Oops I did it again... Adey's Clio 200 EDC

[Adey.]

I like them, could be tempted if heat shows to me an issue at mallory next month

 

[Adey.]

I've got a track day coming up in 2 weeks, ideally I want to get all the geo bang on before hand but with shimming needed at the rear I think I may have left it a little too late. Ill see how it is at Mallory and look to get it done before Anglsea in July. I may go a little PMT with the front adjustability by enlarging the mounting holes. Id like fully adjustable top mounts but I don't want to increase the harshness by swapping out to solid, pillow ball top mounts.

One of the main complaints of the Clio seem to be the water temps when driven hard on track, especially with a FMIC fitted. I think that this is an issue caused by a few things, the fmic is now blocking flow to the radiator, and equally the removal of the side mount intercooler allows for air to "spill" around the rad. I've started work on panelling off the rad and intercooler so that air is directed through both with as little spill as possible. I cant see it being a bad thing. A few more hours should see it wrapped up.

Dont really post about the other car on here, but ive been banging the miles on it too, low slow and looking dam cool for a rusty old lady

 

[Adey.]

Right, wrapped up the ducting. Made a side panel from aluminium and bent it to suit the shape of the bumper in an attempt to "grab" as much air as possible. The opposite side was a little more convoluted with the amount of pipes still there, so after a little head scratching I remembered what I did on the Twingo, and blocked the area off right at the front on the bumper. I achieved this by adding some plastic panels to block air from going to the left of the intercooler. The rad is mounted on the right of the bay (when looking from the front) on these. There was a small gap on the top of the rad above the stock ducting, so for good measure I added another panel, hopefully all of these little additions should improve the efficiency of the setup and radiator. I'm pretty sure its the same rad on all the jukes and Clio's from 1.2's to the diesels and the RS. I have been chatting to a chap in aus who has a time attack Clio mk4, he ended up swapping out for an Impreza ali rad and ditching the AC, something I'm not wanting to do yet...