Wow the finish on some of those parts is beautiful! Shows time and effort has been put into them! Looking really good mate keep up the good work!
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Wow the finish on some of those parts is beautiful! Shows time and effort has been put into them! Looking really good mate keep up the good work!
thanks mate i appreciate your comment thank you
Not a problem, Nice to see the effort. Also nice to see a standard car. Been so long since Iv seen a nova with anything other than a c20xe...or did they come standerdlolQuote:
Originally Posted by G-nova
lol seems to be the case now, although i still meet people who are shocked to hear people are putting red tops in nova's lol lol
just had a look through mate, looking good especially all the painted parts. keep it simple, maybe throw a 1300 SR engine in for a bit more poke but keep away from XEs and the like :thumb:
Nice work mate, always nice to see another old Nova being saved.
hi, been busy working on the nova today - some progress pics...
This is not finished yet...
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Painted the camshaft caseing with high temp paint and im not happy with the matt finish. While i was fitting the cam i got oil on it and when i tryed to wipe it off with panel wipe it took the paint straight off!! So i will be re-doing it all in red hammerite smooth.
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Brake servo cleaned up...
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Parts waiting to be fitted
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Now the real work carried out today...
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I remembered to remove the radiator bracket from the N/S headlight panal as my replacement dosent have one on.
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thought i would place the replacement panal's on the car to see what it would look like...
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still need to claen up the whole area and take to bare - where is to be welded.
nice work mate loving the project, how did you get such a good finish on the red bits the gearbox looks top :)
gave them a real good clean up and then used hammerite smooth areosol its £10 a tin like!!! Its quite thin so takes a few nice even coats leaving a good half hour between coats for the best finish. Thanks for the good comments mate.