christianh3

Hi

Just upgraded from an Integrale to a Nova, never did like Italian build quality.

It's a NOVA SR and I want it to go fast like in the movie epic THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, any suggestions recommended?

***Please note this is a serious post so no p1ss taking!!*** Thanks

Dilly

stick a C20 LET in it

Chipperx2

The Sludge

tie it to a NASA rocket?

steviep

tow it with a cossie

Dilly

put some neons on it

Charlie Chalk

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stick some dynamite in it









































lit

churchy

Drop it off a cliff

TIFF

CALLING CHIP, COME IN CHIP

Eagle

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Carl160180

As steviep said tow it with a car bearing the RS logo or come to that ANY ford LOL

TONY C

if it's a serious post, WHY POST IT ON A FORD BB?????????????????????????????

try migweb or summat??

TC

NIMRODS_RST

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PMSL@ this post

white cab

its a joke right he cant be serious

RSCossieGaz

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tips on how to make it faster! ..............hmmm push it off a cliff

GTechR

Hmmmmmm

DUDE_SWEET_FRST

i wana see the nova in the F&F

murfs frst

just scrap the pile of shite

SteveB

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I started my modding carear on a 1.3 Nova SR back in 1992...... when it was 3 years old and I was 18

Cost me a bloody fortune over 5 years with 3 different engines and a complete front end change to the later style slimmer head lights etc......... It even had a full set of Ford Motorsport Tiger Stripes (white car of course to get the full effect) ........ featured in Fast Car Mag in 1993

TILLIO

If its a stock SR, the following mods could make it into a cossie killer

Peco Big bore 4 - 30bhp
Novadose bodykit - 5bhp (areodynamics)
Flush tailgate - 5bhp (aerodynamics)
Neons - 20bhp
Door stickers, especially a max power one - 50bhp
Big alloy spoiler - 30bhp
Vented bonnet - 20bhp
Chrome engine bay - 50bhp (thru solar winds)
Tinted windows - 10bhp
Totally the wrong size k&n air filter - 25bhp


Et voila!! Cossie killer

saff_cossie

I am not on form at this time of the morning so will leave it with Tiffs suggestion of asking Chip - 3 door.

Thought Intergrales were quick ish anyway, more so than a standard SR?

steviep

In all seriousness, I did have a 1.3 SR once upon a time and I wedged a 2.0 cavalier SRi 130 lump on 40's in it, fuck me didn't that go!

Nice cheap conversion as well, already had the engine at home and picked up the carbs from a mate for Ł75

Fudgey

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ive got a mk2 astra 1.8 sri sat in my garden, i went to drive it today, well abuse it round a local disused mod baracks and avoid arrest, but i noticed it was pissing out petrol as a fuel line had split.

wanna have a go at driving on 2 wheels see.

yours for Ł50 - and ill fix the fuel line.

its drivable, but no tax/mot/insurance/interior except the 2 front seats - made by reccaro too!

Spax

This is surely a pisstake thread?

apples24

throw it off a cliff


will fookin fly then

mattbibs

lol at tillio!!

Anonymous

Chip's guide to Bar Horse Power:


Right, ive noticed a lot of magazines and stuff quoting BHP figrues against cars and thought i should take the time to explain what these are.

Basically the figure they are quoting is the most important factor about the performance of a "phat/wicked ride".

Brake horsepower and Torque are all very well, but the main figure that counts is Bar Horse Power, this is the figure that you tell your mates down the pub.


To calculate this use the following rules:

STARTING POINT
The manufacturers generally handpick an engine that they know is on the right end of tolerances for testing, this means that often its a higher figure than an average new engine actaully makes, ignore this fact and swear blind that your smoking nasty example of a now half ***ked engine makes the figure claimed, round up whenever possible, so 152bhp = 160bhp etc

BOLT ON MODS
Obviously the correct way to get more power from your smoking engine with poor valve seal and rings that are about as tight as freedy mercury's arse, the way to get more power is to ignore those facts (see "starting point") and just bolt tat onto the outside of it.
These mods can include filters/exhaust/dumpvalve etc, or even semi-internal mods like cams, we wont cover things like bearings or rings cause those arent very shiney so you wont want to replace them.
The manufacturers always state the gains that you will get from a mod, often your car wont be listed specifically with a power gain, so just pick the biggest one that is, if a skyline can pick up 22bhp from an exhaust, then so can your saxo, again dont forget the golden "always round up" rule.
The figures should all be added up, and round up again.


ITS A GOOD'UN
You need to add a proportional value based on the "its a good'un" factor of your engine, basically, as this is YOUR engine not anyone elses, its special, so the mods will all make more difference, so multiply the number up a bit to take this into account.

STICKERS / SPOILERS
Race cars have them, so you need them too, the key thing here is to NOT buy ones that apply to anything you have fitted, go for stuff that isnt even made for your car, so Greddy/HKS/Blitz is ideal for an XR2i.
Now the thing to remember with modifications to a vehicle is that they work in harmony, it all comes together as a package, exhaust will compliment head mods, filter will work well with a decat or whatever, now stickers are about attitude, and attitude is what counts out there on the street (or halfords car park).
Take the % of your car covered by stickers and spoilers and add that onto your BHP figure as an attitude adjustment (dont forget to round up!!)



WORKED EXAMPLE:
Fiesta XR2
quoted figure (use a guess if you cant find the manufacturers), 94bhp
filter (using the figure for a porche 911) - 11bhp
Exhaust (using figure for a skyline) - 22bhp
decat (never had one so you get this without doin anything, PHAT!) - 12bhp
sticker coverage = 47%
spoiler coverage = 12%
Its a good'un factor = 25%


We'll do the rounding first:
So the calcs are:
94 round up = 100
filter round up = 20
exahust round up = 30
decat round up = 20
sticker round up = 50%
spoiler round up = 20%
good'un round up = 30%

So 100 + 20 + 30 + 20 = 170
plus stickers 50% = 255
add spoiler factor 20% = 306
add good'un factor = 397.8

Final round up = 400bhp



This however is only your basic Bar Horse Power figure, make sure when you quote it you increase it inversely to the age of the girl you have with you at the time, and in direct proportion to the number of pints you have consumed.


Hope that helps if any of you are getting your "phat modded chariot" featured soon.


Chip

Anonymous

i hate Nova's with a passion.

jumped up pieces of crap, that seems to attract bellends around my way

mattbibs

pmsl chip!!

best thing i read in ages!!!

Charlie Chalk

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LOL i know exactly what you mean and who

Anonymous

matbibs, have posted it in a new thread too, seeing as hardly anyone will read this one.

jonty

just fookinburn it

flyingfocrs

Add
Fake M3 mirrors - 5bhp (aerodynamics)
LED washer jets - 10 bhp
10 pipe exhaust system - 100 bhp

MadMac

Thats easy, chuck it off a cliff

Sorry couldn't resist it

4x4pete

Put it in the auto trader bargin cars cheap then it might go quick


THEN AGAIN IT MIGHT NOT

Anonymous

the rear arches will do quickly anyway, but you could make them go quicker with salt water on them

no need to tell a grale owner that though, lol

Phil

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Park it out side the local shops where the townie 13 year olds hang out, they will have it away in no time!

Eagle

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em ... how does this work then?????

Red16

just as Dilly says, LET engine in it! think im one of the few people around that actually like the nova, if its tuned and styled tastefully that is, not when some trampy chava scruff has loadsa stuck on shite tho!!

www.migweb.co.uk for vaux info, go check it out

st3v3

what about those spinning wheel discs thats worth atleast 40bhp alone