985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[MK999]

Does standard fitment stuff not rule out carbon/fibreglass copies as you could make them slightly different?

Silhouette side on has to remain standard/recognisable as a nova, so only standard 'shape' stuff is allowed

[novarally]

Look out for a small photo update later today......

[novarally]

My apologies for the lack of updates recently, but I moved out of my house and workshops last week, and as you can imagine there was a lot of sorting out to be done.

I still have a lot of Nova and Corsa parts if anyone needs anything............

Anyway, a few photos of progress with the resurrection of my Nova, firstly some mocking up of the new front end, following removal of the mangled front inner wings and crossmember;







The turbo, fresh from being rebuilt at CR Turbos (great service and sensible prices);



The Lotus Elise pedal box awaiting more modification and installation;



Irmscher 3-piece rear spoiler (many thanks to Vessey for the loan of this). It's going to my aerodynamics man next week for him to assess it's suitability, if it is right for the job I'll get it made out of carbon fibre;







And finally for now, the new rear beam, which has been lightened by 1.5kg compared to my old one;

[Royston]

Please to see you are making progress Colin

[SimonTW]

How did you shed so much weight off the beam? I see the pink one doesn't have the parts for the rear anti roll bar. Have you redesigned the roll bar attachments or are they still to be added?

[mowgli]

i was curious too, as the new beam has no bushes.

[novarally]

How did you shed so much weight off the beam? I see the pink one doesn't have the parts for the rear anti roll bar. Have you redesigned the roll bar attachments or are they still to be added?

The pink beam still needs bushes in it, we haven't decided yet if we're going to use a rose joint or just the poly bushes that were on the old axle.

The weight has been taken away with a lot of hours of cutting and grinding to smooth down, along with removal of the spring platforms, drilling of holes etc.

I plan to test the car with no rear anti-roll bar, I'd like to think it can run without one to save even more weight. But if it's decided it does need one, we will probably fabricate something in T45 tube as the old one was quite heavy.

[lee303]

liking the new tube front end colin, are you planning to keep the rad angled? thats my plan for this winter but with the rad angle forwards with sealed in airflow entry and exiting out the bonnet via some vents like most current GT cars
i think the plan for no ARB will yield interesting results, personally i think you'll need one, or to stiffen the beam in a different way may be a lighter solution

[Mike]

liking the new tube front end colin, are you planning to keep the rad angled? thats my plan for this winter but with the rad angle forwards with sealed in airflow entry and exiting out the bonnet via some vents like most current GT cars

If you can, take a peek at a C2 R2 or DS3 R, as the current Citroen off the shelf rally pack contains all the bits to re-angle the rad & also includes an airflow entry system for it. VERY effective simple engineering. Also found on Swift JWRC cars now too.

[fearless]

Any picks or links mike - sounds interesting