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does the sound speed up / get louder when you rev it?

Never seen a Carrett turbo before, they any good? ?

Chinese turbos are usually fine for low boost aplications, like the ED one it runs something pissy like 7psi, so theyre usually fine. Probably more disposable when you start running them at their boost limits though. Also ED have been around doing their turbo conversions for donkeys, so i bet...

Ive had my ED turbo'd clio almost 3 years now since it was done, havent had any problems.

you should be able to take the plug out and shine a torch down into the cylinder to see if theres any valve remains in there, or any marks on the piston where it may have made contact with the plug, if your eyes arent that good you can get smartphone borescopes on ebay for like £10 that will do...

Pistons made contact with the end of the spark plug, or smashed a valve top into it, it looks like

I doubt theres much gains to be had from this, but if you really wanna burn your money have a look at Tessa motorsport on instagram he does some pretty nice looking billet throttle bodies for the 172 / 182 all the way up to 70mm. Edit: Ive just realised they are cable throttles so you'd need to...

Ive used a motamec wheel for the past 3 years, the quality is quite good.

probably cut them

Gaz GHA would be worth consideration, for a few extra £. They can deck the car front and back being a rear coilover, they also wont try to kill you on the first bend you take slightly too fast like the v-maxx probably would. It also helps to have a spring rate that can go quite stiff when you...

^ This. Gaz GHA already come with their own style camber bolts, eibach or other ones probably wont fit

Halfords

If you were interested in breaking it I would take a couple of bits off you immediately , like the exhaust system and spoiler, and probably a few other bits like your oil pressure gauges. Pm me some prices if you're interested

Wishimoto?

Well its either one of two scenarios, either the standard map sensor can, or it cant but the aem piggyback ecu has the function to ignore the fact it cant. Seeing as how thats the main functionality of how piggyback ecu's work its probably the latter, but either way cars that go into ED for...

If you plan on using a piggyback ecu and keeping the boost under 1 bar, standard map sensor is fine

Yes, standard map sensor is fine for low boost up to 1 bar i think

Any updates / progress with the Clio @dann2707 ? what are you dailying now you sold the mx5?

I'm surprised yours hasn't sold yet mate, seems like every time i see a turbo Clio pop up on eBay it gets more watchers than any other Clio, and never seems to hang around long before being sold, there always seems to be alot of interest in a boosted Clio, especially when its an ED kitted one...

ED low boost kit + 1.6mm headgasket, 255 wallbro, megane keyed crank pulley and an ED 5 paddle clutch

They're actually not unreliable at all, theres alot of longer term boosted clio owners on instagram, ive had mine 3 years now since i turbo'd it, not a single problem. It's mostly regular cs.net users who end up selling on fast because of the constant fear mongering about how they are unreliable...

Id personally go a full standalone if you were considering going the fully forged route not a piggyback, they work by essentially interrupting signals from the sensors to the main ECU and because of that are more risky, usually fine but if you're spending out to forge, go full standalone

ED's piggyback ECU is also a well known AEM unit, which many different mappers have experience with and can also do 280bhp+ (with the boost solenoid version of the AEM FIC) the gen90 is a full standalone but you'll probably find only ktec really know it, which puts you at the mercy of ktax...

Valves arent that big of a deal, out of all the clios that get regularly abused on track is still a minute percent that fail by snapping a valve, and even then most of the time its a mis-shift and mechanical over rev, the super tech valves can fail under the same circumstances too, they arent...

How would you personally go about wanting to up the boost from 7 psi to 10psi with an aem f/ic 6 , electronic boost controller or just aftermarket wastegate actuator with a 10 psi spring and map? or just whole new piggyback / full ecu together that supports boost control?

Indeed, as i said you could do it with an electronic boost controller that could control boost by rpm, you couldnt use a cheap mechanical boost controller without an ecu capable of boost control though. And i am yet to find an electronic boost controller for under £300 they are bloody expensive...

You wont need a boost controller to run your new turbo, the efi boost control module can only run a turbo that has a wastegate pressure of up to 12 psi, for your end goal of 300bhp you are going to need more than 12 psi , and therefore need a manual boost controller to up the boost past 12 psi...

like i said you need a piggyback or standalone ecu that has the availability for a boost solenoid so the ecu can actually recognise you are bleeding off air to make more boost , with the aem fic 6 it only recognises the wastegate pressure, the higher boost kits at ED come with the aem fic 8...

The only trouble is you'll probably need to ditch the efi module and buy a full standalone ecu that can control boost to achieve the 300 bhp mark? or would you go about it by changing the actuator spring? on a garrett unit its probably alot easier that way tbh, on the chinese turbo's half of...

Pretty nice powerband actually, nothing to aggressive and quite linear almost like a very powerful n/a