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Fresh out of the oven! If it's not too cold may start reassembly tomorrow.

As all the hubs and brakes have been refurbished it didn't make sense to leave the rear beam alone. So off it came and has gone off to the powdercoaters while I wait for some Powerflex Black series bushes and rear top mounts which will complete the chassis overhaul. Thanks to Kevin at KAM Racing...

I beleive they are off a Grande Espace and also 3.0 V6 Espace models.

There's a AST group buy being organised by CSOC Scotland at the moment. Might be worth a look.

I think you're right really. Cooler intake air can help a little bit, but better gains are found by improving intercooling. Either better flow of cool air over the intercooler or a bigger intercooler. Water/meth cooling helps too.

Ah, yes you're right! I assumed you'd be running the belt the other side of the water pump, (which of course wouldn't work anyway as it would then need to be a ribbed pulley. Maybe I'll try that configuration on mine as well. Put a photo up when you've done it if you can.

I'd be interested to see how you configure it for only 3 pulleys. As far as I can see, without a jockey wheel to replace the pump the water pump will be running backwards with the cup setup. Perhaps I'm missing something though!

Thanks! Although I do like the bracket you made up for yours. (I still haven't replaced the gas on my welder so had to come up with a different plan!)

I then got on with making up a simple brackets to take the bias valve, so gave the handbrake a once over at the same time. ready for paint ...and installed. Just the lines to run now.

Brakes are now finished and ready to go back on the car. I still have the new lines to run though, so that's next. And as the season is now over with out the car ever touching a track I may as well start getting on with some of the jobs that were supposed to be done in stage 2, after the car had...

Sounds like a plan! I've used a 4pk1110 belt, but I'm using the lightweight pulleys (4pk) as apposed to the 6pk standard. Length should be very similar though. In this photo the power steering pump is still installed but I've since swapped this for the PM power steering delete kit which retains...

Thanks Adam, I'm hopeful next season will go better! Should be another update very shortly as the breaks are nearly finished and I finally have the pulleys back from Nick at Pure motorsport so the engine can finally be buttoned up and bolted to the gearbox ready for install.

You don't necessarily need to go straight to the Cup setup. The cheapest route would be to buy the delete kits from Pure Motorsport and then either buy the HPAS rack blanking kit from either PM or Proline. Then the only other outlay is for the EPAS steering column and controller. The Cup...

Glad you're enjoying it. I'm enjoying following your thread too! I'm hoping this car (and me) has had it's quota of bad luck now. I'm trying to stay positive about next season having now had a whole season without any racing.

Looks great! I don't suppose you weighed those wheels did you?

Thanks. https://www.prolinemotorsport.co.uk/blank-sefrn/renault-clio-ph1-172-inc-cup-rs-abs-delete-internal-kit Have a look here. He will also make up custome lines if you need something different.

Ah that explains it! Don't have a problem with you posting pictures mate. (as long as they're relevant of course :wink: )

yes it is. Is that the difference?

I was going to ask you how you found yours! That's good to know, although I don't think you've got exactly the same kit as me. I don't have a tee piece for the front brakes like yours. Mine come straight from the MC left and right, so I'm only capping one outlet not 2.

Glad you're enjoying it. Could do with it going a bit quicker myself! Using the standard tensioners. I'm not too concerned with these as I'm sure the engine will be apart again long before these get close to needing replacing and I'm not tensioning the belt any further than standard. (Although...

Me too! Watch this space!

Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't heard anything bad about these before I bought them and Mitch seems to do a pretty tidy job of the stuff he does. I'd better check them all out then and get on to the phone to him if it's going to be a headache. Annoyingly I had already bought hardline for this...

Really?? I take it you've tried these then. What was the problem?

As the engine is out I'm hoping they won't be too tricky!

Still waiting for my vernier pulleys to come back from Nick at PM so got on with more stuff. After receiving the ASTs my OCD was going to make it dificult to fit them without doing some refurbishment to the rest of the suspension and brake setup. So off with the hubs and brakes for renovation...

Good to see they're getting some use. I assume you've changed the tyres by now!

Hoping they'll arrive today! Thanks mate, they're going to a good home!

So, I decided to send the pulleys back to Pure Motorsport after all, as the dowels weren't coming out of the cams easily and I didn't want to have to strip it all down again. So new dowel holes will be drilled. Slowly getting through the little jobs while waiting for the pulleys to come back...

Looks like Mitch Plowman's kit. I've just bought the same so it's good to see where you've run it. Have you tried welding the EPAS plates yet?

What a great bit of racing! That's why we do it!!