Name: Ross
HC Username: Ross



THeres the story from the start...............



I bought i nova sr as a winter car when I had my saxo, but because i cant leave things alone I decided mmmm..... why not put a 2l engine into it. I asked scottrs1 about this idea and he said that yip this would be easy. But I dont know how many months later but I can tell you its definatley NOT EASY!!!!

So scott set about welding the £70.00 nova sr, but we soon realised this was not the best shell to do the conversion on and then we found another one locally that came up for sale, so yip I went and bought that, a 1.2l nova lux. The shell on this one was much better but not rust free

This is a pic of the 1.2l nova when i 1st bought it.







Then I had to find a donar car and it just happend that a friend of mine was selling a calibra, which had its engine rebuilt professionally 2 years ago, so yip u guested it I bought it!!!







next up it was time to take the engine out of the 1.2 nova, we decided lets not do it the normal way, lets put beer in the engine instead of water and let put nuts and bolts into the carborater while the engine was running. so as you can expect the engine blew it up











and then took the old engine out







We took the car back a shell











we soon found out that the nova wasnt as rust free as we thought and scott got pissed of my me going "theres another hole and another one!!!!"

heres a wee list of the welding that had to be done or should i say BIG list!!!!!

both inner wings

front cross member

front slam panel

inner front chassis legs

front bulk head on both sides

some small patches on the floor

one small patch on the boot

rear quater repair panels on both sides

rear chassis leg and valance







Then we started on the floor











On top of all this welding to put a 2l engine into a nova you have to we had to seem weld the whole engine for the extra power









here's a pic of the front chassis leg that has to had about a 1" cut out of it because the 2l engine hits





as i was not going to have back seats i desided to cut off all the brackets for the back seats to make it look better and lose some weight... every gram counts!!











right so it was time to order some parts so i got on the phone to cossvaux and paid for a conversion kit (£400) this is one thing that fu*ked up this whole project as cossvaux took my cash and sent me engine & Gear box mounts,anti Roll Mounts (£100 part of the kit) but no rally driveshafts,hubs,Induction Kit (the other £300 part of the kit) so anyway after 3 months of phoning,e-mail,texts and letters with no answer i found out the they had gone bust so im £300 pound down still



so ended up buying the rally driveshafts,hubs from another



before the car was painted we fitted the omp rollcage









After a lot of welding, buffing, and rubbing down the shell was finally ready for some paint





now it was time to paint it i decided to do the nova toyota black

























SHINEYYYYYYYY!!!!







Once the paint was cured it was given a clean and polish





so now the shell was ready it was time to take the engine out of the calibra











and clean it for painting









After powerwashing the whole block and making sure it was dry, the block was painted.





they we used nitromors to strip the rocker cover













Nitromors is pretty strong stuff and stripped the rocker cover to give a clean surface for painting









now the engine was ready to fit













With the engine in place, the fun began wiring everything up, bolting everything on and generally getting it to look like a car again!





and thats the story about the nova really

cost about 8k to do and that is with scott and my mates doing all work

i would like to say i big thanks to scott,p0pe and everyone who helped