nova 1.2! strip and rebuild

[radicky]

i bought a nova bout 2 months ago thought it was a minter but i was wrong!

i will post pics wen i find the dam lead that goes from the computer til my fone!!

[vaughanmc]

OK lol

Post up some pics when you have enough posts

[radicky]

i will do

[vaughanmc]

Nice one mate, get posting then but try not to spam your way there

Only 6 posts to go anyway :)

Surely its not that bad and it can be fixed ?

[Leeboo]

Vaughan he's talking crap, its a good solid shell which just needed tlc! A lot of the work is done!

[vaughanmc]

Do you know him like ? lol

[Leeboo]

Aye, he's a dodgy character so just watch him!! :thumb:

[vaughanmc]

No problem mate :) Cheers

[brainsnova]

dodgy character lol bring it on

[Leeboo]

Ok, we got the pictures uploaded there, so I'm posting them up for Ross!

Here's a few pics to show what his Nova looked like when he first bought it, a 1.2 Carb Merit:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image088-1.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image089-1.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image091-1.jpg

He then began to strip the car down, purchased/fitted a front upper light panel as the old one had seen better days, and cut out any rot and welded in new metal in place. (I was the rust finder, big screwdriver ;) ). Both sills and the bottoms of the front splash guards were welded.

Couple of strip-down pics:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image094.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image095.jpg

Ross is a lazy shoyte, so we have limited pics, but he then got the engine bay and boot areas stripped and painted. These pics show the engine bay painted, also with a new donkey:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image108.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image109.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/Image107-1.jpg

Thats as far as we have got, the engine is wired and running using an SPi tank with MPi pump. Its quite a sharp little thing, driving with no windscreen isn't good at 70 mph though!lol On a private road.

I will try to take some more pictures soon with a digital camera and stick them up!

Comments welcome!

[vaughanmc]

lol So he isn't a bad person really ?

[stuartyj21]

looks like a good wee project, keep up the good work lads..

[radicky]

cheers lads, im hopefully gettin a lick of paint threw onto her this weekend. so il have pics of that next week

[Leeboo]

Get on msn you homo

[radicky]

any1 fit til tell me briefly how to up load images from photobucket?

[brainsnova]

copy the direct link on PB then click the insert image tab and paste the link :thumb:

[radicky]

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image117.jpg

[radicky]

cheers brain, anyway i got my nova painted bout 3weeks ago

[radicky]

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image112.jpg

[radicky]

then i decide to build her one nite, to be honest it didn take that long i had it finished in two evenings after work.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image118.jpg

another pic of her but its a rubbish pic

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image119.jpg

[radicky]

so once i had the car built i got the lend of a friends cesaros to get the nova through her mot, and it passed:), but on the way home from the mot centre it all went down hill, she started spluttering and had no power. so new injectors, brain and fuel pump sorted that out.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image123.jpg

[radicky]

after getting all the teething problems sorted out, the last one being i needed a gsi tank which i got this morning and fitted, all is running smoothly, leeboo called out earlier to see how it was doing, the daylight faded so we couldn get some pics of the novas today.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/Image125.jpg

[browne174]

nice one dude.

good too see a good project and in my home country too.

keep it up

[radicky]

cheers browne174 wat part of NI you from?

[browne174]

from near lisburn

[vaughanmc]

Doesn't look too bad - Get some pics of it outside in natural light

[radicky]

cheers vaughan i got my brothers digital camera today so il get proper pics tomorrow

[vaughanmc]

Awsome :) Looks good like!

Any other plans ?

[Adam]

Looks nice mate, needs slamming :)

[jimbob-mcgrew]

nice paint job by the looks of it.
not seen an irish number plate before, looks cool, nice simple layout.

[radicky]

future plans; lowered 40mm, gsi spoiler (in primer i just need to get time to spray it), sr/sri door bottom vinal and door/pillar vinal. i dunno if gsi skirts would go with the door vinal? and prob put a splitter on the bumper. yea the car is local from my area and first purchased in the local vauxhall dealership, the car has even got the original dealership mud flapslol

[browne174]

you'd never see 40 mm on a nova.

go 60mm with some monroe gas shocks ;)

if you ever sell, can i have first dibs lol

spose you dont know of any going for sale? :(

[radicky]

lol browne ud wanna hav a big wad of cash if u wanted to seperate me from that car lol i think that 40mm is reasonable 60mm any ride comfort is taken away

[browne174]

anno lad, impossible to find a decent cheap one on this side of the water anyway.

get some monroe gas shocks anyway, awesome improvement over standards

[Rickyb]

looking nice

[radicky]

right its about time i updated, al work on the nova has came to a halt, i needed to paint the drivers door and drivers quarter, but have been distracted by building leeboo's nova, so now his is built im gonna start work on mine but first is a wee shot of 3 novas
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/SANY0105.jpg

[radicky]

right so i got the nova finished off, painted the whole drivers side and fitted the spoiler, and have been driving it as an everyday car the past 3 weeks, and im actually quite impressed with the fuel economy, thought it would drink petol. just a few pics of her, bit dirty tho, coments welcome

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/SANY0141.jpg

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/radicky/nova/SANY0142.jpg

[dj_wudgey]

she needs cleaning lol looks good mate needs to be lower though imo!!

[Rickyb]

abit dirty my missus is abit dirty thats just filth lol looks awsome though top work buddy.

[jafanan]

looks good lad

you and your mates going up to the port on easter sunday for the nova meet?

with your plans, it should look very simliar to my sr, vinal is quite deer though, im not looking forward to replacing mine lol

all the best with it

[Leeboo]

Some clean pics..

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/SP_A1994.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/SP_A1995.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/leeberto/SP_A1996.jpg

[stevie-p]

nice