Nova Gsi turbo project. 10 years now

I bought this car in 2008 as a 1.6 GSI from Mark Ridley (novacabrio), former owner was Rob Delicata. I have lost a lot of the pictures of the car when I bought it due to photobucket but THis is going to be a huge thread, I have hundreds of pictures of the reconstruction and it's gonna take a long time to get all this into the thread. Current status is shell just about finished, and the manifolds are being made.

Ok, to the pictures.

When I bought it 2008
https://i.ibb.co/BT6Hfp2/371.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Ch9Bw7Z/372.jpg

I had only changed the wheels

After the c20let conversion and a few good years, The rot had taken hold and the car had come to Slovenia with me. A cheap 1.5d with very good bodywork was found. But how do I keep the GSI alive?

https://i.ibb.co/FHng2yp/IMG-4898.jpg

Cut good metal from the diesel shell, cut bad metal out the gsi and replace with said good metal from the diesel!

Hopefully plenty pics too come

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Looking forward to seeing the progress on this, Rob is a good mate of mine, he’s glad it’s still about!!

Good luck with getting her back on the road. Do miss here but selling allowed me to start my Mini project

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Originally Posted by Robnut

Good luck with getting her back on the road. Do miss here but selling allowed me to start my Mini project

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That's great that you found this thread, I hope I can do the car justice. I love mini's, my friend used to have a hayabusa powered one.

I always wonder what happened to my previous Nova's J484 KTN https://i.ibb.co/sCtGxNW/511.jpg, 1998-2006.

And Breeny's old one J880 JPO, 2005-2007.

https://i.ibb.co/fnb4L8G/337.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/3hnzd6R/336.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/HhshtxB/332.jpg

I have had the GSI since 2008 and was in great condition visually, pic before I bought it
https://i.ibb.co/qWT1JmK/shineyblackgsi.jpg

It was solid enough to put my turbo engine in and fit a chassis plating kit but after 4 years of use It was confined to the garage, needing a long list of jobs doing and the bodywork was going downhill due to living by the sea for a couple of years and the car living outside. I almost sold it to a friend for £2500 in 2012 but I'm glad I didn't now. When I moved to Slovenia in 2012 I had it shipped here in a truck with the rest of my removals.

https://i.ibb.co/JqvcsqD/IMG-2548.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/TcWLbbF/IMG-2547.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/gMxVhfR/IMG-2551.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/XCmnrrr/IMG-2553.jpg

Since then It had only been let out a couple of times

https://i.ibb.co/X4RNNV8/IMG-2658.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/t3xkRCX/IMG-2294.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/qW2bWbG/IMG-2297.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0K8BRfW/IMG-2299.jpg

Knocked garage down 2013


https://i.ibb.co/hMTZGm2/IMG-3045.jpg


https://i.ibb.co/k5xgj7b/IMG-3260.jpg

Donor car sourced, £500

https://i.ibb.co/94GMYPW/slocorsa5.jpg


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Snow is slowly eating novas, need garage!

https://i.ibb.co/30v61TF/IMG-3838.jpg

Started dismantling the white one for parts


https://i.ibb.co/47Mp3ZJ/IMG-4908.jpg


https://i.ibb.co/0Cz57f0/IMG-4907.jpg


https://i.ibb.co/tcqYW1j/IMG-4909.jpg


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Only allowed 15 pics per post. This could take quite some time.



https://i.ibb.co/bKSL2ZQ/IMG-4966.jpg


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https://i.ibb.co/wR62Lbg/IMG-4996.jpg

White one looks a mint shell. Shame to cut it up.