glenn_adam_doble
ClioSport Club Member
Just renewed my membership so thought i would start a thread for the track car,
some of you may know of me through my Raider
after taking it to the ring last year and doing a few sessions at teesside autodrome i caught the track bug, but felt the raider was too nice to be ragged around a track, perfectly capable but not sensible IMO
so i decided to hunt for a 182 track car looked far and wide at standard cars and ones half prepped,
in the end i found this little 182 literally round the corner, i came to and agreement with my dad and brother to all go thirds on the car, so that it would make it even lighter on the pocket and more fun comparing track times ect on trackdays
here it is the day i picked it up
The Car was no means perfect but it was a good start, it meant that i could get straight out and have a play see what needed to be improved on,
Little Spec List:
Corbeau Sprint Seats
Ktec Induction Kit
Toyo Exhaust (I Think)
3 Sets of Wheels
15" Ultralights with Dunlop Slicks
16" OZ F1's with R888's
15" with Ditch Finders
Stripped Out
Ebay Bolt In cage
OMP Deep Dish Wheel
Sparco Harness's
Lowering Springs
s**t Short Shift Kit
and a hell of a lot of decals
First things first
Cambelt Change and a service,
Then for the first trackday (Teesside Autodrome)
great little track for a shakedown,
Instantly realised the brake pads where crap (Euro Car Parts Special), cooked after a couple of hard laps so went for some brembo OEM pads just for now as we had croft booked a couple of days later where the car performed well for its setup really, engine really pulled strong and went well but noticed a lot of rubbing front the front tyres
after croft it was pretty much the end of the track season, so decided to improve the car a little over winter
first job de sticker and refresh the front shocks as they seemed to have been leaky and had sagged
Stripping this stuff out was great fun
Then it was time for another track day, went blyton early in the year and all it did was rain the second we walked out of the briefing, r888's are no fun in the wet,
only video from the day have some on the go pro but none worth putting up,
we did a little more on the car ready for our next croft outing at teesside autodrome
went for a scorpion exhaust as it came up cheap and sorted the mounts out had a extra set of hands to help
Tidied up the bay a little bit with abit of hammerite
And put in some Ferodo DS3000 Pads
we where ready for croft, the weather was perfect so we decide to give the slicks a go on the afternoon session, and they were awesome, the grip was unreal one we had the pressures set right,
had this happen when they where cold
after the day the gearbox was ruined the shitty short shift kit was a massive part in it missing gears to heavy ect, so out came the first gearbox and a apparently mint one went in, along with a brand new clutch,
But during the first test drive with the "mint" box it crunched into third, angry was an understatement, as we had booked the nurburgring for the coming weeks and to be mugged of like this was a s**t thing for someone to do, so sourced another box and put that in ASAP
also purchased a BMS Shifter to tighten things up and get rid of the eBay shifter
fresh set of rubber for the 15"s ready for the Nurburgring R888R's
so we arrived at the ring friday evening went well, few warm up laps getting used to the car, starting to get the feel for it again
then saturday, managed to get three laps in before the power steering s**t its self half way round
took it to phillip weber over there, what a nice guy, so easy going and helpful, unfortunately there was nothing he could do as everything is shut on a sunday and he also noticed that the wheel bearing had give up in a bad way and he said we where lucky that we had managed to get that far round the ring let alone drive off it at adenau bridge
so that cut our weekend short, but we where lucky, so can be grateful for that
as soon as we got back we went about the EPAS conversion which i had bought months earlier but never got round to fitting, did a A/C and PAS pump delete
[URL='https://flic.kr/p/Wseifk']looped the standard rack with the original pipe work to make it abit more reliable than the rubber hose and jubilee clip method
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some of you may know of me through my Raider
after taking it to the ring last year and doing a few sessions at teesside autodrome i caught the track bug, but felt the raider was too nice to be ragged around a track, perfectly capable but not sensible IMO
so i decided to hunt for a 182 track car looked far and wide at standard cars and ones half prepped,
in the end i found this little 182 literally round the corner, i came to and agreement with my dad and brother to all go thirds on the car, so that it would make it even lighter on the pocket and more fun comparing track times ect on trackdays
here it is the day i picked it up
The Car was no means perfect but it was a good start, it meant that i could get straight out and have a play see what needed to be improved on,
Little Spec List:
Corbeau Sprint Seats
Ktec Induction Kit
Toyo Exhaust (I Think)
3 Sets of Wheels
15" Ultralights with Dunlop Slicks
16" OZ F1's with R888's
15" with Ditch Finders
Stripped Out
Ebay Bolt In cage
OMP Deep Dish Wheel
Sparco Harness's
Lowering Springs
s**t Short Shift Kit
and a hell of a lot of decals
First things first
Cambelt Change and a service,
Then for the first trackday (Teesside Autodrome)
great little track for a shakedown,
Instantly realised the brake pads where crap (Euro Car Parts Special), cooked after a couple of hard laps so went for some brembo OEM pads just for now as we had croft booked a couple of days later where the car performed well for its setup really, engine really pulled strong and went well but noticed a lot of rubbing front the front tyres
after croft it was pretty much the end of the track season, so decided to improve the car a little over winter
first job de sticker and refresh the front shocks as they seemed to have been leaky and had sagged
Stripping this stuff out was great fun
Then it was time for another track day, went blyton early in the year and all it did was rain the second we walked out of the briefing, r888's are no fun in the wet,
only video from the day have some on the go pro but none worth putting up,
we did a little more on the car ready for our next croft outing at teesside autodrome
went for a scorpion exhaust as it came up cheap and sorted the mounts out had a extra set of hands to help
Tidied up the bay a little bit with abit of hammerite
And put in some Ferodo DS3000 Pads
we where ready for croft, the weather was perfect so we decide to give the slicks a go on the afternoon session, and they were awesome, the grip was unreal one we had the pressures set right,
had this happen when they where cold
after the day the gearbox was ruined the shitty short shift kit was a massive part in it missing gears to heavy ect, so out came the first gearbox and a apparently mint one went in, along with a brand new clutch,
But during the first test drive with the "mint" box it crunched into third, angry was an understatement, as we had booked the nurburgring for the coming weeks and to be mugged of like this was a s**t thing for someone to do, so sourced another box and put that in ASAP
also purchased a BMS Shifter to tighten things up and get rid of the eBay shifter
fresh set of rubber for the 15"s ready for the Nurburgring R888R's
so we arrived at the ring friday evening went well, few warm up laps getting used to the car, starting to get the feel for it again
then saturday, managed to get three laps in before the power steering s**t its self half way round
took it to phillip weber over there, what a nice guy, so easy going and helpful, unfortunately there was nothing he could do as everything is shut on a sunday and he also noticed that the wheel bearing had give up in a bad way and he said we where lucky that we had managed to get that far round the ring let alone drive off it at adenau bridge
so that cut our weekend short, but we where lucky, so can be grateful for that
as soon as we got back we went about the EPAS conversion which i had bought months earlier but never got round to fitting, did a A/C and PAS pump delete
[URL='https://flic.kr/p/Wseifk']looped the standard rack with the original pipe work to make it abit more reliable than the rubber hose and jubilee clip method
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