Clio Mk1 5 Door 1.2 RT - Something different?

[RS Williams]

Right, got the car about a year ago now, when i started driving, and at that time it was a 1.9 Diesel. This is how it looked:

Some bigger wheels:

This lasted for a good couple of months and lasted for a month after passing my test, till the head blew. o in steat of shelling out on a new head i desided to buy a new car, a 3 door 1.2 green. Well it lasted a day untill this happend:

Little mis-hap on the way from work. So now i was stuck with 2 cars. So the cheapest thing to do, put the engine, and running gear from the green car, into the silver 5 door. So set about stripping everything from the green car, whitch wasnt that hard (and forgot to take pics ). Then set about stripping the silver 5 door. Whitch did mean i had to compleatly re-wire it, change the tanks, and lose the electric power steering as i couldnt figure out how to wire it! But changeing the racks to manual wasnt hard.

Some pics:

After all this the petrol engine was ready to go in, whitch, with some luck was a desent one, only done 62K and sounding sweet. Put everything in and she fired up first time! Well proud!

By this time i had taken the 15"s off as thet were rubbing a little on the inside, and put the 13" off the green 3 door on it. And this is how it lookied but the time id finnished, ready for the MOT:

So this is how it looked after getting it back on the road, and I'm very impressed with the 1.2 lump! plenty of kick in it!!

 

[rctempire]

Excellent. Energy engine went in to the 5 door?

What happened to the Green car? what did you hit?

I see the 5 door is now a pussy magnet already!

 

[RS Williams]

Right after that nothing mutch happend for a while, but now ive started on the mods!

How it looked with alloys on the back, and some rally style mud flaps (the style round here :rasp:

List of other mods ive got (ill put pics of some of them soon):

16v Steering wheel (theres also a clocks, but not in that pic)

16v Clocks as i said
16v spoiler (still not on!!!)
16v Calipers and disks (not on)

16v Ph2 Alloys ((cheers 172bagss2) only on the front, rear 2 need replaceing)

Changed the boot strip to one without badges
Lowering springs (still to arrive )


Ive re-furbed the wheels i had on before and think of either puting them bach on with lower profile tyres or selling them on, what do you think of em now? think of puting some sort of silver lip to them, opinions?:

Started to re-spreay the black bumpsrtips black again as they had faded big style, had a go at the front today, again opinions?

Well thats it basicly!!!

Ill keep this updated as i get more done, but it is slow progres! I am still only 18 and student life is more work than i like!!!!

 

[RS Williams]

The alloys before so you can see the difference

 

[Djw John]

Good stuff, cant beat a bit of DIY!

 

[RS Williams]

Excellent. Energy engine went in to the 5 door?

What happened to the Green car? what did you hit?

I see the 5 door is now a pussy magnet already!

Yeah, the Energy engines in the 5 Door

The green cars gone to the scrap, A pilars were bent out of shape, couldnt open the door! I put it on its roof! bit of shiny tar caught me out on a soaking summer down pour, hit the hedge and over! and stoped on its roof,sort of a half roll!

 

[RS Williams]

Todays progress report, the 16v/Williams Brakes fitted

Before:

After:

Some decent brakes at last!!!

 

[Chris_Cliomk1]

Looks good so far mate, what did u use to spray ur calipers??? and what process did u use cause im hopin to do mine but not sure what to use or how to do it. cheers

oh an how did u go about spraying ur black strips on bumper an side?? did u take em all off or do em on the car and what did u use to spray em?? cheers

 

[RS Williams]

The best way is to get a drill with a wire brush kinda thing on it to clean them up nicely. The easyest and best way to paint them is but brush (not like i did with an spray can!) because you can get into the little corners and stuff. The type of paint was some high temprature paint, but its not the best, best ask the guy at the paint shop

 

[Chris_Cliomk1]

Cheers fella, will defo give it a go when we next have a sunny day

 

[RS Williams]

With the black bump strips i just masked them on the car, i think it transforms the look of it, make it look more clean cut and new. Just to clean it all up to do the rest of the black bits!

 

[RS Williams]

Some ideas that have been floating about my head for the wheels, Done a ffew crude photoshops to have a look:

Opinions? I think the renault badge would certainly look different!

 

[Chris_Cliomk1]

In my opinon mate neither of them, id just leave the whole wheel one colour but if i was forced at gunpoint to choose one id say the second wit the renault badge in the middle, least its original.

 

[RS Williams]

hmm thinking of just leaving them as they are as well now lol
just tydie them up a little, and have the center cap a darker colour like they are now. But do need to be tydied up,.

 

[Djw Dave]

Are the discs solid?

Or is it just the pic?

 

[RS Williams]

Are the discs solid?

Or is it just the pic?

There Vented, its just a shoddy camera phone pic!

 

[RS Williams]

Right, decided to give the car a good clean today, and try and fine where water was comeing in through the boot somewhere. Thats when i found this:

Around these areas were compleatly soaked :dapprove:
so asked my mates dad to do some welding there, to get there sorted. And cleaning it bought up a lot of scratches and a bit more rust than i thought. More work to me done!

 

[BSC 182]

You are doing really well fella , considering you are a student id say not bad at all , just takes time (oh and a bit of money always helps)

 

[RS Williams]

You are doing really well fella , considering you are a student id say not bad at all , just takes time (oh and a bit of money always helps)

Thanks, im on half term now so ill try get as mutch done as possible! Well i think im sorted on the money front now, spent all i want to spend on. Now its all things i dont wana spend on but have to!

 

[RS Williams]

A little more photoshopping - How it should look lowerd, with the valver alloys at the back not steels and my 18th bday present - the personal Plates

 

[RS Williams]

Some pics (poser :rasp: ) got all the wheels matching now!
and lowering springs on the way!

 

[Baz-ESD]

Looks nice mate i like difference ..

 

[RS Williams]

Good news!
At last i have my lowering springs! Ill get em on this weekend hopefully, should look a lot better!

 

[RS Williams]

Finaly got my lowering springs and got them on the car today!
(student life isnt all work!)

I didnt notice till then there was sutch a diference between the diesel springs and the lowering ones!

Think it looks a lot better now, once i get the rear down on wednesday itll be looking great i think. Only the spoiler and thats it for now then!

some engine mods are tempting tho...

 

[RS Williams]

The rear finaly done the other day!

Looking good now i think, only the spoiler to go on now, and thats everything ive bought on!...for now :evil:

 

[Matteh]

gonna colour code the wingmirrors?

 

[Djw John]

Looking better mate, get some centrecaps and it'll finish it nicely

 

[RS Williams]

gonna colour code the wingmirrors?

Was something i was thinking of, next on my list probably

 

[RS Williams]

Looking better mate, get some centrecaps and it'll finish it nicely

Thanks, i do have the center caps, but ones a different colour, and my mates have taken to hideing them from me!

 

[RS Williams]

Would anybody be interested in buying the car??

Time to move on, need money!

 

[RS Williams]

ok, buying it once ive finished getting it up to scratch!

whitch will probably be buy summer!

 

[95cliomk1]

Hi just wondering how did you fit 16v clock with rev connect to 1.2 8v and does rev works? Many thanks cheers

 

[mat-nos]

think the connector block is already in the loom so just plug in and play iirc