Clio172cup rally car
hi been on here for a while now so thought its about time I start my own thread,
I started building this car 3 years ago but was on hold for a year when a needed quite a serious knee opp
Anyway my first plan was to build it to group n spec to compete in a new one make serious that was suppose to take over the 205cup but this series never took off :/
I first bought the car accident damaged of eBay for 1600quid which wasn't so bad at the time, with only a bent subframe and wishbone which wasn't to difficult to replace, but luckily enough I decided to place the car on jig when fitting the cage and found out the right suspension strut was nearly 2inches higher on one side, so not such a barging after all!!
Unfortunately this is the only picture I've got from when I first had the car,
this being my first builds this seemed such a daunting task looking at it there,
After much research and a lucky email to Renaultsport France I got access to there extranet for the clio gr.n car. With this we tried to get as many parts as we could from the group n car to keep it as best spec as possible,
A few calls to rsport and we managed to get the last of the parts they had for these cars, but no cages and body strengthening kits left so we went with the full weld in custom cages which is lovely cage, also seam welded the whole shell and replicated the strengthening plates as much possible,
All sprayed up
A few parts from rsport had arrived so we started to put the car back together
suspension, kw competion 2way adjustable
Modified to fit on standard hubs(which I will come to regret further on)
This also came with the cup racer top mounts and strut brace
next step was to sort the gearbox, first we wanted to fit the sadev dogbox but at 5grand even for a second hand one! That was out of the question, luckily enough I managed to get the shafts and diff from this box at a really good price
also fitted with a 5.2 final drive that took the top end down to around 120 on 16's
we then had the car pretty much how we wanted it
we have now done 2 rally sprints down pembrey local to us,
Finishing 10th the first time out and 1st overall the second time
the plan now is to compete in the welsh Tarmac championship next year, so a few modification have started,
Firstly I've bought a sadev st75 sequential with shafts and lever for a cup racer which arrived last Thursday
Ye car is pretty much stripped back now, so ill updated the thread as much as possible,
Sorry for the lack of pictures both hopefully now I can keep on top of it and get some decent pics up when the box is in
I started building this car 3 years ago but was on hold for a year when a needed quite a serious knee opp
Anyway my first plan was to build it to group n spec to compete in a new one make serious that was suppose to take over the 205cup but this series never took off :/
I first bought the car accident damaged of eBay for 1600quid which wasn't so bad at the time, with only a bent subframe and wishbone which wasn't to difficult to replace, but luckily enough I decided to place the car on jig when fitting the cage and found out the right suspension strut was nearly 2inches higher on one side, so not such a barging after all!!
Unfortunately this is the only picture I've got from when I first had the car,
this being my first builds this seemed such a daunting task looking at it there,
After much research and a lucky email to Renaultsport France I got access to there extranet for the clio gr.n car. With this we tried to get as many parts as we could from the group n car to keep it as best spec as possible,
A few calls to rsport and we managed to get the last of the parts they had for these cars, but no cages and body strengthening kits left so we went with the full weld in custom cages which is lovely cage, also seam welded the whole shell and replicated the strengthening plates as much possible,
All sprayed up
A few parts from rsport had arrived so we started to put the car back together
suspension, kw competion 2way adjustable
Modified to fit on standard hubs(which I will come to regret further on)
This also came with the cup racer top mounts and strut brace
next step was to sort the gearbox, first we wanted to fit the sadev dogbox but at 5grand even for a second hand one! That was out of the question, luckily enough I managed to get the shafts and diff from this box at a really good price
also fitted with a 5.2 final drive that took the top end down to around 120 on 16's
we then had the car pretty much how we wanted it
we have now done 2 rally sprints down pembrey local to us,
Finishing 10th the first time out and 1st overall the second time
the plan now is to compete in the welsh Tarmac championship next year, so a few modification have started,
Firstly I've bought a sadev st75 sequential with shafts and lever for a cup racer which arrived last Thursday
Ye car is pretty much stripped back now, so ill updated the thread as much as possible,
Sorry for the lack of pictures both hopefully now I can keep on top of it and get some decent pics up when the box is in
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