Iain's 20XE Trackday Nova

[Iain]

Cheers Spud! Yeah I might keep the povo bumper, but going for a red stripe like before, need to add more colour to it.

Pulled this off a mk4 Astra at the scrappy today, quite like the look of it so I'll paint it up and fit it properly!

[Adam]

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.

You can do low/dead 14s @99/100mph with a standard xe in a track car!
I did a 14.4 @ 99 with a broken gearlinkage

Good work Iain, cooler looks well, and the painted bumpers look miles better than the old faded ones. And you will be able improve that 1/4 time loads with more practice. High 13s, with the fresh engine and diff etc.

[Iain]

Securely fastened on



Booya



Just the aggressive look from the front end I was aiming to achieve!

[Iain]

You can do low/dead 14s @99/100mph with a standard xe in a track car!
I did a 14.4 @ 99 with a broken gearlinkage

Good work Iain, cooler looks well, and the painted bumpers look miles better than the old faded ones. And you will be able improve that 1/4 time loads with more practice. High 13s, with the fresh engine and diff etc.

Cheers Ad, yeah quicker times hopefully next time I go but I won't go out of my way to do it again as £ per fun Donington is much better!

[Adam]

I'd stick with that look tbh, looks well!

[Lee H]

I ran 14.2 @ 99 mph on a standard XE with about 140k miles on. Car still had electric windows and no diff etc so definitely room for improvement as Ad says.

[scott.parker]

Make the standard bumper look loads better mate, no rear bumper mod then?

Scott

[Connor]

Looks mean mate

[Iain]

Make the standard bumper look loads better mate, no rear bumper mod then?

Scott

No rear mods yet Scott want to try it on a scrap rear first cos I worried it'd ruin the looks ha ha

[Iain]

Now rocking a red bumper stripe



Next up something I've wanted for years and finally got thanks to Rich off here....

Lots of M5 rivnuts and M5 button headed bolts:



Fit perfectly in the 7mm holes in the tailgate, rear quarters and doors:



Tailgate fitted:



Rear quarters fitted:



With extra mods for wiring:



And front doorcards (flash highlights the weave, ooh sexy):



Well chuffed with them, tidies the interior up a treat, although I wouldn't mind some (annodised?) black bolts to finish it off.

Removed them for now, will clean and waxoyl all the interior cavities tomorrow and fit them with some double sided to stop them rattling.