182 Touge/Tuner Build

It's not how you stand by your car, it's how you stand on your car.

Jonnio said:

It's not how you stand by your car, it's how you stand on your car.

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From my observations on the metal Renault used to make these cars, I feel like if I tried this I’d go through the roof 🫪

Good news, and more good news. False floor is underway and the initial ply cutout is done. God bless having two 20cm profilers to properly measure out the sides of the boot, doubly so given they’re asymmetrical.

I don’t doubt the knowledge being available to the public already, but if anyone wants my measures/templates, more than happy to share.

Furthermore, Autoglass FINALLY pulled through on sourcing one and I now have an intact, brand new windshield.

Smiles all round at the moment, just got a balljoint and ABS sensor to sort in the coming week.

Lovely stuff.

bvnditi said:

Good news, and more good news. False floor is underway and the initial ply cutout is done. God bless having two 20cm profilers to properly measure out the sides of the boot, doubly so given they’re asymmetrical.

I don’t doubt the knowledge being available to the public already, but if anyone wants my measures/templates, more than happy to share.

Furthermore, Autoglass FINALLY pulled through on sourcing one and I now have an intact, brand new windshield.

Smiles all round at the moment, just got a balljoint and ABS sensor to sort in the coming week.

Lovely stuff.

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Lovely work with the false floor!
Been wanting to do this in the future myself as well. Keen for those measurements/template if your happy to share.
Just need to find a carpet that is close to a OE match.

PerthRS said:

Lovely work with the false floor!
Been wanting to do this in the future myself as well. Keen for those measurements/template if your happy to share.
Just need to find a carpet that is close to a OE match.

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Cheers dude!

Will need to run and grab the actual templates when back at the lockup, but measurements are as follows:

Front section: 121cm width x 46.5cm length
This is literally just a ply rectangle, no notching or adjusting etc

Rear section: 110cm width at the rear, 104cm width at the front (seat mounts) with a profiler used to make the template accurate to the curves etc. Length on the rear section is 75.5cm. Final 5mm of that length is the curvature of the rear at the boot end.

Both sides will need profiling individually as they’re asymmetrical.

I probably could’ve worded it better, and can draw a diagram up if need be.

PerthRS said:

Lovely work with the false floor!
Been wanting to do this in the future myself as well. Keen for those measurements/template if your happy to share.
Just need to find a carpet that is close to a OE match.

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Gaze upon my brilliant (f**king shocking) sketch of what's what

And just freehand your arches/strut plastics etc with some cardboard and a profiler as truthfully there was no measuring there, just profiling and really good (see: lucky) eyeballing.

bvnditi said:

Cheers dude!

Will need to run and grab the actual templates when back at the lockup, but measurements are as follows:

Front section: 121cm width x 46.5cm length
This is literally just a ply rectangle, no notching or adjusting etc

Rear section: 110cm width at the rear, 104cm width at the front (seat mounts) with a profiler used to make the template accurate to the curves etc. Length on the rear section is 75.5cm. Final 5mm of that length is the curvature of the rear at the boot end.

Both sides will need profiling individually as they’re asymmetrical.

I probably could’ve worded it better, and can draw a diagram up if need be.

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bvnditi said:

Gaze upon my brilliant (f**king shocking) sketch of what's what

And just freehand your arches/strut plastics etc with some cardboard and a profiler as truthfully there was no measuring there, just profiling and really good (see: lucky) eyeballing.

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Brilliant. Thanks for that!
Will definitely use this for reference in the future

PerthRS said:

Brilliant. Thanks for that!
Will definitely use this for reference in the future

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Not a problem dude! I've put feelers out in a few places (inc. here) for carpets as well, so I'll let you know if I have any luck there as well

Next wave of singlehandedly making my friend regret letting my Clio onto his lift is a go, this time involving the driver's side LCA balljoint having a fair bit of play. Furthermore, in the act of sorting the wheel bearing last week, a gentleman I explicitly asked not to touch my car, touched my car, and consequently my ABS sensor met Allah mid-job as a direct result of his barbarism.

Slightly suboptimal.

Thankfully he's paid out of pocket, and have a Renault ABS sensor going in for... £0. Nice. I don't enjoy my 182RS involuntarily being a Cup, so that and the balljoint in this next session should finally end the suspension woes given I have now run out of suspension and steering related things to replace.

Realistically I don't think I'll achieve my original goal of fitting a Quaife before it gets cold and the roads get salty, but thus far I've quite enjoyed getting to know the Clio and fixing it up nonetheless. I'm pretty sure 170k miles and 17 previous owners would typically condemn a car to the breakers, but the thing's genuinely growing on me.