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Cheers sonny, hopefully have some pics and maybe done vids on Friday from its first outing at Oulton park. 2damnsley my mate has his own sign and graphics company so does all my graphics, need to get him to do me some numbers and bits and bits and pieces this week. Russ

If I can get consistant 2.00's in the dry first test out I'll be ecstatic james but I doubt I/it will be that quick straight away, I haven't driven more than a few yards yet never mind know how it handles! Will be good fun if there's a few clios out there though. Russ

Got pretty much everything done at the weekend, new rear caliper and bias valve fitted and brakes bled, something like a suspension alignment done, literally just the tracking tbh, a proper corner weight and beam adjustment session will have to wait until after the French Trophy race on the...

Car Looks really good mate, my entry has been sent for oulton as well, hopefully testing at oulton on the 20th and 27th so will be around. Hope to catch up with a few of you guys. Russ

Yeah all the standard stuff is gone, the uch is a real pain. Ecu is under the scuttle with the wideband controller and fan and fuel pump relays, the new fuse/relay box is the black box next to the battery. Russ

Cheers Morgan, aux items as in the lights, fan etc? No loom as such, just modified and cut down the standard loom mostly or made new bits for the dash etc. Its a kind of 1st step, i'd like to re do all the loom from scratch at somepoint but this should be fine for now. Russ

So its finally built up and running, actually drove it out of the garage onto the drive tonight so I have proved it works at least in 1st + reverse! Currently running on a Zetec map that i've fiddled with just to get it running, runs fine, at least I think it does as I cant hear any nasty noises...

So................... Its running! Just got it running tonight, everything seems fine, got a couple of little jobs to sort but its 99% finished. Gonna book it in for mapping tomorrow too. All pics and details tomorrow. ​Russ

Not me.

That #10 M3 was good for nothing but the crusher after the damage, had to be lifted on the trailer. Not sure what if anything would be salvageable, such a shame as it looked a really nicely built/specced E36. ​Russ

Just worried that although they were a tight fit in mine they didn't need to be pressed in. Russ

I'd be interested to hear the results of this James as I'm a bit concerned about my rear beam now too. ​Russ

There's plenty of margin tony considering my fastest lap was about 4 seconds off what the 182/172's were doing. The car has got massive potential, it just has some issues and isn't quick enough currently. Rusd

Car looked to be going well. I was gonna come and say hello but had car issues all day so was pretty busy. I was sharing the driving of my mates clio 200, we were well off the pace but hopefully there'll be a massive improvement for oulton tintops/French trophy. When Are you next out? ​russ

Yeah tony expected it to be around 2mins, certainly what I'll be aiming for in mine when I can shake it down. Ive gone from spectating to racing now this weekend as 2nd driver in my mates clio 200, I'm totally unprepared but looking forward to racing again after 3 years out! ​russ

I've spun at island in my cup car, locked the rear brakes on cold tires and went round at the hairpin, i managed to not hit anything though, still not sure how! Shame you're gonna miss donny, I might be down there with my mate who's racing a white clio 197/200 this weekend so come say hello if...

Gearbox issues sorted hopefully, Martin @ agency has supplied me the bits, lifesaver! ​russ

Lol expected that from a scot! When I sold my integra I deliberately left the flag on the roof as the guy who bought it was Scottish, the first thing he did was to swap it for a Saltire! russ

Thanks Mark + Gaz. Not the update i was hoping for as i expected the car to be running by now. Having gearbox issues, 'box needs 1st + 2nd synchro rings and they're on back order from Renault with no delivery date so that is not good! Hopefully we'll have a solution this week otherwise i wont...

Deflectors are fitted but Chris is still tweaking the cup racer style bumper ducts to make sure they're perfect. ​Russ

Im going to try and get my car sorted for oulton park french trophy on the 28 september, anyone else racing there? ​Russ

Just watched all the footage and vids, i think the french trophy has the potential to be a great series with closely matached racing especially with some larger grids. By the way does anyone know the spec of Jason Newmans 306? He used to race a Ph1 306 in the LMA's a few years ago with me, nice...

Awesome! So you're allowed to run the roof vent in French trophy then, might have to get one off Chris. Russ.

Great to hear everyone had a good weekend apart from Tony's incident, really cant wait to get out in mine now. ​Russ

Good luck James hope it all goes smoothly and keep us updated. Russ

No just to the inner arches/chassis rail sections. ​Russ

Black rivets mate. ​Russ

Yeah just about mark, in fairness i'm 6'2" and i'm limited by how far i can go with my seat due to the cage so i can't sit as far back as i want so can still reach the dash buttons. The buttons only scroll through the dash menus etc anyway, all of my other controls will be more local for ease of...

Dont know what the plans are yet but have a plan that if i can get it sorted in the next few weeks i might shake it down at oulton and enter the cscc tintops at oulton in september but we'll see, not commiting to anything just yet. ​Russ

Thanks James, I can just about reach the buttons if i need to. The theory is that while racing i wont be touching it anyway, as long i can see the basics i'm happy. The less to distract the better! ​Russ