1987 sr Brought back to life after sitting 6 years.
Thought it was about time I did something with my old nova which has sat in my parents garage for 6 years, not started for 5!
This is what it looked like about 6 months before I parked it up was looking to sell it but was only getting silly offers so when the mot ran out I serviced it and stored it away.
Since then I’ve got married, become a father moved, restored an Astra GTE 16v tracked a R5 turbo and now own a diesel Honda Accord, as well as the Astra which is stored in my garage.
So today I had some free time so though I would drag it out the garage and see if it would run, engine bay full of spider webs but looked ok, oil nice and clean water in the coolant etc, spun it over with no spark to get some oil pressure first then put some fresh fuel in the Weber, connected the coil and it fired right up. Couldn't believe it sounds great no rattles or smoke, forgot how loud the scorpion ss exhaust is.
Left the handbrake on by accident so had to give the drums a whack and they freed of ok, put some air in the tyres and took it for a run down the private lane behind my parents house which is about a mile long, forgot how much fun the small 8v engines are.
Vid of it running, sound not really picked up by phone very well.
http://youtu.be/vDILp5SyUYA
Plan is to sort out at small amount of rust on sills and rear archs and mot it, thinking about stripping it out and doing some track days.
Love these seats.
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