The quest for a bit more power starts here!

old engine on the way out:



No going back now, so just got to finnish building the new one now

 

Whats the plan then Chipper ?

 

I think he is putting a 1.6 back in the front

 

should this not be in restoration and rebuilds

 

chips a lazy fucker it is now lol

 

come on Chip, whats the spec going to be.

 

Well, ive got some odd bits and bobs lieing around, so basically im going to just make something out of those.

Bottom end Ive got sorted already, some really nice forged pistons and a set of arrow rods with a steel crank.

The rest of it is a bit up in the air, but Im thinking probably its going to be worth giving the GT42R turbo ive got a go, as Ive never used it and its just sat there doing nothing, and Im going to put a mini cooper super charger on as well to try and get the 42R not to be so laggy.

Initially though, T38+Nitrous just till the engine is run in and im happy with it.

 

Using one of the PeterG manifold Chip?

 

Charged and turbo'd?

 

No mate, cause they sit the turbo in the wrong place, thats for my mini Ive got that one (other one is now going on my mates mk4 astra)

Im fitting the turbo a foot above the engine, only place ive got room for it!

 

Yes mate, charger up till about 5000rpm then will bypass that and let the turbo take over, all the basic attempts Ive made at doing the maths for how it should work look pretty promising.

 

sounds very intresting.

 

should be a weapon when dun.
i reckon you should speak to someone at a vauxhall mag and get it featured.

 

New block:




And this is what the block started like:



New Rods/Pistons:



Thats all built up ready luckily, been sat in the garage for ages, so figured now was as good a time as any to use it!

 

whats the sepc going to be and planned power figures expecte d

 

Hang on, which car is this for Chip??

 

what was wrong with the motor in the nova chip? hadnt you only recently got it running?

fair play tho, ahould be fun when its done

 

Those bits look

 

this should be rather intresting

look forward to seeing the finished product

 

Supercharger and a turbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xw4Gxquirk

 

And if you can understand what he is going on about then I think you will find he explains how the turbo takes over from the blower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBd4zdsFMr8

 

Cool project!

 

That engine was just a temporary one to get it up and running and on the road and allow me to iron out a few issues and make the gear linkage work correctly etc, it was never intended to be in there long term.
Its going in my mini instead at some point.

 

Errr, my nova, hence the picture of it in the first post.

 

I had a load of torrents downloading at the time and the pics hadn't loaded

 

Your porn obsession is starting to effect other aspects of your life then

 

fair play mate,

you always make me laugh

 

keep us updated mate as i love to do a rear engined nova 1 day

 

This should turn out to be a very intersting read



This rod looks very similar to an Eagle... whats the difference between the Arrow and Eagle etc? is it purely down to better materials in the Arrows?

edited to say - PS get some more pics up asap

 

What I love about you Chip is











































You always come up with something nuts and make it work

 

That's been the case for quite some time...

 

did that just coem out the boot.....floor

 

Eagles are basically cheap copies of arrow rods effectively.

Thats not to slag eagles off, Ive used them myself, they still work fine.

 

Yes mate