Pauleds
ClioSport Club Member
Merc Dueliner sport
I may as well try and start a bit of a build thread for my Clio stage rally car.
A few of you know that I was competing in Sprints and hillclimbs in my original cup car and had some pretty good results in 2014. I had a lot of fun with quite a few class wins, 1 track record (Wigan), 2nd overall in the Chester and Liverpool speed championship (div 2 - less rounds than div 1), and 3rd overall in the Longton and District sprint and hillclimb championship but I fancy a go at stage rallying again, this time in a Clio.
Last year I started to strip my Clio down and sold the suspension and other bits I didn't need to reshell into a black 172 clio that I had bought with a knackered engine. I also started to stock pile other parts and a better engine which led me to @Ph1 Tom house to buy his engine, but also ended up buying a load of other bits including the 172 Cup shell. This was just the time my neighbour binned his Cup at Oulton park so he ended up buying my original shell from me to reshell his car.
So for the last 6 months or more, I have had a shell, a cage which I bought in the group buy last year and a garage full of bits which require building together. Working away and family stuff when I was home meant a lack of time to do anything so I really have to pull my finger out now and get it sorted.
As @sam JFM was breaking his clio rally car, I also bought a load of bits off him too to save me some time and hassle.
Over Christmas I took the cup shell to my mates unit and finally managed to get the cage in (worst cage I have ever fitted and ive done a fair few over the years) and get it back into the garage. I just need to finish welding the seat rails, mounting the extinguisher brackets etc before I chuck a bit of paint in there before refitting everything. I have also been cleaning up the engine parts etc and spraying them silver to tidy things up a bit. The engine and gearbox will hopefully get fitted in this weekend.
Spec of the car will be.........
Engine - 172 engine with head work, supatech valves, piper cams, arp bolts, PAS delete, k+n panel filter, cable throttle, 182 manifold, sport cat, ktec stealth supersport exhaust, Alloy rad, braided fuel line
Gearbox - JC129 gearbox rebuilt with Gripper diff and lower CWP
Suspension - Bilstein B14, PMS solid topmounts and strut brace, PMS reinforced rear beam
Brakes - Front are AP3307 calipers on 300mm rotors with alloy bells, rears are standard discs pads and calipers. Also has a vertical hydraulic handbrake and bios valve. (mechanical handbrake still there for emergencies!)
Wheels - 15" TD Pro Race 1.2 in anthracite
Interior - fully stripped out with unused brackets etc removed, SD full cage with cross door bars and tunnel brace etc, flocked dash (when I send it off), new HRX racer seats and side mounts and HRX hans 6 point belts (from www.torq-racewear.com ), deep dish pop off steering wheel, FG door cards, 4.25ltr plumbed in extinguisher, 2.25 hand held extinguisher, carbon drivers plate, carbon codrivers footrest, modded scenic gearshift, EPAS column, fuel and brake lines inside, autolec cutoff and hopefully a lightweight battery.
Other - moulded fibreglass tank guard, 10mm alloy sumpguard, aerocatches
I will try to keep it updated with the odd pic from time to time
Cheers
A few of you know that I was competing in Sprints and hillclimbs in my original cup car and had some pretty good results in 2014. I had a lot of fun with quite a few class wins, 1 track record (Wigan), 2nd overall in the Chester and Liverpool speed championship (div 2 - less rounds than div 1), and 3rd overall in the Longton and District sprint and hillclimb championship but I fancy a go at stage rallying again, this time in a Clio.
Last year I started to strip my Clio down and sold the suspension and other bits I didn't need to reshell into a black 172 clio that I had bought with a knackered engine. I also started to stock pile other parts and a better engine which led me to @Ph1 Tom house to buy his engine, but also ended up buying a load of other bits including the 172 Cup shell. This was just the time my neighbour binned his Cup at Oulton park so he ended up buying my original shell from me to reshell his car.
So for the last 6 months or more, I have had a shell, a cage which I bought in the group buy last year and a garage full of bits which require building together. Working away and family stuff when I was home meant a lack of time to do anything so I really have to pull my finger out now and get it sorted.
As @sam JFM was breaking his clio rally car, I also bought a load of bits off him too to save me some time and hassle.
Over Christmas I took the cup shell to my mates unit and finally managed to get the cage in (worst cage I have ever fitted and ive done a fair few over the years) and get it back into the garage. I just need to finish welding the seat rails, mounting the extinguisher brackets etc before I chuck a bit of paint in there before refitting everything. I have also been cleaning up the engine parts etc and spraying them silver to tidy things up a bit. The engine and gearbox will hopefully get fitted in this weekend.
Spec of the car will be.........
Engine - 172 engine with head work, supatech valves, piper cams, arp bolts, PAS delete, k+n panel filter, cable throttle, 182 manifold, sport cat, ktec stealth supersport exhaust, Alloy rad, braided fuel line
Gearbox - JC129 gearbox rebuilt with Gripper diff and lower CWP
Suspension - Bilstein B14, PMS solid topmounts and strut brace, PMS reinforced rear beam
Brakes - Front are AP3307 calipers on 300mm rotors with alloy bells, rears are standard discs pads and calipers. Also has a vertical hydraulic handbrake and bios valve. (mechanical handbrake still there for emergencies!)
Wheels - 15" TD Pro Race 1.2 in anthracite
Interior - fully stripped out with unused brackets etc removed, SD full cage with cross door bars and tunnel brace etc, flocked dash (when I send it off), new HRX racer seats and side mounts and HRX hans 6 point belts (from www.torq-racewear.com ), deep dish pop off steering wheel, FG door cards, 4.25ltr plumbed in extinguisher, 2.25 hand held extinguisher, carbon drivers plate, carbon codrivers footrest, modded scenic gearshift, EPAS column, fuel and brake lines inside, autolec cutoff and hopefully a lightweight battery.
Other - moulded fibreglass tank guard, 10mm alloy sumpguard, aerocatches
I will try to keep it updated with the odd pic from time to time
Cheers
