Alan's GSi project

Mental!! :)

some more,

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Can't but applaud the workmanship

The work gone into this really is amazing, very impressed!

well done mate
keep up the good work
what ever you are paying for the welding work
its worth it
he's doing a fine job

Ouch thats a tonne of welding going on there! great to see it saved, maybe more people will get the welder out rather than buying another shell because the arches have started rusting! lol

Personally i'd keep the std engine, seems weird to restore a gsi to that extent and then put in a redtop.
Top work though and good on you and your welder for not giving up with it :thumb:

Thats epic! I will never again scrap a nova cos of the rust!

+Rep!

thanks for the replies guys

got the car back on sunday :D unfortunately it has just had to be covered up and left in the drive for now until i can clear the garage of some other work!

got some more pics i will put up later too :)


Alan

Where abouts are you from mate?

Well done again on the re-build.

Scott

Your a credit to the quest for perfection, pat your self and your welding friend on the back. Thumbs up and top marks, look forward to the end results

thanks sparkie

scott, i'm from east kilbride, just outside glasgow....

ok more pictures.....believe it or not it got worse!! simon said if he had seen this bit at the start he would have probably told me it wasn't worth fixing :eek:
but having gone this far no point in not giving it a go!!

its where the rear axle attaches onto the chassis, we reckon this was mainly due to trapped water behind some black gunk put on the car from a previous repair then the car sitting idle in my garage for a year and a half

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Holey moley indeed!!! lol

Didn't know you were Scottish fella

You checked out the Scotland region ?

Some awsome work going into this car

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and that all the welding pictures i have...well got a strengthening kit in too but we all know what one of those looks like!

vaughan, i messaged you a few weeks back. i've been added to the list of scottish members lol

at the very least i am over the moon with the welding thats been done, can't thank simon enough infact i'm still baffled at some of his work. how he has been able to see a shape from some of the sections he has cut out is beyond me. hopefully with these pictures i do nothing but enhance his reputation


Alan

Ahh did you mate I couldn't remember or not

Quite a lot of members in the region now

Will we be seeing this Nova out and about in 09 ?

Fingers crossed, yes. Not going to rush it though, it will be done when it's done because i want everything done proper.

Christ, she had a rotten bottie.
Hope the metal around the rear beam mount was nice and think.

makes me feel sick just looking at all that rot lol

fook............ME! lol

That was worse than i thought!

I cant believe where some of your rot was, hope you have checked all the inner rear arches mate, as my mate mikes were really bad, and missed it at first.

Scott

do you mean check them from inside the car or outside? i'm hoping that next weekend i can get it in my garage and get under it with the wire brush and get rid of all the underseal already on there.

got a hold of some galvanised paint to protect under the car :)

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do you mean check them from inside the car or outside? i'm hoping that next weekend i can get it in my garage and get under it with the wire brush and get rid of all the underseal already on there.

got a hold of some galvanised paint to protect under the car :)

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I mean in the iner arch under here, under that underseal we found lot and lots of bad rot on my mates, and we had no idea it was there.

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hope there is none though, but as yours is quite bad els where im not sure you'll be so lucky..:(

Scott

i'll give these areas extra attention then, cheers for the heads up.

i'm dying to get out and get it started!!

well done for saving the shell as Scott.Parker said check the inner arch i had a nasty shock when i checked some idiot had wanged a load of filler in mine and re-under sealed .:thumb: Keep up the good work

Wow, over a month since i last posted on this!

Well only a little bit to update, finally got the car inside at the weekend and put it up in the air on axle stands. Took the rear beam off and front struts & hubs. checked the beam for holes....none found :D Going get the beam and hubs sent off to get sandblasted sometime soon hopefully.

Checked the rear inner arches for rot with a big poking device....once again nothing found :D but to be sure i am going to set about it with a wire brush on the drill at the weekend

When the drivers footwell was being welded, a bit of the sound proofing caught fire and caused a little damage....so tonight i decided to take the dash out and investigate. Didn't get the best of starts, took the trim of the top of digi dash and it was all melted in one corner. When i took it right out, the back was enihilated along with all the inside of that part of the dash. In tradition with this car though, worse was to come....the wiring!! It's screwed basically, quite a bit of it melted in some way or another. So now looking for a new dash and interior loom :(

The joys!!


alan

good on ya buddy looks like you have your work cut out:(

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Wow, over a month since i last posted on this!

Well only a little bit to update, finally got the car inside at the weekend and put it up in the air on axle stands. Took the rear beam off and front struts & hubs. checked the beam for holes....none found :D Going get the beam and hubs sent off to get sandblasted sometime soon hopefully.

Checked the rear inner arches for rot with a big poking device....once again nothing found :D but to be sure i am going to set about it with a wire brush on the drill at the weekend

When the drivers footwell was being welded, a bit of the sound proofing caught fire and caused a little damage....so tonight i decided to take the dash out and investigate. Didn't get the best of starts, took the trim of the top of digi dash and it was all melted in one corner. When i took it right out, the back was enihilated along with all the inside of that part of the dash. In tradition with this car though, worse was to come....the wiring!! It's screwed basically, quite a bit of it melted in some way or another. So now looking for a new dash and interior loom :(

The joys!!


alan

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Deja vu lol

Mike (mikec123) had the same thing happen dude!
He was gutted (so was the dash/loom) so we whant on the look out for new parts, he's got 99% of it now i think.

Look around in the for sale section, put an ad in the wanted part too, you'll find all the bit's in time mate (with any luck)

Good luck mate.

Scott

wow was there anything holding the car together? I might need his skills soon on much less rusty shell where is the chap located?

WOW!!
you got some rot then but well done to how ever is doin the work for you

good luck :)

keep going with it mate, your luck will turn,
try emailing colin "nova rally" he might have
all the parts you need :thumb:

Is the whole loom gone? Only prob like that, if one bit goes it up it usualy takes a fook load with it!

As long as it didnt have teh battery on at the time.

thanks for the encouragment guys, atleast i'm now getting to the stage where there is nothing left that can go wrong lol

thanks for the tip 7ova, i'll give him a shout shortly...

the welder is in east kilbride, a little far from milton keynes i'm afraid


alan

Sorry to hear about the wiring and dash. I had the same problem. Keep going like you say it can't get any worse:thumb:

Just out of interest what was the chasis like around the rear spring plates?

Just had a scan through this...crikey, it was abit rotten. Fair play for sorting it, looks a good job aswell.

Bad news about the fire. Good luck with the rest of the build.

mental!!!!! so much welding going into this project it would of been so much easier to re-shell. + rep for all the quality work AMAZING cant wait to see it finished

Any updates on this mate ? :)

any updates mate???????

Ive just spotted this.

Im giving you Rep for this, some very hard work gone into it where most people on here would of scrapped it, but you saved one more nova, respect.

any progress???

This looks awsome i must say.