Stunning work Ade! This will look phenominal when its finished!
I must say it has quite a 'beefy' look to it, kinda monaro/VXR8 but not quite, can't put my finger on it, but i like it. You do reliese it needs to be RWD V8 powered now tho... lol
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Stunning work Ade! This will look phenominal when its finished!
I must say it has quite a 'beefy' look to it, kinda monaro/VXR8 but not quite, can't put my finger on it, but i like it. You do reliese it needs to be RWD V8 powered now tho... lol
pmsl!
I was thinking Monaro too. Something very Evo-esque about it though too...
Some mad fabrication work gone into this.
Should be totally unique when finished.
Top stuff
lol good work ade :thumb:
i can see the vectra look to it aswell lol
wot a car mate cant wait to see it when its dun :)
just spent the pest part of tonight (4-5hours) reading this and i must say this has inspired me to get my first nova.
the attention to detail and effort!
good luck mate ;)
nice one!
Been busy doing the front end - spent most of the weekend messing with the bonnet, smoothing it and shaping it to get the lines right. Also filled the void underneath and started to smooth it (the extension bit) - ready for casting.
looks pretty good although still a fair amount of work to do on it...and thats just the bonnet!
OMG... i have just spent 3 - 4 hours reading this whole thread! it was so worth it i could of just carried on for hours! you have done some amzing work there ade.. you deserve alot of credit and respect for that most people would of just gone and bought pre made parts and got other people to do it for them! but not you, it is totally original and is a one off masterpiece! im just p****d off i wont get to see the finished project as im going away! ill try my hardest to stay with this as much as i can tho! good luck and i wish you all the best!
lol - it's gonna be another year at LEAST before its back on the road.
looking good mate...
getting hard to beleive that theres still a nova under there lol
Monday 29/10/2007
Was working this weekend but managed a few hours on the bonnet after work. Spent most of the time sculpting the 2 lines to run evenily (an absolute biatch)
Tonight though I finally got it to a stage where I could give it a coat of primer. This will allow me to assess the work to date as well as tidy it up a bit - letting me see where I need to work on next.
Heres what it looked like prior to priming...(this image was prior to the bonnet being smoothed over as well)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../bonnet045.jpg
This is how it looks now after the lines have been started and the 1st coat of primer is on -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp3.jpg
Primer hides a miltitude of sins (especially in these pics) - theyre not as nice as they look.
Next step is to dust the whole surface with a speckle coat of black paint then give it a light sand to see where the dips and flat areas are. Then I need to continue working on the 2 lines - get them nice and even.Theres some depth issues I need to address which can be seen in a couple of the pics.
Once the tops done I then need to work on the underside - At the moment one sides slightly higher than the other caused by an uneven underside.
I'll try over the next day or so get a draft with the grill and bumper on the front - give an idea of what it will look like...
woah! that really pulls it together, this will be amazing when finished. Just a note on the bonnet tho, don't you want to strenghten the underside first and then level it?
BTW, I'll settle on a 2.5 V6, come on - it needs a 'meaty' engine :rock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Fook Ade! That bonnet does look bloody good mate!!
P.S. Its really starting to look like a Vectra from the front lol
Ade mate my hat goes off to you! 110% respect, your work looks amazing, and im well impressed your still going at it all this time later.
BUT (theres always a but!) for me it is starting to resemble a vectra a little bit too much for my liking..:p ;)
well done though mate.
Scott
Looks pretty cool, good work Ade :D
lol at the vectra comments - HOPEFULLY it wont!
Re the underside - yes it will be strengthened - remember the above bonnet is a master from which an entire fibreglass skin will be taken. The skin will cover the WHOLE bonnet front to back incliding sides - there will be an underside section reinforced and rivitted top the existing nova lip. you can see the bonnet I'll use in one of the above pics (white one).
Spent most of tonight cleaning up the 2 bonnet lines - one of them was out a few mil.
Just a qeustion, are you planning on doing something just as radical for the rear aswell?
you'll need to look back several pages re the rear end - but yes. Currently have a nova boot smoothed with a big circle cut in the middle where a VW (which will be rebranded to a VAUX) badge will sit but the badge will lift up to open the boot like the new style Golf's.
see here - http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=33653&page=30
and here - http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=33653&page=37
Saturday 3/11/07
Spent the last few days smoothing the imperfections out of the bonnet (most of the primer in the above picks has been sanded away from the front now).
Cleaned up and balanced both of the bonnet lines so they are now exactly paralell, the same height and the same distance from the edge.
Started work on the underside of the bonnet - cleaned up the area between the bonnet and the grill/light tops and started to smooth the underneath that joins on to the existing bonnet.
Fitted both wings to ensure they still line up and cleaned up the plastecine on the passenger wing to match the bonnet - smoothed it ready for casting.
Added custom clips to support the "V" grill
and managed to slice my finger length ways on a piece of metal. Have a nice deep 1" gash running from the finger nail to the 1st joint on the edge. Not sore but bled like feck!
I'll take some pick tomorrow - after I've spent the day with the wife at a horse show shes competing in...
Wow looked great mate,, wheni saw the primerd pics i just started laughing because it works so well, i just couldnt belive it GREAT work mate
imo it looks abit Evo 10ish
Thats looking like top quality work there Ade. With regards to fitting the new skin onto the new bonnet, wouldn't it be easier to remove the supporting framework from a bonnet, then extend it to support the extension and fibreglass it in to the new skin?
stunning mate, that bonnet looks top work! looks stunning indeed!
Amazing work mate thats guna looks sumink else when finished!! well done.
Tom
may have a point - will need to look at the spare bonnet inner section. I think its welded to the edges then held in place with that glue stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikey14sr
Might save on weight...
amazing ade!!
looks factory
Yeah I believe the skin is spot welded on around the edges. The main reason behind suggesting it is that if you were taking a mould of the entire bonnet, so that you had an entire skin to bond to the white one, the skin of the white one would prevent you from bonding it on, if you get what I mean like (due to the raised centre section being in exactly the same place).Quote:
Originally Posted by ade
Even if you were only going to take a mold for the extension, you'd have the problem of blending it in to the white bonnet again (along with lining it up again).
Wednesday 14/11/2007
Didnt do anything on the car as such but placed an order for some PU foam board to make my grill and bumper.
Basically I'll cut rib sections from the baord and stick each section together to form the basic shape, carve it to give some basic detail, seal it with resin and glass tissue and skim with a fine body filler (called bodylite no7). Then i simple sand to the right shape. Once thats done I paint it in primer and smooth it so its really smooth and after about 10 coats of mirror glaze its ready for molding.
That's the idea anyway - will apply for the rear bumpoer and side skirts too - may even apply to my custom dash - but thats a fair bit away yet...
so - heres some "very rough" images of 2 possible bumper styles -
1st - the "Nova" one - based on the drawings from page 7
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/nova1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/nova2.jpg
and the 2nd - based on the focus sti
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/focus1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/focus2.jpg
I'm torn...
Cant really do a combination on both because the angles of the lower section are opposite.
What do you think - and feel free to post you own designs.
I like the STI 1
IMO id go with what ever is going to be the easiest to produce.
The ST item, if based upon a genuine ST bumper is obviosly going to cost a fair whack. Personally id keep GM :D
First one, focus is just too ugly!
i prefer first one, they are two top designs but
The top one I reckon :).
Why not just make both then decide once you have seen them on the car...
Top one imo
the top one is more stocky looking in the sketch - both items will be made from scratch - unfortunately I cant afford to make both at the moment.
Theyre basically the same just the centre lower vent is inverted...
I think I'll need to draw them up to scale see if that makes a difference...
Top one ade.. defo..
been looking at them in more details and I think the top one wins it over. the focus styles one just seems a little bit too "flimsey" looking for some reason.
My PU foam arrived today so will probably start carving it out over the enxt few weekends. Getting Sky fitting this weekend mind so may just turn into a "Homer"
D'OH!
Glad your leaning towards the first one Ade.
I think you'd regret doing the ST based one as people might think its an ST bumper.
You've always been original with your own designs and ideas... stick with that and you won't go wrong ;)
It's a shame you can't use an 07 number plate as I'd imagine a lot of people will look at the finished car and think Vauxhall have re-vamped the Nova.