Swiss Trackday Nova

[Nova_Tek]

Looks damn sexy, love the subtle widened body. Love the inlet too.

[Count Vaux Alot]

Great work

[Benn]

I upgraded them to astra gsi 16V brakes, and nobody at the MOT noticed

Ah nice, was gonna say Nova brakes with a tuned engine might become a bit scarey...

[scott.parker]

Ah nice, was gonna say Nova brakes with a tuned engine might become a bit scarey...

Anything over 100bhp in nova is scary, as you soon realise the steering wheels on the piss, you have a thin skin of tin between you and the road (an other cars) you touch both sides the car with no effort wen sat inside, the windscreen is almost touching your face! there so comical its ace!

Only the original mini is smaller then a Nova, i bet smart cars are wider!

[Stuart]

Too much overpriced and overrated dilbert tat, but other than that a great build

[ExTrEmeOc]

Too much overpriced and overrated dilbert tat

Not every country provides the law and regulations to use a TB setup like Jenvey, SBD or something like that. Maybe its overpriced for you and not as good as others, but at least you're able to get it road legal in Germany and maybe even in Switzerland (if you got enough money ). So for that purpose it's the only decent thing you can get over here.

Sure, if im going to convert my Nova into a full racecar i would definitely choose a TB setup you can get in GB

[mowgli]

is the ban on motorsport still in place in switzerland?

[ExTrEmeOc]

Yes, but The ban is only for circuit racing. We've got great hillclimb and slalom events. i hope i can take in one of them some day

[ExTrEmeOc]

Had a little problem with the cooling, so i dismantled the cylinderhead.


At first the problem seemed small. The headgasket let the exhaust gases in to the cooling circuit.


massive cooling water consumption at the third cylinder.


At the cylinderhead the problem was way more obvious


So i grabbed some abrasive paper wich resulted in this:
there was a groove with a, at least, 0.5mm depth


A mate of mine had a spare x16xe and a cylinderhead he didn't need. So he gave them to me for free -> big thanks to him!


I removed the cylinderhead of the spare engine becaue of low milage and sent it for refurbishing.

[ExTrEmeOc]

After a couple of days it was cleaned, had new valve seals and had beed resurfaced


well... cleaned? i don't think so.


so i grabbed my tools and cleaned them myself.


after that i decided to to some budget-racing-engine-mounts with windshield adhesive


a few days after that everything was ready to reassemble the engine.


short after that my engine was back the way it was.Apart from the air filter, which was missing because a friend of mine needed it for his MOT.
The engine sound was nice though


the engine mounts made a big difference.


now the whole car is shaking at idling speed... i feel like a milkshake but at least the engine isn't rocking as much as before when driving a bit 'sporty'