someone local is selling this rare little beast.
i guess they didnt come out the factory like this?

looks like someone "saved" it by replacing the stolen turbo engine with a 1.7TD lump... nice lol i bet thats slow as hell

edit: and no there was never a derv option

Quote from: Binary Shadowlooks like someone "saved" it by replacing the stolen turbo engine with a 1.7TD lump... nice lol i bet thats slow as hell

edit: and no there was never a derv option

yeah i cringed when he said he took the engine to put into a Nova  :?

Quote from: DEViANCE

Quote from: Binary Shadowlooks like someone "saved" it by replacing the stolen turbo engine with a 1.7TD lump... nice lol i bet thats slow as hell

edit: and no there was never a derv option

yeah i cringed when he said he took the engine to put into a Nova  :?

who did the Nova Kill afterwards?  :shock:

Quote from: wikipediaThe Vauxhall Nova was produced by General Motors between 1983 and 1993. It replaced the Vauxhall Chevette and Opel Kadett City. All Nova and Vauxhall Corsa models were made in Spain. The Nova name was not used in Spain, because in Spanish, Nova means "doesnt go".

No, "nova" means the same in Spanish as in English. "No va" means "does not go". They may very well have not sold the car in Spain for this misconception. However, there is an urban legend over here that the Chevey Nova sold poorly in Mexico, when the opposite is true. In fact, there was a brand of gasoline in latin America that was also called "Nova".

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the big question in my mind is.. is it still running 4x4? lol

Doubtfull depending on what the new engine in it is... The Calis 4x4 is a diferencial thing aint it with like a spinning unit? Cant remember the correct name :s

it has a multiplate wet clutch and a viscous coupling

High tech, for the 70s...

70s... they werent built untill the late 80s 89 was the first and they were FWD

over 9 years to design a car seems a bit excessive

hes saying the 4WD drive system was high tech, in the 70s, as in when they put it on the calibra it was already old hat

similar systems are used on cars today so not exactly old hat tbh

max the nova was only called the nova in britain, in europe it was called a corsa.

Jaimz

from what i gather its a pretty rudimentary system, with like most of the power going to the front wheels

the fact that most of the power is to the front is a design feature not a flaw or old style system, it was designed like that for safety