dry roads FTW !
your car is too mint to use through the winter,looking good mate,coilovers look nice :)
keep it up.
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dry roads FTW !
your car is too mint to use through the winter,looking good mate,coilovers look nice :)
keep it up.
Lee - I aspire to be as hardcore as you mate,sams more forgiving than laura though I think mate, ps how's the thumb?
Cheers Joe,dry roads ftw indeed!
Well had a couple of miniature disasters this weekend with the car :(
The first problem was totally my fault, i've never changed a cv joint before as when i bought my shafts they had cv joints on them so i just put them on the car and used them! Upon taking my xe out of my old car the inner cv's pulled in half so i think they may have been a bit funked! So i stripped the cv's off the shafts, bought the new ones and built them up on the shafts, so i thought nice one that was quite easy really, went to fit them and realised that i had been tapping the end of the inner cv's with a hammer to get them on the shaft as they were tight on the circlip, not realising i had mullered the end so that the circlip that sits in the gearbox wouldnt sit in the recess on the shaft, DOH, and the end was mashed so wouldnt allow the cv to clip into the gearbox, what an **** :mad: So a trip to the local motor factors and some monies later i ended up with this: Sorry about the turd pics,
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10947.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10949.jpg
And the other side which was a bit awkward because its soooooo long:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10957.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10958.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10959.jpg
Some of the hammerite got knocked off them during fitting because me and lee were being clumsy but meh, i might touch them up but might not bother haha! Spent ages trying to persuade the knackered one in and in the end just gave up and bought a new one and job done :thumb:
Then onto the second disaster of the weekend :roll:
Went to fit my nice shiny new coilovers to the nova and just my luck GAZ have sent me out the wrong top mounts which dont have a chance of fitting on the car! I know that to get full adjustment you have to have about 3mm machined off the topmount so that you can use opposite holes on the mount, but the actual holes on the topmount GAZ have supplied are too far apart! Upon measuring from dead centre off opposite holes on the topmount they are 120mm apart wereas the nova strut top holes (from dead centre) are 110mm apart so they no were near line up :cry: Looks like a phone call to GAZ is on the cards tommorow and see if they will change them for me, no idea what the topmounts are supposed to be for! I did wonder though as they sent them out with 3 bolts and i thought that was odd!
After that little problem i then thought that i would move on to trying to fit the rears, dreading this as i thought clearance would be an apbsolute nightmare after the luck i have had with the front, me and lee offered them up and this was the end result!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10980.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10981.jpg
Clearance on the arch and the tyre is looking good: The edge looks jagged on the above pics but its sharpie pen that i've not cleaned off yet, i've done quite a neat job if i do say so myself!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...SDC10968-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...SDC10966-1.jpg
And then a couple with the wheel on the car, (that isnt the actual ride height with them on, the car is still jacked up in the air in these pictures):
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10964.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10965.jpg
Had to trim the rear arch lips slightly when i lowered the car down off the jack. In typical nova fashion, one side had quite a lot of clearance and the other side had bugger all, so just carefully masked up the arch and drew on with a sharpie were to trim too and very carefully shaved a bit off, then resealed the bare metal with hammerite for now! I need to go back into one of the arches though as i found some rust :eek: Arch to tyre clearance is quite adequate now though!
Also this weekend made up a cardboard template for a scuttle cover for the car, (cheers Graham for letting me draw around yours), so updates will follow shortly on that :thumb:
Big thanks to Lee H this weekend as we have spent a couple of late nights on the car and he's been a massiv help, cheers bud :cool:
Thats it for updates now folks, enjoy!
i love mk1's but mainly this one its one of the best i have seen mate, keep upthe good work
Cheers nova josh :)
You will normally find on the inner arch that there much closer when the rear beam is dropped, i hammered my old nova arches to clear this (not realising it would decrease as i lowered it back down) and thats when i found how rusty my inner arches were! lol
Looks good though mate, them top mounts look like there for a mk1/2 escort having 3 bolts, i did see that in the previous post but didn't comment on it.
Keep the pics coming though mate, good work.
Scott
quality project thread,
keep it up.
Edd.
Scott - cheers dude,thankfully no arch bashing was required,I wondered too but thought meh it'll be right,but no haha!
Edd - cheers buddy !
See here Escorts have 3 bolt fixing's.
http://www.mcmotorsport.co.uk/topmounts_1.htm
Scott