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Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Thanks mate kept it pretty quiet really until we got a good start on it, It all seems to be coming togeather now.... just got to rebuild the head tonight with jord and put everything back on the engine and time it up. Then its all ready to drop in lol.

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Cheers for that jord, Looks really good cant wait to see it later on. At least everything is going to be brand new when its put togeather. Thanks for that mate.

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Cheers mate, Yes please lol

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Its abit annoying having to do this to a suppose to be perfect engine, but in one way im glad we have done all this as i have learned so much about the engine and how it work and how things go togeather ect ect.... really enjoying this now

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion poss yes, were not using those as we have a new set with the head that we got, looks abit of a mess really considering it has recently been re-built

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Once the head was taken off we then started to remove bit off the block so that we could clean and paint it. I removed the water pump pulley and gave that a good clean up, really supprised how much dirt there was on the engine. Next we gave the block a few...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion On saturday me and jord (f0xy) went on a 330 mile round trip to collect the 172 engine that we got off the forum, was a long drive but we thought it was well worth it as the engine seemed to be ok... Then the fun began... we decided to take the...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Right time for the updates.... before i crack on ive been meaning to put a few pics up of the yozza thats i bought, the yozza was virtually brand new, the backbox has covered 100miles and the center section is brand new... nd the pics its has a 2.5" straight cut...

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Haha, yes... think im gona start getting them up in abit loads to write up.. i need to keep ontop of it more.

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Cheers guy's, should be ready to drop in over the next few days, yes i know if every sale was an honest sale there wouldnt be half the problems... but thats what makes it fun isnt it? lol. There will be loads of picture updates soon just got to upload the mass of...

nice

sits well. dont like the air intake tho. Yellow? paint it the same as the car and remove the other fog light

lower first

yes, not sure how much of a gap there should be but there should be a gap

Very nice, as christopher said loose the sidelights. Like the diamonds on the wheels tho

Re: 1.2 Track car Conversion Yep, messed about with the engine all day y'day. Took the rockor cover off, cleaned all the old sealant off as you do, put new sealant on, put the rockor cover back on tightening all the bolts in the specific order and to the specific torque setting, went to time it...

it will be alot louder if your putting a de-cat on, also will fail an MOT, but you can always just swap it back. I think the emmisions warning light will come on too but im not too sure on that one...

nice pics

Wow, some epic pics there, what suspension you got on?

Great pics there mate.

Some great pics there mate. Caught the bug now then?

Few ways that you can lower the car mate. You can go for a set of springs as was suggested above, if your going lower than 40mm on springs it may be advised that you uprate your shockes aswel, or you have the other option of coilovers. Just have a search around the forum and sure you will find...

Loving the new callipers mate.

Didnt think you were low enough mike...... ;)

looks nice and hot there lol...... nice car too

i think the ph1 172's are different not 100% sure tho

wouldnt bother tbh

love it, clean and unspoiled perfect.

just tell them will save you alot of hassle if anything goes wrong

Do the headlights not get condensation in them when the case is cracked or one of the rubber cups have come off the back?