Project Winter Freshen Up

[Mazz]

Dunno if i can be arsed to use it.
Everytime i pull it out of the garage I see so much iam not happy with & just want to roll it back into the garage under its cover.

Perfectionist

[ben doodar]

Nice to see the car in the flesh mate n nice to meet you. Stunning car!!

[MattBrown]

One of my all time favourite novas!

Get it driven Martin.

[ben doodar]

I work just up from the rolling road he has been to today. I heard the noise coming down the road looked out of the window and thought straight away, I know that car! Then managed to get out of work for 10 minutes to have a look around it. Absoloutle cracking car.

[scott.parker]

Martin, get that body work sorted, use it at least once a week and get ti to the shows/events and do a few track day's, or els you'll end up doing as i did, and get to point where you think, why am i keeping this!...

[krobinson]

Dunno if i can be arsed to use it.
Everytime i pull it out of the garage I see so much iam not happy with & just want to roll it back into the garage under its cover.

You need to realize that perfection doesn't exist, especially in an old car. You need to get a ring trip under your belt before stripping it.

[MARTIN KELSON]

Right the Nova has been to 'Mikeaniks' today at Congleton for a couple of hours on the rollers for a mapping session.

Bit gutted that Mike wont have people watching him work, was looking forward to some video and pics of it on the rollers. Never mind as i know what its like with somebody watching over your shoulder.

Here are the results before & after.




Apparently a couple of lucky moments!
One the throttle stuck wide open. Where i had coiled the excess throttle cable it got cought jamming throttle wide - Now cut off.
He went to balance the boddies so unclipped the filter to find a trumpet had come loose & one of the screws was floating about - If that would have been sucked down the throttle body

Drives now much nicer & much better on fuel as it was overfueling quite abit.
Its about 95/98% there but to get it spot on would mean messing with the verniers & that would need a day on the rollers & not just the couple of hours. Maybe next time

Thought i would have been over the 200bhp barrier but never mind.

Interesting drive back down M6, sat in 3mile traffic jam for 45mins watching all the temperatures on the Stack!! Never sat in traffic in it before but iam glad to say she behaved faultlesly.

[Adam]

Nice results.

Good to hear you found the cv joint swap easy enough.

[Kev Turbo]

Oh yea that can be sorted.
Got two brand new genuine wings in the loft.

I built it because i enjoy tatting in the garage rather than driving it!

If it was to drive he would more than likely buy something that actually drives nicely

Great project though and i share your sentiment on tinkering with Vauxhalls!

One of my favourite Novas.

[matthew172]

cant belive you jacked it up into the garage door!!! good dyno results mate but its crying out for turbo power, what does it fel like with the new tie bar setup?