Joff's Nova Turbo Project

Small Update .....

Sorted out the inner kickwells with the small speakers for the satnav PDA (found out that because the car is so loud you can't actually hear the instructions on the PDA!)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ova/kick3a.jpg

All flocked up and ready to fit!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ova/kick4a.jpg

Also got the door cards out - need some speaker pods molding into the door pockets at some point - retirmmed in the same alcantara as the seats :-

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...doorcard1a.jpg

Also got the Sparco harnesses out and cleaned them up - bought these in July 2003 according to the box!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15.../harness1a.jpg

Next jobs are to start sorting out the ICE install in the boot.

Joff

looking good joff keep it up!cant wait to see it finished at pvs!

how hard was the stereo mod can you give a breif guide on how you made it work

parts of the car i love, engine etc

parts i hate - interior, some of the styling

but i must admit theres some nice touchs and very orignal work here mate

i remeber the red car at the first pv show i went to and inspired me back then, great history on the car

can only admire you for the work

great build enjoyed the updates

keep them coming and hope it all goes well when it hits the road

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Originally Posted by dan23

how hard was the stereo mod can you give a breif guide on how you made it work

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This took a while to sort out mainly due to trying to find a head unit with not too many connections between the faceplate and rear unit.

Eventually I found that the P-series Pioneer unit only had 9 connections on the face plate so I got some multi core cable from Maplins and did a bench test to see if there was sufficient power in the connections to run a cable of c.2m .

All I needed to do was solder a wire to each side of the connection point on both the headunit and face plate - 9 in total

Thankfully there was sufficient power to run the faceplate so I then modded up the sunvisor by removing the light unit from an SRI sunvisor and mounted up the faceplate. Headunit lives under the front seat and the CD changer is in the glovebox.

I ran the system like this when the Nova was running before this rebuild and has been working like this for about 3 years.

Quite funny really that I bought the headunit and CD changer brand new - and its never been installed as standard - its always been run with the link cable lol lol Glad it worked !

Hope this helps

Joff

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Originally Posted by Kev Turbo

parts of the car i love, engine etc

parts i hate - interior, some of the styling

but i must admit theres some nice touchs and very orignal work here mate

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Thanks for the feedback .... I'm building this car for me so some of the styling I'm doing is personal to me .... I'm not building it to please the masses!

Joff

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Originally Posted by joff-turbo-nova

...All I needed to do was solder a wire to each side of the connection point on both the headunit and face plate - 9 in total...

Joff

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i've been looking for a faulty head unit, to strip the face connections from to do the same, but keep the option of running it as standard at a later date...

u got balls :)

Got the harnesses now installed, as modelled by my son Patrick lol .......

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15.../harness2a.jpg

Put the nova back onto its wheels and had a bit of a problem. The coilovers were height set before I put the engine ancillaries and interior in. When I lowered to the ground I couldn't get my jack out :eek:

Out the with C-spanner and a bit of fiddling with the coilovers and its now sitting fine and I can get my jack out !!!!

Forgotten how low it is when its sitting on its wheels !!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...a/wheels2a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...a/wheels3a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...a/wheels4a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...a/wheels5a.jpg

Off to the spray shop today for some minor spraywork and then MOT tomorrow! Whilst its away I can give the garage a good tidy out!!!

Joff

wow look at that now.. mission almost complete..

nice work joff!will have to pop round again to see it as its almost complete!