Re: My mk1 track car blog
right not a great deal has been happening recently on the clio, due to various reasons, first being a trip to my boss's villa in tenerife for a week, for a much needed break and some decent weather
as per usual the cat tried its best to stow away in our luggage lmao
so i get on with a few jobs when i got back, fit my fuel rail guard
and then for the very first time i drove the car, was very nervous to see if everything would work (clutch, gearbox etc) as this was the first time i'd moved it under its own power. thankfully everything seems to working spot on, the car sounds like a real racer as its loud as f**k and has a real lumpy idle :evil: (lambda's arent plugged in so fuelling is all over the shop) and here it is parked round at next doors house
the only thing that had me worried was the whenever pressing the brakes there would be a loud knock and then the wheels would lock up if doing any sort of speed :S ........quite shamefully though it turned out i hadn't put the 2 lower caliper bolts on either side and under braking it was dragging into the disc and causing the wheels to lock up!
again thankfully no damage caused and a quick easy fix, major schoolboy error there! also whilt doing the caliper bolts i also got the angle grinder on the old brake line brackers and then secured the brake pipes using rubber lines p clips for the mot.
then we got on with repairing the o/s sill, this was the better of the 2 and we got away with just replacing a small piece of the inner sill and the rearward section of the outer, the smaller piece was all we needed to replace in this pic
will gety some more pics of the work in progress when i get round to the filling/spraying process
however the major downer of the day came when we started to cut out the n/s sill, basically we decided to cut out the full section of the outer sill due to its rotten condition, this was no major surprise as i knew this is what they suffer from, what was a surprise was the poor condition of the inner sill :dapprove:
as you can see the rust has got quite high up the inner sill to where you can see inside the car! its also where the passenger seat rail mounts to :S so the plan is to take the seat out, then cut a section out and replace it with some thicker steel and weld the seat rail to that, it will look a dog from the inside, but at least its in keeping with the appearance of the rest of the car lmao
even though theres not really alot left to do on the car it is only 5 weeks til fcs and this has put me back a long way, but i'm going to call in a few favours and spend all my hard earned on it getting it there :approve: