Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project [Year 3 - Engine and Chassis Rebuild]

[f0xy]

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project

RenaultSport day, so you cant, lol.

 

[JD]

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Nice pics Jords. Hope to see this tomorrow.

 

[AlexG]

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Fantastic pictures mate. Glad to see all the work has payed off and its running how it should.

 

[maynard]

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cool pics there car looks immense how was brands?

 

[f0xy]

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Was great, car drove well and didnt have any problems!

Few videos...one from the front bumper bullet camera, recorder was about to die though and there is no sound....but I have a good session with some 1*2's...

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Then a few from the Mk1 battle between Me, Jay S, midge and Whiteley, filmed from Whiteleys car...

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More soon

 

[f0xy]

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Just been for a drive down to freds and back, to get the timing tools and pick up some DS2500 front pads.

Will be fitting those some time soon, but now I have the timing tools, its about time something new was fitted :evil:

 

[AlexG]

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Caaaammmssss?

 

[f0xy]

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indeedy

 

[maynard]

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which ones you gone for?

 

[f0xy]

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Shricks..

Jobs on the list at the moment are (before FCS)...

-Fit/Weld Cage In
-Take engine out..
--swap gearbox to my other JB3 (Bolt in Diff and very low milage)
--fit cams and time them up
-Relocate ECU to scuttle panel, going to modify loom when engines out
-Fabricate downpipe 'v2' to eliminate the blowing ive got from the manifold joint
-Remove center silencer from exhaust, and stop it nocking over the rear axle
-Fit DS2500's

The list goes on :dead:

 

[matty w]

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wont the cams need timing up properly?

 

[f0xy]

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they are timed up like normal cams would be, and are in 'time' when the slots at the flywheel end line up with the timing tool correctly...they just need a map to get the best from them also

 

[maynard]

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fingers crossed taking engine out again and messing around with ecu hopefully wont cause any problems!

 

[f0xy]

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should be easy now....ECU is running the emulator so should be spot on for the rest of its life, and engine out is an hours job max

 

[maynard]

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good times

 

[matty w]

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they are timed up like normal cams would be, and are in 'time' when the slots at the flywheel end line up with the timing tool correctly...they just need a map to get the best from them also

thought they was like an f7r when they have to be set with a dial gauge

 

[JD]

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This looked and sounded awesome today Jords.

Hope you had fun with Fred

 

[f0xy]

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thought they was like an f7r when they have to be set with a dial gauge

they just use the standard locking tools and pullies

This looked and sounded awesome today Jords.

Hope you had fun with Fred

lol, did you like the horn? haha

 

[jay s]

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gonna be seriously fast once those cams are in mate:evil: any idea on the specs of them, lift+duration ??

 

[Christopher]

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Awesome!

Will be rapido with the Schricks in! Tooney's old ones?

 

[f0xy]

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gonna be seriously fast once those cams are in mate:evil: any idea on the specs of them, lift+duration ??

pic coming now

 

[Hutchie]

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this car needs cat cams and itb's tbh

loves it anyways jord

 

[f0xy]

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there you go jay

 

[jay s]

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there pretty wild, they gonna be ok running on std inlet?? ( im basing that on them being wilder than a set of cat 421's or am i wrong??)

 

[f0xy]

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Tooney (Who im having them off), is running them on a standard ecu and standard engine....well, decat/itg filter/matched inlets, made 192bhp when mapped iirc!

quite a few others on here are running them with good results too

 

[powey]

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So basically you fit them as you would standard cams then get the map to suit?

 

[f0xy]

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yep they time up with the standard renault timing tools, as other cams available for the f4r do.....they will run on a standard ECU/map, but to get the best gains, a remap is best!

 

[Mark One]

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yesh! schrick, epic wiiin Jord
You gonna fork out for some RR time and have it mapped?

 

[jay s]

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project

Tooney (Who im having them off), is running them on a standard ecu and standard engine....well, decat/itg filter/matched inlets, made 192bhp when mapped iirc!

quite a few others on here are running them with good results too

ah thats good then will be a handful with 190bhp lol, torque should see a nice increase aswell:evil:

 

[AlexG]

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Have you had the car weighed yet?

 

[f0xy]

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nah, was going to wait until cage was in....might go early this week though its only down the road

 

[Fred@BTM]

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don't forget to file down the ends of the backing plates on those pads, bin the caliper shims too

 

[f0xy]

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yeah, had to do that on some I fitted for someone else....my standard pads were a tight fit with the shims in place, i took them out when I fitted those anyway

 

[jams]

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You know where to come when the cams are fitted . Actually are you working on the car today ?

 

[f0xy]

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nah not today...gona have a few days on it next week hopefully

 

[jams]

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Ok well i'm give you a ring sometime and nip round

 

[Fredy]

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Love the thread!

Impressive work, respect. I love the fact ur doing most of the stuff by yourself and ur knowledge is great. R u a mechanic or somthn?

Thread is too big so if i can just ask u some questions ad I cant read the whole thread - the engine is stock so far? The gears are shorter, if yes which gearbox u have inside and wat was the combination of gears u used?

Great work and keep it up!

 

[f0xy]

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Nah mate, not a mechanic...

Yes the engines stock so far, just no power steering/ac pump etc...

Its a 172 Ph2 bottom end, and a Ph1 head...

Fitting cams shortly (as above), and a few other bits....

The gearbox is a 1.8 16v (Valver) JB3 gearbox

 

[JD]

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Haha, that horn was immense mate, everyone chuckled as you left.

Are you coming down in the evening for FCS, i.e. in convoy with teh NW crew?!

 

[jams]

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Haha, that horn was immense mate, everyone chuckled as you left.

Are you coming down in the evening for FCS, i.e. in convoy with teh NW crew?!

Reply to my PM :rasp: