Iain's 20XE Trackday Nova

[Iain]

1/10 for that joke BRoad I've watched videos of that phonebook trick, I cringe at it tbh! There's already a skim of filler from the rolling that's already happened so I'm a bit reluctant to mess with the current arches, got a spare arch I can tinker with if I need to.

Tried my new fifth last night and I can drive between 70 and 80 on the clocks at roughly 3500rpm, a vast improvement and you don't really notice the RPM drop too much for general driving.

[House]

Free head?!?

Where do I sign??

[Iain]

Well made it to PV Show 2015 and back, good day out on the PNG stand.



However it still wasn't running all that well, so I've just got back from Torque Tune in Ollerton (again):



Familiar scene to last time:



Bit of tweaking on the needles, fueling was fine but this helped midrange driving. Ignition timing set up properly (I'd got it 10 degrees out! Surprised it didn't melt on way to PV!!)



After the tune up it's an absolute monster, old school dyno with a basic dial gauge but looking at around 160BHP at the wheels, and it drives fantastically now.

[Southie]

Good power, I love the sound of bike carbs at full throttle. The cars looking well now

[turbojolt]

you cant hear the carbs over his ridiculous gearbox

[Benn]

No videos? What is this the dark ages?

[Iain]

No videos? What is this the dark ages?

Yeah for the dyno runs I was in the passenger seat checking gauges and writing down the measurements for him

[Benn]

Ah well that's ok, as long as you where involved.

[Iain]

PART 1/3

Couple of recent mods and improvements to report. First off, the poor thing gets really hot when sitting stationary, so I've upgraded my old fan:





With a monster 13" SPAL fan, which barely fits on the radiator





Fitted:





Funky waterproof connector:





Finished off my extinguisher plumbing, by making up a new bracket:





And fitting the second nozzle next to the oil catch tank (original nozzle on the drivers turret focusing on the fuel system):

[Iain]

PART 2/3

Now bit of a sore point, I've had 2 sets of shafts now that have worn away on the splines, I blame companies not hardening them after machning. So bazzap off here was nice enough to step in and make these beauties for me machined from EN24T. I then got the splines hardened locally via induction heating/quenching.





Things of beauty they are





Got some proper jobby GKN Lobro CV joints too, which are OE Vauxhall fitment ones:





Painted up and outers shortened to clear wheel centre caps:





Built up:





One for Benn to think about in bed tonight:





These bad boys were fitted earlier and have drastically reduced the free play in the wheels and it feels a lot better on the whole now, so thanks to bazzap for sorting them out.