Recent content by David James

It's more down to time unfortunately. I'm working all over the country all week and head off for the hotel Friday night 😔

Hi Finally got it all back together, I stupidly booked another trackday at Bedford this Sat 28th feb. First thing was to replace the broken 182 manifold etc I decided instead of dropping the subframe it would be easier to cut it out! Wrong that's was a ballache. But swapped over to my 172...

I wouldn't use a clio as a daily at all! Il take my e320 cdi sport, far far nicer place to be and the clio wouldn't know what way it went.

I wanted the breather plate a different colour to help identify any leaks later on. I decided to block off the tiny breather condense hole as it's pretty pointless as it's near identical location to the main breather hose port, I made a blank using 1.5mm gasket paper. Bonded it down with...

A little progress. I noticed the pain on my cam cover was flaking and the was a oil leak from the breather plate. It was a long job picking and scraping all the old paint off the cam cover. Degreased and then preped for paint. Three coats of Etch primer Hammerite smooth blue used as...

That's a silver overload 😂

So the strip down to see what is wrong begins. First off to take the manifold off and check the leads, plugs and compression just to make sure nothing really bad has happened. Plugs are pretty dirty for 100 miles and 1 trackday! So compression test Cly 1 =180psi two min letby test and...

This is very true 👍. Rather a decent base

Thanks, I felt bad about doing it to such a low milage cup but sod it 😊

Now for the drive up to Bedford, with my brother in his ph1. Filling up And we drove the 80 miles to Bedford without to much of a issue, I was getting understeer on acceleration even on the road but put this down to how much weight was in the back of my car as I went overboard in bringing...

Back on the road and hopefully ready for its first track day All loaded up and washed ready to roll.

Checked the oil too which had only done 500 miles so that was left Had to do a alighment using my camber guage and string alighment technique. Wasn't perfect but OK. I was running - 2 deg front and about -1 deg rear. Then it was mot'ed and passed which was a relief.

Now I moved on to stop the water returning so I had to remove the scuttle panels. It was pretty dirty under there Bit of a scrub up and the drains checked The wipers where absolutely shot to bits New bosch aero twins fitted. Then new plugs fitted Old ones where cheap denso tt plugs...

I took out all the foam again and rear under carpet mat and put the carpet back in as I wanted a little comfort, I also put my passenger seat back in. The rear seats where taken down the tip as where in poor condition due to the mould and all other trim put in the loft. Swapped over steering...

Been a while since I have updated this and its had some progress. I decided I was going to fit some parts I have collected and had sitting around. 182 manifold 182 miltek sport cat Modify the existing exhaust system. Well this meant removing the subframe to fit the manifold. So I decided...