Nova XE Full Restore !

[KeithRobinson]

Looking good! Crack on with the rebuild now

[Benn]

Dude she looks great, stright and flat, top work dude,

[Dave Broomfield]

Looking good mate nice to see my old TBs sorry i cut the backing plate wrong

[Big_Chap]

Looking good mate nice to see my old TBs sorry i cut the backing plate wrong

don't suppose you've still got the off-cut lying around?! lol!

Cheers for the comments, not much progress, been waiting on getting the water pump belt and pulleys on. also inside can't be done til everything is all pumped full of wax! get there eventually!

[Dave Broomfield]

don't suppose you've still got the off-cut lying around?! lol!

Cheers for the comments, not much progress, been waiting on getting the water pump belt and pulleys on. also inside can't be done til everything is all pumped full of wax! get there eventually!

No sorry mate, but i do have the disc that came with them you can have that is you want

[Big_Chap]

No sorry mate, but i do have the disc that came with them you can have that is you want

pm'd!

[Big_Chap]

Engine re-fitted!

[Benn]

ooooo that looks nice.

[The Simps]

the standard of nova's really is getting better and better! credit to you mate.

[Big_Chap]

more progress, should be going away to have the throttle bodies wired in etc later in the week.

[Benn]

oooooooo liking the brakes.

[CraigGreen]

Nice paint job by the looks of things.

Crack on!

[Big_Chap]

thats it all wired in and turning off the key! sounds good, tempted to take it for a thrash but no windows mot or tax!

[Benn]

Looks good.

[The Simps]

Good use of wheel nuts dude! nice touch.

Must be getting itchy now!

[CortraGTE]

Very nice mate, but who needs windows? lmao

[Dec.]

Excellent work pal, the engine bay reminds me of john Sheilds old Nova Sport, except he was running Weber Alpha TB's... are yours SBD's?

Dec

[Big_Chap]

Good use of wheel nuts dude! nice touch.

Must be getting itchy now!

wheel nuts?

cheers for all the comments

[Big_Chap]

Excellent work pal, the engine bay reminds me of john Sheilds old Nova Sport, except he was running Weber Alpha TB's... are yours SBD's?

Dec

cheers mate, nah, they ain't SBD one's, they're QED direct to head bodies but still made by jenvey. you think you'll have your sport ready for pv/billing?

[The Simps]

wheel nuts?

cheers for all the comments

They look like wheel nuts on the engine mount!

[Dec.]

cheers mate, nah, they ain't SBD one's, they're QED direct to head bodies but still made by jenvey. you think you'll have your sport ready for pv/billing?

Your car is looking sweet mate, I'm hoping to have mine ready for Billing
Will you be there in yours? I look forward to having a look around it

Dec

[Big_Chap]

They look like wheel nuts on the engine mount!

ah right, nah its just a dome nut to tidy it up abit, went a bit dome nut daft! if you look at the first pic i used em on the bailey tanks and coil, just welded a bolt from the underneath and it means no more bare metal to rust with the old self tapper method plus it looks cleaner

[Big_Chap]

Your car is looking sweet mate, I'm hoping to have mine ready for Billing
Will you be there in yours? I look forward to having a look around it

Dec

yeah should be at both! glad your building a concours sport rather than a gsi, would be putting alot of us to shame!

[Big_Chap]

not much has been happening but when touching up the ream beam i notice a couple of bubbles under the hammerite (of only about 1.5yrs ago!) so and could see surface rust up the inside so decided fack it and rip it all out for shot blast and powder-coat (which i wanted to do to begin with but didn't bother).

i cut the bottom plate out to allow access for the shot blaster as this was the easiest place to re-weld plates back on and also thought it be an idea to add some extra plates for strength, just to be safe! kind of forgot about pictures but here are some poor one from my phone. its now away to be re-shot blasted and then coated, should have it back next week some time and will get pics then







here you can see the "access cuts" this was needed to allow all the rust to be blasted away!

[Big_Chap]

got the beam back and a few other bits done at the same time