Swiss Trackday Nova

Glad to read more progress on these thread, i'm interested on your old stuff if you need to sell something. God luck mate!!!

I love the insanity in this. As with everyone else on here, I can't wait to see the progress as it happens. :):thumb:

After all this encouragement let the mental-ness begin.

i've been busy the last to saturdays to bring you news what happend to my sanity... eehr i mean, what happend to my Nova :d

First i removed the battery and the fuel catchtank wich were mounted in the spare tire well
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps6cbzrngy.jpg

removed the fuel tank underneath
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psaoqztoah.jpg

After that done i've started to cut away the excess metal which wont be needed in the future
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...pscl9ortna.jpg

And found a lot of rust :eek:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...pswd8disva.jpg

Luckely this had to be removed anyway
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...pssnj9tikh.jpg

after carefully leveling the chassis i could begin to place the new steal tubes
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psv6uhaerq.jpg

made a temporary reinforement to retain correct measurments while adjusting the tubes
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...pshqgdbn5z.jpg

spot welded them in and made a connection to the factory chassis leg
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psglprylv8.jpg

Removed the the rear axle. :thumb:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psllnh4xdy.jpg

That's all for the moment... to be continued.

Well that's one heck of a way of overcoming the inevitable rust areas and consigning it to the bin, it may offend the "keep it factory" purists, but its absolutely fine with me. :thumb:

Keep the madness coming, you've got my attention...

What do you Swiss people have for breakfast? I mean, to just whack out the complete rear floor section and put in a tube frame in just a day is beyond impressive. :d

It's called work ethics, i can give you the recipe :d

To be honest it's two days with approximately 12-13 hours of work. So maybe it would be possible to cram it all in one day.
But what is needed to be considered here is that i spent a lot of time on planning how to do it, which makes a huge difference
when conducting the task at hand.

Wow that looks great. Are you just replacing cause of rust? Or strength and such?

The main purpose of this is to get more space in the boot and get a new rust free base for the double wishbone suspension to build on. The original chassis legs never meant to be strong enough to cope with an engine and drivetrain, so i want the rear as rigid as possible.

Wrx Nova is underway! This build just got a lot more crazy then it already was...

To prevent you all of thinking i'm started to live a normal boring life... here are some updates lol

I've started to remove the rear panel to gain more space for the new gearbox and welded in some additional tubes to stabilize the rear.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psi3fcxncj.jpg

perfect fit :cool: the rest of the rusty parts will get removed in the future
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psdz2lsgwr.jpg

after welding and a bit of paint i could remove the temporary reinforcement
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psfbkjofos.jpg

the metal for the rear footwell was a bit floppy
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psgybi71bk.jpg

so i decided to weld in a small square metal tube.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps0b2jvmjt.jpg

Added some welding to the original chassis legs
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps3rxswpop.jpg

and made some plates to further strenghen the new chassis legs
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...pskbkixznf.jpg

All welded together and temporary painted to prevent rust...
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psqlvcdsyo.jpg

both sides of course ;)
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...psnn3vndfl.jpg

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