White Trackday 172 Project *Contains Awesome*

[Ricardos]

Ok so i've had this phase 1 white Clio 172 shell for 3 weeks now so i thought i'd put a few pics on here to show what's been going on. I'll obviously update this thread as and when more work is done to the Clio.

The plan is to use my Odyssey blue Clio 172 as a donor using the brakes, suspension, seats, engine, gearbox, all ancillaries and any other part to complete the project. Along the way parts will be bought new that need changing or decide to uprate.

White shell back from after picking up from DannyR in Suffolk

First job is to remove all the stickers!

Back end

Passenger side

Front

Drivers side

First wash after months

AutoGlym tar and bug remover to clean glue residue, then Super Resin polish

Wash and polish door shuts, rubbers removed

New Polyflex wishbone bushes

New Polyflex Dogbone bushes

Rear camber shims

2nd hnd parts from the local scrapyard

Decoder ring and tailgate strut

Manual winder mechanisms and handles

New solid top mounts

Interior door handles fitted, waiting for cup spacers

New front grill, bumper, inner arch fixings

Smooth Hammerite inner arches

Mock up painted OZ F1 wheel on the Clio

 

[Zmaster2k]

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i love a mk2 in white.... looks stunning! cleans up well too!

 

[Ricardos]

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As it sits from last weekend

I'll be working on it tomorrow all day with a friend, the plan is to trim the interior loom right back to only what we'll need. Basically i'm getting the shell completely ready for when i fit the parts from the blue Clio

 

[Ricardos]

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Interior pics

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

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A project thread at last...

You know my thoughts...

Good luck dude !

 

[Ricardos]

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A project thread at last...

You know my thoughts...

Good luck dude !

Cheers, really enjoy working on it and can't wait to start swapping parts over. Fingers crossed in the next week or 2. I need to purchase a few more parts but on the whole there's no rush with this

 

[mikey123]

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How much did the grill, bumper and inner arch fixings cost from renault?

Probably the cheapest thing you have bought but i need a few!

 

[Fletcher]

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Good progress. Great shell with that cage in.

 

[Nafoff]

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looks awesome, another good project thread...
you order the cup door handle spacers from r-sport?

i was told they were totally out of stock and not making anymore....

 

[danny172]

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Lookin good mate.

Looking forward to seeing more progress pictures,

If require any help let me know.

 

[Ricardos]

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looks awesome, another good project thread...
you order the cup door handle spacers from r-sport?

i was told they were totally out of stock and not making anymore....

Thanks, been reading your project thread with great interest.

Regards door handle spacers i put my name down in the group buy on here. I believe he has a set and it making copies of them, it's the little parts that make the difference IMO

 

[Ricardos]

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How much did the grill, bumper and inner arch fixings cost from renault?

Probably the cheapest thing you have bought but i need a few!

It all came to about £23 inc VAT, i still need more plastic round inner arch grommets but i'll take them off the blue Clio. I was going to order the lastic inner arches but nearly fainted! So back to the scrapyard

 

[Ricardos]

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Had to buy another OZ alloy as i found out 1 of the painted alloys was badly buckled. I bough this from Cliospares in Doncaster

Trimmed the interior loom right back, airbag, stereo and speakers, central locking, electric windows, heater-AC, rear wiper and demister wires all gone. 12V supply, hazard swith and OBD port stays. Now thinking of putting a dash top in to hide most of the loom

Manual winder mechanisms fitted, ignition decoder and tailgate strut fitted too. 1 strut support isnt enough to take the weight so i'll buy another from the breakers

Aerocatch bonnet release in white

A friend of mine is fitting the polybushes to the wishbones and dogbone mount at work

Sabelt 4 point harnesses

Clio door handle spacers

 

[Nick r26r]

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any updates on this ??

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

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Yeah .. what's occurin', Rich ?

 

[chrispy.clio]

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Nice track car, only just seen this thread, do you know you have to tack the metal wishbone sleves to the wishbones or they will cut the subframe!

Any plans for the engine?

 

[DanielJames]

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Nice project, are they supposed to have drum brakes on the rear?

 

[jonesyFX]

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Now that is one sexy looking cage lol

Whole car looks great so far mate keep up the good work will keep my eye on your progress :approve:

 

[Ricardos]

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Nice track car, only just seen this thread, do you know you have to tack the metal wishbone sleves to the wishbones or they will cut the subframe!

Any plans for the engine?

Sleeves were tacked in after that pic

Engine plans, nothing exciting yet. I have a set of matched inlets to go on and decat. I already have the K Tec stealth exhaust.

 

[Ricardos]

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A few bits been done since the last update so here we are with pics

Shell is cleaned, the blue Clio is off the road, SORN so time to take exterior parts of the blue and ontohe white

Phase 2 rear lights

Plastic side trim

Headlight

Cup racer replica door handle spacers

Front wheel mock up to see how the painted wheel looks

K Tec solid top mounts fitted to the turrets

K Tec coilover kit and white Speedline 2118 wheels sold to purchase the FK Konigsport coilover kit

Wasn't happy with the finish on the mettalic grey so i decide to sand back down and paint again.... In a different colour, gloss black

Wishbones are sprayed in Hamerite satin black

Polybushes pressed back in

Wishbones fitted back onto degreased and cleaned subframe

I have Cobra Monaco S seats and although the stiching colour went ok in the blue Clio it woldnt look right in the white and red of the cage.

10 mins later and the missus has changed the stiching colour

The carbon bonnet is fitted

How it sits, wihout the engine in yet

 

[maynard]

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looking sweet that is, CF bonnet looks ace!

 

[Ricardos]

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I had to modify the seat subframes to utilise the oe mounting points in the blue Clio as the subfames were for a Fiat Bravo. What i realised in the white shell is the floorpan is different to acommodate bucket seat sidemounts. So the seat subframs i modified now have to be changed again.

7.8kgs of excess metal cut off the seat subframes

Subframes measured and marked up ready to be fabricated

Subframes back from fab work

Holes drilled ready for bolts

FK coilovers, wheel back off to fit the 25mm spacers

25mm spacers fitted, also showing the negative camber potential

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

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Getting there Rich !!

What did the lady do to the stitching ? Magic Marker ?!

 

[Nafoff]

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very very nice mate, good work

 

[TonkaTruck]

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I love white clio's! Looking SWEETTT!

 

[Nick172Cup]

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Looking fantastic! Fair play to you for the work put into it so far!

 

[Hutchie]

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looks tidy

 

[Ricardos]

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Getting there Rich !!

What did the lady do to the stitching ? Magic Marker ?!

Permanent Marker, good ol Staples

 

[Ricardos]

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So, with Wills and Kate tying the knot this gives me the day off to put a bit more in. Time to get those seats in.

Subframes bolted to the seats

25mm spacers

Seats now in, Sabelt harnesses in place, also fitted the OMP steering wheel too

 

[Whiskerz16v]

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Love this!

Black f1 look amazing against the white

 

[Ricardos]

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Popped down to our local scrapyard Saturday for a few bits and pieces, on the lookout for a cigarette lighter 12V feed and a dashtop from a later Mk2 Clio (02-05). While i was there i spotted a silver 172 so i took some plastic parts from the inner arches.

Mk2 dashtop

Plastic arch liners, also note plastic parts that go over the driveshafts

Gave all the plastics and dashtop a good scrub then used Auto Glym bumper care to revitalise them back to a nice black

Started on the dashtop last night, i had a phs 1 dashtop in place but 1: I didn't like the blue 2: Cut it badly each end just to get it in to see what it looks like 3: Prefer the Mk2 as the centre part is in place and will be used to house the 12V feed, hazard switch.

The phs 1 dash in the centre was missing and just looked wrong, i prefer the look of the later dash. The plan this time was to cut the dash in half strategically where the plastic inner vents are joined, so the cut line is in line with the vents. It's the only way i can get the dash in to scribe each end around the rollcage. Luckily with the later dash the plastic centre bit takes up most of the centre part of the dash so there's not much of the cut line showing.

A big thanks today to my mate Rich and my brother for popping round to help lift the 172 lump out of the blue Clio. Now it's out it gives me the chance to swap the inlets over, give it a clean and degrease, and to also have the cambelt and other belt changed

This week i'll put bits back on the blue Clio to get it to a rolling shell then it can go, i'll work on the dash centre to blank off the openings to house the hazard switch and 12V feed. I'm looking into using a digital dash so the OE part of the clocks will be blanked off.

I need to do a shopping list for the last of the parts i need to finish, stuff like sundries i.e Type D coolant, gearbox oil, engine oil, carbon wrap material

 

[Mcaff]

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nice awesome work so far, cant wait for more progress and up and running.

 

[Wests Renault]

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nice project - love cliosports in white and the red cage/buckets and harnesses set it off a treat!

 

[Cup_Phil]

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Absolutely love this - white clios look soooo right!

 

[Ricardos]

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A few minor updates,

We're getting closer to to the finishing line, another 3 full working days could see it fire into life and hopefully the main parts done. It's the small details and jobs i'm working on in between my friend coming over to keep it going, i must have been to Renault 4-5 times within the last week ordering, nuts, bolts and gaskets to finish jobs off.

So, the weekend just gone. Nothing big but to me i wanted to do this. The centre section of the dash houses the digital display, as its missing and i hate having the void there i decided to head to the scrappers to buy 1 just to fill it. As the lower dash and everything is missing i had to superglue and gripfill the parts to the centre plastic section.

Centre section

Digital display in parts

Display ready to be glued into place

Gripfill in places

Finished item

The void below the digital display which usually houses the centre vents will be blanked off with carbon fibre, this will house the 12V supply and the hazard switch.

Parts from Renault, 10 litres of Type D coolant

ABS sensor cable brackets

Dashtop clips that sit in the shell, the torx screws from the dashtop then screw into

Sunday was cambelt day, along with bleeding the brakes and fitting the remainder of the ABS lines front to back

Locking tool

New belt

Genuine item of course

Bleeding the brakes

172 alternator and brackets are off too and waiting for the Cup setup to arrive in the post

As i'm not running the heater matrix i've purchased the 180 degree pipe which will join the old matrix pipes together and the joiner.

So this week i'll try and sort fixing points for the lwer parts of the dash, the interior loom, relays and fuses will tuck away under the dashtop. I'll degrease the engine and gearbox too so thats ready to go back into the white Clio..... Getting there

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

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If you need a test run in 3 days time, let me know and I'll have the kettle ready !!

 

[Ricardos]

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If you need a test run in 3 days time, let me know and I'll have the kettle ready !!

I think the 3 full days will be spread over the next 3 weeks! The next step is engine in on the mounts, cup alternator setup on the block first. Then the engine loom has to be modified to run the battery in the back of the car, ECU will stay in the bay. Engine loom in, then the coolant hoses can go back in along with the rad although i need to pressure test the rad as i think it's weeping coolant from the bottom.

 

[chrispy.clio]

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Looks great mate. Really like the CF bonnet

 

[Ricardos]

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Looks great mate. Really like the CF bonnet

Thanks

I was going to call that hose the chrispy.clio heater matrix delete hose

 

[Cookson]

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Absolute blinder, looks a treat.