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Arrived at the garage today to find quite a surprise awaiting me.
Somebody has taken the idea a stage further, and bolted a Subaru front wing onto the Clio, and tie-wrapped a Hawkeye headlamp in place. Must admit, it looks quite good.
If I hadn't already ordered my V6 bodykit, I might have considered it!
What do you think?
Somebody has taken the idea a stage further, and bolted a Subaru front wing onto the Clio, and tie-wrapped a Hawkeye headlamp in place. Must admit, it looks quite good.
If I hadn't already ordered my V6 bodykit, I might have considered it!
What do you think?
Anyway, today as the weather was dry, I got out my favourite tool, a 9" angle grinder, and set to work.
One cabriolet Scooby coming up!
One cabriolet Scooby coming up!
Bit more chopping and one rear turret sorted.
And the view from a different angle.
Very pleased with the way it went, should fit into the rear of the Clio shell nicely. Strut top will be braced to the side of the bodyshell, have a strut brace fitted, and probably linked in to the roll cage too. Depends how heavy it will make it!
Very pleased with the way it went, should fit into the rear of the Clio shell nicely. Strut top will be braced to the side of the bodyshell, have a strut brace fitted, and probably linked in to the roll cage too. Depends how heavy it will make it!
Next week's instalment should see the Scooby floorpan chopped, and some decisions about the front bulkhead and strut tops made.
Sorry about the rubbish editing above. Doh!!!
Sorry about the rubbish editing above. Doh!!!
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Jekyll
ClioSport Club Member
epic project 
will be viewing closely
and i actually quite like the impeza front lights/arch on the clio, kinda suites it.
will be viewing closely and i actually quite like the impeza front lights/arch on the clio, kinda suites it.
what v6 kit did you end up getting ?
that car is going to be awesome but you need to put it on the road
Hi Chris, got one from M99. They are doing me a light layup, suitable for racing. Should be here sometime this week.
OK, time for this weeks update. Sorry for the shortage of photos, but most of the progress this week has been stripping out the interior of the Clio, and I'm sure you have all seen or done this many times.
During the short periods of dry weather, I have been outside working with the angle grinder. Lots of thought has gone into exactly how to chop up the Impreza floorpan, to make sure it marrys up to the Clio bodyshell.
As you can see from the photo below (sorry the quality is not too good!) the rear end has been separated from the front just in front of the rear seat, as I decided this would be the best place to reduce the length to fit the Clio wheelbase. The rear turrets have been cut back, and are ready to graft into the rear arch area of the Clio. The rear boot floor has been cut out inboard of the rear chassis rails, and will have a flat infill panel welded in. The rear chassis members have been left full length at the moment, but will be cut to length to suit the Clio boot.
At the front, I have cut out the A pillars, mainly to establish where the inner box sections are. Looks like the Scooby inner wings and top chassis rails will graft into the Clio A pillars quite easily.
I have left the bottom edge of the windscreen on the Impreza at the moment, and will do some careful measuring to decide exactly where to cut. Again, looks like a fairly easy area to graft together, will probably be leaving the bottom of the Clio screen intact, and fabricating a panel down from it to mate to the Scooby scuttle and front bulkhead.
Next week I hope to make a start on chopping the Clio shell to match up to the new floorpan.
During the short periods of dry weather, I have been outside working with the angle grinder. Lots of thought has gone into exactly how to chop up the Impreza floorpan, to make sure it marrys up to the Clio bodyshell.
As you can see from the photo below (sorry the quality is not too good!) the rear end has been separated from the front just in front of the rear seat, as I decided this would be the best place to reduce the length to fit the Clio wheelbase. The rear turrets have been cut back, and are ready to graft into the rear arch area of the Clio. The rear boot floor has been cut out inboard of the rear chassis rails, and will have a flat infill panel welded in. The rear chassis members have been left full length at the moment, but will be cut to length to suit the Clio boot.
At the front, I have cut out the A pillars, mainly to establish where the inner box sections are. Looks like the Scooby inner wings and top chassis rails will graft into the Clio A pillars quite easily.
I have left the bottom edge of the windscreen on the Impreza at the moment, and will do some careful measuring to decide exactly where to cut. Again, looks like a fairly easy area to graft together, will probably be leaving the bottom of the Clio screen intact, and fabricating a panel down from it to mate to the Scooby scuttle and front bulkhead.
Next week I hope to make a start on chopping the Clio shell to match up to the new floorpan.
Mcaff
ClioSport Club Member
Hehehe this thread makes me giddy like a little school girl love it !!
love it !!Santa's been sending me lots of early Christmas presents.
E-bay special , front strut brace.
E-bay special , front strut brace.
Nice shiny new suspension struts mmmmm!
And finally, some pics of Rooby's new suit of clothes!
Progress is likely to be a little slow between Xmas and mid January, as we are off to the Autosport show with the V-Storms, so have quite a bit of fettling to do to make sure they are ready. They are being featured in the Live Arena Show, plus we will have one on the SDR stand, in the British Handbuilt Sportscars Pavilion. If you are visiting the show, pop along and say hello.
Merry Christmas to all my readers, and a Happy New Year.
Neil
Merry Christmas to all my readers, and a Happy New Year.
Neil
This has a ppc feature written all over it!
Total Impreza mag is already interested.
Just found this photo. Don't think mine is going to be quite THIS wide!!!!
Wow looks fantastic Neil
renault clio rs 172
verry nice project
Jesus... This is a fantastic project! Can't wait to see it at Werrington
If all goes well Werrington is pencilled in as the first event.
No pictures at the moment, but the only thing I have done since my last report is to take an angle grinder and air hacksaw to the passenger door. Removed all the un-neccessary bits, and lots of surplus metal, including the door skin, ready to fit the grp door skin. Lost LOTS of weight! Also got the polcarb windows on order from Plastics4Performance. Going with the thermo formed ones, so should look good.
Finally decided on colour, going to be shiny BLACK. Maybe the same as the stealth V-Storm, Subaru Mica Black, which has a lovely red pearl in it. Mmmmm!
No pictures at the moment, but the only thing I have done since my last report is to take an angle grinder and air hacksaw to the passenger door. Removed all the un-neccessary bits, and lots of surplus metal, including the door skin, ready to fit the grp door skin. Lost LOTS of weight! Also got the polcarb windows on order from Plastics4Performance. Going with the thermo formed ones, so should look good.
Finally decided on colour, going to be shiny BLACK. Maybe the same as the stealth V-Storm, Subaru Mica Black, which has a lovely red pearl in it. Mmmmm!
Well, after all the excitement of the Autosport Show, it's back to the grind. Literally! Got out the old 9" and 4" grinders today, and started to hack the Clio shell to bits.
View from the other side whilst cutting it to pieces!
Eventually after a couple of hours hacking it looked like this.
A few more views of the "Airfix Kit" bodyshell!
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And I had all this lot to weigh in. Good job we're next door to a scrap yard!
