Lost the kick! (182)

[mattjk]

Hi guys, Just today have stuck a new green air filter, a blueflame decat and removed the acoustic valve. Car feels alot better across the lower rev range but dont seem to have the kick at 5k anymore. Did read somewhere that the kick was related to the backpressure. Can anyone shed any light on this or if someone has installed similar mods and found the same problem?

Cheers Matt

 

[Lee-182]

never heard the backpressure story Before. Might be worng but i dont think its the backpressure that does it, Prob the cams and the way the engine is set up.

 

[mattjk]

anyone else got anymore advice/info? im sure lots of people have done exactly the same mods

 

[philmots]

The kick is it just coming on cam mate, so your increased grunt low down has probably disguised it some?

 

[Steve2004]

The kick is it just coming on cam mate, so your increased grunt low down has probably disguised it some?

Exactly. Increasing low and mid range performance on RS clios is quite simple, but improving top end isn't. As said in the post above, the improved mid range is now closer to top end (which probably hasn't improved at all), so the 'performance gap' between mid and top end is much smaller so no more kick.

 

[philmots]

Not bad gains though to be honest, you'll have more grunt out of corners.

 

[mattjk]

cheers 4 the reply guys, i was a bit worried id lost the power because you could feel it before but what you said does make sense just wanted some othere opinions.