Hey guys, finally contributing my own little bit to the projects section.
A bit of background about me and my cars.
I passed my test 4 years ago, age 19 and my first car was a Nissan Micra 1.0 L k11. Did quite a few first driver things such as cover it in stupid window stickers, but I also did quite nice bits to it as well such as a JDM dash pod, LED rears, mandrel bent exhaust system.
But since the age of 12, I have grown up with Nissan Primera's... a taxi cab car yes but silly old me got very fond of these cars, and when my overtime became decent in work, I sold the Micra on the way down to London to watch Rusko in Fabriclive, and on the way back from that I picked up a car I had wanted for years, my friends P11 SRi saloon.
INSTANTLY... I hear... what theeee why the shopping list.
Unlike the majority of cheap cars with shopping lists, this car had parts from every make you see on the side (Fidanza flywheel, apexi SAFC, AEM bypass valve... etc etc.
This car started off as a £600 car that would see me stopping spending all my money on parts.... I was wrong.
I ended up spending just shy of £6k restoring this car in a year and a half. And for the time I have had it, it has only seen a total of 8 months on the road.
It has had 3 new engines, every suspension part replaced, £1300 worth of welding underneath. But I saved it from the scrap yard. It has got 200,000 miles on the clock now, and it is probably the healthiest it has been for a good 80k.
If anyone wants to read the story, I will link the build thread on the g20 forum. Other than that I will stop the Primera talk and explain how it went from saving the car, to purchasing a Clio.
Basically, the car kept on going wrong, and with it always going wrong the less patient I was becoming. I have a friend who's like me with my Primeras but with Clio's.
I was on the hunt for a "new" new car, and we went to Renault to see what they had on their forecourt. And the car I have wasn't there, but a champagne one was. And I was blown away with the presence that these cars had compared to how they looked in the pictures (been a non owner at the time, 197's looked better).
A couple of days later. I found this, and I was having it
That was the day I picked it up
It has the panoramic sunroof option, sat-nav, xenon front headlamps and the spoiler. It isn't a cup or anything just quite a tricked out standard one, but there's nothing wrong with the standard one
I wanted a car that could put a massive smile on my face, standard, a car that went some, standard, had a loud colour and was basically built to be a yob. The Clio sports (admittedly a trophy 182 was a lot more brutal, but I liked the somewhat connoisseur feel of the 200 considering it's a hot hatch) were the only cars that ticked all the boxes.
2 months later, not much has happened really, only I have put on 4,5k on the clock already -_- (was on 15,454) and I am having gearbox issues.
I have taken the Clio badge off the back
Added an RS trim on the bottom spoke of the steering wheel
And just in general taken lots and lots and lots of photos haha
Yes that is a dent on the bootlid, thankfully that is all that is left after I reversed into a support beam in the local Tesco's... #plonker
The Primera taught me to do things right first time with anything i change to the car. I want to keep that going. I want to start off with a decent induction kit, the Primera had a C.A.I going into the inner wing, but the engine bay in the Clio's are completley different !!!!!!
Is there anything that improves thottle response? I.E when you rev it idling, is there something that gives the throttle more of a blip rather than a slow progressive rev?
I really want to get it low. Hopefully BC will release their kit, as it was BC coilovers I had on the Primera, and I am only wanting to go back to them.
This is why I am here, to learn about these cars and to meet all you guys responsible for these amazing creations
Thanks for reading!!!!!!
John
A bit of background about me and my cars.
I passed my test 4 years ago, age 19 and my first car was a Nissan Micra 1.0 L k11. Did quite a few first driver things such as cover it in stupid window stickers, but I also did quite nice bits to it as well such as a JDM dash pod, LED rears, mandrel bent exhaust system.
But since the age of 12, I have grown up with Nissan Primera's... a taxi cab car yes but silly old me got very fond of these cars, and when my overtime became decent in work, I sold the Micra on the way down to London to watch Rusko in Fabriclive, and on the way back from that I picked up a car I had wanted for years, my friends P11 SRi saloon.
INSTANTLY... I hear... what theeee why the shopping list.
Unlike the majority of cheap cars with shopping lists, this car had parts from every make you see on the side (Fidanza flywheel, apexi SAFC, AEM bypass valve... etc etc.
This car started off as a £600 car that would see me stopping spending all my money on parts.... I was wrong.
I ended up spending just shy of £6k restoring this car in a year and a half. And for the time I have had it, it has only seen a total of 8 months on the road.
It has had 3 new engines, every suspension part replaced, £1300 worth of welding underneath. But I saved it from the scrap yard. It has got 200,000 miles on the clock now, and it is probably the healthiest it has been for a good 80k.
If anyone wants to read the story, I will link the build thread on the g20 forum. Other than that I will stop the Primera talk and explain how it went from saving the car, to purchasing a Clio.
Basically, the car kept on going wrong, and with it always going wrong the less patient I was becoming. I have a friend who's like me with my Primeras but with Clio's.
I was on the hunt for a "new" new car, and we went to Renault to see what they had on their forecourt. And the car I have wasn't there, but a champagne one was. And I was blown away with the presence that these cars had compared to how they looked in the pictures (been a non owner at the time, 197's looked better).
A couple of days later. I found this, and I was having it
That was the day I picked it up
It has the panoramic sunroof option, sat-nav, xenon front headlamps and the spoiler. It isn't a cup or anything just quite a tricked out standard one, but there's nothing wrong with the standard one I wanted a car that could put a massive smile on my face, standard, a car that went some, standard, had a loud colour and was basically built to be a yob. The Clio sports (admittedly a trophy 182 was a lot more brutal, but I liked the somewhat connoisseur feel of the 200 considering it's a hot hatch) were the only cars that ticked all the boxes.
2 months later, not much has happened really, only I have put on 4,5k on the clock already -_- (was on 15,454) and I am having gearbox issues.
I have taken the Clio badge off the back
Added an RS trim on the bottom spoke of the steering wheel
And just in general taken lots and lots and lots of photos haha
Yes that is a dent on the bootlid, thankfully that is all that is left after I reversed into a support beam in the local Tesco's... #plonker
The Primera taught me to do things right first time with anything i change to the car. I want to keep that going. I want to start off with a decent induction kit, the Primera had a C.A.I going into the inner wing, but the engine bay in the Clio's are completley different !!!!!!
Is there anything that improves thottle response? I.E when you rev it idling, is there something that gives the throttle more of a blip rather than a slow progressive rev?
I really want to get it low. Hopefully BC will release their kit, as it was BC coilovers I had on the Primera, and I am only wanting to go back to them.
This is why I am here, to learn about these cars and to meet all you guys responsible for these amazing creations
Thanks for reading!!!!!!
John
