JezzaMac
ClioSport Club Member
Think its time to start a project thread for my latest Clio project!
Leading on from my previous 182 that I sold to buy a house I ended up missing the Clio sport life and shortly after selling the bean I ended up buying this Flamer for £550. My original inferno project thread can be seen here: jamies-boosted-bean.707350
Anyway long story short, Ive had a few cars in between coming back to the Clio sports! After selling the 182 turbo I bought this sexy little DCI80 for £300 with a pumped gearbox. Whacked a gearbox and clutch in it and I was away. 2 years and 42,000 miles later I still think its the best car I've ever had! I loved it! It was the cheapest car ever to run, it did everything I ever asked of it. It towed trailers, it carried bikes, it was a van whilst I renovated my house, it would take 2.4m lengths of wood, took me to france and back on holiday and it did all of that at 60mpg! Loved that wee car! Ended up selling it for £700 in the end as well! Winner!
My friend was selling his inferno cheap. By this time my house was finished and I was looking for something a bit more sporty and exciting to drive. He sold it to me cheap so bought it off him and ran about in it for a while. Again, sold it for more than I bought it for so was all good!
After I sold the inferno I bought an 2.0TFSI A4 . Worst car i've ever owned, I hated it and couldn't wait to get rid of it. It just continuously broke, mainly just stupid little electrical things that as soon as you fixed one thing, something else would stop working. Knowing that it was just a stop gap car, I really begrudged spending any money on it. Plus the fact i'd gone from getting 60+ MPG the audi would be lucky if it got 25MPG. It wasn't even quick or exciting either to make up for it. Gladly got rid of it as soon as I could get the flamer on the road!
Anyways enough of the background - Onto the good s**t and the reason we are here! The new Clio project!
Bought it for £550 quid as if had a few niggles but mainly it was cheap because it had a bad oil leak and the owner couldn't be bothered trying to fix it. The drive back didn't go to well with the under tray half breaking off so had to stop and rip it off.
Dropped it off at my mates unit to leave it there for a bit. dropped it off an headed home, only to get a call a wee while later from my mate to say that the car had set itself on fire and he'd had to put it out lol. No damage was done though, thankfully he was there an noticed it early!
We managed to sort the oil leak very easily - turned out to be a missing exhaust stud! Put a new stud in it and it didn't drop another bit of oil! happy days!
It still had a few months MOT on it so I ran about in it for a while until the MOT ran out and then I put it away in my unit whilst I was renovating the house. The plan was always to turbo it so after the house was done I started collecting the bits fit it. I um'd and aw'd for ages about whether to go for a cheap chinese turbo or just go all out and get a garrett. I went for a garrett and I'm glad that I did.
To be continued.....
Leading on from my previous 182 that I sold to buy a house I ended up missing the Clio sport life and shortly after selling the bean I ended up buying this Flamer for £550. My original inferno project thread can be seen here: jamies-boosted-bean.707350
Anyway long story short, Ive had a few cars in between coming back to the Clio sports! After selling the 182 turbo I bought this sexy little DCI80 for £300 with a pumped gearbox. Whacked a gearbox and clutch in it and I was away. 2 years and 42,000 miles later I still think its the best car I've ever had! I loved it! It was the cheapest car ever to run, it did everything I ever asked of it. It towed trailers, it carried bikes, it was a van whilst I renovated my house, it would take 2.4m lengths of wood, took me to france and back on holiday and it did all of that at 60mpg! Loved that wee car! Ended up selling it for £700 in the end as well! Winner!
My friend was selling his inferno cheap. By this time my house was finished and I was looking for something a bit more sporty and exciting to drive. He sold it to me cheap so bought it off him and ran about in it for a while. Again, sold it for more than I bought it for so was all good!
After I sold the inferno I bought an 2.0TFSI A4 . Worst car i've ever owned, I hated it and couldn't wait to get rid of it. It just continuously broke, mainly just stupid little electrical things that as soon as you fixed one thing, something else would stop working. Knowing that it was just a stop gap car, I really begrudged spending any money on it. Plus the fact i'd gone from getting 60+ MPG the audi would be lucky if it got 25MPG. It wasn't even quick or exciting either to make up for it. Gladly got rid of it as soon as I could get the flamer on the road!
Anyways enough of the background - Onto the good s**t and the reason we are here! The new Clio project!
Bought it for £550 quid as if had a few niggles but mainly it was cheap because it had a bad oil leak and the owner couldn't be bothered trying to fix it. The drive back didn't go to well with the under tray half breaking off so had to stop and rip it off.
Dropped it off at my mates unit to leave it there for a bit. dropped it off an headed home, only to get a call a wee while later from my mate to say that the car had set itself on fire and he'd had to put it out lol. No damage was done though, thankfully he was there an noticed it early!
We managed to sort the oil leak very easily - turned out to be a missing exhaust stud! Put a new stud in it and it didn't drop another bit of oil! happy days!
It still had a few months MOT on it so I ran about in it for a while until the MOT ran out and then I put it away in my unit whilst I was renovating the house. The plan was always to turbo it so after the house was done I started collecting the bits fit it. I um'd and aw'd for ages about whether to go for a cheap chinese turbo or just go all out and get a garrett. I went for a garrett and I'm glad that I did.
To be continued.....
