Spaceframed SR20DET RWD Nova

[bazzap8389]

Awesome work mate! Looking at it my biggest regret with my car is not doing the full space frame.

[Pistol Pete]

Hats off to you pal! Cracking project. Loads of pics to back up the work too.

[Mike]

once them welds are dressed back with an air grinder theyll look pukka.

[Alan lig]

Great work , just finished reading from the start.

[The Simps]

Awesome work mate! Looking at it my biggest regret with my car is not doing the full space frame.

Thanks and yeah, I'm really glad I went the full hog now.

Hats off to you pal! Cracking project. Loads of pics to back up the work too.

Thanks

Great work , just finished reading from the start.

That must of taken you a while! Its certainly changed direction a few times too!

[The Simps]

once them welds are dressed back with an air grinder theyll look pukka.

Now when you say dress back, I assume you mean smooth them off? Which welds are you referring to in particular or do you mean all?

Just to clarify this isn't a defensive reply, I'm genuinely interested to hear your thoughts!

[krobinson]

Looking good! Serious amount of work gone into this so far!

[Mike]

Now when you say dress back, I assume you mean smooth them off? Which welds are you referring to in particular or do you mean all?

Just to clarify this isn't a defensive reply, I'm genuinely interested to hear your thoughts!

Yea just all in general, not saying your welding looks shiz thats not what I mean at all! But if it were me, I dress them so once painted its basically looks like a seamless join, almost as if they were pressed panels as opposed to fabricated if that makes sense?

[turbojolt]

love these kind of builds. altho they do make me fell like a boy in a mans world while i struggle with a little welding you have all this going on!

[The Simps]

Looking good! Serious amount of work gone into this so far!

Thanks Keith

Yea just all in general, not saying your welding looks shiz thats not what I mean at all! But if it were me, I dress them so once painted its basically looks like a seamless join, almost as if they were pressed panels as opposed to fabricated if that makes sense?

Totally get what you're saying. I will probably have a combination of finished and smoothed and some parts the welds exposed, as long as they're neat!

love these kind of builds. altho they do make me fell like a boy in a mans world while i struggle with a little welding you have all this going on!

When I started this I could barely weld. I took on the project to learn new skills by chucking myself in the deep end. I built 90% of the frame by just tacking the tubing together. I then had a friend came in to weld it all up. That was summer time. Following a little training from him that day, I practised and my confidence has grown and I've been doing the rest myself and will most likely finish it too, unless I decide to get some bits tig'd. Patience and practice my friend.

The thing to remember too is that this is also a hobby built so it will never be on par with a proper motorsport shop's build, such as Project Blinky as an example.