172 Cup Track Project

[Habitual]

Following this thread.

Picked her up last night!

Clio 172 Cup by Tom Cash, on Flickr

Clio 172 Cup by Tom Cash, on Flickr

She's borderline a minter!

Did a full HPI check, no write offs, no finance or anything else worth worrying about.

December 2003 registered, 59k, full service history, belts done, MOT, TAX, etc.

The bodywork has the mandatory scratches and imperfections, but nothing £100-£200 and a dent removal guy couldn't fix!

The inside is in great condition too.

After a 2 hour drive home with the windows down and up, there wasn't any knocking, squeaking, grinding - nothing. I would almost say, it's less faulty than my 197!

Once back in Wolverhampton me and Chris (in his 182) went for a blast down some smaller A roads and there was no issues at all. Handles well, brakes well and had no issues keeping up with the 182. Even destroyed a Fiesta ST that fancied its chances - just like you'd expect.

It's awesome! Love it through and through and I can't wait to begin work on it.

The plan is roughly as follows:

Stage 1: Restoration
- Remove stickers
- Give a really good clean
- Maybe debadge
- Wet sand lights
- Satin black grilles
- 172 stickers back on door pillars
- Take it to a garage to get a once over and address any issues there.
- Restore exterior paintwork/dents.
- Get wheels refurbished in silver with Mondial blue diamonds.
- Get it detailed.

Stage 2: Performance mods
- New tyres (not sure what, yet)
- Bilstein coilovers
- Piper or Yozza Stealth
- Filter and remap
- Maybe an ARB

Stage 3: Stripping/Track Prep
- Remove most of the interior parts without function, bar the dash
- Bucket seats (unsure as to whether to get fixed or not)
- Racing wheel (already purchased a Sabelt one)
- Cage and harnesses
- Interior respray

There's no doubt a few things I've not thought about there, but I will when it comes. That's just a rough outline.

Watch this space!

 

[Adam G]

Looks nice mate, seems like a good to do list, deffo put the ARB on.

 

[Cupman29]

No mention of brakes. On a track car you will need them to be good.

 

[Addicted]

Very nice as I've already said

You should totally sell me your Turini's though if you're gonna refurb those to silver

 

[Adam G]

No mention of brakes. On a track car you will need them to be good.

Haha missed that bit.

 

[Habitual]

Ah, my mistake - I was thinking of the Wilwood 4 pot brake kit that KTR sell... That's supposed to be decent, right?

 

[Thrust-Rated]

Some decent plans there Tom. I would really consider the ARB. And it's going to cost a fortune for those pillar badges

Had a good blast didn't we. And that fiesta st didn't stand a chance.

 

[Habitual]

Cheers.

Lol yeah, was good fun. Really appreciate your help Chris! Can't thank you enough mate.

 

[Thrust-Rated]

Honestly mate your welcome. It was good to get out the garden mate and its all about the cliosport.net members helpfulness
Good luck with the project. And if ever you need a hand doing some of the things on the car then give me a shout.

 

[Adam G]

Tom, Brembo HC discs and Ferodo DS2500s with braided lines and 5.1 fluid are all you need.

 

[Thrust-Rated]

^^^^^ I thought the same to be honest.

 

[MartinR]

looking good Tom!! nice plans too pop it into TCR in wednesbury for a check over and some tips on track prepping etc after all they did race them

Plus you can see what the venga bus would look like stripped and prepped:rasp:

Which one is running on the RRday?? both

 

[Habitual]

Tom, Brembo HC discs and Ferodo DS2500s with braided lines and 5.1 fluid are all you need.

I think I need to look into this... Cheers Adam.

looking good Tom!! nice plans too pop it into TCR in wednesbury for a check over and some tips on track prepping etc after all they did race them

Plus you can see what the venga bus would look like stripped and prepped:rasp:

Which one is running on the RRday?? both

Cheers man. I was going to bring the 172 to the RR, but tax runs out this week!!! Dunno if I wanna tax it for the sake of one RR day and one track day... Think I'll be bringing the bus.

 

[Habitual]

Bit of a pointless update, but here are some of the bits I've got for it on the cheap, so far. I purchased these before I even had the car!

172 Bits by Tom Cash, on Flickr

I need a boss and resister for the wheel, but the likelihood of this going on any time soon is slim.

Same with the tow bar.

I will be putting all the FCS stickers on the windscreen. I don't know where to put the F1 stickers yet. I may put the PFC sticker on a side window, with maybe a clio197.net and a ClioSport sticker.