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sat unwinding after a chaotic day (normal) had an engine on build stand with no plugs in sat under our new super dooper led lights and noticed light coming from the exhaust port. took a minute or so to realise but snapped a quick pic anyway because it might be interesting to some.
4th crank i've pulled out inside a year that's cracked across the big end journal!! no blueing to the rod and minimal on the side of the shell.
sorry pic isn't the best.
So I hear someone who does a bit with Renaults is talking to peco about a range of exhausts and decats etc for the Renault sport range. Best bit is there will be a bit of actual development going into it that will even involve rolling road figures as well.
Low boost 182 that I started on a while ago, should of been a quick job but that didn't happen!!
Few things then got changed and added along the way but now it's about 95% finished thought I'd stick something up about it.
Will be running low boost on stock ecu with efi boost module.
Genuine...
group N cam timing
finally got round to doing something with cam timing on standard cams. car is a 172 cup, btb exhaust and cat, mtc inlet elbow and cone filter. car always felt strong and pulled well. the red is from it's first power run so we had a start point, was on standard renault map...
tried fitting a set of genuine bars the other day, front one went on and tightened up fine but the rear kept pulling up and out when i tightened it up, did it on the side that was tightened last. anyone else had problems with them?
any views on them? never used them but throwing something on my lads twiglet and wondered what these are like?
either these, some ds2500 i found or m1144 mintex.
well after some pleb...:innocent:...taking camber bolts out of the wife's car, forgetting to do the tracking and her then doing 2,500 miles inside edge of her v12's have scrubbed off!!!!
decided to really push the boat out and throw a pair of these on it tomorrow morning...
at £30 each it...
was happy seeing this...http://www.camskill.co.uk/m12b0s698p120639/Toyo_Tyres_Trackday_Track_Day_Toyo_R888_Proxes_Toyo_R_888_-_195_55_R15_85V_%28GG-Medium%29_TL_Fuel_Eff_%3A_F_Wet_Grip%3A_B_NoiseClass%3A_2_Noise%3A_69dB
thought i'd order a few sets until i noticed they've only got one left:cry:
this time on a 172 cup, previously rs tuner map, 182 exhaust manifold, standard cams and timing, powerflow exhaust, 200 cell cat and can't remember what induction kit??
fitted one of the turkish inlets...as discussed in a colourful thread here http://www.cliosport.net/threads/sm-inlet-rs2-style-for-182.781063/
phase 1 172, epas, matched standard inlets and pms exhaust, car made 179bhp and about 162lbft torque (cant find old print so don't know exact figure)...
ph1, locks up in reverse but fine if you dip the clutch or let it lock up and then move again, also reversing very slowly it seems fine. am assuming it's the diff but any other suggestions welcome.
it's not the circlip.
have ran all sorts of tyres over the years but got to say how impressed i am with these so far, only done a couple of days on them but pushed them a bit in the wet and they are proving to be a good tyre and the best bit...they've got sharks on them!!!!!
thinking about doing a few 'sets' of powder coated under bonnet bits, inlet, engine mounts, belt covers, alternator brackets, stat housings etc...
done one load for mine and some for the wife's car, got some spare bits so was thinking about getting some done and flogging them on. would be on an...
found a vacuum (?) hose but nowt on each end and not sure where it goes? one end was down on the nsf clipped on the chassis just by the acoustic valve, the other end was between the battery tray and the strut tower. got me really confused as i don't recognise it from anywhere and the car is...
decided to tart up under the bonnet while i was doing cam belt on my car, looked at the belt that was already fitted and looked reasonably new but thought might as well change it anyway as the cam cover was coming off to get coated and i wanted to check what cams are in as it's a bit too grunty...
possibly bit of a dumb one, what are part numbers for standard renault cams and how are they marked? doing a belt and a few bits on mine today and i could of sworn the renault numbers are cast into the cam? numbers on mine are dot punched on, i could be totally wrong about them being cast in but...