my nova turbo (diesel)

[sim0ng]

I picked up a lovely little flame red K red SiDi off Novarally other week and was only going to be a temporary little run about but I'm incapable of leaving anything alone for 5 minutes so everybody tells me so am tidying it up and hopefully will make a great car out of it.

My plans are to make it a GSi replicar - main reason; theres no other kits for the nova which I like enough to want to get and can't be botherd customising a kit to fit it. Will be fitting a white vinyl roof, this is just one big white sticker which will cover the entire roof similar to what you'll find on a mini... I've never seen it done on a nova before so hopefully I'll be the first to have done this. Other plans include a GTE wrap round spoiler instead of the GSi one as I feel it suits the shape and lines better, the side skirts will be white as will the wheels and then to respray the car in metalic purple!

The car already has fitted to it a full set of GTE seats including front door cards so no real interior work will be done... might get a nice gear knob, handbrake sleeve with some new gators and tax disk holder but that'll be all really.


So far I've orderd the spoiler, skirts and also some -50mm lowering springs which should hopefully turn up any day now. I've stripped out the interior ready for welding to start early next week and have also made a start on the rust problem the car seems to have and have even made a little video with a friend of mine staring the car on YouTube!!


Heres my little prototype drawing... the wheels aren't what I'll be using but the mk2 astra gte wheels are quite difficult to draw... don't think i'll be going for rear disks ether!


Heres the only photos I have of the car at the moment which Collin took for me before I went to pick it up



And now the interiotrs out it looks a little something like this


Made a start on getting the rust off those back arches


And have also started referbishing my old astra wheels to look the part on the nova.... should look sweet lowerd 50mm on these 14's!


This is the paint which will be going on the car once the rust has been sorted


And can't forget me introducing the car to the world of youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59lMyFXPakE

[Dar]

The plans for the car sound good I hope the white purple colour combo looks good.
That video however, was brilliant! Nice one

[sim0ng]

cheers, the missus has said that it'll be the campest nova ever but I'm sure it'll be awsome!

[Matt2107]

Hmmm I'll be intereted to see how the white roof will look.
I reckon you might just pull it off.

[burgo]

as to your question in the video that second "air box" is just a resonator you wanna get it looking like this

it will come on boost much quicker and you'll get a very impressive turbo sound, plus hunt down the guide for turning up the fuel and boost you wont regret it. of course you could just buy my 1.7 lump that has been converted to go in a nova and has already been played with if you want some proper power

[Ash]

those videos are ace (i watched purevaux 2 aswell)

project sounds cool, just turn up the boost

Ash

[Riggy]

FPMSLWROF

that vid is ace

"turbo , and it's not just a sticker" quality

[Ash]

haha, i've just done a PS, who would like to see it? or do you want the final thing to be a surprise?

Ash

[Matt2107]

Ps PS PS we want it.

[Ash]

Will remove if required

Ash