Nice work Ade! how did you attached the outerwing to the inner wing?
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Nice work Ade! how did you attached the outerwing to the inner wing?
outer wing is secured with bolts - 8 along the top, one on the bottom under the door, 2 inside in the footwell to pull the wing edge in (along the door edge) and 2 at the front to join to the slam panel at the front. before fitting I applied a nice bead of seam sealer all along the jpins to keep the water out!
Awesome mate! Don't let it die :) You remind me of me before the weight of thr world crushed my spirit and enthusiasm lol
ok i feel stupid, i ment the rear arches . . . how did you attache the outer panel with the inner panel? it seems so hard to use a migwelder . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by ade
I didnt weld the outer to the inner. I simply filled the gap with a decent seam sealer (greystripe). Both inner parts were etch primed beforehand and a good amount of chassis paint "poured" down the gaps to ensure its all sealed!
Inner arch was then sealed fully, chassis blacked and Sunday I'll be shutzing it all...missus permitting...
lol Nice one Ade, cracking progress mate
You didnt weld the inner and outer arches together? those spotwelds do provide a good bit of strength and rigidity to the car mate, you should drill holes and spotweld through them to tie it all together. How's the car going now? back in use as the daily driver?
aye back in use - tbh I'll prob plug weld them however been advised that using a decent joint sealer (I used liquid weld) is just as effective as welding summut like arches. theres not that much force running through them and the very slight movement is catered for in the flexibility of the sealant I used
However see below re future plans...
Sunday 27/07/2008
Gave the car a ruddy good clean inside and out today, fixed my speakers (werent working properly) after dissassembly the other week and cleaned the underside of my bonnet which was black with sh1te.
Also chassis blacked the rear arch ready for shutzing.
I'd stared to notice a strange whistling sound coning from my engine over the last week and traced it to somewhere around the alternator... a problem was a brewing...
Also took the time to make up highly accurate illustrations of the rear graphics (Nova 1.3SR) as well as take a trace of the Vauxhall Square badge off the front.
Nicee
Monday 28/07/2008
Went out to car this morning to discover battery totally flat so had to use the wifes Tonka Truck to get to work.
GRRR.
Thought about it at work and decided the alternator is probably shagged. Noticed over the last coupld of weeks the car really struggles to turn over 1st thing. Initially I thought it was the starter motor however a noise stared to appear - sort of a squealing nsound (like when the beslt slips) but not like that - more a repetative whistle.
Anyway - flat battery lead me down the alternatoir not working properly so I whipped it out this evening and stuck in a replacement one I had. Heavy duty GSi number too. Stuck my battery on charge for an hour or so during the change over and when I dropped it back in and tuurned the key it fired up instantly - no struggling or anything!
I'll see what its like tomorrow. Went round the rest of the car checking the earth cables - all fine.
Anyway - I mentioned I'd drawn some scaled pics of the rear boot graphics for the SR.
Heres massively scaled down version - Note the black is purely a fill colour.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/novaweb.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/vauxweb.jpg
I've made a full panel inc the wiper hole (although this is smaller than actual to allow for positioning). the panel is complete with sections that wrap under the window and spoiler wrap. I'll be sending it off some time this week...
I've decided that once I get the other rear 1/4 panel welded up and fixed up a couple of other rust spots (nothing major just a few here and there on the body that need attention) I'm going to get the whole body resprayed. Sticking with Glacier white but a full respray will freshen it up totally - as well as make all the panels match! I'll get the bompers shot too in the original colour - the front one has several marke on it showing the original orange mold underneath!
Although my spray can jobs on the arches and rear look good theres a clear colour difference. I'm wondering if the cars not had a respray once before because the white is definately different. Theres more yellow in the panels I did as opposed to the original - could be age but white doesnt tend to fade...
Anyway - heres a couple of pics of the car all polished up. I've shopped it a adding full vynal on the bottoms and chaning my wheels so show them sprayed anthracite with silver rims.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/test003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/test002.jpg
I'll be getting the underside sealed up (with shutz) as well so I'll post prices later this week after I've spoken to the shop.
Nice one mate, so she'll be at the meet ?
yes - but with most of the vynal missing and the wheels as standard...
Why worry mate :)
Its another Nova all the same
Loving this thread mate, replacing the front panel etc interests me.
It shouldn't take too much effort to get it to look like your photoshop!
Looks good mate, so are you gonna go diy again or get the car professionally painted up? looks like a nice little car on the whole but i reckon it might look good lowered? is everything else standard?
will get it professionally sprayed this time - theres a good body shop in my village (along with a sports car restorer - how random!) - he was supposed to come round this wevening to assess it but hes one of the village part time firemen so didnt show unfortunately (said he might not).
The cars totally standard except for the exhaust which I think is a performance system - not sure though - backbox isnt standard I knoe that - although I did get another "standard" brand new exhaust thrown in when I bought it.
At the moment I'm leaving the ride height as it is - the insurance is nice and cheap (£180 with zero no claims bonus and 8k limited mileage!). I think I'll wait a year before lowering it - although I am tempted to stick my weber on it!
looking good mate:thumb:
good work mate nice to see its nearly done!!
Monday 04/08/2008
Bought myself a set of GSi discs and pads and some dot4 from the lovely halfords tonight - including a can of white primer, 3 cans of glacier white (for rear arch) and a poliching cloth spent over £100!
hate that place!
lol Nice work mate
Will she make the meet :)
yeah - will be there no probs.
Tuesday 05/08/2008
Removed the rear drums today to replace the bearings. had a lovely HUMMMMMMMMM coming from one of the sides - couldnt work out which so decided to replace them both. Theyre currently at a local engineering works waiting to get the bearing races driven out and new ones fitted.
Gonna remove the side vynal on the passenger side shortly ready for replacing the rear arch this weekend. Was gonna do it today but the missus convinced me to do it at the weekend - plus she wouldnt let me use the other car coz it's gonna be back off the road for a few days whilst I weld the arch.
typical...
looking good fella , you need a halfords trade card mate , makes a massive difference lol
I iz in da tradz clubz init.
lol Good work Ade
Will be good to see it at the meet :)
Tuesday 05/08/2008
Rear bearings all done today. Local engineering company by me replaced the inner bearing races (the sleeves that hold them in place) for £18 all in which I'm v pleased about. Didnt trust myself to do it properly.
Gave the hubs a wee freshen up (etch primered and will eventually paint them black) then fitted the bearings - one of the easiest jobs to do. Just need to make sure you dont overtighten the last nut to the washer can still move about enough without being loose.
Took her for a test drive and not a simngle annoying HUMMMMMMM to be heard!
Next job is to replace the passenger rear 1/4 panel - this weekends game...
Nice one mate - I'm looking forward to some WIP pics :)
was gonna do some pics for the bearings but tbh its so straight forward I may as well just post up the Haynes section on it...
lol
Almost finished the vynal - will post the full set scales down once done. I'd actually finished it earlier (was working on rear 1/4 vynal) but my PC decided to reboot midway through and the file corrupted with the work I'd done!
GRRR
Good progress, i shall be watching this thread as i mentioned before, nice to see somone elses nova with the same rot and is doing the same work as i will.
Saturday and Sunday 9th and 10th August.
The missus allowed me to repear my rear passenger arch this weekend - I had promised it wouldn't take more than 2 days - FAIL!
Looks like I'm using the 4x4 to get to work the next day or 2
I spent Friday evening removing the vynal and getting some horrible shutz crud off a repair patch that'd been welded in the bottom arch corner. Got her in the garage, part of the rear trim removed for panel access and on jacks ready for the morning.
Sarutrday 09/08/2008
The actual outer skin wasnt too bad but I knew from feeling under the lip that the inner arch weas shot. Plus theres this patch in the corner -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0002-3.jpg
I didnt want to take much metal off as the outer skin wasnt too bad so I cleaned off the paint and parked out my cut line -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0004-5.jpg
Here's the mess behind that corner piece - I'll need to do some inner repair work I think -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0007-3.jpg
I then cut the outer skin off (after drilling out the spot welds). As predicted the inner arch was shagged.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0008-3.jpg
I then cut this off level with the outer skin.
I then offered up the new outer skin panel and from the inside arch drew on the back of it folowing the line I'd cut. I then cut this out and offered the new cut panel to the car -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0003-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0017-3.jpg
I now needed to rebuild the inner arch. This was a bit more work than the drivers side as the bottom edge was missing. I started by using another outer skin and cutting and chaping it to fit snuggly to the inside of my other panel that makes my outer replacement skin. This was then offered up in sections and welded in place to the inner arch edge -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0012-4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0013-3.jpg
continued...
Nice progress Ade :)
continued...
Sunday 10/08/2008
Finished off the inner arch - had to repair the bottom corner as it was missing or rotten - this included som of the inner structure...in progress -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0011-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0014-3.jpg
I then started to weld up the outer skin - this was a nightmare. For whever reason my welder just wouldnt weld properly or summut would go wrong! The weld just wouldnt flor - it was like a bad earth - odd thing was when I moved to the inner arch for test it the weld was fine?!?
:mad:
Then it went really bad - started by welding the wire to the bit - tried to remove the bit after freeing the wire and it jammed. Used mole grips to remove the bit and the thread snapped in the end of the gun!!!
:eek:
Had to drill the fecker out.
Lost an hour ar$ing about and finally started again but for whatever reason the weld just wouldnt flow - then after another hour messing about (and running out of gas!) it started to weld properly. By this time though I'd managed to get a coupld or warped spots in the panel!
Anyway - they werent too bad and I'd have to skim the skin anyway so with a careful bit of doly work I'd be able to lower the high points and smooth it out...
Outer arch "mess" - (looks worse than it is)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0020-4.jpg
I then drilled holes in the arch lip to plug weld the inner and outer skins together.
Ground these back and then gave it a coat of etch primer -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0021-4.jpg
you can see the ripples in the panel!
Once this cured I gave the inside arch a good wad of seal sealer making sure the inner arch, inside the car and in the cavity areas was well packed.
I then gave the outer skin a skim of filler. This was sanded back. By now it was 10pm and I'd been on the go since 7am and feeling a tad tired.
I applied a final layer of filler to level it off completely ready for final sanding Monday morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0023-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DSCF0026-3.jpg
I'm working 12-8 tomorrow and will sand flat tomorrow morning and apply a final layer of cellulose stopper. Then in the evening I'll sand this back and prime it ready for final sanding and top coat Tuesday morning (Hopefully!)
lol
I'm hopeful this is the last of the big welding jobs I need to do. Although I've not checked under the passenger carpet yet...
More quality work Ade :)
So she'l be at the meet for definate ?
:thumb: works looking good mate. Top job
Vaughan - yes she'll be there - need to de vynal and doors though as she looks odd with just the doors in vynal!
Nice one mate - Will be awsome to see it all tidied up
Looked good at PVS though
Lovely bit of work as per usual mate, nothings easy though hey. looks nice though and fair play for keeping at it, might have found myself another nova today too, should be concentrating on my project but found an A reg brown SR with a snowplow front end.
cool - A reBrown nova with a snowplough front end? The reason I got into Novas in the 1st place was due to a brown a reg nova hatch with a snowplough nose! Went out with a lass at Uni for over 2 yrs and she had the exact same Nova! brings back amazing memories! - especially the one when some bint reversed her fiesta into us at a junction aftrer hitting the wrong gear and the snowplough totally wrecked the back of her car! Caved the boot in but did feck all to the Nova!
I think the reg was A113 NHG?
Monday 11th/Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th August.
Been working back shift this week (12-8) so been getting up early to work on the arch, then coming in after shift and doing more work - totally shattered!
Anyway - over the last few days (for a couple of hours a night) managed to smooth the filler down and applied a nice even layer of cellulose stopped.
The next day this was sanded smooth and touched up - with it being further sanded down once cured using 400 grit wet n dry (dry).
I then sprayed the whole panel with etch primer. This was then flatted back with 800 grit and a layer of filler primer was applied to remove any blemishes -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/primer2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/primer1.jpg
This was flatted back the next day (Tuesday) and a final topcoat of white primer was appied ready for painting that evening -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/primer3.jpg
I've been spraying the panels I've been replacing with Halfords Glacier White paint and have been fairly happy with the job to date - It's not perfect but then it doesnt matter because I intend to get the exterior of the car resprayed anyway. however this last wing was an absolute balls up when I came to spray the top coat on that evening.
I managed to flat the final white layer back fine - used 800 grit applied wet with soapy hot water and it was a really good finish. I dried it off using a heater to get the panel nice and warm and degreased it fully.
I shook my 3 cans well and as always sat them in very warm water the loosen the paint up to make it flow better.
But when I can to spray it I swear the 1st can was filled with water! The minute the paint touched the panel it was like the panel was soaking wet! beads of water appeared on the panel and ruined the job!
I stopped and checked the panel thinking condensation but it was dry on the arreas I'd yet to spray?!?
Anyway - after getting annoyed I waited for the paint to flash over and then used a heat gun to finish it off - wet sanded it back and started again.
the second can wasnt wet but for whatever reason the paint went on like a fecking zebra! It's supposed to be white so why do I have grey streaks in it!
AHHHHH!
Let it flash over than turned to the final can which I'm pleased to say was fine - however although it covered the panel I can still see the zebra stripes through it when you look at a certain angle.
Oh well feck all I can do about it - the main thing is the rear panel is finished and until I check under the passenger side carpet so's all my main welding jobs! the arch is all sealed up and the inner arch is chassis blacked for protection until I can shutz it.
This morning I reassembled the car and after finishing off a bit of chassis black (which I got all in my hair and on my right ear!) she went back to being my daily runner...
much to my wifes delight!
Ended up having to T-Cut my head to get the fecking paint out of my hair though!