Matty's One-Seven-Two PH2 - Track Car Build

[Advikaz]

Great work mate

 

[Mattty]

Taking so much inspiration from this thread. Great work!!

That's really awesome to hear. Thanks!

Great work mate

Thanks :smile:

I Love what you have done to your car,keep it up:up:.I Have a few questions for you mate...how much cable did you purchase to relocate the battery as I am going to be trying to do it myself soon,any tips you can tell me would be very much appreciated.SJ.

Thanks! I believe I bought a total of 3 metres which gave me enough to do both the live and ground wire. Tips; If you haven't removed the heater matrix I'd recommend using a pass-through to get the cable through the bulkhead. I just used the big open space left by the heater because it was cheaper. Obviously a hole and a grommet would work but a pass-through would be much nicer. I believe the cable I used was 170amp 25mm^2 or 4AWG cable, if I had located it any further back I probably would have used 36mm^2 or 0AWG cable. I measured it all up in the car and marked the cable, then cut, crimped and heat-shrank the cable on the workbench, makes it a much easier job than working inside the car. I would definitely wire in a cut-off switch if its for a car that sits for a while, too. Other than that its pretty straight forward. Good luck.

 

[stonejedi]

Thank you Mattty:up:.SJ.

 

[Nige]

The cable then went from the fuse to the cut-off switch mounting below the handbrake. You can see the notches I had to cut out for the cables.

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See the thread sticking up and rubbing the cable near the left of the photo. I`d cut that off otherwise it will eventually rub through and cause a direct short.

 

[Mattty]

See the thread sticking up and rubbing the cable near the left of the photo. I`d cut that off otherwise it will eventually rub through and cause a direct short.

That was just put there to keep it out of the way. I have rubber-lined p-clips and bolts ready to secure it nicely, just waiting until I get a rivnut gun to secure the p-clips. Thanks for the concern though.

 

[Mattty]

UPDATE: PROJECT PLANS HAVE CHANGED FOR THIS. ALL PARTS SEEN IN THE THREAD ARE FOR SALE. THIS CLIO AND MY FRIEND'S TRACK CLIO 182 CUP ARE BEING BROKEN. ANY AND ALL PARTS ARE AVAILABLE.

SEE THE FOR SALE POST HERE:
https://www.cliosport.net/threads/breaking-172-and-182-track-cars.825667/

Thanks!

 

[Moskowal]

Hello,
I would like to buy some parts from your car and the link you provided does not work. Do you have anything left?