Nova 1.0l Project

Loving the car lad.. How do you get the indicators clear

cheers dave and yes mine is an oval bud hence why mine wont clear the axle. will need to see about getting that fixed. cheers

and jeff93 there clear rear lights customised with red spray tint

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Originally Posted by Jeff93

Loving the car lad.. How do you get the indicators clear

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Yupp as Craig said, their fully clear lights tinted red, however make sure you get some with white reflectors in, so when you tint them a red reflector shines to the rear :d

anymore plans for this dave?

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Originally Posted by moffat

anymore plans for this dave?

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Planning on whipping the wheels off once it goes away for the winter to re-furb them, also looking out for an engine to rebuild and plonk in her, mabey a 1.6 :d

I quite fancy a GSI interior aswell, but would need to be a full one, dash seats uncut cards etc, but i havent got the money atm :(

nice mate. im doing another gsi replica with my silk violet one full interior etc and sofstars.

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Originally Posted by xXx_Nova_xXx

Planning on whipping the wheels off once it goes away for the winter to re-furb them, also looking out for an engine to rebuild and plonk in her, mabey a 1.6 :d

I quite fancy a GSI interior aswell, but would need to be a full one, dash seats uncut cards etc, but i havent got the money atm :(

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was just gonna say nice car mate think you should but gsi interior in :thumb: if i can have + rep

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Originally Posted by Jack

Who gives a toss, you're not going to be driving it on the road lol

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Wrongg! :D

As most of you know i passed my test on Octorer 7th, and nearly every day ive been out in the ol' Nova, the buzz still ahsnt worn off yet, but petrols bloody expensive! lol

Anyways, heres some upsates in no particular order, i was long overdue some money off a mate who i used to work with, it didnt look like i was going to get the money, so instead i asked him to re-furb my wheels and we'll call it quits

When i got them wayyy back in 20, they looked like this, with horrible paint as the laquer decided it didnt want to stay attached during a jet wash one weekend

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...C00085-1-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...DSC00087-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...DSC00088-2.jpg

All 4 where like this all the way round

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...C00089-1-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...C00090-1-1.jpg

And each wheel ahd 1 or two of these on it (no pics of the huge chunk i took out of the n/s/f one the other day after scrubbing up against a kerb at 40mph lol

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...C00091-1-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...C00092-1-1.jpg

And this is them now, not put them back on eyt as the 2 front tyres need replacing, but funds are low

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03170.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03171.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03172.jpg

And now they all look as good as new, 360 degree round :thumb:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03173.jpg

They look really good now

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Originally Posted by Graeme

They look really good now

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Yeah they do look rather tasty.

Any chance your mate wants to refurb 9 rims for me lol lol

Then a mate of mine Dale said he had a digi dash in his shed i could have, so he brought it round, it was worse than i expected, no loom, no clear screen, no bulbs, only good thing was it had the transducer

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03177.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03178.jpg

I then remembered around 2 years ago when i put my digi clocks in my Nova, i got a spare loom from a mk1 nova in my scrappy at the time, after ripping the shed, garagem and my bedroom apart, i finally found it under my bed

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03179.jpg

Checked for all the needed wires, they were all there, RESULT! all that was needed now were a clear plastic front and bulbs

Managed to find 4 of my spare lower indicator/handbrake bulbs, dont ask me how, i just came across them in the boot of my model sierra cosworth lol

Then i remembered their was a complete Mk2 Astra in my local scrappy, so went up late one evening, destroyed the dashboard lol, and managed to remove the clocks with noting more than a flatblade screwdriver, took it home, slowly prised the clear front off the poverty clocks, tried it on the digi's and the hole was in the wrong place, crap! so made the hole larger, hey presto, glued on, doesnt look too bad

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03181.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03182.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03183.jpg

Yeah the hole looks abit bodged, but considering ive now got a full digi dash setup for FREE, im not moaning, ill keep it as my spare

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Originally Posted by Mike

Yeah they do look rather tasty.

Any chance your mate wants to refurb 9 rims for me lol lol

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Mabey, hes desperate for money atm, what ones Mike? :thumb:

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Originally Posted by xXx_Nova_xXx

Mabey, hes desperate for money atm, what ones Mike? :thumb:

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9 Cromodora's lol

Also got 4 TH's & 4 RFX's I could chuck in lol

And a pic of it getting used and abused in the snow and ice

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...DSC03154-1.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...DSC03153-1.jpg

And this is how it sits now, on my old steelies form the Corsa as they all have nice legal tyres on them (Yes Graeme, your wheels you gave me all them months ago :thumb:) Looks quite cool i reckon

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03169.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03175.jpg

But managed to get some trims form my scrappy off the Astra Mk2 which are retro as funk! looks pretty cool with them on aswell, but one keeps on falling off so their in the boot for the time being

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...DSC03168-1.jpg

so 17 alloy wheels to refurb? lol

He'll want about £400 to do them all, repaired, painted and laquered, Any colour you want, oven baked etc, all done properly

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Originally Posted by xXx_Nova_xXx

so 17 alloy wheels to refurb? lol

He'll want about £400 to do them all, repaired, painted and laquered, Any colour you want, oven baked etc, all done properly

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Aye, ive got a few sets lol TBH only one needs repairing where theres a £1 coin sized lump out of a spoke. The rest are fine but I CBA to take them all to be shot blasted & then take them all to the powdercoaters :S

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Originally Posted by Mike

Aye, ive got a few sets lol TBH only one needs repairing where theres a £1 coin sized lump out of a spoke. The rest are fine but I CBA to take them all to be shot blasted & then take them all to the powdercoaters :S

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Well all he did with mine was sand them down, sort out any inperfections, might look liek theirs none but even hairline scratches he gets rid of, he takes ALOT of pride in his work

Get me a pic of the spoke Mike, ill see if he can repair it for you? :thumb:

Will do when its light (tomorrow)

Well finally managed to get my **** into gear and replace my speakers in my dash

This is what the old one looked like, replaced it afew years abck with a mk2 astra one, however it was well and truley ripped apart

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03176.jpg

So took a trip to my locall scrappy and found these items out of an Escor ti think, after an hour or so and pushing and pulling the dashboard (and is till dont know how i managed to do it) they fitted...JUST!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03189.jpg

As you can see... VERY tight squeeze, had to ahck away alot of the dash behind to make them fit, but still blows air out of all the vents etc as i didnt want to bodge them in but have no de-mister

With the covers on looks spot on

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03190.jpg

And my baby finally clocked 50,000 miles! :thumb:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03192.jpg

And in a drunken prank, some mates painted my spare wheel trims some.... interesting colours.... and then stuck them on my car, i didnt realise untill id got home, i wondered why so many people were laughing at me lol

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03193.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03194.jpg

Ill remove them tomorrow... if i can be arsed lol

i like them lol

I also like the wheel trims lol

Dave I've posted the sender so you'll receive it tomorrow mate :)

Love this car btw and all the effort you've put into this should be a good influence on why people own Novas, nice one Dave :thumb:

wheel trims look really good fella lol

wheel trims are mint i gotta get myself a set of them
lol

ohh my lol the wheels trims look abit gay lol no wonder why people were laughing!!

Took the gay ass trims off lol, replaced them with my Belmont SRI ones :thumb:

Looks retro as fook!!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03195.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03196.jpg

Finished this last night as mine has a crap connection, horn push, however i painted the ring silver to keep in theme with the dashboard

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03203.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03202.jpg

Currently have a primer grey one on and its getting abit grubby/black, so this should look quite smart :thumb:

That looks pretty good mate, liking the silver


iain

Just found yet another horn push from when i used to colelct them lol, and also an opel badge that i got given a while ago off a Opel Corsa A GSI from someone off here

Painted the ring grey aswell to compliment the interior, and its Opelized!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03208.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03209.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03210.jpg

Not too sure on what one to sue yet, as it would bean putting opel badges on the wheels etc

Did the petrol sender work Dave?

Not got it in yet Dave, not been able to get out of my estate since Friday lol, i get paid wednesday anyway so ill paypal the money over then as it looks 99.9% the same :thumb:

Well as most of you know i tried to get hi-jacked afew days ago, heres the thread to save me typing it all out again

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=161775

Basically heres the damage caused

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03231.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03232.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03233.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03234.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03237.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03235.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03236.jpg

I wasnt going to elt it get me down and cracked on with the work

Pulled the damage out of the rear 1/4, was back in an inch or so

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03238.jpg

Old door off

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03239.jpg

New door on

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03240.jpg

Took back the really damaged areas back to bare emtal

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03241.jpg

Skimmed it with filler

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03242.jpg

The green door ive got had been filled quite badly before and painted poorly, so we gave the whole door a skim of filler jsut to make it perfect, looks like alot but msot of this will be sanded off

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h8...x/DSC03243.jpg

More updates tomorrow, got to get her back on the road asap, keep the smile on my face chaps :thumb:

What are you doing with the boot floor?

Good work for cracking on fixing it by the way :)

can you not claim some sort of compo off the offending parties?

Dave youre a little fooking hero, you really are, good skills for saving your baby and im soooo glad she is repairable, i didnt comment on your facetube at first as after reading what youd written i feared the worst:cry:

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Originally Posted by Iain

What are you doing with the boot floor?

Good work for cracking on fixing it by the way :)

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The majority of it pulled straight when we pulled it with the jig, was really easy to do, may need a small skim just to level the hammer rash out of it if need be

nice one for sorting it so quickly

surely you can claim for this tho ?

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Originally Posted by Edd

nice one for sorting it so quickly

surely you can claim for this tho ?

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Cheers dude :thumb:

99.9% probabley not, because he is "Not of sound mind and fitness" he cannot be interviewed and thus cannot be charged, it sjsut like being drunk, but they never sobre up, same thing, so no interview can be done and no charges pressed, its a joke

I am going t try and sue the home he escaped from or was let out of for the damage caused to my car and for injuries to msyelf, slim chance but worth a try :thumb: