The_Teg_Man

I was on the motorway driving along in the 3rd lane in my Teg making some 'progress' when I came up on a fairly ordinary looking Nova. It had some alloys, slightly lowered but mainly look fairly standard. It moved over to the 2nd to let me past and then came straight out again. I thought there's a considerate driver. He then tailed me at a reasonable length (i.e. he wasn't right up my **** or nothing) and I thought it would be fun to push the pedal a bit. I didn't bother changing down to 4th, anyway I pushd it and he stayed with me all the way, I decided at just 11? (kph! of course....) to move over and he absolutely flew past me like I was going backwards.

Now I'm not griping, I realise that modded cars can be fast but has anyone any idea what sorta set up he would have needed to give it that kinda ooomph ? are we talking NOS here or summit ?

Cheers

Edcase

I know there is a twin engined beast doing the rounds. You would have been pretty unlucky to come across him though. I hear 0-60 in the 3's and 4's

Gompo

A Nova with an XE on carbs would probably keep up with an Integra, or atleast trouble it for a while.

R1916v

2.0 litre turbo conversion probably, mate was surprised in his Evo 3 by one the other day

mynickers

Did the fastest lap at trax last year, I got a mpeg of it doing a standing start against a mod'd Skyline R34 - it lost

Still rather have a teg than a rocket powered nova that can do 0-Australia in 5 seconds thanks

Neilo

there was a nova at USC on friday that looked like a bog standard 1.2 merit with steel rims and hubs that did a 13.3 1/4mile......might have been him, was it white??

StickyMicky

theres hundreds of them with big lumps in them now

Edcase

a bit like californian women

sti-04!!

got a 2.0 16v one myself & its fairly quick, just use it for Hot Hatch days at K/H

Russs

As said, loads of them with the vaux 2 litre turbo lump in now.
300 bhp easily achievable.
300 bhp in C. 800kgs of tin worm tub makes for rapid straight line progress

The_Teg_Man

thanks for the info guys, I thought a 2.0 litre turbo conversion might be a possibility. Yep it may be fast but I'd still rather have a Teg as well

Fair play to the guy though he drove well whilst proving his point......

It was a red one......so watch out if you're in Hampshire........

Dark Blue Mark

Teg, I posted similar about a Corsa on DC2 forum...

MB

mynickers

Wise words....

If you were that way inclined you could do some mad things with your teg. No doubt you've seen the mpegs of the champ. white 480bhp (odd) turbo conversion from states on a rolling road producing crazy accel and boost. Also had some of him doing 1/4 miles - very impressive. I lost them last install, otherwise I would upload. Edcase you still got those?

But why would you want 480bhp going through the front wheels? Fast straight lines are no fun! Plus the money and hassle you might as well of jsut bought a NSX-R

That said, I hear the Mugen ECU remaps are pretty tastey?

dome

Looks like your not the first person to have fallen victim to a fast Nova...

http://www.lancerregister.com/showth...841#post491841

Aztec Performance Ltd

iTrader: (234)

LOL...you got beat by a Nova!.....LOL

Bob

Trashman

Now Bob! It probably was a 2 litre turbo. Almost defo tuned. and it had Alloy wheels.
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OK, LOL, you got beat by a Nova

DavidChief

A twin engined Nova ran a sub 3 second 0-60 time at Trax last year.

Aztec Performance Ltd

iTrader: (234)

This reminds me that when I was at Santa Pod there was a drag dedicated Nova running 12s. There was a guy in a modded 360mondena and he refused to race it as he didn't want to have to tell his mates he got beat by a Nova!

LOL.

Looking around for an answer as to why it was quicker to help ease the pain? It was still a Nova. Chav was probably well happy.

Bob

bobfrog1

I'm the crew chief for the nova, its my mate's car (featured in Redline this month), we offered the guy in the modena out for a race, he got really cocky when we said it was a nova, his mate said "no, you don't understand, its the blue one", he backed out! its doing 11.3s now, its still 8v,standard head, cam and FWD, will hopefully do a 10 in october, not bad for 3 grand including the shell! It should be going 16v over the winter, then it will be quick

Neanderthal

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That's v impressive for a FWD car!? must get fantastic traction!?

Aztec Performance Ltd

iTrader: (234)

Didn't you have a bang occur on the first day of Pod? Quick little thing.

The 360 only ran a 13.4 in the end?....kicked myself at passing up the opportunity.

From what I could tell it wasnt a roadlegal nova? Slicks...no interior.....petrol tank the size of a pepsi can...

Small world

Bob

bobfrog1

It had an MOT but that was done without the hoosiers! Gone have the days of it being a road car, that fuel cell is now where the right headlight use to be for a start, the dash is no more, more weight has been taken out since the feature. I don't think it snapped a shaft that day, it must have been the throttle cable snapping

As much as I dislike novas they can be a load of fun for small money, ideal for annoying people from time to time

allywrx

I raced a 2l turbo Corsa at Crail a few months ago in the Scoob
Just as well it was only a quarter mile or he would have had me

He didn't though

EvoCarl

yes yes I was'nt actually trying....

on a serious note tho I got completly owned by a nova, it was like I had my handbrake on.

Fatsest thing I have played with.

0-120 I pull a bit on friends M3 Evo as well so my car runs ok

dont underestimate the little buggers because once they get grip..whhoooooooooooossshhh