New member with track clio

[C19wkr]

Hi all, recently purchased a clio 172 for the track, stripped out, roll cage, buckets and harnesses, lowered, 8 alloys (4 road tyres and 4 stickys) cant wait to start using it.

Just needs a decent steering wheel to finish it off.
Also thinking of having it on the road as its mot'd

Thoughts and opinions welcome ??

 

[youngarthur]

Nice car. I run a Meglio, not stripped as much as yours, and doing long distances, I use earplugs sometimes. Yours, I am sure, will be noisier.Personally, I would use it as a road car as well.

 

[C19wkr]

Nice car. I run a Meglio, not stripped as much as yours, and doing long distances, I use earplugs sometimes. Yours, I am sure, will be noisier.Personally, I would use it as a road car as well.

Yeah its got a big silly oval back box on it that will need to come off, just waiting on the book to come through to get it taxed then i can start using it ?

What model meglio do you have?

 

[youngarthur]

Clio 197, with 250 engine/225 gearbox, running 320/340.

 

[Typhoon]

Welcome to the club mate. Be interesting to see what direction you go with this.

 

[Clio_fool]

Welcome aboard. Putting a few road miles on it would be a good shake down. You don't want to book a track day and have the car break down early on!
I spotted a vxr burg yesterday, first one I've seen for ages!

 

[C19wkr]

Clio 197, with 250 engine/225 gearbox, running 320/340.

Ah nice mate, a couple of my friends have 197s with 225s in them,they are class cars, should have came turbo'd imo

 

[C19wkr]

Welcome to the club mate. Be interesting to see what direction you go with this.

Forward hopefully ? joking aside, ive been a passenger round the track once and as soon as i got off the track i started shopping for a clio, never thought id enjoy it as i prefer a "show car" but i honestly cant wait

 

[C19wkr]

Welcome aboard. Putting a few road miles on it would be a good shake down. You don't want to book a track day and have the car break down early on!
I spotted a vxr burg yesterday, first one I've seen for ages!

Yeah thats the plan, a few miles to see whats loose lol

My burg is my show car, 313bhp, too scared to break it lol

 

[Clio_fool]

The burg looks great but I eccpect the Clio will be more fun on track??.

 

[C19wkr]

Pr

The burg looks great but I eccpect the Clio will be more fun on track??.

Probably mate, you had any track time?

 

[Clio_fool]

Pr
Probably mate, you had any track time?

Not in my Clio no but had a few passenger laps at csf and can confirm they go around well! I've too much mechanical sympathy to track my car?.

 

[Coops Mk1]

Welcome, looks a decent little base to work from. Enjoy the cheap repairs and chuckability on track.

 

[C19wkr]

Not in my Clio no but had a few passenger laps at csf and can confirm they go around well! I've too much mechanical sympathy to track my car?.

Yeah I've seen lots of them, couldn't believe how good they were

 

[C19wkr]

Welcome, looks a decent little base to work from. Enjoy the cheap repairs and chuckability on track.

Cant wait mate, just need a decent steering wheel then im good to go

 

[Coops Mk1]

@OssPoop soft lad, send it

 

[Coops Mk1]

Cant wait mate, just need a decent steering wheel then im good to go

Standard wheel works okay tbh, no reason to stop a trackday anyway. Ran my daily on track with it

 

[Krarl]

Welcome aboard. Putting a few road miles on it would be a good shake down. You don't want to book a track day and have the car break down early on!
I spotted a vxr burg yesterday, first one I've seen for ages!

MOT on Monday after being sat for a year...

Kick its head on the Saturday???

 

[Clio_fool]

@OssPoop soft lad, send it

Maybe next year at csf. I'll be going very slow around custard corner though ?. (where the megane went off)

MOT on Monday after being sat for a year...

Kick its head on the Saturday???

I tip my hat to you sir, you built a good car and it didn't let you down ?

 

[Coops Mk1]

@OssPoop go to a proper track like Cadwell.... Much safer literally no-one rolls there

 

[Krarl]

And nobody hits trees??

@OssPoop Slightly hard to get into 1st and 3rd but apart from that its bang on!

 

[Clio_fool]

And nobody hits trees??

@OssPoop Slightly hard to get into 1st and 3rd but apart from that its bang on!

You book a day and I'll drive yours ??.

 

[C19wkr]

Standard wheel works okay tbh, no reason to stop a trackday anyway. Ran my daily on track with it

Yeah it would be fine, just not in the best condition, a nice steering wheel would fnish it off imo

 

[Coops Mk1]

Yeah it would be fine, just not in the best condition, a nice steering wheel would fnish it off imo

Options....

 

[Clio_fool]

Options....

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I'd take the snappy fettled one out of those two, it's lush?.

 

[Krarl]

Need a new steering wheel in mine, got the standard one with a manual rack, it's like driving a bus and I had mega wrist pump when on track?

That being said I should probably put my EPAS on because driving the Megane is a piece of piss

 

[C19wkr]

Options....

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That sabelt 1 is the type im after mate

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

welcome along