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

Nafoff · Jan 23, 2011

mate that looks top dollar

Meek_racing · Jan 23, 2011

Love this car, top work!

chrispy.clio · Jan 23, 2011

Cheers guys, Still got lots to do but comparing how it looked 6 months ago its deffently an improvment.

Silent_Scone · Jan 23, 2011

spot on. Shines through the front grill, what a touch

IcemanUK · Jan 24, 2011

Excellent I can use these pics as a template for when I rebuild mine

jamie rigby · Jan 24, 2011

looks fkin brill mate!

Craig.H · Jan 24, 2011

love it as always! good work mate!

Nafoff · Jan 28, 2011

howdy chap
another question if you have the answer / pics it would be handy,

when fitting the doorcards, did you cut away excess metal in the doors, if so you got any pics / info in what you left in there?

chrispy.clio · Jan 28, 2011

ph-reebone said:
howdy chap
another question if you have the answer / pics it would be handy,

when fitting the doorcards, did you cut away excess metal in the doors, if so you got any pics / info in what you left in there?

I havnt cut the door skins out yet mate.

Nafoff · Jan 29, 2011

seems like nobody has....lol
looks like i will be doing it blind today then..lol

chrispy.clio · Jan 29, 2011

Small update,

Cutting a long story short, I bought a Carbon Firbre bonnet which had some laqure peel. and the courier damaged it in transit by putting a large cut in it

The package didnt have insurance or anything so i'm stuck with a bonnet with damage.

Anyway today i took the DA to it to try getting it looking a bit better.

This is what it looked like when i got it

Here's a close up of the 'good' part of the bonnet, the most swirled and hazy laqure i've ever seen.

And after a few runs over it with some cutting fluid

Looks better but still needs a bit more work

Also rebuilt the ITB's

Before

After

As you can see i've rebuilt them with the mech on the left so its pointing left and to the peddles instead of it going right and having to curve round.

Still need to polish up the trumpets, but might get some cheeky Carbon trumpets instead.

More soon

oliver.james · Jan 29, 2011

Looking to seeing the finished engine bay when it's all back together, so much work has gone into this, it's spot on.

Silent_Scone · Jan 30, 2011

bonnets come up alright! If it's gel coated it'll swirl to fcuk really easily

Nafoff · Jan 30, 2011

can you not mount the bonnet pins through were the cut is?
i am not sure whats would be underneath here on a phase 2

chrispy.clio · Jan 30, 2011

ph-reebone said:
can you not mount the bonnet pins through were the cut is?
i am not sure whats would be underneath here on a phase 2

Well i did a little trial fit of the bonnet today and i could maybe cut the areocatches where the cut is. But i didnt really want then to be mounted there but i may have not choice.

I did some more work on the car today and i'm really happy, it looks the s**t now

I'll update it on Tuesday

Nick172Cup · Jan 30, 2011

You got a carbon bonnet also eh? Same here!

How heavy is yours? Mine seems lighter than the standard bonnet but not a light as I thought though, someone told me that its a GRP bonnet with a carbon skin on top...

Whiteley · Jan 30, 2011

Getting there mate

Gray · Jan 30, 2011

I had a fibreglass bonnet for my 172... 1.4kg iirc, but was mega flimsy!

Only had it on a few weeks an sold it.

chrispy.clio · Jan 30, 2011

Nick172Cup said:
You got a carbon bonnet also eh? Same here! How heavy is yours? Mine seems lighter than the standard bonnet but not a light as I thought though, someone told me that its a GRP bonnet with a carbon skin on top...

Yeah mine is a GRP with CF top layer. Mine weight 7kg. which is a lot ligheter than standard so i'm happy

chrispy.clio · Jan 30, 2011

Gray said:
I had a fibreglass bonnet for my 172... 1.4kg iirc, but was mega flimsy!

Only had it on a few weeks an sold it.

Yeah my mate had one for his 106 and it was shockingly flimsy.

Nick172Cup · Jan 30, 2011

chrispy.clio said:
Yeah mine is a GRP with CF top layer. Mine weight 7kg. which is a lot ligheter than standard so i'm happy

7kg's sounds about similar to mine, ill get mine on the scales and see! Getting the inner boot skin taken out of mine soon, wont be long before i'm as light as yours

Though I still have no cage

Nafoff · Jan 30, 2011

i was debating cutting the boot skin but decided against it, just not enough saving for what i am cutting away

Gray · Jan 30, 2011

ph-reebone said:
i was debating cutting the boot skin but decided against it, just not enough saving for what i am cutting away

oohh is that too minimal for Sirs expert grinding skills now

chrispy.clio · Jan 30, 2011

ph-reebone said:
i was debating cutting the boot skin but decided against it, just not enough saving for what i am cutting away

You'd be supprised how much weight you save. Every little counts

chrispy.clio · Jan 30, 2011

Nick172Cup said:
7kg's sounds about similar to mine, ill get mine on the scales and see! Getting the inner boot skin taken out of mine soon, wont be long before i'm as light as yours Though I still have no cage

Well my heavy thing in my roll cage and yours is your 2118's lol, probably weight the same lol

mikekean · Jan 31, 2011

I doubt that bonnet will polish back up, mine is exactly the same. The trouble with those K-tec bonnets is that they are cheaply made with polyester resin instead of epoxy resin, polyester resin is quite soft and doesnt polish up very well so the bonnets are lacquered from new. This is all fine if the lacquer used is good quality but the stuff on these bonnets seems utter crap and goes all patchy, so the only way round it is to sand all the old lacquer off and re-lacquer it or just paint it body colour like im going to do.

Curtis! · Jan 31, 2011

Polyester also turns blue tinted and spider webs fairly easily iirc?

Shame about the bonnet dude! Trumpets all cleaned up are lovely.

mikekean · Jan 31, 2011

Alex_C said:
Polyester also turns blue tinted and spider webs fairly easily iirc?

Shame about the bonnet dude! Trumpets all cleaned up are lovely.

Thats probably gel coat your thinking of, the top layer of most fibre glass products. These bonnets arent gel coated though.

Curtis! · Jan 31, 2011

Quick search got me this; http://www.oppracing.com/opp_pages.php?page=carbon_fiber_101

Craig. · Jan 31, 2011

Just sat & read through it all, really good read & hats off to you mate youve got a great car

Nafoff · Jan 31, 2011

Gray said:
oohh is that too minimal for Sirs expert grinding skills now

Gray · Jan 31, 2011

hahahaaaa!!!

chrispy.clio · Jan 31, 2011

mikekean said:
I doubt that bonnet will polish back up, mine is exactly the same. The trouble with those K-tec bonnets is that they are cheaply made with polyester resin instead of epoxy resin, polyester resin is quite soft and doesnt polish up very well so the bonnets are lacquered from new. This is all fine if the lacquer used is good quality but the stuff on these bonnets seems utter crap and goes all patchy, so the only way round it is to sand all the old lacquer off and re-lacquer it or just paint it body colour like im going to do.

I've polished it up and it looked pretty much brand new, obviously apart from the big gash in it. The bonnet just needs a little bit more work in a few areas where the laqure was very bad.

Craig172. said:
Just sat & read through it all, really good read & hats off to you mate youve got a great car

Thanks mate

Silent_Scone · Feb 1, 2011

you think this will be ready for combe action day matey?

chrispy.clio · Feb 1, 2011

Silent_Scone said:
you think this will be ready for combe action day matey?

Oooo, maybe, when is it?

chrispy.clio · Feb 1, 2011

These some pictures of what i got upto the other day

So i finished off attaching the wishbones and subframe to the car and suspension so it was all ready for teh slightly more fun stuff

Alternator Bracket and tentioner bolted on

Then the ITB's went on to see what it all looked like.

And as i have had my new rad for months i brought it out and had a trial fitting

Fits pretty well tbh, just needs a few little bracket and it'l be nice and sturdy

A;sp trial fiting the bonnet

So thats it for now. Just need to find a bolt to go through the top of the alternator which turned up today

Its getting there

Cro · Feb 1, 2011

Its going to be awesome mate! Are you running with those headlight blanks constantly? I need to work out some sort of quick release front bumper system, maybe using areocatches.

Can't get over how well the colour looks!

chrispy.clio · Feb 1, 2011

Cro-Clio said:
Its going to be awesome mate! Are you running with those headlight blanks constantly? I need to work out some sort of quick release front bumper system, maybe using areocatches.

Can't get over how well the colour looks!

Well if i just trailor it to all my trackdays next year then yes i will just keep them in, but i have been thinking about putting it back on the road for the summer for a bit of fun so the heavy xeons may be comign back

adam172 · Feb 1, 2011

looks amazing well done, congratz on making a pretty special looking car

b33fy172 · Feb 1, 2011

The engine and bay look fantastic! Credit to you mate!

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

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