Recent content by Nic1.4

Hi, Has anyone had need to replace the flywheel dowels that locate the clutch pressure plate. I’ve had some machining work done on a flywheel and the friction surface refaced. In order to do this the machine shop had to take the 3 dowels out of the flywheel, but they mullered them in doing...

I've bought one for a mk1 Clio, also not fitted yet thoguh as the car is in pieces (again). The mount looks to be very good for the money and Justin, the guy I spoke to there could not have been more helpful with a couple of questions I had about it. Nic

Hi, I'm after advice from anyone that has done an engine swap in a mk1 clio, taking the E7J 1.4 out and putting the K7M 1.6 in it place. I've got both engines in the garage at the moment, and know the swap can be done, and has been done but there are more differences than I was expecting...

Thanks for the continued love all :) Found another picture of the bungee'd throttle body setup, had to add it for comedy purposes. Maybe I should sell them as a universal throttle body conversion, fits anything just bungee into place haha Right then, on from the last problem where the...

Has nobody tried this before then? What do people do when swapping the 172/182 engines into mk1's ? I'll have a search through some of the engine swap build threads, see what info crops up there. Nic

No updates for a year, then two at once :D My OH signed up to a welding course at a local college, he'd plenty of MIG welding up to now so the plan was to learn TIG, and I had a good idea for a project, manifold mk3. I don't know why I didn't previously think about it but when discussing the...

Eek, well over a year since the last update!! Well in that time the car has run, been driven, broken down, fallen apart, been dismantled rebuilt and then broken again. The results of which are I’m pretty much in the same place I was 16 months ago. Picking up where I left off last time the car...

Hi there, been a while since I last posted but am in desperate need of some help with the fuelling for my mk1 throttle bodied Clio. The car is set up and mapped to run at 3 bar fuel pressure and the standard pump has died. On pulling the pump there is quite a bit of crap in the bottom of the...

As a northener we had the opposite impression, seemed to be full of southerners lol, saw quite a few clios about and a few run up the strip. I was there in my mk1 ph3 but no runs up the strip as we'd planned as a lack of mapping time before heading down to USC meant that the fuel about 6k hadnt...

Looks like you've done quite a bit of work on it, not afraid to get your hands dirty :) No sure what the link to an R5 GTT is though ? Nic

Hi all, I've been thinking about getting a lightweight bonnet for the clio (Mk1 ph3) for a while, would prefer fibreglass over carbon fibre as it'll be getting painted so no point in paying more for CF and then hiding it. Ideally I'd like a plain, non-valver bonnet but realise if anyone makes...

haha, don't!! the OH keeps talking about getting a Mk1 ph1/2 valver, he prefers the earlier shape too! tbh I've avoided aiming for a power figure, experience says it only ends in disappointment or more bills to find the extra horses :) wow, that's low milage, good find! Don't know for...

looks like a nice clean valver, I love naples red and it looks great on yours. Nice choice if wheels too! Should be good with a tidy up and the few touches you've got planned. Nic

It may make the whine quiter but that won't be because it's cured, you'll have just hidden the noise with the thicker oil :( Seems odd that the refurb guys are happy that it has a whine so soon after a refurb, however I guess if 5th synchro is a known weakness it'll go for a poop eventually...

Re: The Black clio Project, From Day 1. Looks like a great project, flocking and turbos = WIN in my eyes !