Yep will try and find somewhere locally to do them.
Yep will try and find somewhere locally to do them.
Last pics of the oil cooler, it's done and dusted mostly now!
Got my hose ends fitted/swaged so tidied up the cooler bracketry and bolted it in place properly:
Bit of heat reflective tape around the pipework and in place with cable ties for the time being - need to work out a nice way of keeping them there. Or not, cable ties ftw
Also took it to Santa Pod yesterday for some dragstrip action, only got 3 runs in before it was rained off though
Best time was as follows:
60ft: 2.3904
1/8 ET: 9.2699
1/8 MPH: 78.70
1/4 ET: 14.3444
1/4 MPH: 96.27
Obviously room for improvement when I learn how to launch it properly for best 1/4 mile times.
Thats bloody good mate!
What the ET? I think that was the first run I did (first ever run may I add) so defo room to get it down
Just practice off the traffic lights
Yeah, sodding hell if your standard engine can do 14.3 after a full rebuild i might rebuild mine, add cams etc, as my old engine in my old car on tb's did 14.2's.
Fed up with my bumpers fading and looking blotchy after a failed renovation attempt with the heatgun so dug out my spares
Plastic welded up the old holes I made with a view to mounting on bolts and not bumper irons:
Cleaned up and plastic primered:
Tinned high build wasn't good enough to get rid of the textured finish:
So dug out my el cheapo spray gun and ordered some high build celly primer:
Much better:
They then got a few coats of satin black paint!
On to fitting, painted up some door handles and filler cap to match:
Rear on, and repainted exhaust tip while I was there too:
Why do Novas look so hardcore with no front on
Boshed that one on too:
Extra cooling for trackdays, with a hole cut out of the bumper iron for it too:
Still not sure on the black, might get a GSi front and get a set pro painted white to match the car, but will see if I like them in a weeks time!
I dont like the satin black, but it matches everything so that's good.
Why have you removed the cool deplasticed handles?
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one PepsiFar from suicidalStill I get them tendenciesBringing back them memories
That I really miss when I reminisce
Yeah they match the wing mirror surrounds, grille, Aerocatches etc so it's better than grey for now
I posted shortly after fitting them that I didn't like 'em so I removed them
Just seen that vid of your run @ pod, and fook me, its not often cars look fast on film but that really does, youve done a hell of a job lemon and it just keeps getting better and better, imo keep the pov spec bumper on it as GSi with no skirts looks odd to me and there is extra weight in a GSi item, yours needs the freshly painted bumpers to stay, but is screaming out for a white stripe in the trim line on it
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