My Nova's Rebirth

[jr@corsasport]

looks amazing benn

[Benn]

Cheers JR.

[Benn]

Boring update.

Cars all masked up in the paint bay ready to have the wings and engine bay painted in the morning, so while its in there i thought i'd get a few boring bits painted..
Washer jets repainted.



Nut covers..


Made a lil stand for them..


A coat of silver..



When i fitted my hids, the clip that holds the bulb in needs to be cut, so when i needed to fit a normal bulb for the mot i had to make up a new clip.. bit of old clay...lol can take the weight of the headlamp when holding the bulb...


Last thing i wanted to do was move where some of the water pipe run in the engine bay to the hearder tank..
So make a hole here...


Make a hole here...


Make up a pipe connector.. thats been chaged again since i took the pic..


More tomoz...

[Benn]

Update.

Got to the bodyshop at 7, and finished masking the car up, cleaned out the paint bay..
Steve did the painting...

How i done it home.. :P


Set about cleaning bits up, swaped my rear lights over, and gave the insides a fully clean out. Jhust need to pick which mats.. Vauxhall rubbers? or Vauxhall valour?

Just flat and polished the wings and bay, not happy with a bit on the wing, dsont think it had much lacquar on it as i've sanded thru
But theyve come up nice and flat...







Flat a bit on the bonnet too, as a bird shat on it, it was on there 3hours max and it had made burn marks, polished that up looks sexy.
Can clean it and put the front back together tomoz.

[cavysri16v]

Wasn't sure on the wheels to begin with but seeing them there against the shiny paint, they really set the car off. One incredible nova. nice one!

[Gaz86]

arden blue is a right pig of a colour if theres not enough laquer on it, the basecoat just never seems to come up like polished laquer colour (if that makes sense)

yours looks fine though top job.

[Benn]

Wasn't sure on the wheels to begin with but seeing them there against the shiny paint, they really set the car off. One incredible nova. nice one!

Glad you like them, thank you very much!

arden blue is a right pig of a colour if theres not enough laquer on it, the basecoat just never seems to come up like polished laquer colour (if that makes sense)

yours looks fine though top job.

Never had any probs, just dont think he put as many coats on of lacquar on that wing, the other is fine.. flatted it back so its flat as funk, just how i like them.

Theres a burn mark on the wing,(last pic) has taken the colour off, am very pissed off, normal peeps might not notice tho..

[Gaz86]

i meant when you go through the laquer, it never quite looks right, cos your cutting the flake so to speak.

i saw the burn mark , i got one under my sppoiler where i hit it with the mop at the wrong angle, luckily its under the spoiler.

[Benn]

Ah yeah, nah as soon as you burn thru a layer your screwed.
Will have to be repainted again before billing.

[Gaz86]

oooh leaving it like that for PV then? ill have to get some shamefull upclose shots seing as mine is now brown lmao

[Benn]

Yeah, spend 7-6:30 at the bodyshop yesterday, and 7-1 there today.. i dont be funked to fix it, and just dont have the time.
Hoping most peeps wont notice..lol

[Gaz86]

some nice VS livery would cover that up.

[RobJenko]

smart as ever benn. and no i didnt notice any burns, just saw the sexyness!

[Benn]

hahaha dont do stickers.. just let ones on glass off..

[Benn]

smart as ever benn. and no i didnt notice any burns, just saw the sexyness!

Good

[RobJenko]

well i can proudly say i say benns nova today and wow its awesome! the wheels looked fantastic, the front bumper looks spot on, the engine bay was very sexy, my only problem was i never saw the big man himself

[jr@corsasport]

looked spot on today benn, kept saying to vegas phil must come and say hello, as ive only met you once, and was pissed at the time lmao

well done on making it so so clean

[Benn]

Yeah you should of!
Cheers dude, wasnt as clean as it should have been, was mud all over the place...

[jr@corsasport]

i took that into account lmao

[Rich M]

Aye, car looked good today, wheels are super shiney !! can imagine there a nightmare to keep clean !?

[rc]

looked very nice today mate, first time i'd seen it in the flesh!

[LongLiveTheNova]

Aye, looked shiny as ever.
The wheels look better in real, than in pics

[Benn]

Aye, car looked good today, wheels are super shiney !! can imagine there a nightmare to keep clean !?

Cheers dude, didnt see your car there?
Yeah wheels are hard to keep shiney, find alot of stuff makes them go misty.. they had at the show

looked very nice today mate, first time i'd seen it in the flesh!

Thank you very much, means alot from a man of your skills.

Aye, looked shiny as ever.
The wheels look better in real, than in pics

Cheers dude glad you like the wheels too.

[Gaz86]

looked a million times better this year dont know where you was couldnt see you anywhere, front bumper is absolutely spot on in the flesh.

[Benn]

Cheers dude
Bay looked a bit better but still not right, i do love the front bumper
Did know you made it, was looking for your car...