Lightweight 182 track/road car (Page 6+)

[M4D M4X]

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Ok so a rubbish update as some would disagree what im doing but hey what's done is done.

So been busy re checking everything's fine as the car is booked in for mot Wednesday .
So the hoses all fitted now and refitted the radiators even air con for now as im looking into a pure-motorsport delete kit (got prices for a group buy will sort it out 2morrow).
Here's the pic's

 

[M4D M4X]

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A quick boring update drove the car 2 the mot station and even though most say the cup racer suspension is to firm for normal roads it handled very very well indead , the out come of the mot it passed .
Ok I had to give him a tenner to forget there was no cat on it lol. Other than that passed with flying colours so after leaving the garage i drove to a local rally preparation place and bought a alloy foot rest for the passenger will upload pic tomorrow.

So my next plans over the next few weeks/months are.
1) Fit the k-tec carbon spoiler
2) Spray the outside (straight black)
3) Spray the bits and the wheels in diffrent green's
4) Fit the passenger alloy foot rest
5) Fit my custom cup racer brake ducts, sort ducting and plates for hubs
6) Look into buying the pure motorsport air con delete kit also timming belt change and a full service
7) Give it to a friend for the stickers

Quite abit still to be done but at least i can see the light at the end of the tunnel .

 

[nightSpirit]

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^ ok fair comment but how many months/years did it take and cost to build if you don't mind me asking?,

All these mods and fancy looking stuff that don't do nothing have cost me just shy of 5k all ready and the car is pretty much ready to use on the road as it's going for mot wednesday so really not bad in a years time frame.
I bet that car cost over 10k to build or maybe more concidering the sequential gearbox in your starlet prob cost you what i've spent on mine.

After fitting all these bits i know when i give it death on the track that most parts are brand new so i'll never have to worry about things failing/breaking and be stuck at the track side needing recovery.

Maybe in a years time or 2 i'll rip into it again and turn it into a pure track car as my main priority at the mo is to be able to use it on the road.

Point taken on reliability. I'm taking the Cup to Germany tomorrow and had it checked by a garage first. I ripped the back out, got rid of the random crap that adds no value and stuck a spare 4 point harness in there.

My Starlet took around 15 months and after spending 750 on the car initially, I brought all the parts over from Japan used so in total about 7k...I was lucky though running an import business for fun at the time.

When I sold the car, I stripped it and made over 15k!

 

[M4D M4X]

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Point taken on reliability. I'm taking the Cup to Germany tomorrow and had it checked by a garage first. I ripped the back out, got rid of the random crap that adds no value and stuck a spare 4 point harness in there.

My Starlet took around 15 months and after spending 750 on the car initially, I brought all the parts over from Japan used so in total about 7k...I was lucky though running an import business for fun at the time.

When I sold the car, I stripped it and made over 15k!

Your going to Germany while your over there are you going to nurburgring by any chance?. If so I'm very jelous as all my mates i went with last year pulled out because there cars ain't nowhere near finished so it will be next year now.

You've been very lucky with getting all the parts 2nd hand and for a fraction of the price (perks of the job having a import company) it's a nice little earner doubling your money breaking it.

Next time i ever do a track car build i'd prob go out and buy a ex racer as it would be easier and less money.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Here's some pics
Wheel now I've fitted camber bolts

Alloy foot rest (passenger)

Alloy exhaust that I couldn't turn down only cost £20 lol

Also some pics while it was on the ramp for mot

 

[daveski]

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Where did you get the footrest from? Do you have a link? Cheers!

 

[Struggler]

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6) Look into buying the pure motorsport air con delete kit also timming belt change and a full service

man up, save some cash and delete both the aircon and power steering in one go!!

 

[M4D M4X]

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Where did you get the footrest from? Do you have a link? Cheers!

Sorry mate no link,
it's a local rally preparation place that makes them it was £42.78.
There's some on eBay i'll get the measurements for you if you want.

 

[M4D M4X]

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man up, save some cash and delete both the aircon and power steering in one go!!

Delete the power steering, I take it after that's been removed people buy a quick rack do they?

 

[mr.pink87]

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1.2/dci rack and some nice r5 brackets and you can even keep your standard alternator mate! Cheaper than the whole cup setup shizzle. By the way, what wheels are you running, they look good!

 

[M4D M4X]

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1.2/dci rack and some nice r5 brackets and you can even keep your standard alternator mate! Cheaper than the whole cup setup shizzle. By the way, what wheels are you running, they look good!

Cheers mirko the wheels are inovit ST VI there not bad wheels lightweight compared to most other 17". awesome stuff will have to look into this now i know i can use a 1.2/dci rack prob won't cost much ether . Also thanks for the heads up on the carbon canister . Cheers

 

[mr.pink87]

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Paid about 50quid for a reconditioned rack on ebay. But you need to reuse your 182 steering rods as you´ll get too much to out with the non sport rods.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Paid about 50quid for a reconditioned rack on ebay. But you need to reuse your 182 steering rods as you´ll get too much to out with the non sport rods.

So i take it i need to look for a electronic steering rack? Or a bog standard one of the mk1 clio's?.
Cheers

 

[mr.pink87]

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EPAS rack. But you leave the electric stuff alone and use it with your column (EPAS motor is on the column in the non sports). If you use a non PAS rack you´d have more turns lock to lock.

 

[M4D M4X]

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EPAS rack. But you leave the electric stuff alone and use it with your column (EPAS motor is on the column in the non sports). If you use a non PAS rack you´d have more turns lock to lock.

Perfect . Thanks mate

 

[nightSpirit]

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That's the one, 5th year there.

Combination of Clio and Rent4Ring cars...up until tuesday i was taking my Tamora but a garage suspects engine issues so im leaving it here

 

[Clio1416]

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wats with the exhaust damien ? Haa also cars coming together very nicely

 

[M4D M4X]

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wats with the exhaust damien ? Haa also cars coming together very nicely

I know it was for a 205 rally car custom built jobbie, my mate had it but sold the car so he asked if I wanted it for £20 so i snapped his hand off lol, not sure if it will be any good as there's no baffles so i'd have to buy 4 motorbike baffles to fit in the 2 1/2" exit's.
Also another thing that concerns me coz it's alloy on my stainless i'm not sure if it would melt or deform but worth a try i guest for £20 lol.

Cheers mate

 

[M4D M4X]

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Ok then all another busy weekend messing about with the car again, so i managed to fit the foot rest here's the finished result

After tidying the garage i come across a carbon fibre k-tec spoiler that i forgot i bought sometime ago so this is just taped into place for now what does people think?

I'm unsure with the spoiler atmo even though it looks different.

 

[JackJack]

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That footrest looks good ditch that spoiler though.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Hi all here we go after fitting the oil cooler to my car i want to keep a eye on things such as oil pressure and oil temp, I've already ordered my dials 52mm raceteck with stepper motor's still waiting for them to arrive.

With my previous car project (golf gttdi) i fitted a boost gauge into the door air vent and it looked awesome so wanted to do something a little different to the Clio rather than a pillar pods.
This is still in progress so will update often.
Here is the standard dash before.

This is a 52mm gauge pod i bought of eBay for £7 so got to work and trimmed it to fit the recess.

After removing the flocking with a dremel i set to work and filled it with fibreglass and sanded down to a smooth finish.

After fitting it i didn't like the look of how it was tilted back (side shot above) so i then used more fibreglass and shaped a visor similar to the dash clocks so it now will block the sun from glare.

This is all i've got to at the moment but once i tidied it up it will then be sent to be flocked and glued back into the dash.

 

[Nafoff]

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very nice and tidy mate,
handy with the fibreglass

 

[siari7]

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them stickers look wiked!! in yellow too? or maybe white?

 

[M4D M4X]

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very nice and tidy mate,
handy with the fibreglass

Cheers Neil

 

[M4D M4X]

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them stickers look wiked!! in yellow too? or maybe white?

If your talking about the Clio 197/200 then i've changed my mind again and decided to go for the ken block fiesta livery there is a pic of said livery on the Clio page 3 so i can see what it looks like.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Not much of a exciting update but sent the centre gauge off to be flocked last week phone up yesterday and i should have it Monday but i'm still waiting for my gauges to arrive , a few other bits i've done while i've had nothing else to do is sprayed the badges/trim and mirror covers in a custom kawasaki green with a little drop of White added as a base coat to see if they would react so these are now flatted down with 1500 wet and dry so ready to to be sprayed when the weather is nice.

I also had a headlight cover with CAF in the garage that was cracked around the edges so set to repair with fibreglass and stopper this is now ready to be sprayed in black.

I also came across genuine cup racer brake ducts after 2 years of looking the drivers have been used but the passenger has never been fitted so i'll need to tidy these up as it's not the best of finishes but these will also be going black.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Had a parcel this morning it was my custom centre gauge back from been flocked only charged me £20 bargain imo.
here is a few pics but got to wipe the rest of the dash with a damp cloth and fit in all in proper when i receive the gauges

Also trial fitting the genuine cup racer brake ducts the passenger was short so now i've got to mess with these before fitting,
I've now come to the conclution that motorsport QC dont give a sh*t what it looks like and fits as long as it does the job .
Here's a pic

 

[Keith185]

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Awesome work Group buy on the gauge pod

Ducts fitted and worked awesome, thanks.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Awesome work Group buy on the gauge pod

Ducts fitted and worked awesome, thanks.

Awesome Keith glad your using them to the full potential ,

Group buy on the gauge pod sorry mate but i couldn't coz of to many angles.
it's easy enough to do thou all you need is buy a double pod £7 eBay a tin of fibreplast from a car paint/body shop £20 a few 320 sanding discs, a dremel to trim the recess and pod, and a few hours sanding and shaping and wolla.

 

[Geordie-Chris]

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Good project so far mate, think it'll be out on track sometime this year? Who does your flocking, I'm looking for somewhere that does a good job for reasonable cost, after a few poor quality pieces after the last place I used to use stopped doing it

 

[mwn11]

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Get it on track! looks awesome.

But im sure with the money youve spent on little parts like ducts and pods and flocking etc etc you could have done a trackday possibly more and the experience with the car would make you far quicker than all little bits done.

 

[JLister]

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Love the car mate, ignor the haters, look at ken blocks car, looks amazing and goes like f**k!! Looks give the car character, overwise its just a shell with an engine.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Good project so far mate, think it'll be out on track sometime this year? Who does your flocking, I'm looking for somewhere that does a good job for reasonable cost, after a few poor quality pieces after the last place I used to use stopped doing it

Cheers mate, I'm hoping that it will be finished in a months time maybe 2 so i'll take it on a track this year but next year I'm hoping I can visit nurburgring after all teething problems if any has been sorted.

Here's the company I used to do the flocking http://sbp.me.uk/. However they are reasonably priced but they do take ages so if you can afford to wait a 2weeks or more then these are the people.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Get it on track! looks awesome.

But im sure with the money youve spent on little parts like ducts and pods and flocking etc etc you could have done a trackday possibly more and the experience with the car would make you far quicker than all little bits done.

Cheers mate
The only reason I ain't taken it on the track coz I wanted to finish everything before i do.
The car is SORN'd atmo so a perfect opportunity for me to get it all done the way i plan that way I wouldn't have to take it off the road again to finish and do other things .

But on a plus side hopefully it will be finished shortly

 

[M4D M4X]

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Love the car mate, ignor the haters, look at ken blocks car, looks amazing and goes like f**k!! Looks give the car character, overwise its just a shell with an engine.

Cheers dude
As this is pretty much my 1st project on any forum I've soon realised that there are haters and ok I can understand that I'm not doing it the way they would but it's all individual tastes and something that's different to the norm.

With the ken block theme a few things will be changed or the whole thing will depending on what my mate (the sticker guy) says would suit the car better, when the car gets sprayed not long now I'll b going down his and where going to have a mess about on the lap top and come up with a few ideas.

 

[domsclio182]

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Sticker's on a track car cool,on the road may look a little silly,so make sure you get yourself a trailer,306D will make a good tow car as well.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Sticker's on a track car cool,on the road may look a little silly,so make sure you get yourself a trailer,306D will make a good tow car as well.

Lol I'm half way there already, funny enough the car I use as a daily work horse while the other cars are off the road is a 306 Dturbo so only a trl to get hold of .

 

[M4D M4X]

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So this is what i've been doing this weekend my blackened out headlights .
Well after looking at the car i began to hate the headlights as not only was they grey inserts but it was to much reflective silver/chrome in the headlights so after trying to cook them in the oven and when't Pete tong.

I bought a pair of non xenon's that had black insert's and awesome lenses so attacked them with a dremel after keeping the insert's and lenses i binned the rest. So began to dremel the lenses of mine after all weekend stripping sanding priming and spraying this is what the final outcome looks like .
Before.

After.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Ok this is long overdue a update.
So from last time i updated i've done a fair few bits as well as stripping the interior putting it back together stripping it again the usual thing lol.

I'll keep things short so after doing the one headlight i done the other side.

Then it was time for the badges,mirror covers and wheels. After stripping the tyres and weights i began to scotch them down to take the shine off so the paint had something to grip to.

Then i had the thought of fitting a CAF to the spare passenger light i had some might have seen this already in media but this is the finished item.

After having a funny 5mins i decided i'd get a full roll cage so sold the half cage and manage to purchase this cup racer with added bars on the drivers side, Still got to do some things before i can fit it.

If you can see i also done the cup racer ducts and also painted the bullets black with green lettering.

Also bought a alloy heat Sheild and another 90 degree bend.

This is all at the mo been to cold to work on it but i'm hoping i can get this car finished soon so i can start on the other project i have lined up.

P.s I'm not going to do the stickers now just straight black with the green bits.

 

[M4D M4X]

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Wtf!
Why is my phone now showing the pics in the wrong order.