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Total Vauxhall Tech: Rear wheel arch replacement

Here’s how to cut away and replace the rear wheel arches on your Vauxhall. Click through to download the PDF

Total Vauxhall Tech: Nova shell strengthening

Here’s how to weld strengthening plates into a Nova shell, for either competition/track use or fitment of a big block engine. Click through to download the PDF

Total Vauxhall Tech: How to fit a C20XE Red Top into a Nova Part 2

Here’s the second part of our guide on how to fit the famous 2.0 16V Red Top C20XE into a Nova. Click through to download the PDF…

Total Vauxhall Tech: How to fit a C20XE Red Top into a Nova Part 1

Here’s how to fit the famous 2.0 16V Red Top engine into a Nova. Click through for the first part…

Total Vauxhall Tech: How to fit bike carbs

Here’s one of our most popular tech guides. How to install bike carbs to a 20XE engine. Click through to download the PDF

Total Vauxhall Tech: How to service air conditioning

Here’s how a professional air con engineer converts a car from R12 gas to R134a and tests the system for leaks. Click through to download the PDF

Total Vauxhall Tech: How to fit cruise control

Here’s how to fit cruise control to a car with cable-operated throttle, and fly by wire. Click through to download the guide in PDF form

Bike carb fitting guide PDF

Cam timing technical guides for C20XE and C20LET engines on totalvauxhall.co.uk

Here are two popular and much requested tech guides which got hidden away when the new site launched. Click through to read two PDF features, on fitting fast road cams and vernier pulleys to a 20XE and a XE cam in a C20LET…

Total Vauxhall Tech: Fit a digital dash in your Nova

Here you go, here’s how to fit a MkII Astra digital dash in your Nova, from an issue of Total Vauxhall way back in 2003… click through to see a scan of the original feature