Will be starting a project thread very soon. got lots of bits already.
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Will be starting a project thread very soon. got lots of bits already.
Ill try answer some for you mate, Neil who use to own it spent £K's on the engine/setup etc, I think for the DTA and all the parts gathered to get it working was near to £3000 (not sure though) so it's not really worth while doing it (unless your lucky like him, engineer @Rolls-Royce) and have the money to do so..Quote:
Originally Posted by ben doodar
20ltr 8v turbo’s are really good, or even on TB’s! That’s worth thinking about doing.
And I think I know the show your on about mate, I’ll dig you out a pic.
Scott
am not going to bother messing with the 8v, alot of people think there not worth while, but they do go well, and easy to work on in a nova.
but for them extra few ponnies, im just going go for a redtop.
yh i thought it would be a costly affair turboing the 1.6 really cool tho.
thats why i asked about the megasquirt as it can be done on the cheap, just out of interest really.
yh see if you can dig the pictures out from the show, you may remeber my mates 1.7td nova on the mobile rolling road there? chucking out alot of black smoke haha.
Well today I went round to mikes, the plan was: take of rear suspension, disconect brakes/hand brake, and remove rear beam so it can be de-rusted Polly bushed and painted up!
So off we go...we jacked the car up, put it on axle stands then undid the nuts from the top the shocks, making sure threes a jack under the beam to take the weight.
The undone the shocks from the beam, and removed the springs (we were both confident we know how to get to this point)LOL
Now we were a bit in un charted waters as neither me more Mike had take the rear brake lines apart, more disconnected a hand brake set up before!
So quite a bit of fiddling and swearing later (WD40 was needed big time LOL 18 years of sh1te) we got the brake lines disconnected by undoing them where they join to the flexi lines from the solid part (bracket on the rear beam)
Now were stumped! Neither of us knows how to get the handbrake cable off from the back of the drums; bit of luck I had a Hanes nova manual in back of my car.
Bit of reading and swearing and we soon had them disconnected (lets hope they go back the same)
so then it was time to undo the bolts to the beam and drop it..
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2...23smallhh5.jpg
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2...24smallyg1.jpg
Now I know some of you can do this in your sleep, but for us it was all unknown and a dam bit of fun.
So we though huh good bit of work done, at this point mike went of to make some tea.
So I started looking at the rear inner arches, I found some dark loose under seal (you can see it in one of the other pics) I pulled at to find it was a huge lump of filler covered over with sh1te loads of under seal!!
Well I was shocked and so was mike, well we both thought sod it he's done the front end, so let’s see what lerking under the rear arches is!
Let the rot fest begin!!
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6...25smallpj1.jpg
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4...27smallnj4.jpg
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1...26smallzu5.jpg
Iffy sping plate (can you buy these??)
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3...28smallhp4.jpg
How would you go about fixing/platting the chassis leg part??
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6...42smallxi4.jpg
These are all of the off?drives side.
Now the near side looked better at first inspection...
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6...29smallwq1.jpg
Opps!
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9...30smallog8.jpg
Then the nasty supprise we hoped we wound not find..
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5...31smallxe8.jpg
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4...44smallsh2.jpg
Mike Needs some advise on the best way to tackle sorting this bit, how do you go about plating it? can you buy the spring monuts??
Mike then said well may aswell get grinding it out! so he set to it straight away lol fair play!
I kept and eye on the iside for him as some sparks were going through into the car (dont want another fire)
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1...32smallcr3.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1...34smallce4.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/9...37smallvr4.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7...33smalltq5.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8...38smalljo3.jpg
Nice...:roll:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4...41smallow7.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...40smallsh1.jpg
So weather pending the other side will get attacted as well tomo!
To be honest im just as gutted as mike is, as we never thought it would be this bad, but theres no going back, and might as well do a propper job, so what started as a small restoration is now a BIG one lol
Least the engine looks nice now..:D
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7...45smallek4.jpg
Keep your head up dude, i'll help as much as i can.
Scott
Sh!t that is a nasty surprise! good to see it hasnt put you off, especially with all the other work
thats gone into it. Engine does look good :cool:
lol just a bit, i dont think he wants to take the skirts off as he's too worried what we'll find...Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
fair play to you both for the hard work going in, i rember when i started to find more n more rot on my car, p!ssed me off no end, really dis-hearten's you. i hate welding rotten cars, it really aint a nice job!! so credit to you both for your hard work..
cheers for the pics dude! as Scott said need a little advice as to what to do with the chasis.:thumb:
Jesus, thats quite a bit of rot! :(