john_c20xe
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the boot suits it imo, how much did you get the s/c gear set for?
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Ingham
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Registered: 9th May 08
Location: Burnley, Lancashire
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Fooking gorgeous! Well and truly.
Bet it makes a reyt racket!
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flybikeslee
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Registered: 2nd Jan 07
Location: Liverpool
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mega car 
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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did you get the white nova back ok manners?
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matthew172
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Originally posted by john_c20xe
the boot suits it imo, how much did you get the s/c gear set for?
i cant just remember how much it was but was more than a grand anyway, i did kinda like the boot but gone off it now so its going
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matthew172
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
did you get the white nova back ok manners?
yeah we went and picked it up tonight, looks really good, couldnt get much better tbh
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rickiek123
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Registered: 27th Mar 06
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Looks great! Love the sound of this car!
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matthew172
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anyway at this point me and the mrs found a nice house with yard,driveway and best of all a big double garage so we had to move fast if we wanted it before someone else got it so after a few phonecalls and a few offers the house was ours!!!!! and you guessed it the nova got pushed aside for about 8 months while we renovated the house but i did still buy bits and pieces for it when i could afford it
alternator back from the chromers
i bought a metal opel plug cover and had my mate nick paint it for me, what a absolutley awesome painter he is
i was never too keen on the speedline mistrals and ive always had a soft spot for the oz rally wheels so after months of looking i found some magnesium oz rally wheels in a 6.5j 15 et45 so i snapped them up straight away, ill be getting them refurbed and painted black eventually
i also had my engine covers repainted by nick as they were a touch dirty, the finish is simply awesome
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
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So the cars now white?
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rickiek123
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Just gets better
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by Tom G
So the cars now white?
no, his wife has a white nova with an xe in it
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matthew172
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
no, his wife has a white nova with an xe in it
been out in it tnite barnes, fuck it feels fast for a xe!
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rickiek123
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I need a nova in my life!
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matthew172
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quote:
Originally posted by rickiek123
I need a nova in my life!
lol, ive always had a soft spot for novas love em
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Nic Barnes
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quote:
Originally posted by matthew172
quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
no, his wife has a white nova with an xe in it
been out in it tnite barnes, fuck it feels fast for a xe!
good news alround then really. trade you a go in nova for go in corsa
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matthew172
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well this is where the nova had been resting, in the garage at the new house
i had originally intended to freshen the bay and maybe put some high comp pistons and cams in the xe but it seemed quite costly to do this with not much of a big difference in power gain as it was already around the 200bhp mark.
so with all the inspiration of barnes absolute animal of a turbo corsa this had made me seriously think of going down the turbo route as it was so much more bhp per £ so i sort of looked at the nova abit as you randomly do pmsl! and after a few txts to barnes himself the decision was made to turbo it!!!!!!!
i didnt want to buy a let motor as it would be a grand and as i intended to change all internals anyway i thought it would be false economy so i sourced a coscast xe motor to convert to turbo spec
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Nic Barnes
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quaiffe shifter. its bloody lovely the insides of that car
ps, dont go blaming me for you quest of ken power
[Edited on 20-07-2009 by Nic Barnes]
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matthew172
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
quaiffe shifter. its bloody lovely the insides of that car
ps, dont go blaming me for you quest of ken power
[Edited on 20-07-2009 by Nic Barnes]
i am totally blaming u, i have cravings for this ken power, i hope to find it soon and live the dream of kentec
anyway im off to bed, ill continue with this tomorrow night lol
[Edited on 20-07-2009 by matthew172]
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
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I love a good nova
Doesn't the combo van have a 4.2 FD?
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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There is defo an FD from a combo van that fits the f16 or maybe it was the f13  get one froma combo for £20 and motorsport companies are selling them for £100+
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matthew172
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
There is defo an FD from a combo van that fits the f16 or maybe it was the f13 get one froma combo for £20 and motorsport companies are selling them for £100+
well the f16 box that was in it previous to me putting the quaife one in had a 4.18FD in it and that was a gm part so they are obviously factory fitted to some models
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matthew172
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well i got the new xe motor on the stand ready for strip down
engine all stripped down, found 1 of the conrods were bent!
so with that done i bought a set of cav td oil squirters and the oil return fitting for the block and sent the lot to tony baker to be fitted etc
couple of days later block was ready to be picked up, very pleased with the job he has done
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Nic Barnes
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squirters look great
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Mark.W
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Nova looks immense mate 
Stunning colour also
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rickiek123
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Squirters look well done! You going for larger pistons?
What kind of spec you going for?
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