It's back on a dolly, uncovered and ready to roll out of storage to bring home to work on. Just need to get the S14a into a moveable state so I can get the Neva out!
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It's back on a dolly, uncovered and ready to roll out of storage to bring home to work on. Just need to get the S14a into a moveable state so I can get the Neva out!
pics or it never happened��Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Please tell me this project will be alive again, 3th time now I went to the thread lol
Project is still alive! It's now at home so there's hopefully more chance of getting time to work on it, which has happened but I've been distracted with doing some maintenance work on the M3 and then with a new purchase to replace my daily. It's also intended to replace the M3 too but I'm going to try and keep them both as long as I can!Quote:
Originally Posted by LeonStr
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But the Neva work that has happened so far...
I want to get it on the spit so I decided to lop the back end off as it was a) in the way and b) I just wasn't happy with it anyway! I've had some weld in threaded inserts made to go in some tube ends. Next step is to get those in and brackets made from there to the spit ends.
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Hopefully some little updates will happen over the summer!
Good to see your still cracking on with this
Good to see it still surviving and hopefully resume progress soon!
This thread should be in a time capsule for others to read, it will one day be history in the making...
So some progress this week which will hopefully continue! Rear bungs now in place and rear part of the spit welded and bolted in the place. The bungs will also act as a mounting point for the rear end structure of the car. Where the back currently is is where the rear screen ends, so can fit in a hatch or saloon body at this point. Fairly happy with the welding considering it has been literally years since I even tacked anything! lol
On another note, anyone know of any free image hosting sites? Photobucket has the annoying image tags on now grrr....
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Tapatalk . No messing around just go onto the png page and post your pics straight on same with all other forums you use all in one place
Great tip, thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by total_vauxhall
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Tidy welding as you've not done it in a while.
Love the rear idea, But just really happy to see you working on it.
Me too mate, me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
So much easier now it’s at home. Was nice having the old workshop but being able to just pop downstairs for 20-30mins tinker time is great. I’ve missed it.
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Best decision I made was converting the garage into a workshop so you can just nip in there and have a play!!
With the car!!!!
Mounted the front section of the spit today. Now need to tweak it slightly then raise both ends so i can get a full spin from it :)
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And it’s on!
Time to crack on.
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Excellent work!!!
Thanks House, really enjoying being back at it again :)
It's great to see it coming back to life mate.
Iain and I talked about making a budget rear wheeler just for fun.
This is going to be epic when done
Is there such a thing as a "budget" red Nova? lol I guess the money is saved in doing all your own fab work.
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Originally Posted by The Simps
So... to update on where things have progressed since August.
Part 1 of 3
There was a lot of standing around in dissatisfaction with some of the previous work I had done to the frame and I decided if I didn’t correct/change/improve it now I knew I would regret it. However, with such long term projects there has to be compromise as things are always evolving and I could just end up going around in circles! There was even a moment in October where I was considering completely starting again! [emoji85]
So I decided it would be sensible to work back to front, which started with the rear panelling. It was sloppy, rough and the recess inconsistent.
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So starting with pass side it was all chopped out and with some jiggery & spacers I piloted building a frame out of 3x10mm plate...
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Then some 1mm sheet and you get the idea...
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In order to continue this panelling two things had to happen:-
1] remove and refit better a section of tubing (angle was off by maybe 5deg compared to other side and was bugging me!)
Choppy! Choppy!
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Ah... that’s better for my brain...
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2] address the horrid bottom section of the middle panel...
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As you can see from the above pic the cross brace was removed (will be redesigned later) and the subframe mounting point tube wish trimmed, shaped and made to flow better...
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Same was repeated on the other side to match. The framing work was then completed for these 3 panels each side before making up more templates. These templates will eventually be carbon sheet not steel and bonded in (more panelling in part 3!).
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So with the panel templates ongoing, a tedious a not very exciting job, I moved on to some other parts. Firstly adding some more tubing...
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Repeat on the other side...
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Then it was back to more panel templates [emoji30]
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Including a sneaky one out of some old, crappy carbon sheet to give an idea of the intended end result (just imagine the tubing is all anthracitish)...
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Then distracted away from that again for a bit I removed the outer sill piece, trimmed up the inner section and added a length of tube. The inner section will be getting removed when I build the new, lower complete floor structure [emoji13]
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So that’s where I’m up to other than a few more panel templates and framing work. Once that’s all done I need to repeat the sill removal & tidy on pass side. Some more tubing and box has been ordered for when I rebuild the floor but I want to refit engine & box again before I go at that.
Thanks for following along. It’s been really great getting back at it again, albeit in small bursts! Then brain is filling up with ideas daily!! [emoji854]
Great to see an update on this and the panelling looks great. I think it's normal that as projects progress you'll notice things you're not happy with, but I guess you need to know what you can leave and what will always bug you.
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Exactly that! There's definitely compromise in there somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by totalnova
Glad to see you're still cracking on with this, know the stress of having to go back a correct work you previously done, have pretty much started over with mine (granted it's not as much of a project as yours is!)
Fantastic to see you working on this again.
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Thanks mate :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
Nothing spectacular, I got distracted building my xe mk1 fiesta and by the time i came back to it i wasn't happy with alot of the work I'd done. Still going for a fast road/track car but just redoing a lot of the fab work and had to build up a spare let for the time being as I want to go further with mineQuote:
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Gotcha.Quote:
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I think for me, the ever increasing supply of youtube videos on various builds has inspired.
Second that, lot of knowledge out there now especially on the fabricating side of things and generally made me more of a perfectionist than I used to be haha
Like others, I'm glad to see this is moving forward. Look forward to more updates. Do you have a link to the Fiesta build anywhere? Cheers!
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Originally Posted by nova_niek
This is epic. Me and a mate have discussed and without it sounding wrong, I've fantasised many times how i would love to build a space framed car. For me ideally a nova. I'd no idea one was in the making. I've not had a look around this forum in years.
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Just as a caveat, I have no idea if I’m doing it right! Lol I’m just sticking to the principle of triangulate and getting a professional welder to do most of the finished welding. I have no idea how this would be in a crash?? Can you be to stiff? Needs an engineers oversight/opinion really to be honest. I highly doubt this car ever sees the road!Quote:
Originally Posted by DEAN-DOHERTY
Woooooo it’s still alive
Looks great either way. A crash would be sore. No crumble zone points. Surely if built to a good standard "road legal compliant" you could go down the kit car route and have it registered and tested.
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Where are the crumple zones on a normal nova? Once you hit the chassis legs its all solid?!? Thinking about kit cars, they’re normally just all box section?? Should I be using some thinner walled tube/box on front & rear so it twists/bends easier?? [emoji2369] i dunno! [emoji23]
Don't be so negative!! Haha build it to work!! A crash should be the last thing on your mind!! Haha
Although, as I was cruising to the barrier at Cadwell I did think "hmmmmm maybe I did need that collapsible column, instead of the body stabbing bit of bar that we used"