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Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Awesome project Jord, great to see you starting another one... this time you've got the skills and knowledge from the outset, so I'm sure it'll be epic.
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Glad you decided to put one up on here. Subscribed.
Its probably Theo - thats the only 'properly' done one I've found in the UK really. Quite a common conversion in Australia/New Zealand, only seen one other LHD one too in Canada. Just running stock S15 boost for now, as I've got Oulton Park on the 4th November. Planned to fully strip it down over winter once I know it drives fine and put a cage in it - and maybe upgrade a few bits 
Yeah I remember seeing his write up about it actually!
Lol - only bit of 'real' rust I've found was under the windscreen seal after I took the glass out, naff all anywhere else
FMIC - Already got one and its one (530mmx240mmx69mm) of the next jobs to mount it really. Managed to find one that fits nicely between the front chassis legs with an inlet and outlet about 1/3 of the way up on either side - works out well as it allows the boost pipes to fit under the headlights reducing the length of pipe from inlet/turbo to a minimum
BTW, ditch all that damping arrangement for the clutch. Something I've been meaning to do forever!
There's a damper arrangement before the slave cylinder, the pipework loops back on itself. Most people just run a line from the master directly to the slave instead.
You might not have got it with your bits anyway.
You might not have got it with your bits anyway.
Ahhh nope. Box came with a Goodridge line attached directly to the slave cylinder. The clutch on the E30 was tee'd off the master cylinder reservoir, but I've changed that so the clutch has its own now. When I've got it back in the car I need to see if the E30 cylinder on the pedal end pushes the slave enough to disengage the clutch - hopefully it will.
Sunflower Ph1 172
Hugely impressive as ever dude... couldn't believe how much work you'd done when I saw it on Friday. Looking forward to my passenger ride at Oulton.
How many similar projects are we going to see inspired by this?
How many similar projects are we going to see inspired by this?
maynard
ClioSport Club Member
ph2 172 track car
Cheers - I'l drop you an email tomorrow regarding those bits as I will be needing them this week
No worries mate, any time, just get in touch and we'll sort it out for you
I'm out!
BIFCAIDS
ClioSport Club Member
340i M-Sport & 182
+1 id love to help out
Was only reading the other day a lad with a 15 converting to a 14 box was having to buy a 14 flywheel & clutch to make it work.
Well I thought the S15 lump I got had a duel mass fly on it... its a huge thing but its actually looks like a single machined piece when in your hands, nothing else to it like a normal DMF. No springs or plates etc, I should have got some pics of it really.
Unsure if it needs it but I've 100% read on some forums that people have used the S15 clutch and cover on an S14 flywheel when converting to an S14 box. Il have another search and find the threads I saw to double check. I bolted it onto the S14 fly earlier and the box went on fine, so who knows.
The mechanical work you put into this is skill I could only dream of!
Another bit of an update - had a delivery of polybushes the other day including - Rear Beam Mounts, Rear Trailing Arm Bushes, Diff Mount and Front M3 Wishbone Bushes. Decided to rip the whole rear setup off in one go and start stripping it down..
I burned the bush out of my LSD ready for the poly bush to be fitted sometime soon..
Then removed the bushes from the trailing arms..
I'm going to be running braided lines to the back so decided to cut off the copper line mount and drill a small hole so the braided line can be fastened to it easily..
Also removed the stubs from the hubs on the rear so the threads can be drilled out to 1/2" and studs pressed in like I did on the Clio. More on that when I've had time to machine them..
Lastly removed the rear beam/subframe bushes which was a bit harder...
I was planning on dropping the trailing arms and beam/subframe off for powder coating but I need to get it built back up and the place I usually use are busy so that will have to wait until over winter. I will probably give everything a quick clean with a wire wheel and put some hammerite on it all for now. The ideal thing is with poly bushes they can be removed as and when required then re-fitted
The engine was also pulled out the other evening so I could remove the steering rack and column linkage - basically to give me an idea if the down pipe was going to fit past the column. Mounted the turbo to the engine and then the down pipe to the turbo and dropped the engine back in..
Needless to say the column is going to have to be moved slightly and a custom linkage making up. If the column was extended at its current position it would just fit past, it does look deceiving in the picture, although its not ideal. I also somehow managed to source an E36 M3 rack thats LHD from a forum member which was very lucky. E36 will be slightly better for me also as the pinion is in a slightly different place, hopefully giving me a bit more room to work with regarding the column linkage!
I burned the bush out of my LSD ready for the poly bush to be fitted sometime soon..
Then removed the bushes from the trailing arms..
I'm going to be running braided lines to the back so decided to cut off the copper line mount and drill a small hole so the braided line can be fastened to it easily..
Also removed the stubs from the hubs on the rear so the threads can be drilled out to 1/2" and studs pressed in like I did on the Clio. More on that when I've had time to machine them..
Lastly removed the rear beam/subframe bushes which was a bit harder...
I was planning on dropping the trailing arms and beam/subframe off for powder coating but I need to get it built back up and the place I usually use are busy so that will have to wait until over winter. I will probably give everything a quick clean with a wire wheel and put some hammerite on it all for now. The ideal thing is with poly bushes they can be removed as and when required then re-fitted
The engine was also pulled out the other evening so I could remove the steering rack and column linkage - basically to give me an idea if the down pipe was going to fit past the column. Mounted the turbo to the engine and then the down pipe to the turbo and dropped the engine back in..
Needless to say the column is going to have to be moved slightly and a custom linkage making up. If the column was extended at its current position it would just fit past, it does look deceiving in the picture, although its not ideal. I also somehow managed to source an E36 M3 rack thats LHD from a forum member which was very lucky. E36 will be slightly better for me also as the pinion is in a slightly different place, hopefully giving me a bit more room to work with regarding the column linkage!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
That's pretty tight!
Looking good though mate.
Looking good though mate.
Impressive stuff Jord. Certainly not hanging around with this.
Don't use hammerite, you'll regret it when it looks worse than that does now in a year's time. Zinc primer, then some gloss. Fin.
Agree on this. Hammerite is the devils work. Zinc primer and a top coat gives a good result.
what sort of money goes into something liek this? i imagine without your handywork you could double the cost in labour!
wish i had the ability, wouldn't hesitate that's for sure!
wish i had the ability, wouldn't hesitate that's for sure!
Sunflower Ph1 172
The number of hours work would be massive.
