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Evening all,
Had an injector go on my clio which was seized in and had to be drilled out but unfortunately metal found its way into the engine which involved taking the head off and rebuilding. Now the car will turn over fine but refuses to start even with easy start. The timing is correct and...
Monday 5th March
Springs from cooksport arrived last week big thanks to josh. Monday consisted of removing my old springs and fitting my new ones, well thats what I thought. The rears were nice n easy but the fronts wasnt so easy needed two new top mounts and bearings and also noticed my cv...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Tuesday 26th Febuary
Removed rear tints and awaiting my lowering springs from cooksport. Looks much better now.
Also painted my engine cover, need a new one soon though.
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Hmmm its tempting. Looking into some cooksport springs atm. Waiting for my rs grill to come still. Gonna paint my engine cover tomorrow evening and look into spacing the rear wheels out. Also ordered some fabric dye to have a play around with.
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Monday 18th Febuary
Today consisted of removing the rear tints which i'll get a picture of soon. Also been debating if i should paint my engine cover the same colour as the car? Looking into lowering it soon but just on springs whats peoples opinions on how low...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
My uncle removed it before he sold the car onto me, he put a second hand lump in with orginal injectors and pumped from the old one .Still got the egr in but it does chuck out a bit of smoke dunno if its the decat or because the egr is gunked up, gnna investigate...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Cheers bud, picked the bumper of ebay of a bloke who sprayed it himself and fitted it to his 1.2 clio. Going to respray it in the summmer though. there's a few imperfections and he didn't prep it well enough. Should hopefully be lowered by next month :)
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Update: Wednesday 6th February
Finally managed to get everything sprayed up and on the car.Looks really good and pleased with it for saying it was done with a rattle can. Spoiler needs a bit more work to make it match but it'll do now.
Also received my...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Any chance of anyone photoshopping my turinis black and anthracite with colour coded diamonds please? Would be greatly appreciated :D
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Must of read my mind ;) got the mrs to paint the letters on the badge as she likes painting. An alright job could of done better but didnt wanna say that lol.
Can't wait to get them fitted with colour coded strips they look pukka!
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Snow has finally cleared and has allowed to clean my car :clap:
From this.
To this.
And now this...
Silver visions are now in and have managed to give the headlights of quick going over with some wet and dry and my DA polisher.
Few of the interior...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Well ive got a spare set so gonna play around with them. Ive painted them myself so it hasn't cost me a lot at all, cost £10 for a can of spray paint matched to my paint then another £20 on primer and lacquer.
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Cheers cragio i'll look into it.
Finally a clio sport club member! Well worth the money and cant wait for my goodies in the post :)
Not much progress at the minute due to the weather :(. But there will be some updates to follow soon and pictures.
First of all...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
A few updates. Bought a set of speedlines of a member on here (Jones88) they were well worth the 250 mile round trip :). Tyres are all good Toyo Proxess and alloys are in good nick but will be getting re-painted towards the summer.
Heres a few crappy phone...
Re: Nautical Blue Dci 65 Clio
Yeah headlights are quite bad tbf. Some progress by the weekend hopefully, my 172 spoiler came today just needs spraying and fitting. Ordered some silver vision bulbs and going to collect some turinis from bristol on friday which i got for £300.
Had it for around 8 months now and it goes well for a 65 clio, done over a 120k and its still going strong.
Heres a few pics of it.
Its been detailed the other day but it wont stay clean for long.
Mods so far are:
K&N panel filter
Decat
Colour coded door handles and...