f668 bfk restoration thread

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right heres some new pics of f668bfk. ignore the big white box as this had some corsa c v6 parts in it (yep i did use the car as a mobile shed, my bad!) oh and the intercooler is only mocked up, thoughts please gents. :D the engine bay shows the work thats gone into this thing. or the money pit as my mum sayslol

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and this is what she looked like when she was first built by mike white from northampton (i think) anyone know him still?

Need some air in ya front passenger tire?

That bay is that clean that it looks photoshopped lol!

Looks a good tody nova what's the future plans.?

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and this is the article in png a year after the earlier pic.

Looks much better without colour coded bumpers and skirts.!

and this is how she was bought. the bay shows how much work has gone into it!
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Whats the plan then you going to make it look like it use to, novadose kit white seat wheels?

hmm future plans.... a let would be nice but as it was originally on carbs a nice set of r1 carbs would be good. and the bay isnt photoshopped, i just have a cleaning fetish! oh and a big tin of hammerite smooth red spray:)
the bumpers are sort of wrong as they are mk1 gte ones on a mk2, but as the car is f reg then meh! i desperately need some red buckets, and an early cam cover too. the outsie is sorta my homage to the old skool cars that have gone to the big scrappy in the sky. ie classic, clean gm stuff. id love the original wheels but the novadose kit is big baggy pants!

Not a fan of kits myself but thought the bumper worked well on this originally.

its a love it or hate it thing with the bumper tbh, and the car that is sorta inspiring this is the green courtenay turbo as it originally was. ( i forgot the reg, duh!)

why have you an intercooler and an XE? or have i missed something?

the reaon for the intercooler is that i am sorta working on a turbo conversion for it using a toyota supra turbocharger and some saab injectors. its still in its infancy tho. and im looking at building an 2.0 8v turbo nova 4dr saloon, with about 400ish brake using a truck turbo, a set of let pistons and some more saab bits. im also building a corsa c with a saab c25xe v6 and an f23 box. hmm, i think ive found a use for saabs!!lol i wanted to know wether to hide the cooler or not, thats all.

Cool to see a car with some heritage being resurrected. Personally, although back in the day I disliked the Fibresports Novadose bumpers, I think you should try to make it back to what it was in the mag feature (my pic btw).

So long as its all well painted & the wheels suit it, the Novadose kit can look good & the Novadose skirts are best avoided I think.

Up to you anyway, but that is an old skool Nova thats emerged from obscurity. Keep at it.

must say, i do like the wheels on this, looks a dam site better that when you bought it :thumb:

wheels are 17" kosei concept fives painted white.(yet more hammerite!)lol
thanks for the pics craig, much appreiciated. just finised the engine bay properly, got a vectra c 1.8 inlet pipe, so i can bin the sfi box, just need a new crank sensor now as this ones a bit duff!

Look like its comin on i will keep an eye out round hull for you when its finnished:thumb:

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using a truck turbo

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lol lol a man from my own heart, so far im the only one who has used truck parts on a nova, i mean, errr i used an intercooler from a scanna lol

im not a fan on massive fmic, rest of the car looks good

bit of an update. finally got round to finishing the wiring, found out it has the wrong loom. as there is no connector for the coil. and its been chopped about a hell of a lot, so i need to get a new loom (see parts wanted) big thanks to mr astley for all the help! soon be running then just the rear brakes to sort out and one of them mot thingys (joy!) then some nice mikuni carbs and a bit of cav 1600 dizzy methinks. job done!!

right, just ordered a secondhand loom from the performance vauxhall spares centre, very good service etc. now i need to rip the old loom out!!

nice1 mate.,. weve met before i think.. i kno spuddly, infact i have his old nova..poor thing lol

I like the white rims. Looks tidy.

I wouldn't be mounting harnesses on that rear brace though.

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I like the white rims. Looks tidy.

I wouldn't be mounting harnesses on that rear brace though.

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why not on the strutbrace? iirc rally cars use this method.
hi martin hows spuds nova running? you killed it yet?lol any plans for it?
i gotta wait for wednesday for the new loom to turn up. bugger!

Rally cars have a harness bar welded to the roll cage. That strut brace is held in place with to 13mm(?) nuts on top of the suspension... It's not exactly structal and I wouldn't put a lot of faith in it in a crash.

fair but i've seen alot of them done like this.... oh well.

Yep, as Ash said.
Look at whats holding basically your life.....
Two 13mm nuts on the top of a damper, mounted with RUBBER bushes.

Rally cars have a proper bar welded to a cage, or across the rear turrets.

it was half dead when i got it, im resorecting it lol

ive got a thread in there somewere lol...


oh and id probs get some harness eye thingys and bolt them to were your rear seat belts sould be..

Its Great to see the old feature cars live on. I was featured with my Red SR back in Sep 1995 Fast car reg J250 DYJ, I would love to know where he is now.

See the wheels from the 1st magazine scan - Are those Mistrals with different centre caps or are they the Speedline Mono wheels ?

I seen a set of Mono's forsale in an old Car & Car Conversions magazine and they look awsome

Mistrals, i remember ordering a set from Elite they never came so i fitted tsw hockehiems (version 1) instead.