another nova owning newbie :)

[riggy4]

hi all just joined and was goin to put a few pics of my car up , and seen another nova post haha

but heres mine







began life as a mint 1.0 i bought from some old guy with 29k on clock , an i reshelled a rotten gsi into it, along with a 20xe engine , coilovers , big brakes , stainless exhaust etc, went for a full std exterior look apart from the softstars and had it resprayed about 4 years ago , just lives in my unit now waiting for the good weather so it can have a run out , will prob be turbo'd very soon though just need a few more parts

carl

[y282]

looks clean, not too overdone.

welcome!

[cupraglasgow]

Looks great, dont see many about theses days

[Gizmo!]

Five years ago these were every chav's chariot of choice. Now most of them are dead and you remember that it's not a bad looking little box.

Nicely done and welcome

[benjiegsi]

Top stuff pal

[y282]

Gizmo! said:

Five years ago these were every chav's chariot of choice. Now most of them are dead and you remember that it's not a bad looking little box.

Nicely done and welcome

exactly. keep it clean and just use OE for the mods and you've got a decent car there.

[riggy4]

oh yeah , dont have to worry bout me messing it up haha , im deffo not going to do that , im actually the NW regional head for the PNG (peformance nova group) and we have had the boyracer tag wrongley put onus for years haha .

im aso building another for my mate at the min , but his is a L reg GSI



will be ready for the good weather this year haha ,

[y282]

looks like you're taking it seriously. nice work. i bet the XE in that shell feels a bit nippy too!

[riggy4]

lol , i would be a big fat lyer if i said i dont give it some stick , it does go very well in a little nova shell -in the dry , can be a bit understeer heavey but you do get used to it and its very predictable ,

wont take it out in the wet conditions as there is no traction , and dont want to get it dirty haha

ive been a nova boy for nearly 13 years now , but have also got a mk1 golf cab with needs a big restore so where as i can build a nova blindfolded , im goin to take my time with the golf

[y282]

does it suffer with lift off over as much as the 16v gte astras did?

[riggy4]

i think if someone else drove the car then yes it would , if not more. there is a fair bit of a weight shift when you lift of so it can catch some people out , i have got so used to it that if i am giving it a bit of a thrash through the twisties, you have to just keep the power on or feather it through with some wheelsping understeer

its sounds bad to say , but it does make you smile and laugh and feel 17 again

[y282]

nah, got a lot of time for these. they always looked as though they should have something like that in them when they were originally made. if you've got any more pics, get 'em up!

[riggy4]

i have got millions of pictures of it , a full build thread from before bodyshop , to painting it with my mate and putting it all back together , then to pv shows , vboa shows etc

ill find some good ones and host them up

[jonno990]

I wonder what happens if you were to pull out the hazard warning switch and push it back in upside down

[riggy4]

day i bought it



after fitting the gsi engine



used it as a daily in this form for about a year



then decided to reapint and rebuild

so bought myself a new daily

[riggy4]

jonno990 said:

I wonder what happens if you were to pull out the hazard warning switch and push it back in upside down

nothing as it hasa 1 way diode fitted into the hazzard realy ignition wire :P

it did usedto work though haha

[DannyVTS]

Love it mate very nice

[y282]

blimey, started off a lot more bog standard than i thought it had!

[riggy4]

which soon made way for a more grown up car



so there i was no more dailt small car bouncing around , i started on the nova

[riggy4]

took engine from my other one