Joe's Racing Blue Project

sbridgey · Apr 8, 2013

Joe said:
It really does fly. Thanks, I'll be taking it very steady to start with. LOL, I think I already have it. Going over to the Ring in June, then might be doing Anglesey the weekend after I come home. Only problem is, is that it's the same weekend as CSS. So I'm not sure what to do.

Good lad, Clio's love trackdays, I am glad you are using it properly! get as many in as possible.

Ash' · Apr 8, 2013

Looks great on the rollers! Is it decatted btw?

Lawro · Apr 8, 2013

Looks lovely and a nice healthy result on the roller too! Enjoy Oulton tomorrow!

Jonff · Apr 8, 2013

Only just noticed you had a project thread lol. Looks spot on Joe, don't expect it to be so clean after tomorrow though.

Jon.G · Apr 8, 2013

Looking forward to tomorrow!

JonC219 · Apr 8, 2013

Good torque

aucky · Apr 9, 2013

Jon.G said:
Looking forward to tomorrow!

Are you coming?

jesus · Apr 9, 2013

I like this.

Joe# · Apr 9, 2013

Thanks everyone, enjoyed today so much. The car was faultless all day really.

sbridgey said:
Good lad, Clio's love trackdays, I am glad you are using it properly! get as many in as possible.

100% agreed. I'm quite tempted by Anglesey now.

Ash' said:
Looks great on the rollers! Is it decatted btw?

Thanks mate, it is decatted yes. It measured 105db today

aucky · Apr 9, 2013

Lol at 95dB

I th ink mine is loud and it read 92dB

Dan · Apr 9, 2013

aucky said:
Lol at 95dB

I th ink mine is loud and it read 92dB

Haha only real men can handle a yozza!

aucky · Apr 9, 2013

Dan · Apr 9, 2013

aucky said:
Yob.

I wish them buggers are classy compared to us yozza crew

Joe# · Apr 10, 2013

It was stupidly loud in the car yesterday with the rear seats out. It originally made 100db prior to the RS2.

Dan · Apr 10, 2013

Joe said:
It was stupidly loud in the car yesterday with the rear seats out. It originally made 100db prior to the RS2.

I have only taken out the padded floor thing in the boot and that made it much louder tbh!

Jonff · Apr 10, 2013

Joe said:
It was stupidly loud in the car yesterday with the rear seats out. It originally made 100db prior to the RS2.

Lol. It was bad enough in mine, god knows what it was like in yours.

Joe# · Apr 10, 2013

Dan said:
I have only taken out the padded floor thing in the boot and that made it much louder tbh!

It does, same as the parcel shelf.
It was worse on cool down laps really, holding it at certain revs. Sounded amazing in hero mode though.

Joe# · Apr 11, 2013

Here are James Bryan's pictures of mine from the trackday, top work

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

Oulton Park 9th April 2013 by James 5D MK2, on Flickr

ekaJ · Apr 11, 2013

Nice bit of off-roading!

Looks great mate, glad the track day went well.

n9oll · Apr 11, 2013

looks awesome, too nice to track imo lol

Tommo. · Apr 11, 2013

Definitely one of my favourites 182's on here! You just NEED a splitter though.

JamesBryan · Apr 11, 2013

He has one, just needs putting on

sonny172cup · Apr 11, 2013

Great pics there, love that colour blue.

aucky · Apr 12, 2013

Lol at the off road shot. Dealt with it well tbf.

What a day : D

Joe# · Apr 13, 2013

LOL, I thought I was doing the rally experience day

Really was a fantastic day.

Niall · Apr 14, 2013

A couple of mine from Oulton-

RB 182 Garage by Niall97, on Flickr

RB 182 by Niall97, on Flickr

Stefan. · Apr 14, 2013

^Loevely pictures! does need a splitter though

ekaJ · Apr 15, 2013

Niall97 said:
A couple of mine from Oulton-

RB 182 by Niall97, on Flickr

That looks soo good Joe.

I love your pictures Niall., camera god.

I want more of mine! :rasp:

Joe# · Apr 15, 2013

I really love that photo, thanks Niall!

I'll 100% fit the splitter on the weekend, it lets the front end down quite a lot. And I might trial fit a few other items

Matthew · Apr 15, 2013

Great photos!

Ash' · Apr 15, 2013

Matthew. said:
Great photos!

Nice avatar

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Joe the clio is looking amazing as ever.

MatthewR · Apr 15, 2013

Looking great! The garage shot form Niall is now my background on the ipad

Matthew · Apr 15, 2013

Ash' said:
Nice avatar .

Right back at ya!

Joe# · Jul 28, 2013

Haven't updated this in a while.

Shortly after the trackday, I bought Jonff's orange OZ F1 wheels of him (RIP Special Bus). The plan is to use these as track wheels to save killing my road tyres, and not have to worry about the brake dust as much. They currently have PE2's fitted all round, but I'll be getting a set of semi slicks once I've killed them, A few pictures of how they look fitted.

IMG_4996 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_5070 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_5334 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

Next up it was time to give the car a thorough going over before I drove over to the Nurburgring in June. The car was covered in rubber and tar after the trackday at Oulton.

IMG_5526 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_5532 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_5534 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_5541 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

Then I headed over to the Ring. For anyone who hasn't been it is simple epic, I haven't gone through all of my photo's yet. So I will leave you with this photo for the time being.

IMG_5621 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

After being home for a week, it was then time for a trackday at Anglesey. We did the GP circuit in the morning, followed by Coastal in the afternoon. Although we had a few wet sessions, I've never enjoyed driving the car as much as I did that day. I'll be back at Anglesey again for definite. I bought the official photo's but I'm having a few issues with them at the moment

Then, a weekend or so later I messed about with the car a little. Fitted a new Fabia front splitter, refitted my arch liners after doing the trackdays. And decided to put my front fog lights back onto the car, which I personally think looks much better. I'll let the photo's do the talking.