2l nova so far...

[ross.s]

i have started this topic agian with a bit more info

Heres the story from the start...............

I bought i nova sr as a winter car when I had my saxo, but because i cant leave things alone I decided mmmm..... why not put a 2l engine into it. I asked scott (aka wise wilson) about this idea and he said that yip this would be easy. But I dont know how many months later but I can tell you its definatley NOT EASY!!!!

So scott set about welding the ?70.00 nova sr, but we soon realised this was not the best shell to do the conversion on and then we found another one locally that came up for sale, so yip I went and bought that, a 1.2l nova lux. The shell on this one was much better but not rust free



This is a pic of the 1.2l nova when i 1st bought it. As you can see the back arches have dents in them so we used the repair arches that we bought for the nova sr .

Then I had to find a donar car and it just happend that a friend of ine was selling a calibra, which had its engine rebuilt professionally 2 years ago, so yip u guested it I bought it!!!

here's a pic of the engine in the calibra



next up it was time to take the engine out of the 1.2 nova, we decided lets not do it the normal way, lets put beer in the engine instead of water and let put nuts and bolts into the carborater while the engine was running. so as you can expect the engine blew it up





so after that we took the engine out



so then we starter ripping out the interior as I always wanted it to be stripped out



and then the doors, wings, boot, all windows etc came out to

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we soon found out that the nova wasnt as rust free as we thought and scott got pissed of my me going "theres another hole and another one!!!!"

heres a wee list of the welding that had to be done or should i say BIG list!!!!!

both inner wings
front cross member
front slam panel
inner front chassis legs
front bulk head on both sides
some small patches on the floor
one small patch on the boot
rear quater repair panels on both sides
rear chassis leg and valance

On top of all this welding to put a 2l engine into a nova you have to we had to seem weld the whole engine for the extra power

here's a pic of the front chassis leg that has to had about a 1" cut out of it because the 2l engine hits



here's some pics of the seem welding.....





next up was to loose some weight so we cut off all the brackets for the back seats

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parts so far......

right so it was time to order some parts so i got on the phone to cossvaux and paid for a conversion kit (?400) this is one thing that fu*ked up this whole project as cossvaux took my cash and sent me engine & Gear box mounts,anti Roll Mounts (?100 part of the kit) but no rally driveshafts,hubs,Induction Kit (the other ?300 part of the kit) so anyway after 3 months of phoning,e-mail,texts and letters with no answer i found out the they had gone bust so im ?300 pound down still

other parts that i have bought are......

g-max shocks with 60mm springs and 40mm springs for the front
full de-cat stainless steel exhaust
brembo brakes with pagid brake pads...



sparco evo buckets



2 sets of 16" speedlines wheels (that we painted black)



omp rollcage



power cup



Wizards of Nos Nitrous kit



fibreglass bonnet(to loose abit more weight)



gte front bumper and skirts

[krobinson]

Think you went a bit nutz with the runabout! Fair play, should be a good car when finished!

Keith

[Mike]

Madness! What a run around that'll be! Fooking hell :twisted:

[Riggy]

yup should be good when done mate

but just 1 idea , loose the gmax shocks will the xe and all the extra power , ideally go for some coilovers with the correct poundage springs

[ross.s]

cheers everyone

yup should be good when done mate

but just 1 idea , loose the gmax shocks will the xe and all the extra power , ideally go for some coilovers with the correct poundage springs

i will some time


update

had to get a turn down pulley to because this needs to be done for the conversion(i got this by just novas and corsas)



anti-rollbar spacer



engine mounts





next up was underseal fu*k doing all this work and then not underseal it properly.

so we did the footwells, floor, bottom of the engine bay & all the arches

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now it was time to panit it

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then the out side

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cleaning the engine for painting.......




then we took the rocker cover and power cap off.......





next up time to paint the engine......





thats me up to date now

we are going to get some paint stripper tomorrow for the rocker cover

will update soon