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No, grey turbo is going nowhere. Ordered a discovery sport to replace my 1 series and the 1 series is going this week so bought the cup as a temp car. When the disco turns up I'm intending on going production class racing in the cup. Well that's the current plan anyway

Well this turned up today, 110k mile 172 cup with terrible paint, it's been keyed and repaired by a blind man on most panels. Ordered a new car and going to be running this as a daily until it turns up and then intending to go production class racing with it. For the moment I'm stripping it out...

I assume I'm included in those 2 - it's currently running fine, partially boxed the rad in, with Redline Water Wetter added, and thermostatic oil cooler added for good measure. Intending on giving it some abuse this weekend so I'll let you know if there's any issues, ultimate test is Oulton in a...

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Well kind of running out of room to fit stuff...

I've come to my senses, I went out in it yesterday and it's bat s**t mental. It's staying. Mapping week today, oil cooler to start fitting later

You can make it work, I've got a pedal box in mine. You need to weld a bracket on and make/modify the linkage (assuming its similar to the megane throttle, cant remember what the Clio throttle pedal is like). Anyway long story short I binned the floor mounted throttle and kept the FBW megane...

Cheers, have binned the abs wiring now so will stick with the gps speedo. Original speedo will be out by 10% anyway due to much smaller wheels than the Megane has, worked it out properly and the plus side shorter gearing should be even better acceleration.

The above boost graph got me thinking about my old 200SX, 1.7 bar on a GT2871R turbo, standard interior apart from some recaros and fooking quick. Renault really should have made the pipework and plenum bigger, and the internals stronger. 380BHP on the standard engine. Bloody awesome. Should...

Took it out for a quick test run tonight with my laptop and rs tuner to do some logging. When it was at RS Tuning before the car wouldn't hold boost, however..... So that's holding 0.7bar which according to the mighty internet is standard boost. Repeated it in various gears several times, and...

Next job was to make a mount for my GPS speedo This then mounts behind the wheel in front of the main cluster. Also made a couple of blanking pieces from hardboard and carbon fibre effect wrap to hide the centre of the cluster and the dash support bar below After a few weeks of indecision...

Update time... Been busy with work and Christmas, plus the main event is in a couple of weeks so only a few bits and pieces done.... Replaced the worn insert on top of the gear stick, more for when other people drive the car than myself... Got round to labelling up my switch panel, exciting I...

It's been bugging me since the shafts were made that the driver's side is too long and is a real pig to get into place with everything bolted up. Decided it needed shortening before it breaks or breaks something like the gearbox :weary: Split the shaft at the inner joint and 5 mins and an angle...

Using this one from engine dynamics http://www.engine-dynamics.com/Turbo/pid100297/cid97/Uprated-High-Volume-Fuel-Pump.asp You need to modify the pump housing, takes 2 minutes with a dremmel. Running with standard in tank regulator however my cheapo fuel pressure gauge shows it running at 3.7...

Took the exhaust off tonight from the link pipe back so I could shorten it. Cut 50mm ish off the end of the Ktec mid section, re-slit it and refitted it all. Looks better now as it was sticking out miles too far before. Raised the suspension by 15mm all round and hammered the crap out of...

Righto. It's a sodding miracle, engine number 3 idles properly and seems to drive okay too.... Going to ring RS Tuning tomorrow and get booked back in. Few other things to sort - need a new gear linkage cable as 1 is currently held in place on the gearbox with cable ties and araldite where the...

You mentioned above running standalone ECU? are you not going to use the megane wiring the ECU, UCH etc like I've done?

Tried that, didn't work for some reason. Have GPS speedo instead.

It'll be back in and running tonight. The guy that dropped it off took it out of his own car after it was written off for bodywork damage and it looks to be in far better condition than the other two engines despite being higher mileage. Says it ran spot on, recent belt, new throttle body as...

4 hours including stopping for a curry and beers and engine out, gearbox, flywheel etc transferred to replacement, need to swap turbo over then it can go back in

Don't want to. Feels bloody quick on part throttle with all the torque and its running like crap. If I get this fixed and running stage 2 map it'll be mental. Mates coming round tonight so hopefully have the engine changed over and if it's still running like shite then it has to be injector or...

Appreciate your comments, have an uprated pump with the standard regulator and fuel rail, no option of plumbing it incorrectly. I was wondering if the regulator was at fault, Paul did mention there was a chance it was the injectors but he was convinced it was timing and having checked it...

I fecking hate this car.... It made reasonable torque, and sod all power. It's running ridiculously rich, resulting in knock so the ECU is pulling ignition and boost. They / we checked it over and there's nothing obviously wrong with it, Paul only suggestion was timing but it was correct when...

Made it to RS Tuning. Fingers crossed it doesn't blow up....

Sent the ECU off for checking today, 3 day turn around, for piece of mind. Shift light (DRE one I used on the old engine) doesn't like the Megane ignition so got an MSD signal pickup on order which should sort it. Also can't get the speedo to work despite having left the ABS ecu and front...

Looks good. Cable adjuster for bias? I need to get one...

Did you get a pedal box in the end?

13th, going to plump for some 630cc injectors at the same time. Should make a little more power and more torque, plus running at lower duty cycle

New higher flow fuel pump from engine dynamics. Also found a load of crap in the bottom of the fuel sender so cleaned that out. It's not perfect but it's 100% better and capable of driving. Going to send the ecu off for checking this week before we go for mapping. Got it out of the garage and...

It lives:stig::car::spanner::up::smilingimp: