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Author Karisma's '84 nova saloon 2 door
karisma_corsa
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24th Jun 13 at 12:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cheers for the comments. Gonna refurb the wheels either silver again or full polish with coloured inserts.

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Looks great buddy are they BMW alloys?
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quote:
Originally posted by karisma_corsa
Cheers for the comments. Gonna refurb the wheels either silver again or full polish with coloured inserts.



Silver again for that lovely OEM look its got! Not sure if coloured centres would ruin it :/
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I wouldn't do coloured centres. Only the inserts or spoke windows as theyre known.
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Headunit installed into glovebox to keep the original in oem location. This will be retrimmed in brown carpet or vinyl ASAP. Just used grey as that's all I have spare. + headunit doesn't sit square so ill redo it as I have a new jigsaw

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I finally had chance to wash and polish the car properly as i havent since owning the car.

The pictures are very similar to some previously in the thread but I wanted to do comparison shots as I've dropped the back end lower. This is how it will stay until I can afford skinnier tyres as its the tyres stopping me from going lower!
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Went to lincs evolution show today at Lincoln brayford waterfront. Good small local show. Nova got some good comments and looks.

Rolling shot on the way
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This needs a nice carbed 2.0
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Carbed 20SEH
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Maybe but not anytime soon. Will be far to low for big power. Will be going down at least another 30mm or more
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As I'm best man for my vauxhall mad mate it would be rude not to take him to the church.


Car was on show at sleaford carnival. That's me cleaning my engine bay.




Engine bay cleaned, lots more to do yet.
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Sooooo clean!!! Get the front bumper sorted
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Front bumper ruins it. Otherwise, nice.
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Currently saving for that but cheers guys.
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Here's a comparison shot of the engine bay before and after to show how much work I've put into it so far.

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After


And a piece that bugs the crap outa me. It's the top mount cups visible in the bay.

Before


After



Also while at work I wet vac'd my lower rear bench as its a replacement part as my original was fooooked.
No before but a 50/50 to show how dirty it was
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What a difference in that bay!! Hats off to you buddy!
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Brilliant, makes me want a loon!

They wheels are perfect.

Dave
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Did the bay just clean up or did you have to paint it

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That's original paint. Just spent a long time cleaning. Around 20+ hours easily

Cheers for the comments
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Thought so as there is that flaky bit on the turret. It has come up surprisingly well. Hats off

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Cheers man. If you were closer id have you do all the paint work
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Only 3 hours away

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karisma_corsa
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Lol only. Ill consider it. Will txt you for a chat sometime
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Another bit of OCD. When I fitted the irmscher rocker cover I fitted brand new Allen headed bolts but they looked out of place on the small block so I sourced some standard style hex bolts and set to make them shiney.

Same bolts. Before and after - lettering filed off and then polished, could do with polishing more as there's a few sanding marks left.





Also painted this panel/blank to tidy the bay up a little.


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