I love this car. really deserves a feature in Total vauxhall IMO.
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I love this car. really deserves a feature in Total vauxhall IMO.
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Originally Posted by craig green
no pics!?
Nice One!
Its Not Over The Top And It Looks Gorgeous.
Your Buckets Are Nice Too.
Some People Have Told Me Not To Bother But I Want Some !!
2year old thread! How did you even find it?
awsome nova:thumb:
glad someone knocked this thread back up. now know who im buying some bits off. name to a face (car) and that. get some pics of it up, 2 years on.
^^^ aye, it is a cracking car! Let's have some pics and an update please Rich!
Almost 2 year ago, christ !!
Updates ? ... pretty much just giving it a thrashing !!
Competed in a couple of Sprints with a local motorclub earlier on in the year, ended up with a few bumps and scrapes after hitting the tyre wall, not to bad tho.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00037.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...DSC00105-1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00174.jpg
Only other changes were some Polycarb windows and some 3" Sabelt harnesses.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00204.jpg
Was supposed to be n Total Vauxhalls Aniversary Nova stand thingy at PVS but it melted a piston on the way down - about 30 mins away !!
AA took it home and its sat in my garage ever since !!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00219.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00226.jpg
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00232.jpg
Sourced another engine for it, just a std one with about 90k miles, started to strip it, fitted a new front panel due to the old one having a couple of cracks where the IC mounts, tidy'd up the engine bay abit, then decided to 'freshen' everything else up on it.
All the running gear / brakes were removed / blast cleaned / repainted / re-assembled, new ball joints, front dampers rebuilt, re-undersealed the new front panel / arches / floor pan, fitted another set of ultra-sonicly cleaned injectors and a new Bosch 044 pump just incase those caused it to melt !
The cars still sat in the garage with the rear beam / fuel tank off, just needing to underseal the rear 1/2 of the floor pan & arches, clean the beam and tank up, bumpers are away getting painted, still need to get the tailgate re-painted after the tyre wall incident, then it should be all sorted.
Then its going up for sale !!!
Few other pics ...
Trax 07
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/Traxpic1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/Traxpic5.jpg
Total Vauxhall Nova Thrash @ Bruntingthorpe
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...DSC00119-1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/P1000537.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00629.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00115.jpg
Ready for a 12 car rally last december ... ended up in the hedge, not much damage tho.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...DSC00052-1.jpg
Crail / Pod
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../DSC00033-.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00083.jpg
Thats about it really !!
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you were at crail? You'd have driven past my house to get there! Did you head up just for the that? Vaux/mag day? Good to see it getting driven to it's limits (and possibly a bit further lol!)
Nah wasn't at the Vaux day, was up there a few times at the start of the year tho, March / April ??
Been up a few times to run it up the 1/4 mile, bit of a trek like (about 370 mile round trip) but its good fun.
It was built to be thrashed ... no fun in polishing it all day !!
Why you going to Sell it Rich? You leaving the Nova scene for a while/for good? Or planning on building another? Or something different?
Keith
Good to hear it gets a hammering, even if it did get a few scars in the process.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...f/DSC00230.jpg
FOOOK, how high lol
Snap of the GTE he's recently got. Soon to be a grass-tracker I think...
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...8082008149.jpg
Just sick of spending loads of £££ on it, i'm wanting to buy a house so keeping the Nova on the road isn't an ideal way to save money really, should get a 1/2 decent price for it tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by krobinson
As Matt posted, i bought that GTE (got an XE in it) the other month for next to nowt so gonna turn it in to a Grass tracker (Class 6), should be able to get it all sorted ready to run for not a lotof money, plus the local club track is only about 15 mile from my house, costs about £40 a year for a licence ad about £9 to enter each event ... bargain if you ask me !!
Still like 1/4 mile racing so i'm thinking of getting a cheap Nitrous kit for it and taing it up to Crail now and again, 450 - 500kg car with an XE and Nitrous ... should be good !!
Slighty better pic of the GTE
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...DSC00014-1.jpg
Quality mate, i like to see its getting some abuse!
Id hate to have to part with it!
Liking the rims :cool:
awsome car chris goodluck with the sale...
Sell me one of those rims Rich!!!
Sweet job, just recently got my Sri back on the road after a year of renovation, think it would take me another 10 to make it look as good as yours!
Haha, nah their the best thing about the car, it'd be ****e without them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
This is an absolutely mint project!!
The inside of the arches make my mouth water lol