just had a look through the last few pages, great work as ever! Wheel colour is strange.. but it works!! where did you get the stickers? custom made to replicate originals?
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just had a look through the last few pages, great work as ever! Wheel colour is strange.. but it works!! where did you get the stickers? custom made to replicate originals?
yeah, it was a 40k engine i got for a good price (worst case i was going to convert it to x18xe1 inlet and ecu) I had figured most of the z18 management out, but it was so long ago ive since...
time warp! What a lovely example!
Nice read this! Ive also a z18xe lined up for my nova (been collecting parts for 3 years, including the car, and still havent started work on it yet) ill get there, lol
comming along well!
Also any info on your sandblasting setup? Results look good!
Great work! Engine bay looks brilliant, defo went for the best option with the 2k. In the past id use solvent base and 2k lacquer. But solvent is hard to get now, water based has taken its place. ...
Seems in surprisingly good nick concidering what the previous owners was writing on fb, seemed clueless. Good work tho its looking great! Where you get the time for all these projects, I cant even...
Ah are they selling them again? Didn't have any for a while.
Hi, after a hockly chassis plating/strengthing kit as per the competition build manual, anyone got an un-used one in there shed?
Saw this on facebook and remembered it from here, great transformation! Looks fantastic now.
Just wondering, whats the rear suspension setup? looks like std shocks, 60mm springs and some sort of...
As above, has anybody fitted bike carbs to a 1,2 8v? Ive a low milage merit, and not sure if i want to change the engine as its all so original, toying with bike carbs for a wee bit more grunt...
Great work! Will be lovely once its done
yeah underside. The car is immaculate, so only a proper job will do it justice. I dont have a final spec in mind yet, but paintwork is first on the cards.
Yeah probably going to stay white tbh. Anything else is going to look a bit rubbish really. I'll use gravitex then white. Will need to do some homework on lacquering white (as 2k paint tends to...
Plans sound cool! Bills engines seem to be great.
I was still going to do the floorpan, boot floor etc white. Problem is i want to keep it as close to factory as possible. If it was red black blue etc id be doing the lot body colour.
As above, able to post or can collect within reason in Scotland
Hi, ive a 24k whire mk2 1.2 merit. Lots of ideas and 90% of the parts, but no final plan as yet (only had it two years, lol)
On my red sri I painted the floor pan and inner arches in grey...
Interior plans sound great! Some amount of work changing to white.
great work! Save up hard for the deposit, will be easier than trying to source another nova as clean in years to come (you WILL want another one, its a disease ha ha)
alternator still available? Postage to pa38?
Hi, Has anybody replaced the rheostat on the heater blower motor? Ive yet to see a straight replacement anywhere for a nova, but newer cars eg mk5 astra there a simple plug in part. Anybody...
Love this wee car, keep up the good work!
if they havent sold ill take them copey.