My WIP 1600 16v Track motor

[alistairolsen]

hmm, interesting....

[t45_ste]

The cylinder in the golf calipers is better suited to the nova. Astra's are a tad to big leading to the back locking up.

[CraigGreen]

Which can be avoided if you use the bias valves from the GTE 16v mastercylinder.

Are you transplanting in the mk2 Golf handbrake lever & cable mechanism?
I saw some pics of a Nova with this installed & thought it looked really trick!

[t45_ste]

Think thats austins saloon, looks mega trick but would just be unwanted weight for me.

[GaryVaux]

Originally Posted by Benn

No thats the point...
it uses the calipar and disc as the handbrake.

Early mk4's used a pivot arm on the back of the caliper which winds the caliper in, gripping the disk, prone to seizing, so the later ones have the traditional shoes in disk bell setup

[Benn]

Originally Posted by GaryVaux

Early mk4's used a pivot arm on the back of the caliper which winds the caliper in, gripping the disk, prone to seizing, so the later ones have the traditional shoes in disk bell setup

Do they? never seen any of them with the shoes in the drums,

[t45_ste]

Not much of an update. Car was taken down to my mates bodyshop last week to have the shell finished. EVERY pannel is being removed and replaced with carbon and the cage is getting finished (semi space frame) a hoop is being made to hang the engine from along with tie bars. The rear is getting and independant setup fabricated. Going to look similar to the golf in the pics below. Will get some pics up when work commences.

Ive nearly finished the engine just waiting for the dry sump to come from martyn bowyer. Need to order my diff so i can get the box finished.





made a start on removing the breathers and oil filler from my cam cover due to not needing them because of the dry sump.

Started like this:


Removed the plate with the breather on from the underside of the cover by drilling the rivets:


Removed this with the angle grinder (going to use this piece as a test piece for welding not sure what it will weld like being die cast):


I then clamped it up on the bridgeport and milled off the excess ally:


This is as far as ive got, will make some plates up on monday and hopefully fire up the dc set and get it welded up.


Going to turn down some blanks for the holes on the block i.e dipstick

Not much of an update really. Just trying to get parts together.

[t45_ste]

[PERALBOY]

Thats going to be awsome! Who is making all the cf panels? Thats surely going to cost a pretty penny!!

[t45_ste]

By a bloke local to me. He usually does lairy one off customs. Really good at what he does though and quite resonable with the price.

[Benn]

Have seen that golf before, totaly amasing. Your nova should be a weapon.

[GDN16v]

Originally Posted by Benn

Have seen that golf before, totaly amasing. Your nova should be a weapon.

Isnt that the Golf that All Smiles is building?

Nice work on the nova, serious milling machine!

[Benn]

Dont know, tvr engined isnt it? or is that a diff one?

[t45_ste]

I think the TVR engined golf is a mk1.

[t45_ste]

Still no major updates, ordered my solid engine mounts,trans x diff with f20 side gears, equal length shafts and stack ST8100 dash and loom

Waiting for the steel tube to arrive can hopefully start some bending soon.

[t45_ste]

Got some new bits but still no steel tube

Pace motorsport 5ltr oil tank, with 110v oil pre heater. Quality is second to non. Also can split to allow for cleaning.



Stack dash and loom with, oil pressure, oil temp, water temp and fuel pressure sensors



Sparco suede wheel

[t45_ste]

Made a start on fitting the diff and new seals. Cant finish it yet due to not having the final drive bolts!

Take 1 straight cut gearbox



A 4:18 final drive



And a tran x diff with f20 side gears so i can run equal length shafts



And a seal/gasket kit



Remove turret from box





Next remove the gears. Some of you may notice that the end of the box isnt the same as most f13's. Thats due to it being an f10 ge****t in the f13 casing. Had to do this as the f10 casing isnt suitable for the 1600.

[t45_ste]

This is where the pinion gear lives



Remove the c clip and press the pinion gear on



Next was to replace the seal behind the clutch



Knocked the seal out using a 20mm socket on an extension bar



New and old



Next was the diff seals, knocked these out with a 35mm socket like so..





Done





Thats as far as i got need to modify the turret to take the straight to box linkage. As soon as i get the bolts will get the diff in and stick all new gaskets on the box

[t45_ste]

Modified the turret.

From this



Removed this



Added this



Now looks like this



Made myself a tool for tightning the diff nut, made a blanking plug for the hole where the speed sender lived and did bit more on my cam cover. Heres a few pics:

From this



To this



Sender plug made from aluminium



Voila





Made a fixture for my cam cover so that i can weld the piece of ally in level, also elongated the whole as its easier too make a plate.

Just drilled and tapped a piece of 10mm steel. Used m8 bolts to hold eiher end down and three m8's to level the plate up. Simple





Cracked up the AC tig set. Now looking like this....



Just wants the welds polishing out, holes drilling and painting.

[t45_ste]

Converted the clutch to hydraulic slave



Removed the fork, bar and cable release and replaced with a vectra slave cylinder. The holes on the hydraulic slave wanted opening about 1mm and used longer bolts.



Supply to slave



Used the tig to weld up the servo take off on the manifold



Then opened up the ports on the inlet to match the gasket as the cylinder head has also been matched.

Before



After



Cylinder head (excuse the crappy photo)



Heres a photo of the inlet on port 4. Smoooth



Waiting for my new studs and nuts from vaux so i can bolt the inlet side of things on. Iv also been stripping dow the taperd bodys and cleaning them up. Sat down and wrote down my full engine spec:

Bottom end
SBD dry sump kit
Ultra light fly wheel
SBD multi vee pulley with crank sensor
ARP rod bolts
Steel con rods
Omega 80.00 mm forged pistons
SBD steel idler rollers
Cometic 1.3mm laminated metal head gasket
SBD starter motor

Top end
ARP head stud kit
Ported and polished cylinder head
SBD Titanium valve cap
SBD valve spring platform
Bronze valve guides
SBD double valve springs
SBD solid cam followers
SBD underground shims
Pair of SBD/Kent 295 degree, with 11.60mm lift cam shafts
SBD/Kent vernier pulleys
SBD/Jenvey inlet manifold
SBD/Jenvey Taper throttle body kit with 90mm trumpets
SBD fuel rail
Peco cream injectors
MBE 967 engine management
SBD wiring harness
SBD ultra small alternator and mounting kit
Modified cam cover for dry sump system
BTB exhaust manifold


Im unsure whether to sell one of the 295 cams and buy the 11.90mm/Lift 300 degrees duration?

Any body running this setup? Comments?

Thanks for looking

[Rallycorsa]

Looking forward to see what power you get from this, Im currently running a C16XE on hydraulics 288 cams, Jenvey TBs, Omex 600,head ported polished, full competiton exhaust,standard pistons with pocket ARPs, revving to 7600 it around 170bhp at the flywheel,feels pretty good and had some reasonable results with this setup.

Looking at yor spec its pretty much what im thinking of going for without the dry sump.

What sort of power and torque are you hoping to get?

[t45_ste]

Hoping for about 190hp and 130lbft

Not realy bothered about figures more down to the drive but it would be nice to see them. Not sure on my cam choice though?

[lee303]

looks good, like the cam top, did you do anything to the input shaft seal on the hydraulic slave cylinder? the one that is in the slave as stock is too big a diameter for the small block input shaft and will leak onto the cutch

[t45_ste]

I was wondering about this. Will investigate tomorrow when i get the cluster back in. Cheers for the heads up.

[Benn]

Christ youve been busy.