Hi, here is my mk1 Renault Clio RN what i'm trying to build, a little bit by time, to a racing machine :approve:
At first, when i bought it, it looked like this.. nothing special.
Now, i year later ( some pic-s of the job's i've done with it ):
The air box and the other fiberglass thingy are now painted matt black and are waiting for assembly. The other things i've done exept for mending the brakes, some bodywork, fitted a new front windshield, new cat and newly welded exhaust system are so minor that i didn't even bother to take pictures of them. So far i've been repairing the car so it would pass MOT, cause it expired 6 months ago and the next time i got to the MOT i didn't pass cause the CO level was too high up and the brakes were a little bit dodgy.
Now when that's all fixed ( i havent got around to have a MOT yet cause i still need new tyres cause the old ones are so worn out ) i have been planning to improve my car so that i could race with it.
The car only has a 1.2litre engine but it's as nimble as a mouse running for it's life
I have been looking for a new engine.. a 1.6l i persume
it lookes like a mess but it has 25 more kw than the original 1.2l engine so it could make a noticeable difference in the performance. The car only weighs 840kg and that's not a hole lot for a 1.6 to handle. I would probably get the engine for like 400dollars or so ( it includes the electronics, the gearbox and a hole lot of moving parts like the gearbox leaver and so on.. ) but i first wanted to check here, if anyone has done a change like this and how did they were with the results.
The car will get a wide body kit and some wheel flanges for better handling and new suspension but all of that will not get me going faster than like 140km/h max what takes a hole lot of time to get and i don't beleave that will be enough. I will be taking on different street legal cars what i beleave have a bigger engine on nowardays anyway.
At first, when i bought it, it looked like this.. nothing special.
Now, i year later ( some pic-s of the job's i've done with it ):
The air box and the other fiberglass thingy are now painted matt black and are waiting for assembly. The other things i've done exept for mending the brakes, some bodywork, fitted a new front windshield, new cat and newly welded exhaust system are so minor that i didn't even bother to take pictures of them. So far i've been repairing the car so it would pass MOT, cause it expired 6 months ago and the next time i got to the MOT i didn't pass cause the CO level was too high up and the brakes were a little bit dodgy.
Now when that's all fixed ( i havent got around to have a MOT yet cause i still need new tyres cause the old ones are so worn out ) i have been planning to improve my car so that i could race with it.
The car only has a 1.2litre engine but it's as nimble as a mouse running for it's life
I have been looking for a new engine.. a 1.6l i persume
it lookes like a mess but it has 25 more kw than the original 1.2l engine so it could make a noticeable difference in the performance. The car only weighs 840kg and that's not a hole lot for a 1.6 to handle. I would probably get the engine for like 400dollars or so ( it includes the electronics, the gearbox and a hole lot of moving parts like the gearbox leaver and so on.. ) but i first wanted to check here, if anyone has done a change like this and how did they were with the results.
The car will get a wide body kit and some wheel flanges for better handling and new suspension but all of that will not get me going faster than like 140km/h max what takes a hole lot of time to get and i don't beleave that will be enough. I will be taking on different street legal cars what i beleave have a bigger engine on nowardays anyway.
