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With the vibration issues i had totally fallen out of love with this, but now its right i love it again. Proper hot hatch, grip is so good on the ps4s. Might offer the mrs a swap for the gtt again:LOL:
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New o/s shaft in the 250 did not fix the wide open throttle vibration so had to do more diagnostics.
To recall the whole saga, car was perfect on stock suspension, low mileage 34k when lowered on bc's due to stock shocker failing. 2x new oem driveshafts fitted, spacer fitted to n/s...
Cheers mate. It seems to be good to go for mapping, cant wait to hear it make some decent boost, this slow driving is doing my nut haha.
I have no idea what that thing actually is, its some modern art shite next to M/boro riverside stadium. Another waste of tax payers money:sneaky:
Running in miles going well, 280 or so miles covered now. Ive been to outstanding places of local beauty last 2 nights in the North Yorkshire moores for exercise ;) (y)
In preperation for mapping i fitted the vxr blue 470cc injectors, recalibrated fuel table to suit and changed the oil and...
Give the seats a wet vac the other day as they were pretty discusting, done carpets and doorcards too. Came up quite nice, seats look blue again instead of brown
Taking ages to dry out as expected :LOL:
Give the 250 a clean up today too. New shaft has not sorted the slight vibration issue in higher gears, which was a bit of a kick in the bollox. Going to get it up in the air, and check everything this week.
Still looks pretty though
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Not much to report, Extra van running in is going well though around 170miles done now.
Done quite a few basic adjustments to the ecu map, ign and fuelling, drives really well considering. Still not boosted it properly yet, but some footage on the way to Lidl last week
Had to tame the pops...
I done a bit of searching and everybody has a different idea of whats right and wrong, apparently its ok to paint straight over.
Id personally give it a light coat of electrox over the hydrate 80. Ive just done my jacking points on my orange clio dci, i give the hydrate 80 a good coat of...
First hot hatch and first car, Nova 1.3sr C reg back in 1998. No pics, had period alpine headunit with 6 disc changer, alpine sub and amp, lowered on jamex springs, astra gte mk2 alloys & peco big bore backbox. Fond memories of fixing it, and taking it for mot which resulted in a hole in the...
Yesterdays job, change the o/s driveshaft on the 250. Inner joint was worn/dry and causing some vibration when pressing on. Ordered the shaft from autodoc, £140 for SNR/NTN which looks to be oem without the price tag.
Hate working on the meg3 suspension, but all went smoothly and done in a...
Megane 3 parts will probably fit too as very similar platform, clio 197 bits should go no bother too. I cant believe how rotten the shock was, rest of the van is mint really o_O
You will need the full 225 hub and wishbone setup to run the shocks and different length driveshafts If staying...
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Cured the lazy start issue. Fitted the megane battery on, which improved things a bit. Fitted some beefy 35mm2 earths from engine block and it cranks over mega fast now, so a combination of both poor batt and poor earth:cautious:
Been chasing minor coolant leaks as a few joints are...
Cheers mate. My jaw still clicks from that era of hardcore and all nighters :LOL:
Haha epic aint it. Should have had sunglasses on and kept away from the camera:LOL:o_O
Both sides of the front suspension are done and its rocking an old set of ph1 225 alloys whilst stood.
Found this beauty when stripping the drivers side front suspension down, daylight half way round where the spring cup joins the strut body. So close to failing, only 9 year old and still...
My old Kangoo used to have something totally different for the vin 1.2 clio or whatever. It appears to be stored in the airbag ecu as thats the only module i did not change.
Makes no difference to running whatsoever or any functions. Just looks a bit strange when scanned with clip.
At a guess...
Knock at the door earlier and the H&R springs arrived from Germany in a week, miles faster than most Royal Mail parcels!
Started pulling it to bits
Fitted on fresh R26 shocks
Wishbones and hubs on
Brembos on, flexi hoses fitted and brembo hc 312mm discs fitted. Discs have had a sacrificial...
Update
Bought a rear seat delete carpet off ebay £35. Turned up today and fits well, quite impressed.
Work gear back in ready for when i eventually go back.
Just the rear window to tint now, thinking light smoke to stop people glaring in when on site.
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Cheers mate. Ive done a ton of engine conversions im my mis spent youth haha. My first ever engine conversion was back in 2000, converted my old astra mk2 from small block 1.4 to 1.8 8v gte on carbs. Broke stuff and learned the hard way in my youth, but its all good fun.
I keep changing my mind...
Pandemic update
Bored yesterday so pulled the knackered diesel out. Started by removing the front end and remaining ancillaries, not much to take off as head was off.
I had planned on selling the gearbox, drained the oil and it came out like bum wee, out for the scrapman
Could not be arsed...