Ahh the good old days of the Guildford cruise. Anyone remember being shepherded into Sainsbury' car park and the police tried to give everyone a producer, we all just nailed it though the petrol station!
He told me that he noticed a difference in performance from it running colder with the 2 rads and he was being serious lmao
I tried to explain that the thermostat would still keep it at the same temperature anyway, and that there was no performance advantage if you did get the water temps lower anyway but he really was adament it had made a difference.
He then proceeded to get a couple of BHP less on the same set of rollers than my standard XE nova did a few minutes before lmao
If it was full of ****e then putting another radiator in series with it probably wouldnt help much, putting one in parrelel might of but thats not how it was plumbed in anyway.
I see no reason at all to run 2 rads on an XE nova, if your one rad isnt keeping temps under 90 degrees because its knackered then remove it and fit one that does.
Im sure JohnnyA knows better these days, and at least while he was young and foolish he was prepared to dare to be different and give things a go, even if in this instance it was a pretty stupid idea lmao
Alright mate, from what I can remember no. I seem to recall it being broken up.
PS Wilson only got back into Nova's (with buying the blue one pictured) because I let him drive my old 4-dr grey Nova Saloon with an XE in it (the one that was held together with gaffer tape and had 3 exhausts hanging out the back (literally). Good old badly modded cars FTW!
Blimey... I just looked at my joining date 2001!!?? Where have the years gone? Has anyone heardof my old yellow valver recently?
The Pic's I have are @ work.. will send em over tomorrow... they're not great as I wasnt expectin to see it. I got some really old pix of the saturday club @ groms too if anyone wants to see em.. incl Martins green valver, G's orange 1600 with tiger stripes, and pepe which is still in storage:doh: incidentally, etc..
So... almost 7 years on again and who is still about?
Anyone still go a Nova? Rare as hens teeth now.
Pepe is still the same. Functional but in storage and still a very tidy car.
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