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Cheers man! I wouldn't mind trying a dci100 front mount on, all I know is that the hose from the compressor housing is different from the 80, but never confirmed it. Also looking for some cheap sport lowering springs, after all this work the damn thing sits at the same height.. can't have it !!

Just for a bit of a recap, and also as a 1 year report driving, fixing and upgrading this car, I though I'd write a bit of a list of what's happened to it, in a little over 12 months: bought the car with 106260 miles on it on the 6/9/17 Engine: Genuine major service kit (all filters + Elf...

very nice job, this kind of save is just my thing. keep up the good work !

Finally, the big job is (almost) done, and what a job! No words can express how much I respect whoever has done this before me, probably on a driveway with axlestands, you are heroes! I'm lucky enough to work with cars and sometimes manage to earn enough "bonus points" (10 hours overtime = 0.25...

We're getting closer, can't wait for the weekend to arrive, this should have taken maybe 7/8 months less, it's finally happening. Or is it ? Lol This week has to be the last one these bits spend on a shelf. Recent jobs: -blast and paint anti roll bar -blast and paint anti roll...

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Updates graham ?

Yo. Made some tiny steps today towards the completion of this never ending wide track saga.. GrahamS could probably build a v6 powered rear engine beast with cruise and climate control starting from a 8v expression with hubcaps in the time that is taking me to get mine done.. and I have all the...

Total legend dude, nice work ! Hopefully I can get mine done soon and I'm sure you'll volunteer to have a look at my abs mess lol

Mine sounds very much like it did before. You get a bit of extra whistle noise, I wouldn't call il "turbo whistle", is more like a flute if you ask me.

Top work Graham, jeez you crank stuff together fast !!

Since the rear axle upgrade I haven't done much, other than preparing the rest of the bits that will make the front come together, there's still lots to do until I'm Happy to throw it in the car. Plus I need to buy a clutch, or at least it sounds like it ! The discs I had turned out to be...

That's why I'm thinking of going back to get the original map loaded.. or maybe spend the equivalent of another Clio to get a proper remap !! Yeah Graham did say that dCi 100 sensors are the way to go but none seem available, and I've literally looked and asked everyone I know. There was a...

Well if that's the case the culprit of my shacking while pulling away must be the clutch then.. or at least I hope! I'll know soon enough as I want to be done by the end of the month, and the o lu good moment to pull the gearbox out is when the subframe is out.. Cheers for the feedback ! And...

172 axle is in. I wish I'd just painted the outer bit of the caliper because is all you can see !! Anyway, I decided I needed to get a move on so I bought some used abs sensors and caliper brackets from Steve at SSS autos, helpful as usual, and today I said to myself that the axle had to be...

Rear calipers rebuild and axle back together. All I'm missing are the abs sensors which I removed to sandblast and paint the caliper carriers. A decision that I'm regretting big time, as they are very expensive and rare to find, and mines are in bits... Check out this mad jig set up...

Quick update today, I was meant to finish the rear axle but got tangled up with some work stuff, I still managed to do some of the things I wanted on the car. First: while crawling underneath to check my abs connectors, I stumbled across two things. Number 1: This saw me going instantly on...

I've got a broken dual mass flywheel, leaky injector(s) and a widetrack conversion to deal with first unfortunately it's getting now to the fine tuning (essential on a £360 car)

116900 now, third oil change soon.

Yo! Update time for this project thread, even though I haven't been as busy as I should be lately. First of all, the progress on the widetrack conversion is slow but we are moving in the right direction. All I have left is to paint a couple of things and rebuild the rear calipers to finish off...

The updates in this car are becoming a rare thing; that's because is taking me an age to get ready for the big step, the full Sport suspension swap done "my way" with everything sandblasted and painted. We're getting there I promise. In the meantime I tried my best to keep the little red thing...

Well I don't know about that! They are extremely over complicated, just because they were made to impress and so every possible engineering feature was "squeezed" in the project. Working on them is a nightmare and parts are beyond expensive. A Dauer would easily be faster that an F40, maybe...

Well spotted! The one in the picture is actually a Dauer, not a Bugatti, only 11 made. So rare that at some point we had two !

Hi, the driveshafts came with all the stuff I bought. They appear to be similar to my standard dCi ones, I see no obvious differences other than maybe the splines configuration and diameter. Speaking of driveshafts, today I finally managed to fix my ABS problem, which was the usual broken...

January update for the pink...ehm, RED clio. Second oil change in my ownership, I've done about 6500 miles from September, it was time. Same exact stuff off last time, Elf evo 5/40 and genuine filter. I even cut open the old filter just because who knows, I've heard these engines like to chew...

So, here we are in 2018, may this year be full of whatever matters to your life or the one of your loved ones. With that said, what about my Christmas/new year/suicide enormous trip? How did it go? In a word? Well! I'm here in the Uk again so the car made it, 2551 miles to be exact and what a...

By the looks of it they are 48 teeth like the fronts on the dCi. I haven't looked at the ones on the drums anyway. Im not sure about the master cylinder, on the TRW website there is one that fits both dCi and 172/182 but there are another 3 that don't, so will find out soon I guess. I want to...

Another weekend update before Christmas, very likely to be the last one of 2017 ! Didn't do a whole lot, as I was working and I only had lunch time to use the workshop. I left the car in the hands of a mate with the task of aligning it, good luck with that.. In the meantime I tried to fix a...

Not really, the car was fine and I had to push it hard the whole way as we were always late! This time will be a much longer trip so I'm keeping my eyes and ears open for any rattle or strange noise that this thing could make before the trip.

I'm leaving on the 20th, planning to arrive in Rome by the evening of the 21st. The roof box has a crack in it that needs to be fixed with resin, I need to redo the whole timing belt job just to fit the plastic covers onto the belt, wait for the aircon pressure switch to magically appear to try...