bargain of the century!!!

rwdmad · 01-04-2008, 15:01

rite been looking at loads of miggers project threads for a while now and been wanting to do one of my own but i had a slight problem !!. I didnt have a car lol so finally got my a** into gear today and found one for sale local for £300 so went to view it thinking it would be a pile of crap and was absolutely stunned

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It is a white e reg mk1 with full gte kit on it including skirts set of tsw alloys, semi smooth boot sunroof

, interior has had red and grey sri interior fitted which i love also mk 2 dash and sri 6 dial clocks, it has boot popper etc, so popped the boot and found a brand new 4" powerflow exhaust aswell which i could have, only problem is it looks like it been painted in emulsion with a brush

but on the good side it is totally rust free and absolutely solid.
had some oy racer stickers on lk gmax etc when nothing is on the

so out came the stanley and came straigh off...

digi camera is on charge at the min and besides that i do not know how to pust pics so if someone can let me know how you post them i will get some up later on or tomorow.

**Melv** · 01-04-2008, 15:23

Pics - create an account on www.photobucket.com, upload from your PC / Laptop, copy the IMG tag and paste it up.

£300 sounds good for a decent nova shell. Hopefully its as solid as you think when the bumpers etc come off

rwdmad · 01-04-2008, 15:28

aye hope so lol well had good look underneath and it solid doors are solid and so are sills etc so hopefully nothing behind bumpers but will b wipped off soon anyway as going for mk2 front end .. not very fussed on mk1 for some reason

rwdmad · 01-04-2008, 15:43

pictures are bit too light as was super sunny outside and had camera on wrong setting only managed to take 4 pics and then battery died on me so will have to leave till tommorow to take more

lol

will try get some more of interior etc and better quality pics tomorow. jamie

**CraigGreen** · 01-04-2008, 16:24

Its got potential. Wheels need throwing at the nearest wheelie bin however.

Strip it right down, sand her back & have a nice paint job done.

Steve! · 01-04-2008, 16:35

tax till June

MSG · 01-04-2008, 16:49

apart from the foggy pictures, car looks good for the price you paid.

MSG · 01-04-2008, 16:50

Check your Oiul gauge its showing too much oil pressure/level.

rwdmad · 01-04-2008, 23:31

hi msg oil gage is goes like that until i till car turns on. car was turned of when pic taken, craig wheels are going mate going for set of vauxhall allooys maybe cav slabs or softstars etc not sure yet , any ideas ???

McFall1984 · 02-04-2008, 02:04

set of sr wheels, keep her original

show n shine · 02-04-2008, 08:52

cav slabs will look the part on the wee car

rwdmad · 02-04-2008, 19:11

UPDATE:

brakes wernt working when brought home yesterday so had spare set of calipers ready to fee but then l;ater found out that they had brand new pads its just they wernt bleeded so first job was to bleed them.
then removed the cheesey neons from under the car and one smashed in my hand took huge chunk out lol, so as all the wiring by the fusebox was in a mess as they had a relay etc for the neons i started chopping at it and then discoverd that the boot popper isnt working now :@ grr ... any one know how to wire theese up ??? and also hehe found what i thought was a cap on the exhaust to b a nice peco backbox so that b up for sale in the classifieds now

will try get some pics tomorow when gonna flatten whole car ...

rwdmad · 03-04-2008, 18:36

UPDATE:
just bought 2.0l mount set of christ astley and also got set of conversion shafts of ebay, been looking thhrough jamie gsi16v's progress thread and seen he put tiger seal on his rubber mounts , any one know what this is for and what are the advantages of it ???

rwdmad · 03-04-2008, 18:39

also started falettening the runs on the car earlier with some 1500 gritt as car going to have mk2 front end on soon and also respray in vauxhall flame red, havent been able to get any pics at the minute as my brother is using the car till sunday as he blew up his 106 gti engine so needs it for back and fprth till then

n.m sunday will b taking mk1 front end off and start flattening the whole car ready for spray job, also the 1.2 carb engine will b out sunday with bit of luck as this choke business is doing my head in hahah

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 12:27

UPDATE:

well over last week havent had time to update this or take any pics as my digi camera broke so took engine out, completely degreased and steam cleaned engine bay and give it a coat of primer, i cant beleive how solid this car is there is no rust in the engine bay what so ever.. take a look

new mk2 wings fitted

engine bay in primer

sumner2k3 · 13-04-2008, 12:35

mint that is.. looks lk a really solid shell.. u always find the mint novas dont u lol

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 12:36

haha yip :P and the bargains

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 14:50

UPDATE:
also juswt bought front and rear gsi bumpers, will be picking them up next saturday

wayne451 · 13-04-2008, 14:57

I am pretty certain those wheels are Smiths Twisters and not a TSW model.

Does look solid that.

chris_veccy · 13-04-2008, 14:58

that looks one solid nova

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 15:04

hi guys thanks for the comments yip it sure is one solid car and thje best thing about it is it only owes me £155 at the minute hehe

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 15:07

Quote:

I am pretty certain those wheels are Smiths Twisters and not a TSW model.

Does look solid that.

haha just had the centre caps of the boy who sold me the car and the wheels do say smitths wayne so i guess you right lol me bad

mark106mark · 13-04-2008, 15:42

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Originally Posted by MSG

Check your Oiul gauge its showing too much oil pressure/level.

lol what a tool!!

rwdmad · 13-04-2008, 15:44

haha lol

rwdmad · 14-04-2008, 17:13

UPDATE: small one tho

new lights and indicators came today so trial fitted them to see how the fit as wernt too sure as changed car from mk1 to mk2...