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It's been a few years since I've really played with this car so back story. Owned the Clio for about 3 years and in usual turbo Clio style it kept on breaking so threw a tantrum and bought a BMW M5.
Had a E39 M5 that was a boss did a fair few trackdays and nurburgring trips in that car, smashed...
Hi,
I'm rebuilding my engine and am currently measuring all of the clearances.
I'm using king racing bearings and catcam rods.
I've measured the crank at 1.88995"
The conrod without bearing at 2.0313"
The conrod with bearing at 1.8933"
giving me a clearance of 0.00335" which is way higher...
Heres a few videos of the mk1 charger going around llandow :)
Me on my last go this was after the red flag so was taking it a bit easier. Didn't want to jinx myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2WYWmUID8
The owners (silverhornetclio) little moment under braking by the bus stop is at...
Finally uploaded two videos of when the charger went to the burpspeed track day.
Ignore the amount of crap I was chatting!
Also first track day in this car and it was built 4 days before the track day :P.
Couldn't go left very well due to driveshaft being an r19 item which is too long.
Only picture i got yesterday of me ripping the engine out.
Havent done much of yet. Have no where to stick the engine as every garage is in brimmed full of car!
Pulled the car out of the garage
Had a look at the engine
Alex proceded to drop a gearbox on my car. Lovely!
Then pushed...
Some of you may of seen my car in PFC in the projects section :).
Video of me on track not sure if ive embedded right? But be sure to turn up the speakers ;)
Cant remember how to embed the video so heres a link...