1.3sr - gsi conversion

[gunny]

right i got my old sr back because i missed it so much, and the lad who had it off me blew the head and had it re-built and its ran like a 1.2 ever since (and yes ive checked it is still the sr block and head and the weber carb i had on it when i sold it), the plan was to put a nova gsi engine that i bought on the weekend in the sr and run it on my weber 32/34 till i get some twin 40's but as any nova story goes, it didnt work out to well

heres how the car looked first thing sunday morning:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00275.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00273.jpg

the engine:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00276.jpg
the team:

ginge - the coachbuilder/fabricator and soon to be nova owner:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00297.jpg

scott (N0V480I) :
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00298.jpg

and me zee sr owner/destroyer:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00299.jpg

opbviously we were all a***ing around, a short while later this is what the sr looked like:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00281.jpg

which is when we started to notice rust, and seriously; there was rust...:
note where the battery bay USED to be after i removed the makeshift fibreglass tray:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00282.jpg

the front wing supports, or atleast whats left of them:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00283.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00284.jpg

[gunny]

luckily we had ginge (the fabricator from earlier...) who did this :D :
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00287.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00288.jpg

then we found more rust, strut tops, and inner wings near the strut tops:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00285.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00286.jpg

ginge is sorting them this weekend

so we disconnected all the sr engine, unbolted the gearbox (as we had no engine lift it would be easier to split the lump and box to remove them:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00289.jpg

i stipped all the injection etc off the gsi engine ready to put the carb and dizzy off the sr on:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00290.jpg

so then ginge decides to have a look at the back of the car, wasnt good:roll: :
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00292.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00291.jpg

[gunny]

my reaction:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00300.jpg

inside looking out:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00295.jpg
:cry:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00294.jpg

the spare wheel well:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00293.jpg

so ginge did a tiny bit more fabricating (will post pisc this weekend) and we started pulling out the sr engine, the rope got caught on the dizzy so i thought id take it off, slap it on the gsi engine and it'll be safe for now, wrong, it didnt fit, i was distraught and i had to get to college the next day, so now the choices are, do i connect the sr engine back up, and run it still f****d for another week whilst i source a dizzy, or drop the 1600 in anyway and rob my little brothers ped, well there was no way i was riding a hair dryer for a week, so the 1300 went back in, with a struggle, took us and hour to notice that ginge had jacked the engine and gearbox up together after we had split them, stopping the engine simply splipping back into the box, many words were said to ginge :roll: but the love was not lost :D fired her up, heard a hissing noise, noticed water spraying out the head gasket :mad: silly mechanic who re-built the head before i got the car back didnt torque the head down, soon solved it, put it all back together and at 10pm she looked like this again:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t277/gunny07/DSC00021.jpg

so this weekend all the fun starts all over again, more welding for ginge, more abuse for scott haha a whole lot more cups of tea and coffee, nagging mrs's's and loads of empty fag packets, dont ya just love novas:D

[bigbened]

well in mate get that rust sorted soon as

[big gra]

haha rob your brothers ped,, when i swopped my engine i got my grinder out and cut a slot in the end of the cam to fit the new dizzy, worked a treat! just in the middle of putting a gsi engine in my nova, happy that mine is rather solid anyway! at least youv got a shlt hot welder/ fabricator on the team!

[blue_peg_16v]

that bloody tinworm strikes again

[big gra]

im hoping you didnt buy it back for a stupid amount?

[rednova]

im hoping you didnt buy it back for a stupid amount?

and how much did you sell it for in the first place!!!lol

[gunny]

im hoping you didnt buy it back for a stupid amount?

lol i probably did get ripped off but i couldnt resist it, its my baby lol, i sold it for 550 then swapped my corsa for it to get it back, but i kept my comp's off the corsa and all my fusion sound system, corsa was only a 1.2 ls with 96k on the clock, mint car though, as for the welding its bein finished this weekend hopefully:D

[gunny]

haha rob your brothers ped,, when i swopped my engine i got my grinder out and cut a slot in the end of the cam to fit the new dizzy, worked a treat!

lol i was tempted but it was a bit too hit 'n' miss for me lol

[draper]

looks like most novas lol

some good work going on tho :thumb:

[gunny]

lol my first sr was worse, we more or less rebuilt the whole car in a solid weeks work!!

[nov4801]

the engine is now in and running after one hell of a hard weekend,friday started at 9pm and i got home at 4 am and was ment to be bk by 8am on sat but ended up gettin there at 10ish lol worked til 2am and sunday was there from 11ish to 8pm as i needed to get some sleep. thanks for a good weekend gunny

[gunny]

wow, never though id be converting to a 1.6 again, cant believe i never finished this thread!

[AlexW]

lol Crazy fool for bumping it too lol

For a moment reading the 1st post i thought you had acualy bought it back lol then rememberd you saying about it being coke cans now lol

[CoolTiger]

silly :p

[dj_wudgey]

yea it got me aswell and then i also remeberd it was gone!!

[gunny]

:p