172 Cup
Right guys I thought I would start up a new project thread as I haven’t really bothered with my last one so here goes…
Bit of history on the car; I bought it last September, it’s a 2002 Mondial blue 172 Cup, one previous owner before me, bought it with 36k on but has recently ticked over to 40k. HPI clear, and was bog standard when I acquired her apart from being fitted with a stainless stealth exhaust.
Theres some pics of it in here just after i bought it:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?537531-My-cup-after-a-quick-wash!&highlight=
Now after I had purchased the car I didn’t have a lot of money left over for mods, so the only things that were done at this time were the following:
Fitted:
Before;
After;
Before:
After:
Now when I got the car the belts had not been done, I had been doing my research when I was looking to buy one however so I knew how important it was to get them done on these ASAP. With this in mind I tucked enough money away to be able to treat it to a full cam and aux belt kit change including pulleys etc. With that important job done I could enjoy the cup for what it was in near enough standard form.
Another important job was to sign up to CS
….
Cheeky CS sticker in the rear windscreen:
Out with the gash tax disk holder the dealer left in and in with a nice CS one:
After this, Christmas came round and with it my insurance renewal shortly after that the tax was up so the car remained like this until a few weeks ago where I had stashed away a few pennies to begin spending on the car again.
There seems to be loads of cups popping up on here lately with people going down one of two routes with them…either tracking them or returning them to a ‘standard ish’ form. I want to sway towards the latter and make mine OEM+, so replacing things with genuine Renault items or where I can/is necessary putting after market items on the car trying to make it stand out just a little and give it my own ‘touch’. I want a mint cup in the end, which is what made me want one in the first place after seeing a minter on the road. I will take a me a while as im also saving up to move out but i will get there in the end lol.
So with the front tyres looking worse for wear after the winter I eventually sourced two new Continental Contact Sports for it, these were the original tyre that Renault used on the Cup and after having them fitted I can totally see why, they are fantastic and I would recommend them to any RS owner:
I’m not a fan of the big number plate on the front of RS’s so like many others I opted for a set of new clean plates with a 3/4 one for the front:
Before: Big plate with ugly border
After: clean 3/4 plate
Rear: clean
At this point last week I thought it was a good time to service the car before I go any further so the following was ordered:
-6 litre’s of Gulf Competition 5W-40 oil
-Oil Filter
-NGK Laser Platinum Plugs
-ITG panel filter
This little lot should be getting fitted this coming weekend, and there should be another update in the next day or so hopefully.
I will also be getting some decent pics of the Cup this weekend if I can convince my brother who has a trophy to tag along lol.
Thanks for reading, comments welcome
Bit of history on the car; I bought it last September, it’s a 2002 Mondial blue 172 Cup, one previous owner before me, bought it with 36k on but has recently ticked over to 40k. HPI clear, and was bog standard when I acquired her apart from being fitted with a stainless stealth exhaust.
Theres some pics of it in here just after i bought it:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?537531-My-cup-after-a-quick-wash!&highlight=
Now after I had purchased the car I didn’t have a lot of money left over for mods, so the only things that were done at this time were the following:
Fitted:
Before;
After;
Before:
After:
Now when I got the car the belts had not been done, I had been doing my research when I was looking to buy one however so I knew how important it was to get them done on these ASAP. With this in mind I tucked enough money away to be able to treat it to a full cam and aux belt kit change including pulleys etc. With that important job done I could enjoy the cup for what it was in near enough standard form.
Another important job was to sign up to CS
….Cheeky CS sticker in the rear windscreen:
Out with the gash tax disk holder the dealer left in and in with a nice CS one:
After this, Christmas came round and with it my insurance renewal
shortly after that the tax was up so the car remained like this until a few weeks ago where I had stashed away a few pennies to begin spending on the car again.There seems to be loads of cups popping up on here lately with people going down one of two routes with them…either tracking them or returning them to a ‘standard ish’ form. I want to sway towards the latter and make mine OEM+, so replacing things with genuine Renault items or where I can/is necessary putting after market items on the car trying to make it stand out just a little and give it my own ‘touch’. I want a mint cup in the end, which is what made me want one in the first place after seeing a minter on the road. I will take a me a while as im also saving up to move out but i will get there in the end lol.
So with the front tyres looking worse for wear after the winter I eventually sourced two new Continental Contact Sports for it, these were the original tyre that Renault used on the Cup and after having them fitted I can totally see why, they are fantastic and I would recommend them to any RS owner:
I’m not a fan of the big number plate on the front of RS’s so like many others I opted for a set of new clean plates with a 3/4 one for the front:
Before: Big plate with ugly border
After: clean 3/4 plate
Rear: clean
At this point last week I thought it was a good time to service the car before I go any further so the following was ordered:
-6 litre’s of Gulf Competition 5W-40 oil
-Oil Filter
-NGK Laser Platinum Plugs
-ITG panel filter
This little lot should be getting fitted this coming weekend
, and there should be another update in the next day or so hopefully.I will also be getting some decent pics of the Cup this weekend if I can convince my brother who has a trophy to tag along lol.
Thanks for reading, comments welcome
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