my winter car/project cheap cheap.

[belmont_dazz]

Just picked up this for £120, its got mot untill April. Needs a bonnet, bumper, gear linkage and wiper arms.
Its got my original cavalier c18nz engine fitted badly, (certainly not done by me!) , brand new coilovers and a sportex exhaust for a hatchback

So plans are to change engine mount, tap chassis leg in a touch for clearance, pinch bonnetand wiper arms from my mates scrap nova and find a bumper, then run it over winter whilst cav is off the road. Then put a proper engine in, and throw the shitty 1.8 away.



The front bumper is a standard gsi one just smoothed over and lower grill removed. Not sure if I like it at the minute. The bonnet has seen much better days but thinking about painting it and the bumper black for the time being, so it doesnt look like a scrapper!
What you guys think? Only had it a couple of days. Never thought id be back in a nova!

[TurboDan]

Love it!

Even the hatchback exhaust kind of works. Stealth like.

[belmont_dazz]

Its amazingly not a bad fit exhaust, sounds well! What you think to the front bumper?

[Lowrider Dave]

Nice, always wanted one of them for some reason!

[TurboDan]

If the bumper was free and is all you have for it then yeah it will do. But if you are buying one then i would look for an unpainted gsi one to match the back bumper.

[HAIRIBO]

Lovce thye exhuast, and painted steelies on that profli tyre looks class.

Like the old GTi 205?

[belmont_dazz]

If the bumper was free and is all you have for it then yeah it will do. But if you are buying one then i would look for an unpainted gsi one to match the back bumper.

Was £25, cant find a standard one for less than £40 and a gsi one for less than £90!
So for now I guess it will have to do.

[belmont_dazz]

Lovce thye exhuast, and painted steelies on that profli tyre looks class.

Like the old GTi 205?

Ye its got a good look about it. Kinda like a stock racer look maybe.

[belmont_dazz]

Nice, always wanted one of them for some reason!

Horrible to reverse, this my 2nd one. Guess I just dont learn?!

[iangsi]

The 1.8 should be quick enough in a nova.

[belmont_dazz]

The 1.8 should be quick enough in a nova.

Id rather have a 1.4 or 1.6. Same power but less weight.

[terkin]

cool

1.8? 1.4? 1.6? are you high???? V6!!!

[belmont_dazz]

Just a quick pic of it with bumper and grill attatched properly. Adjusted exhaust a little bit cos its been fit by a monkey
Alternator to sort, gear linkage to swap and ride height setting properly cos thats also been set by a monkey, no infact a monkey would do a better job!

Terkin - I did think about it but depends if I keep it. I love the v6's, done alot with them before these Saab engines. I got 215hp from a c25xe with minimal work. That in my nova would be awesome especially the sound!

[belmont_dazz]

Well iv sorted nearly all the little bits. Now has gte front seats and iv adjusted the suspension a little to level it up, iv also set the camber again as one was full neg camber and the other dead straight.

Taxed her ready to rock and roll. But im bored now, anyone want a nova?
I want to sort my cav!!!

[belmont_dazz]

Ok so after plenty of abuse its time to remove the engine for a more reliable one.
Iv picked up a 1.8 8v from mk2 Astra. Nothing fancy, but its 25hp more than the peice of crap in there at the minute.
Only managed an hour on it tonight but have stripped all the wiring back, taken all waterpipes off and well everything barring exhaust so its ready to drop down pretty much.
Iv only got the one pic at the minute but you can see the difference in wiring!
From this

To this

[terkin]

your doing it wrong,skip to 50sec to see how it should be done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmZ8QG8Bgg

[planetc]

Haha!

[belmont_dazz]

Ha im saving that for my brothers, since it now needs taking apart as it was stolen and crashed. Scumbags! Id only just finished it aswell!!

Anyway had day off today so made some progress with mine.







Had chance to give it a quick drive up the road and its spot on, just a slight problem with alternator which ill sort tomorrow but its just so much better.
25hp makes a massive difference in a nova!

[terkin]

cool! where did you find that aifilter? bottom of a river

[belmont_dazz]

cool! where did you find that aifilter? bottom of a river

Oi! Its a special one as its square to match the airflow meter. The standard airbox doesnt fit so iv had to resort to that.

[belmont_dazz]

just a quick pic in the daylight

[iangsi]

Those 1.8 SE engines don' get enough credit, bullet proof & pull well through all the gears

[belmont_dazz]

Those 1.8 SE engines don' get enough credit, bullet proof & pull well through all the gears

Iv always said that! Had one in my belmont and it would average 40mpg more on a run and it wasnt exactly slow. So it cant be any worse in a nova!

[belmont_dazz]

Finally got round to sorting my suspension height, got rid of the coilovers for more comfortable springs and uprated shocks.

[tommy8252]

Yeah another 4 door loon

That front bumper looks like a mk1 mondeo front bumper without the gaffa tape lol

Get a v6 in it, you know you want too