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23-09-2006, 18:48
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| MIGWeb User | Lee's Garage righty, had a bit of fun today, having finally finished painting the garage floor...  i got the nova in there, whipeed the engine out and started cutting an bashing! basically cut the headlught panel off, the removed the fixings for the crossmember, at which point the crumpled fromt corner became obvious, so, cut a bit of and panel beated the rest, and used a slide hammer to remove the s shaped crease by the towing eye, then moved the wheel (i.e wedged a bit of wood in the wheel arch to shove it forward where its meant to be)to the right position to help align the cross member, looks like this now   just need to rebox the chassis, then fully remove the cross member and fit the new stuff, easy!  Last edited by lee303; 09-10-2007 at 21:21. |
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23-09-2006, 18:59
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| MIGWeb User | really happy tbh, its going great, got 90% of the crease out and the wheel in the right place, just got to reshape the fliches to suit the new headlight panel and cross member  |
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23-09-2006, 19:00
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| MIGClub Member  | Are you going to put in new inner wings (or donor from a scrapped shell) to tidy it or just repair it & sod the creases etc? Granted your car is all go & not so show, I would see your reasoning if you dont. Glad your getting on with it mind. 
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23-09-2006, 19:02
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| MIGWeb User | not doing new inners, too mush hassle just to make it look nice, i will be doing some more panel beating so they at least look like metal, rather than the sea like surface i have now |
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24-09-2006, 15:45
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then we painted it all up so it looks pretty, and now i've half filled it with a semi bent nova is a great place to work now though, just in the process of adding all the mod cons, even gonna have a rack for cups by the sink  | |
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24-09-2006, 16:52
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| MIGClub Member  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South London/ Surrey Drives: ACT Nova TBs &more;) iTrader: (35)
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| Sweet, Here's my CV.... Tea boy.... Makes a poor cup of tea. For a smile will stir tea with his chap. Pay: Nova bits.... When do i start??? Lee good progress, and nice 'shop.
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24-09-2006, 19:42
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| MIG Regions / South Central Regional Coordinator  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Fareham,Hants Drives: A shineeeey Let Nova iTrader: (25)
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| looks good, glad its getting started on. doesnt look to bad..
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24-09-2006, 19:47
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| MIGClub Member  | Looking good lee, looks like you have a busy winter ahead. What sort of paint did you use on the floor and where did you get it from?
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24-09-2006, 19:50
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rick, we used wickes garage floor paint for the top coat, but for the first coat we just used normal floor paint, as it is cheaper, cos on the first cost the floor is still a bit porous so the paint wont go so far, we even went as far as to paint the concrete with some PVA sealer before the first coat, but it still took twice the amount of paint the top coat took | |
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24-09-2006, 19:54
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in 6 months time it will have a liberal coating of a mixture of coolant, water and oil to keep it looking nice and shiney
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24-09-2006, 19:59
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24-09-2006, 23:53
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| MIGWeb User | Doesn't look to bad after all! Hope the rebuild ges smoothly and we get to see it on a trackday again soon!! Simps. p.s. are you actually able to take it on a UK trackday with being such a noise whore? |
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25-09-2006, 00:00
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25-09-2006, 10:12
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25-09-2006, 16:00
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| MIGWeb User | you have to be invited to pop up now, we've gone all posh as for me getting double space, well, i havent! we're making a fab shop/drive in work area in the other half of the front, and as such we dont want any more cars in there i'm afraid, be it astra or nova! |
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26-09-2006, 20:37
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| MIGWeb User | well, got a new air chisel tody, so cut the crossmember off, and chucked the new ones at it just to have a look, should be fine, needs a bit more metal work obviously, but its gettng there!   |
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26-09-2006, 23:07
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| MIGWeb User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nr St Ives, Cambs Drives: 600+hp Corsa Merit iTrader: (7)
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| Good to hear its coming back together. Anything is fixable really as long as you know what your doing, which clearly you do. Did you actually get a final map done on the engine ? |
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