Russ_16v's ITB'd & Caged 182 Track Car (Was Crispy's)

[Silent_Scone]

Iceman took it back

 

[Tony Hunter]

Well then he's a c**t,I searched for hours.

 

[IcemanUK]

Daves theory was that Agmutu borrowed a tool so he could lend it to someone one else ha ha. Bearing in mind we used to be quite stoned whilst discussing this LOL

 

[Stava]

So what's going on Chris??

Is it a good enough reason not to come to Cadwell on the 13th??

 

[IcemanUK]

Haha ha ha ha If you write the word stoned it appears twice and yet in edit post it only shows once ROFL although it didnt in this popst, oh well I must be then.

Sorry for the hijack

 

[Silent_Scone]

So what's going on Chris??

Is it a good enough reason not to come to Cadwell on the 13th??

I'd like to know too

 

[Silent_Scone]

Haha ha ha ha If you write the word stoned it appears twice and yet in edit post it only shows once ROFL although it didnt in this popst, oh well I must be then.

Sorry for the hijack

Stay away from the PVA mate. lol

 

[chrispy.clio]

Depending on the weather tomorrow i'll work on the car. The Manual Steering rack is all complete which i am happy with. So we'll see what happens.

Oh and the car wont be ready for another month or two but i'm getting there....slowly.

 

[chrispy.clio]

howdy mate
i can't really be arsed to look through the whole thread to find it so though i would ask you as you may know better.

do you have any pictures of your subframes / how you attached your sidemounts to the car?
have fabricated some up but am a little unsure, pics of descriptions or anything will help...lol

Dont know if your still after pics but this is what i have

 

[chrispy.clio]

A small update,

So the other day i started to rebuild the subframe and wishbones.

Firstly i had to press the new polybushes into the newly powdercoated wishbones

Then press the metal tube inside the bush, now this was a bit of a ball ache as the powdercoaters had powdercoated the inside of the metal sleve so it made is slightly harder to be pushed in. I just useded my vice and they went in fine

Sitting nice and flush

I also took all the rust off the bolts and sprayed them black to look a bit nicer

And after attaching the wishbones i called it a day that day

Next thing to do was to get the piece of copper pipe flared to go onto the steering rack. So went round to my mates place and he flared the ends

So i now had the 4 orginal pipe nuts (not sure what they are called) filled with chemical metal, and the piece of pipe.

So i screwed the bolts into place to block off the holes

And screwed in the pipe

So it's gone from this

To this

So i gave it a degrease and dryed it off

And then sprayed it black

Couldnt be ar*ed to do any more so called it a day.


Just thought i'd show my Mk1 dash actually in the car too.

I had to just cut off the corners so it could fit around the roll cage

And i had also lowered the steering coloum a little while ago so its a little lower/closer to me.

Its gona get sprayed at some point so it looks a bit neater

 

[Silent_Scone]

good stuff as always mate. Take it you couldn't be arsed to fit the rack back in today then?

 

[Stava]

Did you have the sleeves tack welded in place on the wishbone bushes?

 

[chrispy.clio]

good stuff as always mate. Take it you couldn't be arsed to fit the rack back in today then?

Ha, well the powdercoaters were suppose to mask the threads on the rack brackets but they didnt so i couldnt attach them to the subframe and therefor could put the rack back on. Anyway i threw some paint strippon on them and its all good now, but s*d going outside again

 

[chrispy.clio]

Did you have the sleeves tack welded in place on the wishbone bushes?

I did indeed

 

[therealMAtt]

How come you didnt you go with the usual spacer option with lowering the steering column?? looks like it could be a bit wobbly

 

[chrispy.clio]

How come you didnt you go with the usual spacer option with lowering the steering column?? looks like it could be a bit wobbly

It doesnt move at all, super stiff. I've seen other people do it that way i have so i thought i might at well do the same as it works for them

 

[Silent_Scone]

Ha, well the powdercoaters were suppose to mask the threads on the rack brackets but they didnt so i couldnt attach them to the subframe and therefor could put the rack back on. Anyway i threw some paint strippon on them and its all good now, but s*d going outside again

it's fookin' freeeezin now

Have you sprayed your floor pan??!?? Didn't think you had but it looks spotless. I just spent 2 hours prepping..Found mouse droppings It's been sitting for awhile lmao

 

[Conlon]

good work as always fella!

 

[chrispy.clio]

it's fookin' freeeezin now

Have you sprayed your floor pan??!?? Didn't think you had but it looks spotless. I just spent 2 hours prepping..Found mouse droppings It's been sitting for awhile lmao

SPRAYED IT!!! yes i got it done professionally when the cage was done.

Took me days and days to prep the inside and i had help from a mate, but we did have to do the cage which was the biggest pain. So when's your getting painted?

 

[Silent_Scone]

ah! started earlier in the week, kevvy the chap who's doing the painting has almost finished the rear end
whilst leaving me to clear up rat s**t

 

[Meek_racing]

Dont know if your still after pics but this is what i have

Do the seats flex much on the existing rails? Do they sit any higher than with cobra x-low subframes? You have given me an idea to fabricate something up in work

 

[chrispy.clio]

The seats dont flex at all tbh. Flexs a little right at the top of the seat near my head but not much.

I've sat in a few clios with buckets and mine have deffently been one of the lowest seats/subframes

 

[Gray]

Pah... mine where on the floor, you could drop yours another 10mm~ by removing the original spacers you have between the floor and your frame!

My frames;

 

[jenic]

Pah... mine where on the floor, you could drop yours another 10mm~ by removing the original spacers you have between the floor and your frame!

My frames;

I want them, they look so much neater than the bodged up ones i bought lol

 

[Gray]

Just draw a set up and have them fabricated...

 

[jenic]

Just draw a set up and have them fabricated...

Easier said than done lol, send me your drawings

 

[Nafoff]

he better not have his drawings, he told me he didn't... mine will sit lower...lol

crispy work looks good mate, the subframe looks awesome all coated up, really really nice, may have to consider the same when i come to fit all my polybushes,
you only just placed the dash in there? fit quite nicely don't they

 

[Gray]

The drawings where destroyed after production for security reasons... LOL

Foxy sent me a rough drawing of his frames from his MK2 Clio... I then altered the design slightly and re-drew them on CAD, then got them fabricated.

But I cannot find the file anywhere, not sure what I did with it?!

 

[jenic]

What happened to your frames after the car was written off?

 

[Gray]

LOL... I didn't know it was written off?

The new owner had an off on a track day, but definitely not a write off?

I've not heard anything about it since

 

[jenic]

Ahh right, for some reason i though it was written off lol

 

[chrispy.clio]

UPDATE,

Spent the day trying to get as much done as possiable as i might not be able to work on it next weekend.

So after spraying the steerign rack yesterday i fitted it to the subframe.

You might see on the rack brackets that i had to use paint stripper to get the powdercoat out of the thread, it did work but made a mess of one of them

Next was to figure out where the new Powerflex ARB bushes went

Fitted in place

Now I'm not sure but i think i have been hit with the curse again. Now i have attached everything correctly and bought the correct size but this doesnt look right!??

Its the inner bush on the ARB.

The other side looked even worse but i attached it any way can anyone tell me if there's looked completly round or did it deform like a bit*h like mine has done?



Anyway evenually get the subframe all built up so this is what it looks like

So this is the underside of the car with out the subframe

And this is it with it

A few pics from above

So thats it for now, hopefully going to order a 172 cup alternator and all my braded bits for the brakes this week coming. I'm please with my days work

 

[Cro]

Looks 'Daz' clean there buddy! :approve:

 

[oliver.james]

Love it, fantastic work!

 

[maynard]

i love how you can see the colour of the subframe through the bumper grille, looks bloody ace!

 

[jenic]

Looks awesome, so clean :approve:

 

[Conlon]

very cool

 

[Stava]

Nice work Chris, looks great.

You need to book a trackday so you have deadline for getting it finished

I could send you a link to one if you fancy

 

[Quade]

Engine bay looks sooooooo clean. Could eat my dinner off it!

 

[Dave.]

Looks great, would love to pop over and have a nose around!