Kieran's Now Odyssey Blue Ph1 Project Pg.36 Onwards

[Kieran..]

Well i thought it was about time i made up a project thread

Ive now had the car nearly 3 months and i still loving it!

my first car was a 1.3 fiesta.. thankfully no photos haha

i then after a year bought a remapped fabia vrs making 175bhp and 290lbs

about 18 months later i needed to sell due to not affording the loan i had on the car, sold up and paid the loan off and bought myself a imp blue zetec s

the fiesta was great little car but after having my vrs before i realised the power werent enough so in march/april i started looking for my 172

come across this one on cliosport, 53 plate 60k miles,coilovers, prospeed custom exhaust, needed the roof resprayed due to some sort of bubbling but was nothing major

anyways heres the pictures before i picked her up

 

[Kieran..]

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got her home picked her up from wales so was a nice 250mile drive each way but was worth it!

pictures when back home and with wheel whores sticker removed

i then fitted a fabia splitter and renault f1 badge on the bonnet

bad photos i know!

 

[Kieran..]

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i then realised the standard alloys were letting it down so to start with i thought id be a little bit different and went for some oz ultraleggeras

picked them up and they were red, fancied them white so next day i got set DIY respraying alloys and they come up well!

 

[Kieran..]

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fitted to the car..

due to constant scrubbing i tried fitting 25mm spacers hoping that would work, it didnt but the stance looked bloody cool!

 

[Kieran..]

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so off they came and sold them i replaced with dark anthracite sheep alloys that i do also love

i also got rid of the hideous silver side repeaters for some smoked ones and i had a go a carbon fibre skimming my wing mirrors that come out dreadful! lol

 

[Kieran..]

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next i decided that i will strip out the rear seats and replace with a thin false floor

used 6mm MDF cut to size then bought some wadding and black nu suede from dunelm mill and covered it in that for a bit of a oem look lol

 

[beng-120]

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looked lovely with the ultra's on it, shame they scrubbed as the stance with the spacers looked awesome.
good set of pics, looks like a good project. any more plans?

 

[Kieran..]

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thanks mate! yeaa loads more plans today im finishing off the other half of false floor,

tomorrow im having a decat fitted cant wait to hear the noise!!

then im looking for recaros,cup spoiler,roof resprayed and then lots more

 

[Kieran..]

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finished

 

[Chris205]

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Love this car, I was looking at this for my girlfriend a few months back but couldnt be bothered to drive 600 miles to wales and back lol

Looks like a nice purchase though and I like what you've done so far

 

[Kieran..]

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decat fitted wow i love it! ill get some videos up later

 

[Kieran..]

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made a video but come out s*** lol but heres my removed cat with flange fitted to make easy for mot time

also stole from banderson but.....

 

[not normal dan]

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looks ace those first few pics remind me of how my 172 used to look before i changed the rims, love the little colours on the grill

 

[cafcross]

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Looks good.

Any reason it's got a Cup front bumper?

 

[keechy]

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what did you do to get the colours on the grill? looks aceee

 

[Kieran..]

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its not a cup front bumper its just got washer blanks put in

keechy its just coloured electrician tape lol

 

[Kieran..]

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Right guys I have now decided to carbon it all up the wing mirrors come out **** but it was my first attempt so I'm currently in process of carbon skinning my dash strips etc and making sure I get my high gloss finish this time!

So decided on all the dash strips, gear knob, steering wheel insert, fog surrounds, badges little rear bumper insert and next month get me a carbon spiltter

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

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Looks amazing

 

[Kieran..]

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Thanks mate

 

[bigup7]

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looking good mate

 

[j976rna]

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Really nice looking car,it looks nice the way it sits

 

[Kieran..]

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couple of updated photos

 

[Kieran..]

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[Kieran..]

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All carbon'd up and laquered up trimming them up tomorrow morning

 

[Kieran..]

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all trimmed up and now on car just waiting on the stickers for gearknob, dash and steering wheel

 

[Christopher.]

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The carbon looks very good mate well done,

Nice clio you have there

 

[Kieran..]

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bumper is now sitting in the garden

 

[Kieran..]

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finished the grill and its all back together

 

[Kieran..]

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ohh and also i no i need to polish up the lights! lol

 

[ElkWorks]

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ive got the gloss black grilles on mine, doesnt half make it look better.

awesome little car there man

 

[Kieran..]

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Thanks mate

Well the carbon rear insert and exhaust trim is all carbon'd up fitting it back on tomorrow

Also I'm putting the rear seats back in, just doesn't feel like a hatchback without them lol

Done a few other carbon bits, photos of it all tomorrow

 

[TPratt]

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did you sand down your grill before spraying?

 

[Kieran..]

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Yeaaa only a quick sand down cos was smooth anyways

 

[twiztid]

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the pictures of mine and your car, my car sucks its so high hahah not long after i bought it ^^ its changed a fair bit gnna make a project thead later just need some pics of herr

 

[jon11259]

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Hey man, car looks great!!! how did you do the carbon trimmings?

 

[Kieran..]

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Thanks mate!!

The carbon is layed over the part after having a epoxy basecoat then a few layers of epoxy to harden then flatterned back an lacquered lol

It's extremely addictive though!!

 

[Kieran..]

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carbon'd up more bits !

 

[Rob]

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You're doing a lovely job of that carboning, if you ever get the urge to do anything else, let me know

 

[Kieran..]

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Thanks mate! Lol well yeaa maybe in time, they're not perfect as I hoped them to be tbh lol

 

[Rob]

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Looks really good if you ask me, car looks very tidy. Just right for a ph2.