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[guysat]

That's a good looking place to hang out, couldn't see the beer fridge thou'.....?

[novashed]

guysat, on 06 December 2009 - 10:36 PM, said:

That's a good looking place to hang out, couldn't see the beer fridge thou'.....?

all in good time only moved in yesterday and its a 28 mile round trip lol for me, really need a kettle too!

[novashed]

few pics now ive sorted a digicam out....









we are so untidy lol

[novashed]

been a busy xmas holiday, managed to fully repair drivers A pillar, and new sill welded on, repaired all box section at the rear prior to sill being fabbed on, working my round the car now then ill do floor pans and chassis rails, need to get the pics up though.

[costasa]

novashed, on 23 December 2009 - 01:29 PM, said:

few pics now ive sorted a digicam out....









we are so untidy lol

Hello Novashed,
congratulations for your great work in your manta.
Now i'm to try make a rollover like yours to my manta, i don't have many skills welding but i will try. Can you put some more pictures of your rollover and explain a little how to do one?
Thanks, and greetings from Portugal.

[novashed]

cheers costasa, i will get some pics soon for you. i made it from around 8 metres of stell box section, if you like i can give you all the dimensions when im next in the workshop, you will need some tube for the rotating section, one that will fit into another, i just cut a pice of tube up then welded it around another picec to make it bigger as couldnt find any of suitable diameter.
to hold positon when the caris rotated i used an old flywheel with holes drilled in at various points and a tab welded onto the frame and just use an old screwdriver to lock ino position and hold it whatever angle i want.

took a few to make up, i do have a chop saw too which helps cut the angles quicker and neater

[Volksdevil]

Superb project mate Liking the RH Classics too (At least they look like rh's anyway)

Neil.

[costasa]

novashed, on 05 January 2010 - 10:32 PM, said:

cheers costasa, i will get some pics soon for you. i made it from around 8 metres of stell box section, if you like i can give you all the dimensions when im next in the workshop, you will need some tube for the rotating section, one that will fit into another, i just cut a pice of tube up then welded it around another picec to make it bigger as couldnt find any of suitable diameter.
to hold positon when the caris rotated i used an old flywheel with holes drilled in at various points and a tab welded onto the frame and just use an old screwdriver to lock ino position and hold it whatever angle i want.

took a few to make up, i do have a chop saw too which helps cut the angles quicker and neater

Thanks Novashed,
I will apreciate a lot if you give me some dimensions, and i think that it will be important to others if they want to do a rollover. It was interesting if the forum have a DIY section with tips and schematics to do things in our mantas.
I have more a less 6 meters of steel box section i will buy more, and i will try to find some old flywheel.

Cheers
Costa

[novashed]

righty looks like friday and sat are free this week so should see a lot more progress, also bought a cheap ac/dc tig for some ally fab work. diesel heaters have finally arrived too which willt ake the chill off a bit on the exposed farm unit!!!

new work benches are in too just a few more shelves to be added and there good,

olly my unit mate has also invested in a 200ltr petrol compressor, so im going to make a up a blast cabinet out of the ton of wood we have lying about, which will very usefull.

[novashed]

righty looks like friday and sat are free this week so should see a lot more progress, also bought a cheap ac/dc tig for some ally fab work. diesel heaters have finally arrived too which willt ake the chill off a bit on the exposed farm unit!!!

new work benches are in too just a few more shelves to be added and there good,

olly my unit mate has also invested in a 200ltr petrol compressor, so im going to make a up a blast cabinet out of the ton of wood we have lying about, which will be very usefull

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been up today tackling the rear corner and arch, cut it all out and starta gain, welded new corner panle on a,d now in process of arch panel, its pop riveted on to keep it tight again original metalwork until its ready for tacking on, then rebuild the inner arch up., i did take pics but left the camera at the unit.

Edited by novashed, 08 January 2010 - 08:08 PM.

[novashed]

some pics for y'all...

firstly had to show off my tool cart i knowcked up from well known baking company trolley


got 2 of these help take the chill off


lots of work done prior to this sill being tacked on with all the box section and 2 skins underneath,


A post finished and mostly sealed prob only 20% original stell there! bottom section was tricky but took my time and came out well i think


bit rotten! no worse than ,most novas ive owned lol


bit more patching..


rear corner work, shes quite bad here so had no choice but to cut the lot out


olly butchering my old van


inner skin done, this outer tacked on, decided to but weld this part then let the arch panel overlap, so not too many overlpas to deal with


arch panel fettled then pop riveted on to keep it place


filler cap blanked off as a new tank (probably be alloy) is being used in the boot


tacked up and buzzed down


continuing to remove brittle old underseal and expose anymore tinworm i need to deal with

[MickB]

Glad to see it's coming on so well. Wish I could say the same for mine. Currently up on axel stands with offside wing off and inside stripped ready to get underneath and cut out all the rust ready ready for welding new sills and jacking points etc. Doing the work myself now with a freind doing the welding for me, longer time span but cheaper! Look forward to seeing more from yours.

Mick

[novashed]

result today! went to see russ TURBO A today and he has been very kind in hooking me up with a new front valance and a wing, this has saved me lots of days labour trying to repair the originals, also seen his collection of awesoem amchinery, i have to say very impressed and if mine ends up like the standard of his ill be more than pleased.

also dropped into the unit to do some more work. finished all the plating up on the inner rear arch ive been working on, so one side is complete as far as welding goes, working my round the rear end now, ive got to remove the outer lower rear panle to repair the inner as its holed through.

as im at the back its handy time as ive tracked now the rear axle setup if settle on, so any fabrication thats needs doing can be addressed now rather than maybe ruining new metal im putting in.

[novashed]

pics of progress, got another afternoon in today got most of the rear valance rebuilt, had to strip it right back and make a new inner and outer! also cut the spare wheel well out as it was holed but dont like the look either, gave me chance start work on other side of car too, the beginnings of the rear corner boxing taking shape, so a good base to weld to, really pleased with the outcome









aiming for this sort of stance,


made a start on a piece of rot on the rear pillar below the vent, otherside is fine which is good as its a small tricky repair,


new wing offered up too, will need very little fettling to be good which is nice for a pattern part,

[Shug]

Funny you say about a pattern wing. I couldn't get a genuine one to fit at all on my A yet the pattern one was a perfect fit!
That rotary spit thing looks very handy tho. Wish I'd used one, would've made it much easier (as it was I had it on its side tied to the garage wall )

[novashed]

Shug, on 21 January 2010 - 08:50 AM, said:

Funny you say about a pattern wing. I couldn't get a genuine one to fit at all on my A yet the pattern one was a perfect fit!
That rotary spit thing looks very handy tho. Wish I'd used one, would've made it much easier (as it was I had it on its side tied to the garage wall )

i did see that in your build thread lol, it o nly cost like 30quid to build lot safer than welding on your back done that too many time snow, so it was time on this project to do things properly and easily, that way too the underside can be coated with stonechip much more efficiently

[novashed]

more progress again today, i thought about buying the repair panel for other rera corner but that would mean waiting a week or so fr it to come from germany, so. i made it myself instead came out well, got most of the weekend to spend on it too so fingers crossed should see most of otherside done too, will update with pics.

also i keep looking at LS1 prices, im so tempted!!

Edited by novashed, 22 January 2010 - 10:48 PM.

[novashed]

coupleof pics

decided to amke other rear corner myself came out well, im pleased anyway, i wont be headhunted for astonmartin or anything lol, but its solid now and good shape


where i got to today, whilst there had a few visitors, ben borrowed the crane again (comunal crane lol), my bro was up with his sxi mk4 tartging about while i only managed to get one of his locking wheel nuts off!!

bit more tinworm to sort...

[costasa]

Great work Novashed, your manta is starting to look a piece of arte, the wheels that you gonna put are very beautifull.
Are you making a tracker drifter car or a use street car?

Cheers
Costa

Edited by costasa, 23 January 2010 - 11:35 PM.

[novashed]

just a street car, but to my preference keeping retro coolness with modern power and brakes etc