Clio cup racer with throttle bodies....???

[Andrewclio]

http://youtu.be/sosueRH93e8

found this cup racer with bodies on YouTube, anyone seen it done this way before???

 

[Alan]

Tis a maxi, no?

 

[Andrewclio]

Nope just a clio cup racer with s1600 kit

 

[MG cup]

Good find, I have always wanted to see a tuned cup racer incar footage on some uk tracks to compare to the lads on here, never seen any yet.

 

[Martin.]

Is that a cup racer?

Looks awful.

 

[Andrewclio]

I'm more curious to why they bolted the throttle bodies to the lower inlet rather than the head?!

Surely there isn't any gain to it?

 

[MicKPM]

It's most likely to get some extra length in the runners... seen this done to a few 197's now to.

 

[Martin.]

Surely with the filter they are going to be squashed up against the inside of the bonnet?

 

[Dan@SJM]

They don't run a filter by the looks of it.

 

[Martin.]

They don't run a filter by the looks of it.

Surely not.

How long till things go bang like that?

 

[Dan@SJM]

They'll last a season as usual before a rebuild (which when you think about it is about 20 hours)

 

[Dave..]

Surely not.

How long till things go bang like that?

So long as you aren't driving behind some one on a gravel stage or deep sea diving, running without a filter isn't going to kill the engine any time soon.

 

[Kelv]

it has the fine mesh gauze over the trumpets, which is a form of filter in itself.
it will stop any larger debris getting in there.

edit to add: I used to run a set of DCOE Twin 40's on a Vauxhall nova like that many years ago, never had a problem atall and it continued that way for a good few years even being used as a daily.

 

[MG cup]

Is that a cup racer?

Looks awful.

Definite cup racer it has the matter cage, I have never heard of a maxi Clio mk2 like above and s1600 is on another level under the bonnet and inside.

As Andrew said its a racer with S1600 kit.

I think it sounds pretty brutal, more like an S1600 or a group n/group a car.

 

[Martin.]

How is the 1.6 engine so powerful?

 

[Chip-mk1]

it has the fine mesh gauze over the trumpets, which is a form of filter in itself.
it will stop any larger debris getting in there.

edit to add: I used to run a set of DCOE Twin 40's on a Vauxhall nova like that many years ago, never had a problem atall and it continued that way for a good few years even being used as a daily.

I did the same on a corsa I had which was a cammed 2 litre on bodies, but the difference there is the bodies are at the back facing backwards of course, so much less vulnerable.

 

[Chip-mk1]

How is the 1.6 engine so powerful?

Revs is the usual way to make power from a smaller unit.

 

[Martin.]

10k rpm lol?

 

[Kelv]

I did the same on a corsa I had which was a cammed 2 litre on bodies, but the difference there is the bodies are at the back facing backwards of course, so much less vulnerable.

very true, and a very valid point.

I had my twin 40's on the 1.3, then kept them (albeit rejetted) when I changed over to the 1.8 Astra GTE lump.
but sold them complete with the engine when I had the basic wizard of NOS kit fitted and run the factory injection for a while, then after a year or so we went for the XE lump, much like yourself.

 

[Chip-mk1]

very true, and a very valid point.

I had my twin 40's on the 1.3, then kept them (albeit rejetted) when I changed over to the 1.8 Astra GTE lump.
but sold them complete with the engine when I had the basic wizard of NOS kit fitted and run the factory injection for a while, then after a year or so we went for the XE lump, much like yourself.

All great engines, I go quite misty eyed and dreamy thinking of 90s vauxhall engines.
Shame the cars themselves dont drive as well as the clios, the engines are just SO much better than the renault litter.

 

[MG cup]

How is the 1.6 engine so powerful?

When you give it to Sodemo to work there magic and the fact its got 10-15k valve train on it.

 

[Kelv]

the XE engine, from my limited knowledge at the time, was a great lump to play with, and it went so well.
my only real XE issues was in a Cavalier GSi I had mid 90's that suffered the dreaded pourous head issue, but easy enough to send away and have repaired.

 

[Chip-mk1]

the XE engine, from my limited knowledge at the time, was a great lump to play with, and it went so well.
my only real XE issues was in a Cavalier GSi I had mid 90's that suffered the dreaded pourous head issue, but easy enough to send away and have repaired.

Yeah vauxhall really dropped the ball with the porous head when they downgraded from coscast heads to gm ones, but as you say it wasnt that bad to fix anyway.