I bought a 52 plate 172 Cup back in July last year for £2200, it had 72k on the clock, the service book had been lost but it had receipts (inc cam belt) and a host of old MoTs, the HPI came up clear, the intention was to have it as a basic run around and use my other car as the track car. At the beginning of the year i had a change of plans and decided i wanted a nice garage queen and something that i would be happy to throw round the track and if i had an 'off' then i wouldn't be crying about it.
So a coupe of months back i dropped the car over to Mark Fish, i'm picking it up at the weekend, at which time i'll take a load of pictures but i thought you may find it interesting to hear whats been done. I said to him that the first thing was to make the car in A1 condition mechanically.
I've received the invoice and here is the breakdown. In addition to this i'm having 4 x Toyo R1R's fitted to the 16" Turini's and Dunlop track tyres fitted to the 15" 2118's along with an ITG airfilter and bushes replaced.
- Carry out full service and vehicle inspection. Secured exhaust heat shield. Replaced centre exhaust mounting and centre pipe exhaust clamp. Changed Antifreeze coolant. Repaired offside front arch shield to protect belt area. clean out throttle body. Secure lambda sensor wiring loom. Replace driveshaft outer clips.
- Replace cambelt and all idler/tensioner pulleys. Aux belt replaced.
- Trace engine oil leaks. Extensive degrease, run up engine, trace leaks to to cam cover areas and camshaft seals. Removed cam cover, extensive preparation to gasket faces. Slight pick up marks to cambelt bearing areas. Hand polish bearing areas. Extensive clean to al parts. Replace camshaft seals. Replace phaser valve seal. Reassembled with special sealer.
- Remove all dampers and springs. Check supplied AST dampers. Clean up damaged threads and replace missing bolts etc. Strip apart and add bump stop material to fronts. Re-spec springs and platforms for road/track use (was set up for Rally/Stage). Refit to vehicle and check for suspension travel to determine bump stop length etc.
- Set up ride height for cambers, track alignment and steering wheel centre point. Found Geometry to nearside front not consistent to initial settings. After some checks found nearside front lower ball joint to wishbone not to the correct spec for this vehicle. This was causing the wheel to be set back in the wheel arch by 18mm. Modified bolt hole alignment in wishbone and weld secured. Fault corrected.
- To remove front and rear brake discs and hubs. Fitted supplied new Front discs. Fitted rear disc/bearing assemblies. Fitted Motorsport spec brake pads front adn rear. Free off seized rear brake balance valve lever. replaced front and rear brake hoses with motorsport spec. Drain and bleed brake fluid with motorsport spec AP600.
- Strip down suppled seats and side mounts. Cut down steel side mounts to allow a low seat position. Make modifications to standard subframes to allow correct position and a low seat height. Welded steel plates to subframes to allow for seat adjustment and fitting.
- Strip out interior and fit full roll cage, weld in floor plate towers. Underseal and paint protect bare metal areas. Seal off plates to rear arches. Fit and shape roll cage foam to the cage.
- Fit new steering wheel and boss. Fit two five point seat belts with three eye bolt reinforcement plates each side of the car. Fit new belts to harness bar and adjust to fit.
I'm picking it up at the weekend, can't wait to get it on track, especially Spa.
So a coupe of months back i dropped the car over to Mark Fish, i'm picking it up at the weekend, at which time i'll take a load of pictures but i thought you may find it interesting to hear whats been done. I said to him that the first thing was to make the car in A1 condition mechanically.
I've received the invoice and here is the breakdown. In addition to this i'm having 4 x Toyo R1R's fitted to the 16" Turini's and Dunlop track tyres fitted to the 15" 2118's along with an ITG airfilter and bushes replaced.
- Carry out full service and vehicle inspection. Secured exhaust heat shield. Replaced centre exhaust mounting and centre pipe exhaust clamp. Changed Antifreeze coolant. Repaired offside front arch shield to protect belt area. clean out throttle body. Secure lambda sensor wiring loom. Replace driveshaft outer clips.
- Replace cambelt and all idler/tensioner pulleys. Aux belt replaced.
- Trace engine oil leaks. Extensive degrease, run up engine, trace leaks to to cam cover areas and camshaft seals. Removed cam cover, extensive preparation to gasket faces. Slight pick up marks to cambelt bearing areas. Hand polish bearing areas. Extensive clean to al parts. Replace camshaft seals. Replace phaser valve seal. Reassembled with special sealer.
- Remove all dampers and springs. Check supplied AST dampers. Clean up damaged threads and replace missing bolts etc. Strip apart and add bump stop material to fronts. Re-spec springs and platforms for road/track use (was set up for Rally/Stage). Refit to vehicle and check for suspension travel to determine bump stop length etc.
- Set up ride height for cambers, track alignment and steering wheel centre point. Found Geometry to nearside front not consistent to initial settings. After some checks found nearside front lower ball joint to wishbone not to the correct spec for this vehicle. This was causing the wheel to be set back in the wheel arch by 18mm. Modified bolt hole alignment in wishbone and weld secured. Fault corrected.
- To remove front and rear brake discs and hubs. Fitted supplied new Front discs. Fitted rear disc/bearing assemblies. Fitted Motorsport spec brake pads front adn rear. Free off seized rear brake balance valve lever. replaced front and rear brake hoses with motorsport spec. Drain and bleed brake fluid with motorsport spec AP600.
- Strip down suppled seats and side mounts. Cut down steel side mounts to allow a low seat position. Make modifications to standard subframes to allow correct position and a low seat height. Welded steel plates to subframes to allow for seat adjustment and fitting.
- Strip out interior and fit full roll cage, weld in floor plate towers. Underseal and paint protect bare metal areas. Seal off plates to rear arches. Fit and shape roll cage foam to the cage.
- Fit new steering wheel and boss. Fit two five point seat belts with three eye bolt reinforcement plates each side of the car. Fit new belts to harness bar and adjust to fit.
I'm picking it up at the weekend, can't wait to get it on track, especially Spa.
