carbon fiber bonet

[YMNM]

hi

U guyz have any idea where could i get a carbon fiber bonet for the face-lift 172 clio? Cant find it anywhere in my country.Im from South East Asia.Hopefully they have over there.I dun mind shipping it in.



thx a lot.

Racheal

 

[BenR]

Never heard of one, or seen one.

Its not a popular mod as it is in asia.

 

[YMNM]

hi

thx a lot Ben.Ive seen lots of it on Jap cars. And it looks pretty neat personally.Thought i oculd get it over there..anyway thx.



Racheal

 

[BenR]

Where about are you in S.E.A?

Im originally from HK.....and a couple of the pugs have the carbon bonnets, but they cost extreem amounts for just a black bonnet,

 

[YMNM]

Hi

Im form S.E.A. singapore. We have lots of clios over here.But mostly are the 1.4 lit. Very rarely u get to see a 172.

Anyway , what do u recommend in order pump up more power from a 1.4 lit ? I have lots of friends drivin the 1.4 here.Most of them have done mods like air filters, exhaust.But that cant really get u much BHP. Do u have camshafts over there for the 1.4 , 16v. tried contacting Piper n Kent cams ,but they do not make cams for the 1.4. the only solution they gave was to send the orginal ones so that they could re-profile them. U have any other solution where we could bring up more BHP for the 1.4 ? thx

thx

Racheal

 

[Fred@BTM]

Dont get Ben started on re-profiling cams!!!!!!

From my admittedly small experience, reprofiled cams arent that great, a mate of mine had them on his 1.6 CVH fiesta and they ened up giving him power (that didnt start until about 3500rpm) but the car just didnt idle!!!! In the end the cam welded itself to one of the followers!!!



I would love to get a carbonfibre bonnet, but unfortunatley no one that i know of makes one!!!!

 

[BenR]

The problem with your mate sounds like an assembly problem, not one associated with the cam. Wleding it to a follower, that sounds highly impossible as to stop a cam lobe dead takes some massive amounts of friction.

YMNM, im afraid there is not much you can do to the 1.4, its not a performance engine and thus, its not a popular tunning engine, infact, its not an engine anybody specialises in or tunes. Fact is, companies have to choose which engine to work on. Their development costs have to be recouped, and the development needed to make a wilder cam profile for your engine would need hundreds of cam kits to be sold, not hte odd 5 or 10.

There is sadly nothing you can really do but enjoy your car. You can go it alone and bear the cost of testing adn devolping, but even with your high tax, it might be easier to get a 172 in the end.

The majority (95%) of an engines power is made in the cylinder head and cam profile you run. If you cant fiddle with these, you cant up the power with bolt on mods as the head wont be flowing more per min and the cam wont be allowing the head to.

Its a simple equation, add more air then add more fuel, if you cant get more in per min, then your stuck.

I would concentrate on maximising efficiency as it is, lowering inlet temps as much as possible, reducing underbonnet temps, gaining as much flow off your std cam profile with midl headwork and work on the inlet manifold, but dont think there are any specialists in Singapore, there certainly is a lack of them in HK.

 

[Fred@BTM]

Well it didnt quite weld itself to the follower, but the follower is now concave on one end!!!

 

[BenR]

sounds like wear, or simple oil starvation.

 

[Fred@BTM]

It was only in there for 2days!!!

 

[BenR]

it only needs a minute with no oil to wreck it.

 

[wado]

Hillpower.co.uk do a few bits for the 1.4

 

[RobFenn]

Fitting different cams isnt a problem..not sure about using them on road cars but your friend seems like he did something wrong with his?

 

[BenR]

yea, broke the engine!

 

[Mike Wright]

Quote: Originally posted by BenR on 03 April 2003


The problem with your mate sounds like an assembly problem, not one associated with the cam. Wleding it to a follower, that sounds highly impossible as to stop a cam lobe dead takes some massive amounts of friction.

YMNM, im afraid there is not much you can do to the 1.4, its not a performance engine and thus, its not a popular tunning engine, infact, its not an engine anybody specialises in or tunes. Fact is, companies have to choose which engine to work on. Their development costs have to be recouped, and the development needed to make a wilder cam profile for your engine would need hundreds of cam kits to be sold, not hte odd 5 or 10.

There is sadly nothing you can really do but enjoy your car. You can go it alone and bear the cost of testing adn devolping, but even with your high tax, it might be easier to get a 172 in the end.

The majority (95%) of an engines power is made in the cylinder head and cam profile you run. If you cant fiddle with these, you cant up the power with bolt on mods as the head wont be flowing more per min and the cam wont be allowing the head to.

Its a simple equation, add more air then add more fuel, if you cant get more in per min, then your stuck.

I would concentrate on maximising efficiency as it is, lowering inlet temps as much as possible, reducing underbonnet temps, gaining as much flow off your std cam profile with midl headwork and work on the inlet manifold, but dont think there are any specialists in Singapore, there certainly is a lack of them in HK.

Yawn Yawn .........LOL Bet Ben loved this post!!!!!!!

 

[Hippychick]

LOL