Benn's on going build

[gregster]

Epic thread Benn, getting evils off the Mrs having been glued in front of the PC for a couple of hours reading it!
I am new to the Nova thing...but I am stunned at the quality workmanship and attention to detail that goes into these little pocket rockets. I was expecting all stick on cr4p with no taste, but I was sooo sooo wrong.
Builds like this are up there with the best modded cars out their, be them 50's yanks, muscle cars, minitrucks or whatever...

Well done though, a great read, a great car and huge amount of commitment and work on your part.
Look forwards to seeing what happens next...

[Benn]

Epic thread Benn, getting evils off the Mrs having been glued in front of the PC for a couple of hours reading it!
I am new to the Nova thing...but I am stunned at the quality workmanship and attention to detail that goes into these little pocket rockets. I was expecting all stick on cr4p with no taste, but I was sooo sooo wrong.
Builds like this are up there with the best modded cars out their, be them 50's yanks, muscle cars, minitrucks or whatever...

Well done though, a great read, a great car and huge amount of commitment and work on your part.
Look forwards to seeing what happens next...

Thank you very much. A great car for me comes for attachion to very detail
Its the bits you really notice and think wow are th bits i love on cars and builds, so i do the same.. really cause i want things to be perfect.. even if i cant really get things that way.


Ive loads to do at the mo to do.. so there is lots more coming.

Thank you.

[Alex J]

boooooo!!!! no pictures! has you really just broken it for spares and got a cosworth or something instead

[Benn]

No, got a Saxo in sted... West coast me up....

[Benn]

Been a while since i've worked on the car, so i thought i best get a move on. Got it backed in to the garage as it's time to fix my rear beam/hub set up.

Get up and start stripping.. Coilovers off.. Dirty but clean up easy.



Once hub (now my rear beam was ment to be powder coated, it clearly wasn't as you can see. But it will be as they is one of the jobs to do. Brake lines need repainting as do the calipars) Whole under side needs a bloody good clean too, as it hasn't been done since the summer)



Other side.. Hand brake cables off, under side needs a good car and the paint needs tidying up in a few places too, as does the pump pipes and wires.



Caliper off and undoing the hub..







Good thing tho, the rear discs are quite clean, so proves they work ok..

Hub off, deffo no powder coating there.. Will be blasted off and power coated gloss black in the next few weeks)



Now here's where the fun starts.. The reason i'm doing this is my rear toe..



As you can see is quite badly out, hence why the rear end can feel so light on cornering.. (never noticed this on a tracking report before some how)
So there could be two reasons for it, the beam has had the disc plates fitted badly (i bought the beam already made) or where my hubs are spaced because of the Cav V6 rear hubs (they have a abs ring on the back that you cant easily remove) Now i'm hoping it it's the spacing..

You can see the hub was spaced only a tiny bit with washers, at the time a temp fix that was forgotten about..



So i took each off and measured them, hoping to see one side would be lower, giving the wheel the bad toe..



How's what i found...





As you can see, they are all a bit different, but at .something of a mm not enough to give the toe figures.. The abs bit is at the bottom and looks like a 3mm spacer will cover it.

So after a bit of working out by Dan (sat in the lounge with tea in hand) it looks like it's the plates on the beam.. Great.

So now i have to work out how to get the beam plates faced to be flat or how to using a 3mm spacer that gives a bit of angle adjustment to correct the toe...

[scott.parker]

Interesting, I'll keep my eyes on this as to how you sort it mate.

[Benn]

I'm hoping if i remove the abs ring lip, then use a skim with a tiny bit of angle on it it will fix..

[The Simps]

Why not get some shims made up to slide in??

[The Simps]

Or you could slice down the backing plate support, knock out then re-weld. If doing this I'd get the beam on a jig with hubs etc on and measure it all properly as you move it.

[Rick Draper]

TBH Benn most disk beam plates I have seen have a hole large enough for that part of the hub to sit in so there is no need for spacers.