Dan's 172 cup project

[td_dan]

Hi there boys and girls new to clios but not French cars have owned a fair few 306s and 205s mainly turbo diesel and a couple of Gti6s.

my last car a 306td running a gearbox mounted bmw gt2256v, bigger fuel pump and paddle clutch was a lot fun.

Then my work began moaning about me using the van out of work so thought I need a daily. 1 drunk purchase later and I was on my way to Halifax for a 5 hour round trip to collect a 172 cup.

Came with 12 months MOT, New discs and pads all round, competition B exhaust and apparently a remap (no proof) all for the tidy some of £735.

So after a fun drive home I finally got it on the drive, after a quick gander it needs a new rear engine mount, drivers side strut and drivers side driveshaft then from then ill be tidying up and 'improving' it. I also own a classic mini which im doing a full nut and bolt resto on. Anyway enough jobber jabber, the car in question

 

[td_dan]

Had an hour today before work, its got a bit of a lumpy idle so removed the map semsor and ordered a new one and also removed the inlet ready for a lick of paint and to change the plugs as they dont look to fresh

 

[imprezaworks]

Any big plans for the cup? 306 must have been a riot

 

[td_dan]

For now just tidy it up as its been sat for a while, done about 5k in 3yrs so need to replace belts and refresh a few bits

The 306 wasnt definatly fun was running around 190bhp not bad considering its 92 standard and was all done in my lil workshop

 

[imprezaworks]

Great stuff mate. Any more pics of either?

You liking the cup

 

[td_dan]

The cups fun to drive but knocking a bit due to the dogbone mount, i aint got many pics of either im afraid, mainly pics of my mini on my fone unfortunatly

 

[td_dan]

 

[imprezaworks]

Will follow your thread mate. Looking forward to see where this goes. Can't beat a nice cup

 

[td_dan]

Well not much going on just collecting a few parts that need replacing also received these today

Nice keyring, also bought a spare inlet and throttle body so i can paint them up with a set if front calipers to

 

[td_dan]

Had a couple hours today so changed the spark plugs amd fitted a new map sensor to hopefully sort the lumpy idle

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Then it started pissing down so went in the garage and cleaned up my spare inlet and chucked some etch primer on it

Gonna hopefully get time to give it another coat then a splash of colour, also set up my little electrolysis bath to clean the spare calipers up for some paint to

Thanks dan

 

[td_dan]

Well not much happening just tidying up little bits, changed the rear bumper light for a brand new item

also added some wind deflectors

then I turned my attention to the knock when pulling off and the click when turning at slow speeds (Im thinking top mounts)
The knock turned out to be the lower engine mount bolt was loose and inner drivers cv boot was disconnected so nice easy fixes.

The click sounded to me like a top mount so took the suspension apart to find both struts are knackered (push them down didn't rise again) so now I need new struts aswell

in other news I also bought some spare wheels for the occasional track outing