my new nova

[david_white]

Re: my new nova

Looking very nice Jezza, although I think you could do with the reverse head to get a bit of ram effect through the front. At least the scooby duct should get some air in there though.
Liking the exhaust, very neat. Was there a lot of room for it?

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

Looking very nice Jezza, although I think you could do with the reverse head to get a bit of ram effect through the front. At least the scooby duct should get some air in there though.
Liking the exhaust, very neat. Was there a lot of room for it?

Hi Dave they dont do a reverse head for this engine ,its only the big block 2.0xe that the reverse head fits,i am hoping the bonnet scoop will help with airflow for the carbs i might make some sort of duct from the scoop iif i can be arsed
The exhaust was nice and easy but i think it may be a bit loud ,i will measure it when we go to run it in ,i have a cherry bomb that i will fit if need be but it weighs a ton so i am hoping to not have to fit it.

Hows your engine build coming along are you hoping to get a race or 2 in this year ?

[Retromotorsport]

Re: my new nova

ahh good, soon be ready to race ... ... then the Mk2

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

ahh good, soon be ready to race ... ... then the Mk2

Mk2, that reminds me i have one of them somewhere

[Stylussprinter]

Re: my new nova

Hi Dave they dont do a reverse head for this engine ,its only the big block 2.0xe that the reverse head fits,i am hoping the bonnet scoop will help with airflow for the carbs i might make some sort of duct from the scoop iif i can be arsed
The exhaust was nice and easy but i think it may be a bit loud ,i will measure it when we go to run it in ,i have a cherry bomb that i will fit if need be but it weighs a ton so i am hoping to not have to fit it.

Hows your engine build coming along are you hoping to get a race or 2 in this year ?

Have you tried BASALT for silencer packing . I use it and it lowered my db's from 105 plus to 98 to 102 depending on the operator and weather. Rob

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

Thanks Rob ,I haven,t measured the noise yet but will bare that in mind if its too noisy,where would you get Basalt from

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

Well today was nova day again today and it was time to look at the suspension,when we fitted the custom tie bars before they were a bit long and we couldnt get more than 1 degrees castor so i had some more bars made a little shorter so we could get a bit more castor this all went well but when we put the tracking gauges on it was toeing in mileswe have never had this before so tried to adjust it but run out of adjustment before we were near where it needs to be that was really strange as it has allways been perfect as we allways check it before every session,then Andy being the clever person he is said its allmost as if the hub steering arm is bent ,that reminded me that last time out at lydden when i lost 2nd gear at the hairpin i was concentrating on trying to get a gear that i hit the curb hardso we think that this is the problem so i need to get a new hub and that should sort it
Then it was time to put it on the scales i was hoping to get under 700 kilo,s ,Andy thought i was being optomistic as the stock rods he builds engines for very rarely weigh under 720 kg and they have nothing in them ..
The good news is that it was very nearly spot on as far as corner weighting goes which i wasn,t surprised about as it handled so well and felt well balanced it needed a slight adjustment on the drivers front so slight adjustment of the coilover and all was good,bad news is it weighs just under 790kgs which is more than i thought it has 65/35 weight distribution which i was quite pleased with as there doesnt appear to be anything much in the back,there are a few things that Andy is putting the weight down too,we have got steel wheels which he thinks we could lose as much as 20kg by getting alloys and he said there is more than 10kgs to be lost by scraping the underseal off and the fibreglass bonnet and tailgate i have got have full internals so are still quite heavy for fibreglass ,so they are going to be meeting my hole saw.
I might have to investigate fibreglass bumpers aswell to see if i can save a bit of weight

[Pushrod King]

Re: my new nova

Jez ,you need it to weigh at least 850kgs to meet the new regs for 16v FWD cars in class E. (8v RWD is 740kgs)

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

Where are the weight restrictions Nick as far as i can see reg 5.14 says no weight limit

[Pushrod King]

Re: my new nova

Bloody well should be there, infact ALL fwd cars should weigh a minimum of 850kgs ..............................

[antman]

Re: my new nova

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[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

You had me proper worried therei was just looking for other championships to go and race in ,spat my dummy out to my brother on the phone i said to him there is no way i am going to start putting weight back in the car ,i cant keep up now let alone with more weight, i will carry on with my plan for the scraper and underseal for tommorow

[Pushrod King]

Re: my new nova

Sorry couldn't resist Don't lose too much weight out of it though,my car's only got 160bhp and weighs just over 740kgs

[antman]

Re: my new nova

You had me proper worried therei was just looking for other championships to go and race in ,spat my dummy out to my brother on the phone i said to him there is no way i am going to start putting weight back in the car ,i cant keep up now let alone with more weight, i will carry on with my plan for the scraper and underseal for tommorow

tell me about it bruv evie is just putting my soap box away nice stitch pushrod

[Toymex]

Re: my new nova

Sorry couldn't resist Don't lose too much weight out of it though,my car's only got 160bhp and weighs just over 740kgs

160 bhp not quoting the new engine figures in that case mine has only got 113