Stu's Sunflower Ph1 172.

[Djw John]

Frasers?

 

[Fraser.J.]

Naaaaaaaaw, mine are gid, stus are stus, quick sand down and rough spray of silver!

Copy cat

 

[Gaz85]

meh! 2118s white end!

Will be interested to see how it looks on them tho

 

[Craig.]

I love the 1.2s in 16" what size are those stu?

 

[Stu.]

Naaaaaaaaw, mine are gid, stus are stus, quick sand down and rough spray of silver!

Copy cat

there fantastic, HFFA according to fraz, but I know hes stoked.

meh! 2118s white end!

Will be interested to see how it looks on them tho

They were cheap enough to try them

I love the 1.2s in 16" what size are those stu?

Mine are just 15" cheap tyres and ideal for track

 

[Stu.]

Had the 1.2s on for a bit now, Personally think it looks good, I'm about the only one that does though :rasp:

Brakes look good through them too!

along at Fraser.J's

And more of my amazing photography skills

Not really done much else to it since its been done as I'm skint! Still using it daily, Which isnt too wallet friendly. New daily on the cards so will see this being a bit more track specific I think

 

[JezzaMac]

Will the new daily have to be suitable to trailer the clio to track days or you going to keep the clio on the road?

 

[Heez]

Shed.

Needs 2118s.

 

[Stu.]

Will the new daily have to be suitable to trailer the clio to track days or you going to keep the clio on the road?

Nah clio will still stay on the road for driving about / to trackdays!

Shed.

Needs 2118s.

haters gonna hate etc 2118s will be back one day

 

[Fraser.J.]

Nice silver one that!

I like it on the 1.2s!

You're still selling me them when your bored though

 

[Craig.]

I like it on the 1.2s mate looks good.

 

[Stefan.]

lovely car, but it did look its best on the white 2118s but i guess you want to try something different now, seeing as loads of people have them..

 

[Martin_172]

i like the 1.2's!

 

[Fraser.J.]

lovely car, but it did look its best on the white 2118s but i guess you want to try something different now, seeing as loads of people have them..

Nope just a ***** and has to own too many wheels! That's why we bought a tyre machine, so he can swap wheels when he wants without buying tyres

 

[Stefan.]

Nope just a ***** and has to own too many wheels! That's why we bought a tyre machine, so he can swap wheels when he wants without buying tyres

haha ah rite

 

[alexr19]

i like the 1.2's!

+1 on that.

such an epic car <3

 

[Stu.]

Not posted much on this for a while! So I'll chuck up a few bits! Not much has been happening, Have fitted a new charger housing, Welded the charger bracket and fitted a 6 paddle clutch ( Cheers chip for the help on getting that )

Heres the feature video keepitclean done, When it was actually clean!

http://vimeo.com/61566709

Had it rolling roaded @ 247bhp @ the fly and 221lbft torque. Not bad when the you get the power down!

Got the engine out to get the bits fixed and clutch fitted, Sitting in fraser.j's garden

some bits!

Heres one for jezzaMac, The pisstaking hoor!

On the rollers

Getting ready for a trip to the highlands!

750 miles later, I had collected a few stone chips...

Next up, Some pure motorsport studs

Bit of a trip hazzard!

Getting ready for its first trackday supercharged!

Thats all the pics i have justnow! Was at crail at the weekend and ran a 13.5 quarter mile @ 108mph!

More pics to come next week!

 

[Craig.]

Looking good stu

I like it on the 1.2s id defo have a set in 16s. Have you bought a new charger?

 

[Fraser.J.]

Looks gid wee man. Dat garage though, oaft

 

[Stu.]

Looking good stu

I like it on the 1.2s id defo have a set in 16s. Have you bought a new charger?

Cheers! I do quite like the 1.2's. and nah was just a new front as the threads were knackerd in the old one.

Looks gid wee man. Dat garage though, oaft

​its no bad a suppose!

 

[Dan...]

Awesome update, I love the video!

 

[Cupman29]

Good work mate. I'll give you a bell later!

 

[JezzaMac]

Heres one for jezzaMac, The pisstaking hoor!


750 miles later, I had collected a few stone chips...

Nice snail you got there

That bumper looks pretty nasty, you sure that was from your highlands road trip and not a foray into the gravel trap at KH?!

 

[Fraser.J.]

That's a fresh bumper, that's not seen the gravel!

 

[Rob]

I love it. I don't love that I don't own it.

 

[Harpham]

I love it. I don't love that I don't own it.

Ron, just buy a Ph1 already!!

 

[Djw John]

I did LOL when you said the other day that the next car you buy will be a *35. If you dont end up in a ph1 by this time next year I'll be amazed!

 

[Stu.]

Its nearly been a year and a half since i last posted in here! So will chuck some pics up to get you upto date.

First up, last show i was at was CSS 2013, got the car mapped at ra tuning then went the the ring and nackerd the engine. Cracked all the ringlands! What a b*****d.

So that was that, pissed off and running out of money I sold the charger set up and went back to standard. Fast forward a few weeks I was having boost withdrawls! ....so I bought this [emoji23]

Vinyld white forged + turbo'd 172. Went well but needed quite a bit work to get it mint, and I didnt have the love for the car to carry out the work so it went.

After that its about december so I spied a cheap valver on gumtree...ah a nice cheap project for the winter I thought, all it needed was a gearbox.

 

[Michaelfoz]

That was cut short stuey

 

[Stu.]

So the plan was to fix the valver for winter and get on with some tinkering with the sunflower! Bought new seats and coilovers for it, aswell as a Pms exhaust and Pms shifter. Fitted new tie rod/track rods/ball joints so the car was feeling great for its first trackday.

 

[Michaelfoz]

I'll be quiet now

 

[Stu.]

So after that I got a chance to buy a car I've always wanted, After a few pm's on another forum I went and picked up this [emoji16] cheers to neilA for coming to look at it and @Fraser.J. For the lift [emoji8]

A little bit fettling later...

So the yellow clio is still on the road but not done many track days due to my new found love for an escort [emoji12]

Next thing for the clio was another trip to the nurburgring! Clio got there and back with no problems this time other than my seats! Oops. So met Andy carlile and was kind enough to let me borrow the seats out his car for a week in exchange for some beer tokens!

Made a floor plate, feels much better if you're as small as me...

Home in one piece, got a pic with the escort [emoji41]

Since december I've been working on the valver here and there, still in bits and losing motivation for it. Ended up with engine/box out, fully sprayed bay and everything tidyd up. Now has a 172 gearbox in it aswell.

 

[Dominic172]

Brilliant thread Stu, quite the journey you've had with the sunflower. Glad to see it up and running again.
Stunning motors sunflower ph1's

 

[Dominic172]

Dat escort though :up:

 

[Cupman29]

Lol, you've been busy. In that time I've still not got the clio or the P1 running.

 

[Stu.]

So that brings us a bit closer to now, clios been on the back burner most if this year just getting used now and then. Latest purchase for it was some new shoes.

And the valver passed its MOT during the week...better late than never!

And the escos will be tucked up for winter shortly aswell.

For this winter the clio should be getting a new box put in, EPAS conversion and some new seats and a pair of new tyres, Plus anything else I decide is a good idea along the way! Think thats about it really.

 

[w33 brl]

looking good stu...at least someones making progress lol

 

[Stu.]

Cheers dominic! I suppose I dont have much else on steve lol. How far away are you with the clio now?

 

[Stu.]

Haha trying wayne! You need to get the finger oot with the turbo!

 

[neil a]

The valve looks stunning now its finished Stu
By the end of winter we should be able to do these eps conversion in our sleep.