I have asked for an email addy to send the pictures on as i think the guys we brought it off thought we were pulling there legs


Cant wait for the next outing now,This car will do an eleven when we are done

 

 

good little weapon you have there, excellent job for time you done it in with good results

 

Its a budget build, it certainly doesn't make any money no object builds seem pointless.

It does however show you can have a fast (ish) 1/4 mile car for fuck all.

 

 

nice one uv done a good job there im still looking for a sutable donor car for the corsa i.e cheap

 

well done mate!!

bet u had fun doing this!!
you'll have to pop down when im putting the let engine in mine.

dont forget im looking for one if u hear of a gooden

 

Thanks mate.

I've not forgotten about an engine for you

None about tbh unless you look on the bay or Mig

 

saw it at pod........fooooookin brill!!!!!!!!!!

sat in the stand with my mate he's goin theres an XE in that (he's stickin one in his mk1 escy) im going.....yeah it cost £500

legends!!!!

i still wish you hadnt painted it

 

We had no choice but to paint it, the amount of welding required to sort the shell would of left it looking so shit.

The colour might not be to everyones taste but it has made the car look as trillion times better

 

yeah just wanna try and find one close by so i can see it running before i hand over a bag of sand if u know what i mean.

gotta wait till xmas realy anyway as its my bonus that im gonna use to buy it

 

Love it

 

Good work

 

I guess I worded that a bit shit, but why spend spend loads of money when a low budget car can easily be just as good according to the clock on the 1/4mile atleast.
I love the looking at and watching the big budget cars as much as the next person but have more respect for the low budget stuff that still produces the goods.

 

JonnyBravo
after reading about this & my mate neerly finished his corsa 16v i had to get one, so ive just baught a wide arched nova sr with 2.0l 16v engine fitted by courtney with reciepts, coilovers bucket seats etc, needs a wee bit of paintwork doing & a set of alloys but apart from that its pretty solid & a very good price ,

i get it home on thursday so i'll post pictures up then

 

sounds like a good buy, hope u enjoy it!

just a couple of things.

make sure that its got the 16v brakes on it! (256mm discs and bigger calipers) if not its worth getting some.

courtney in general have a good name, but just be carefully how they got the big block gearbox working. (new inner cv's with nova shafts, or complete new shafts)
ive snapped an uprated shaft before and heard about others that have done it.
but nova gte shafts tend to be stronger.

 

That properly goes!

 

Cheers PON

Smitsturbo- Do watch out for those tapered shafts, big block one end, nova at the hub end, they snap SO easily.

I presume you got the car locally ? think I have seen it on mig ?

 

im totally with you cars built on the drive/inyour shed (or stable) in my case with limited knowledge funds tools and skills that own so called 'supercars' get the most respect in my book

 

all i can say is fair play

 

It was the last rwyb of the year today but we only managed 1 run due to engine troubles just before the next run

We've got a few things planned for it over winter so watch this space

Vid from today although I messed up my gearchange into 3rd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8zVMde311w

 

Great run

 

We've now stripped the engine and found that the side of pistons 1 and 3 have broke off and been smashed to pieces in the cylinders, the sparkplugs on those cylinders also took a hit and the head has the odd few marks on it which should be fixable.

Whilst its in bits we have some steel rods and a set of forged pistons to go in, the rods will eventually bend under the torque and the pistons that broke were only cast pistons so this is the right time to sort that without too much hassle.

Anyway here is the pics :

 

that looks nasty that

 

Not even any det, its just simply too much power to early lol

Earlier xe pistons wouldn't do this IMO

 

steel rods and a set of forged pistons , does that mean more Nos

 

In the long term yes, for now it will just be re assuring that its not on stock rods and pistons.

The pistons are only from a early xe engine (distributor type) as vauxhall only used Forged Mahles on the early stuff then started using cast pistons on the dizzyless engines like we have

 

got this back together yet?

 

nope

I've got a trackday this saturday so I'll get the engine built up once thats over and done with

We've planned to put it back on the road over Christmas when we both have some time off

 

A long overdue update

We've been a bit busy doing all sorts over Christmas but I finally got the bits to put the engine back together the other night

Steel Rods :



Forged pistons:



Cylinder head repaired and valves all lapped in :



Block fully prepared and painted "race blue"





Crank, big ends ground and polished mains :



All the other required parts :



This was one of the pistons I removed




With any luck I'll get it back together this weekend, it should be back up and running for the saturday night special coming up mid feb

 

Heres a vid of the only run we managed last time out.

First thing you may notice is that we now have a more normal exhaust lol, the car was quicker on the 1/8th but a rough gearchange slowed me down a little. iirc we were using nearer 150shot of gas on that run but it didn't come together as well as it had on the road.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h8zVMde311w

 

Sweet work mate, Now I know where you hide out... I may drop by more often

 

Nice one Rad, the workshop where we work on the car is only another 10 mins up the road so you will have to come up one night when were doing some testing.

You can either watch or sit on the floor, I'd opt for spectating if I was you

 

 

look at this beast ive built for 500 quid but will be a grand with paint done how much more weight do i need to lose

 

nova gsi shafts on mk2 1600 cav outer cvs

 

Awesome read. Makes me want to buy a cheap Nova and have a go at this now! (How hard can it be ) Already been looking on eBay

Impressive times!

 

mk2 cavy 1600 inner cv's not outer cv's as prev stated

 

IF your going to run a engine at the power we did then only use proper shafts and big blocks cv's at both ends.

The car has now been sold on so we can concentrate on our own projects but as you may of read it ran a 13.5 off gas with the new owner

 

mk2 1600 inner cvs i ment sorry