Nafoff
ClioSport Club Member
wow....keep the work up guys.
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I'm afraid first trackday will need to be early next year as the final push to get the car finished is gonna leave me with a few hefty bills to clear up but that'll give me time to get to know it's little qwerks (sp) on the road.
Pm'ed you on williams northy
Replyed too.
Also got a single dunlop slick tyre for sale if your intrested.
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
Right owing to a lack of things to do at work we've both decided to book the rest of the week off to get some more done on the clio.
The first thing we did was fit the door mirrors. During the week I'd made up some mounting plates out of some carbon fibre off cuts I had laying about, I also bonded some nuts to the back to make fit and removal easier.
We primed both surfaces ready for some windscreen glue (becoming increasingly know as 'cliobond')
Next we drilled holes in the door itself so we could use the bolts that hold the mirror to the mounting plate as some aligning pins.
Then we bonded the plates on and went to lunch while the glue dried
Back from lunch we bolted the mirrors on and set about pointing them in the correct direction, during this process we found that the mirrors are more of a gesture towards legality than anything else
After this we nipped to the parents house to find a nice little parcel waiting for us.
The numberplates had arrived in all their questionable legality glory. We got them on and we think they look the nuts and its getting scary how close to being done and road legal (ish) its all coming now.
Thanks for looking, hopfully more updates tomorrow
The first thing we did was fit the door mirrors. During the week I'd made up some mounting plates out of some carbon fibre off cuts I had laying about, I also bonded some nuts to the back to make fit and removal easier.
We primed both surfaces ready for some windscreen glue (becoming increasingly know as 'cliobond')
Next we drilled holes in the door itself so we could use the bolts that hold the mirror to the mounting plate as some aligning pins.
Then we bonded the plates on and went to lunch while the glue dried
Back from lunch we bolted the mirrors on and set about pointing them in the correct direction, during this process we found that the mirrors are more of a gesture towards legality than anything else
After this we nipped to the parents house to find a nice little parcel waiting for us.
The numberplates had arrived in all their questionable legality glory. We got them on and we think they look the nuts and its getting scary how close to being done and road legal (ish) its all coming now.
Thanks for looking, hopfully more updates tomorrow
Renault Clio 16v
plates look mint! shame theyre pig magnets
Daz.
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 200 RS EDC
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
I've said it before, but now it's almost complete, i'll say it again...
p**n!
p**n!
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
That so needs to be driven. Hard.
M
mini-valver
Gets better!!
Whats that stuff on the edge of the roof where you've taken the pic of the boot/roof gap??
Whats that stuff on the edge of the roof where you've taken the pic of the boot/roof gap??
See what you mean about the plates.... f**k the police tho.. NWA stylz lol
p**n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
p**n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F4R'd ITB'd '92 cup racer
have you tried looking out of them whilst the car is running?
if yours is anything like mine the whole car vibrates, as do the mirrors lmao
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
Well another busy day on the clio and a big thanks to the weather for being so kind to us lately. First port of call was a trip to A5 salvage our semi local french car breakers for a spot of shopping.
once everything was safely back at the garage and lunch was out the way we turned our attentions to the doors...... Again
This time the insides of the doors.
Started off by measuring everything up and made sure it was gonna fit.
Then the usual measuring, scribbling, disagreeing and drilling comenced to make the handles fit.
Oh and my old favourite, drilling holes in the doors:S
Then we set the speed nuts in place to hold the handles
Once that was done we were able to bolt the door cards in place making it possible to check the rods for the door pulls were ok and as luck would have it they were perfect. so we began fitting the brackets i'd been making at work during the slack periods last week.
Once they were fitted to the back of the door card we could fit the fully assembled card to the door and measure up for the rivets making sure they're all the same distance from the edge of the card.
Ta Da!
Other side is first on tomorrows hit list then on to other things
Cheers for looking
once everything was safely back at the garage and lunch was out the way we turned our attentions to the doors...... Again
This time the insides of the doors.
Started off by measuring everything up and made sure it was gonna fit.
Then the usual measuring, scribbling, disagreeing and drilling comenced to make the handles fit.
Oh and my old favourite, drilling holes in the doors:S
Then we set the speed nuts in place to hold the handles
Once that was done we were able to bolt the door cards in place making it possible to check the rods for the door pulls were ok and as luck would have it they were perfect. so we began fitting the brackets i'd been making at work during the slack periods last week.
Once they were fitted to the back of the door card we could fit the fully assembled card to the door and measure up for the rivets making sure they're all the same distance from the edge of the card.
Ta Da!
Other side is first on tomorrows hit list then on to other things
Cheers for looking
iimushroomzii
Toilet roll king
Transit Connect.
Whats left to do now? Looks absolutely stunning mate, hats off to you.
Seconded, love it mate, wish it was mine!!
And yeah they are FG doors, weigh almost 3 grams
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
WOW!!! Seriously guys thats a hell of an acolade, Thanks so much.
Also a big thanks to anyone who's taken the time to read the thead and post they're encouragement and suggestions.
Well today was another fairly busy day but not terribly picture worthy i'm afraid. First port of call was as we said, the passenger door which although it went really smoothly took a suprisingly long time.
Good result though I reckon, feels great to finally be able to sit in the car and look around at the virtually finished interior.
Next job was to swap the fuse/relay box on the N/S for a mk2 one as it's big enough to fit everything in unlike the mk1 one. Forgot to take a pic with the lid on as it was a fair bit fiddlier than we'd expected.
Another job off the list lol.
Then was a job we've had our heads in the sand about for some time but we could avoid it no longer :dead:
Chop the bonnet up...
It went pretty well really and now the bonnet closes and clears the engine and cover nicely. I've not decided if we'll do it or who'll be refibreglassing it back together for me yet but i know plenty of people who will make a great job of it for me.
Alignment is way out so i've gotta spend a while tryin to make it all fit together properly.
One other little job before we headed to the chip shop, got the bonnet stay holes drilled and fitted that to make working on it far easier.
Cheers for looking as always might not make it down the garage tomorrow so that's probabaly it for now lol.
Also a big thanks to anyone who's taken the time to read the thead and post they're encouragement and suggestions.
Well today was another fairly busy day but not terribly picture worthy i'm afraid. First port of call was as we said, the passenger door which although it went really smoothly took a suprisingly long time.
Good result though I reckon, feels great to finally be able to sit in the car and look around at the virtually finished interior.
Next job was to swap the fuse/relay box on the N/S for a mk2 one as it's big enough to fit everything in unlike the mk1 one. Forgot to take a pic with the lid on as it was a fair bit fiddlier than we'd expected.
Another job off the list lol.
Then was a job we've had our heads in the sand about for some time but we could avoid it no longer :dead:
Chop the bonnet up...
It went pretty well really and now the bonnet closes and clears the engine and cover nicely. I've not decided if we'll do it or who'll be refibreglassing it back together for me yet but i know plenty of people who will make a great job of it for me.
Alignment is way out so i've gotta spend a while tryin to make it all fit together properly.
One other little job before we headed to the chip shop, got the bonnet stay holes drilled and fitted that to make working on it far easier.
Cheers for looking as always might not make it down the garage tomorrow so that's probabaly it for now lol.
Some of a Clio 1.8 16v
Hmm that sounds like the best way to get the air into the filter and believe me something similar has crossed my mind but i'm really doing my best to keep the car well presented and i'd like it to look like a factory track car so i'll be dropping the filter back a bit and be taking the air feed from the redundant N/S fog light hole.
Golf GTi Mk2
Hardly make a difference at speed to be honest, front fog hole would be the ideal way to keep the look of the car as its wanted, no mesh over the front though, thats for the gheys.
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
PMSL! this is for a different thread! But i'm just going by another thread in the project section where a guy said that his air feed was to be as high up the front as possible so the air would be colder.
Either way, my opinion doesn't count for s**t. You are clearly far more talented than I could ever be!!! lol!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
More ace progress!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
The best build thread ever on CS, i reckon.
It's the first thing i check when i sign on!
It's the first thing i check when i sign on!
