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Well into this idea dude

@@custombodyrepair Blue. The "Steel-Blue" 🙂 🙂 Thanks 🙂

If we were in aus I’d say you are correct 🤣

That’s it mate hardly anyone realises still, everyone things it’s something mega exotic powering it lol

That must have been epic mate 👌

I reckon that might be worth a look for a potential colour for sure 😁

Aw man what a shame after all that work going into it as well 😭

Yeah we know who that is bud, Dan here at our channel oversees the forum for these cars so there isn’t many on the road he doesn’t know the owners of 👍

This sounds awesome

I’d have to agree if I’m honest that I’ve very much gone the same way in recent years and my opinion on colour tends to be that less is more, those scuff plates are definitely one of the first things on the list 👍👍

That’s awesome that you had a showroom nearby mate, you’d probably pick one up nowadays for fairly reasonable money 👍

Thank you bob, very much appreciated 👍

Thank you so much 👍

Definitely mate the wheels are going to be the difficult one to decide on, we are considering diamond cutting those thin black bits on the faces

@@custombodyrepair that would look epic

Some great ideas here Phil, especially like the sound of the interior scheme 👍

@@custombodyrepairWell im sure you will get plenty of ideas for sure looks the goods. Love the work you do.

@@Snip59 thanks a million Phil, we’re only just getting going with the content but we have some huge projects planned to try and really bring some entertainment to you and our other followers 👍

The martini racing colour schemes have always been great looking to be fair

That’s a solid point mate and a cracking idea

It's nothing like a Porsche 962!

@@kramer26 Understood, It just reminded me of one and my memory could be off a bit as well.

@@aaronsnell9383 fair enough lol, I guess it's in recent memory for me since I've been building a scale version of the 956 Le Mans car in Rothmans colours so I've been up to my eyeballs in research and reference material lol

Mate that sounds like a monster 🤣 we do love a eureka to be fair but I can imagine what it was like in aus, air con must have been the first thought with any closed in kit car lol and Rosso corsa would definitely suit it I think. To top it off. The chap who took Eureka to Australia is Allan Purvis and he’s a really nice guy, spoken to him a few times over the years.

@@custombodyrepair Purvis made a Targa top version with increased headroom which I retrofitted. And I painted it Rosso Corsa as my brother had a '79 Ferrari 308GTS at the time. I lived in Sydney in those days so it got warm but not nasty humid like further north. I got by with the top off in summer. Pity I can't post pics. These days I have a resto-mod 944 but I have a soft spot for the Eureka/Nova. Seriously though if you could fit a modern liquid cooled alloy head/block 2L engine it would transform the car power and sound wise. No more 'dak-dak' VW sound. Have fun!

Pretty cool ain’t it mate 👍

@@custombodyrepair sure is 👌🏼

Navy blue sounds quite interesting actually as well, it’s definitely going in the hat for consideration 👍

@@custombodyrepair i look forward to seeing the final result/ the car final colour that you choose

Mine’s navy blue which is nice … but I think lighter colours show off the curves of the body better, especially lower down 👍

One of my all time favourite colours mate it’s a real contender that one 👌

Easily one of the best colours ever to grace a car 👌

Yes they are sort of available if you know where to look and if you have very deep pockets, we can point you in the right direction if you need one 👍

That’s a good shout that mate, we’ve not considered that one yet but it’s definitely going in the hat 👍

Definitely a good strong colour that mate, we’ve been bouncing round the idea of sort of a BRG pearl over dark base to make it have sort of a deep emerald glow but there are so many options and ideas now lol it’s getting really hard to choose

It should bring some fantastic content with it bud 👍

Are you on the Euro-Nova forum?

@@custombodyrepair no I'm not as I'm not very good with tech stuff

@@custombodyrepair but I am on the VW nova kit car page on Facebook

@@fozzie221 we’ll have to take a look at that page also bud 👍

I’ll definitely be taking a look at that boxster build it sounds really interesting, you’re right about it being a sterling in the US though, the sterling was the follow up of the nova for the US market following the success of it on this side of the pond, you seem to be a person in the know who watches the same sort of content as us, any cool ideas for features we can add to put a unique twist on it buddy ?

@@custombodyrepair yep, it was a full season of the show with Ian Roussel. Well worth a watch, should be able to find it on here... I like the Gulf liveried example since the Sterling is similar in profile to a GT40, so you could go down that route or take inspiration from other GT40s that raced in period. Or you could go really wild and copy a current or historic F1 scheme, or do a crazy artistic livery like BMW used to do...

@@kramer26 we have been discussing the gulf colour scheme but in all fairness it’s been done to death on nova’s over here so we sort of shelved the idea in favour of something a bit more unique, I love the idea of going down the F1 livery route though that sounds great, still not sure wether to airbrush some unique designs on or not also the trouble is with something like this if we go full custom I guess there is a fine line between unique and tacky so we are totally stuck at the moment 🤣

It’s definitely on for a colour change Tim, we just can’t make up our minds as to what colour to paint it yet 🤣

Can’t argue with a classic 👍

Have you changed them to electric linear actuator or hydraulic rams and hinges like on our nova ?

@@custombodyrepair I have electric linear actuators

@@user-do1pg4vr9w ok so it should be easier to get the actuators running evenly compared to the hydraulic route as with the hydraulic pump it naturally delivers fluid to the closest ram first or at least that’s how it usually seems on the canopies as usually the right side hits the top position just after the left side but obviously with electric you are just delivering 12v to each actuator and wiring length should be fairly similar so you shouldn’t have to factor in any real voltage drop to any one particular side, I apologise in advance if I ask anything that might seem like it has an obvious answer but I just want to understand exactly what’s happening so we can help if at all possible, firstly when mounting the actuators have you measured and mounted them at exactly the same height on the body on both sides and also could it be possible one or both of them are shifting around on the mounting points causing the canopy to rise unevenly, I seriously doubt either of these will be your issue as you are obviously really capable to have even gone down the electric actuator route and installed them but if we start at the most obvious possibilities and work back from there hopefully we can help with it

@@custombodyrepair I am pretty sure I measured and mounted them correctly, the problem is the driver side is coming down further than the passenger side, and I can't figure out why, hopefully you can help

@@user-do1pg4vr9w so there’s going to be a few options to get where you need to be I think so do you know which actuators you have, brand/model etc or can you send me a link of which ones you purchased so I can check out wether they have built in end limit switches ?

We have actually been discussing a slightly customised version of this colour almost like an emerald green pearl so it could well go that way

That eureka does look good 👍

No buddy they have a vw air cooled in from standard but there have been some insane engines put in by various owners over the years lol

You know what they say mate, it’s definitely a small world 👍👍

@@custombodyrepair you literally are 2 mins away too

@@AnthonyCrowley-xj1kq good stuff mate, you know where we are if you need us now 👍👍

@@custombodyrepair yeah deffo mate… need some body work doing on my car at some point

It’s funny you mention electric as it’s a project we’ve had in mind for some time and we are possibly going to do some sort of electric conversion on something cool but it’s a down the road project when we have a large enough following I think 👍

Depends on your point of view. As a Nova owner since 1986, I’ve seen many water cooled conversions that hit problems or never see the light of day. Recently a good friend removed a problematic Subaru from a Nova he bought and returned it to the traditional aircooled motor. As for me, I took my Nova out for a blast in the Fife countryside this evening with her 1776 Type 1 engine and we had an absolute blast! #lovinglife!

Not always. I had the Australian version called the Eureka with a Targa Top with increased headroom.. I put in a Toyota 2TG Twin Cam with 2x45 Webers (Yamaha heads) and it pumped out 160+ hp. It was rocket ship. Guy here put Ford 2L OHC engines, Mazda rotaries and other engines. Not hard to do. Radiator in front and poly pipes run nicely down the inside of the side panels to the engine.

Yeah pretty much mainly for show lol although the air cooled gives it a certain charm lol

Not always. I had the Australian version called the Eureka with a Targa Top with increased headroom.. I put in a Toyota 2TG Twin Cam with 2x45 Webers (Yamaha heads) and it pumped out 160+ hp. It was rocket ship. Guy here put Ford 2L OHC engines, Mazda rotaries and other engines. Not hard to do. Radiator in front and poly pipes run nicely down the inside of the side panels to the engine.

@@944geek85 but dont they still use a beetle floorpan and chassis setup?