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I always love news like that :).Quote:
Originally Posted by ade
Woop Woop!!
I had this problem when I had my rear arches, rear panel and front panel done. If you wanna put the fear of god up him suggest that you'd like to come and take some WIP photo's lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by ade
good plan - Im of work this Wednesday so intend to take a trip down. I'm also off work Friday so will tell him I'd like to collect it then - for cash...might be a nice incentive...
I am also off work on Friday as its my 24th :D
WHOOOOO!
GOT THE NOVA BACK TODAY WITH NEW PANEL ON IT!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/f4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/f3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/f2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/f1.jpg
Jobs a goodun and pretty cheap too - so much so that I treated myself to an new adjustable strutbrace and pipercross cone air filter!
He also cracked my nuts (oo - rephrase that) - on my suspension so I can fit poly bushes
Ades big garage is back on track!
Plans for this weekend -
Get some ramps and some other bits n bobs
strip the engine bay and clean it up (de rust)
strip suspension and start to clean up
start work on light housings and bonnet.
That'll do for now - I'll post and stick up pics as I go!
Ade (getting all excited like its christmas lol!)
New shiny metal, nice :)
crickey! that nova has took a slap to the chin!
lol - it needed it!
Saturday 22nd July 2006
Ok, Ade's garage rebuild starts after a fecking HUGE stall (I need to learn how to weld!)
Spent most of the morning at Halfords and other motor factors getting odds and sods including car ramps filler and glass fibre...
The plan today was to focus on the lights and creating or at least thinking about how I was going to mount them on the nova shell. I needed to line them up so I could use the positions to creats templates to cut metal sheet from.
As you can see from the pics in other posts Id cut my old light housings away. This was done because they were both rusted pretty badly and there was no point in keeping them because the Punto lights I intend to use will not fit in the existing housings.
SO - the 1st thing I had to do was work out how to get both sides to line up correctly. The difficulty is you cant just take a tape measure to it because of the infamous Nova tolerances. I started by bolting on my new patern wings. Had to do a little grinding at the front to get them to fit and line up but I expected that.
Once in place I knew I had to cut away the section that sits underneath the lights. It was at this point I wish I'd got mk1 wings - would have saved a heap of time! I then placed the Punto lights in rough positions.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights004.jpg
The next step was how do I ensure theyre the right height and position (angle wise). This took me ages to work out but basically I took a large sheet of card and laid it against one wing and took measurements. That way I could see exactly where I wanted the lights to go, how they lined up against the card and could use the exact dimensions of the car to replicate the detail on the other side.
With these measurements recorded, I took a peice of flat thin wood and laid it across the front of the car between the wings so it was right at the front of each wing tip. As both wings "should" be horizontal to each other (+-0.5mm) I figured that it was as good a guide as any. I took further measurements at set intervals along the plank to the scuttle panel to ensure each side matched. I then used the card measurements to bolt the lights in place.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights010.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights012.jpg
Once in place, I removed the bumper (which I was using as a rough guide) and then spent a while tweeking the positions, cutting and trimming inner wing so the lights would sit correctly etc).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights014.jpg
The next task was to try and work out the best way of securing each light in position from the underside 1st, then how to build upper mountings which could be joined on to the original slam panel (or what was left of it).
I started making very rough card inserts and playing abot with them as supports that would interlock. This seems to work but I need to spend more time taking proper measurements (thats Sundfays task).
In addition to this I discovered (I kind of knew from before I started the project) that the radiator side mounting was in the way! This is somethijng I need to try and find a solution for. the obvious choice is to move the radiator about an inch to the drivers side however I dont really want to have to start cutting holes in my brand new lower panel! (I'm open to suggestions on how I can remidy this!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights017.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights018.jpg
This is the state of the car a present...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../lights021.jpg
Food stuffs
Managed to consume 4 cups of coffee and a HUGE bacon sandwich.
Personal Injury
Sunburn - although I didnt know it at the time - itrs been pretty overcase all day...stings like f00k!
nasty cut on right index finger off a metal edge - thought Id need stitches (man flu stylee) - bugger wouldnt stop bleeding..
Right - off to try and work out these mountings...
more tomorrow...
Ade
:thumb:
loving the progress fella :thumb: