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yeah, i only went round the block hehe. gearbox seems fine, just its cracked so the oil leaked out! im gonna fix the crack and get some oil in whilst im waiting for new box, as im only insured an another car till the end of the week and i need to get to work and that! will just have to take...
Righto iv posted numerous times regarding strange idle and the revs dropping too low when coming to a stop. iv replaced:
idle speed control valve
potentiometer
throttle body
speedo cable and road speed sensor
timing sensor
coolant temp sensor
lambda sensor
fuel filter
Just been for...
Quote: Originally posted by chip16v on 24 March 2004
i have piper cams/verniers on my willy engine and am using the hill power stage 2 chip. i set them up following the piper instructions but the hill power chip is mapped for cams that are slightly advanced. the car runs fine but iam making...
Right im still not sure what engine management to go for. Iv had cams, verniers, headwork, balanced block, ktr manifold, but it needs mapping. Choices are
Unichip - lots of dealers, good results, reasonable price.
SMT6 - better, but bit more expensive, problem is remaps wold be difficult...
on the way there i saw an mk3 silver astra take a righ hander to fast and litterally jump a massive ditch then get stuck. they fuked the front end up and has to pull it out the field!
madness!
1st to 4th wihout letting mi right foot off the floor! all were ok but 3rd to 4th made a horrible bang. since then was popping out of 2nd and crunching in 2nd. now the housing has cracked!
Quote: Originally posted by JAY172 on 13 April 2004
abuse!
well i did a full throttle gear change that bust it i think, was ok still but went downhill from there. im usually considerate with it but my mate had been taunting me for ages, and we were racing. couldnt let him win ;)
mi oil pressure at cold idle:
http://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/gallery/full/1081806906__oil.jpg
when warmed its 1 bar, and if giving it some cas its as in the pic. but the engine has only done 18k miles ;)
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cadams/videos/york/part1.mpgPart 1 - 23mb - All the clios i got on tape!
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~cadams/videos/york/part2.mpgPart 2 - 11mb - all the other things, mostly the rapid ones!
oh yeah and there was a clio 16v on carbs, apparently 210bhp.
was only running low 15s though! :confused:
iv got a video, gimme an hour to sort the vids out
Just got home, brilliant day.
saw a few people from here and some very impressive times!! ill let them tell you what times themselves tho ;)
Video to follow :)