Keiths Nova Turbo build

[BRoadGhost]

Welding the rest of the seams?

[krobinson]

Welding the rest of the seams?

Yeah, stitching the legs underneath, never did it during the last build.

What welding? Did i miss that?

New underseal too? Is that just incase? Cant be much wrong with what you have surley?

Very little wrong, just arches and a few other sections to tidy and as above.

[krobinson]

Progress on the shell - All the split spot weld seam are almost sorted, few more to do and it'll be perfect:





Arches going in, William has put in the spot welds for originality, and the arch is now single skin to remove the "Achilles heal" issue of moisture between the panels.





It's going next weekend to have the engine bay and floor media blasted to allow for a better finish of under seal and paint. Then it's just the task of saving the cash for the respray. I have the vast majority of parts required to rebuild it once sorted.


Keith

[dan16v]

Good work Keith

[darragh792]

Nice to see a panel being welded in the right way �� keep up the good work

[Andy]

What have i missed? Why are you restoring it again?

[krobinson]

What have i missed? Why are you restoring it again?

Despite my best efforts, some of the spot welded seams started to split. On inspection this seams to have been caused by the Acid dip and e-coat not doing it's job. Since finding all this i've found lots of examples of his happening on other cars so i'm not alone.

So my friend William is drilling out spot welds, removing sections, and repairing. Thankfully it's fairly minimal but one of the main bits was the rear arches, which began warping after about 3 years. Thankfully when sections have been cut out, inside all the box sections look completely brand new, so this latest work should hopefully be the last time it needs done.

Needless to say I'd steer clear from acid dipping, It has it's positives (inside box sections), but clearly sometimes it just can't clean and re-seal some tight spot welded dual skins.

Keith

[Andy]

Thats not good at all.Kind of defeats the object of having it done i suppose.

[Iain]

Spot welds on seam for originality is amazing!

[nova_niek]

Well impressed with how fast you work on it Keith. Done a full resto on a Nova back in 2001/2002 and the sheer amount of work did my head in. Top job sir!