The Counts Track Day Nova Build

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Originally Posted by Count Vaux Alot

Cheers dude!

If you have some steels (you need two to make one) then i will widen them for you :thumb:

PM me if your interested ;)

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Aaahhh dont temped me!
Wonder where i can find 10 5stud 15" steels from.....

any vectra in any scrapyard ad anywhere!

you should try finding 4 stud ones :P

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Originally Posted by Benn

Aaahhh dont temped me!
Wonder where i can find 10 5stud 15" steels from.....

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the scrap yard of course:thumb:

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Originally Posted by Benn

Aaahhh dont temped me!
Wonder where i can find 10 5stud 15" steels from.....

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Vectra B's and C's, Corsa C's and D's, Astra G's and H's..........

Astra mk4 will be the wrong off set, as i think are the rest. arnt they all et 38.. That plus 7inch wide would be a killer.

Most of them are only 6" width though, and the widening takes place on the front of the rim so the off-set problem is minor really, though 5mm spacers would bring it back if needed.

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Originally Posted by Benn

Astra mk4 will be the wrong off set, as i think are the rest. arnt they all et 38.. That plus 7inch wide would be a killer.

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wtf do you want to widen them for if you dont want them wide :S

And the offset will be ****ed, for instance, 5.5 inch rim, et49 offset, widened by an inch and a half on the outside (as above) will end up being 7j et31 approximately. Since you wont find et60 something wheels to start with, youre always going to be below whats ideal for a nova.

Alistairolsen is correct widening completely funks offset....

Anyway lets forget the wheels for the time being and crack on with the project!

So, quite a large update in terms of both importance and jobs completed from over the weekend so here goes :D

I dragged the car out of the garage Saturday morning to start the prep work only to find i still wasn't 100% happy with the rear arches so i cracked on with sorting these out

Blemish in the fibre glass undercoat

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted001.jpg

And more finishing required

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted003.jpg

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And primed up again

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted007.jpg

Then i got down to some serious rubbing down - basically the whole car needed preping as i had only done bits and pieces previously Mr camera stayed out of the way for a bit due to dust.

After the rub down i masked up all the orifices, cleaned the garage out (all the sh1te was on the drive so i was praying the rain stayed away) Got rid of as much dust from the garage floor and surrounding areas and finally blew/ panel wiped the whole car down

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted009.jpg

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Once everything had settled i gave the car another panel wipe and got the paint out the results

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted019.jpg

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted020.jpg

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http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted033.jpg

Sorry for the extreme number of pictures of the car but, this resembles how happy i am with the results, given this was a 'one man in his garage job' i think i has turned out very well if i don't say so myself and i am happy as can be with the colour

Here are some of her out side in the sun de masked

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted034.jpg

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Once the car was out the way i started on the bonnet and boot following a similar process - Rub down, clean off and panel wipe then paint.

Bonnet rubbed down

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted045.jpg

Painted

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted047.jpg

And dry

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted049.jpg

Then the boot

Cabin side

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted048.jpg

And out side

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...painted050.jpg