White valver project

[midge]

This has been copied from another forum i use, i picked this car up last tuesday (5 days ago)

Right as you all know my car has suffered a death at the hands off a dodgy driver in a corsa, this left me in a dilema as i had literally just finished the car ready to attack this years track days, do i repair the bent car, do i reshell it or do i jsut get something else. Well after talking to many people ive been convinced to re-shell it as i have everything here to build a track going clio!

Currently i do not have another car! but i have started stripping the old one, Brands hatch is on the 27th of may so this gives me around 6 weeks to complete the car.

This is my current car, which is currently sitting in the garage with the engine half hanging out and the interior all loose falling about.

APR 15TH -

Right yeasterday i picked up a white valver for £850, a good price i think, the engine and box are mint, 4th mount powerflex dog bone, stainless heat sheet, others bits e.t.c.

I finished work and met the scrap man who took my car away

I sent Danielle to the wheel refurbers to drop off my replacment wheel for a refurb, and i was left with this

Ive decided to do the interior first, then the supension/brakes, theni will do the engine, meaning i can do a few bits to it while its out (nothing major jsut ptfe gaskets and tappets e.t.c)

Today i stripped alot off the interior out, my heat gun broke so i still have the tar to look forward to, i also need to swap the seat runners around as thier diffrent, i did also change the wheels as ive sold the turbines, i left the car like this (In the garage)

a selection off stuff ready to be thrown out

19TH APR

progress over the weekend, interiors almost done now, just need to change the steering wheel and lose the half working stereo.
A friend of mine has my old polybushed wishbones and a new set off williams ones and is swapping the bush's for me, im hoping to get the interior and suspension done by the end off this week, then do the engine the week after. pics -

Tar

No Tar

Glass window removed, and the electric motor systems

Carbon door cards on!

Then my niece came out to help

Broom Broom!

Then i put it away

The plan tommorrow is -
Change the steering wheel
remove stereo
fix in the harnessess properly
ring wheel refurb place to see if its done
fit new number plates (if they come)

Im not fitting the rear windows just yet as mine go in using silocone and i want to get the arch's repaired, its alot easier to mask up the rubbers than silocone.

 

[Daniel]

Thats 3 white valvers on here now!

Looking good mate.

 

[snick01]

Love it, gutting about your old one though.

is the corsa owner paying for the lot? (as in the avos that look snapped?)

 

[Mark One]

Thats 3 white valvers on here now!

Looking good mate.

Starting mine in just over a month. J reg too. No cat required ftfw

 

[Ryair]

Good work so far dude! Looks mint.

 

[midge]

The corsa drivers insurance paid out £1800, i kept my car at a price off 225 leaving me with the £1575 diffrence.

 

[snick01]

Starting mine in just over a month. J reg too. No cat required ftfw

i got a j reg valver, that deffo mean i dont need to run a cat??? i head flakey stories about it but no deffinate yes or no

think mines a 92 j reg.

 

[Matteh]

92Js are ok

 

[Mark One]

mines a 92J and it's got a silencer instead of a cat as standard by the looks of things.

OP: Nice project. Lovin the carbon

 

[midge]

work from the last 2 days -

steering wheel changed

I changed the rea shocks to the avos from my coilover set and lowered the rear, i havnt done the front yet as im waiting for my friend to put the polybush's in my new wishbones.

Then i stripped the manifold off the 2.0 so i could put the ptfe gaskets on

Then of course i bolted it all back together also adding the tb ptfe gasket.

Thats about as much as i can do, im waiting for my friend to do the wishbones, and im also waiting on him doing the new lifters in the engine, only a very few small bits i can do before that

 

[maynard]

good progress there especially in a few days!

 

[Matteh]

yeh, certainly not hanging around!

 

[jesus]

Nice work! I quite liked it with the Turbines on tbh.

 

[f0xy]

nice work, will be good to see it at brands on the 27th

 

[hill_power_clio]

nice to see the gaskets on there mate. are they fresh ones or have they been removed from something else and reused?

 

[iimushroomzii]

Preffered it on the turbines, Coming along quick though

 

[midge]

They are fresh ones, turbines are to heavy for me! and they dont provide any cool air to the breaks (wilwoods to go on)

i used petrol, the windows cant be opened as thier locked from the inside using a split pin.

Todays work/progress -

I finished work got changed then went straight to pick this up

Newly powdercoated wheel

Then when i got back i changed the plates over, i ordered some new ones as i didnt like the gb thing on the old ones

Then removed the fogs

rear

I then got out my megane manifold (modifed to fit on the clio) and painted it in uht

my replacement coilover had also come, heres a couple of pics off the new vs old (yes that is duck tape on the thread, to stop them getting ruined!)

Then i set it to the same setting as the one that isnt fucked, saves me doing it when i put the widetrack all on

I removed the thermostat from my engine and replaced it with a low temp one i got from Matt Brown, my old one was a bit ruined!

My wishbones will be ready by friday so hopefully ill fit the widetrack on friday, then set about removing the engine on saturday, while i do this a friend will be changing the lifters as mine were noisy.

Nothing to do tommorrow except order a few bits from renault and get the wheel changed over

 

[Scadden182]

i so want to do this to my 182, stripping ftw and the ducktape on the coilover threads GENIUS

 

[hill_power_clio]

nice work - i love that particular high temp paint - dead easy to work with and gives a nice finish!

 

[fuel_slut]

Oh thats really sad seeing that black valver on the scrap wagon :-(

New project looking good, I love white valvers.

 

[midge]

Right my wishbones were finaly ready on sunday so i fitted the wide track, didnt take many pictures as i was just getting on with it, fitting this lot is a real pain, especialy the arb, i changed the inner arms to the williams ones as i didnt want the track rod ends almost falling out (they sit in on about 3-5 threads if you dont change the inner arms)

PAIN IN THE ASS

And this is what i done today, i didnt refit the driveshaft's as im taking the engine out so it saves me doing it twice
i started off doing all the stuff underneath the car as thats the stuff i hate doing just wanted to get it out off the way

downpipe and dog bone disconnected

fitted the short shift while i was under there

Then moved to the top where i was greated with 4 over tightened bonnet nuts which resulted on 4 broken studs, the bonnet will now be pinned

and removed a load off stuff from the engine bay, the engine is ready to lift now, rad, clutch and throttle cable disconected, loom unplugged, ecu unplugged, pas disconected e.t.c e.t.c

Tommorrow i will lift the engine out and clean up the bay, im dropping the engine off for new lifters to so hopefully ill get it back thursday

 

[Gez]

Quick progress mate. as said, shame about the old motor.
how clean is the underneath on this white one? rust free???

 

[midge]

rust free underneath, a touch on the rears but ill get that sorted.

today i dropped my engine off for the new lifters to be fitted and took my engine out

load leveler makes it a million times easier

 

[midge]

big update but unfortunatley not many pics!

yesterday (thursday) i fitted the oil cooler and anywhere in/around the engine bay that had a hint off rust got abused with hammerite! started by removing the bumper and fitting the rad to check clearence

fitted and the grotty mess cleaned up

bumper back on

While i was doing the above i got the call from my engine guy who said it was ready so i picked it up thursday night, this brings us to this morning which started like this

swiftly turned into this

refitted almost everything, rad/pipes/battery/dowpipe e.t.c e.t.c

But as always there is stuff to do! i broke one off the fuel lines so i need to sort that out also need to fit the injectors properly and fit the driveshaft's (need to change one off the cv joints before being though) then with a bit of luck it will start up! though of course there is more to do, brakes wheel bearings,arch's,rear windows e.t.c e.t.c!