Nova Turbo Build!

[GDN16v]

Well folks, here she is e-coated!



Keith

WOW, thats amazing!! Cant wait to get ours done, it beats stripping it by hand!! What colour you going for Keith?

[KeithRobinson]

Well i've started to clean bits and bobs up for getting the shell back home when its finished painted (about 6-8 weeks time)

I want to have the axel, wishbones, tie bars, fuel tank etc etc all coated for when i get the car back. Also i need to take the running gear with me to build onto the car for its return home, it will make it easier to move around and get secured on the trailer without scratching the new paint.

These are all the nuts, bolts and brackets that i want either chromed or zinc plated, some suggestions of the best place to send these to would be great.



This is everything i need powder coated at the moment, found a local place that should do a very good job.



These are the poweflex bush's from NDZ 1331, i was going to replace them, but you never see them so its not worth it!



These are the rear disc hubs, i cleaned with down with a wire brush on a drill, degreased them, and have given the lower section some paint. Think they turned out quite well, pity you dont see them when fitted!! lol







Thats it for now folks

Keith

[Benn]

very nice dude,
love the subaxels,
did the doors not go for dipping then?

and zinc plating is a kinda browzs colour aint it?

[KeithRobinson]

very nice dude,
love the subaxels,
did the doors not go for dipping then?

and zinc plating is a kinda browzs colour aint it?

Yeah the doors, wings, bonnet and tailgate are all done. The zinc plateing is the bronzy goldy colour. Dont want to be fitting back rusty old bolts!

Would it be possible to source all stainless bolts?

Keith

[Benn]

yep,
would think you can get them all,(sure i have some of them in the garage...


and just wonderd as the door are in the pics...or did you use the doors from the neew sheel and have ndzs doors still?

[KeithRobinson]

The new doors are in england with the shell, and are dipped. Those are just laying in my garage spare.

Keith

[Benn]

ah cool cool,

sure i have the alln key bolts...+the for m10-12

[Dec.]

Shell looks awesome Keith! Im jeleous LOL

I'm using new plated nuts, bolts and washers on mine, you could probably source stainless replacements although they would probably cost a few quid. I'm having all the bespoke metal fittings zinc plated, incidently the yellowey bronze finish will polish up to a silver shine, check the fitting on my carbs, they were zinc plated then polished.

I used:

http://www.collinschemicalblacking.co.uk/

They were very good.

Rgds,
Dec

[KeithRobinson]

Excellent Dec, cheers for that! I'll send off the batch of nuts and bolts i have above, and see how they turn out, then get more done once the shells home and i can access what i really need to get done!. Do I have to prep them myself first? or will they chemically clean them for me?

Keith

[The Simps]

Before you send off your bits for powder coating keith consider the mods to the front tie bar mounts

[Dec.]

Excellent Dec, cheers for that! I'll send off the batch of nuts and bolts i have above, and see how they turn out, then get more done once the shells home and i can access what i really need to get done!. Do I have to prep them myself first? or will they chemically clean them for me?

Keith

I had my alternator stabiliser bracket done and it was coated in a horrible hard black plastic coating, whatever the dipped it in stripped it right back. Personally I would send the bits to them stripped down to bear metal (wired mopped) and coated in light oil to keep the rust at bay. When they come back plated they will be a yellow / gold finish, if you spend a bit of time with some autosol they'll polish up to a silver shine, only a light polish though, don't cut through the plating! (the throttle linkage, fuel union and some other nuts etc are examples of the bits I had done below)



You'll find that a lot of the nuts and bolts can be replaced with M8,M10, M12. They are readily availble. i.e. the nuts on the antiroll bar brackets are just M10's.



I know what you mean though, you can't fit back rusty nuts and bolts... but it's very easy to get carried away lmao

Dec

[NovaNath]

You need to match the tensile strength of any nuts and bolts you replace; it's spec is usually stamped on the head of the bolt.. 8.8 12.9 etc (12.9 being stronger). Except that i think stainless bolts are rated differently because they're softer:

Presently we offer standard metric fasteners in A2 grade stainless steel, perfect for corrosion resistant applications and ideal for general motoring, motorcycling and marine duties. If you are replacing ordinary steel bolts then please be aware that A2 stainless steel has a slightly lower tensile strength than standard 8.8 grade plain carbon steel bolts.

taken from http://www.stagonset.co.uk/fasteners...FSoMQgoddynw1w
(don't know how to condense the link, sorry)

Hope this is of some use.

[The Simps]

You need to match the tensile strength of any nuts and bolts you replace; it's spec is usually stamped on the head of the bolt.. 8.8 12.9 etc (12.9 being stronger). Except that i think stainless bolts are rated differently because they're softer.

Good gen that

[KeithRobinson]

Cheers for that! I'm sending all the main suspension bolts to get plated now. But would be nice to have some stainless ones to replace any others.

[CraigGreen]

I'd get new bolts from GM & have them plated in high stress areas ie Tie bar brkt bolts & bottom arm (TCAs) bolts etc.

[KeithRobinson]

The main suspension bolts were all renewed on the last nova so i'm plating those. They only got about 5k of use lol.

[CraigGreen]

Mine are in the packets still. Not sure about chrome, could be like putting a platinum, bling ring on a tramps finger.

[Benn]

could be like putting a platinum, bling ring on a tramps finger.

very nice of you?

[KeithRobinson]

Update,

Well to say that i'm very very pissed off, wouldnt even scrape the surface of the anger i'm feeling these past two days.

My doors arrived on monday, a swift phone call from Ade at the bodyshop to confirm that they are completely thrashed. I'm still cannot believe how this has happened!

When the doors were ordered from opel classic parts, we gave them strict instructions that they had to be extreamly well packaged and that i would not accept any doors with so much as a scratch on them.

This is what arrived:







They came in cardboard boxes with no protection what so ever, no bubble wrap, no padding, and nothing written on the boxes to say they were fragile.

They agreed on monday to send more doors on receipt of these pictures. I sent them and got no reply, 6 phone calls later a fella answers to tell me he doesnt speak english, then tells me in perfect english that the girl who speaks english will be back tomorrow at 9am.

I just hope she's there tomorrow and that they actually listen this time and properly package the doors.

Keith

[Benn]

Funking hell!
that door might as well be scrap with that corner bent over,

Sorry to see there in that state,i thought about that when looking at buying bits from him too.

[LongLiveTheNova]

Fook me, how did they get that wrecked, folded over corners

Certainly not what you expect to receive when you buy new doors.

[KeithRobinson]

Exactly, the courier must have been throwing them into the vans.

[Kev_cav]

whats happened to the old doors off the car?

[Lee H]

whats happened to the old doors off the car?

Got damaged between e-coating and the bodyshop IIRC.

[Byron]

bloody hell. cant just blame the courier - thats negligence of the highest order from the company who packaged them too.