Mark 1 Track Car - Trophy Red 172 Project

[Klumpy Dumpy]

Battery mount straight from your school of thought @Yorkshire Pudding

Looks good to me, nothing falls off 🤷‍♂️

 

[Coops Mk1]

 

[Coops Mk1]

Oh it was bonus time at work last month too so despite trying to hard to resist buying something completely pointless....I caved... And by God is it a lovely piece

 

[green]

I want one!!!

 

[16V F7R]

Sorry if this is a daft question, i’m a novice. Are you not refitting the reserve fuel tank? Is it a straight forward don’t put it back on and bung everything up? I’ve stripped my 5 down and when building back up I wasn’t going to refit. Also do the fuel senders fit each other’s tanks on mk1 Clio’s to R5’s?

Also which Wilwood brakes have you got and how do you rate them? We’re they easy to adapt to fit?

 

[Coops Mk1]

And fitted, miiint

 

[Coops Mk1]

Cadwell tomorrow and totally forgot that the battery was just zip tied to the PMS gearbox mount and flapping about like a 80 year olds ball bag, so quick go with the Bosch drill and boom, 'fabricated' a battery tray.... That'll do pig, that'll do

 

[Klumpy Dumpy]

Enjineer

 

[Coops Mk1]

I R Dugree bEteCh cUrtFi3d

 

[Klumpy Dumpy]

I lyk trayns n turtulez n stuff☺️

 

[Coops Mk1]

Mint day at Cadwell park chasing my mate about in same car. Weather was banging and despite still having some brake issues car went well.

On track photos to follow when javelin release them

 

[Coops Mk1]

Quick video chasing my mate Dan who's car is basically identical spec if achieved through slightly different brands of components and ITB's instead of RS2. Nothing in it really now which is mint for a dice up on track.

 

[Coops Mk1]

And Pro snaps, mint

 

[sk84life]

Looks good, love a mk1 on track!

 

[jonzink]

Looks like fun buddy

 

[Jase.]

Read your entire thread, love this thing

 

[Coops Mk1]

Cheers all, there are more plans a foot into this year, over the winter I've bought some bits to go into the car:

- refurbished rear beam with new bushes
- Clio cup stiffer rear torsion bars
- 172 Cup gearbox with Gripper diff

Anglesey booked in June currently as the first one but may do something in April or May too so car will be out the lockup end of March for works to commence.

Cheers

Ben

 

[Coops Mk1]

Well update perhaps required, Cadwell park was going absolutely brilliantly, car was chipping on and I was settling into another day in paradise as of all the tracks in the UK, Cadwell is the one.

Then, coming out the gooseneck at about 11:30 ish, so third session, drop pin on my roll kit sheared and the car went fully Charlie Chaplin, ripped a bit of bumper off and skidded to a halt in the grass bank very gently.

Overall no harm done and the kit itself has been on for many years and many trackdays.

So, next step was removed and shift to the bridgecraft kit that's not bolt on, more intrusive but frankly built like a brick s**t house.

Onwards!

 

[Coops Mk1]

So despite moth balling the car this year after the incident, I spent some time fixing the rest of the front end fully before putting her to bed for the winter.

There was some more bent metal on the leading edge of the front arch and more towards the rear too, yehaww straightened out what I could and slapped loads of rust convertor then stone chip all over it. Track car so doesn't need to be mint.

Fitted a good wing in pretty much same colour from stock and job done.

Sleep tight sweet Prince, see you in spring.

Cheers

Ben

 

[16V F7R]

Good work 👍👍 now stop messing with ya cars get that lawn cut 😆(I bet the misses says)

 

[Coops Mk1]

Good work 👍👍 now stop messing with ya cars get that lawn cut 😆(I bet the misses says)

I don't do DIY or gardening, Gardener is over next week

 

[Coops Mk1]

Smaller alloy rad purchased which should fit under the RS2 inlet a little better, currently the standard unit has to be shifted forward to fit.

Need to sort what I'm doing for a fan next, may go spall which seems to be the go to

 

[Coops Mk1]

Cadwell other week, mint day, car was perfect with the new roll kit and geo and was stomping round... Till about 2:30pm when as I tried a tight full maneuver into the paddock after the track went red flag...... Outer CV joint popped off the nearside driveshaft again and this time snapped the end of the shaft off. Managed to once again bodge it together and drive the 70 miles home though, cars a f**king trooper.

Mallory next in June.... New shaft before then!

Oh and new motorbike lithium battery bought, 980g for the old, 760g for the new one... Every little helps, flol

 

[Coops Mk1]

 

[imprezaworks]

Loving the open sunroof 👍👍

 

[Coops Mk1]

Loving the open sunroof 👍👍

Air flow bruh!

 

[Coops Mk1]

Resurrection time, so finished the 2024 season all good and rolled into last year, and got half a day at Mallory in May done and that was it...... Sigh.

So basically, 12 years ago or whatever it was when I scavenged the wiring setup for the car from @daveski old Iceberg phase 1 172 (130k mile car at the time and would be fair to say, even to Dave, not in the best fettle really but ran fine etc) I was always intending to pop it in the car, get it running, then remove and do a proper job repairing any issues fully, making good and tidying/stripping redundant wires. Obviously I never did and finally 12 years later at Mallory last year something let go in the loom.

Can ran perfectly all morning, stopped for lunch and came back to use it and that was it, wouldn't start for love nor money. Either injectors not firing or no spark, frankly both I think.

Tried everything, bypassing all sorts of parts of the circuits, new key sensors, even borrowed a mates deimmobilised ECU.... Nada.

So that was it, car left on the drive after getting it home on mates trailer. And it's sat there ever since until yesterday when I decided it was time to strip the old loom out and then clean things up.

Next step will be refit new used loom from Wragga and see if the thing will start.

Oh and the alloy supposedly short rad is waaaay to wide for the car, so stock one staying now, lol

More to come.....

Cheers

Ben

 

[daveski]

That 172 was one of my worst car buying decisions, and there has been plenty of bad ones 😂

Hopefully see you on track at some point this year!

 

[Coops Mk1]

That 172 was one of my worst car buying decisions, and there has been plenty of bad ones 😂

Hopefully see you on track at some point this year!

It died for the greater good 👍🏻

And yeah man I'll be about a bit, first one is Donny evening 7th May

 

[daveski]

It died for the greater good 👍🏻

And yeah man I'll be about a bit, first one is Donny evening 7th May

I'll be there on the 7th!

 

[Coops Mk1]

I'll be there on the 7th!

Daytime or the evening session? It's the evening I'm doing

 

[daveski]

Daytime or the evening session? It's the evening I'm doing

The evening! Chances of a passenger ride?

 

[Coops Mk1]

The evening! Chances of a passenger ride?

We'll see chap, I'm there with a mate with shotgun dibs and not in this, I'll be in the Quad most likely but may be able squeeze you in, lol