My nova build thread

[Gaz]

At the moment its a shell covered in sanding dust,
Spec stands at

My x16xe powered nova

fully stitch welded shell
Harry hockley shell plating kit
Full cage with front triangulation
Bilstein yellows with courtney springs
Poly bushed tie bars
Poly bushed lower wishbones with strengthening plates
Poly bushed rear beam
Astra gte rear disks
Fibreglass bonnet
Lightened front and rear bumpers
Monterey scoop
Tiny carbon wing mirrors
16" comp mo's

6 point driver harness,
4 point passenger harness

Battery internally located
stripped interior
Dash removed.

Willwood 280mm 4 pots
Bias pedal box
Qualife quick rack
Corsa C electronic power steering.
Qualife F-15 gearbox casing fitted with straight cut close ratio internals including straight cut final drive of 4.53:1
Quaife automatic torque biasing LSD
Internal gear sfiter
GE rosebushed short shift

X16XE
Gary pool head with egr ports removed
Sbd ceramic coated exhaust
Mandrel bent system
Arp rod bolts
twin weber 40's on bowyer manifold
Megajolt ignition system
Redtop fuel pump
filter king bowl and reg

is the spec for the moment.

[Mark]

Purdy!!!!

[branny361]

looks well mint in the pic gaz ..how long ago was that taken?

[Cavyman_130]

that is mint mate, great spec also, how long you had this for?

[Gaz]

pics were taken about 4/5 years ago, not long before i pulled it off the road

Ive had the car since i was 19, it is my first car. was one of those white ones with the grey bumpers non spec when i got it
it was a 1.2i 45bhp 4 speed in those pics. it kinda snowballed as i was just gonna put a standard 1.6 16v - i had made a loom to plug it in and i kept upping the spec,

Its had loads done in the first year but after that its ground to a halt, so i built up the engine and got the hell on with it, its being painted in a fortnight, just got 2 new doors for it - cos all nova ones go a bit iffy eventually and been battering the bodywork getting it ready for paint - ive got a mate who owns a bodyshop and basically i work for him for a week while his painter is on holidays and i get my car done- fair swap i reckon.

[wullie]

sweet as a nut mate nice to see the 16xe instead of the 20ltr looks well

[Gaz]

Got the car rolling properly now torqued up the front end got the corsa column in and had to space the rear wheels 10mm to clear the rear shocks and the fronts about 3mm

If anyone had got any propper 10mm spacers (ive bodged it for now with some 3mm spacers just to get it rolling) let me know





got some panels in primer, should have them painted by sat then i can start on the shell

[branny361]

will it be ready for PV?

[Gaz]

It might but unless the magic money tree starts blooming im not gonna be able to finish it and insure and tax it.

Update. painted all the bits in that picture

[Gaz]

In the booth see if you can work out whats missing from standard








This is how it stands at the moment. ignore the pics ive just noticed the camera on my phone is full of dust.

Oh that vec infront is a c20let.

[Gaz]

Put a couple of hours in this morning