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Monaco 172 Track Car
- Thread starter Krarl
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S-JM
ClioSport Club Member
A4
FTFY x
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
With the 5 series out of action for a bit I had to make the Clio road (semi) legal again
I paid a mechanic to do all the hard work
MOT passed
It's made me miss how fast, smooth, refined, comfortable and effortless the 5 series is. I've driven it for 1 day and I feel ruined! f**k
I paid a mechanic to do all the hard work
MOT passed
It's made me miss how fast, smooth, refined, comfortable and effortless the 5 series is. I've driven it for 1 day and I feel ruined! f**k
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
I have ruined this car for the road
I drove it for 2 hours yesterday and I wanted to kill myself afterwards. It's great if you're hammering it, but my knees and shins hurt when I need to be sedated with my pedal inputs. The coilovers fling me out of my uncomfortable fibreglass bucket seat that I'm now too fat for whenever I hit anything even slightly that resembles a bump in the road too
But in other news, one of the lads at work has started 3D printing a few bits and bobs, I didn't have all the colours to do this but he did so he printed it for me. Not bad for a 3D printer! It was a horrible picture to get right too but it converts an image into g-code/stl format so you can print it
That pic makes it look more green than it actually is
I drove it for 2 hours yesterday and I wanted to kill myself afterwards. It's great if you're hammering it, but my knees and shins hurt when I need to be sedated with my pedal inputs. The coilovers fling me out of my uncomfortable fibreglass bucket seat that I'm now too fat for whenever I hit anything even slightly that resembles a bump in the road too
But in other news, one of the lads at work has started 3D printing a few bits and bobs, I didn't have all the colours to do this but he did so he printed it for me. Not bad for a 3D printer! It was a horrible picture to get right too but it converts an image into g-code/stl format so you can print it
That pic makes it look more green than it actually is
Sir Nancy Flowers
ClioSport Club Member
M140i
Can you whatsapp me a video of dem tiddys bouncing from the stiff coilovers pls?
Fanks
Fanks
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Sorry I've only got a vid of your mams swinging as she rides me like a Blackpool donkey on speed
Honestly, it grips like a downs kid with a pet hamster 🥴
Should get it done as a lithograph
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Is it bad I read that in Mike Tyson's voice?
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Washer pump packed in and with all the salt in the road it made it sketchy driving. Constantly getting spray on the windscreen and can't see f**k all. Set about swapping the pump over today as I had the day off
The first step was stripping down the spare track car I had because I know the pump worked on that
After that I stripped mine down. Thankfully the wipers popped off nicely on both cars with a little puller and they weren't sized completely
Minging
Cleaned and removed my alarm
It's a good job I was in here, my wiper linkage was a gnats fart away from going Pete Tong
Little c clip was missing and causing the spindle to wear and drop with gravity and the weight of the wiper on there. Because the wiper linkage has a joint too it was knackering that took, so a good little find
More cleaning
Continued...
The first step was stripping down the spare track car I had because I know the pump worked on that
After that I stripped mine down. Thankfully the wipers popped off nicely on both cars with a little puller and they weren't sized completely
Minging
Cleaned and removed my alarm
It's a good job I was in here, my wiper linkage was a gnats fart away from going Pete Tong
Little c clip was missing and causing the spindle to wear and drop with gravity and the weight of the wiper on there. Because the wiper linkage has a joint too it was knackering that took, so a good little find
More cleaning
Continued...
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
I removed the alarm because it was installed by a f**king gypo c**t and it was more of a pain in the arse than something useful
It was so shoddily installed that they twisted and taped most of the wiring, and the alarm sounder wasnt even tightened down. It was finger tight and they used one of the heater matrix bolts, which is probably why I've had water ingress because it was loose as f**k 🤬
All the stupid twisted and taped alarm wiring removed and the bolt back in and tight
Fusebox tidier now
Wiper motor, linkage, bottle with new pump back in. Someone had replaced the pump with a Chinese knock-off which had failed, 22 year old genuine Renault pump in
Cleaned and coated the plastics
Gave all the joints a good coat of ACF
All back together. Engine bay given a quick clean.
I put the rubber seal back in at the back of the engine bay. I've never ran this but I've noticed whilst plodding on at 50/60mph on the motorway the blowers get a bit cooler. I think without all the excess s**t on the engine it doesn't work as hard and there's nothing blocking the rad either. A bit less 'through' airflow might help
Tested everything, wipers smoother than ever, I just needed to use a bit of stranded wire to clean out the washer jets
It was so shoddily installed that they twisted and taped most of the wiring, and the alarm sounder wasnt even tightened down. It was finger tight and they used one of the heater matrix bolts, which is probably why I've had water ingress because it was loose as f**k 🤬
All the stupid twisted and taped alarm wiring removed and the bolt back in and tight
Fusebox tidier now
Wiper motor, linkage, bottle with new pump back in. Someone had replaced the pump with a Chinese knock-off which had failed, 22 year old genuine Renault pump in
Cleaned and coated the plastics
Gave all the joints a good coat of ACF
All back together. Engine bay given a quick clean.
I put the rubber seal back in at the back of the engine bay. I've never ran this but I've noticed whilst plodding on at 50/60mph on the motorway the blowers get a bit cooler. I think without all the excess s**t on the engine it doesn't work as hard and there's nothing blocking the rad either. A bit less 'through' airflow might help
Tested everything, wipers smoother than ever, I just needed to use a bit of stranded wire to clean out the washer jets
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Gave it a wash too. I hit the underside with my roller undercarriage cleaner, I had no plans to drive this on salty roads and it makes me itch knowing my coilovers don't have covers and some of my suspension parts are spherical bearings🥲
Is this the you're on about breaking?
Seems far too nice to pull apart.
Seems far too nice to pull apart.
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Nah it's the silver one that's going to meet it's demise
I just need to get my 5 series back, then I can start stripping it at work. I can't drive it there and I can't tow anything without it
I was going to say, making a car that good then pulling it apart would be soul destroying.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Can you just shove the chairs out the silver one in that to commute? Or are standard mounts not still there etc?
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
That steering wheel could do with a good lick 😋
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Oh, I wrongly assumed it was moderately standard.
leeds2592
ClioSport Club Member
Bean 182 + E70 X5
Them seat frames look nice and safe. Did Jon fozzy bear make them?
chazza114
ClioSport Club Member
I've got a set of standard seats out of my Phase 1 that you're welcome to borrow until your back in the BMW if that's any help?
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
It's all good, an engine has been purchased for rebuild for the 5 series
Hopefully I won't have to use this much
Hopefully I won't have to use this much
