Hello!
I am new on this forum and I will be very direct - I am looking for help.
I was a happy owner of a Renault Clio Cup III (original racing cup car) but unfortunately recently my car is struggling with power loss issue after just few minutes of racing/driving so I am desperate and seeking for a help before last event in this year.
First, lets share a few details about car - after all cup series finished car wasn’t used for few years and was storage in the garden (open field - I know that is not ideal). Before this season when we decide to rebuild a car and make Clio usable for this season of racing I remember we already had some problems with losing power - so we changed engine because also previous one had enough of racing.
So now we are in 2024 and I will describe a problem what is going on with the engine/car. I do endurance racing which is 2 Hours. On a cold engine car is working normal and you can feel that you have full power and also car can rpm to the limit. Then let say after few laps (around 20minutes of racing) first symptom that something is wrong is fact that car stops rev to the limit. At the beginning you are short just 300-500RPM and if you restart engine/computer car will be ok and again will rev to the limit with full power - but after restart usually that will last for a 1 or 2 laps (approx. 4-6 kilometres). Obviously problem is progressing and with more time on track and with each single restart it seems you topping up life to a engine less and less and car is getting weaker and weaker every 2 or 3 laps to the values that is undriveable. After around 1 hour of racing you will rev till 4500RPM and no chance to rev engine more it will just stop somewhere on low values on 4000-5000RPMs. Also, in last endurance I was driving for the last 5 minutes and I couldn't pass barrier of a 100kph of speed but somehow I crossed line.
Obviously if you will turn off car for 5-10 minutes after endurance some power will comeback but not to same values of a "cold" engine and will disappear very quickly.
Of course all indicators showing that everything and all temperatures are okay. No errors showed whatsoever. It is endurance race so in mid race we refuel car to full tank and the problem still existed. I thought that maybe is something wrong with fuelpump so I tried few tricks like driving with clutch on for a 10 sec to load pump but that didn’t change nothing.
What we changed so far:
Engine
Computer
What is old:
Wiring
Fuelpump
Any help greatly appreciated guys!
Thank you
I am new on this forum and I will be very direct - I am looking for help.
I was a happy owner of a Renault Clio Cup III (original racing cup car) but unfortunately recently my car is struggling with power loss issue after just few minutes of racing/driving so I am desperate and seeking for a help before last event in this year.
First, lets share a few details about car - after all cup series finished car wasn’t used for few years and was storage in the garden (open field - I know that is not ideal). Before this season when we decide to rebuild a car and make Clio usable for this season of racing I remember we already had some problems with losing power - so we changed engine because also previous one had enough of racing.
So now we are in 2024 and I will describe a problem what is going on with the engine/car. I do endurance racing which is 2 Hours. On a cold engine car is working normal and you can feel that you have full power and also car can rpm to the limit. Then let say after few laps (around 20minutes of racing) first symptom that something is wrong is fact that car stops rev to the limit. At the beginning you are short just 300-500RPM and if you restart engine/computer car will be ok and again will rev to the limit with full power - but after restart usually that will last for a 1 or 2 laps (approx. 4-6 kilometres). Obviously problem is progressing and with more time on track and with each single restart it seems you topping up life to a engine less and less and car is getting weaker and weaker every 2 or 3 laps to the values that is undriveable. After around 1 hour of racing you will rev till 4500RPM and no chance to rev engine more it will just stop somewhere on low values on 4000-5000RPMs. Also, in last endurance I was driving for the last 5 minutes and I couldn't pass barrier of a 100kph of speed but somehow I crossed line.
Obviously if you will turn off car for 5-10 minutes after endurance some power will comeback but not to same values of a "cold" engine and will disappear very quickly.
Of course all indicators showing that everything and all temperatures are okay. No errors showed whatsoever. It is endurance race so in mid race we refuel car to full tank and the problem still existed. I thought that maybe is something wrong with fuelpump so I tried few tricks like driving with clutch on for a 10 sec to load pump but that didn’t change nothing.
What we changed so far:
Engine
Computer
What is old:
Wiring
Fuelpump
Any help greatly appreciated guys!
Thank you
