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    Default Nova Gsi turbo project. 10 years now

    I bought this car in 2008 as a 1.6 GSI from Mark Ridley (novacabrio), former owner was Rob Delicata. I have lost a lot of the pictures of the car when I bought it due to photobucket but THis is going to be a huge thread, I have hundreds of pictures of the reconstruction and it's gonna take a long time to get all this into the thread. Current status is shell just about finished, and the manifolds are being made.

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    When I bought it 2008




    I had only changed the wheels

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    After the c20let conversion and a few good years, The rot had taken hold and the car had come to Slovenia with me. A cheap 1.5d with very good bodywork was found. But how do I keep the GSI alive?


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    Cut good metal from the diesel shell, cut bad metal out the gsi and replace with said good metal from the diesel!

    Hopefully plenty pics too come

    Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

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    Looking forward to seeing the progress on this, Rob is a good mate of mine, he’s glad it’s still about!!

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    Good luck with getting her back on the road. Do miss here but selling allowed me to start my Mini project

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robnut View Post
    Good luck with getting her back on the road. Do miss here but selling allowed me to start my Mini project
    That's great that you found this thread, I hope I can do the car justice. I love mini's, my friend used to have a hayabusa powered one.

    I always wonder what happened to my previous Nova's J484 KTN , 1998-2006.

    And Breeny's old one J880 JPO, 2005-2007.





    I have had the GSI since 2008 and was in great condition visually, pic before I bought it


    It was solid enough to put my turbo engine in and fit a chassis plating kit but after 4 years of use It was confined to the garage, needing a long list of jobs doing and the bodywork was going downhill due to living by the sea for a couple of years and the car living outside. I almost sold it to a friend for £2500 in 2012 but I'm glad I didn't now. When I moved to Slovenia in 2012 I had it shipped here in a truck with the rest of my removals.








    Since then It had only been let out a couple of times








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    Knocked garage down 2013







    Donor car sourced, £500













    Snow is slowly eating novas, need garage!


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    Started dismantling the white one for parts










































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    Only allowed 15 pics per post. This could take quite some time.








































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    White one looks a mint shell. Shame to cut it up.

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