Nova oil pump

Genuine Vx oil pump should be fine, correctly fitted and shimmed. If you want, peen the lobes, but they dont tend to fly apart like CVH pumps at high rpm.

Fully balance bottom end with *steel* flywheel attached, pistons and rods shot peened, then weighed as pairs and lightened to heaviest set. This is what matters.

I would also probably have the block clamped down, (simulates head being fitted) and line bored hot to ensure everything is totally straight.

ARP bolts throughout and vanderwell bearings. 8500rpm safe in occasional bursts. Well depends how often you want to do a rebuild...but it wont fly apart.

Tim..

Just don't let theo and dan405 hear you say about wasting modern lardy assed supercars.

I'll believe you though.

hummm, birds of a feather.

The pump itself will be OK, but the gear is sintered and not perticularly strong, I'd be more worried about that.

You can get nice billet ones for an XE from SBD, maybe they do them for the small block ones too (if they are any different at all).

Just don't let theo and dan405 hear you say about wasting modern lardy assed supercars.

I'll believe you though.

praps if i'd been game for dropping a c20let in then yes

just for trackdays and toying with fannys in saxos and corsas spec as follows

nova 1400 sr non fi stripped half cage pair of buckets no exterior mods ie no naff spoilers :) or washer jets lol set of 14" alloys to clear brakes

brakes cavgsi 16v stoppers upfront standard on the rear

suspension Leda adjustable allround

engine :) :) :)

ams aktinsons head with an ast2 cam solid lifters balanced bottom 1600 end rods peened and matched crank reground arp bolts in the post to be fitted breathings thru a set of 40's and a 4-1 onto a straight thru PLR competition system (cheap as chips as david dickinson would say :)

weighs bugger all power a conservative 125 brake :) yeah result a lost of embarrased wanks in saxos and big smiles on the b roads

Are Novas actually potentially good cars then with a few proper mods as opposed to SOT?

What about sparks? With that cam and to have decent low end (below 3500rpm) tractibility you want 2d mapped at the least. 32 or 34mm chokes in the

Also that cam is done by around 7500rpm, so unless your crap at gearchanges and like to buzz the motor, revving it past 8000 is going to be abit of a waste of time!

Otherwise, engine spec is good- well done, good to see someone knows what they're doing.

Tim..

fishman raved thus:

:: Are Novas actually potentially good cars then with a few proper mods :: as opposed to SOT?

Well, they're pretty light when stripped. 'People' say they've got s*it handling but it can be sorted. There were always plenty of performance mods available due to 'em being rallied and stuff. And if you don't do anything stupid to 'em like stick a bizarre bodykit on or neons or something you might escape the Kev image...

Just out of interest, are windows made out of something like Lexan MOT friendly?

fishman wrote: :: Are Novas actually potentially good cars then with a few proper mods :: as opposed to SOT?

of course, i think that any slightly iffy car is potentially good with a few choice mods. try finding a nova without rust though, i'm on my third and it's not quite as rusty as my previous ones.

-- Snapper

-- My Manwich!

try finding a nova without rust though, i'm on my third and

My next project car (old bmw 525e) has heaps of rust where you can't see, but as i'm a dab hand at welding that sort of thing isn't of concern.

Curiously though, my current project car (that citroen ax) hasn't needed any rust patching up, normally the door bottoms and inner wings go, this F reg hasn't though. Maybe the french left it in the galvanising tank over the christmas holidays???

Have you looked into changing the gearbox on your nova?? If you have good front wheel traction, a lower/closer ratio gearbox is of benifit. In my case, the early peugoet 205xs was an ideal 5 speed gearbox for my ax.

which will make you faster than a maclaren F1 to 80mph...

cam was already there and will be upgraded when funds allow not all little rich boys on here :) morgages wife etc :)

running a tweaked standard dizzy setup atm and yeah i want to go for maybe emerald m3d or sommat but funds funds funds :)

"for the box i'm looking at a quiaffe c/r s/c box from a second hand source if funds will permit and as for the rust nothing that cant be cut out and replaced :)

If i drove the ax over beachy head, it would still be slower to 80mph than the mclaren F1!!!

B.T.W: Wasted my mates golf gti tonight .... again .... but this time i wasn't in the ax.

In news:6urDc.3854$ snipped-for-privacy@news-text.cableinet.net, Theo decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

as Maclaren don't actualy make motor vehicles, I'd suspect a mother pushing one of Maclarens buggies would be slower than a Citroen AX.

McLaren is probably the company you were attempting to think of.

Theo, your monumental knowledge of absolutely f*ck all never ceases to amuse me.

Thankyou for the nice remark. I like the idea of my ax only being a tad slower than a mclaren F1.

Suits me down to the ground. Cheaper insurance to. Won't get attacked in tescos carpark. Room to fit a pallet in the back .... do that in a mclaren F1.