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    First post on here so hi guys I'm Sean and I'm from Dumfries. I'm am apprentice mechanic and I bought a mk2 Sx back in April from Manchester and I love it, sat at an easy 9* mph on the way up the road and only used half a tank (£20) of fuel. only a 1.2 spi but bloody hell it's fun! It's my second car and I much prefer it to the Clio I had as my first car. Bought it standard, since then I've put a sportex cat back exhaust system on with a home made decatl and it sounds amazing , have a 1.6 throttle body with standard 1.2 injector at the moment with corsa top box and piper cross air filter, got cheap Jom coil overs which are sh** but do the job to an extent, and just bought a set of cesaros off here for £90 delivered which was a steal. Pictures to follow, planing on a 1.6 spi inlet manifold and 1.4 injector, then 4 branch sportex exhaust manifold and decat. Then a gte cam if I can find one cheap enough should hopefully get her a little nippier and before anyone says it I know it'll never be "fast" but it should make it less painfully slow.
    What she looked like when I bought her


    After I fitted the coil overs

    A picture someone had taken at the Lanarkshire petrolheadz summer cruise a week back, I like this picture!

    And here is a picture taken yesterday when I fitted the cesaros these will be getting refurbed in silver.

    Finally a picture that has both my Novas in, I bought k133rhs as a shell needing a lot of work done, welding and what not its in pieces but my best mate is a good welder so I made him a deal that if he bought a welder he could have joint ownership in the car when we go to sell it once its built up and on the road again! It's an Sri shell with a 20ne 2.0 8valve ready to drop in. Supposedly a stupidly quick nova when it used to roam the streets down this way. Ill make another thread for the progress on it once we get started on it.

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    Looks in pretty good condition mate, especially the paint work as flame red tends to fade badly

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    Tidy wee nova mate.

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    Cheers guys! I've spent plenty of Sundays polishing every inch of it haha but definitely worth it!

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    Looks a tidy example. Nice choice of wheels

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    Good to see you on here Sean mate. Hopefully see the SX at Kames next weekend, she looks well.

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    Yeah great choice of wheels Adam , cheers dave it's about time I got a thread up you'll definitely see her there I can't wait! Are we getting track time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seanmcinally View Post
    Yeah great choice of wheels Adam , cheers dave it's about time I got a thread up you'll definitely see her there I can't wait! Are we getting track time?
    Not unless someone pulls out

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    Awk that's p*sh

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    Been a long time since I last updated, some kind fellow has keyed right down the left hand side of my car. But good news is I have a 1.4 sr engine to drop into her next spring. Mot expires in November so that's an excuse for me to bring her off the road for the winter and get everything ready to put the other engine in. I'm going down the bike carb route and will be putting a 1.2 carb head onto the 1.4. And I'm planning to get her resprayed at some point next year but not changing the colour, cesaros will be going star silver too! Looks like I'm going to be busy over the winter

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