Quality skills from a Nova owner here...

[penski]

From another forum ():

this is my nova

Not too bad - It's an '82 - not seen an early Nova in ages.

I plan to respay it kawasaki down along skirts flicking up back the skirts are off a manta and rest of car white it has a mk2 dash in it

Er...Right...

yea its got 2" big bore mk 2 bumber mk2 grill meshed up 1.2 carb manta recaros oh yea its been highly tuned it hits 85mph in secound and its only 1.0

Riposte, Sir!

Importantly (as we will see shortly), the 1.0 is based on the old Kadett OHV engine, not the Family II like the other Novas.

Okay - the dirty bits:

A 1.9 Nova has a 4.18 Final Drive and 1.96 second gear.

From memory, they run on 155/65/r13 rubber which gives a rolling radius of 1,670.38 millimeters or 5.48024934 feet.

Using the formula mph = (rpm * cir) / (gear * final * 88)

where:

rpm = engine rpm
cir = tire cicumference, in feet
gear = gear ratio of your car
final = final drive ratio of your car
88 = combines several conversion factor

At 7,000 rpm you will be doing a smidgen over 50mph.

To get to 85mph, you'll be doing 11900rpm.

Are you SERIOUSLY trying to say that your 1.0 Nova revs to nearly 12,000 rpm?

*n

...And so we wait for a reply....

*n

 

[needmorespeed]

ROFL

 

[ajgoodfellow]

lol

 

[danza]

Penski, You're mean

 

[Vanilla]

It actually *could* hit 85 mph in second.

You just have to find a cliff with a big enough drop.

 

[Cueball]

A candidate for the "People talking crap" thread, maybe?

 

[MNuTz]

Perhaps the car broke down, the gearbox got stuck in second gear?

He then had to get a tow on the back of a speeding tow truck?

My brother had a white 1.0 Mk2 Nova, i think that struggled to hit 85mph in 4th gear!

 

[penski]

It returns!

hi there people this nova was an ex police car it has been in the police work shops had a cam change head work con rods changed plus more te nova does 85 in second gear

*n

 

[burns]

Thats a disgrace. At least on here people make their lies plausable. Someone should give him some pointers on nabbing photos of other peoples cars and stealing spec lists.

 

[Firestar_3x]

What a tool, why would a 1.0 nova be a super high speed ex police car when for that task they had rover v8's and the vitesse's and such.

 

[Morthoseth]

Link..?

 

[Hate]

Originally Posted by roverwivnova
hi there

gibbo?!

 

[Kitchster_uk]

hi there people this nova was an ex police car it has been in the police work shops had a cam change head work con rods changed plus more te nova does 85 in second gear

Ahh, one of those police pursuit Nova's. Who needs a proper county mounty when you can have a Nova? I seem to remember it was police policy in the late 80's/early 90's to ditch cossies & V8 powered SD-1's for Nova's as they weren't capable of 85 in 2nd.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

It returns!





*n

Do you think the police workshop would have fitted the 'big bore' and 'meshed up' the grill.

 

[saitrix]

Link..?

http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=1158541503

There you go.

 

[panthro]

Thats a disgrace. At least on here people make their lies plausable.

I guess a 535D with a manual gearbox is plausible for people not in the know

Along with a 116i for 8k

 

[gord]

Thats a disgrace. At least on here people make their lies plausable.

<pulls out mobile sun>
<pulls out double supercharged Merc project car>
<pulls out mk1_dubba>

 

[fonzee]

how embarrasing...

 

[oweneades]

hits 110mph flat out ang gets there quick two
will get some more pics on here soon

A 1.0 nova couldn't even hit 110 let alone quickly.

and 85 in 2nd . . hmmmm what does it do with the other gears if its 'top end' is 'only' 110mph.

 

[paradigm]

A 1.0 nova couldn't even hit 110 let alone quickly.

and 85 in 2nd . . hmmmm what does it do with the other gears if its 'top end' is 'only' 110mph.

Other two gears are overdrive for economy yo