there was a old engineer bloke i read about years ago who put a 2l turbo in a nova. he left it bog std GTE looking but lowered it.

i guess they're only trying to create their own Renault Clio v6 and noone knocks them but it's not my bag man.

 

sounds like my old one, it was a 1.2i honest

 

Yeah, I witnessed many of these at Santa Pod last year, racking up 10-11 second quarter mile times, - they're very light cars

 

I had a 1.2 Nova once, actually my Dad took it in part exchange, I blew it up

 

as with all young boy racers mentality, they think 'racing' is in straight line.
show the corsa a track or a good set of country roads, that'll show which car is trumps!

havoc.... do you have the dc5 'teg? i saw one on monday mid-morning heading down the A46, towards m40.

 

So true. With the money spent on "mods", they could actually buy a decent car!!

 

i take no offense

I to think that it may be too much power for the S, but its an experiment/project

I love the sleeper cars which is why i want to keep mine stock looking as i have had a fiat uno, keep up with me and i thought bugger me that thing is quick

but what does amaze me is that how the youth of the day manage to mod their cars its so damn expensive

the thing we all have to be worried about is when the blue rinses have the sporty corsa's and toast us at the lights then its time to move over haha

 

Ahh, there is fun to be had if you build a car up yourself though. My EG was faster than my S on the straights, round bends etc etc.

I took a

 

An EG's not really a fair comparison though - they drive bloody well in the first instance, since they're in fact a blue-rinse 'Teg!

A Nova was, is and (even with the FIAT influence) probably always will be a depressing POS.

 

You'd be surprised how cheap it can be to stick a 2l 16v or turbo unit in.

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