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Working indicators, brake lights and fog lights - just the rear sidelights to sort. Ended up opening the cluster boards - pain in the arse! Before/After Other side - eww. Cant get a feed in on the tail light, so needs further investigation.

eBay is many times cheaper, you could get 50 for the price of a few from Halfrauds last time I looked.

New boot seal arrived so I popped it on when I took it out to the garage last night. Also arrived is what I need to finish the boost pipes and the crankcase vent, so hopefully thats this weekend.

I sorted the bit of exhaust I missed, luckily easy to reach on the side, rather than at the top or over an axle :) Made a quick bracket to hold the fuel pump, yes i'm going to use zipties for now, no you may not comment on that. Then I made up a car condom of sorts, as I still hadn't...

We can't even plug a USB storage device in any more and yet powershell is fine!

I prefer something a little more eloquent - save this in a notepad file on your desktop, rename it to (whatever).ps1 then right click>run with powershell. This keeps your screen active and stops Teams going to "Away" # # -- NoSleep -- # Keep your computer awake by programmatically pressing the...

I bought the Milwaukee M18 1/2" and quite frankly its unbelievable. Spectacular torque, battery life is fantastic.

Plate on. Off to the Alpine meet at C&M tomorrow with both wanker-plated Clio's.

This is exhausting work (groan) This was a R5 GT Turbo Prima Group A system I stashed away around 2004, finally dragged it out to discover its nothing like around the back axle so I had to break out the grinder. The hope was it'd be very similar and just need extending for length. But...

Also popped in the other headlight ready to be wired up

Blackwire scourge! Pulled out a load of wiring I dont need (probably) Temp gauge working, also wired in the alternator which I had initially got wrong and the cables were a shambles anyway so now the battery light works and the alternator charges. Temp gauge was a sod to do, I had to take...

Well I just did the fricking cambelt so i'm hoping it wont rinse me for anything else for a little while at least!

I always thought private plates were a bit wanker-ey, but a year or so ago I happened upon the plate "REN 21T" and I had to have it for my 21 Turbo. So I did. Then I stumbled across CL10 RSU for a stupendous price so I told myself I could get away with it and put it on my Clio 220 - I mean - I...

Oh yes, I also wired the fog lights in, at last. Fan loom next.

Dragged this thing out of the garage so I could get moving on it again, its been a while...too long! I've got a fair bit of cashflow tied up in it now so I need to get it done and gone. Managed to get the sideskirts sorted, the clips aren't available any more but I found some that were close...

Trying to install the ECU properly now and god damn - making a loom up that doesnt look an absolute disaster is difficult! I redid the fan loom 3 times before I was anywhere near happy with it,

Apparently the washer jets have never worked since he bought the car, so...

Erm...nope.

I had a desktop with a number of drives plugged in with SATA and then a stack of USB3 externals, I think I got up to about 20Tb total, however I had a couple of failures and then backing up was a pain in the ass (manual copying), so I bit the bullet and bought a proper NAS box... I went for a...

At a guess its some sort of error from copy/pasting the post from TurboRenault, we use the same forum software as here so I bet an image was named that, over there, and ive not edited the post properly and that image name, /attachments/213741, on here, is that Clio picture.

Got a load done on the grey 21 at the weekend and this left me enough time to do a bit on the 9, so I made a bracket for the EFI fuel regulator. It'll bolt to the OSF turret above the brake master.

So, now thats done, back to road testing. Drives really lovely, engine sounds fab. Running wastegate pressure at the moment so should be turning that up a bit this week :) runs considerably cooler now the head & block are cleaned out, and oil pressure is great.

Better. Has a few days off the cars, with a work trip to Poland in there too which was nice. Back on it on Saturday though. Note I also studded the coolant housing as the threads didnt look great further up the hole. Bolted up, the M8 [10mm hex] metal lockers are excellent for the...

Well lets see where were we. Ah yes, test driving. It didnt go well. Started an intermittant miss, and as I was diagnosing (Cylinder 1, as it turned out) it started leaking. Ominous. Then it went kaboom. Fully dropped a cylinder, clouds of white smoke out the back, coolant all over the...

New engine, popped the inlet studs out to properly clean the mating surface up This is a Phase 1 engine, going in a phase 3. While most differences dont matter that much and it all fits together, the one that does is the fact this engine has a distributor cap & associated drive, whereas the...

Out she comes. Did a bit of cleaning, looks like the crank rear main seal was hurling oil everywhere

Oh, one more thing - I got my son in to help me adjust the gear linkage. I stuck the box in 5th, then he held the stick in 5th gear position while I tightened the linkage - this worked and I now have all six gears available, the clutch works, AND the (electronic) speedo still works - result!

Final thing on the 9 this time around, I was wondering why the (one) headlight that was fitted wasnt working right, well, the block connector to the headlight had disintigrating terminals. What you dont realise with more modern cars being so prevalent now is that the block connectors here werent...

I found my Zeitronix ZT3 (at last) in the cupboard, and decided to fit that up, meaning I needed a lambda in the downpipe, so I did that and found some leftover wrap in the cupboard too, which conveniently was just the right length. Little bit of jiggery pokery in the ECU software and...