windle
ClioSport Club Member
Evo 9 Gt, 182 Toy
Not really posted much on here guys but thought i'd share our clio we have been messing with over the past year or so. This is a joint venture and its a 3rd car for us both so costings of everything was tried to be a little as possible.
We picked up an accident damaged Clio 182 on a 54 plate, she had had a front end but the money was right so she was delivered a few days later.
Oddly dont have any pictures of it as it arrived doh! but here it is with its new headlights in and stripped down
Got hold of 2 wings, bonnet bumper and grill
Off she went for a few days for paint and came home looking like a car again!
We then tackled the mechnical side of things anything damaged was replaced, then she was put on the road for us to do some miles on her before the up and coming ring trip!
All was well and off she went to the ring Jully '10 totally standard. drove there was driven hard for 2 days around the ring by everyone and drove home! the only casualty being the exhaust. It has come off its mounting due to rusting away and was blowing quite bad! a bit of a repair job with some coat hangers at the hotel in germany saw few more laps and us home again. (note our jack!)
What can i say car perfomred excellently! was shocked at how well she held the track considering i had also taken my 400 bhp evo over there the clio was much more fun on the track!
couple of pics of our group on the track
We had got the track bug off home we went in search of a track day but not before sorting the exhaust out. We opted for a Scorpion 192 system with decat
It sounded great and a quick check on a friends DB meter looked good!
We booked oulton park as its local to us on the 4th of august off we went! Few snaps of the day
again car was very good fun, but we managed to cook the brakes a few times. We changed the fluid for fresh stuff and fitted Ds2500's in preperation for the next day
Our next mod was a set of 172 alloys black with A048 tyres, and off to our next day we went "donnington 11th September"
Was wet at first and car fealt very slippy with the A048's on, luckily it dried up in the day and the tyres were excellent after that! We could feel the car rolling around on the suspension as a result and new that was our next step
The brakes were so good now! we could stamp on them very very late, impressive mod they were!
That was pretty much the last action she saw in 2010 and was put in the garage over winter to rest.
Our first outing of 2011 was "Anglesey 2nd May" and we wanted some new stuff for then!
We purchased:
Brembo HC Discs (we cooked the last ones at donnington)
GAZ Coilovers
2nd Hand Bucket seats and harnesess
Front and rear strut braces (removed the rear seats to fit the seatbelts)
New oil and filter went in, and then we decided to change the look of silver for a bit meaner stance and started to vinyl wrap it matt black! Some pics of our bank holiday weekend preping the car
A White lip was sprayed onto the black wheels to break everything up a little
Sadly we ran out of time as the wrapping is very hard! so the car went to anglesey half silver/black!
The car was transformed it was very planted on track and was showing up lots of faster cars out there, the turn in spot on but we had only guessed at the setup and the rear was a little boucny but not the end of the world! we managed to kill the rear wheel bearings on the day it got is home but they are very noisey! only a pic from my phone at the min of the day
Our next outing is going to be oulton park 10th of june if the car is ready. Plans are to fit 2 new bearings to the rear finish the wrapping set ride height up a bit as the rear was a bit low i think! and go from there!
Very good fun for not much money they are, i happily leave the evo at home for the track days
We picked up an accident damaged Clio 182 on a 54 plate, she had had a front end but the money was right so she was delivered a few days later.
Oddly dont have any pictures of it as it arrived doh! but here it is with its new headlights in and stripped down
Got hold of 2 wings, bonnet bumper and grill
Off she went for a few days for paint and came home looking like a car again!
We then tackled the mechnical side of things anything damaged was replaced, then she was put on the road for us to do some miles on her before the up and coming ring trip!
All was well and off she went to the ring Jully '10 totally standard. drove there was driven hard for 2 days around the ring by everyone and drove home! the only casualty being the exhaust. It has come off its mounting due to rusting away and was blowing quite bad! a bit of a repair job with some coat hangers at the hotel in germany saw few more laps and us home again. (note our jack!)
What can i say car perfomred excellently! was shocked at how well she held the track considering i had also taken my 400 bhp evo over there the clio was much more fun on the track!
couple of pics of our group on the track
We had got the track bug off home we went in search of a track day but not before sorting the exhaust out. We opted for a Scorpion 192 system with decat
It sounded great and a quick check on a friends DB meter looked good!
We booked oulton park as its local to us on the 4th of august off we went! Few snaps of the day
again car was very good fun, but we managed to cook the brakes a few times. We changed the fluid for fresh stuff and fitted Ds2500's in preperation for the next day
Our next mod was a set of 172 alloys black with A048 tyres, and off to our next day we went "donnington 11th September"
Was wet at first and car fealt very slippy with the A048's on, luckily it dried up in the day and the tyres were excellent after that! We could feel the car rolling around on the suspension as a result and new that was our next step
The brakes were so good now! we could stamp on them very very late, impressive mod they were!
That was pretty much the last action she saw in 2010 and was put in the garage over winter to rest.
Our first outing of 2011 was "Anglesey 2nd May" and we wanted some new stuff for then!
We purchased:
Brembo HC Discs (we cooked the last ones at donnington)
GAZ Coilovers
2nd Hand Bucket seats and harnesess
Front and rear strut braces (removed the rear seats to fit the seatbelts)
New oil and filter went in, and then we decided to change the look of silver for a bit meaner stance and started to vinyl wrap it matt black! Some pics of our bank holiday weekend preping the car
A White lip was sprayed onto the black wheels to break everything up a little
Sadly we ran out of time as the wrapping is very hard! so the car went to anglesey half silver/black!
The car was transformed it was very planted on track and was showing up lots of faster cars out there, the turn in spot on but we had only guessed at the setup and the rear was a little boucny but not the end of the world! we managed to kill the rear wheel bearings on the day it got is home but they are very noisey! only a pic from my phone at the min of the day
Our next outing is going to be oulton park 10th of june if the car is ready. Plans are to fit 2 new bearings to the rear finish the wrapping set ride height up a bit as the rear was a bit low i think! and go from there!
Very good fun for not much money they are, i happily leave the evo at home for the track days
