Teddy's Track Slag.

I'm sorry if this doesn't make any sense as I've whipped it straight from another forum.

I've been extremely quiet on this forum lately as I've been on PC2.
So here goes;

Ok, I got the car in April 2008, picked it up for £3,500 with one previous Lady owner. The car itself was in full working order apart from one of the washer jet hoses having a slight split in it, which caused a fault with one of the electronic fuel injectors by dripping water onto it. So first things first was to have that sorted. After that, you could tell the previous owner never really took any care for the way the car looked, scuffed wheels, dented doors, small scratches and never a polish since it left the show room!
So first things first was Window Tints, 94% on rear and 40% on front which was done by Ste at Solar Guard Tinting. Also purchased a set of Lexus smoked rear lights from CiTuning for £40.

I then purchased a set of beat up alloys for £80, just to quickly get away from the Wheel Trim luck till I could afford a refurb or better set.

Then after hating the bright standard nylon orange seats, I stripped out the rear and purchased a set of Whitelack bucket seats.

I then decided I wanted a new exhuast, so I thought I would go for the VXR exhaust, the guys at Exhausts UK did an awesome job.

So after the seats I decided that I wanted to go for a Whitelack scheme.
So the wheels were sent off to be powder coated white.

I then decided after a couple of months it was time to get the C2 noticed properly and spend a substantial amount of money on it.
I had two choices between a 2.0 GTI engine conversion or exterior modifications.
But my personal taste is too make the car look better rather than being obsessed with speed.
So I booked the car in for the following modifications.
-Complete re-spray, Audi white and Ford Panther black.
-Smoothed handles.
-Smoothed side repeaters.
-Smoothed aerial.
-Badges removed + smoothed.
-Old exhaust recess smoothed.
-Rear window wiper removed.
-Rear window jet removed + smoothed.
-Door side strips smoothed.
-Door poppers fitted.
-HotTuning Coilovers fitted, 80mm front, 70mm Rear.
-Angel eye headlights fitted.
-Internal Aerial fitted.

 

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Your post got stuck in the moderation queue as you require 10 posts before you can upload pics or links. I've approved it for you this time mate.
Have a wander round an you'll soon hit 10.

 

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Okay, well after the C2 being neglected as the funds ran out, I'm deciding to get it all sorted before show season;
'Feb;
- Repair door poppers.
- Replace grille's.
- Spoiler re-sprayed and re-fitted.
March;
- HID's
- Repair passenger side door.
- Refurb alloy wheels and sell.
- Buy new wheels.
- New steering wheel.
- New seats.
- New harnesses.
- New bucket seats.
- Tints lowered to 40%
- Full Roll Cage
- VTS lump.

 

[Teddy]

Just a quick update, car was clayed today… Didn't have time to polish and wax, due to the darkness being upon us!
I also took out the fog lights and covered them with a yellow tinting film.

 

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I then fitted 8k HID's

Builders arse ftw.

Just for the record, I was in the house as the last two pictures were taken, I do not take every single picture of my car with fog lights on, as you can see from the rest of my thread, just before you judge.

 

[Teddy]

Okay, so I got myself down to Demon Tweeks today, and went a bit crazy to be honest.
I was sick of the reclining bucket seats, and as I'm hoping to get on the track, I thought I may aswell upgrade to fixed bucket seats, I was limited to choice because of the subframes built for Citroen C2's are only bottom mounts rather than side mounts. So out of the many few I had to choose from, these were the nicest IMO.

I then also upgraded my steering wheel to the OMP 300mm suede wheel.

I then needed some light weight wheels, so I went for the Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2's, 16" in gloss black.

I also got myself a TRS Tow Rope, just for a mean track look.

And got myself some Sparco racing shoes. Next on the list is my helmet and the car is going down to Gary in March for a full roll cage. I'm currently waiting for my parts to be delivered, so will update with pictures when they come.

 

[Teddy]

After a few hours work, I cleaned out the car, and got my new seats and steering wheel in today.

There is quite a lot that needs sorting on it;

-Spoiler needs re-spraying and re-fitting after it fell off... Yes, fell off. (The company that I used for the body work, I would not advise anybody to use. Well you can't now, because they are bust)
-Passenger side door needs repairing, where the metal plate was welded to cover up door handle recess, well it has cracked.
-Need to re-spray around the front upper grill, paint is chipping away.
-Need to fit mesh back to upper grill.
-Need to remove sound deadening.
-Spray boot floor.
-Want to get the VTS splitters and sideskirts.
-Go back to standard rear lights.
-Flock Dash.
-Re-trim door cards.
-Perspex windows.
-Change rear axle for VTS axle so I can have rear discs.

And then, engine work!

 

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Okay, so today I went about changing my black lexus lights to standard Mk1 rear lights. A job that takes about 5 minutes took about an hour due to my bloody puppy running off on several occasions.

Picture of the hassle I call a pet.

And thought I would take a picture of where I mentioned about the paintwork cracking around where the passenger side handle was.

Going to get this sorted soon as possible.
Either have the door repaired, or just go back to door handles, which will involve me buying new doors.

 

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Went up to Rivington (Winter Hill) last night for a drive and to take some snaps. Considering it was pitch black, they have come out fairly well.

 

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Just a few more.

Stickers!

This is all.

 

[Teddy]

Not posted in a while as I've been saving money for something big.

But I just picked this up today... Will be going in ready for Trax as well as other things.

 

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Flocked Dash.

So obviously started by ripping out the old dash and removing all the loveable stuff you want in a car, such as heaters, stereos and clocks.

4 hours later, she was finally in, with window switches relocated to where the stereo used to be.

 

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ast night me and a few friends decided that I was on too much of a downer to do nothing for the night, so we went to the local shop to stock up on Monster Energy Drinks and then to B&Q to buy dust sheets, primer and paint.

We started by using a heat gun and then scraping out all the sound deadening off the boot floor.

Then we started to prep the car with dust sheets and tape.

We then started wet and drying the whole inside of the rear of the car (not going to spray the front half until my new cage is in from Gary).

And got one coat of primer down before we went in for the night at 1am.

Going to get another coat of primer down today and then start getting the colour sprayed.

 

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So after all the prep work on the Tuesday, we started to get more primer down on the Wednesday (yesterday).

Started by clearing away all the sound deadening underneath the front seats. I must say, this was a all hands on deck effort to get this stuff off!

We even had one of the neighbours out helping us by masking off the door sills.

All the sound deadening finally out, we sanded it down and then was ready for a coat of primer.

Whilst the primer was drying, we didn't know what to do... So I came up with the obscure idea of throwing a random colour into the 'scheme'... 'Queerly' I chose pink.

So we started off by sanding down the handbrake mechanism and the sub frames.

And then gave them both a lick of primer.

 

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Primer dried we gave it a light sanding before another coat of primer, and then applied the pink.

Whilst waiting for the 'pink bits' to dry, we started with the Satin Black inside the car.

There is always one penis...

Painting done, it was time to rebuild the car.

Started by putting the seats back onto the sub frames and attaching them and the handbrake to the car.

 

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Next is to spray the front part of the car where the pedals are.

This is the most pointless thing in the world, but it's mainly for the shows to fill up the windscreen.
Will all be coming off after Trax.

Also a new colour has been decided on the car, waiting on a new engine first.

 

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Okay, so the show cage was took out and is being sprayed Pink to match the other bits I sprayed.

Keeping the show cage till I send the car off to a specialist next year for a full FIA approved cage.

First we started sanding down the cage with wet and dry, starting with a low grade working up to a high grade for a smooth finish. Then we got a few coats of primer down on each part of the cage.

Door bars.

Half way through putting first coat on rear part of cage.

Will update with pictures of the cage once it's finished.

With the car being stripped out in preperation for being a track car, it obviously isn't the neatest of things, which is why I have been 'tidying' up the rear of sound deadening and then spraying satin black, to make it seem like a nicer place to be, rather than the colour of raw french metal. In my opinion it's coming along great.

But obviously part of stripping out the car is to remove all plastic trim, which is why the door cards went ages ago! But getting fed up of the 'scruffy' look, I decided to get myself some MORE carbon fibre and use them as door cards.

Firstly, I started by drilling out the speakers in each door, with me having no stereo leaves them no point in being there other than adding weight.

And this is one of the door cards.

I've not put them on the current doors, as I am recieving my two new doors on Friday with handles which have been in the body shop for a lick of paint.
I will do the same to them, remove the speakers, and will then take a grinder to the door skin and cut away any uneeded excess metal.

 

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Spud hard at work.

Door on, handle ready to be fit.

The old passenger side door with one of the reasons I'm going back to door handles.

Goodbye smoothness.

New driver side door.

Door looks a different colour, it's just that the C2 hasn't been cleaned for a month and needs a good polish.

 

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Okay so as you know this is a slow progress in turning the C2 into a track weapon.

Just been gathering a list of essentials that need doing and I thought I would share them with you.

VTS engine and running gear with substantial amount of work such as bodies, cams so on and so forth.
Stand alone ECU.
Rear beam conversion.
Uprated brakes.
New Seats.
Thicker harnesses.
Full roll cage.
New coilovers.
Differential.

Still not managed to come across the engine yet, but now that I'm almost ready to finish my level 3 in mechanics, it wouldn't make sense for me to give the car to someone to do a relatively easy engine conversion, so I will be doing it myself with step by step updates.

Picture of the roll cage, will cost just shy of £1,500 which will include fitting.

Cash is dry at the moment, so nothing big will be happening till next year. I just want to get my hands on a VTS lump before Christmas and start work on that.

 

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Okay so in preperation to Trax, the show cage has been sprayed in a very rough/rushed manor just for an attention seeking reason.

 

[Teddy]

Haha, the pink isn't staying for ever dude. Once the new cage is welded in, the car is going to be stripped down to a bare shell so the inside of the car can be sand blasted and then powder coated... Not chosen on a colour yet.

Anyway, here are a few pictures I found of the C2 at Trax 2010.

Oh and this is how I drive to the other halves house when it's dark at night. Nothing but Ugg boots and Boxer Shorts.

 

[Teddy]

Okay, so today, for some obscure reason I chose to start work on the C2. Not the warmest of days I can tell you. A friend of mine, Niall, came round and lend a helping hand.

Obviously the interior was always stripped, but now after selling my bucket seats due to changing them in the near future... The inside of the C2 is completely empty.

 

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So, as me also selling my Pro Race's due to also changing them, I took them off today and changed to a set of 'steelies' I have lent of a friend.

Just a picture of the tyres that had some abuse on the track... I've had worse though, I must admit.

 

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Okay, so now then after getting the things that needed done - done, we started on the front end...

First we started by taking out the ECU and battery.

And then we removed the front bumper ready to move the slam panel, radiator and lights.

Off side headlight removed.

Near side headlight removed.

We then started to mask up the loom and label them for the obvious reason of a loom being very confusing! So it's just purely so we know what goes where etc.

 

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With the bumper and headlights removed, I started removing the slam panel.

Radiator removed, just piping connected.

Then all the piping disconnected.

Radiator and Air con removed.

I was very enthusiastic about the hard work and effort.

And this is how she stands till I drop the engine.

 

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Well, got myself a little bit of free time last night so I got some more work done on the C2. Again was just removing a few things so the loom is fully disconnected before I remove the engine etc. Got some more things labelled up and got the fuse box out.

And this is my new Daily... It's actually my girlfriends car. But I have persuaded her to let me go on the insurance. Win

It's a Mk3 Clio 1.4

 

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Okay, with me having nothing to pay for regarding Christmas as I've already got my presents. And today was pay day. I've just ordered the following;

Okay, so managed to get a little bit more done today, nothing major... Again just stripping down the car getting rid of everything bit by bit.

I got hold of an engine crane last night of a friend of mine. Was a bit of a struggle to get in the back of the Clio, but we got there in the end!

I just started by trail fitting the crane, to make sure it would fit underneath the car with the legs, as they were quite high... With a slight lift from the jack we can get the legs underneath the car.

 

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Obviously as the engine is going to be removed, the manifold has to be removed. So I thought I might as well get that done and dusted.

Okay, to remove the water tank and washer bottle I had to remove the Arch lining.

 

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Then removed the horn.

How she stands till next time I work on her outsides.

 

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Okay, so obviously as the loom is going to be needed to be removed, I had to take out the dash so I can get to it, and again, strip the car.

And then finally the dash removed.

Well, didn't quite go to plan today, didn't start work on the car till 2pm as I a friend came around in his new car and I took it out for a spin... From Manchester to Wales. <3

So just managed to get a little bit done for an hour. The engine will definitely be coming out on Wednesday!

Okay, so we got the loom completely disconnected from the engine and moved to one side ready for the engine to be removed on Wednesday.

 

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Then removed the cat.

How the engine bay now looks with not cat and loom to one side.

Then removed the gear linkages.

Put the C2 on Axle stands ready for removing of the driveshafts so I can take out the engine and gear box as one.

Removed the wheel to get to the hub.

 

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How she's going to sit till Wednesday when the engine is DEFINITELY coming out!

 

[Teddy]

Well again, the engine is coming out today as I have to take the other half out christmas shopping as we need to buy for her family... FML. I literally got about 5 minutes work done.

The plan was;

Drain the gear box and engine.
Remove Drive Shafts.
Drop gear box.
Remove engine.

And this is what happened;

Jacked car up, put on axle stands.
Remove the gash attempt of an anti roll bar.
Got mythered by my girlfriend.
Put away tools.


FML

Anyway, always like to keep you updated with a few pictures. I'm determined to have this engine out by the beginning of next week!!

Gearbox plug to drain oil.

But Citroen decided to put the worlds most amazing roll bar in the way, so it would splash everywhere. So have to remove that first to save a mucky job.

 

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Okay, started by removing the Drive shafts. Simple easy job...

Short shaft out.

Long shaft out.

 

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Then unbolted the Engine Stabilizer.

Engine ready to be lifted out...

Crane in place, just attaching rope to engine.

All ready for the pull.