Gte Turbo Winter Project

[turbo-boy]

hello there i have recently got myself a we 89 nova gte,this car belond to a friend that i hadnt seen in a while and hoe i fell in with this was i was going to look at it to do some welding to get it through mot, but when i seen it i fell in love with it and wanted to buy it.so after alot of fast thinking i told him, i wanted it, i was driving a corsa b 2.0 16v turbo (will put a few pics up of it) and offered him a deal for his nova and cash my way.H them got back to me the next day and agreed to do the deal and that was that sort, i got the car on the 1st november 2009 and here is a few pics of how is looked

[turbo-boy]

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00032-Copy-Copy.jpg

[let_nova]

pic fail.

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copy the link code over

[LEWI007]

PM me your pics and ill sort them for you if you get stuck mate.

look forward to seeing this.

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00032-Copy-Copy.jpg

[turbo-boy]

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[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00033.jpg

[LEWI007]

Woah mate thats georgus, one of the best GTE's ive seen.

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00034.jpg

[let_nova]

very nice. is that like a starage place its at?

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00036.jpg

[Plug]

looks very tidy mate :thumb:

going to be a good project :d

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00038.jpg

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00039-Copy3.jpg

[Plug]

this going to be 8v turbo or let power?

[turbo-boy]

its going LET and phase 2

[Plug]

get it in there :d will be watching this

[Angus Closier]

Looks really nice mate! Get some pic and details up of the let!!

[SRimon]

People tell me high power silver isn't the colour for wheels! But blimey those speedlines look awesome!

As does the car obviously ;)

[turbo-boy]

Then the next day i striped the front out and took the engine box and loom out,so i could start to do abit of welding on it,heres how it looks now
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00058-2.jpg

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00065-Copy.jpg
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[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00063-Copy.jpg

[Plug]

so youve already done the project?

[walker-nova]

looking good boss!! gona be some job you ve must of been flat out after i last seen it.

[wilson_sri]

That is very very nice! Cant wait to see the finished result.

[turbo-boy]

no project is about 1/4 done i will be posting up more pics of the work i have carriered out in the past month to it

[L14MNP]

STUNNING GSi! :)

[turbo-boy]

its a GTE mate , i have a gsi in the same colour and same wheels on it as well

[L14MNP]

LOL. FFS! I forgot as there's no pretty pics on this page.
I like it even more as it's a GTE! noob fcuk up or what!

Unless I meant Opel Corsa GSi? lol

Will be watching this one mate. :)

[Nova_Tek]

People tell me high power silver isn't the colour for wheels! But blimey those speedlines look awesome!

As does the car obviously ;)

Bright silver looks good depending on the cars paint, as is always the case with wheels.

Very nice GTE mate :thumb:

[krobinson]

Nice car, I hope you can keep the front standard!

[turbo-boy]

yes im going to sell my charge cooler and get a bigger one kieth, so i can park it beside the gsi saying its the same colour with same wheels.

[vaughanmc]

Looking like a good project :thumb:

[krobinson]

You'll be fine with your charge cooler. Mark Watts old Turbo ran over 250bhp on the same one! And there's a local MK2 astra GTE running the same setup on phase 2.

[turbo-boy]

update. my plans are to use an early j20xe block and crank as its the better 1 of the 2 cranks,and the facted that i had is sitting in my garage for years.so i stripped the block down bare and honed it out as the bores where not to bad on it,i then set to work on cleaning the out side of it as i like to always paint my engines when there apart, so the first 2 coats where in primer and the next 4 coats where in fluorescent yellow,then when that dryed i lacqered it.

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[craig green]

Yellow Block! damn!

Nice project. I'll keep following.

[Nova_Tek]

^^ Glow in the dark paint lol

[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00098.jpg

[jord4n]

have you really sprayed the meeting faces on the block, surly you now have over spray in the boars.

[--ToM--]

over spray in the bores will dissappear within 2 seconds of it running lol

[turbo-boy]

so when i got it all painted i set to work replacing engine parts with new parts.
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00104.jpg
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00103.jpg
i also got some bits powered coated, rocker cover, inlet,sump, heres a few pics of them.
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00109.jpg
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[turbo-boy]

it was honed after i painted it,paint in the bores wouldnt do it any harm anyway,only harm it would do if you where measuring your ring gaps before fitting them it could through you of abit when measuring

[turbo-boy]

i then put the crank back into the block and set of measuring my piston ring gaps before fitting the rings to the c20let pistons and fitting them. here is how it looks with the steel head gasket on it crying our for the head to be fitted.
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00120.jpg
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[turbo-boy]

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00121.jpg

[turbo-boy]

them cylinder head that i got had 4 broken valve guides so i sent it away to hoy enginering to get the 4 valve guides replaced and the get the cylinder head refaced,so after i ground in all the valves and put new valve stems in it and when i was done i painted it silver.After a few hours it was dry and ready to be bolted onto the block. heres more pics of it coming together

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00125.jpg
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[krobinson]

Looking good! I almost thought you'd forgot your oil return, but now see you've one fitted. good times!

[turbo-boy]

i then had a coulple of free hours in work so i decided to paint the spark plug cover, here is how it turned out and im happy with the way it looks


http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00137.jpg
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[--ToM--]

funky

[Nova_Tek]

Looking glow in the dark cool mate

[turbo-boy]

just wanted to do something different with this build normal on the out side and abit mad under the bonnet lol

[brucer]

nice work, will be watching this one

[Danny s-p]

nice i like this alot

[turbo-boy]

i was wanting to get my engine bay painted over xmas but having problems getting a strenghtening kit of chris ashtley,it was the first thing i ordered and now i cant paint the engine bay until i weld the plates on the chassis legs,to be honest im ragin as you all know things dont happen by them selfs you need to put in the hard graft and late nights. Thanks for all your comments people

[krobinson]

Nightmare, did you try Harry Hockley? I was checking through ebay for you but there's none for sale at the moment! RAGE!!

[turbo-boy]

to be honest i dont want to be spending that coin on a kit from h,h, if i new anyone with a kit of the bits that i need i would post them my kit when it arrives. question can i use a chassis engine mount bracket that welded onto the drivers side and use one like that for my f28 box?i have the mount for the box just need one to weld onto my chaasis leg after i weld th strenghing plate on.

[krobinson]

Yeah you can use a drivers side mount on the passanger side. Best to weld the Strengthning plate on first, then weld on the bracket.

[Danny s-p]

i have heard alot off people are have problems with chris ashtley. have u try grifen aoutosports on ebay there reaily cheep mate i have just bought a GTE shell off them.

[timbo1980]

looking good

[scott.parker]

Smart project, I'll keep my eye's on this one..

Scott

[walker-nova]

how you getting on with it now mate? an updates?
must get run down and seeit now

[turbo-boy]

My c20let loom with all the sensors has just arrived yesterday and the engine bay is all stich welded and plated up just waiting for a few chassis plates to come so i can weld my mount on when i trail fit engine to see where it sits, before i can get it painted. i will upload pics soons

[krobinson]

Happy days :)

[djbrowney]

looks good, sounds good, all go for the new year mate

[sparkie1401]

clean GTE, really like the spark plug cover

this is going to be another good en

[S1M0N]

Great project, youve got some good ideas! The yellow block looks sweet! Keep the pics coming!

[turbo-boy]

im on mates pc here, yea the sole purpose for the car is the replace my old corsa turbo that i had for a weekend runabout and to get me to santa pod 2010 and to make it up the strip and get me home in one peice. i got a ap cluch for it but its for a pot type flywheel cause i matched it with flat type flywheel and the pressure plate sits about 2cm above flywheel. can wait til i get egine mounted in

[turbo-boy]

small up date,i was looking at a dsop down pipe but decided to hav a go at making my own as i want a screamer.so i had a spare turbo elwbo laying about and set to work on it .
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00161.jpg
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and the last pic is how it sits when bolted onto the turbo still need to add more length to it when its in the car.

[Edd]

Looks like a clean Gte.

Good ideas and pics too.

Edd.

[novabrad90]

im loving the spark plug cover!

[Rick Draper]

Not going to work thats not.

[turbo-boy]

when i hav it bolted on it sit flush to the turbo so there is not going to be any blow by. the plate that i welded into the elbow sits past the flange by about 18mm on one side and tappers down. i think it was worth a try and at the worst cause i can just put my other stanard elbow back on. thanks for the comments lads

[turbo-boy]

update time. well i have been quite busy the past few weeks. i have stitched welded the bay and fitted my home made strenghting kit.got an f28 box and a ap clutch setup and a pot type flywheel.so i then set to work fitting the engine and gear box yesterday and welded my mount on the chassis leg to take the f28 gear box mount.After that i removed the the engine and box and got to work rubbing down the engine bay before i primered it. pics to follow as my camera is in work

[Nova_Tek]

sounds like good progress mate. keep it up :thumb:

[turbo-boy]

HERE IS A FEW PICS OF MY PROGRESS
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00175.jpg
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[turbo-boy]

£20 of spay paint and i set to work spraying the bay
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00193.jpg
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[turbo-boy]

f28 that got painted up here few pics of the stages it went through

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu35/nova_130bhp/DSC00168.jpg
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[krobinson]

Looking good! Cant wait to see this finished!

[walker-nova]

u finally got bay painted then lad looks good must get done for another look. roll on PV convoy time lol

[krobinson]

u finally got bay painted then lad looks good must get done for another look. roll on PV convoy time lol

PV FTL!!

Billing's where it's at!

[turbo-boy]

i would like it to be done before april.just need to plume it in and get 22 spline inner cv joints.havnt been to billing yet but will be going to the pod hopefully

[novaload1992]

good luck to you

[turbo-boy]

i no i got the car on 1st november 09 so not doing to bad its just getting the parts thats the time consuming part mate

[krobinson]

The Nova meet in portrush is early april, be good to see it finished for then.

[krobinson]

Any Updates?

I keep wanting to get mine back out, but then look out the window and see snow, wind, rain and salty crap roads. grrr

[dj_wudgey]

well nice car that matey!!

[krobinson]

Updates!!??

[krobinson]

Need updates!! lol

[turbo-boy]

finally got a cable for my phone as may other one buggered up,since last time a hav got the engine and box in,fitted v6 brakes and done the disc convertion to the back of it,plumbed in the charge cooler with the pump, rad,and fliud tank.,here is a few pics of how it looks now,things i still hav to do is strenghten the bottom arms, get 22 spline inner cvs,ecu,slimline fan, make new brake pipes and replace all the brake hoses,get handbrake cables for it.pictures to come and sorry about the pic qaulity

[turbo-boy]

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[turbo-boy]

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[turbo-boy]

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[krobinson]

Looking really well! Not long till it's finished!

[MattBrown]

You need a corsa "B" 1.0 throttle cable fella, gave £3 for mine in the scrappy:)

[dj_wudgey]

very tidy mate!! shame it didnt get left as a 1.6 though!!

[MattBrown]

very tidy mate!! shame it didnt get left as a 1.6 though!!

Are you serious?

A 1600 with about 90bhp, or a 200+bhp turbo?

I know I have a fettish for power, but cummon, what would you choose?

[krobinson]

Turbo every time!

[turbo-boy]

turbo wins every time hands down once you go turbo you never go back lol

[turbo-boy]

dj wudgey i hav a standardish 1.6 nova which i drive in the good weather,this one is for the crack and hopefully surprise a few people

[walker-nova]

got this out yet?????

[dj_wudgey]

dj wudgey i hav a standardish 1.6 nova which i drive in the good weather,this one is for the crack and hopefully surprise a few people

yea i supose its just all the good examples are ending up with xe's let's still a nice car like id have a let nova all day long but id use a base modle each to thier own and as i said its still a nice car lol

[Nova_Tek]

Are you serious?

A 1600 with about 90bhp, or a 200+bhp turbo?

I know I have a fettish for power, but cummon, what would you choose?

When people say 'it should've stayed as a 1.6' they're refering to keeping the car an original GTE/GSi as they will become more sought after. Like keeping a Sport a Sport etc.

I and my bro have been thinking about the red SR he bought recently, fitting an XE would be great in there as it's such a solid car and the body is so mint, but thinking about it we'd much rather keep that an original SR as they are few and far between in standard guise.

Of course I'd pick the LET to a 1.6 anyday (hence me doing a LET converson of my own) but some people also consider the otherside of things except power ;)

At the end of the day, your car your rules. It's looking real good though, coming together nicely :thumb:

[krobinson]

How's this looking now?

[Cle]

If its the one i think it is its amazing lol

Cle types off to find pics :)

Edit: nop i thought it was this one

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/PVS%202010/DSC_0003_Small.jpg

[krobinson]

How's it looking / running now?