wip full rebuid (gte)

well about september my mate and myself hatched a plan of building what will essentialy be a brand new nova! first step was 2 find a project base!

After searching high and low around the country in mid november we finaly settled on a red g reg gte. The car its self apeared for sale on here and the next day we went to have a look!

2 and a half hours there 2 and a half hours back and we were the proud owners of an honest little near standard gte. The bonus was it was a bargin ?300.

Valve stem seals were well gone slight ring wear but other than that she was a little gem.

So it all began....

unfortunatly we lost most of the pics of it before we started and during the major parts removal!

well first job was 2 strip everything imaginable from it and get it in the air so thats what we did

interior striped and revealed previous welding no real nastys though apart from passenger floor
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wings bumpers bonnet ect along with engine and most the major componants and parts removed

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looking very sorry for its self
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meet tweedle dee and tweedle dumb (the 1 withe the glasses is craig the guy im building it for and im the other) it was late and we had got to the point where we didnt make any progress and just went hyper and acted tits as you can see lol


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once it was striped we set about removing every last bit of underseal and cleaning every seam on the car of paint ready to be welded

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more scabby welding found but was chopped out and done properly later on

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majority of the seams in the bay and underneath were in brilliant condition which made my life easyer when seam welding it


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first for everything craig getting his hands dirty

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at this point we lost alot of pics again due to comp got a virus but all that happened was the whole bay got seam welded the rest of the car got stitched and every other nut and bolt removed .

oh also did a cut out for the chassis leg these are the few pics we have left after all the above was done and before it went to blasting

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just see rich webs corsa turbo on the left another project we had on the go at the same time now completed and is an animal

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and of she went to be blasted for a week

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we got the car back at tea time on a friday and even though we still had 2 weeks worth of work 2 do before it went to be painted craig shared an interestin piece of infomation with me . At 10am saturday morning the car was booked in to get the inside primed and bay sprayed!

One large phone bill later and alot of beer tokens spent i managed to get 4 lads down to give me a hand!

hear is the car as we got it back

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in this one you can see where i replaced a scabby bit of bent baked been can that had been bird craped in prieviously

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we had the bay arches inside and underbody sand blasted with second hand grit. At first i was a little unsure about having it done due to exspecting it to come back looking like a teabag but after we got the car back i wished we had had it done at the bigining and i would advise it to anyone going this far as most of the grotty bits we would never have found if we didnt have it done. Also for the sake of 80 quid which is all it cost the it saved us weeks of manual labour and a hell of alot of money when it went to paint in labour costs there aswell.

here you can see the welding that was done before it went and some pics of the stuff i did when it came back. Everything done in these pics was done in 12 hours (cheers for the help again to Dan Ingram, Rich Web, Ash Scace and Hennry) the pics dont cover everything we had to do and cant possibly show the chaos we was in!

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my nice tidy welds see i told everyone training as a welder for 2 and a half years would come in handy lol its a shame they didnt teach me 2 shrink my head

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underseal going on
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2 plates added large stitch welds all around the shock mount

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large hole found in the rear of the passenger sill


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the rest of the shell that didnt get stiched before blasting got done

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rich pulling some strange faces

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dan looking like a school kid that just found out he has a dick

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more stone chip and underseal going on

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rich looking legless striping yet more bloody seam sealent off

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better pic of the in arch seem welding that was done all the way round the front end on every last seem

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u need to turn your head on its side for this 1 lol

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underseal and seam sealant nearly done and at this point it was 7am
and we was knackered

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chassis leg cut out

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