Joe's Racing Blue Project

[welshname]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Suits the F1's, Joe. Personally I'd get some springs and leave those on

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

lol renault dont know that though


did they even look at your headlights lol?

Lol. They must of just switched them on.

Suits the F1's, Joe. Personally I'd get some springs and leave those on

It does, but it's already in Sportlines. I do love them, but I just want to go lower eventually. Although my cat scrapes on the top of my drive It should be better with the decat. That's my excuse for one anyway.

 

[Joe#]

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Last Friday night, me and fastdanbar fitting me decat onto the yozza. Oh the sound, it never gets boring I think it's freed up things a little better too. I'd defiantly recommend a decat to anyone who hasn't got one fitted to a yozza.


Anyway, this weekend I did a bit of work to the car over the weekend. I've been meaning to paint the top of my brake disc's for a while. So I thought I might aswell give the arches a good going over at the same time. The amount of tar/dirt that came out was shocking! I'll let the pictures do the talking..

A few before's.

IMG_4143 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4144 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4145 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

A quick picture of the 1.2 looking sorry for itself :dapprove:


After a jetwash, Megs APC, Tardis they finally came up clean. So I treated the plastics AF Revive and everything else with FK1000p. So they should last a little longer now hopefully.

I painted part of the disc's up with black hammerite paint. The rust was annoying me a little.

A few afters.

IMG_4148 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4150 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

I brought the carbon fibre splitter back to life a bit too with some trim restorer. And took a cheeky snap of the wheel bolts.

IMG_4151 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

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After all this I went out for a few photo's, here's some of my favorites. The rest can be found here.

IMG_4156 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4166 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4184 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4185 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4187 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

 

[Sleepy.]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

FRESH! love it man!

 

[Jon.G]

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Cars looking really good Joe.

Looks stunning on the F1's. Nice to see you've still got a arch liner belt cover.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Thanks lads. I could do with a new set of arch liners eventually. I might get some before the winter.

 

[Ash.]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Looks ace joe bet your still buzzing over it! How is the old 1.2?

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

My sister is using it at the moment, she's having a few problems with her's at the minute. This is the picture I meant to post lol..

IMG_4146 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

 

[Dolan]

The fact that how dirty it is lol

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Well I haven't updated in here for a while really. A few weeks back I managed to get my hands on some K-Tec coilovers, so I snapped them up straight away. Then the next weekend Matt gave me a hand fitting them, and straightened up the Yozza. Thanks We cleaned both the cars and met up with Knuckles and his mate Matt for a few pictures.

IMG_4363 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr


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IMG_4404 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

Then last weekend I went to the EFI Rolling Road meet, managed to 167 bhp which is maybe a little lower than I was hoping for to be honest. I'm putting the slightly low reading down to the Simota, as it has less than inch space between the slam panel.

IMG_4507 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

So today I went about making my own iduction setup. I ordered a stainless 90 bend and used another pipe I had laying around. It's pretty much the same as a K&N typhoon, so the filter is just below the headlight unit. The car feels a lot more alive through the rev range now, so I'm happy. It sounds like VTEC too

IMG_4505 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4503 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

 

[Jon.G]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Nice work with the IK. Have you thought about a re-map, probably get you quite a few horses.

 

[Knuckles]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Cheap ktr kit ftw!

 

[ekaJ]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

What filter did you use in the end?

Looks good!

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Thanks Jon, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm thinking of getting an RS Tuner soon, so I'll run the 98RON map and go from there.

I used the Simota one in the end Jake.

 

[aucky]

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Nice BTCC technology. You must've put months of R&D in?

Looks good mate

I MIGHT have ablack Samco elbow knocking around if you're interested. Its a very big might though, I really can't remember.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Forget BTCC technology. This new design is F1 technology

Thanks. I'll defiantly take it off you, if you have one. I've been wanting one for quite a while, but couldn't bring myself to spends £70 odd.

I've actually just taken the lower part of the kit off, so it's just like the K-Tec one now. I'm just a little worried of water getting inside, I took the filter off just before and it was a little damp. The other reason is that the pipe sat resting on the headlight adjuster. So I didn't really want that to get damaged. But to be honest, it feels even better where it is now, and even more noise. There just seems to be a lot more torque now than before. I'll have to get it back on the rollers again.

 

[aucky]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Yeah get it back to EFI for a comparison run

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Yep. A couple of mates want to get their cars on too, so I'll stick mine back on.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Right then, last weekend I gave the car a really good going over before the winter started properly.

IMG_4513 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4518 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4533 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_4535 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

The rest of the pictures are in this thread.
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?668299-Pre-Winter-Racing-Blue-Loving

I got quick a few things done today. I started off by swapping the inlet manifold over, for the one I bought off Luke's old Trophy. The plan is to make my origanal inlets nice and shiny, and I might get them matched maybe. Anyone no of a place in the North West that does it?

IMG_1208 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_1209 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_1210 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

I then went on to try and figure out why my xenon headlight washers weren't working. The passenger side one kept leaking too, so I orded up two new ones and fitted them both. As it's sods law I only swap one over, then 2 weeks later the other one goes. I changed over both of the no return valves too any tried to see if they worked. They did! But after putting the car back together again they've now stopped working :S It has to be the motor that has gone/intermittent isn't it?

I tried to have a look at the motor, but I struggled to remove the wiper blades. I undid all the ncessery bolts, but they were seized on. And I didn't really want to end up breaking them. Any tips?

I swapped over the cabin filter also, I've been meaning to do it for ages now.

Old vs New.

IMG_4553 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

I gave everything a quick wipe down whilst the front bumper was off, it was pretty dirty to be fair.

IMG_4554 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

I decided to remove the front fog lights, they're not really needed. And I really like the look of the front end with them removed. I also to the advice and got myself a 3/4 plate. So the front end looked much better imo now. Finally I re-fitted the carbon splitter that I had to remove for the RR day.

Before.

IMG_4184 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

After.

IMG_4555 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr


And a few other I meant to post from the RR day

Thanks for reading if you made it this far

 

[Jekyll]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Nice pic (No.2) from the R/R

The front does look more agressvie without the fogs. Have you bonded some mesh behind the fog surrounds or just left it?

 

[Knuckles]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

no sidelights and now no foglights. you effing pikey :rasp:

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Cheers, it was taken by James Bryan. I haven't no, I might make a cold air feed in the passenger side though.

Lol Scott. Power/Weight y0.

 

[.Andy.]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Glad to see my old baby being taken good care of. I've done what I needed to, so should be back in the market for another Clio sport pretty soon I reckon.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

She's in good hands Andy That's great news too, hopefully I'll see you at CSS next year and you can have a good look around.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

I bought a brand new RS Tuner the other week, and set it up on the car. I went for the 98 RON map, along with pops & bangs. It feels like a completely different car now, really liking the way it drives.

I've also got a set of old exhaust mounts to use along with the powerflex mounts, but with the weather being so cold I just haven't had the motivation to do it. i have a new oem revised centre mount to fit too, but I'll do it in a few weeks maybe.

Then I went out for a few pictures last weekend, and managed to get one of the pictures onto the banner at the top of the screen

IMG_4569 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

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[Ben .]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Looking great mate, it sure has come on a long way since you got it

 

[Jon.G]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Lovely.

Any videos of the pops and bangs?

 

[Joe#]

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Thanks mate.

Quick little video here Jon.

[video=vimeo;54226772]https://vimeo.com/54226772[/video]

https://vimeo.com/54226772

 

[Jon.G]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Sounds good! You've got a decat too, right?

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Of course I bought it before I had the car on the road and it was fitted a week or two later lol.

 

[Jon.G]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Yeah, I remember Jamie's Trophy with Yozza Decat and Pops and Bangs Map. That was mental!

 

[jesus]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Yeah, I remember Jamie's Trophy with Yozza Decat and Pops and Bangs Map. That was mental!

Took it off after a week! Lovely car Joe, looks perfect to me.

 

[Joe#]

Re: XxHarDinGxX's Project Racing Blue

Yeah it certainly makes a bit of a racket

And thanks Jamie, I've got quite a few other bits planned still.

 

[chris13]

Cracking RB. I got one two weeks ago. Starting a project thread and hope it will look as good as yours!! Its a fairly good one anyway but some minor things to do.

Cheers

 

[welshname]

Does yours spit flames like Jamie's did with the pops and bangs?

 

[Knuckles]

^ yup, followed by silly loud esplosions.

 

[Joe#]

Cracking RB. I got one two weeks ago. Starting a project thread and hope it will look as good as yours!! Its a fairly good one anyway but some minor things to do.

Cheers

Thank you mate Oh good, I'll have a look at it now.

Does yours spit flames like Jamie's did with the pops and bangs?

It does, can't really see it in the video I posted though.

LOL Scott!

 

[ianpettifer]

lovely car mate!

How do the k-tech coilovers feel? seen a set on ebay and don't know whether to go for them or get cup shocks and eibachis or similar.

 

[chris13]

I just put brand new cup shocks and cooksport springs on my RB. Transormed. Well worth it and work superbly on crappy british roads. Did 40 mile b road blast today Coilovers look great though Joe

 

[Dr HMS Derv Destroyer]

Looks a lot cleaner than mine. Even after Iv spent three days polishing it up with my rotary