985cc Turbocharged Nova Sprint Car

[istf]

Looks cool! If the roof beam strong enough, you can also install an engine lifter chain reel.

[BRoadGhost]

You could bond a porta-loo to it then you need never leave the garage.

[dgbnova#1]

Internal wires probably electric door lock for when u drop in ure 20p
Garage looks spot on you could batton the outside and clad with shiplap and would look a load better, insulate it at same time and keep out the damp.

Roof should take a block and tackle if you bolt a runner between all or some of the beams, handy over the pit

[novarally]

Internal wires probably electric door lock for when u drop in ure 20p
Garage looks spot on you could batton the outside and clad with shiplap and would look a load better, insulate it at same time and keep out the damp.

Roof should take a block and tackle if you bolt a runner between all or some of the beams, handy over the pit

We did wonder about it being an electric locking system, but I don't think it is (not dismantled it yet).

I'm going to insulate the inside with foil-backed 40mm Kingspan, and then clad the inside with sheets of gloss white UPVC.

Cladding the outside is certainly an idea, if it doesn't look better when I paint the pebble dash.

[dgbnova#1]

The PVC is it plastyvan? You can get 6m lengths of soffit from Eurocell well cheap and plenty good for inside a garage. Just thought outside insulate as stops or reduced condensate and gives a nice finish to look at plus does not reduce internal size I know it's not a load but every little helps

[novarally]

The PVC is it plastyvan? You can get 6m lengths of soffit from Eurocell well cheap and plenty good for inside a garage. Just thought outside insulate as stops or reduced condensate and gives a nice finish to look at plus does not reduce internal size I know it's not a load but every little helps

No, I was going to use 8 x 4 foot sheets of UPVC, like this;

http://www.claddingwarehouse.co.uk/h...-wall-cladding

It will keep the interior bright and wipe clean, plus hiding all of the wiring etc.

[Mike]

Crack on Colin.

[dgbnova#1]

Ye that's nice stuff, need a flat surface as its only 2.5mm and bit of a bitch to fit, it would go on ure kingspan but better on ply and real good adhesive not gripfill, the soffit is not as nice but probably cheaper and 6m x 300 mm so you could run it like t&g all around and no ply needed just batton to fit it to

[novarally]

As the car is having a pretty major rebuild post-accident, I'm now nearly 100% decided on converting the Nova to left hand drive.

It will give much better weight distribution, although it will naturally create quite a bit of work as well.

Obviously steering rack, steering column and pedals are the major things.

The seat and harness mountings will need moving to the left, and one of the roll cage tubes that sits in the passenger footwell will need to be removed.

The bigger headache looks likely to be the gear linkage, which passes through the bulkhead on the passenger side (as it is at the moment). I'm sure that will be in the way of the pedals.

I'm thinking along the lines of the Colin Satchell gearshift kit for the Saxo/106/205 etc., although whether it will be feasible to adapt that to fit a Nova I don't yet know.

Of course this is all work I should have done when I carried out the major shell-strip and rebuild, just before the accident!

I did think about it a lot at that time, but I elected to keep it Right Hand Drive for ease and the expediency of completing it ready for the season's racing. The RHD format on a FWD car like a Nova is always going to be an inherent disadvantage, and I'm sure there's a lot to be gained from better traction off the start line, as well as better balance if I'm sat on the same side as the gearbox, rather than the engine.

I've owned and driven lots of LHD cars over the years, including my much-missed 450bhp ex-works Escort Cosworth, so I should be able to cope.

[dgbnova#1]

Ask minimandan as he's done the opposite and may have the old lhd parts