Parabolica Posted 31, March 2011 Report Share Posted 31, March 2011 Good Evening All, Rob here from Auckland , New Zealand. I run an 01 Ph1 Clio 172 as a daily driver and track day thrash machine... There is not a huge renault (or late model renault) following here really so I thought I would branch out across the ditch to make contact with fellow renaultsport fans. So far I have fitted Brembo front rotors, green stuff pads and put braided brake lines through the car. For trackdays this is a must. Best money I spent on the car! The cats have also been removed and it has a new stainless 2 1/2 exhaust right through. The car is otherwise standard as I use it everyday which is great because with petrol prices the way they are its also a great economical town car as im sure most of you know. Anyway I look forward to joining the discussions shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob 240 Posted 31, March 2011 Report Share Posted 31, March 2011 welcome . have been across the ditch and its a lovely country you have . green , no crowds nice roads , and its much closer than melbourne , adelaide or perth :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted 31, March 2011 Report Share Posted 31, March 2011 Hmm, Phase 1 Colour? Pics? How many Phase 1's made it to NZ? Any idea? Welcome, welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian-Bstar Posted 31, March 2011 Report Share Posted 31, March 2011 Welcome Mate. Phase 1's are indeed cool cars. There are some good roads over there, can we have 2011 Nationals in NZ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabolica Posted 1, April 2011 Author Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Sunflower 172 : ) Nationals in NZ, im up for it! Not sure on numbers but I have seen 2 other ph1's in the flesh. Once in 2001 when my boss bought one and recently when I saw another sunflower near where I live. Clio sports are super rare here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmadrid-182 Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 welcome mate! love your signature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 love your signature +1 Love the Sunflower Yellow too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R26DAVE Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Wow....Sunflower Yellow. Looks Awsome. There aren't to many of them in Aus as far as I know. (Waits for Dish to tell exactly how many....) Anyway, welcome to the forum, and I hope you enjoy. Feel free to post more picts too ..... Cheers - Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Welcome! That's a mint as car...good to see another kiwi on the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portal Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 beast! welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Welcome aboard, very nice ride. Dig the colour and the sig...quite amusing. Are there many Renault dealers over there? always wondered where you guys get parts, just EBAY etc? Anyways, keep it off that wall and enjoy. Cheers, WOLF ps: oh, is that rear spoiler standard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabolica Posted 1, April 2011 Author Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Cheers for the warm welcome guys! Yea I like my sig too! quite true too! There are only a couple of renault dealers I know of. One is about 500m from my house but I never go there because of the crazy prices. I can usually get basic parts through brake and clutch etc etc suppliers locally but it's never just off the shelf. I mostly look at the uk as I'm a member of Cliosport.net. Freight is a killer though! The rear spoiler was an option when new. It's alot bigger than the others. I want to swap it for a cup or v6 one sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pez Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Good to have more oversea members Parabolica. Looking forward to some more info on your car, maybe some action shots as well, looks great in yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabolica Posted 1, April 2011 Author Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 The only action shot I have of my car is a crappy vid I did on my iPhone of my dad having a run in it at Hampton Downs. This was before we got the pressures in the tyres right so they were still a little squirly! We dont tend to have photographers at our trackdays so getting good shots is hard. I do want to get some good 3 wheel shots though. This was my old mans first time in the car so was taking it easy but I was getting about 9 inches of lift from the left rear around this plunging hairpin. Great Track! My old man has been racing for about 40 years all over the world and works with Motorsport NZ developing and training young drivers aka Hayden Paddon (PWRC), Scott Dixon, Brendan Hartley (fmr Red Bull) and lately Mitch Evans. First time in a front driver on the track though so his brain took a bit of time to adapt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portal Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 thats an awesome corner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkie86 Posted 1, April 2011 Report Share Posted 1, April 2011 Welcome Parabolica! Love the phI in yellow. Dish can correct me if I'm wrong but I think there's only 4 is Aus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabolica Posted 2, April 2011 Author Report Share Posted 2, April 2011 Yea i understand the sunflower cars are the hardest to find. Surprised more were not ordered from new. Maybe yellow wasnt cool back in the early 00's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamR Posted 2, April 2011 Report Share Posted 2, April 2011 Welcome to OZRS, and as others have said, nice car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted 2, April 2011 Report Share Posted 2, April 2011 What type of spoiler is that? Is it off a V6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabolica Posted 2, April 2011 Author Report Share Posted 2, April 2011 No it was just an option you could have on the 172 when new. Have not seen another one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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