Liam's Nova X16XE Project

yep looking good but like some 1 els said dont think the square numba plates look that good tbh

Never! All I need is some smaller tyres on the RFX's and that is it.

Right, I've now acquired this little gem for the sum of £220! It's a cat C but all I want it for is the engine! It's a Corsa Sport with a X16XE which I'm going to be putting in the Nova in the next month or so. I will be breaking the whole car when I get it next week and hoefully make some money on the parts and get an engine and all the running gear for free.

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Small Update!

Nova will be taken off the road at the end of April for it's new heart transplant!

Meanwhile, I got a single wiper conversion and got that fitted. Also sprayed my grill insert and grab handle gloss black, which look OK'ish lol

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I also had the Nova up on the ramp and fell in love with the rear height. If only it could sit like that, looks f***ing mental!

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I took the Nova to it's first meet on Saturday and Jeff16v took some pictures of it:
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And a picture I took when I got home:
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I have been down the bodyshop all day rubbing down my long awaited GTE rear bumper and front bumper. Will be primered tomorrow and finished the middle of next week:
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In a week or so it will be coming off the road and having the engine bay painted red and then the X16XE engine from the corsa will be making it's way in and hopefully it should all be back together for Billing.

Nice to see it and you Saturday mate, your camera pic looks nice and vivid now. :)

Cheers Jeff. Was good to see HUA and how well it has been built. I have been playing around with the vivid setting alot now lol

Great project mate, car looks spot on

Looking smart mate

Cheers guys!

I went down to Ashford yesterday to pick up another Cobra Monaco bucket seat off Adams Nova and ended up going home with a GSI dashboard (£20) and carbon fibre door cards (£10). I have been looking for a mint dashboard for ages so that was a bonus and because they were cheap I couldn't resist.

Some pictures:

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