Liam's Nova X16XE Project

I also got some pictures of the Nova without the sideskirts (before I fitted the rear lights).

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I've also been having a think and will probably be getting the rust sorted along with repainting both rear quarters and both doors. I'm also going to fit a GSi rear spoiler, get the door handles painted red and possibly get the passenger door delocked.

When am i fitting the t1rs to these lol

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The Nova has been booked in for paint late next week.

I've already started by removing the rear spoiler and have worked out exactly what i'm having done.

Both rear quarters and doors are having the rust sorted and painted as well as hopefully rolling the arches. I'm also having the boot resprayed as you can see below as well as a GSi spoiler. The door handles are being painted red, the passenger door lock is hopefully being removed and finally I shall most likely be fitting a single Astra GTE bonnet vent on the drivers side of the bonnet above the Aero Catch.

Once it's all painted I shall then decide whether to fit a rear wiper or not as the rear end may end up looking a bit plain and bland.

Whilst it's being painted I shall also be painted the inner arches red and fitting my front and rear window surrounds. I'm also going to have a look around for a top tint windscreen which should improve the looks of the car massively.


Anyway, back to today. I took the Nova to the body shop so he (Rob) could look round it and started by removing the rear spoiler. Now, when we attached it to the boot we didn't want it coming off so we made sure to apply copius amounts of Sikaflex which wasn't such a good idea! We knew that the boot would need painting anyway so wasn't bothered about damaging the paint. I don't have any pictures of the process of removal but after a fair bit of brute force and at one paint having the spoiler bent in half it was finally removed leaving a right mess.

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After a long while of scraping the sealer off with a blade and slicing my finger open we were left with this... :eek::eek:

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looks better without a spoiler.

Are the comps 14" or 15"

I like the look without the spoiler too. gsi one will work well though. Are you going for a red or black spoiler? I'd leave the rear wiper off personally.

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Cheers guys. The Comps are 15" and Simon, the spoiler will be going red.

Karl Rowntree's Nova above is where I got the idea from as it's probably one of my all time favourites (with the MO's instead of the Speedlines)

Will look really good Liam. Plans sound good!

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Originally Posted by Liam

Cheers guys. The Comps are 15" and Simon, the spoiler will be going red.

Karl Rowntree's Nova above is where I got the idea from as it's probably one of my all time favourites (with the MO's instead of the Speedlines)

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It will look spot on! Karls is my all time fave Nova! Although I've seen it many times, I've only just spotted lack of fuel cap lol!

Thanks Mark and I've just noticed the lack of fuel cap too! lol

iirc the cap is in the door shut. I quite like your car without the spoiler aswell.