Monaco 172 Track Car

The only way this situation could be made better was if it was painted to look like a BMW art car

You don't have much luck do ya! 🤣🤣🤣
It makes for good reading though and I love reading how you overcome these problems
Fair play mate
Sone serious perseverance

Assuming you’re liking the gripper @Krarl ? 😂😂

I thought I'd have a really relaxed day today, since it was raining again and I didn't wanna be out getting piss wet through

I started out running the car in gear, making sure it goes through them all. Everything went fine and dandy. I remembered to drop the passenger window this time too🤪

But my brain got the better of me after running the car up. Since it was already warm I decided to change the oil and filter

New oil and Purflux filter



Been 1 year since the last service



Marked the filter up



At this point the oil was flowing out and I had no issues. I couldn't find any dowty washers in my filter box... s**t



I was in luck that I hoard everything. I had 2 copper washers in my engine build box... You know, that engine I've been saying I'll build for the last 3 years🙃



Copper washer found I was back on track. It's a good job I had them too because the copper washer assortment pack only went up to M14, looks like I'll be buying in some M16 ones

Oil filter off, this was a doddle. But then as soon as I went to remove my oil filter pliers I knocked them into the the oil pressure sensor and it gave up. You can see just how crusty the 23 year old sensor is



Not to bother. I had a Clio 200 engine in the back of the garage so I pilfered the sensor out of the bag of parts



Except that didn't go too well since Renault decided to change the connector from the F4R736 to the F4R830. t***s



Gonna get a sensor from one of the engines at work tomorrow. If not they're only £7 so it's not the end of the world. The eagle eyed viewer at home will notice the date mark isn't on the filter, it smudged so I wiped it off and rewrote it whilst the filter was on the car.

I've re-written my list now so I've got some stuff to work on. Now we're getting to the finer details

Last night @Louis came over to give me a hand and to bring me some parts

Before he turned up I got the oil pressure switch swapped out. Managed to steal one from one of the engines I have at work

After that we were off to a flyer as you can see... Got the upper rad support bolted in, it fitted perfectly



One of the bonnet latch bolts went from slightly tight, to slightly loose, to 'get the tap and die set out chief'

The metal is piss thin so I opted just to drill through and send a pair of M6 rivnuts into it instead



Whilst I was f**king about sorting that balls up Louis had got the new to me EVOL dogbone mount in, the gearbox drip tray, cleaned up the spare discs he brought over, fitted those and started fitting the BYC Brembo ducts

It was at this point I asked him to try the shifter and see if it felt right. It was a bit s**t to go into reverse, which meant the PMS shifter magician had to get his cloak on and we he set about adjusting it. Took us about 15 mins to get it spot on

It actually looks like a car again now, the bonnet shuts too (doesn't line up though🥴)



Tonight I'll be tackling the jobs in red. I ordered some 50mm bass ports for the BYC ducting. The Ali ones that came with them look a bit naff

Started the evening by removing the bottom grille

My hole saw arbour was MIA. So had to improvise and make my own arbour for the drill. The 13mm nut centres on the bolt. Precision engineering



I bought some different bass ports on Amazon last night too. These ones that came with the BYC ducts were shite



Marked out the grille, drilled 2 holes and popped the bass ports in, slapped some mastic on the back of them to keep them in position.

Got the grille fitted back up and it looks decent



Moved onto cleaning up the rear brakes. I got a set of discs from @SharpyClio just incase mine were too far gone from being sat. Thankfully, all the corrosion cleaned off and they came up decent, even just using a wire cup on the grinder. I'll keep the others as spares



Finally. The car is back down on all 4 wheels



Moved it from that position and I can already tell the gripper is mega even from just moving it with the wheels turned🤣



Onto the last push. If all goes well, I'll pick the 5 series up tomorrow, grab my trailer, load the Clio up and take it to work for storage

Then I can work on the last few bits, clean it and give it a road test on our private road/car park



I just hope it stays working. I'm absolutely f**king shattered and mentally gone

I’m gonna pull them awful Elf stickers off

leeds2592 said:

I’m gonna pull them awful Elf stickers off

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I'm gonna pull that 4 day rind straight off your chopper

Loaded on the trailer yesterday



Set out today to swap over my pads to the DS1.11, put my track wheels on and load the car up for tomorrow

New track wheels. Genuine X65 Cup racer speedlines, quite a bit different to the 2118 you can buy anywhere



Swapped the pads over, fitted my Titanium shims. Pulled it forward, noticed a tapping/knocking

The wheel weights were catching the nuts for the Brembo brackets. I thought they'd self clearance but after driving it I had to knock them all off



I gave it a run up and down the private road near work to bed the pads in. Pulling out of the car park I could already feel the difference in the diff🤣



Gave it a good wash



Gave the trailer a scrub down, had a few cars on it since and there was oil and fuel on the buffalo boards



Locked, loaded and lusting to have it's head kicked in



Really looking forwards to Saturday now. I was honestly thinking I might not make it in time and I'd be still crawling around it fixing it... There is still time for that like