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My 1.2 dynam practice model



  Clio 2.0 16v 182
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
 

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  Clio 2.0 16v 182
over Christmas got to wrapping some things in carbon fibre, judge for yourself:
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My first attempt here, not my best but the improved pieces went on the car:
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  Clio 2.0 16v 182
Got some spacers today. 15mm rear, 30mm front. The handling has greatly improved despite having to roll back the arches.

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AFTER:
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  Clio 2.0 16v 182
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this is the project so far. Got a few plans for it when the weather warms up (mostly painting stuff and refurbing the alloys. Got all kinds of stuff ready to go on the car. Managed to get my hands on a 182 shell and stripped the body. In this pic you might be able to see a carbon wrapped cup spoiler (will get better pic later). In the end I'm hoping to get rid of the sunroof, tint or fly eye the headlights (chavvy, I know), half-flock half-wrap the interior to blend in with the alacantra and carbon fibre, get a proper splitter for the 182 bumper, fit an exhaust that doesn't sound like a smokers cough, air filter and turbo. But realistically I need to sort out a new clutch and win the lottery. I work more than I spend so time is an issue. Hopefully I'll have everything checked off by July.
 
  Clio 2.0 16v 182
Can't stress how frustrating all this was. Had to plasti weld the top dash console back to the dash and completely take apart the lower dash to install new ac switch panel because I fooked the original by forcing it out
 
  Clio 1.5 Dci 74kw
hey, good job!!How did you wrapped dashboard frame(last picture)?Did you need to dismantle whole dashboard?how did you get in tachometer? :D...thank you, I want to wrap it too
 
  Clio 2.0 16v 182
Yeah the whole dash had to be removed and then the whole instrument computer comes out. The face trim can be unscrewed from the back.
 


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