Bucket seat update and more!!!
Its been a long while since I've done a proper update so hear we go. Here's what's in store:
- Track day talk
- More detailing
- Silverstone session
- CORBEAU pro series Bucket seat and Sabelt ultralight harnesses installed.
- Recaros sold
- More weight saving!
- Single seater race car.
Plans for the near future:
- Second bucket seat
- MORE weight saving
- Solid camber top mounts
- Linear spring conversion for coilovers or upgrade to AST's.
- TOYO R888's all round
Right so to kick things off, a crazy 5 months ago I took the Clio on its first track day. I chose Bedford, as its a pretty forgiving track. Officially one of the best days of my life. Here's some snaps.
Sealed my wheels in c5, cleaned my arches and sealed in c4.
Shiny
Also bought a second smaller Bigfoot mini to polish up the hard to get places.
Hit Silverstone on a damp track at the piston heads meet. Mr e92 m3 was surprised a little N/A Clio could keep up, the damp clearly did not favour RWD boys.
I started to think like this at the beginning of the year....
Then I followed my heart a bought this >
It's a Corbeau pro series FIA approved seat. One downside is the material quality is not as good as I was expecting, but function over form you know!
Bit of weight saving before fitting.
This is my eye line so you can get an idea of the height I sit at now.
Bye beautiful looking but heavy and unsupportive recaros [emoji24]
Hello racing seat >
THE CAR IS TRANSFORMED! Holds me in so well now, the seating position is near on perfect and there's a weight saving of 15kg. Also Sabelt 3" ultralight harnesses fitted. They are so damn comfy to use compared to the OMP 2" harnesses. Very happy!
Fitted using, the Ktec sparco/oreca subframe. Hats off to Ktec this is a damn good subframe, lines the seat up perfectly with the steering wheel, it great value and is really light weight. OMP taller side mounts where also used. I feel the taller one where unnessesary as I have the seat on the 2nd to lowest height setting.
My beautiful recaros went up for sale yesterday and sold within hours. The buyer collected this morning. I will miss these beauty's but they just do not cut the mustard on track days, I found myself flopping around in the seat and as many of you know they sit far too high.
This left me in a predicament. No passenger seat. The Clio has gone to race car mode. [emoji848]the new seat and harness will be ordered tomorrow.
