Hi there team Clio
I started a build last year that is very slow and painstaking due to having three very small children who keep interrupting, such a nuisance.
Aim of the game is for the car to be eligible in the 750mc clio championship, but also to race the car in longer form races as I’ve gotten used to doing 45 min races in trackday trophy.
So I bought a Glacier White Clio 200 and took spanners and trim tools to it!
I have a fair bit of experience working with cars, but this is usually on the build side, not the unbuild side! And it’s all on the body rather than the oily and sparky bits. So that’s trials and tribulations for later, at least the strip down was relatively painless
With the car stripped I set about buying stuff. I decided on doing the hardest part first, and after one phonecall with my nephew to decide the colour of it, the roll cage was on the way.
That arrived in December and it’s still not fully in! But that’s the curse of small children I suppose. And it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing a bunch of other jobs to keep it ticking over in the mean time.
Very simple stuff. Bonnet and boot pins are fitted. Each pin was installed neater than the previous one as I got more experience!
Steering wheel was harder to pick than it was to fit!
But i keep coming back to the cage. Not having it fitted was really making me feel progress isn’t quick enough.
I’ll keep popping updates on here and hopefully will get something racing before the end of the season!
I started a build last year that is very slow and painstaking due to having three very small children who keep interrupting, such a nuisance.
Aim of the game is for the car to be eligible in the 750mc clio championship, but also to race the car in longer form races as I’ve gotten used to doing 45 min races in trackday trophy.
So I bought a Glacier White Clio 200 and took spanners and trim tools to it!
I have a fair bit of experience working with cars, but this is usually on the build side, not the unbuild side! And it’s all on the body rather than the oily and sparky bits. So that’s trials and tribulations for later, at least the strip down was relatively painless
With the car stripped I set about buying stuff. I decided on doing the hardest part first, and after one phonecall with my nephew to decide the colour of it, the roll cage was on the way.
That arrived in December and it’s still not fully in! But that’s the curse of small children I suppose. And it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing a bunch of other jobs to keep it ticking over in the mean time.
Very simple stuff. Bonnet and boot pins are fitted. Each pin was installed neater than the previous one as I got more experience!
Steering wheel was harder to pick than it was to fit!
But i keep coming back to the cage. Not having it fitted was really making me feel progress isn’t quick enough.
I’ll keep popping updates on here and hopefully will get something racing before the end of the season!