Nova Shell prep

[Dod]

Ok, my spare shell is going to be welded up this week, its been stripped out and its ready to go. Any suggestions or recomendations on what I could/should do to it at this stage?

[John]

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106190

Some good engine bay pics in here.

[Dod]

If I could, I'd rep you. Cheers mate!

[XEjames]

whats the shell going to be used for?

[craig green]

Any Nova will benefit from grp-A pates & stitch welding IMO.

It tightens up the whole handling experience.

[MattBrown]

Whats it for?

Can go to extreme dod.

Stitch or seam every single seam.

I would stitch the seams on the underside, where the chassis legs run under the floor aswell as the bay.

Gets rid of alot of flex.

[craig green]

IMO stitch the turrets to the chassis legs & inner wings, stitch the chassis legs to bulkhead in the the engine bay & under the fr wheelarches stitch the chassis legs to the bulkhead also.

The plating takes care of most of the rest incl additional tieing the crossmember to the chassis legs.

[mk1nova_rich]

as above, and then some people choose to do a bit of stitch welding and plating work around the rear beam mounts

[Dod]

Its going to be a Stage car, sort of a half rally half road car so I want it well spec'd as it will be in the Hills and Forestry a lot.

[mk1nova_rich]

Its going to be a Stage car, sort of a half rally half road car so I want it well spec'd as it will be in the Hills and Forestry a lot.

sounds similar to what im doing with mine, hopefully will be used for road rallying, marshalling and stage setting up on forest events, then hillclimbs

[GDN16v]

IMO stitch the turrets to the chassis legs & inner wings, stitch the chassis legs to bulkhead in the the engine bay & under the fr wheelarches stitch the chassis legs to the bulkhead also.

The plating takes care of most of the rest incl additional tieing the crossmember to the chassis legs.

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