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Had enough of black paintwork after this week! First car is a guy from works MG ZR, he'd been respraying his wheels in the garage and all the overspray had landed over the bonnet/windscreen/wings so he brought it round to sort that out and give it a bit of shine back. The paintwork on the front...

How does anyone get in and drive a car like that everyday?! Superb job as usual tho!

Looks like a great job for the time spent on it, bet he was chuffed.

Bit more progress... Cage is now in ready to be bolted in place. It seemed a lot easier to put in than it was to remove, think we got our angles wrong when taking it out. Gave the gear surround a quick paint and then replaced the top dash and centre console, window switches will be going where...

Thanks! They certainly caught peoples attention at night. Thanks! The wheels were cheap and weigh half what the standard lead ones do lol. Got the track car home a month or so ago to get it ready to put up for sale, which mainly meant taking the cage, seats and exhaust off as they will be...

Thanks! Yeah its nice to have been able to go to the same RR when mods have changed and get a pretty accurate idea of how its changed the car.

More stuff to get it up to date... After fitting the new engine and widetrack I was far from impressed with the new handling. There was a kinda lag when turning in as if the steering wheel weren't connected and going around tight bends became scary when trying to straighten up again! After a...

I think it was roughly £30 for the 2 sheet. I could of got them both out of one bigger sheet but the ones in stock were battered.

Looks really nice that!

Thanks for the replies. I'm not 100% on water pump as I haven't had the bumper etc off to have a good look but its certainly that area. The mot bloke last week also noted 'coolant leak from water pump area' on the advisories. I may go up the Renault parts place tomorrow and ask about getting...

After driving the car for a fair few months with the headgasket gone and various other engine related problems (crank sensor, rad fan breaking etc), I decided to start looking around for a Williams engine to replace it. At the same time I also started buying up the parts to fit the wider front...

Would a non genuine pump be ok or are they not up to much? Do you have to touch the cambelt/timing when changing it? I'd rather take it somewhere and have it done properly as I'm not that familiar with working on the 172.

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Hi all Haven't had a project thread on here for any of my cars so thought I'd do one for the car that's been around longest. I bought the car just after passing my test and it was used as my everyday car up until last year when I got a 172. I found it listed on ebay as a 1.6 rsi but as we all...

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

My Mk1 that I used to drive daily was headache inducing.

Morning! I have a rather steady leak coming from what I think is the waterpump area on my ph2 172, so I need to get this sorted asap. How difficult is this job to do at home? How much should I be looking to pay to take it somewhere? Is there a garage around Kent recommended for such a job...

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Mine a few days after picking it up last year.

Won't gain much with an off the shelf chip on them engines imo. Is it running the Williams ecu at the moment? There was the odd person about who could map that for you but I'm not sure you'll gain a hell of a lot on a standard engine, although raising the lower Williams limiter is always...

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Pretty sure people could see me physically moving when waiting at the lights in my mk1, was ridiculous.

Used that to clean up an old Clio subframe etc, was immense.

Saw it in the car park this evening around half 8, had a pretty big exhaust.

Have 2 waxybox size (15ml?) Samples of Autofinesse Passion if anyone is interested?

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Looks amazingly clean! Wish you had pictures before you attacked it.

Was following you into town at around half 1. That was a quick pull away from the lights ;)

Had a good morning as usual at SRR, spoke to a few people who's names I have no idea on lol. Didn't take the 172 as it has a slight coolant leak so convinced my dad to run his S500/our towing car.

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