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Not exactly a stance build but thought it might interest people all the same now that progress seems to be happening at long last!
So the background...
I owned this Nova 2.0 16v Turbo for around 7 years taking it from a standard SR model to what it was including the 280 bhp 340 lbft engine. It was a great fun car but time to move it on.
A few months on from selling I was getting itchy feet and when this came up for only £80 with a blown engine I thought "why not!". It had its fair share of character dents but was very solid and I liked the round arches and saw its slamming potential. This was all before the 2dr saloons became fashionable over here.
The work started to get it all stripped down...
Mods were then some smoothing in the engine bay, 2ltr 16v on R1 carbs, hidden loom, relocated items to the scuttle area, tubbed rear arches and coilovers...
The car was so close to completion with only a handfull of small jobs need doing, but I got bored and started wondering...
Even got some new wheels!
I then started getting abit choppy choppy
I was going to be running a transaxle and box from a porsche 924 and even had a rear end designed...
I then went a bit grinder crazy, put in a basic cage and ended up here...
Then came a lot of soul searching a contemplation. That rear end alone was going to cost me £4k in materials, machine work and parts. Then there's the front end and plenty more parts inbetween! I needed a cheaper solution. I also wanted more power than the 175-200bhp the current setup would produce.
I had also purchased and built an E46 M3 and a S14 200sx running 300bhp at the time and starting wondering about other donors...
It would be an offense to chop up a perfectly good M3 to put into a nova but there are plenty of now rotten S14s about, so that was the root. I went out and bought another 200sx as a donor. Std 80k engine and only mod being some wheels & coilovers. Looks ok in the pics but the underside was pretty crusty!
So then work began...
So the background...
I owned this Nova 2.0 16v Turbo for around 7 years taking it from a standard SR model to what it was including the 280 bhp 340 lbft engine. It was a great fun car but time to move it on.
A few months on from selling I was getting itchy feet and when this came up for only £80 with a blown engine I thought "why not!". It had its fair share of character dents but was very solid and I liked the round arches and saw its slamming potential. This was all before the 2dr saloons became fashionable over here.
The work started to get it all stripped down...
Mods were then some smoothing in the engine bay, 2ltr 16v on R1 carbs, hidden loom, relocated items to the scuttle area, tubbed rear arches and coilovers...
The car was so close to completion with only a handfull of small jobs need doing, but I got bored and started wondering...
Even got some new wheels!
I then started getting abit choppy choppy
I was going to be running a transaxle and box from a porsche 924 and even had a rear end designed...
I then went a bit grinder crazy, put in a basic cage and ended up here...
Then came a lot of soul searching a contemplation. That rear end alone was going to cost me £4k in materials, machine work and parts. Then there's the front end and plenty more parts inbetween! I needed a cheaper solution. I also wanted more power than the 175-200bhp the current setup would produce.
I had also purchased and built an E46 M3 and a S14 200sx running 300bhp at the time and starting wondering about other donors...
It would be an offense to chop up a perfectly good M3 to put into a nova but there are plenty of now rotten S14s about, so that was the root. I went out and bought another 200sx as a donor. Std 80k engine and only mod being some wheels & coilovers. Looks ok in the pics but the underside was pretty crusty!
So then work began...
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