welshname
ClioSport Club Member
What a piss take.
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Cub's Flamer - Supercharged, Cage etc
182cup & 172 racecar
Daddy bear, next time you see the Ginger dwarf, could you collect a front bumper off of him. Please.
I check the "new posts" bit of the forum regular, saw this thread, saw 42 pages, and thought to myself, "This one will take a while." That was Friday, now Monday I've just finished it.
Must say it's a brilliant build, the time and effort gone into it. Your garage meets reminds me of this chap on another forum, he brought a unit, which fits a few cars, has a two post lift, tearoom etc etc, but most weekends he opens it up for the forum people to come down to work on cars, and learn bits and bobs. Brings a real community feel to the builds!
Congrats on the little one as well!
Must say it's a brilliant build, the time and effort gone into it. Your garage meets reminds me of this chap on another forum, he brought a unit, which fits a few cars, has a two post lift, tearoom etc etc, but most weekends he opens it up for the forum people to come down to work on cars, and learn bits and bobs. Brings a real community feel to the builds!
Congrats on the little one as well!
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
I certainly can old bean. @Budgie and I should be getting together in a week or so for some dwarfism therapy. Poor little fella.
Thanks, he's doing great. 7 weeks today, can't believe how quick time has flown.
That's some commitment to read through the whole of this, appreciated. Hope it didn't bore you too much!
This car has certainly had/has the community contribution. It/I owe a lot to a lot of people on here, I doubt it will ever leave my possession. It's use may drop over the next few years, due to baby cub, but it won't go anywhere.
This is a great club, flameshed is just one example of people helping out and the friendships that are made through the club.
182cup & 172 racecar
We are all in it together. 
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
As seen from the post above, flameshed hasn't really been used in anger since babybear arrived last April.
The occasional start up / run out over the last 10 months, and a show or two, but other than that it's been nestled in the garage.
So, insurance renewal sorted this week. Thank you @Neil@greenlight - David was extremely helpful, great price and the trackday package deal with Markerstudy is a great product.
Got Silverstone tomorrow, so go-pro on charge and I went into the garage today to get it prepped. Oil change, gave the air filter some love, then re-connected battery, fired first time. Idled bumpy on the cold map for a bit, then dropped onto the warm map and idled smoothly.
Put the track wheels on, and torqued them up. Ready to go.
I love this thing. Who said modifying meant unreliability.
The occasional start up / run out over the last 10 months, and a show or two, but other than that it's been nestled in the garage.
So, insurance renewal sorted this week. Thank you @Neil@greenlight - David was extremely helpful, great price and the trackday package deal with Markerstudy is a great product.
Got Silverstone tomorrow, so go-pro on charge and I went into the garage today to get it prepped. Oil change, gave the air filter some love, then re-connected battery, fired first time. Idled bumpy on the cold map for a bit, then dropped onto the warm map and idled smoothly.
Put the track wheels on, and torqued them up. Ready to go.
I love this thing. Who said modifying meant unreliability.
182cup & 172 racecar
Great to ' Bump' into you on Sunday Olive.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Right, so Silverstone....
It was a great day, great track but for a whole host of reasons. I went down with the J-Tech boys and an assortment of cars; 3 x M3, 1 x M5, 911 GT3, Meggy, two heavily modified golfs, and 3 clios.
There was a huge assortment of cars running, some full blown race teams, plenty of "standard trackday fayre" and one or two quite frankly stunning exotics (488 Challenge Stradale).
Morning = wet = very slippy. It was extremely challenging, even on wets the car was all over the place, made more difficult by there being a lot of cars on track - some of which were going sideways and backwards regularly. It didn't make for much fun if i'm honest, and I was hesitant at pushing hard in the morning as the probability of binning it / being collected be someone else was high.
Afternoon = dry = awesome. A great track in the dry, again the congestion was challenging at times and there were a fair few "track heroes" who constantly felt the need to dive up the inside / overtake on corners / generally act the fool, but it was much better than the morning and could start pushing the car harder and harder.
I had great fun, the flamer didn't miss a beat and performed well against much more expensive metal at times. I was rusty, and it took me a while to get used to the car again and learn the lines, but by the end of the day I was getting there.
Great to see @Tony Hunter, glad the engine run in went well.
So, some photos of the flamer and other "nice things"...
Can see how busy it is getting here;
Pricey toys;
It was a great day, great track but for a whole host of reasons. I went down with the J-Tech boys and an assortment of cars; 3 x M3, 1 x M5, 911 GT3, Meggy, two heavily modified golfs, and 3 clios.
There was a huge assortment of cars running, some full blown race teams, plenty of "standard trackday fayre" and one or two quite frankly stunning exotics (488 Challenge Stradale).
Morning = wet = very slippy. It was extremely challenging, even on wets the car was all over the place, made more difficult by there being a lot of cars on track - some of which were going sideways and backwards regularly. It didn't make for much fun if i'm honest, and I was hesitant at pushing hard in the morning as the probability of binning it / being collected be someone else was high.
Afternoon = dry = awesome. A great track in the dry, again the congestion was challenging at times and there were a fair few "track heroes" who constantly felt the need to dive up the inside / overtake on corners / generally act the fool, but it was much better than the morning and could start pushing the car harder and harder.
I had great fun, the flamer didn't miss a beat and performed well against much more expensive metal at times. I was rusty, and it took me a while to get used to the car again and learn the lines, but by the end of the day I was getting there.
Great to see @Tony Hunter, glad the engine run in went well.
So, some photos of the flamer and other "nice things"...
Can see how busy it is getting here;
Pricey toys;
How did you manage to blag a ride in that haha! was it epic?
Been talking to the guy on insta about his e46 M3 track car, and he dropped that he had a GT3rs that he was taking that to silverstone haha
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Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
I thought that was you on the pit wall, but wasn't sure. You should have said hello!
Aye I was with the mrs, I did try get your attention when i walked over as I 'thought' it was you, but didnt wanna start shouting your name and realise it wasnt you... lol
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Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Car was doing a brilliant job showing more expensive things up.
Driver....not so much.....
Having not done a trackday for nearly 18 months because of the little man, it showed that as with most hobbies, practice makes perfect!
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
Was it an RNA day?
Me and Sam went to one and there was all sorts of £million£ stuff. A special mclaren, a 918, championship winning GT3 RS....
and the allow overtaking without consent. Anywhere.
So basically, if you have a fast car you can just go round and round pushing people out the way! Lol
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Opentrack day.
So rules were supposed to apply. In reality, quite a few heroes who thought said rules didn't apply to them.
I was out in our groups GT3 (passengering) and on our cool down lap some complete turd tried to dive past us on the right, when we had our indicator on to come into the pits. Some of the driving etiquette was awful.
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
I must say, with that RNA day and the overtaking 'rules' it strangely seemed to work??
We had a mare in the wet too. He ended up on max soft on the rear and down to about 25psi just to try and get some grip. It's a properly greasy circuit in the wet.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
It probably worked because everyone knew where they stood.
We had 50% following the rules, 50% not following them. Which creates chaos. For example, coming round a corner me and 2 other cars (golf R and Mini R53) "queuing" behind a mk1 golf waiting for the straight before overtaking.
Turd in an MX5 comes round the outside on the corner, drifting his way past 2 of us before slotting in behind the Golf R. So we then get on the straight and the 2 of us overtake the Mk1 golf and him.
He was very close to collecting me when he tried his corner overtake stunt.
If it had been a "free for all" I'd have not been there queuing as I'd have overtaken the mk1 golf on the corner well before.
The lack of grip in the wet was quite amusing in a way. Slidey mcslidey everywhere.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
So this hasn't moved since Silverstone. Out it came today, fired up first time. Reliability continues to amaze me.
Took it for a good run out, and really enjoyed it. Brakes were screaming so I need to do something about that as even I was cringing at the traffic lights in town.
Anyway, MOT is up in a month, so I'm going to run it around a bit this month to check there isn't something needs sorting beforehand.
And given its Father's Day tomorrow...
Took it for a good run out, and really enjoyed it. Brakes were screaming so I need to do something about that as even I was cringing at the traffic lights in town.
Anyway, MOT is up in a month, so I'm going to run it around a bit this month to check there isn't something needs sorting beforehand.
And given its Father's Day tomorrow...
Blimey, is he 17 already ? Time flies...
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Need a catch up dude. All good here, just way to busy at work....
Fire me some dates. I also need a "window chat".
That's not difficult @Feirny :tonguewink:
Clio 172
Found this thread when I searched flame red 172 as I've not long bought a do-er upper myself in the same colour! Have skim read through 40 odd pages (quiet day at work) great motivation!
I really like the stance of yours in the very first pics in the OP, which convinced me to order some 15mm spacers straight away as I'm running the same wheels. However I just had a thought, did the flameweapon have cup suspension when you first got it? I'm hoping not as that means I've possibly find for the wrong width.
I really like the stance of yours in the very first pics in the OP, which convinced me to order some 15mm spacers straight away as I'm running the same wheels. However I just had a thought, did the flameweapon have cup suspension when you first got it? I'm hoping not as that means I've possibly find for the wrong width.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
The good news is you've bought the best colour :wink:
The bad news - 40 pages of my waffle, sorry!
It had bilstein b14 coilovers and 15mm eibach hubcentric spacers with some camber bolts back then.
Stay Puft
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 172
I have cup shocks and 16mm/10mm spacers on my flamer btw. Non-cup/cup suspension shouldn't make a difference in looks.
Clio 172
I bought mine as a cheap fun daily so trying to resist the urge to spend a fortune on it, 15mm spacers and some lowering springs might be on the cards though!
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Good news. Flameshed passed its MOT and is getting taxed. Only done 400 miles this year, so taking it up to Blyton for CSF will give it a good run out. I gave it an oil change and filter change, and checked the pads etc.
Looking forward to CSF. Much excite. I'm on track in the afternoon, and I'll be experimenting with the suspension setup to find what suits my driving style best......
Some obligatory photos of it. Had a good look around it on the ramp and all looks good;
Looking forward to CSF. Much excite. I'm on track in the afternoon, and I'll be experimenting with the suspension setup to find what suits my driving style best......
Some obligatory photos of it. Had a good look around it on the ramp and all looks good;
imprezaworks
ClioSport Club Member
Mk5 Golf GTI :)
Tidy
Be funny if we pass you at the petrol station again!
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Yarp - ASTs.
Quite keen to see just how much difference playing with them makes. So may need to go steady until I've found the best setting for my old man driving style....
