Some of you may know my first 1.2 Clio.
Also my Liquid Yellow 182.
I sold the 182 back in September 2010 and bought a MK4 Golf hoping to transfer to the world of turbocharged motors, however have now found that is probably the worst car to try out. So 8months later I am now seeing myself back in a 172 Cup.
I bought her for the sum of just over £2000 with PSH and it needed a cambelt, dephaser and a good service. She had 77k on the clock and bar about 4 car park dings the car is in immaculate condition for the year. The steering wheel and thumb grips are in perfect condition, the seats are immaculate and the rear seats look like they have never been sat in, the gearbox feels nice and the engine pulls like a train, definatly one of the fastest 172s ive ever been in/driven.
She will be going down the Track Car Route and will be a summer/ track toy next year sometime. So I will be prepping her for the track car route. i.e Strippage, Seats, Steering Wheel etc.
Here are the photos that were in the advert on autotrader,
So I picked her up from Bridgend and took her straight home and put her in the garage to do some work before I put her on the road, so I started removing the engine to do the cambelt and change the exhaust manifold.
So with the engine out and on the deck the cambelt is a doddle, so new cambelt kit, dephaser and aux belt was fitted. She would soon be sweet as a nut. When doing the cambelt we found that the timing was out as some people do find so all that was sorted aswell. Whilst out I removed the acoustic valve, carbon canister, relocated the horn so I can fit brake ducts eventually.
I bought the exhaust manifold off of ebay, youll probably think cheap chinese crap and ill admit as first I did, I got it for a steal of a price so even if it didnt last it wouldnt really matter, plus labour is free to me so its not an issue. Trial and error. So I wrapped the manifold and fitted it to the existing exhaust.
Then I set about fitting the engine back in, bit of a fiddle but got there in the end. Whilst the engine was out I sent my inlets off to Josh at Cooksport to be matched and I purchased PTFE gaskets from k-tec.
I got the inlets back the day the engine went in so we could get it on the road because unfortunatly the golf had broke down leaving me carless. So I started building everything up and fitted some 172 xenons, as I would of only fitted HIDs anyway and the projector headlight are much better/less dazzling.
I ran her around for over the weekend and had a few teething problems, then the following week my RS tuner had turned up so I remapped her and gave her a service.
Gave her a good clean and then took some photos.
Soon after I realised how awful the car looked without a splitter so Skoda splitter was purchased and fitted.
Fitted a whiteline RARB and Brembo HC Discs and Ferodo DS2500 pads.
Me and The lads had planned a trip to the Nurburgring in September so I figured it would be a good excuse to strip the rear interior out of the car. I took all the foam out under the carpets aswell and rear door cards.
Then a couple of days after we set off for the ring, car ran faultlessly and never missed a beat the whole way. Few pics from the trip.
Also several from track action.
Also my Liquid Yellow 182.
I sold the 182 back in September 2010 and bought a MK4 Golf hoping to transfer to the world of turbocharged motors, however have now found that is probably the worst car to try out. So 8months later I am now seeing myself back in a 172 Cup.
I bought her for the sum of just over £2000 with PSH and it needed a cambelt, dephaser and a good service. She had 77k on the clock and bar about 4 car park dings the car is in immaculate condition for the year. The steering wheel and thumb grips are in perfect condition, the seats are immaculate and the rear seats look like they have never been sat in, the gearbox feels nice and the engine pulls like a train, definatly one of the fastest 172s ive ever been in/driven.
She will be going down the Track Car Route and will be a summer/ track toy next year sometime. So I will be prepping her for the track car route. i.e Strippage, Seats, Steering Wheel etc.
Here are the photos that were in the advert on autotrader,
So I picked her up from Bridgend and took her straight home and put her in the garage to do some work before I put her on the road, so I started removing the engine to do the cambelt and change the exhaust manifold.
So with the engine out and on the deck the cambelt is a doddle, so new cambelt kit, dephaser and aux belt was fitted. She would soon be sweet as a nut. When doing the cambelt we found that the timing was out as some people do find so all that was sorted aswell. Whilst out I removed the acoustic valve, carbon canister, relocated the horn so I can fit brake ducts eventually.
I bought the exhaust manifold off of ebay, youll probably think cheap chinese crap and ill admit as first I did, I got it for a steal of a price so even if it didnt last it wouldnt really matter, plus labour is free to me so its not an issue. Trial and error. So I wrapped the manifold and fitted it to the existing exhaust.
Then I set about fitting the engine back in, bit of a fiddle but got there in the end. Whilst the engine was out I sent my inlets off to Josh at Cooksport to be matched and I purchased PTFE gaskets from k-tec.
I got the inlets back the day the engine went in so we could get it on the road because unfortunatly the golf had broke down leaving me carless. So I started building everything up and fitted some 172 xenons, as I would of only fitted HIDs anyway and the projector headlight are much better/less dazzling.
I ran her around for over the weekend and had a few teething problems, then the following week my RS tuner had turned up so I remapped her and gave her a service.
Gave her a good clean and then took some photos.
Soon after I realised how awful the car looked without a splitter so Skoda splitter was purchased and fitted.
Fitted a whiteline RARB and Brembo HC Discs and Ferodo DS2500 pads.
Me and The lads had planned a trip to the Nurburgring in September so I figured it would be a good excuse to strip the rear interior out of the car. I took all the foam out under the carpets aswell and rear door cards.
Then a couple of days after we set off for the ring, car ran faultlessly and never missed a beat the whole way. Few pics from the trip.
Also several from track action.
