Thought I'd do a little project post with my 1.2 runner. I have a few other projects in the mill atm but this is the only one I've commited to keeping.
I don't have a starting photo as I wasn't even thinking of her in that way but she was still black, had silver 15" stocks, that awful grey bumper strips but even worse silver door handles and silver stripes with "clio" stencilled in on the bonnet.
At this point I've been looking after several other projects and done some minor work to felix(a name given by a friend due to the reg). Ive sprayed the stock 15"s and the grey bumper strips and door handles. I've also swapped the seats for half leather sports.
I then had to take time out to refurb the brakes, since locking pistons were now at an mot failure/crash and die level. But after replacing the slider pins and pistons I chose to paint them red because +10bhp bro.
before:
After:
After the brake refurb I decided to go on a bit of a bender. Started stripping parts and putting them back together, etc. So most work was on hold for a few weeks. When I was done with my procrastinating I decided to buy new silver alloys and paint them black, because I loved scrubbing brake dust off the originals so much the first time. The new wheels were from a megane, looked shockingly bad in silver, but they looked ok on felix. Plus I tried to refurb the original stocks and kinda had an accident with an angle grinder. don't ask
believe it or not these were an improvement on the arch gap because of the bigger tyres. And I didn't have enough time with her off the road to get the suspension lowered (talk about that mother**ker later).
For the later half of 2014 the weather became sh*t enough to keep me from doing any serious work on the car, which was annoying as paint had started to turn silver (guessing the guy that sprayed the handles silver used some kind of specialist paint) and the suspension was started to get harded despite being quite high. But I did manage to get a remap on it. So now she does 50mpg easily but I got a snap of the trip reading at 82.6mpg. Was nice to see that number even though it only lasted about 100 odd miles.
So a few weeks before Christmas I come across some 182 alloys and fell in love. At this point I was tired of seeing the same wheels with different brand centrecaps at local meets. So I fitted these without question, sold the original pairs.
As you can see they needed a refurb but it was too late in December to paint and tbh I was just happy that they filled the arch gap a bit more.
I don't have a starting photo as I wasn't even thinking of her in that way but she was still black, had silver 15" stocks, that awful grey bumper strips but even worse silver door handles and silver stripes with "clio" stencilled in on the bonnet.
At this point I've been looking after several other projects and done some minor work to felix(a name given by a friend due to the reg). Ive sprayed the stock 15"s and the grey bumper strips and door handles. I've also swapped the seats for half leather sports.
I then had to take time out to refurb the brakes, since locking pistons were now at an mot failure/crash and die level. But after replacing the slider pins and pistons I chose to paint them red because +10bhp bro.
before:
After:
After the brake refurb I decided to go on a bit of a bender. Started stripping parts and putting them back together, etc. So most work was on hold for a few weeks. When I was done with my procrastinating I decided to buy new silver alloys and paint them black, because I loved scrubbing brake dust off the originals so much the first time. The new wheels were from a megane, looked shockingly bad in silver, but they looked ok on felix. Plus I tried to refurb the original stocks and kinda had an accident with an angle grinder. don't ask
believe it or not these were an improvement on the arch gap because of the bigger tyres. And I didn't have enough time with her off the road to get the suspension lowered (talk about that mother**ker later).
For the later half of 2014 the weather became sh*t enough to keep me from doing any serious work on the car, which was annoying as paint had started to turn silver (guessing the guy that sprayed the handles silver used some kind of specialist paint) and the suspension was started to get harded despite being quite high. But I did manage to get a remap on it. So now she does 50mpg easily but I got a snap of the trip reading at 82.6mpg. Was nice to see that number even though it only lasted about 100 odd miles.
So a few weeks before Christmas I come across some 182 alloys and fell in love. At this point I was tired of seeing the same wheels with different brand centrecaps at local meets. So I fitted these without question, sold the original pairs.
As you can see they needed a refurb but it was too late in December to paint and tbh I was just happy that they filled the arch gap a bit more.
...thank you, I want to wrap it too
