Clio V6 Owners/Buyers thread.

[VIICarCare]

oooh!

 

[Ali]

And a front end respray...of course!

 

[BREMBO]

about time! cant wait Ali

 

[Ali]

Me either. It goes to get the cage and harnesses fitted early Jan. Same boy that restored the old boys Elan is doing it. I'm confident in his ability.

Technically it's due a belt change this year, June i think, but i'm going to leave it till winter next year and ship it down south to SG Motorsport. Onyl doing 1-2k miles in it a year just now. Or zero this year.

 

[R-Sport.]

I can keep it warm this winter.....

S

 

[Ali]

It's got a new fleece lined cover to do that Steve! But cheers for the offer!

 

[BREMBO]

You not got that awesome air chamber thing?

 

[gaz44]

As much as I don't like them, it is a mint V6 that you own. Good write up.

 

[Ali]

As much as I don't like them, it is a mint V6 that you own. Good write up.

Mines average compared to some, i just take better photos.

Nah, it's out the bubble just now getting some bits sized up etc. Harnesses etc.

 

[Ali]

Safety Devices cage now fitted:

 

[Matthew]

Utter utter p**n mate.

It's a credit to you.

 

[Gally]

It's certainly not going anywhere is it!

 

[Fletcher]

Love it Ali.

 

[TimR26]

Cage looks great

 

[Ali]

It's certainly not going anywhere is it!

No one would buy it anyway! Modified and over 40k miles, may as well be Cat D now!

 

[Gally]

Lols at over 40k!

 

[ColinG]

No one would buy it anyway! Modified and over 40k miles, may as well be Cat D now!

Ph-shed IIRC

 

[.GAZ.]

RS Clio p**n.

Pitty it's Jewish owned.

 

[EdV6220]

Stunning, love this car!

 

[HKSAR]

Safety Devices cage now fitted:

Hi Ali

Very nice roll cage. Would you please tell me where did you get this roll cage? I would like to get one for my Vee which is a 2002 phase 1.
I just fitted a pair Sparco bucket seats on my Vee. See image attached.

 

[Ali]

HKSAR - Cage is from Safety Devices. Bought through Corby Motorsport, it took 4 months to come!

I 'kind of' regret fitting the cage, more pose than purpose in my case. Issues are you have to hack the engine cover to bits which looks messy, but also means it's alot louder. In addition to this it becomes much stiffer at the back, so now i get quite alot of understeer; this can be corrected but worth taking into account.

I had the cage fitted at a motorsport workshop and it was a time consuming (read expensive) job! - If you have the facilities and tools, it's not a hard job!

 

[Ali]

Couple of photo's since i'm on.

Also car will come off the road soon and in for some fairly major work. Belts, Clutch, Flywheel, headwork, valves, exhaust, blah blah blah...Blank Cheque affair. Oh and another repray.

 

[Craig.]

Awesome

 

[EdV6220]

That first pic is awesome

 

[Ali]

A Vee on track.................Pratically CAT D now!

 

[Jon.G]

Lovely Vee. Didn't realise you still had it, are you planning on keeping it a while?

 

[Fred@BTM]

he's keeping it so he can respray it 4more times

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

he's keeping it so he can respray it 4more times by January

Efa

I've seen where its kept, royalty have lived in worse hotels FFS

 

[Ali]

he's keeping it so he can respray it 4more times

Driven hard and pampered, best of both worlds surely!

 

[Stefan.]

bloody amazing!! clio v6's are just awesome end of!

 

[Ali]

Plans for 2013: Unlikely to make it onto the road though.

Bodywork:

New Front Bumper - (Fox killed the other one)
Rear bumper mod to expose exhuast
Partial respray.

Interior:

Lower seats
Retrim steering wheel
Retrim headliner and pillars
New Clear Engine Cover

Mechanicals:

Full Cambelt Service
Aux Belts
New Clutch
Plugs, Fluids
General Health Check...Think an oil seal needs replaced somewhere
New Exhaust (custom box, link pipe delete)
Airbag wiring issue
New undertray
New Arch liners and Grills as part of front bumper replacement.

That should about cover it!

 

[B00mer]

Good read, never fancied the Blue on the V6 but those pictures look really good.

Always liked the look of a Black/Mars Red V6 best.

I best get saving

 

[couzens]

Why won't it make it to the road Ali? Bit dissapointing

 

[Gaz_]

Love it!

Even if it will weigh 100kgs more with all that extra paint

 

[Ali]

Why won't it make it to the road Ali? Bit dissapointing

Just other priorities this year Ryan. We'll see.

 

[Ali]

Plans for 2013: Unlikely to make it onto the road though.

Bodywork:

New Front Bumper - (Fox killed the other one)
Rear bumper mod to expose exhuast
Partial respray.

Interior:

Lower seats
Retrim steering wheel
Retrim headliner and pillars
New Clear Engine Cover

Mechanicals:

Full Cambelt Service
Aux Belts
New Clutch
Plugs, Fluids
General Health Check...Think an oil seal needs replaced somewhere
New Exhaust (custom box, link pipe delete)
Airbag wiring issue
New undertray
New Arch liners and Grills as part of front bumper replacement.

That should about cover it!

Thought i best update this a little..seeing as 95% of the above never got done last year.

Unfortunately the Vee has only been out the garage once in the last 14months...And straight to Protek (Gally) Bodyshop to have some cosmetic work done following a minor altercation with a fox in 2012.

Now I'm turning my attention to the above list or at least parts of it. Some aspects I've changed my mind on.

Couple of crappy iphone pics send by the old boy. I've still not seen it since it came out the bodyshop!

Ali

 

[VIICarCare]

bloody love this thing.

 

[cat171]

We're nearly at the end of Jan, surely it's had one respray already this year ?

 

[Ali]

We're nearly at the end of Jan, surely it's had one respray already this year ?

Ha! Behave! Maybe after a trip to Spa.

 

[Fletcher]

Looking good mate.