J951SNE tom's 4 door saloon wip

[tommy8252]

Well here I am again, back in nova ownership and loving it. I'll list prgress and details of the car here.

I aquired the car off another forum member (Graeme) last month and am really happy with it.

The spec of the car was great after the work graeme had done to so all I need to do is add my own mods to put my mark on it.

Here's a quick run down of how I got it with some pictures.

Engine and transmission

E16se 1.6 8v from a same year gsi complete with f13
Unmolested original air box with K&N panel filter
Full magnex with stainless steel four branch extended by blue flame exhausts with diesel style tail pipe
Egr removed

Suspension
Vectra supertouring wheels just refurbed at f1 alloys in dark gun metal with brand new Uniroyal rain sport 2 on the front and rain sport 1 on the rear
Bilstein B8 with larger group a rear shocks, Spax Rsx rear spring and eibach front springs
Gsi front and rear anti roll bars
Plated bottom arms
Quaife quick rack the new rack ends
Rally designs polybushes through out
Five stud conversion using meriva front hubs in new nova bearings and cav v6 rear hubs
Ebc Vectra v6 288 front disks and green stuff pads
Goodrich braided brake lines
Rose jointed front tie bar mounts with gsi tie bars

Exterior

Unpainted gsi front bumper
Both front wings replaced the new hadrians items in July 2012
Four good doors sourced, delocked and painted in July 2012
Boot lid also replaced, delocked with a new gm item
Top tinted green screen, rear screen and front glass
Smoothed and painted rear panel
New headlights and indicators
NJC style red and clear rear lights with twin reverse and twin fog

Interior

Gsi clocks
Blue Sri front seats
Blue Sri sunvisors and heater knobs
Black flocked upper dash and a pillars
Rare four door electric windows and central locking
Sri steering wheel with blue ring

Security

Toad ai606 alarm
Remote central locking
Total closure on front windows
Hazard switch diode mod
Take me home head lights
Full delocked











So since I picked it up I have added a couple of things to personalise it:

Pioneer deh p80mp head unit
Vibe k series se69 6x9 speakers in the rear shelf
1000w 4 channel amp (unsure what make off the top of my head)
Unpainted GSi sideskirts modded for 4 door
Rear spoiler
Unvented laguna front splitter
Original reg back on the car with legal pressed plates and genuine opel dealership surrounds

So currently sits like this:











Future plans are:

Kent nvo62 cam
Big valve port polished head
Group N ecu (if I can find another one)
Tailpipe change
Tick type GTE digi dash
Lowered a little more
Blue check sri rear seats with rear headrests
twin 12" subs in the boot pwered by a 1200w Vibe monoblock amp (theres enough room for them )
Re trim the rear door cards to match the front
Paint interior plastics black and maybe a GSi or totally flocked dash

That should be all for the time being, may look into chucking an xe in in the future but no plans to for a bit yet.

[kingwick]

Looking good,what did you do with that other reg ? It's an ni reg

[pie]

looking good tommy

sorry for being dull but what are "Take me home head lights"?

[deneil_gsi2000]

I think its when the headlights stay on for 30 or so seconds when the alarm activated so youncan get you key in the door. Or so the mugger can get a good look at your watch and phone

Car looks good tho

[tommy8252]

Double post.

[tommy8252]

Yeah basically hold the button down on the remote and the headlights remain on.

Great for my street as I park directly across from my door on an unlit street. Not so great for my neighbours but meh.

And the other plate was retained by graeme for his new car.

[pie]

aww right im with you know

nice nova tho

[Graeme]

Keep up the good work pal, great to see you doing all the stuff I never got round to

[thedjse]

thats a very smart nova nice mods there pal and good write up hope the plans go well matey.

[tommy8252]

Got a few bits and bobs done over the Christmas period notably fitted some plain black mudflaps due to be swapped for the vauxhall/opel dealer decalled ones. Fitted my momo steering wheel. Rigged up the interior light to work on the rear doors. Also fitted the boot lid cover that came with the car and wired in the leds that are fitted in it to come on as a boot light although I have some more led strips to fit on the back of the seats for complete illumination.

A few jobs still left to do are wire in the under bonnet light and replace the worn hub on the drivers side. The bottom pinch bolt had come loose and the resulting movement has worn the hub itself

I've also got to fit some bonnet lifters to the boot as the lid cover is made of fibreglass making it quite heavy so the original springs can no longer hold it up

Will get some pics at the weekend it for those interested.

I'm also picking up some gsi rear seats and the ford recaros that nath2905 had for sale so they'll need fitting too.

I've also had to change the rear speakers as I may have played them hard enough for the cones to pop off the rubber damper and I've also managed to blow the amp up so that needs replacing too.