Daniels Blue 182.

[dann2707]

As long as he doesn't ask to go in any multi story car parks that is....

LMAO.

Get a 182 bought so you can come to the northern meets! There's one this Saturday at Xscape at 3pm if you're around?
MrTom are you coming sir?

 

[Mr Plums]

LMAO.

Get a 182 bought so you can come to the northern meets! There's one this Saturday at Xscape at 3pm if you're around?
@MrTom are you coming sir?

Hi mate, i cant dan, just dropped it off with andyrg@ clioturb for my turbo conversion doing

Ill deffo come to one when i get it back mate, let you have a ganders

 

[firehorizon]

cars looking good mate

 

[bashracing]

Just read the thread, Top Job buddy, quite a transformation

 

[dann2707]

cars looking good mate

Thank you very much dude

Just read the thread, Top Job buddy, quite a transformation

Thank mate as if you're in Garforth! I'm only in Kippax myself, if you have a black 182 with side stickers I've seen you around loads! Waved at you a few times too, if it is you... Haha

Edit - it's not you haha but your car looks gorg! Will keep my eye out for you matey

 

[Austin-182]

Read from start to current, excellent work Daniel. Well done.

 

[bashracing]

yeah it's pretty much a carbon copy of yours but with trophy turinis, i was going to come to xscape today but drop the missus in leeds

 

[ChrisP_182]

Just had a read through, some good progress! Was good to meet you today mate

 

[Mr Plums]

Any pics of this meet mate?

 

[dann2707]

Read from start to current, excellent work Daniel. Well done.

My hats off to you for getting this far haha. Cheers mate

yeah it's pretty much a carbon copy of yours but with trophy turinis, i was going to come to xscape today but drop the missus in leeds

Maybe next time! Hopefully see you around buddy

Just had a read through, some good progress! Was good to meet you today mate

Thanks Chris, was great to meet you today. Can't wait to come to the next one with hopefully better weather

Any pics of this meet mate?

I did bring my cam but it was pissing it down so didn't dare get it out incase it got wet haha.



Bit of progress, albeit boring progress haha

Finally changed my mirror glass. From my picking up the car it had one of those stick on wing mirror glass as the current one was broken. I had absolutely no idea I could just buy the glass replacements from eBay haha. So changed it... realised that this pic is just showing my crotch haha

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So annoying how it wasn't even put on at the right angle haha

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Glass popped off and the terminals for the heated elements disconnected.

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And the new one on. Not sure why the pic is showing up that distortion on the top right :/ it's clear in real life haha

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Random pic from the garage.

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And finally remapped it with the 98RON map...

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Jesus it's made such a great difference. The car just feels way more eager, you can now blip the throttle for a revmatch downshift and it just revs instantly. Car idles much better and sets off smoother. Seems to pull much faster now. Really am so happy with it It won't have made much power if any at all but it's just made the driveability of the car so much nicer.

 

[Mr Plums]

Your dick looks toddy mate?

 

[dann2707]

Your dick looks toddy mate?

Tiny or tidy? Or a combo of both? I'm fairly happy with a tidy tiny penis :rasp: haha

 

[Mr Plums]

Tiny or tidy? Or a combo of both? I'm fairly happy with a tidy tiny penis :rasp: haha

Haha just joking pal, car looks great

 

[Mash.]

good effort on doing all of it yourself, makes for a much more interesting read!

and I've stumbled across this thread before not realising you're the guy on insta (who rides trials)


(hopefully that is you) haha

 

[dann2707]

good effort on doing all of it yourself, makes for a much more interesting read!

and I've stumbled across this thread before not realising you're the guy on insta (who rides trials)


(hopefully that is you) haha

Thanks alot mate. And yeah that is me haha bit of an instawhore and stalk everyone haha

Yours is looking well

 

[Mash.]

Thanks alot mate. And yeah that is me haha bit of an instawhore and stalk everyone haha

Yours is looking well

Hahha yeah who isn't!

And is looking as well as it can be without a gearbox in haha

 

[Reed67]

when you removed the washers.. are you still able to slide the seat back and forth easily? Ive done mine and now my seat wont slide easily. Have i done something wrong or is yours the same? Thanks

 

[dann2707]

cars looking good mate

Just read the thread, Top Job buddy, quite a transformation

when you removed the washers.. are you still able to slide the seat back and forth easily? Ive done mine and now my seat wont slide easily. Have i done something wrong or is yours the same? Thanks

Nope you've done it right mate. Mine is stupidly stiff now. I'm tempted to remove the bit of carpet it's pressing against as a few slices with a Stanley blade will fix it

 

[welshname]

Found the exact same thing! Did mine this weekend along with a ph1 gearstick conversion (if you've not already you really should).

I'm going to have a look at cutting away the carpet at the weekend.

 

[dann2707]

Found the exact same thing! Did mine this weekend along with a ph1 gearstick conversion (if you've not already you really should).

I'm going to have a look at cutting away the carpet at the weekend.

What does the ph1 gearstick benefit matey? Never heard of this conversion!



I've got a lovely and boringish update haha but it's something that's been bugging me for a while.


Completely changed the brake discs and pads all around. The discs were worn a lot and just didn't feel confidence inspiring. This coupled in by the fact that the rear o/s wheel bearing was humming at 35mph+ and the bearing being a part of the disc just made sense to change it all.


This was the front.

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I simply undid the two bolts holding the disc on and hit it gently with a soft mallet and it came off

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New vs old

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New discs on. I went for Brembo HC's as heard they work really well with the clio set up. Lots of copper grease on the hub to prevent the disc seizing on.

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And then I changed the pads. I went for Mintex M1144's

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All on

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Then two days later (Today) I changed the rears. Started by jacking Boris up.

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This was the state of the rears. Quite a large lip on the edge of the discm on both the fronts too actually

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17mm nut on the rear of the carrier and it simply comes off allowing changing of the pads. I then undid the 30mm hub nut.

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All off.

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This is the washer that i'd heard so much about, people not re-fitting them back to the new hubs/discs after changing and it giving massive problems afterwards. I made a note of which side up it was when removing.

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New stuff.

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Made a right mess of my carriers from all the grease. Need to clean them down when I get the time.

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And finally all on.

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[welshname]

Ph1 gearstick has no REAL benefit. It just feels better, surprisingly so actually. It's a solid metal ball on top, weighting is better and the size/shape is spot on.

 

[dann2707]

Update time.


This arrived, so happy with it, made a massive difference in my opinion. It's a c2 stubby aerial.

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Before:

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After:

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I'm getting a wandering feel when driving at speed, accelerating etc pulling left and right so im trying to find the root of the issue! New shiny parts always makes me happy

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Got the old ones off

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I haven't driven it yet but i'm hoping it's solved the problem

 

[dann2707]

New parts

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Powerflex dogbone bush kit

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This is the old one in situ

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Removed with 2 x 16mm nuts that came out fairly easy with a bit of leverage.

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Then to remove the old bush at the gearbox end I pressed it out using two sockets, one the same dia as the bush and a larger one for it to push into

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The other one came out with a few hits with the persuader

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New one fitted and put in Sorry for how dirty it looks there, flash is way too bright haha

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I then went for a drive, apart from the remap I would say hands down it is the best mod i've done so far. Absolutely love it!!


When you put your foot down now the power is just instantly there, you get more road / engine noise and it feels and sounds f**king amazing when all 182 horses are alive Everything feels so much tighter.


It vibrates a tad bit more at idle but as before when I did my last car, it just feels like a more eager vibration like it just wants to go. So so happy with it.


Anyway heres some pics I took. Needs lowering so bad I know

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This last pic is fairly comparable to when I first got the car.

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[welshname]

Looking good. That vibration at idle dies down after a few weeks. Still more than normal but not as bad.

 

[dann2707]

I hope it doesn't Feels really nice on my bum

 

[debussetti]

You'll love the Vibratechnic upper mounts then in that case.

 

[dann2707]

You'll love the Vibratechnic upper mounts then in that case.

HEY HAZZZZZZZZZ

 

[dann2707]

Okay so this update can either be seen as ghetto as f**k or awesome. You can all decide haha.


But basically, I wanted to clean out my injectors properly! The redex crap is exactly that and I think the only way to clean them properly is to leave them in an ultrasonic bath.


I researched into it whilst on my lunch breaks at work and saw that simply leaving them in an ultrasonic bath wouldn't do that much in comparison to with them being pulsed like they would be in a real life situation. So I had a search, and bought an ultra sonic cleaning bath!

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It had loads of great reviews online so went for that one.






I had a spare injector from when I replaced mine a month ago as it was giving me hassle.

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I then bought a petrol injector pulser.

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However this gave me a bit of a problem (known to me already). It only worked on the car battery as in 12v, which wasn't ideal as everytime i'd want to do this i'd have to be in stupidly close proximity to my battery in the freezing cold = not comfortable at all.

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So a bit of googling returned results that I could actually use a spare computer PSU to get a 12V feed by simply crimping the yellow wires together.

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So I did just that, crimping the blacks together for the earth and the yellows for the 12V. I can actually use the reds for another feed, think it might be 5v or something

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I can then (crudely) hook up the injector tester to my PSU and voila, it powers up. I do intend on making it more secure in the future as now it is simply crocodile clipped onto the wires of the PSU as shown.

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I then needed to test the injector using the pulser however I obviously need to get some pressure behind the injector. This was really just to see how it was looking prior to cleaning. As said, it was giving me some issues that's why I changed it. I then found some pipe that it would fit into snugly!

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I then hooked up a squeezy bottle to the other end, again this was air tight so my intentions were to fill the pipe with fluid through the blue bit and screw the bottle on and then squeeze that to apply pressure to the injector.

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I then hooked up the terminals to the injector

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And now I can squeeze the bottle whilst pulsing the injector.

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When doing this test I noticed that the injector only appeared to be spraying out of two parts and hitting the glass in two clear parts, much like a car windscreen washer. I couldn't get a picture of this as I don't have three hands.




I then filled the bath with near boiling water and all purpose cleaner (actually got some proper cleaner waiting for me to collect at work)

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I then turned the pulser to constantly pulse and turned the bath on for 480 seconds.

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I could see the dirt coming off, not as much as what I expected however.


Hooking up the injector back to my homebrew pressure tester lead to some interesting results. I thought I had completely broken it as it wasn't spraying any fluid...


or what I thought anyway, I just couldn't see anything?? So I got my torch shining on the injector and it turned out it was actually spraying but instead of clear droplets that I could see before it was more of a mist and that's why I couldn't see it! I also noticed that instead of it spraying out of two nozzles like before it was actually spraying out of all 4 of the micro holes in the end.


This is proven that it worked as the injector should ideally be spraying in a mist rather than like a hose pipe like it was before!


Glad my little ghetto testing and cleaning rig worked Going to be doing my actual ones at the weekend with the proper cleaning fluid.


Thanks for reading, it's been a long one haha

 

[dann2707]

Haven't done much to the clio lately apart from just getting back from a 300 mile round trip going to the lake district with the mrs.

Ended up averaging a nice 42mpg too which was cool despite enjoying some of the roads..

However i'm getting a horrible feeling when driving, clunking when accelerating and changing gear, pulling to the right when accelerating, steering pulling left and right when braking. So far I have...

New track rod ends and inner tracks
new lower wishbone ball joints
lower polybushed engine mount
fully tracked using hunter system
new upper gearbox mount
new bearings at the rear, tightened up to 175nm etc
new nearside bearing

Still feels horrible.

Anyway, some pics.

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[williamsclio1]

Excellent thread, I have just purchased my girlfriend a 182 and I have half the parts you have purchased already to go on the car.

You've literally done all the mods I intend on doing and given me a few nice ideas as well.

Couple that I will be doing as well as is 10mm axle spacer on the rear, 16mm hub centric spacer on the front and lowered on cooksports

http://cooksport.co.uk/product-CooksportRSClioSprings.html

http://www.jjcraceandrally.com/race...cer-kit-4-x-100-pcd-60-1-renault-clio-172-182

http://pure-motorsport.co.uk/details.php?itemid=263&model=-1

Cheaper route than coilovers and the right height stance I am after

Again excellent thread, one question where did you get the black small bits of stick plastic to go under the grill, nice little mod.

 

[williamsclio1]

Oh and by the way would suggest the rear plate is to low and is to much to the left :/ But then that is my savage OCD

 

[dann2707]

Cheers for the comment @williamsclio1 I like your idea with the cooksports and spacers.

I got the small black inserts from a trader on here, sadly I cannot remember his name and deleted all of my PM's, hopefully someone will come up with his name though. Was only like £4 though.

Just started spraying some parts. Will post some pics once they're all done

 

[Dan...]

Love this! It looks so fresh

What's the process for spraying the front grill? Want to do mine but I have no idea where to start... lol

 

[Mash.]

Love this! It looks so fresh :smile:

What's the process for spraying the front grill? Want to do mine but I have no idea where to start... lol

Remove it, clean/degrease, primer, satin black paint and then lacquer it! just apply lots of coats of everything and leave a long time between primer - paint - lacquer, as the grill takes a lot of abuse

 

[bashracing]

Regards lowering cooksport springs are back in stock buddy

 

[dann2707]

Cheers for the comments people, appreciate it.

These beauties have arrived fitting them tomorrow

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[Nick_Leeds]

Doing a proper job on this car, and project thread. I never had the patience to take photos of everything I've done to mine.

 

[dann2707]

Thank you @Nick_Leeds

Anyway, today I got them all on

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Haven't had a proper chance to go for a decent blast yet but so far so good!

 

[MWright]

So does that mean your clunking/knocking noise has disappeared?

Strut brace next? Haven't read up so don't know if previously mentioned.

 

[Mr Plums]

They look mint mate, got i link to them?