Project Nova

[TonySR]

Cheers Craig. I'm not too keen on the 5 spokes, I have a set of astra sport 7 spokes which I'm going to refurb and fit over winter.

Does anyone know what model steering rack from a corsa fits the nova?

[Benn]

Coming along nicely. I@d say take the window and surround out when you paint the quarter tho... Has it been lowered?

[TonySR]

Yes Benn, it's lowered 60mm. Paint will be done over winter too.

Picked my weights, bars and bench up from a mates earlier today...



Think I may switch to coilovers on the rear.

[millworm]

Looking good, still can't believe I've never seen this considering its so local

[BRoadGhost]

Hey Tony; where did you order your Valeo headlights from?

[TonySR]

I bought them from eBay when they came up. The two came up about 18 months apart, one was £6.50 and the other £15.

I'll find out if I can get them through the mrs work if you want?

[TonySR]

Finally removed the x16xe from the tigra yesterday.







Head gasket set, bolts, water pump and timing belt kit on order. I'll be glad to see the back of the Tigra!

[millworm]

Looking good, will be a quick little car

[TonySR]

Cheers Millworm.

The Tigra is off to the scrapyard tomorrow. The engine is out ready to be rebuilt and a few days ago I put a deposit down on this:





A 1967 Ford Anglia 105E Super.


It's got all the panels and running gear aside from the exhaust. Started as a restoration project and gave up with only a few bits left to do (rear valence, spring hanger x1 and n/s headlight surround). I will be finishing off the welding and getting it painted Lagoon blue and/or Ermine white then decide what engine/suspension to fit... Few pics of it before it was stripped:

[TonySR]

Not updated this for what seems like ages...

Stripped the x16xe engine down and replaced the valve oil seals and lapped the valves in, then took it to Bensham engineering for it to be skimmed only to be told it had recently been skimmed after checking it.



Replaced the cams with new seals and gave the whole engine a few coats of silver paint.



Followed by a new timing belt kit.



Finished putting it all back together and had the exhaust manifold welded where the SAI valve once lived.



Then removed the 8v engine, swapped the flywheel over onto the XE and spent about an hour trying to get the engine in, gave up and decided to remove the gearbox from the car and put them in together. 20 minutes later with the help of a mate it was in.







I booked it in to have a custom exhaust system made, only for it to start playing up the next day, Cue loads of fault codes...



I replaced the ECU Permanent live as that had a break in it and it fired up, but still had the same faults. So ordered a OPD Inlet after noticing the inlet was leaking even though I torqued the inlet as per Haynes manual and swapped the TPS from the 8v engine whilst fitting it.






Started and was misfiring straight away so removed plugs and no.3 was dead, so popped to my local Autoparts store and got him to check they were the right plugs I received from Eurocarparts which they weren't. x16xe's use a twin tipped plug so bought a set and fitted them and it now runs perfectly with the only fault being the EGR position which I've blanked and left plugged in.

Will have some more updates shortly when I re-book it in for the exhaust system to be made and MOT booked in.