f668 bfk restoration thread

[SRimon]

why have you an intercooler and an XE? or have i missed something?

[Sloth]

the reaon for the intercooler is that i am sorta working on a turbo conversion for it using a toyota supra turbocharger and some saab injectors. its still in its infancy tho. and im looking at building an 2.0 8v turbo nova 4dr saloon, with about 400ish brake using a truck turbo, a set of let pistons and some more saab bits. im also building a corsa c with a saab c25xe v6 and an f23 box. hmm, i think ive found a use for saabs!! i wanted to know wether to hide the cooler or not, thats all.

[craig green]

Cool to see a car with some heritage being resurrected. Personally, although back in the day I disliked the Fibresports Novadose bumpers, I think you should try to make it back to what it was in the mag feature (my pic btw).

So long as its all well painted & the wheels suit it, the Novadose kit can look good & the Novadose skirts are best avoided I think.

Up to you anyway, but that is an old skool Nova thats emerged from obscurity. Keep at it.

[Dave.]

must say, i do like the wheels on this, looks a dam site better that when you bought it

[Sloth]

wheels are 17" kosei concept fives painted white.(yet more hammerite!)
thanks for the pics craig, much appreiciated. just finised the engine bay properly, got a vectra c 1.8 inlet pipe, so i can bin the sfi box, just need a new crank sensor now as this ones a bit duff!

[Brodie_Sri]

Look like its comin on i will keep an eye out round hull for you when its finnished

[General Baxter]

using a truck turbo

a man from my own heart, so far im the only one who has used truck parts on a nova, i mean, errr i used an intercooler from a scanna

[euro sbd]

im not a fan on massive fmic, rest of the car looks good

[Sloth]

bit of an update. finally got round to finishing the wiring, found out it has the wrong loom. as there is no connector for the coil. and its been chopped about a hell of a lot, so i need to get a new loom (see parts wanted) big thanks to mr astley for all the help! soon be running then just the rear brakes to sort out and one of them mot thingys (joy!) then some nice mikuni carbs and a bit of cav 1600 dizzy methinks. job done!!

[Sloth]

right, just ordered a secondhand loom from the performance vauxhall spares centre, very good service etc. now i need to rip the old loom out!!