beefing up a 1.4 RT

[tomsparco]

hi all, was wondering if you guys would be so kind as to give me some advice on how to tune up the engine of my 1.4 clio RT (mk1). i will be doing a few miles when im in the raf next year so i wnat the engine to be more efficient, relable and a bit more nippy. can you tell me what i can do to get a bit more life into it? stuff luike polishing the heads and new injectors and cams, is that all expensive labour wise? thanks alot for reading. tom.

 

[edde]

Most stuff is expensive. Swopping to a bigger engine is cheaper and more reliable.

 

[Akira2506]

You'll end up ploughing in money for not little performance, and probably less reliability. K&N 57i... not gonna get u much power, but sounds fun...




-Akira

 

[M1TCH]

and the more nippy you get it the less efficient it will be. plus tuning probably wont make the engine more reliable.

 

[u33db]

Mate, goto www.retro-renault.com or www.f7power.com and PM Chris H as he's your man for tuning info/work on mk1 1.4 RT...better than anyone else you'll find.

He's done a few - meddy-clio (sp?) on here is up about 12bhp over std and i know hes done another that was apparently giving a valver a hard time! Not megabucks prices either...

 

[donsrno1]

I'm not totally sure of what you can do but it's possible to get quite reasonable power out of them. I was looking into this in the past and I'm sure I heard of a few running close to 120BHP - but I'm not sure how true that was.

If you try doing a search there have been quite a few posts on this topic in the past. I think I'll keep an eye on this one and see what can be done and the costs involved.

 

[Martin_172]

start with the basics, pannel filter in the standard air box, de-cat pipe and a free flowing back box. get your cylinder head skimmed, possibly get it chipped? (but chipping it costs about £300!)

 

[Lunner]

ou want it remapped not chipped, a chip will never be spot on to your car, a remap will ahve the car on the car ont eh rollers and maps it specifically to your car