Russ Rallye
ClioSport Club Member
Thought i'd put some pics up of my new project, going to be mainly for Nurburgring use maybe the odd blast round the lakes of a weekend. I've had a Ph1 172 in the past and wanted another for this project, managed to bag this bargain off ebay, by no means the best one you've ever seen but is mechanically very good, had a clean interior and was standard. Bodywork is bad, its been painted badly on the roof, rear quarter and bonnet with scratches on most of the other panels but it's going to be having a full repaint anyway, wont be silver and i dont know of another one the same colour at the minute.
Haven't done a great deal at the minute, just in the process of preparing the shell, all the sound deadening is to come out obviously as are all the random brackets and other metal work. Looking to save as much weight as possible, all doors to be gutted, polycarb windows, heater/ac box has gone, just debating what to do about the dash atm.
Gone a bit mad with the wiring too, stripped everything out of the interior and none of its going back! Only need the basics, keeping the column stalks but thats it apart from a hazard light switch. Gonna redo all the under-bonnet loom as well in preparation for an Emerald K3 ECU.
Haven't really spent any money as yet apart from buying the car, going to order my full cage from Custom cages this week hopefully. I have a spare Recaro Pro-Racer + harness from my Leon Cup so they're here ready to go in. Just trying to budget for buying bits around racing my leon in the LMA Eurosaloons. Sold the original interior bits so thats gone a little way towards it. I'll try and update when i've finished cutting up the interior and get some pics of me welding the cage in the next couple of weeks.
Russ
Haven't done a great deal at the minute, just in the process of preparing the shell, all the sound deadening is to come out obviously as are all the random brackets and other metal work. Looking to save as much weight as possible, all doors to be gutted, polycarb windows, heater/ac box has gone, just debating what to do about the dash atm.
Gone a bit mad with the wiring too, stripped everything out of the interior and none of its going back! Only need the basics, keeping the column stalks but thats it apart from a hazard light switch. Gonna redo all the under-bonnet loom as well in preparation for an Emerald K3 ECU.
Haven't really spent any money as yet apart from buying the car, going to order my full cage from Custom cages this week hopefully. I have a spare Recaro Pro-Racer + harness from my Leon Cup so they're here ready to go in. Just trying to budget for buying bits around racing my leon in the LMA Eurosaloons. Sold the original interior bits so thats gone a little way towards it. I'll try and update when i've finished cutting up the interior and get some pics of me welding the cage in the next couple of weeks.
Russ
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