The project begins...

[Neil.]

Got my money in bank today, so the spending has started.
So far,
Removed my boot install and rear seats,
Brought DTM mirrors
Found 2 new doors, tailgate and bonnet for ?70 from scrappy,
Picking up my alloys 2morow, along with doors, bonnet, tailgate,
Taking bonnet to have a mould taken of it for vents, then skin is being taken off
Taking doors and tailgate to body shop so they can start on the work for them,
Trying to persaude Tilly to sell me her novadose sideskirts and rear bumper, ive got the money waiting for u tilly(as long as it's cheaper(dont care how much) then carisma website(www.carismastyle.co.uk) :D , otherwise on sat ive gotta buy em off that website and wait 2 weeks!
On monday having 7 hours of arch work done to flair out wings to alow for alloys.

Thats it so far fellas, keep u posted.

Neil

[hotdogs_r_us]

nice see if u can get sum pics :wink:

[ade]

cool!

is it staying red?

[wisewood]

Everybody knows red cars are the fastest :lol:

[dangermousegsi]

and the most tempramental, must be sumin in the paint

[wisewood]

lol - nothing wrong with mine :D

except it being the wrong shape, wrong comapny and from the wrong country :lol:

[NovaSi]

lol @ wisewood

Looking good, can't wait to see the pics.

[Tilly]

hehehe @neil. He's trying for sure

[Ben (lurk75)]

Red Novas rust more than any other colour in my experience.

[wisewood]

probably vauxhall skimping on the paint coz red covers so well, so they used less paint and as such rust comes through quicker :lol:


**i do not know this to be fact**

[Anton]

bling bling neil

[dave.gsi]

i reckon black ones are the rustiest (is that a word lol?)

[Neil.]

it's going to be gold actually.

[Ben (lurk75)]

what the cars going to be gold?

[Neil.]

yep, bling bling

[Ben (lurk75)]

thats going to be one damn expensive paint job :!:

Are you removing the engine or is the garage doing it :?:

Are you remving all the seats etc so they can paint along the top of the rear three quarter panelsa dn the boot floor etc :?:

[Jules]

thats going to be one damn expensive paint job :!:

I think when he said the car's gonna be gold, he meant the colour gold and not the element!!! I can see it now, getting a Nova plated in 24 carat gold, now that would be a mag feature (And then promptly stolen and melted down!!!!!)

:lol: :o :lol: :o

[Ben (lurk75)]

Its still going to be damn expensive- colour changes are, think about the work that needs to be done to paint...

The door closes
The boot floor
The rear arches (inside)
The engine bay
The battery tray
Doors need to be painted inside and outside
Tailgate needs to be painted inside and outside
All panels underneath the bumpers etc

Loads of bits need to be removed even to get near half that, dont need much more paint but think of all the labour caost stripping and prepping it all.

Sod colour changes to much like hard work for me.

[Neil.]

IT'S GETTING SERIOUS NOW!

Took them a Tailgate and bonnet today, mint for ?35, so they can start work on them, couldn't find any decent doors around, so they'll use mine.

Im stuck between peugeot gold of citreon gold......hummmmmmm,

Just gotta wait for bumpers and sideskirts and the car goes in!

Oh and i've got my car on a stand at Donny, its the alloy wheel place that i went to, they wanna show my car!

Neil

[Ben (lurk75)]

Hope they gave you a discount for the advertising.

[Neil.]

yeah he said he'd doa deal on tyres ect in future, went had a 20 min talking with em earlier, right nice guys!

[Ben (lurk75)]

dont go kerbing them before then then!

[NovaSi]

Can't wait to see the pics :P

[Neil.]

ill have pics soon, once the bumpers get here it's going in body shop, just ordered some astra GSi vents, so they'll go on aswell.

Ill pop down and take some pictures after 5 days i think, see how their getting on.

im getting excited!

Plus ive been offered a rebuilt 2.0ltr 8v re-bored to a 2.2, talking to my mechanic about it at the mo, mike get ya ass here!

[Tilly]

Hmmmmmm not sure u should have gold if u have the chrome flipped wheels. Can see how that going to go together at all.
Have u photoshopped it to c?

I think the best gold is the volvo and vauxhall gold

[Anton]

thers quite a nice gold/orange/yellow slight flip colour, that fiat do as standard

[Snowface]

Red Novas rust more than any other colour in my experience.

i have a red G-reg and it has almost 0% rust.

At a glance white or blue nova's 'Look' rustiest because the rust stands out from the paint more i think.