The one last chance mk1 build

[krobinson]

Good work

[vaughanmc]

Yeah shouldnt take to long to build after its out of the bodyshop. We should have a scottish meet when its done, will be my first with a Nova

We will do mate - Just need time to organise one and get one with a good attendance

[Pillar]

cracking project you got there looking forward to see the progress

[Benn]

Looking very good so far.

[novalovingned]

Well nine days to go and its in the paint shop

Picked up a rear disc coversion beam running the astra gsi brakes on friday night. What a dog of an item! Have been working on it since and im no where near finished sorting it out.

For a start the calipers where painted blue as where the hubs of the discs

So i completely striped the calipers and beam on one side, Needs new hand brake shoes as they are down to the metal and ive spent near 6 hours removing the bleed nipples. Ive had to bore out the tap the calipers Just hope they work. The hub seems to have camber shims between itself and the beam, and to me it just looks wrong. Atleast the rear poly bush kit i bought 2 years ago will come into play now

Pictures will follow tomorrow.

[garethcolley]

Looking forward to seeing this built up mate. Might give me some motivation to bolt mine back together....

[LEWI007]

I cant wait to see this one too its going to be a beauty.. A reg ftw

[novalovingned]

A couple of pics of the rear beam as it stands. Ive done as much as i can to it without attaching it to the car.

Pictures didnt turn out to well as the lighting was poor but you get the idea


Dint see the point of renewing the discs and pads as they were like new, just rubbed down the horrible blue calipers,disc hub and painted them silver.





Cleaned up the pad pins, and that bloody bleed nipple took 3 hours to sort out






Poly bushes fit nicely






Cleaned up and painted the Gte anti roll bar silver, added now bolts to hold it in place and added a new roll bar poly bush.










8 days and its in for paint..... cant wait

[wilson_sri]

Huge differance on that mate

[LEWI007]

Looking spot on that.

what did you paint the beam with ? hammerite ??