The illiams 2007

[Winston]

After the RSi-brid I said to my self i was done with Clios for good... in the time between i had owned a BMW E30 325i, VW Caddy 1.6D & 2x VW Mk1 Golf 1.1's but they just didn't have the pace or handling of the Clios and i wanted a car i could take on track
A cheap Ph1 black 16V came up cheap on Clio16valver.co.uk.. it had failed its MOT for being to low (very fitting lol).. So off i went to Scotland to pick the car up

Home

Good rear arches

Dent free roof

I tooked it away on my nans drive till i could find a Williams engine and track

 

[Winston]

I found out King Stromba was breaking a Williams 2, so i got intouch with him and to cut a long story short I bought the hole car from him ish (minus interior, dash, wheels) and drove it back home... with the agreement to bring him back the brakes, body panels and any other parts from the list... my plan was to use the black valver as donar for any extra parts the Williams needed.. main reason for binning the valver was the sunroof (ive been pissed on oh to many times lol)

Both cars at my mates yard

After taking Strombas parts back i was left with this

 

[Winston]

I painted some steels i had matt black

and fitted my fibre glass shell bonnet from my black hybrid

Looking very **** lol

I removed all the sound deadening as the Williams has much more than a valver.. its a nice weight saver

 

[Winston]

The Williams was starting to look rather ill and ratty... I got my stanley blade out and the illiams was born lol

The stenciled bonnet and the bees nest as Ali called it lol

Refitted the Williams tailgate to be "illiams'd"

In order to save more weight... I removed the Aux fuel tank

Ph1 cap.. bonus

Hillpower Decat ready to fit

 

[Winston]

Now its wheel time again... I needed something ratty but super light weight, I found these BBS RS on ebay and just had to have them

They needed the centres bored out from 57.1 - 60.1... I sent them away to be done but they broke the machine lol, so i used a flip wheel to do it lol

It was looking rather on stilts lol

I fitted some Ph1 Williams manual wing mirrors to save more weight

 

[Winston]

I took illy to the pod to get some times best of the day was 14.6 @ 95mph... was abit unhappy with that

photoshoot with the rusty steels.. very ill

At this point it was crying out to be lowered... A photoshop comfirmed this fact lol

 

[Winston]

Lucky for me I got the JR coilvers back from my past projects for the bargain price of £40... At long last lowness

Showing F0xy what low is

at this time I fitted a side exit exhaust.. no pics but here is a video

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjSJ13uZ8o"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjSJ13uZ8o

 

[Winston]

Time for FCS 07 not alot prep to for this... few stickers quick wash

 

[Winston]

At FCS the car was carded by the editor of PFC magazine... get in .. so the photoshoot flowed at disused sugar factory

Few pics i took at the shoot

The rest of my pics http://s64.photobucket.com/albums/h175/76b...20cars%20shoot/

 

[Winston]

The day after the photoshoot I took the engine and gearbox out as they had already been sold at FCS.. just had to use the car for the shoot first, so I left the engine less illy sitting on my nans drive

Next step for The illiams was to turn into a real track car now... I had had my fun.. Question was what engine do i use....?

First thought was a Ph1 172 engine, so i bought a writen off 172 but ended up putting the engine up for sale as everyone else on Cliosport was starting Mk1 172 builds lol

Lucky for me i found a 2.0 8V engine out of Formula renault race car on ebay and he was willing to swap for the 172 engine

 

[Winston]

I also bagged to of the wheels from the donar race car

Trail fitted

Some buckets

 

[Winston]

Then it all went abit stale and everything sat doing nothing, I was busy doing other things to other cars.... Then my ex found out Stromba had a rust free Williams 1 shell, which i ended up swapping for the race engine, then i needed the space to build that car so illy had to go..... broke my heart but i had no where to keep the car

The End.... 2007-07

I don't expect everyone or anyone to understand the illiams... call it rat, scrap, sh*t... what ever you like...... To me it will just be an ill Williams, it was great fun to own and build

Thanks for reading
Winston

 

[f0xy]

haha sweet....i remember the day i came and got the pics of you killing it.........classic

 

[B5 BDJ]

lol, illiams. good work mate, would have been sweet to get that F3R fitted. did anything ever happen with those wheels?

 

[Nigel]

Without wanting to sound rude, but to me you seem to get a car to a half decent standard and then ruin it. Have you ever fully finished a project?

Not baiting or anything.

 

[Remedi]

lol

Winston = Legend

 

[Winston]

Bait taken

What do you mean by finished?...

RSi-brid was finished tbh, did everything i wanted to do it

The illlams got a feature... complete tbh

 

[Nigel]

It just seemed that before you took the engine out after FCS 07 it was a really nice car, getting magazine featured. Then it just seems to go down hill. Bit of a waste, especially seein the last few pics of it in such a sorry state.

 

[JD]

those are some back in the day photos, spesh the under the truck ones. . . from when i was still around at meets

jamie

 

[Jay Payne]

Didnt know the full illiams story before i read this.


Shame it didnt advance further after the mag feature

 

[Christopher]

The coolest Mk1 that CS ever saw.

RIP

 

[GazFish]

Legend Winston!

1 of the million you've killed!
Makes me want an illy!

 

[MikeyK18]

i remember reading that in PFC, didnt know it was you dude, awesome feature, id love to have my car in a feature

 

[fUbAr]

Look everyone... THIS is what the project forum is for!

awsome work, i actually really enjoyed reading the story of the car :approve:

 

[Christopher]

LOL... amen Dan.

We need more real projects, not just "i sprayed my badges" threads

 

[MikeyK18]

+1 to the both of you's!

 

[jack_davey]

Without wanting to sound rude, but to me you seem to get a car to a half decent standard and then ruin it. Have you ever fully finished a project?

Not baiting or anything.

I totally agree, pretty much anyone can ruin a car, but bringing a sh*t car back to life now thats a different story!

I personally dont think getting a feature is what it's all about...

Take my old car for example...
never got a feature (but to be honest I never even tried to get a feature)

As I bought it...

How I sold it...

Ah well, only a matter of opinion!

 

[Christopher]

:nono:

 

[Winston]

^LOL^ Vauxhalls in The illiams thread makes Winston sad

I did not set out to get the car in a magazine... It was just a stroke of luck that Simon Jackson was the editor at the time and stumbled across the car at FCS. He understood what the car was about which showed in an excellent write up in the feature

It was cool to beat all my mates to a mag feature lol

Im glad people have enjoyed the projects... I enjoyed making them

 

[Winston]

lol, illiams. good work mate, would have been sweet to get that F3R fitted. did anything ever happen with those wheels?

The wheels went to good use

 

[dutty_112]

i miss it TBH n the silver 1

 

[*Danny*]

ah i remember comeing round a few times with f0xy helping to take the illiams apart, wus a great car in its time, just wish i could of seen it in its best condition and not half destroyed

 

[jack_davey]

:nono:

Haha! brilliant!
Sorry guys, didnt mean to hijack!

 

[Danny Lee]

great car and as mention above - the silver 1 u has with the mattig (i think) wheels was immense too

 

[Andyman]

L183 YWD was my mates old 16v

Bit of a story about that motor

 

[Cro]

Brilliant read, nice to not have it all in the first couple of pages and not have to come back all the time for updates