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Ah OK Jon, I'll look in every now & again to see the progress etc.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
Love this. Looks awesome and the bodies look great.
Nice to see it being used as intended
Nice to see it being used as intended
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Got French Trophy (Tricolor Trophy) written all over it jon
This is true, however higher fuel pressure of 4 bar gives enough for 225ish, better fuel atomisation and is only £15.
About 80-85% duty cycle
Tbh if I could find a set of injectors that cheap I'd probably go that route too.
I love this Jon, many more plans for it now? Or just use and abuse?
172, Tiguan
As usual, I've let this thread get well out of date. Here are some copy and paste's!
Had a faff with the shims for the cams, ended up with 2 sets. Have to say getting them to sit below the hydraulic lifters without dropping them into the head was the worst job i've ever had to do. It wasn't the hardest thing in the world but if one had slipped (which it nearly did) the head would've had to have come off. Steady hand needed.
Anyway, cams in, cam resealed and replaced and then got the engine timed back up with (another) new belt.
Sump is coming off this week to install the ARP bolts. I've bought (another) sump gasket from Reno, these seem to be going up in price but I think i've nearly got enough points to buy the entire franchise, especially since I paid £35 for a fuel hose just for the clip on the end of it...
a little bit of carbon that I brought back from the dead with some wet and dry.
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ARP bolts in and it's finally all back together. Just got to sort mapping out now and then it's good to go.
I also bought this the other day for the second time. I bought this car brand new 11 years ago. Needs some tlc, but it's a good project. Plan is to fix the faults it has (only minor) and let my dad have some fun in it.
Car went into storage whilst we moved and then it got taken to be mapped at the weekend whilst I was still unpacking boxes. It's spending all week there on the dyno so the cold start issue can be nailed. Collecting next weekend.
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At EFI for mapping.
I've already begun trying to sort the garage out before it returns. I've got to build a shed to get rid of the garden junk and then the rest of the flooring can be put down.
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Done
First up this one was fixed and then driven south by my Dad. Simple fix and she's good to go.
Mine had been left with Chris at Efi for the week and we travelled down to collect it Saturday. Liverpool is a bit of a trek from Durham!!
The car now starts and runs from cold which is a 300% improvement on before and the power is very linear all the way up to the limiter. It drives really well.
I forgot that the fuel in it was 10 month old Sainsburys 95 ron, so there's probably a little more to give as well.
Hopefully MOT'ing it this week then it's good to go.
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Insured, MOT'd and taxing at lunch. Might even go for a drive at the weekend.
I've bought a rear anti rollbar for it. Not that it really suffers from understeer, but I thought i'd give it a go.
Driving to the MOT place last night i forgot how quickly you can make progress in this thing, the brakes are only really used to slow for traffic getting in the way.
The downside (there's always a downside) is that it's leaking a drip or two from the sump. Again. It's almost a small enough leak for me to ignore, but as i've got the sump removal down to a fine art i'll do it again. I'm going to source a new sump as I have a feeling this one isn't flat on the mating surface, even though it looks brand new.
Thanks to Andyrg for his help as usual! Top man!
Had a faff with the shims for the cams, ended up with 2 sets. Have to say getting them to sit below the hydraulic lifters without dropping them into the head was the worst job i've ever had to do. It wasn't the hardest thing in the world but if one had slipped (which it nearly did) the head would've had to have come off. Steady hand needed.
Anyway, cams in, cam resealed and replaced and then got the engine timed back up with (another) new belt.
Sump is coming off this week to install the ARP bolts. I've bought (another) sump gasket from Reno, these seem to be going up in price but I think i've nearly got enough points to buy the entire franchise, especially since I paid £35 for a fuel hose just for the clip on the end of it...
a little bit of carbon that I brought back from the dead with some wet and dry.
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ARP bolts in and it's finally all back together. Just got to sort mapping out now and then it's good to go.
I also bought this the other day for the second time. I bought this car brand new 11 years ago. Needs some tlc, but it's a good project. Plan is to fix the faults it has (only minor) and let my dad have some fun in it.
Car went into storage whilst we moved and then it got taken to be mapped at the weekend whilst I was still unpacking boxes. It's spending all week there on the dyno so the cold start issue can be nailed. Collecting next weekend.
---------------------------------
At EFI for mapping.
I've already begun trying to sort the garage out before it returns. I've got to build a shed to get rid of the garden junk and then the rest of the flooring can be put down.
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Done
First up this one was fixed and then driven south by my Dad. Simple fix and she's good to go.
Mine had been left with Chris at Efi for the week and we travelled down to collect it Saturday. Liverpool is a bit of a trek from Durham!!
The car now starts and runs from cold which is a 300% improvement on before and the power is very linear all the way up to the limiter. It drives really well.
I forgot that the fuel in it was 10 month old Sainsburys 95 ron, so there's probably a little more to give as well.
Hopefully MOT'ing it this week then it's good to go.
----------------------------------
Insured, MOT'd and taxing at lunch. Might even go for a drive at the weekend.
I've bought a rear anti rollbar for it. Not that it really suffers from understeer, but I thought i'd give it a go.
Driving to the MOT place last night i forgot how quickly you can make progress in this thing, the brakes are only really used to slow for traffic getting in the way.
The downside (there's always a downside) is that it's leaking a drip or two from the sump. Again. It's almost a small enough leak for me to ignore, but as i've got the sump removal down to a fine art i'll do it again. I'm going to source a new sump as I have a feeling this one isn't flat on the mating surface, even though it looks brand new.
Thanks to Andyrg for his help as usual! Top man!
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
Is that the same twin-exhaust from a decade ago?!?!
172, Tiguan
lol, that was a Remus backbox that's been replaced with a Miltek system. It's not to my Dad's liking so he's going to swap it out for a standard exhaust. He's also after a set of Turini's for it.
Mine didn't make quite the power I had hoped for at EFI, but then Andy's car running Pipers was well down as well, so I'm not sure if the rollers were a bit conservative or not - i'm no expert. The car does run crazy camber which would effect readings + i remembered the fuel in it was over 10 months old and only Sainsbury's normal stuff. All those things combined it would've seen well over 200 which I'd be more happy with. I'm planning another dyno run somewhere more local soon with decent fuel in it and tyres that have more than 20psi in them! lol.
Chris has done a lovely job on the mapping though, it now starts and idles well on cold start (it's always struggled with that) and pulls very smoothly to the redline. I'm chuffed to bit's with the work he has done, but i'm also taking the power figure with a bit of a pinch of salt.
The jury is out on these cams. Andy (@Andyrg) was left distinctively unimpressed as well, though I felt his car pulled rather better than the figures on the day indicated. Read into that what you will.
The cams have shifted the power up the rev range though. Whether they offer any improvement over a set of 197 cams is anybodies guess.
Goodwood in August.
Mine didn't make quite the power I had hoped for at EFI, but then Andy's car running Pipers was well down as well, so I'm not sure if the rollers were a bit conservative or not - i'm no expert. The car does run crazy camber which would effect readings + i remembered the fuel in it was over 10 months old and only Sainsbury's normal stuff. All those things combined it would've seen well over 200 which I'd be more happy with. I'm planning another dyno run somewhere more local soon with decent fuel in it and tyres that have more than 20psi in them! lol.
Chris has done a lovely job on the mapping though, it now starts and idles well on cold start (it's always struggled with that) and pulls very smoothly to the redline. I'm chuffed to bit's with the work he has done, but i'm also taking the power figure with a bit of a pinch of salt.
The jury is out on these cams. Andy (@Andyrg) was left distinctively unimpressed as well, though I felt his car pulled rather better than the figures on the day indicated. Read into that what you will.
The cams have shifted the power up the rev range though. Whether they offer any improvement over a set of 197 cams is anybodies guess.
Goodwood in August.
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welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Power figures with a pinch of salt? EFI rollers are pretty spot on.
172, Tiguan
I didn't say they weren't!
Pinch of salt for the reasons explained in the post above. A sensible chap would've put air in his tyres and filled up with V-Power or something. As I was more concerned about moving house at the time I ignored all of that.
I can only go on what I saw that day. Andy's car made not very much, but felt more than healthy on the drive home.
Pinch of salt for the reasons explained in the post above. A sensible chap would've put air in his tyres and filled up with V-Power or something. As I was more concerned about moving house at the time I ignored all of that.
I can only go on what I saw that day. Andy's car made not very much, but felt more than healthy on the drive home.
Iain C
ClioSport Club Member
Hey mate can't belive you go j9 back! Great getting your old cup back isn't it.
Race car looks good. I'll probably pop down to good wood. Rich did mention it.
Race car looks good. I'll probably pop down to good wood. Rich did mention it.
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
You have a passenger seat in this Jon? I can't do the day in August but am up for a few laps if you do?
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
You have an OBD socket on it still? If so I can log/film while you're out and about.
Iain C
ClioSport Club Member
I'll bring mine now it works again. Not seen you for ages.
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
LOL, I'll feel 33 all over again.
172, Tiguan
Just type garage flooring into Amazon. It's not the stuff I was after, but it's about 1/4 of the price. My garage is almost 7m long so I couldn't justify the extra cost.
These do crush under weight, where as the proper rubber tiles I was after don't, but it's something I can live with. They are like a large jigsaw puzzle and just push together, it only took a few hours to fit!
These do crush under weight, where as the proper rubber tiles I was after don't, but it's something I can live with. They are like a large jigsaw puzzle and just push together, it only took a few hours to fit!
Ace Engineering this weekend is it not ? Il be there with my Camera
