Looking mint. And even more to the point that esab looks unreal
Sent from my MAR-LX1B using Tapatalk
Printable View
Looking mint. And even more to the point that esab looks unreal
Sent from my MAR-LX1B using Tapatalk
Thats looking awesome.
Seems to be a few more Norwich based Novas making their way back to life.
Rich has his GSi running again now.
Sent from my SM-G980F using Tapatalk
Turrets got finished at the rear along with all other welding the other week
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1969093efa.jpg
I decided not to have the whole thing media blasted as I just couldn?t justify the cost right now with moving house. Plus it would of been a lot of faff putting it back on wheels to put on a trailer to then put back on the rotisserie for the blaster, then back on wheels to trailer home to only have to put back on rotisserie again! So I just spent all of last weekend taking everything back to bare metal and given it a good rough surface for keying.
Dad and I starting spraying on Monday but ran out of cans doh! So I?ve re-ordered more but in normal tins for use in a spray gun. We will be hopefully getting a couple of full coats on tomorrow. I will then start bolting parts on the weekend after giving, it a full week to cure. Car should then be ready for moving and storing at its new home without rusting away on me!
More pics tomorrow [emoji1696]
Yes!!!!
Well it is painted!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c20a4fc1ea.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b2c4130974.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2bc0c64cc6.jpg
But what a ballache it was! The stuff is pretty thick and shouldn?t have thinners added and if so, no more than 5%. Dad?s Machine Mart spray gun struggled with it. Needed a bigger nozzle size I think. We had the regulator up to 50psi just to get it out. It would spray but quite stop start so was hard to do long runs. He persisted tho and he did a pretty good job to be fair. It?s not an easy thing to clamber around!
Our make shift spray booth did ok but there was quite a bit of overspray on the frame but I?ve just buffed it with a microfibre and most has come off to a more consistent, light textured finish.
Give it a week to cure now then I?ll start putting it all back together ready for the move.
Love that, this is gonna be epic when it's done.
I'm guessing you've found somewhere to move to with a good workshop space??
Thanks House.Quote:
Originally Posted by House
Nope to the workshop.
Current digs has a single door garage but it is 1.5 garages wide inside, which is great (can probably see this from my pics). There is also a room next door to that the size of a single garage that is my tool & store room. I also have a couple of sheds for overflow crap.
New house just has a single garage.
I?m hoping that with most stuff back on the nova I can get it into the garage along with a couple of workbenches & my tool chest, but it is hopeful! Everything else will go into the two sheds I?m bringing with. Come Spring, the plan is to build a simple shed on to the back of the garage to create a tool & store room. Then further down the road as money allows and subject to being able to buy a bit of extra land from the neighbour, build a nice big double garage on the side/back of the house.
Nice result! I can imagine the trouble you face when climbing all over the bars to lay down the paint. End result is worth the effort though.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-A505FN met Tapatalk
Paint is nice and cured so re-assembly has started! Just wish it was final assembly with all clean parts [emoji57] I had considered just giving some bits a quick wire brush & hammerite but it?s just a waste of time and paint as it will be getting upgraded. So stock bits will do for now!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9118e238d6.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c1060b82b1.jpg
I approve of all of this!!!
On its wheels
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6346d22677.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9530b2fe0f.jpg
Looks so good all in one colour!
Engine, box and body up next.
That looks mint love the colour
Sent from my MAR-LX1B using Tapatalk
I think I’ve done a sex wee!!!!
Got the engine & box back in and used the new vibratechnics mounts this time, which as you know solid/poly mounts are always a pig! I have a stiff poly gearbox mount too.
The vibras have the lower stud offset so you can rotate them to adjust the engine position, which is a blessing and a curse! I?m not 100% on the engines position. The gearbox mount is a little under strain. Once I have worked out the orientation for the vibras it should be easier next time, but I am not worried about doing it at the moment. Body next!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...dd2c0a9cdb.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...131bbd5bd0.jpg
Adjusted the vibratechnics mounts today and much happier. Then the body went back on. Really needs some lows (about 40-50mm) but need it higher to get on the trailer for the move.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d91028ea27.jpg
Outstanding work fella. Know this is only a mock up but it looks almost ready to go lol
Sent from my SM-G980F using Tapatalk
Thank you. Has doors on now too! Lol
We started packing boxes this weekend and I?ve been reluctant to pack any tools away, especially the grinder! [emoji1787]
All the more impressive building this in your 'home garage'. Does look mega in mock up, it'll almost be a shame for it to look like a standard car from the outside
Gota be a meet next year so i can see all these cars in the flesh. Unreal work pal
Sent from my MAR-LX1B using Tapatalk
It does seem a shame to put a nova body on it doesnt it! [emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Thanks, appreciate itQuote:
Originally Posted by total_vauxhall
This is getting closer and closer!!!
Peeps, are nova mk1, mk2, hatch & saloon rear lights all the same? Can?t find mine so need to source replacements with fixings, bulb holders etc.
Got a set of Hatch ones you can try.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Sent from my SM-G980F using Tapatalk
That would be super!Quote:
Originally Posted by NovalutionGSi
So I have been bolting parts on the car getting ready for the house move in a week or so time. It has started to get me to think more around the final look of the body work and I would love some input.
Here is the car at the moment
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fbc4ca8c74.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8196b391d7.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...aa163cbc47.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a6d279589a.jpg
Well mate, those rear lights look the best bit.. [emoji108] [emoji1787][emoji1787]
But that 1st picture, this is going to be some animal on track or road. A menacing sight.
Certainly will need a wide arch kit or flaring of the standard arches. In fact, to me, I'd try to make it look as standard as possible, taking the arches out as subtly as possible but still making it so the wheels tuck under.
I think it looks awesome. [emoji106]
Sent from my SM-G980F using Tapatalk
A few notes:
The car is going to be coming down another c50mm in the front and 40mm in the back. It will have a slight rake to it.
I?m planning on changing up the wheels to run a 16x7 in the front (with smaller diameter than stock 200sx size) and a 17x8 in the rear. These wheels will be as higher offset as I can to tuck into the body but they will still poke. Thinking these in black (planning on keeping car white in final colour)
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6352a98b4e.jpg
I still also have the 17x9 and 17x8 if I want to go wider/chunkier
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...08202488ae.jpg
I will obviously need to run some form of wide arch. I will be running a low front splitter, big rear wing, and time attack style big diffuser going right up to maybe just under the lights, removing most of the rear panel. This is a pure track car and won?t be on the road.
So now for the cars that give me inspiration and the different styles floating in my head. . .
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9390457fe0.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...22a82bcf00.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8181993a45.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eacda2e4d7.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...509d43e9d6.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...64f038579e.jpg
I quite like this idea of creating kind of like aerodynamic wheel tubs then having an overfender with intake and exhaust. With the car being an 80s box, the overfenders woukd by more irmscher sprint style maybe.?
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ffd374d60a.jpg
Thanks bud, and thanks for the rear lights! LolQuote:
Originally Posted by NovalutionGSi
Given my subsequent posts, the only standard/subtle look might be the mk2 caddy style flared arches! Lol
That or the 3 series next to the red E21 BM.
Although hearing your ideas, the more bonkers it is that better. [emoji106]
Sent from my SM-G980F using Tapatalk
I always had in my head keeping it round arch and somewhat subtle, but the more I look at some of the wild time attack cars and old DTM stuff it makes me wanna. But I feel like I would also need to be on pretty wide wheels to really pull it off. Fat and squat.Quote:
Originally Posted by NovalutionGSi
Also, given all the re-work I did for the flat floor, it would be a shame not to explore the aero side of things too.
I've not got a lot of input on how to make it look good, but fuck me it's gonna look badass if those example pictures of the look you're after are anything to go by
I love his videos.Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
Been watching them for years from when he was a armature doing drifting on his drive..
Dom is amazing at fab and work.. Bet his work costs alot
Wow
Found its been a year since a checked in to here. You've made crazy progress, so impressed.
Cage looks amazing even more s now its painted.
Looks great with the shell over the top too
Thanks Benn, it was great seeing it all painted, felt like real progress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
I?m itching to get back working on it but it?s not realistically gonna happen until new year at best. I have been ordering various parts in tho ready for when progress does start!
** LONG POST ALERT **
So the house move happened in early October, moving to an overall smaller garage space. Everything on moving day was literally shoved into the garage. I still have no idea how everything fitted! Having rafter space was the saviour I think. I said to myself I wasn't going to worry about it until new year as we were heading back to the USA for nearly all of December anyway.
So now it's new year and so far I've got one of my sheds up and moved a bunch of crap like boxes of parts, box section, jig, rotisserie etc over to that. I'm about to start building a base to get another shed up to house the garden stuff. I then need to fit out the plant room so all the car cleaning stuff can go in there where it's a bit warmer and drier. That then gives me loads of space back to organise the garage, finally! Hopefully that can all be done by end of February.
Alas, some car stuff has happened too, I?ve been collecting up some parts! A company in the USA called Chase Bays do a really nice complete power steering hose replacement kit fully plumbed with AN fittings and a nice billet reservoir. So that came back with me from the states and I have everything I need to replace and upgrade all the steering lines, just the rack itself and the pump will not be new.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5ed02c4900.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6c38747c70.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...02c92832ef.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...860bb2dafe.jpg
On the subject of power steering, I also picked up a relocation kit for the pump which moves it lower down to basically where the AC pump would be. It gives a marginal shift of weight to lower down but more importantly a nice straight run to the turbo inlet. This is the kit. (pic from sellers website, not my engine)
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0d515c9a83.jpg
I also picked up a Wilwood brake bias valve with integrated brake light switch while in the states.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3db964c596.jpg
This week I had my front tension rods arrive from GKTech. I was always going to replace the stock ones with adjustable ones and I really liked this kit. I doubt I will need the lock clearance (there a drift based kit) but it certainly does not hurt to have it! These will allow me to add loads of extra caster which was always the plan to not just help with turn in but help bring the wheel forward in the arch as I had deliberately set it back when I shoved the engine back an extra inch. I've got them fitted up on one side so far and gained c15mm forward movement and think there's more to go once I replace the lower control arms for ones with rod bearing.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...871ee8be10.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f93bcd9323.jpg
Stock tension rod...
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ff36060fa0.jpg
The stock nissan wheels run a 205/55/R16 all round which is just such a big chunky size on the front of a nova. With the 17s I currently have in 17x8 for the front, they have 215/45/R17s fitted which would be the equivalent size. Ive got a hold of a couple of cheap used tyres in 205/45/R16 and fitted them to a stock rim and the wheel now looks sooo much better in the arch. The equivalent 17 tyre size would be 205/40/17. I will get a pic of this when I can get the car out the garage.
In a previous post I talked about wanting to look at going down to a 16" wheel in front but keeping a 17" in the rear. The problem with running the 16s however is it becomes very tight for clearance for lots of the fancy parts unless you are running very low offset wheels, in particular drop knuckles. Most of the drop knuckles require you to run rod ends for the tie rods & lower ball joints which are taller and can hit the inside of the rim. However, I've finally found a company that do a knuckle where normal ball joints and rod ends can be used - hurrah! The drop knuckles in question bring the ball joint height 50mm lower and steering joint 64mm lower - more than enough to get my geometry all back in line again with the lows I am running. They do 3 versions depending on what Ackerman you want to run, I will probably go with the middle drift/grip option. The grip option is based upon standard Ackerman for the 200sx.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f87d62914f.jpg