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Yes, but paint it black.
would look good black
Paint the bumpers black as well.
Go away lol:pQuote:
Originally Posted by tom reid
I told you do them black/dark grey!
Much better than white.
fix your gsi bumper and have white bumpers
bog off Draper, back to black
Just a few pictures of this weekend's hard work. :thumb:
Headgasket blew and was chuffing coolant out the exhaust so off came the head.
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/71.JPG
Yep leaking in to number 4:
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Err wait a second, square inlet ports? It's a fooking 16SV head! You can see where the inlet has overlapped the square port, not good. :roll:
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Needing a new head, I bought a complete C16SE engine (yeah I know overkill lol) and nicked the head
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/74.JPG
And spent a day modifying it! Opened up the inlet and exhaust ports a little:
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Also decarbonised the valves and polished them up nice :D
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And lapped the valves so they sit nice in the head
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The head will be getting properly cleaned tomorrow and rebuilt ready for refitting. Thanks Tom Reid for your help the last few days. :thumb:
nice work fella :thumb:
Nice work Iain, cant see the pics on this pc.
I said it was hg :p
Out of interest are 16nv and c16se pistons the same? Lmao at buying a complete engine lol
Not sure on the pistons, will compare them when I next work on it. Meh at least I have some 1600 8v spares lol
Thought you didn't update this fella? lol
Nice work...
Quite a few bits you can sell off that engine, the flat fly is handy for small block 16v users, the bottom crank pully is too :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by iainel
looking good mate, you seem to have alot more problems with yours than mine and they're practically identical, exept i have interior and a crap exaust!!! Be good to see it on road again.
Mega clean head and bits ready to be built up again
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And a quick spray to make it look nice.
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/83.JPG
nice work mate you,ve done well there, keep the gsi bumper black though:thumb:
its just needs one more thing 2L power lol
Thanks. Engine is built up now and almost running, nearly back on the road!
i like how you say almost running lol
whats left to do now then mate
Theoretically nothing. lol It starts, idles and revs fine but doesn't like to sit at a given rpm. Will sort it out tomorrow morning hopefully.
hopefully.. Have confidence in yourself
looking good m8
just bought myself a white luxe pretty much identical to yours originally was, also planning to do a lot of stuff that you've done already (apart from the C16, because insurance company wont let me :()
Anyways, thats a very nice car mate, keep going! Oh and looking at your results with a spray can I now have the inspiration to sort out the few rust spots on mine.
Where did you get the paint from?
looking good mate can't beat a white nova keep up the good work
Thanks Matt, yeah you can get half decent results with a spray can and at the price you can't really complain. :) I just use white primer and glacier white paint from Halfords, although they're not the cheapest.
Thanks Lee :D I forgot to mention the engine is running again, here's how the engine bay looks now.
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/85.JPG
looking gd iain looks better in person :)
I was thinking about Halfords when writing the post. :)
Just taken a look on the Halfords site, their cans are 300 ml for ?5.49, which seems pretty good to me, as I cant find any other 300 ml cans for less, and everyone else's are about ?4.00 for 150 ml :)
Going to have to pick some of that up this week!
Looks good mate - How does that exhaust system sound?
Vaughan :)
It sounds cool mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by vaughanmc
Sporty/bassy, but not over the top :thumb: Very Nice for the money.
Looking good Iain, the new cleaned engine bits do look sweet :)
Bin those electric windows and get the innards cut out the doors ;) lol
Not updated in a while so here's a brief of what I've been up to.
Rear 3 polycarbonate windows bought and fitted.
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/86.JPG
Even got a nice PNG sticker on, yay.
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Air horns to replace the standard puny horn hanging off the gearbox
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Next up, a new steering rack. Used the chance to get some poly rack mounts from Flo-flex too
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Roof lining came out, hoped it'd save more than 2kg but oh well!
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New bearings required, so used the chance to paint some hubs up nicely
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Compared to the old one, eurgh!
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On they go
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ooooooohhh shiney
Next up, I sorted the problem I had on the way home from the Jamsport rolling road day, where the alternator tensioner bolt had snapped off in the inlet. Used my spare inlet to strip down
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/97.JPG
And painted it up black
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Stripped the bits off the old one and fitted it all
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One problem was that a coolant hose was too short, so I extended it with copper tube
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Finished, black looks way better than the original!
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Finally, the big update: Roll cage!
In the garage
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Some preparation for the feet spreader plates
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Tagged to the shell in another 6 places too! Windscreen bar, top of B pillars and on the front legs above the doors
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At home and painted up
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i bet your window screen is still smeared tho lol
top bombing you raging queer!
I must ROFL @ your school boy error though :D
Yes it is. lol
Thanks to Tom Reid for welding in the rollcage!
where the 'other' pic - the one of your welding ??
looking gd what are the revolutions for?
Shh.Quote:
Originally Posted by draper
Revolutions? Eh?