985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[Mazz]

Mitsubishi Warrior?!

[novarally]

I weighed one of my doors today, which came out at 8kg.

Bear in mind that this is a door that has been completely gutted out of its internals, and skinned in aluminium sheet instead of steel.

I have asked Chris at CM Composites to make me a set of his fibreglass doors, which should come in at a shade under 10kg for the pair, which will give me a useful 6kg weight saving.

Total Weight soon to be 556kg.............

[calibra-keith]

fibreglass doors are probably my best buy for my nova so far, is there not a weight limit for car or car+driver for class your in Colin ? also what are the sizes and offset for wheels as wheels will soon be next on my list.

[novarally]

fibreglass doors are probably my best buy for my nova so far, is there not a weight limit for car or car+driver for class your in Colin ? also what are the sizes and offset for wheels as wheels will soon be next on my list.

I might be calling on you Keith for help with fitting them, it looked like an excellent job you did on yours!!

There's no weight limit at all in hillclimbs/sprints, so the lighter I can get the better. I was talking to a Mini owner at the weekend and he's got his legally down to 480kg!

Difficult to comment on wheel offsets as I haven't got the ideal combination on mine at all.

At the front I've mostly used an ET38 on a 7" rim with a 10mm spacer, so I would say the optimum is probably a 7" with an offset of around ET20 to avoid use of a spacer.

At the back I've got 7" wide with an ET of 11mm, but my rear track is also a lot wider due to the KAD alloy hubs I have fitted. In actual fact the ET11 is a little too wide for mine, so I will eventually get some higher offset wheels made to suit.

You might be better off speaking with other wide-arch Nova owners, as mine has been messed about with so much that comparisons may not be very useful.

Many years ago I had an orange XE-engine wide arch Nova that I am sure had ET0 wheels fitted all round (7" wide I seem to recall), and they filled out the arches just perfectly.

Of course finding the right wheels for the job is tricky, although if you're going for bigger diameters it's not so much of an issue.

[mowgli]

mitsubishi warrior?!

16v n/a pinto engine.....

[16xe_chris]

I'll be on with making you the doors asap

Keith did an outstanding job on fitting his

[novarally]

I'll be on with making you the doors asap

Keith did an outstanding job on fitting his

Thanks Chris.

I was trying to find some photos of my Nova in action, with little success, but I did find these 5 pages of photos of other motorsport Novas, some of which are cars I know, but others that are new to me;

http://www.zipp.co.uk/search/gallery/nova

Some interesting cars there.

[novarally]

Not a great photo, but these are the wheels I am planning to order;



I'm going up to see the chap who makes them next week, so he can take some measurements and start on machining.

If I sell all the other wheels I own I can just about afford a set!

[scott.parker]

Nice "Nova" tyres on them wheels!

All looking very very good mate, and nice link to them other nova's, i like what looks to be a standard SR in them.

Scott

[novarally]

This is a good link to see the sort of Mini-based competition I'm up against;

http://www.carbonweezel.co.uk/projects/index.html

My fiercest rivals are Neal Masters and Jim White, both of whom use carbon fibre stuff from this company.

Carbon Weezel produce some stunning carbon fibre work, including bespoke stuff for Sunseekers and Princess's, for those that are simply too wealthy for motorsport.......