Deanos Nova SR Restoration Project

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here is my Nova SR project. The car is over 16 years old and has suffered rather severly from rust damage, its the same age as myself and i intend to restore the car back to full fast road working order. My dad bought the car as a keep out of mischeif plan and since then i have been hooked on her. For 200pounds the car came as a rolling shell with no engine yet had a full SD-cage within the deal. Firstly after removing such things as drive shafts and body parts which had been thrown into the seating area of the car the angle grinder came out to play. Choping out rust and designing new peices to fit in place took up hours of valuble time and concentration i beleive over-all i welded over 20 patches into the car. Re-building the back end of the car and rear struts came next as rust had practically ruined both areas of the car. After re-manufactoring most of the body work allowed us to seem weld most of the shell giving the car more strength and ridgidity. Then having to re-fabricate the whole rear chassis and towing eye gave us the opertunity to put new sills and wheel arches on which we rolled to take a larger size of rim. Finally making a bespoke rear strut-brace and mount (my own design) shes ready for filler which im not looking forward to then rub down and paint. keep an eye on this project shes going to be a beauty!!!! (pics on next page)

[Simon 1867]

Welcome to PNG matey, sounds like you have made a good start on your project. whats your plans for the car? are you going to keep it standard as this is the way forward i think. the old sr looks good retro:thumb:

[Plug]

hello and welcome

Glad to hear your restoring and putting another nova back on the road.

Get some pics up after 15 Non Spamming Posts.

Jimbo

[bmw156]

sounds top work dude. will keep an eye on this. await pics lol

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

mite av a sr airbox got loads o bits ill rout round for you mate

[bmw156]

mite av a sr airbox got loads o bits ill rout round for you mate

top man if you have an airbox, send me a PM, if you dont know how, click on my user name on the left<<<<<< and click send bmw156 a private message

many thanks dude.

[dj_wudgey]

nice to hear another sr is getting saved matey get some pics up when you can dude!! you cant beat the looks off a sr for me ill be watching this one!!

[Jack]

The car when i first purchased it! as you can see it was in a really bad state!
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You're attempting to link to pics on your computer, that won't work.

Upload the pics to photobucket, then click here (http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showpost.php?p=459009)

First and only official warning, stop typing like a ned or you'll get booted off!

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

nice1 just dont really know how it works

[dj_wudgey]

nice1 just dont really know how it works
its ok matey they allways have a moan about spelling/links and so forth ill send you a pm explaining how to upload pictures!! dont txt type that probrabley the admins worst hate ie the nice1!! other than that you wont have any problems

ps im not having a go or anything trying to help out!!

edit hes sent you the link on how to post pictures as he said upload them to photobucket then click on the link in razorjacks thread!!

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

This is the car when i first got it! as u can c its a E-reg and is in a prity bad state. If you look careful you can see quite alot of rust!
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova009.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova008.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova007.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova005.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here is a slight preview of the first steps of grinding and refiting of body work. U can see how much hard work its been, i even had to make a practically whole new headlight basis as is was ruined by the rust bug.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova013.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova012.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/Nova011.jpg

[stuartyj21]

keep up the good work mate, when your finished it will be all worth while...

[vaughanmc]

Will be nice to see another Mk1 SR going about - You keeping it fairly original ?

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Yea guna keep it looking fairly standard! mabye a nice exhaust and trailing mud flaps lol havent really decided on the looks of the car yet.

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here is the saftey devices cage that we got as a free-bi when we bought the car. Its very strong and fits nicely into the car but on the downside i have to paint the bluming thing.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00046.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

We bought another SR as a doner car to help along with parts. As you can see in this picture we have swapped the tailgate as is a bit newer and wont need as much filler lol
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00018.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here is a few images of the re-putting on of sils and wheel arches. Its made the car look a hell of alot better and as streanghend the hole car dramatically.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00038.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00037.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00036.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

p.s ignor the roll cage in these pics as we have modified it back to a more normal looking style

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00047.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00039.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here we have the rear strut brace me and my dad hand made, we even made the brackets that hold the brace to the struts. I think it looks ace, and its saved us forking out a fair amount of money for a brand new one lol
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00045.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00044.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

I hope you like my project so far. Ill keep posting messages and images as the car progresses!

[John]

Good piccies fella, glad you've managed it! Rear strut fabrication looks good!

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Cheers lol i took my time working out how to upload them but its done now! i made it out of two old nova shocker bushes, bit of tube and sum 20mil threaded bar. MINT INIT lol

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Here is a couple of images of the headlight re-building i have had to do.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00011.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00010.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00009_1.jpg

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

Heres the frount end of the nova at the moment it looks sooooo much better than it did when we first bought the car. And is practically ready for paint. Weve got Mrk 2 wings tho yet iam disapointed with the look so iam going to change them back to Mrk1's, old schools da best lol
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00024.jpg
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00022.jpg
The master at work lol
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/88748/DSC00025.jpg

[dj_wudgey]

old school definately the best if your getting the vinyls?? for it mate they will be available soon as ade is going to do a group buy if your interested! but imo all mk1 sr's should retain this and grey bumpers/spoiler and grille lol

looks to be a good project though mate!!

[Frankspeed Motorsport]

i hopefully will be gerrin da vinyls mate but i dont fink im at that stage of the build yet maby after paint work! i mean i havent even got an engine yet lol but yea i like your idea of the standard grey bumpers and grille. is your avatar your SR?