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Replaced the circlip and welded it in place. This lasted a week so the car is now back in having a 182 diff fitted. If anyone is interested its going to be up for sale once I have it back. Decided using a track car as a daily wasn't a great idea so I'm putting it back to standardish and am...

As suspected, circlip has gone, that and my 5th gear issue should be sorted soon. Looking forward to getting it back, can't stand not having a car haha.

Wouldn't surprise me haha. I live on Audley road so go through Bignall End on the way to work etc. You've probably heard my RC6s Yeah it's at Curborough haha. Think potentially just going to weld it for now. Planning on getting a gripper eventually.

Bit of an update. Gone to have the box looked at sooner than I planned. Popped the diff circlip yesterday at a track day so got it recovered back to four ashes. If the box has to come out I'll get my 182 manifold fitted.

Cheers mate, really really good imo. Floyd who deals with the RS side of things worked at KTEC in the past and really knows his stuff. Did a load of work on my mates LY 182. I'd definitely recommend them. Cheers haha. Going to get them redone soon hopefully so that they actually finish haha.

It is indeed.

Cheers guys, yeah I've had some bad luck with it but it's so much better than my old one haha. Yeah it's a massive learning curve, but saved so much money doing things myself. Bought some crappy headlights from ebay and gutted them.

Probably the last post for a short while. This pretty much brings us to where the car is currently. So as mentioned in the last post, with my MOT being due at the end of February I decided I should probably get round to fitting the EPAS to the car. Thankfully Clios are easy to pull apart so the...

Ok so carrying on. First of all I decided to fit some 10mm stub axle spacers to the car as the rear tyres had been rubbing on both the arch liner and the strut itself. Horrible horrible job. Whoever decided to use Torx Bolts on something that is exposed to the elements needs to be shot. Ended up...

Righto I shall continue. I forgot to mention in the previous post that I had fitted some Camber bolts and a set of CL RC6 pads. The increased camber meant a massively improved turn in and the RC6s meant that the car had stopping power it had been lacking for a long time previously. The brakes...

Nah writing it as I go. Having fun trying to remember what order I did stuff in haha. Think I'll probably carry on tomorrow. Time for bed now haha. I've still got a way to go with the car but she's getting there slowly. By the time I'm done should be a bit of an animal.

The Saga continues. I forgot to mention in the last post. I got stripes fitted to make it faster. No idea why they weren't done all the way to the end of the bonnet and I need to get this sorted at some point. (That was in Brighton) One thing I did having seen an immaculate Racing Blue 182...

Righto lets continue the tale of my Cup. I also got a MAD tow hook for it which still lives on the car now. It sat lovely and the 595 RSRs that I bought made it look and handle well. I fitted my sabelt when that turned up. Wish it still looked that blue haha, recently discovered the date stamp...

Only just realised I've never done a build thread for my current 172 Cup so thought it would be rude not to. Had one back in 2014 which was actually quite a nail so ended up selling it on. Since then I've had an MR2 Turbo and a Skoda Fabia VRS which became my only car when the MR2 blew up. I...

Clios are very funny about what plugs you use. Could be worth getting some OEM NGKs to see if it makes a difference.

One of my mates owns this. Don't think he's on here.

I had some bolt to hub ones and one of the bolts snapped off meaning I had to change the hub. Do a stud conversion and get slip on ones imo

Update on mine. Got the car back on the road. Love it. I've got it set to just over 1/4 which is perfect for me. Running a cup rack but not looped it (or blanked it, I need to get round to doing that at some point although I'll probably get a DCI rack).

Aww Newcastle Clio fwiends. I've got a 172 Cup and live on Audley Road.

Mine

That'll be my mate Rich haha.

I'd be up for it. 1st April weekend would be perfect for me too!

I spent 10 minutes hitting mine with a hammer to free it up as neither of the rear brakes were recording any braking effort what so ever. Then cable tied it up and its been like that since. Go at it with a hammer until it moves haha

That looks sound to me. The bits in the middle are part of the fitting kit and need to be poked out. They are making it look worse than it is.

@Dr Jekyll Keep me posted on how you get on, I'm really interested in seeing the finished result. You going leather and then just the top alcantara then?

Was a little while ago but did you get this done in the end? Really want my Sabelt retrimmed, I know when I asked him before he couldn't get the right materials for the blue bit. How does it look if so?

Just fitted EPAS onto mine, feels weird having power steering back after so long. Typical clio though, the clutch let go on the test drive without any warning.

Annoyingly the KTEC one looks like it would fit but... No way in hell am I giving KTEC £850 for an half cage lol. Yeah I really need to get the seat properly fixed into place and mounted lower. I can't go any further down on the side mounts due to the front of the seat catching the mount haha. A...

Not far off haha. 6 foot 6.

Looking at getting a half cage for my 172 at some point. Mostly so my harnesses are mounted correctly. But most of the ones going look like I will struggle to fit as my seat is really far back. Looking at these am I going to struggle to get a cage in here?