love the look of the mk1 front end imaculate shell top quality work loving it,
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love the look of the mk1 front end imaculate shell top quality work loving it,
Shaun 4321 you have pm dude!
Cheers corsakid ;)
Little bit pf an update, not much but meh:
Seen as Christmas day has been and gone, more nova mincing was on the cards, but first of all,
Hhhhmmm what could these be:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10904.jpg
Aha, finally got them after seeing them under the tree for a good month i'm finally allowed to have them (thanks laura :d), the finish on them is awesome, and they seem to be of a real good quality!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10905.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10906.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10909.jpg
Not sure what this is though, i think I may have to take the top mount off this one and put the circlip back in, this is how it came but looking at the other strut there is supposed to be a circlip and that ring in there! Anyone any ideas?
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10912.jpg
I'm quite pleased that the eccentric topmounts have arrived black aswell, i had the idea in my head that they were going to be silver because when i ordered the coilovers the colour of the topmounts didnt even enter my head but i think the black will look good against the red engine bay!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10910.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10911.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10914.jpg
Nice little shiny adjuster!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10917.jpg
and the stig on guard!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10919.jpg
Im really excited about fitting these now, should hopefully be going on over the next couple of weeks when me and Lee H get a little bit of time, so pictures will follow when they are fitted :cool:
They look nice, looking foward to seeing them fitted.
This afternoon i managed to do a couple of hours on the car to get something done thats been bugging me for ages :tard:
A few pages back i posted up some pictures of the underneath of the car all clean and undersealed etc but hadnt done the rear beam and it looked terrible, so...........
One dirty old rear beam, not as bad as i have seen some though:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10931.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10932.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10933.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10934.jpg
It was just a bit dirty really so i gave it a bit of a clean and masked up the handbrake cable, solid brake lines and stuff and was left with this because i ran out of time!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10941.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10944.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10945.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10946.jpg
The plan is to let that dry and then do another couple of coats and go over bits i've missed etc but look smiles better already IMO!
While i was in the garage i thought i would take some pics of recently built up shafts that are now painted, and painted rear drums which looked awful before:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10935.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10939.jpg
And lastly a couple of upto date engine bay shots, i think the only addition may be the exhaust manifold heatshield that i've fitted:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10920.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10925.jpg
I desperately need to make a scuttle cover as i need to get all the sins behind there hidden haha, thats on the list of things to do though and will probably end up looking at that in the new year!
Thats it for now, enjoy :thumb:
Some tidy work there fella. Hope to see the car at some shows this year?
Nick.
Looks well fella!
Inspiring me to get in the garage tomorow and crack on!
If you need a template for a scuttle cover Andy you can use mine, I think Lee has a cardboard template or he did do a whilst back
Edit, Did the top mounts come with the shocks? Did you get them through Png?
Cheers Nick, yeah i'm hoping to attend most of the shows with it this year, the plan is to have it ready for pv really and then see what happens from there :cool:
Thanks Matt, get in there with the heater on and get going!
Graeme - Cheers dude, i think i'll take you up on that mate, pm en route :thumb: Yeah the topmounts themselves were supplied from GAZ aswell as the shocks, it came about this way because i rang GAZ first of all with the intention of me ordering top mounts from compbrake and them sending them to GAZ and they would tailor the struts to suit the mounts. After having a couple of conversations with Dave Lion i think hes called from GAZ whos really helpful, he said that they can just supply the topmounts for a similar price that compbrake would and then theres less messing involved. So they just built the struts up with the topmounts they supplied and sent it all out to me built up. I didnt order them through the club but when i rang i told them that i was a full club member and that there is a deal in place for PNG members and they said yeah thats no problem at all :cool:
Top set of people at GAz they are really helpful!
Brilliant mate, I've got a brand new set of Compbrake top mounts here and if you don't mind I'll uses your name, to get the same set up when I order mine in mid January
car looks great would always have a mk1 over a mk2 any day look loads better keep up the work.
Cheers nova josh!
Thanks graeme,yeah no worries,use my name,and speak to David lions!
very smart mate, very smart
Cheers nova lee ;)
Andy, just give me a template and i'll make you a scuttle cover. I have the sheet metal here.
Only take me 1/2 hour to do. :thumb:
Cheers rickardo,there may be a phone call coming your way tommorow mate ;)
Look at you lot copying my heavily tried and tested suspension setup!! :cry:
Get those coilovers covered in grease/wax before fitting them as within about a month you wont be able adjust them! lol
Unless you only use the car on dry roads.
Lee - I thought I'd let you do the trial and error part mate and spend all the money and then I'll just copy your awesome suspension setup haha ;)
Adam - hopefully the car will only be used in dry days but you never know so greasing up the threads is a definite must dude!
Just waiting for lee to come round and get stuck in :)
waiting for you to stop doing family stuff and get some car commitment. Was working on the MR2 on Christmas Day!Quote:
Originally Posted by andy_017
dry roads FTW !
your car is too mint to use through the winter,looking good mate,coilovers look nice :)
keep it up.
Lee - I aspire to be as hardcore as you mate,sams more forgiving than laura though I think mate, ps how's the thumb?
Cheers Joe,dry roads ftw indeed!
Well had a couple of miniature disasters this weekend with the car :(
The first problem was totally my fault, i've never changed a cv joint before as when i bought my shafts they had cv joints on them so i just put them on the car and used them! Upon taking my xe out of my old car the inner cv's pulled in half so i think they may have been a bit funked! So i stripped the cv's off the shafts, bought the new ones and built them up on the shafts, so i thought nice one that was quite easy really, went to fit them and realised that i had been tapping the end of the inner cv's with a hammer to get them on the shaft as they were tight on the circlip, not realising i had mullered the end so that the circlip that sits in the gearbox wouldnt sit in the recess on the shaft, DOH, and the end was mashed so wouldnt allow the cv to clip into the gearbox, what an **** :mad: So a trip to the local motor factors and some monies later i ended up with this: Sorry about the turd pics,
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10947.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10949.jpg
And the other side which was a bit awkward because its soooooo long:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10957.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10958.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10959.jpg
Some of the hammerite got knocked off them during fitting because me and lee were being clumsy but meh, i might touch them up but might not bother haha! Spent ages trying to persuade the knackered one in and in the end just gave up and bought a new one and job done :thumb:
Then onto the second disaster of the weekend :roll:
Went to fit my nice shiny new coilovers to the nova and just my luck GAZ have sent me out the wrong top mounts which dont have a chance of fitting on the car! I know that to get full adjustment you have to have about 3mm machined off the topmount so that you can use opposite holes on the mount, but the actual holes on the topmount GAZ have supplied are too far apart! Upon measuring from dead centre off opposite holes on the topmount they are 120mm apart wereas the nova strut top holes (from dead centre) are 110mm apart so they no were near line up :cry: Looks like a phone call to GAZ is on the cards tommorow and see if they will change them for me, no idea what the topmounts are supposed to be for! I did wonder though as they sent them out with 3 bolts and i thought that was odd!
After that little problem i then thought that i would move on to trying to fit the rears, dreading this as i thought clearance would be an apbsolute nightmare after the luck i have had with the front, me and lee offered them up and this was the end result!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10980.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10981.jpg
Clearance on the arch and the tyre is looking good: The edge looks jagged on the above pics but its sharpie pen that i've not cleaned off yet, i've done quite a neat job if i do say so myself!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...SDC10968-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...SDC10966-1.jpg
And then a couple with the wheel on the car, (that isnt the actual ride height with them on, the car is still jacked up in the air in these pictures):
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10964.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/SDC10965.jpg
Had to trim the rear arch lips slightly when i lowered the car down off the jack. In typical nova fashion, one side had quite a lot of clearance and the other side had bugger all, so just carefully masked up the arch and drew on with a sharpie were to trim too and very carefully shaved a bit off, then resealed the bare metal with hammerite for now! I need to go back into one of the arches though as i found some rust :eek: Arch to tyre clearance is quite adequate now though!
Also this weekend made up a cardboard template for a scuttle cover for the car, (cheers Graham for letting me draw around yours), so updates will follow shortly on that :thumb:
Big thanks to Lee H this weekend as we have spent a couple of late nights on the car and he's been a massiv help, cheers bud :cool:
Thats it for updates now folks, enjoy!
i love mk1's but mainly this one its one of the best i have seen mate, keep upthe good work
Cheers nova josh :)
You will normally find on the inner arch that there much closer when the rear beam is dropped, i hammered my old nova arches to clear this (not realising it would decrease as i lowered it back down) and thats when i found how rusty my inner arches were! lol
Looks good though mate, them top mounts look like there for a mk1/2 escort having 3 bolts, i did see that in the previous post but didn't comment on it.
Keep the pics coming though mate, good work.
Scott
quality project thread,
keep it up.
Edd.
Scott - cheers dude,thankfully no arch bashing was required,I wondered too but thought meh it'll be right,but no haha!
Edd - cheers buddy !
See here Escorts have 3 bolt fixing's.
http://www.mcmotorsport.co.uk/topmounts_1.htm
Scott
Wheel colour looks awesome to the red of the car/arches.
Oh dear looks like I've got mk1 escort top mounts then! Tried ringing GAZ and they're closed,will have to wait till new year now!
Benn - thanks mate,don't know how the wheels will look against the bumpers though as they are quite a different colour,I need to get the car up on the street and have a good nosy as I've only got a very narrow drive so can't get a good side profile view etc!
Would the colour be to light for the bumpers?
I think maybe too dark if anything,they might look ok though but the bumpers seem to have gone sort of yellowy colour,maybe because they're so old! Could probably do with the wheels being silver but I really like the colour they are atm!
looking good matey get some pics up when youve got them bumpers on matey!!
Cheers wudgey,not sure when they're going on yet dude but as soon as they do I'll get pictures up ;)
Any pictures of your digidash working mate ? How did you get it to go in with little/no modifications ?
Ive no got any of it working at the minute but hopefully I'll have some soon as hoping to try and start the car shortly once I've sorted the wiring,I'll post some up when I do!
It was a bit of a tight squeeze but with a little persuasion it goes in fine,you just have to be careful not to be to forceful with it!
Just in the middle of sorting out a scuttle cover aswell,pics to follow soon ;)
Don't know when I'm going to be putting mine in, hopefully soon
Came out of a Nova anyway so hopefully not be as bad
One forsale on Pistonheads with all the wiring but a bulb out for £100
You'll be fine dude,just be gentle with it and £100 sounds dear imo !