Nova 2.0 litre 4x4.

not really he could have it all raised up a la jacked up dodge ram stylee....

Or raise the floorpan, keep the sills where they are (think that's what they did when they made the Dimma 306 to fit in the driveline).

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Has been done, there used to be a shabby beige Nova scuttling round the Runcorn / Widnes area with Calibra Turbo running gear in. Real street sleeper, quiet exhaust, steel wheels, "Grandmother Spec" beige interior. Only real giveaways were it was slightly lower, and I think the wheels were off a Cav or Vectra. Black 15" steel jobs anyway. Didn't handle very well, but it had ridiculously good traction.

Pete M

Park it between a wall and your truck then move your truck a lot closer to the wall. I knew I would find a use for you and your truck some day.

You could also cut the back off and make it a Ram style pickup.

LOL

Which 2.0 cav.

to be honest its not worth your while. Fit a turbo 16v engine, mappable ECu with launch and traction it'll be fast/scary enough.

before it pulls the body apart :)

properly seam welded novas are very strong shells.

How about removing the boot floor and building in a narroved Jag IRS setup, and a either adding in a Viva front suspension subframe, or building your own using either Skoda or Saab double wisbones. Both give a nice responsive front end, with none of the juddery stifness of mac struts.

Ahh, we're getting into the standard custom car setup here. Trouble is that both the Viva front (or Chevette/MK1 Cav etc) and Jag IRS are getting very hard to find.

oh yes, the rodders favourite.

Maybe look at something like a Manta? Maybe time to trawl the local scrappies and see what they have in that is easy to get to and remove.

As I said before, Saab and Skoda both had proper double wishbone front ends. So you would need to get the geometry right, but you could use them.

Really? I'd have thought old Jags to break for suspension would be ten a penny. Which Jag is the suspension from?

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Easier just buying a decent car, instead trying to make a Nova into one. They were ok in 1993, but c'mon.. They were never the best cars in the world, and now they're lumped in with Saxos for being the biggest C**ts car of the last few years.

Pete M

It was just a thought. They're worth bugger all to sell on and it'd fill in some time.

Just like climbing a Mountain, or swimming the channel.

Because it's there, and because you can.

Well... if it could be realistically done, I would have thought someone would have bothered by now, and I can't recall ever seeing a Nova 4x4 conversion... Mk2 Astra GTE, yes, Nova, no.

-- JackH

but nobody does that anymore :) they just look at how fast they can get the pint to dry before they stack it on the next MacDonald's speedhump :)

Birmingham,

Make it into a miniature monster truck!