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Entity - R19 16V Turbo owner from Belgium



  R21 Turbo Quadra
Regards,

even though I (no longer) own a clio decided to become member (paying) a month or so ago since you guys have a lot of good info & group buys going on (NLC's hubs for one :) ).
Chip & NLC prompted me to do a introduction so here goes:


I started off with a Clio MK1 "Grand Prix" as it was labeled in Belgium, nothing fancy "just" a 1.8 16V with some options as standard. (Sunroof for instance, some stickers ...)
After riding that about for a few months I took it to the nurburgring along with a mate of mine and, even though we had fun managed to bend both front shocks due to me being a complete noob and going full force over the kerbs at Adenauer Forst. This had a lot to do as well with it "just" being a clio I bought with Koni Yellows and that was it.

At this point nothing on the car had received any love yet. Hadn't touched the brakes, engine, cooling or otherwise yet.

Came in contact with Renault Club Belgium (henceforth: RCB) through my search for 172 calipers and obviously a new set of shocks and "found" one of the members from RCB to aid me.

To cut a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG story short, things went down the drain from this point on for my social life....

First we gave the F7P engine it came with a big overhaul (Belts, waterpump,...), then we upgraded suspension to FK konigsports & 172 brakes, installed a modified megane cup ARB, .... too much. Not soon after a 2liter was put in (F7R 714 with F7P Clio head) and the clio was stripped, supplied with bucketseats... track-prepped basically.


Unfortunately it wasn't too be because on my first Nurburgring outing with the completely rebuilth clio I parked it in the barriers at Fuchsrohre due to my rear suspension being set too hard. The rear-end broke free, started skidding and ever since I've owned 44meters of ARMCO at the ring.

The Mk1 in "better days"

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The shell was well beyond saving as the floor pan was kinked from the impact (170 km/h I reckon I was doing when the ass-end of the clio decided it wanted freedom)


Exactly 1 week later went and picked up a R19 16V (bog standard) phase 2.

Swapped the engine over from the clio (2 liter), swapped the brakes over and all other decent bits that where worth saving and the whole circus started over from scratch.


I wanted track-focussed suspension so sourced some GAZ Gold's (new) for the R19 and because R19 16V topmounts are a complete ball-ache to find unless going for the "oem" ones, had some milled from billet aluminium along with uniballs.

The result of that suspension engineering:

baseplates:
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Tophats which'd house the springs along with spacer & uniball:
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semi-assembled
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final result, installed
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Since my "partner-in-crime" (the guy from RCB I "found" earlier in the story) has since become one of my best mates and is a Turbo-freak (Owned a R21 Turbo Europacup replica with 300 BHP+ (at the wheels), was at FCS up untill 2 years ago every year with that car basically and now owns a Clio Maxi with a F7R Turbo with 300BHP at the wheels) it wouldn't be long till I cought on to his "virus" ...


So ... I rebuilth the original engine from the R19 to low-boost turbo (might become High-Boost next winter... still in doubt)

Head redone:
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Block with pistons adapted for lower compression (9:1)

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Followed by pictures of various stages of assembly :)
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the R19 currently (pictures taken before Turbo engine install at circuit Zolder):
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Well thats about it :) you'll see me hanging around and joining in on convo's and discussions on a fairly regular basis I hope. I no longer have a clio as said before but I do still very much carry the renault-sport gene :)


Regards,
 


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