172 Cup track toy

[malyon]

Right then.
This is my first ever clio cup, I'm a vw man at heart but after experience they are just to heavy under power and expensive to repair.
So after doing some research for possible track toys the clio was the one for me.
So after looking at a couple of cars which weren't for me I was offered this one at the right price.
I'm planning on going through it with a fine tooth comb as I'm very fussy and some of the modifications by previous owner are shall I say interesting oo:

I've already stripped out dodgy seat mounts and cut any unseassery brackets ready for interior to be painted.

But before that I'm doing full belt and dephaser change and new discs pads and fluid change.
Then off to paint.
Then
new seats
electrical kill
Plumbed in fire extinguisher
Battery relocation
Remove stella can oil catch tank :down:
Short shifter
New belts

Overall car good clean base to start from
Wish me luck :smile:

 

[MarkX]

Hope you'll love it as much as I've loved mine, they really are fantastic for the money

 

[imprezaworks]

Looking good

 

[Chi]

Look forward to seeing your progress Lee...

 

[Saucyboy]

Nice mate. Will follow your progress as I'm after ideas for mine ; )

 

[malyon]

New seats are here

 

[Chi]

Checkout Mark Blacks thread he's doing same thing currently and progress looks good.. might bounce ideas off each other.

 

[malyon]

Got a link to it chi

 

[Chi]

@markblack172 I think it's on Facebook but I lost it. Hopefully he might put it on here, so far it looks great..

 

[malyon]

Small update

Car is now at my mechanics to have cam belt de phaser and water pump change.
Plus if they get time full brake change.

Then off to the body shop for interior paint

 

[malyon]

Well clio still at the garage obviously

But finally the golf has been collected having the garage empty means if been able to put some new flooring down and give it a good clean.
Plus finally able to update build board and the list is long lol

 

[imprezaworks]

That's a list. Would love to have a garage like that

 

[malyon]

Still waiting for garage to work on the car as I did drop it off spur of the moment.

So my ebay "good condition" oo: Rear bumper arrived to replace the butcherd one currently on the car.
So after a good few hours and a little spit and polish it's respectable enough to fit to the car.

 

[malyon]

At last a decent update.

The cambelt and new de phaser,water pump, full discs, pads and brake change has been done :smile:

So my paint guy is collecting car for me so finally we can get custom mounts in for the seats and get the interior painted.

Now the fun stuff can begin 🔨:spanner::nut::up:

 

[TarkMalbot]

What discs pads and brakes did you go for?

 

[malyon]

Front
Brembo carbon hc discs
Feroddo ds2500 pads

Rear
Brembo standard discs
Standard pads

Plus racing blue fluid.

 

[Chi]

DS2500

 

[Welsh.Dan]

Good plans. Look forward to reading more

 

[malyon]

Today finally we had a good days work on the car.
Got rid of previous owners "catch tank" with proper samco hose.
And fitted the seat mounts and putting seat in position I can acctualy fit in the car :smile:
So now it's up to my painter to get the interior painted :smiley:

 

[malyon]

Well a lot has happened. Car back form interior paint looks shell of a lot better glad I can now fit seat perminatly.
Changed rear bumper over but not got pics of new one on as it was dark at the time.
Rear studs back in after brake change.
Areo catches installed.
And best of all PMS shifter kit installed and what a great bit of kit.

 

[Curriepud]

Looks sweet mate, can't beat a stripped out interior. I found over £13 in loose change under the carpets and sound deadening in mine! Any weight saved helps

 

[TarkMalbot]

Looks good.
Any photos of where you fitted the pins for the Aerocatches?

 

[Adam93]

Great project so far mate; would love that garage set up.

 

[malyon]

Thanks guys.
No haven't got picture of pins but next time I work on it il get a photo for you

 

[malyon]

Right been busy I've mounted the new race battery and got the dash mocked up with new gauges and kill switch and fire extinguisher pull.
Now it's all stripped down and has been sent off to be flocked.

Sorry forgot to get pic of bonnet pins

 

[malyon]

It's been a while scince a update but a lot has been done if run the main power cable for battery relocation, got the dash back from flocking and mounted the lower section ready for raw motorsport to do final connections and get gauges working.
Also fitted drivers side foot plate as I didn't like grip tape.
And mounted external pulls for kill switch and fire extingisher and fitted gauge sensors.

Think the boy likes the car to :smile:

 

[malyon]

Good progress today.
Dash finally back in now that raw motorsport have wired kill switch and oil temp and preasure gauges.
Also made some door cards today to tidy everything up. It has also really helped keep noise down abit.

 

[MarkX]

Love the dash! Wish I'd put my window switches there, mine are just out of reach when in the harnesses lmao

 

[Scaramac]

What did you use to make the door cards? The flocked dash looks brilliant against the painted interior shell. Looking good. Like the photo of your kid, get them hooked young ha ha.

 

[malyon]

Thanks chaps.
Yeh really happy with dash and switches were pot luck lol
The door cards are made from foamex really light and can just be cut with a Stanley.

 

[malyon]

Finally the interior is finnshed wife's seat and harness all fitted pull cords all working and fire extinguisher all fitted and plumbed :smile:

 

[Adam93]

Looks sweat, nice quality build

 

[Scaramac]

It's looking great. Had me laughing that you got your name stitched in capitals but for some reason not hers ha ha. Being the alpha male lol.

What size board did you require for making up the door cards with foamex? Really interested in doing this.

 

[midge]

Looking at that makes me want to properly strip mine out, what did you use for the door cards?

 

[Scaramac]

@midge he used foamex.

 

[malyon]

Yes foamex.
I used a 8x4 3mm thick sheet and I've got about 1/3 left

 

[malyon]

Iv made good progress over th last few days.
Even if I did manage to accidental you'll the drive shaft from the box dumping all it's oil on the drive :angry:
Changed both front wishbones with new ball joints and bushes.
Fitted ktec solid top mounts.
Change box oil
Give engine a oil change
Fit new PMS 172 de cat race exhaust
Fit Laguna front splitter
And finally get round to fitting Renault sport steering wheel.

 

[Aaronexx]

Looks very clean mate you've done a very good job up to now, i'd love to see videos of it when its on the track!

 

[malyon]

Well I've got track time booked in June so will dig out the go pro

 

[TarkMalbot]

Looks stunning!
Nice exhaust. Same as I have.