Okey so long time ish no write, have been in a bit of a dip of motivation for my clio build and things have progressed quite slow the past year or two...three?
So here is the rundown on what has happend since I left you guys.
The blue clio that you guys saw me weld on has been sold, I finised up the paint, did a service on the engine cambelt pulleys waterpump and the works
The colour is not 100% but it got alot better after some clearcoat and a polish
I actually took the engine out to change the belt and stuff, its so...much...easier! Holy damn its tight as a rhinos a** with it in situe.
I also swapped out a seal in the steering rack that was leaking while the engine was out.
Engine back in the car and he saw the sunshine for the first time in years!
Purrs almost as a kitten (a little bit tappy but that usually goes away efter the engine oli gets warm)
Then ofcourse the heater fan resistor went bonkers and lo and behold that had been fixed before haha!
Then it was time for MOT or Besiktning(Inspection) as we call it in Sweden, with a wheel alignement afterwards
Some time after that I had the brilliant idea of flushing the coolant system so what better way to warm it up than just take it for a short drive!

OCF I got pulled over that same day however after explaining what I was doing and why the police officer thought that my licenseplat was about to fall of (that was why they pulled me over) they let me go back to the garage and happy days.
Some days later was tha last time I saw him, I parted ways with him he now lives up further north in Sweden.
Not to worry though I still have some ACE's up my sleeve, in the meantime I have not only been cutting down a REALLY rusty shell for parts and engine and all the good stuff, I basically took everything except the shell. You should have seen the underside... compleatly gone...
And I also bought a Red PH1
This car have some backstory that almost needs it own thread but it was my best friends car who passed away and couldent let the car go so I keep this as a reminder of him(that was why the blue one had to go).
Not 100% without failure however haha, some weeks after I got it the little rascal ate one of the screws for the butterfly valve

luckily still good compression with warm engine after the disaster! PHEW
Okey so where does this all lead to, well the red car is going to stay as is, BUT I have another black one that you might have seen I previous images in tha background! This bastad
Well so what is going to happen to this one, well first this is going to be a FUN car, like the one you dont really have to care that much about and just do a little bit what you want to it, end goal trackday's and the blue ITB engine with the speeduino as ECU.
So this is not really in order of operation how I did stuff but bare with me here it goes!
Subframe, crapped out, take that out.
Subframe and other parts from the scrapped black shell straight in the washer at work (holy hell that gigantic dishwasher is nice)
Sandblast and painted the small parts
Pressed in new bearings in the hubs, repaired and seem welded the subframe then sent it away for paint.
In the meantime I worked on reinforcing my wishbones and added some powerflexbushings I had laying around, yeah I know I should have the black ones but hey I had these since before so.
I recieved a new aluminium bushing for the subframe made some new gasket for the heaterbox and painted the engine bay+booster.
Subframe hubs and swaybar back from paint! I even got some extra flake in the paint free of charge
Okey so a common upgrade a while back was as you know the 406 brake calipers that I got, they had to be refurbished! They have not been painted nor assebled as of yet.
Since its a bit much flex in the steering column and im gonna swap for a maunal steering rack for now I needed some plates yes I know I still need to practice on my welds!
And since I had to fix a diffrent steeringknuckle I didnt have the correct boot so what do you do... you raid you buddy's partsbin! This is from a MK1 Golf

The knuckle was a PAIN to get of, but with a bit of heat and some whacking it went out smooth! Thanks Justin for the knuckle
