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Had an hour left at the end of that, so I drilled and hung the passenger front door with a new 90° drill bit, fits much better

Of course, I got a bit done over the xmas break but not a huge amount, as I needed to do the BIG service on her Clio, inc a Clutch, so I pulled the whole lot out. Behold the 75 screaming horsepowers of the 1.2 8v Clio! I did drag the 9 out to rearrange the garage to do this Once the Clio...

There's always the big hammer :)

Tried remounting the back doors as Steve did with the 11, but it was a pain in the arse. I drilled the hinges out, but getting them to line up is a fecking nightmare game. I think the pillar doesnt sit in exactly the same place after the sill change. Looks OK when closed but only as it's...

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Two days at Elvington for some filming...

Do like those, a lot!

You know what, i'm not keen on em personally. I've just bought a set of OE 220T wheels for some sticky tyres, I like the ones on it now also but maybe I'd like to try something like this in the future... I like spokey wheels :)

Decided to treat myself to the EDC Clio I have been hankering after for a while and had almost given up looking for a nice LY one (Car dealers - ugh - amirite?) Then I came on here to remove a for sale post for another car I put up, as it had sold and @Lewi86 has posted an ad for this car - and...

Now we're cookin' on gas :) Back on stands Cleaned up the rear beam bolts a bit Dragged this out, you may remember from earlier in the thread! Couple of hours later... This is why the bolts were manky, exposed to the elements Spent some time trying to get the torsion bars...

New parts goodness Bearing is below the spring on the 9/11 This will be a laugh to compress down!

As I couldnt rebuild the legs now, I looked around for something else to fiddle with and found the siezed handbrake pivot that I left to soak in a tub of WD40 months ago. The WD had turned to jelly but had freed it up enough to get it apart and clean it up - so I did. Greased and refitted.

This weekend I finished off some stuff on a mates 21, polybushed the wishbones on my XC90 and found myself with time to spare...so I welded up the front crossmember where it had perforated and started cleaning it up a bit. Decided with the awkward shaping I might try blasting it with my...

I agree with Lewis, in fact I agree so much I bought my 220T from him LOL :D

Fuel tank connected and fitted, some fuel pipes in, just need to make a bracket of some sort for the fuel filter :)

I know I want to get it back together, but i've just taken on too much other stuff. My own fault. Hope to see some decent progress soon, especially over the xmas break. I wanted it running this year but I might not quite make it.

Quiet lately! Been tinkering elsewhere and busy with other stuff :) (Sold the 250, bought a 220, Changed the engine on a 0.9 TCe Mk4, Fixed a Mk3 Clio 1.6 Initiale, finished a 21 Turbo engine rebuild, sold another MK4 Clio 1.2 and and and...) Still, I threw some seam sealer around Messed...

More shenanigans, now joined by my new addition to the fleet :)

They're passable when cold, but really get on song when hot & pushing hard. I could really feel them tighten up and start to bite as the heat came in on track.

I was linked to this chump via a mutual contact and he wanted to feature my Clio V6. Watched about three mins of one of his clips.

New gearbox mount arrived so took the leg off and cleaned it up. It was missed from blasting for some reason. Took the others off too and lobbed some paint around Checked the new wishbones & bolts fit, wishbones complete with bushes and balljoints for under forty quid off Autodoc for both...

It's not too bad as you have plenty of cars in the paddock to look at and plenty of people to talk to. It's very friendly and i've had some great convo's with people about my car and/or their cars.

You should expect a minimum of 3 runs unless there's a big crash or oil drop, every time I have been I have had three, a couple of times I turned down a fourth too. It's about a minute per run, it's REALLY steep and be really careful under the trees especially if its wet/damp.

Out to play at the Silverstone Classic :)

Turned my attention to the fuel tank - these are old skool metal tanks not polymer so although I protected the outside I thought it'd be wise to do the inside too. Got some Fertan 2 part stuff. Before Made up a stirrer for my cordless, as I couldnt be arsed with the extended stirring out...

Greased up the rack, chucked new boots and balljoints on. Ready to reattach to the subframe.

Exhaust manifold sorted and bolted up :) thanks to sparkie and Clarkey for helping out with that! I managed to get the lump off the bench, bolted a few more things back on and chucked it on the subframe. Needs a new gearbox mount so thats ordered along with steering rack gaiters, then some fuel...

Fitted a temp sensor in the head end plate, stuck the clutch and flywheel on... Removed a broken exhaust stud i'd forgot about Found the old exhaust manifold wont fit with the new EFI inlet, so have sourced an R5 GTT one to use with it. They're different to the early R9 ones. Bunged...

Head resurfaced and valves lapped in Bunged it on along with the bucket tappets, pushrods and rocker shaft, took me a few mins of puzzlement to figure out why the rocker shaft wouldnt go on but there is a cutout on the shaft that sits on the side of the studs/bolts. Didn't realise that (well...

Welded the belt pulley to the keyed crank drive Set it to TDC, aligned the 36-1 at 90° after TDC and welded that on too. Not very good welds, don't think I had the power high enough. Might redo it at some point! Cleaned up the flywheel, and dug out the clutch I bought for it - I purchased...