Welshname's Monaco 172

[Jules172]

Looking great, out of interest where did you get the 3m kit from, my lights are still awful and am after a finish like yours but have no machine, just good old elbow grease!!!

 

[welshname]

Got it from Amazon. linky

And it's worth getting but like I said, I'm not 100% happy with the finish, needed a few more grades before polishing really to get all the fine scratches out. But it's a great start and the drill bit and pad is worth it imo.

 

[Jules172]

Superb, thanks for that and shall have a look in the morning keep up the good work

 

[welshname]

No worries. And thanks, I really can't wait until this weekend when all the big jobs are finally finished. Exhaust is pissing me off no end at the moment.

 

[f0xy]

Didn't realise you had a 172. Good work with doing the work yourself, especially the cambelt. Keeping it standard-ish?

 

[Jules172]

Mine is going to have quite a bit of change, and it won't go down well on here but colour being one of them!!! It's mine and I don't care lol, have a few jobs to put right before I get round to doing that, cambelt, suspension, brakes etc

 

[welshname]

Didn't realise you had a 172. Good work with doing the work yourself, especially the cambelt. Keeping it standard-ish?

Only had it two weeks(ish) did the belts the weekend after I collected it as the invoice was very cheap and I didn't trust it, plus the PAS pump needed changing so Jon gave me the one off his ph1.

Keeping it standardish for now. Got a Ktec Stealth arriving tomorrow and next month I'll be looking at koni adjustable shocks and cooksport springs I think. Going to do a trackday or two this year hopefully and probably the ring once, but 90% of the time I'm driving to and from work so I can't deal with another low, uncomfy car but we shall see.

Next year I'm going to price up having two cars and see where we go from there it was just a little out of budget this year so I hope that next year it's doable.

 

[welshname]

Mine is going to have quite a bit of change, and it won't go down well on here but colour being one of them!!! It's mine and I don't care lol, have a few jobs to put right before I get round to doing that, cambelt, suspension, brakes etc

Colour change? On Monaco? Mental.

 

[Jon.G]

Headlight looks much better than before, decent effort. Get some really fine grades like 1200 and 1500 and that should see you right.

 

[welshname]

Headlight looks much better than before, decent effort. Get some really fine grades like 1200 and 1500 and that should see you right.

Yeah that's what I was thinking tbh. It'll do for now. I'll piss about with the headlights again next month.

 

[Jonff]

Still LOL'n at those front brake pads. Headlights look a million times better.

 

[welshname]

Yeah. Not a lot of life left on them was there FPMSL.

 

[Jules172]

Colour change? On Monaco? Mental.

Some days I really love it, yet others I want to change it, guess I'll have to buy another! ;-)

 

[welshname]

Tonight I was going to attempt to replace the exhaust. But the bolts are completely shagged so I decided I couldn't be arsed and I'll do it at weekend.

Instead I swapped the plugs, rear wiper and air filter.

Old vs New Plug (they look like they've never been changed)

Old vs New Air filter

Luckily swapping the plugs appears to have cured my slight misfire and the car seems to feel a little happier to rev which is nice. It could just be placebo but I was saying to Jonff the other night that the car feels a little down on power since the misfire started.

I also put the new RenaultSport mats in but me being me forgot to get pictures so I'll get some at weekend when it's had a nice clean and I'll even get the camera out.

 

[Jon.G]

Buys new air filter, puts it on the dirty floor. Interesting.

 

[welshname]

I'm not that stupid. There's a packet of menthol filters under the filter to keep it off the ground

 

[Jon.G]

I'll let you off then. When are you putting ITB's on it?

 

[welshname]

On a daily? No chance. I'd rather SC it lol.

 

[Eddie.]

Daily? You drive 6 miles to work!

 

[welshname]

My 6 miles takes just as long as your journey to work. Stop start traffic with ITB's when the engine barely gets warm is NOT my idea of fun.

 

[Eddie.]

Stop being soft

 

[Jon.G]

Buy a daily then

 

[welshname]

I will eventually. Hopefully it'll be more feasible next year, but even so that would mean the Monaco is going and a ph1 replacing it...Unless I get attached to it.

 

[Jonff]

Needs a snail shell stuck to the back of the engine too

 

[Eddie.]

Then loads of parts painted gloss black.

 

[Jonff]

Then loads of parts painted gloss black.

Full car wrap gloss black?

 

[Dan@SJM]

Exhaust arrive ok mate?

 

[welshname]

Exhaust arrive ok mate?

Yeah had a nightmare with them. Was due for delivery yesterday, and I was told it would be at my office before 7pm. Stayed there and it didn't show up, rang them and they said it'll be here today, kept checking tracking and at about 2pm it said they couldn't find the address (they apparently rang you but obviously you wouldn't have had any more info). I then kicked up a fuss and may or may not have called someone at UPS a satchel. The driver then came back to my office and suddenly found it with ease.

Strange eh! All looks well though so I'll get it fitted this weekend!

 

[Dan@SJM]

Yeah had a nightmare with them. Was due for delivery yesterday, and I was told it would be at my office before 7pm. Stayed there and it didn't show up, rang them and they said it'll be here today, kept checking tracking and at about 2pm it said they couldn't find the address (they apparently rang you but obviously you wouldn't have had any more info). I then kicked up a fuss and may or may not have called someone at UPS a satchel. The driver then came back to my office and suddenly found it with ease.

Strange eh! All looks well though so I'll get it fitted this weekend!

FLOL. I did get a phone call, and he said he was looking for your building (I told him I'd copied the full address) so he said he shouldn't have had too much trouble. I like how it became a 48hr service when I paid for a 24h service Ffs.

 

[welshname]

Yeah they're morons. Absolute morons. They only showed up because we use them for a lot of deliveries and I told them we would categorically not be using them ever again.

To be fair it wasn't our usual driver as he was off but he still managed to find it within 20 mins of my phone call expressing my disgust.

Cheers for getting it out so quickly though, just a shame UPS failed miserably. Got it for this weekend though which is what I was after.

 

[welshname]

Swapped the exhaust over today for an unsilenced K-Tec Stealth.

Old exhaust was completely rotten, holes everywhere also you can see my temporary bodge which held up well. Just a shame it was blowing from about 6 other places.

Literally held my knife about 6 inches above it and it stuck in.

Not completely happy with how the exhaust is sat currently, it's knocking occasionally too and I'm missing the clamp on the sleeved section between centre section and the flange. Will try and get one sorted this weekend and get the alignment a little better.

First impressions are that it's really boomy. It's not THAT loud but the noise really resonates around your skull when you're at low revs. Once you are up in the revs it sounds brilliant but as it stands it's far too droney. I'll probably have a silencer put in eventually but I'll see how I get on.

Tomorrow I'll be doing the handbrake cable, flushing the fluid and an oil and filter change.

 

[JoeyD]

It'll soon sound like jonffs, don't worry.

 

[Knuckles]

Lol at the knife!!!

you should beat the ktr exhaust up a bit, then weld it a few times until it sounds like special bus.

 

[welshname]

No thanks. It's too loud as it is and I've still got the cat in

 

[JoeyD]

You've changed man.

 

[welshname]

Pop round tomorrow to see for yourself. Although you're not the best judge of loud exhausts

 

[JoeyD]

I'm gonna be daaaaan saaaaaaaaaf.

 

[JoeyD]

Mid week spoons/bucks/nanods?

 

[Jonff]

It'll soon sound like jonffs, don't worry.

If it does, then he'd have officially won at life.

 

[welshname]

Mid week spoons/bucks/nanods?

Ed has started a meet thread, paper mill in bury on Thursday.