Yes, throttle bodies!
I figured it's about time I put a project thread on documenting the progress of my clio over the last few years at the hands of my other half.
It started a few years ago when the immobiliser did the usual renault trick of giving up :dead:, at that point I asked how to get around the immobiliser and the idea of throttle bodies and standalone management was jokingly thrown in. I reckon he wishes he hadn't now as thats what I said yes to
Before they start I'll head off the obvious questions, why not a valver engine? well a valver would have been cheaper and better, so why not a valver? I already had this one and most of the bits were in the garage for the conversion (another story!). Why not a 5GTT engine or 1.8 20vT, again these bits weren't lying around, plus this started before Flan found VAG engines . More importantly it was different, and t'other half fancied it as a challenge, bit of a learning curve too !
On with the project, it's mostly copied over from another Renault forum thats seems to have disappeared so should be over a shorter time span than the project has taken, last time it was out it went to FCS 2007
The car looks like this;
not too many external changes, its lowered on Spax springs, delocked, tailgate smoothed, spoiler and some forged lightweight wheels of unknown Japanese origin.
The first round of mods added the 16v front brakes;
Shortly after it got a ported and polished early head for the renault energy engine. The earlier one is better than the later one as the ports are a much better design.
Early
Late
the ports got polished clean, the chambers tidied up and new inlet valves
while all this was going in it got a colour coded rocker cover
Nic
I figured it's about time I put a project thread on documenting the progress of my clio over the last few years at the hands of my other half.
It started a few years ago when the immobiliser did the usual renault trick of giving up :dead:, at that point I asked how to get around the immobiliser and the idea of throttle bodies and standalone management was jokingly thrown in. I reckon he wishes he hadn't now as thats what I said yes to
Before they start I'll head off the obvious questions, why not a valver engine? well a valver would have been cheaper and better, so why not a valver? I already had this one and most of the bits were in the garage for the conversion (another story!). Why not a 5GTT engine or 1.8 20vT, again these bits weren't lying around, plus this started before Flan found VAG engines . More importantly it was different, and t'other half fancied it as a challenge, bit of a learning curve too !
On with the project, it's mostly copied over from another Renault forum thats seems to have disappeared so should be over a shorter time span than the project has taken, last time it was out it went to FCS 2007
The car looks like this;
not too many external changes, its lowered on Spax springs, delocked, tailgate smoothed, spoiler and some forged lightweight wheels of unknown Japanese origin.
The first round of mods added the 16v front brakes;
Shortly after it got a ported and polished early head for the renault energy engine. The earlier one is better than the later one as the ports are a much better design.
Early
Late
the ports got polished clean, the chambers tidied up and new inlet valves
while all this was going in it got a colour coded rocker cover
Nic