Spent the last two days racking up the miles in the old girl, I just love the car more and more, the new butterfly and inlet make it sing, granted the exhaust is pap but thats next weeks change! Riads been photographing the Porsches at Oulton friday/sat so inbetween we headed over to Autoflock in Wrexham to see Raj and pick up the modified dash.
Always a case of letting pics do the talking but thats not enough here, the guy is brilliant, seriously. he's fanatical about cars for a start so walking round the unit seeing CF weave and time attack wings is a taster to his attitudes. I wanted the Apillars doing along with the steering column and obviously the dash (all obviously without Riads green light!).
As we move the clio forward and make her fast road/track orientated/suitable to build riads track etiquette up we obviously want weight out, so the passanger airbag was removed and Raj moulded a fibreglass sheet to it with something else that i've unfortunately forgot the name off lol (sowriiii, all i know is its high end and technical and meant alot of sanding, layers and sanding)
About 4 hours solid work went into it and the results are amazing, he's cheaper than others I know of, uses more advanced methods and is willing to do a deal with CS members too.
details of which i'll post tomorrow with better pics of the clean clio. Testament to the work that two bmw race teams today at Oulton took details and everyone that see's it is like 'oooooo'
heres a few more of the dash anyway...
overexposed shot to show how it looks, excuse the heater vents, i'm spraying them black like the clock/temp gauge in the week.
Aim is to totally remove the ghastly blue from the ph1 interior. new buckets seats and carpet strip will help that eventually.
next week we move onto exhaust and braking 'issues', but as for today asnd the schooling of the college boy in his Boxster... i think we are happy
oh.
and to top the day off Christopher came over and we let eachother lose on eachothers cars
(Note: not to scale)
splitter is only small but the difference is huge, really makes the car look mean, especially with the spaced front wheels. oh and he gave us his used side bullets, many thanks as always sir x
i might do a grand total of whats been spent on the car next week, people will spit feathers..
god bless the ghetto. we dont have get a bargain in these parts.
Clean and 'better' pics tomo, instead of my point and hope efforts.
