langey
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how much work would it be to make a nova turbo but with the 4wd??
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3CorsaMeal
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84grams, 1/2 a meter and twelvety eight lumens
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Sly_SRi
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Do you want it given in joules?
Corsa C Z20Let
Black Sleeper Turbo Project
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Davido
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 whats the point?
guys askin for advice??
bet a fair bit of work would be invloved mate, only say that as if it was fair easy there would be a few of them knocking about ??
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Teddy
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Courtenay did a mk3 astra turbo 4x4 they said it cost 17k and that they would never do it again.
There is a Nova turbo 4wd in Norway i believe that does run - and reports suggest there is one in the uk being built - whether it gets finished or not is another question
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SteveW
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well you need the floor pan thingy from a cally or cav 4x4
then the drivetrain.. the transmission tunnel needs modding too
but dont trust what i say cos i dont know that much 
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langey
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3cm and Sly_SRi - top replys dickheads. i was only askin whats invloved with doing the conversion, i dont think anywere in my post did i ask for stupid reply's
so its a lot of work and lot of time and money too?? 
only reason i asked is that i was thinking nova turbo, but all that power in a car like a little nova and front wheel drive only, will just not go anywere too quick.
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richard_syko
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Where does the transfer box go (if they have one) is it like a 3rd differential on a late AWD car or just on the gearbox?
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timrud_
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Rubbish on 17k for an Astra!
Will has done one and it cost nowhere near that. All it needs is an engine when he gets on his feet again.
To do a Nova I think he said donor car plus 2 or 3 grand.
Hope that helps!
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Rob H
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If you were handy with a ruler, a spanner and a welder, you could proberbly put one together fairly easy. Takes alot of time, and accuracy though to do it so its out of question for most people.
Remeber that its not just the rear drive and diff that needs to be installed, but the whole rear suspension needs to be re-done, and converted to IDS, to get rid of the rear Beam.
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langey
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so i'll need...
nova
calibra 4x4 or cav 4x4?
2-3grand
lots of time and pacents (sp)
so really is it not worth doing?
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Jambo
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depends what u want out of it!
but as said changing a whole cars floor pan (or at least the rear) is no walk in the park.
Courteney would charge £17k as theyd need to make at least a £15k profit
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langey
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so maybe it would be easier to get a cav turbo, and do a bodge job of taking the cally shell off and replacing it with a nova one, then take a grinder to it to sort out the extra lenght problems
how do you turbo corsa lads find dirving with just front wheels??
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J da Silva
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Tim and Rob H are realistic, glad someone is..
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Jambo
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Fine, but if u want big power, buy a cally or a cav.
My next project is a cally or cav
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langey
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Fine, but if u want big power, buy a cally or a cav.
My next project is a cally or cav
not really into big cars tho, rather have somthing small with good to fairly good power, not all tuned up and shit, so maybe just a nova let, 2wd would be best??
its not gonna be a trak car or anything, just my everyday car to replace the corsa
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J da Silva
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Well if it's just a driving about vehicle, stick with FWD and just be careful in the wet, it would be pointless injecting that amount of money into a road car.
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langey
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quote:
Originally posted by VenomTurbo
Well if it's just a driving about vehicle, stick with FWD and just be careful in the wet, it would be pointless injecting that amount of money into a road car.
how much will it cost and what parts will i be best replaciong, like turbo? etc
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J da Silva
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Well what have you got at the moment?
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langey
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corsa xe
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Adam_B
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Just buy a pulsar GTIR, thats a 4wd buiscuit tin.
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Doug_SRi
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my mate chopped up a 4x4 sierra cosworth and stuck it all in his mk2 fiesta. took him around 2 months working on it most nights doing everything himself. cars now running 350bhp and its very quick and handles really well.
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ed
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It is a hell of a lot of work, but it isn't all that complex. If you were to do it yourself then it would take say a year or so to get it up and running if you were doing it as a hobby project... One of the most difficult things is getting the rear independent suspension on and straight. You either need to fabricate a custom floor pan or use one from a Calibra, I say Calibra because there are probably thousands of them in scrap yards sitting there and they all share the same 4x4 type floor pan as the Cavalier 4x4 and Cally turbos. You also need to have the prop shaft shortened and balenced, there are people out there who can cut it in half and weld it together though...
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Mattb
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ed, thats actually incorrect.. the 4x4 floorpan is actually different to the 2wd floorpan..
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Nic Barnes
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get fixed tranny box then dont have to have abs and all the ecu's etc. aint too dificult to do i wouldnt have thought. reckon team muppetsport are gonna atempt it with a corsa next year. wether or not we actually do is another thing. weve been talking about it for a good 2 days now, lol/.
by the time langey completes it, all cars will be in the sky with mass air-motorway transit systems like in the jetsons.
anything is possible as long as you have money
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