everything expandd so much that the wheel studs come loose never mind running the risk of pad cooking and disc warping.
If you are running adjustable coilovers plus stiffer competition springs and are keen to loose some more weight, ditch the front anti-roll bar. If you look at the way they are designed they aren't attached to the body so are of very questionable value. If you look at other sport hot hatches you will see their roll bars are attached much more effectively. My theory is that the Nova ones were added to a bit of an after thought to try and stop roll with the standard softly sprung road set up and to promote understeer.
Great car - keep up the good work! (quite a lot of the photos are missing or is that me being a numpty with my PC?)
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Thanks for your experience return's for brake cooling and the front anti roll bar.
For that last, we'll keep to use it because since our last track day's we have doing some important modifcation. (big brakes, Quaife differential)
We would keep the last setup to do a new lap time reference with this news modifications.
Then, we'll try to remove the front anti roll bar and take a new lap time !
PS: Sorry for the pictures, they are on Imageshack. But since the account is not free, the images do not appear ... I'll try to fix that!
Here are the pictures to mounting air hoses.
At left, the hose is pushed onto the air duct and follows the pulling bar to not interfere when the wheels are turned.
Some pictures to be realized that the space is not huge !
Finally, we mount a third brake light, we want to be sure to be seen when we brake !
And a little fun ...
Small sticker for passengers!
Looks professional! I also love the Passenger Rules sticker :D
Hello everyone !
After 6 long years without news ...
No huge evolutions on the car to follow as it had also been sleeping during this time.
In short, we do a quick check & drained then we started the engine again, damn... it feels good !!!!
We were back on track in October 11th, 2020.
First session a bit difficult for the drivers but the car is behaving very well and the day were dry (the last 2 days had been rainy ...).
We try to find a good feeling behind the steering wheel and the lap times improve, the car behaves marvellously well and gives us the smile all day long !
Enough blah blah blah, please find below the videos and some pictures ! See you soon!
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