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Look like an awesome trip, i cant wait till we drive to the ring later this year

The car looks amazing

Looks great love that colour

Gutted mate didnt even know it had happend, hope its not to much to get fixed

Those windy roads look so good, did you drive them

Cheers savi, Im hoping the rest will be relativley straight forward as i now have most of the parts few more bolts and stuff to get yet though to put the engine together

session 4 was the best one on track id have to say upto were the knocking starts, good job, really am gutted for you after all the money and time you have put into it

One of the best 197 ive seen

Im over the moon after searching for one for so long Ill be starting on it tomorrow putting the head on and then giving it all a clean, then a good lick of paint

GOOD NEWS as they say 3rd time lucky After rounding two of the bolts the other day finaly got them off before, took the sump and baffle out and everthing looks clean and NO swarf this time. Im really happy now which means i can now start to build it up clean it and paint ready for dropping...

As you know jamie i just kept having the same problem with those engines 3 fiestas and 5 engines lol, so decided to get the clio new start (the bottom end problem on this one was so i could put 172 in) but saying that ive had 3 172 bottom ends now and as they say 3rd time lucky woop

Not good, Not good ill let him tell you as im not to sure wots gone wrong Hope its nothing to bad mate

Sure thing no probs

Depends if this bottom end is ok and when the ast topmount nuts arrive and a few other little things

Nice :cool:

cool lets hope it doesnt rain for you Want to buy my black side skirts, the pic jord did looks really good

Cheers for the advice guys might try some of those ideas if it comes to it W17gle id love your black phs 1 but ive just spent all my money on this lol Ill take you out for a ride when its done ;)

sure you can do that without damaging anything

Got the bottom end to the factory and then upon to the stand, started to undo the sump bolts and two have rounded off (sighhhhh) rest of them were ok, so it look like a bit of drilling tomorrow to get them out

Got back abot 30mins ago from picking up my new bottom end, 450 mile round trip it was also stoppet off at willylovers(now cliogtt) house and got myself a williams gearbox, so thanks to both guys for those. Other stuff purchessed too :D Im going to see if this bottom end is ok by craking open...

Going to try it first then ill be wraping it up once everything is to length and in the right place

both look good imo

lol so im i, its been quite sometime now yep thanks, ill be putting the enginemounts on in the next few days

FINALLY the car is now back on all four wheels Lowered the car down onto the topmounts to hold them in place but i cant screw the dampers down yet as i havent received the nuts from kam racing yet, i have the new style nut but they are such a crap design they chew the metal away and ruin the...

looks good but i think a bit of tyre shine would make them look alot better

Do you have a number or a postcode if you do drop me a pm

Going to near london on saturday to pic a bottom end up from dangerous_dave, he says it was rebuilt 5k ago so hopefully this will be the lats one i have to buy and everything will be ok with it. Does anyone know anything about this engine im buying off him

Little more done over the last 2 nights Lastnight i finished off the wiring loom and labled it, leaving me with only one or two wires to solder as i need some bigger heat shrink then its sorted. Ill be then testing it in the car first before i wrap it up Few more wires pulled out Today...

Cars looking good i have to say Does this mean im going to die when my car is back on the road lol as im running the same pads How good are they and i think im going to have a big shock

I have some lowering springs for sale