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one of my slower runs back in the day before I discovered 'cornering'

I'd be up for a York day old sport ;)

Welcome chap

does your temp gauge go up quickly and to the operating temp? mine didn't and was about 10mpg down, transpired there was a hole in the rubber seal on my thermostat, changed that and bang sorted

That filter looked massive, then as soon as it was fitted into the chasm of the lolvo's engine room it's shrunk to the size of an ice cream cone, flol!!

06-02-2017 - Battery! Nothing major but acquired a gel battery for the car, 6.7kg instead of 11.4kg as bit of weight saved!

The back of the car looks soooooo wide and tbh pretty awesome...... Rest is still completely trousers tbh, think I need few more years before I can truly ' get ' them

05-02-2017 - Subframe Cleanup Decided to do few more bits on the car today, the subframe assembly was powdercoated around 3 years ago ish when I first completed the car, so a cleanup was in order whilst it was off the shed! Gunk and the pressure washer ftw! Before: During: After: There...

Should be doable, my mk1 is 860 currently stripped heavily but with quite an extensive cage, and the phase 1 172 isn't much heavier

I run H&R and find them spot on, but cooksports definitely sit a bit better (read lower)

as above, or just buy the diff, get a second hand box and post the lot off to agency transmissions and say 'make it so'

to chuck my ten pence in on the turbo thing as well, I went from turbo to n/a for my track car purely due to reliability reasons. when a boosted engine is working, and working well, its a great laugh, but its just very expensive to get it working consistently reliably and not overstress...

I'm about to do the same, my plan was similar, Velcro strip or some bodge her up B&Q brackets, lol

For the record there are two 'cup packs' applicable to standard 182's. One was the handling pack consisting of hubs, shockers and springs, and anthracite wheels. And the other was aesthetic pack which was spoiler and splitter. So basically yours is a 182 with just the handling pack :-) On...

Good news, either way I'm going to trial fit first as it'll be easier take both to machine shop to make the mods and least at that point I know it's fitting before I hack up the working 172 kit, lol

Yeah Smokey Pete says it fits as he's got one on his, but Adam Anderton seems to think it fouls as he couldn't get it to clear, both 172 engine and arb as far as I know

Golem of the Williams 0062 @Christ Almighty

Nothing like scrapping a classic.....

yep VTS for sure, they will go up as we all remember them, most are thrashed or dead so peoples desire to own a little bit of their yooooof will mean the few left will go up

as above, looks way waaaaaay to nice to start f**king about with i'm convinced these are going to skyrocket in price soon as well, proper classics

I think the mk2 would be definitely the best bet, cheap base car, 15" wheels so tyres cheap, keep the weight down so engine mods not really needed and just chuck it about and enjoy it you'll get loads of change from 6k to get setup with one and it'll be much cheaper to keep running on...

yeah i think I've heard of people trying, but it would defo be a bit of work to get it all to align correctly and I still don't actually know if the 182 version will fit the mark 1 chassis/subframe. I've heard two reports of fitting, one went straight on and one wouldn't fit supposedly by two...

Wouldn't fit the f7 engine without some modding and then no idea if angle off back of engine be same to fit. Power steering rack solid pipework may be in the way also (I run manual so pipes are just bent out way )

29-01-2017 - 182 Manifold Fitting Okay so decided despite the fairly rubbish weather that I would make a start on fitting the 182 Manifold to the car. As the manifold is much longer than the 172 setup, its a subframe off job to fit it, so that was todays plan. I wasn't hoping to get everything...

Love it

28-01-2017 NS-2R's Fitted Self explanatory tbh, got the tyres fitted today, 195/50 R15 as I've always found the 45 profile to look too 'ribbony' Was hoping to begin removing subframe etc but ended up chin wagging with Dan longer than expected and checking out his mk1 225 megane engine/gearbox...

looks clean and tidy example, good purchase

lovely motor, looking forward to the engine bay tart up as only thing sort of 'letting it down' as it were

all about 15's :) IMG_6985 by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

have you ever weighed this btw @doug6488 ? its pretty heavily stripped etc. so intrigued to know how light a phase 1 can be made :)