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Ph-quick is here!!



  Turbo'd lude, Astra
Sorry for this being a bit mismatched, i just copied alot of it from anther project thread i have going... im sure you get the jist of it anyway :)

Well the williams has gone.....

So here is my new vehicle, its a 2000 W phase 1 172.

Titanium Silver with 58k on the clock, totally standard.

There are going to be many major changes going on before FCS, the car will be complete and how i want it by the end of may :)

Few pics from when I first got home....

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One of my mates rang me (aliengravy) and was desperate to see it so off i went, on the condition he would fit my headunit for me, anti thief stylee.

Here is one pic of it fitted

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Side strips off and clear side repeaters fitted....

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All renault badges etc removed.....

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So now we started on the spraying.... i primered everything up, left James to spray lol.

Here are the results.

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So the badges are now on and so are the side strips :) Well one side of them lol other side is still black plastic till tomorrow!

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So me being impatient i wanted to get my car sorted lol
So out i sent my sisters bloke in the snow to start helping me remove the passenger side door handle!

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Snow on top of the car lol

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Totally f**ked my interior door handle though :( New ones on there way!!

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And a few other pics of the colour coding whilst waiting for Lee to turn up...

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And you can see from this pic the drivers handle isn't changed yet lol

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Ok so a few more updates from this weekend! :)

The engine cover is painted....

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And the phase 2 rear lights have been fitted, look so much better imo.... had to do a bit of rewiring though lol

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So.... I have just found out that my lowering springs are on the way to me.... WOOOOO!!! :D

And my new door handles have turned up too :) Hope fully get them fitted this evening!!

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So now fitted are the ph-quick stickers on my side skirts :)
Heres a few pics!!

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So today was the day the interior and exterior door handles were fitted :D
Pics during and the finished product.....

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Then after a good old wash and polish went out and took some pics :)

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So thats one wheel down and 4 to go....
In Primer

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Painted up

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And now in Laquer

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A few pics up against the car, this wheel will be going on tomorrow so will get better pics then :)

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And the lowering springs...... :D

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Ok so one wheel is on, another finished... the spare wont have the oz racing decals on as i can't seem to find anywhere selling ones with just 2 decals they sell them in sets of 8 :(

Heres a few pics, more to come later when the next wheel is on :)

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And one of my oz f1's has got a massive chunk out of it on one of the spokes, our guess is that something got wedged between the wheel and he calliper and took a chunk out of it.... now on the look out for another wheel as im not 100% sure if my wheel isn't buckled. :(

Oh well the joys of owning a renault lol....

So one side is all gunmetal now :)

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And the rim.... no pics of the pads as they got throw out before i could take a pic :(

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Ok so this is how the afternoon went..... lol

Rolled up at James's at 2pm.... sprung on him i needed my silver vision bulbs fitted lol so off to work he went lol

This is before

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This is after.... No more tango'd car for moi!!! :rasp:

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Then we started the lowering process.... James didn't look too convinced after taking the first wheel off to find all bolts rusted and seized solid!!

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Then with a mixture of James's brute force, the blow torch and the airgun, we managed to get the first 2 bolts off!!!

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We then had the battle of the top mount, after breaking 2 reducer bits for the sockets and nearly rounding the bloody thing off we got it off..... just our luck it then started to rain but that wasn't stopping James... we battled on lol This is how the car was left lol

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So then the cute lil dogs wanted to supervise.... Making sure James was doing his jobs properly lol!!

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And the shock was now back in, just checking he'd done it properly again.

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Repeated the process for the other side but in the process we hit a slight problem and had to go over to james's mums to see if we could find the correct spanner as the one we had was just trying to round off.... on our little drive there and back we bumped into a couple of people in a blue 106 trying to get it on, well this woman was clearly sucking this bloke off.... we couldn't believe it on the way there so on the way back we stopped next to this car and the lady in the car looked most shocked LOL.... on we carried with our journey after that lil bit of excitement.

So the other side was finished, wheels back on and ready to lower the car down :) Once lowered down this is how it looked

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Then onto the back of the car.... this was reasonably easier than the front although being a renault it was still a lil bit of a bugger.

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So here it went.... from this

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And the finished pics!!!

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A massive thankyou to James for giving up his afternoon to lower my car... it only tok 5 hours lol

Comments welcome as always :)
 
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  BG 182
What a quality progress thread! I read every word of that, cracking car too mate! Any more plans for it?
 
Looks loads better now than when you got it :approve:

When I saw the badges I thought they were a bit dark for the car, seeing them on it, they look a lot better.

Only thing I think would look better imo, is to do the diamonds on the wheels a lighter colour so they stand out. The wheels look great though & the stickers look cool.

I'm not into the ph quick stickers that much really, I find them a bit tacky now.
 
looks brilliant, well done mate, love the front of the phase 1 172's. looks reallllly good, u gettin phase 2 rear bumper...?
 
  182
Took an hour and half-ish to do mine, (grey one in background) and i said to laura prob only take an hour now i know what to do! but her nuts and bolts where so siezed and rusty it just took forever!
5 hours to lower?! Half an hour at most

Car looks well tho :)
 
C

cliosportheth

that looks a mint clio,pretty imac too,plus a thumbs up on the quality spray job on the wheels and the engine cover,although a bit confused how ya managed to get the stickers to stay on,ie the 2.0l look forward to seein it at fcs
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
And moving on....

I have had the car 4 weeks today, so things have moved pretty quickly....

I am on the hunt for a phase 2 rear bumper, and last time i spoke to my local scrappy he has a couple of phase 2 172's in, so im off there this week to see what i can find. Cup spoiler will be on its way to me this week, just have to pay for the last half of it this evening.

Also one rear arch is rotton, i first thought i would be a thing for my dent and paint guy but its not... so hopefully before FCS it will be going into the body shop to have both of those sorted. Courtesy of my 21st birthday money lol

I need to get some new interior grab handles as mine seem to have chunks out of them and been painted before.... think thats another thing for the scrappy tbh. And I need to decide on a front splitter too. May also look out for a phase 2 boot too.... much better than the phase 1.

In a few weeks i should be having new driveshafts fitted as they both have buggered CV joints and knock and vibrate like crazy. And im on the look out for a steering rack too as that has excessive play in... can't be bothered faffing about with just the track rods, i would much rather save up and put a fresh one on there :)

The other wheels should hopefully be done tonight.

The 2.0 stickers were from ebay for £2.70 posted so a good bargain....

Thanks for the comments, alot of work has gone into this car over the past few weeks :)
 
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  LY V6 with Recaros
Looks great, so much better than it did at the start.

You done a great job on the wheels.
 

Coby.

ClioSport Club Member
  XC60-R.......V40-R
Coming Along Nicely... I want your Wheels :(

Wish I had enough spare cash to keep a constant changing process on mine, It goes through stages, Can't wait to see this car :)
 
  Chocolate Bar™
looks lovely! as said do the diamonds on your wheels silver to match the decals and will look spot on
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
Thanks everyone :)

I'm going to do the diamonds at the same time that i paint my callipers silver.... still got some paint left from the side strips so thats good.... :)
 
  Evo 6, E92 320d
If you want a ph2 boot lock Cit-ren have/had some on ebay. Car looks great btw. General tidying on mine and ill have a looker to:)
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
Your not too far away from me.... colchesters about 25 mins :)

I reckon we need to get mini meet sorted soon!

In relation to the boot, i think getting a whole boot maybe easier tbh... but will deffo keep a look out on ebay :)
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
Great read, car looks really good!!! How and what did you use to paint the engine cover?

Primered with halfords grey primer and then the actual colour is Ford Graphite Grey available form halfords already mixed.... its about £5 a can. :)
 
nice work mate, cars looks awesome

im doin the same thing as you (only my wheel are gunmetal turini's)

the next thing is to lower

wasnt too sure about the gunmetal badges but seeing them on the car i quite like em:eek:
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
nice work mate, cars looks awesome

im doin the same thing as you (only my wheel are gunmetal turini's)

the next thing is to lower

wasnt too sure about the gunmetal badges but seeing them on the car i quite like em:eek:

Thankyou, i wasn't sure about them to start off with but now i love them, going to paint the 2.0 16v on my side badges this week :)
 
  BMW F31
very nice looking :)

not sure if i would have done the wheels as dark but prob looks better in the flesh!

otherwise very sexy :)
 
  Bumder With A Buffer
Only just seen your thread.

Car looks good il look out for you "garying" it around Stow more now!! ;)
 
  Turbo'd lude, Astra
pmsl.... your the one g-ing it up ;)

Now all the family are spotting you too, but it would be quite sad if i posted everytime lol
 


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