Wide arch xe project

[twin40s]

brought this shell on saturday.
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[twin40s]

Are the rear arches done right hard to tell from pics i know.

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[xe Dan]

glad you got one mate wots are the plans

[twin40s]

put my redtop in gsi front and rear bumpers dash and 2 bucket seats lol.

[twin40s]

Oh and spray it red as it was originaly red .First thing to do though is get it all seam welded an plating kit welded in need to find somone in chelmsford to do it. Someone has said they will do it £30an hr.

[L33 LEG]

looks a good base to start with.always wanted a wide arch kit!

what wheels are you wanting?

[twin40s]

i've got some mo's

[chimp007_uk]

I saw this ont he bay... Looks good!

I don't think standard GSI bumpers will fit, you might have to look at the rallycross fibreglass ones. Have a look on Colin's cosworth project. Also with the mo's, if they're standard et49 offset, they will need heavily spacing or a bigger offset.

Good luck with it! Will make a mean car...

[twin40s]

I will be going wide track chimp so no spacers.

[twin40s]

well after alot of thought wide track seems out the question mybe one day i can get someone to make a kit up for me (count vaux alot).So i think going to have spacers or wheels made up want wheels really if anyone knows what measurements i need please help.

Took my car to the bodyshop thats doing my welding today havin the seams done and strengthing kit fitted the chassic leg has already been bashed in with a hammer but very tidy job will update with pics soon.

Also my mate who owns a paint workshop wants to paint it st orange didn't want to at first but his mini(not bmw old one with 1.8vtec conversion) is st orange so it has grown on me.

[skitz]

nice to see another wide nova good look with it mate
it looks like the same kit as mine but ive got the mkl front

[novaload1992]

good luck with project:thumb:

[skidmarkz]

my nova is ST orange :)

good luck :)

[Count Vaux Alot]

I could be tempted in to making another kit lol plans sound good now lets see some progress!

[twin40s]

right got my car back from the welders now i had the plating kit and seams done.The company that done the work do rally cars and have done the seams they thought would be best anyway heres some pics.

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[twin40s]

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[twin40s]

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[pickle]

when stitch welding the shell, do u grind the welds down to smooth or leave them as is? and when u smooth the engine bay off, do u use filler? if so what type? thanks lads

[Will F]

Shell looks pretty good structurally - although it looks like the arches have been filled with expanding foam/fiberglass? May be the pics though....

Good job on the welding too!

How much was it?

[twin40s]

There is expanding foam in the arches check euro turbo his had it too don't know why. It cost me £400 for the welding £70 for the plate kit and they preped it all aswell i hate seam sealer.

As for the question about smoothing the bay i won't be will properly put seam sealer back on all the weld the underneath is going to be stone guarded.

[twin40s]

Also as someone who owned the car b4 took the seat runners out i brought some seats so will need to weld in some rails anybody who could help me do this or know of a thead detailing what to do thanks.

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[Count Vaux Alot]

See my wip - coming on well btw :thumb:

[twin40s]

right took the doors and boot off bottom pin on door was an **** because of the skirts. Also dug out my old gsi which alot of the parts are coming off.
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[skidmarkz]

There is expanding foam in the arches check euro turbo his had it too don't know why. It cost me £400 for the welding £70 for the plate kit and they preped it all aswell i hate seam sealer.

As for the question about smoothing the bay i won't be will properly put seam sealer back on all the weld the underneath is going to be stone guarded.

Dont wuote me but i think the exspanding foam is used for a couple of reasons,

1, Stops mud n dirt getting all the way up where u cant reach and rotting ya panels.
2, Stops the rear arches acting like parachutes and cracking due to wind..

[twin40s]

sweet cheers mate

[Pillar]

the seats look awsome :) you have'nt done the alt mod yet? or have you just bashed it?

[twin40s]

If you look at the chassic leg its been bashed already less work for me :).

[Paul]

edit: wrong person, sorry

Nice project btw, keep it updated!

[twin40s]

wrong person paul i haven't got a cav gsi??????????????

[Johnny A]

Don't fit wheel spacers, choose some nice steelies and band the tits off um!!

[twin40s]

lol don't want spacers and there like £350 which i can put towards some wheels.

[saloonwoody]

your gsi looks pretty clean ?

[nova2.0widearch]

good to see another wide arch nova out there!

[twin40s]

Gsi is rotten as f*ck its got a big hole in boot about 2yrs ago so put off the road and its just rotted.I'm sad but giving it a new life lol

[AlexW]

Get the wide arch done lol, if you fancy selling the gsi shell, no matter how rotten PM me.

[twin40s]

little bit of an update i've got the seat rails welded in the car.

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Thats them all done .All i've gotta do now is drill the holes and mybe weld a little bit of tube were the bolts are going to go through.

[twin40s]

The side bars on the cage don't fit with the seats thou :(

[twin40s]

Also got use of a ramp now so up it went and i began grinding it all down and painting krust on.

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krust on goes blue then black
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[twin40s]

Left the krust on overnight gonna do the whole underneath. All grinded with wire wheel ,chisal,wire brush and scraper then krust then wire wheel again then red oxide whole underneath and finish with a few coats of black stonechip.Pics of it completed to follow.

[calibra-keith]

looking good bud i will be keeping an eye on this :thumb: think i seen this on ebay or a forum not to sure, how much you get it for in the end ?

[Rickyb]

looking top matey i will keep an eye on this

[Lee-1984]

Are the rear arches done right hard to tell from pics i know


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did you buy this from fareham in hampshire?

[Count Vaux Alot]

Coming on well

[twin40s]

no pompey but it may have been there at some point why do you know some info on it?

[mph]

nice bit of progress there m8. glad 2 c it being worked on.

[tahir868]

looking good matey

[novaowner999]

what colour is she goin? are u guna spray it? nice car mate comin on well. more pics!!!

[twin40s]

More pics will follow soon she is going st orange mate.

[novaowner999]

More pics will follow soon she is going st orange mate.

likein ur style mate ill b keepin a close eye on this one :thumb:

[twin40s]

Been very busy with this pics to follow.

[Count Vaux Alot]

Good, it will be nice to see your progress

[t45_ste]

looking forward to some pics : )

[twin40s]

Right pictures are off phone so not great.

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[twin40s]

After it had all the seam sealer had been chisaled off i wire wheeled and used a wire brush in the difficult bits.Then krusted it and red primered.

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[t45_ste]

Good progress. You doing the work?

[twin40s]

Next up was the underneath middle.

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[twin40s]

Yeah me and my mate he somtimes lends a hand but i have to redo or finish his bits as he gets bored lol.

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The underneath is rust free now. I found some tiny bits that i've cut out and will be welding little plates in thats it for now arches to follow.

[Count Vaux Alot]

Coming on well! keep it up

[Iain]

Crap job to do isn't it! Your neck must be aching though. Good work.

[twin40s]

yeah horrible and my shoulders but well worth it.

[Rickyb]

this will be a clean thing good work.

[nova-taken]

great project, sawe this shell on ebay back few months ago, had really bad write up, but looks a good solid shell, great project, keep us updated!!

[twin40s]

Been a while but finally finished removing all the underseal. Just need to do some welding and she will be ready for paint.
Also after so many people telling me my skirts looked like 2by4 i cut them off.

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better me thinks

[twin40s]

Then the arches were done.

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[twin40s]

Other rear

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[twin40s]

Then the fronts

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[twin40s]

Other side.
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[twin40s]

I know there are some holes but they will be welded up i don't trust myself yet to weld on my shell so will be going to a welders.

I then thought i might want thottle boddies one day so i set about cutting the fire wall out spot weld drill bit ftw.

[AlexW]

Is it just that spash panel that is rotten? If so thats good going really.

Progress is good, Finished before PV? lol

[twin40s]

So here we go.

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Glad i done this as found som more rust by the clamp.

[twin40s]

Can anybody tell me what this bolt hole was for i have removed it already?

its the high lighted yellow aleast thats were i think it was lol.

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[AlexW]

That bolt would have been for the pedals iirc

[twin40s]

Would love to be ready for pv but don't see it happening no funds.

[twin40s]

Oh will it be ok without it was thinking about putting a corsa servo in but ain't got a clue were to start.

[twin40s]

anyone got any ideas?

[Iain]

It's for the whole pedal assembly, I think it's still necessary even with a Corsa servo. I did a similar thing and welded over it to find it was required so ended up fitting a new one of those little brackets with the nut on.

For the servo, there's been a couple of threads about it and there's some pics in my WIP from when I modified my shell for it too.

[djbrowney]

as above, it holds your pedals in the car lol, normall covered in a ****y glue stuff that makes you paint go funny lol

[twin40s]

Right well will i be able to use a nut and bolt.

[calibra-keith]

i was looking at this on egay but was to far away, just out of interest what are you going or done to the gap on bottom of rear arches now you have removed side skirts ?

[twin40s]

I will be building new bits out of fibreglass to joing arches with sill.

[calibra-keith]

i will keep an eye on how you do it as i have same problem and dont really want the skirts on.

[twin40s]

So heres an update its all been welded so no holes and my rear arches are on the way to being sorted. Also the body shop have stonechiped it not sure if they done it right though as they haven't seam sealed it first.

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[twin40s]

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and here are my arches they have used steel and welded to the sil and then riveted to the arch with a bond between.

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[saloonwoody]

lookin good but theyve missed half of it ?

[twin40s]

lol i know not impressed they stone chipped before seam sealer really will be having words

[twin40s]

Well went back to the workshop today gonna take it to another place now a friend of mine were i know it will be done how i want .Also i think i'm gonna change the colour any ideas anyone gotta be a solid colour ?

[saloonwoody]

white :)

[stupot89]

blue = cool

[Iain]

I remember this shell when it was for sale at JNC. What did the bodyshop say when you mentioned the seam sealer?

[twin40s]

Whats jnc ? They told me that it doesn't matter what way round you do it. but i know them and can't be bothered to argue i just gotta crack on with it now.

[twin40s]

Oh little update i have got a wide track kit and the sils are finished pics will be on here shortly.

[Iain]

JNC = Just Novas and Corsas, a Nova specialist place that used to be in Long Eaton, Notts. I'm sure it was for sale there years ago.

[ward]

red,
grey,
yellow?

[beggsy]

lambo yellow would look pretty cool