LiquidRich
ClioSport Club Member
LY R27
Given with whats been done, and what will be done to our 182 over the next 2 months I thought I'd put up a progress thread
As some of you may know the cars previous owner was Bubbles, we brought it in October 2007. Bubbles did a great job of looking after it, but me being me needed it better (that means cleaner lol).
Anyway, after a good clean this is what she looked like
And one of it next to what was then our brand new R27
After a few months I needed to sort some new pads out so I thought I'd fitted a set of stainless braided lines at the same time.
Given that I wanted both the Clio's to look a like I thought I'd paint the calipers, so I order some of that caliper paint stuff off the tinternet.
The car started acting up one morning and I tracked it down to a misfire in cylinder number 3. Turns out the lead had broken down and popped the coil pack. So after a new coil pack, new plugs and a set of Magnecore leads the problem was solved. There not too desimilar to these
Next was a new wheel coz one of them had a bit of a scratch on it, so now I have a spare
After some stupid bint cracked the passenger wing I had the whole front end resprayed to get rid of the stone chips. I had all the work done by and fantastic bodyshop and they got the match c**k on, came at a price though, just over £1700 lol
Just after it came out the bodyshop I went up to RS tuning for a rolling road day. I was well chuffed with the result to say the least especially for a standard car
Things started getting a little more serious then. I wanted to replace the eibach lowering springs with coil overs as I found the ride a little crashy. It did prove a little difficult as the car has the cup suspension and I didn't want to spend £1300 plus. But after some discussions with the lads at work (I'm the engineering manager of a steel pressing company) and some stress analysis on my design software I ordered some Spax RSX and "tweaked" them to fit.
Fitted
While I was fitting the rears I replaced the handbrake cables and tarted the archs up
Some pics of the car once all done. The coilys are height and damper adjustable and its taken me a little while to get the settings just as I want them but I'm about there now. They have improved the handling and reduced the body roll, the area I've noticed the most difference though is the braking you can brake a lot harder now. They have taken a little getting used to but now I have they are great
As some of you may know the cars previous owner was Bubbles, we brought it in October 2007. Bubbles did a great job of looking after it, but me being me needed it better (that means cleaner lol).
Anyway, after a good clean this is what she looked like
And one of it next to what was then our brand new R27
After a few months I needed to sort some new pads out so I thought I'd fitted a set of stainless braided lines at the same time.
Given that I wanted both the Clio's to look a like I thought I'd paint the calipers, so I order some of that caliper paint stuff off the tinternet.
The car started acting up one morning and I tracked it down to a misfire in cylinder number 3. Turns out the lead had broken down and popped the coil pack. So after a new coil pack, new plugs and a set of Magnecore leads the problem was solved. There not too desimilar to these
Next was a new wheel coz one of them had a bit of a scratch on it, so now I have a spare
After some stupid bint cracked the passenger wing I had the whole front end resprayed to get rid of the stone chips. I had all the work done by and fantastic bodyshop and they got the match c**k on, came at a price though, just over £1700 lol
Just after it came out the bodyshop I went up to RS tuning for a rolling road day. I was well chuffed with the result to say the least especially for a standard car
Things started getting a little more serious then. I wanted to replace the eibach lowering springs with coil overs as I found the ride a little crashy. It did prove a little difficult as the car has the cup suspension and I didn't want to spend £1300 plus. But after some discussions with the lads at work (I'm the engineering manager of a steel pressing company) and some stress analysis on my design software I ordered some Spax RSX and "tweaked" them to fit.
Fitted
While I was fitting the rears I replaced the handbrake cables and tarted the archs up
Some pics of the car once all done. The coilys are height and damper adjustable and its taken me a little while to get the settings just as I want them but I'm about there now. They have improved the handling and reduced the body roll, the area I've noticed the most difference though is the braking you can brake a lot harder now. They have taken a little getting used to but now I have they are great
