omg.. the thickness of that steel !, my poor grinders not gonna like the look of that, he'll give it his all tho, and die for his country if need be, a true warrior.
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omg.. the thickness of that steel !, my poor grinders not gonna like the look of that, he'll give it his all tho, and die for his country if need be, a true warrior.
Right engine cams removed and 2 of the three bolts on the engine mount have been spaced and the bolt has been cut down. The bolt needs another couple of threads taking off but that will be done tommorow. All work curtosy of Jimbob. Cheers dude.
Tommorow we cut down the engine mount bolt and try and deal with the PAS pulley. Maybe sort out the gearlinkage.
fookin brillant mate i have 2 miaimi blue novas 1 with a xe one with a 1.2 lol im going to reshell my xe after pv and this thread has answered most of my questions lol heres mine - http://i27.tinypic.com/aexjwx.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/2vjvdsl.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/wqpvkl.jpg
Looks ace, i LOVE the steelies! Makes it a true sleeper!
The future is bright, the future is miami blue!
When your reshelling make sure you give the inner wing a good beating, as my alternator is still too close. I CBA to take the engine out so we decided to cut a rectangle hole through the outer and inner wing! YEHAAAWWW!
yeah it is lol ive treated it to some cesaros now though you can see the big brakes gives things away a little hehe, ye im going to try and cut mine and reweld it i have the xe shell as a pattern though ;) keep the work up chap!Quote:
Originally Posted by djshaggeh
It would have been nice to have a ganders at another xe nova in the flesh first to get an idea of where to cut nevermind its all trial and error this end :)Quote:
ye im going to try and cut mine and reweld it i have the xe shell as a pattern though
Scrapped the idea of chopping the wing and decided to take off the inlet manifold and atlernator. We also undid the front mount and rocked the engine forward giving us enough room to get at the inner wing with a club hammer. Taking off the inlet was hassles so as you can imagine that wing got beats. Now I gotta patch up the holes I been cutting in the wing.
I gotta get a new pipe sorted and fitted (the one below the inlet) and get the inlet back on and then HOPEFULLY we will be back on track.
Oh and I got brand new nova GTE shafts and Cav 1.6 mk2 inner CVs. Discs and pads. Just need an injection fuel tank.
Today Jim-bob cut off the PAS pulley and we cleaned up the inner wing ready for welding.
I also set to work cleaning up the rocker cover as I cant resist painting it black and getting the spark plug cover looking abit more respectable (thanks to a friend) watch this space.
We disscussed removing the oil cooler and Jim set to work and removed both filters from the XE and the 8v. He then removed the sandwich plate from the XE. We were left with these bits:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...h/DSC00257.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...h/DSC00258.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...h/DSC00259.jpg
Can anyone enlighten us?
What do you need enlightening with Shag?
The first pic of the block has a bypass fitted, which mean you cannot run a sandwich plate with that bypass fitted
The second pic of the block means you can fit the sandwich plate directly into the thread.
Is that what you wanted to know?
Hope this helps
Do we need to fit the thread from the 8v engine to the 16v engine so we can get rid of the sandwich plate and the oil cooler all together?
Sorry I didnt explain that very well
Yes, if you want to get rid of the cooler altogeher, you need to remove the bypass thread out of the 8v block, using a 10mm allen key, and screwing it into your 16v block.
Then simply screw on your oil filter itself
Hope this helps
Olly