My Nova Rebuild

Since the Nova failed its MOT on Saturday Me and my dad thought we would rebuild it

The pics will do most of the talking but its nothing to major

There will be loads of help from friends and friend's parents lol - Its all gooood
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4...ebuild1wf8.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1...ebuild2pd9.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6...ebuild4sq8.jpg
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http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7...rebuildhg2.jpg
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Marked as **Dangerous** on the MOT sheet - The hole on the back beam
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5...ebuild5rd8.jpg

The List:
Full new front panel - Nearside sill at the rear welded up - New/Used rear beam - Welded around the nearside turret and a new nearside front wing

Vaughan!

Fook me, its suprising what a bumper hides.

The beam is an easy fix at least.

Good luck :)

Blimey, not seen a beam rot out like that before!!

Have fun rebuilding it, hopefully the pics are the worst of it.

good luck mate , that rear beam were its rotted looks like the old autin metro front lower arm, they went like that!!! oh so do the front lower arms on the mgf lol

You never told me you had that much rust lol ... Or didn't you know??

Good luck with the rebuild.

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Originally Posted by NovaLad16

You never told me you had that much rust lol ... Or didn't you know??

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MOT guys probably been poking at it, causing the holes.

My uncle only checked my sills, legs, arches and a bit of the bay and all was free of rust apart from the arches.

Looking at that is making me wonder what it is like under my bumper:(

looks nasty enough

but all easily sorted really

good luck mate

never had my bumper off.. looked ok behind the little gaps. but underneath is pretty rusty
might have to take mine off.. hope it isnt as bad as that

good look von!

good luck mate

I didn't know about the rust but I knew about that rear beam

It will all be sorted sooner or later as I have plenty of time

Cheers for the 'good lucks' etc :)

Me and my mate is going to get the front wings off then get her up off of the back wheels and take the alloys off so they don't get damaged

I think she'l be getting a new nearside wing as well :)

I'll see if I can talk my mum and dad into a respray once its all done..

good luck mate

yep, good luck..agree with you doing it now while its off the road anyway. didnt realize your nova was quite as bad matey!

its all pretty easy to sort though. hardest bit is probably cutting/drilling old panel and crossmember out. i would advise putting a crossmember in aswell as front panel. get a complete front panel which includes crossmember.

hope we can meet up and have minted wee novas to take pics of sometime..

Greg

Had the guy who done most of the work on it check the front end over he said it only needs some bits - So it will be getting a lower front panel and a passenger light socket/panel

Then the other wee bits of welding here and there then it can go again for another MOT :)

Picked up this tonight. Thought I would put the front end back together to see what it'l look like

Going to get it done grey like the back bumper and put my red stripe in:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6493/novagsile1.jpg
Vaughan

i actually like the white against the red :)

should look good in grey :thumbs:
is it genuine, or fibreglass copy

Genuine one I'd reckon - I'll need to check it for a GM stamp

Got my aim set:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...c/TotalVX1.jpg
Don't want the bumper as shiny as that - but it would do..

You got the tow eye cover?

GaryVaux's nova is a very cool car indeed.

If it's white and unpainted it may be a fibreglass one, I think all GM ones came in grey plastic.

Its a genuine GM one - Got the wee stamp on the back of it - Been painted before - Its cracked down the bottom

Not got a towing eye cover, wouldn't mind one - Also want to big mouth the bumper..

Is that easy??

This is how I made my big-mouth GSi front, there's also a guide on Topbuzz I think.

I'll give it a go on mine - Not complaining, got the bumper in a swap for 1/2 working Nova SRi clocks :)

get the god dam thing legal first!!

Shhh

Finally managed to get a back beam!

Got it all degreased last night and power-washed it all

Rubbed it down with a wirebrush and powerwashed it again to remove what was left of the crap

Letting it dry now then going to give it a few coats of black hammerite!

Pics soon...

Got my back beam that I had been after for a good while as mine had a hole - Will get better pics once its off the car

Heres the one I got from a scrappy - Clean as anything with some minor surface rust:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...aRebuild15.jpg

De-greased the full thing and pressure washed it, wirebrushed it all and powerwashed it again

Finally giving it a few coats of black hammerite:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...aRebuild18.jpg

...Till the next update!

Vaughan

getting there now mate looking a bit more solid that the old beam

Aye its a much better one :)

Can't wait to see it on with the Red Drums - Should be some contrast :)

Instead of red drums either get some new ones (quite cheap) or paint them silver with a coat of clear gloss

makes it look alot better though the alloys and non-chav

Good work tho, nice little car

Finally got the back beam finished and all painted up

Looks quite smart I must say:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...aRebuild23.jpg
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http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...aRebuild28.jpg
Next on the list: A full front panel

Get the paint off the end plates though. You dont want the stub axles coming loose if the paint lifts.

I wire wheeled mine off yesterday.

Aye I didn't think they were to be painted

But my dad said do the lot...

That will be fixed up soon enough, cheers Craig! :)

Looks a nice job mate.

Hopefully it holds out better than the original one

Once its off I'll need to see how bad it really is...

Got some good news!

Front Panel (complete) and a new passenger wing should be here for the weekend!

Let the build commence :D

that sounds good when you getting them fitted

Don't know yet mate - Need to see the guy at the weekend

He said its only a weekends work...

how did you get on with th rest of the welding work