Rolling road proof - homemade Maxogen and no power steering = ?

[Tighten My Nuts]

I think it did quite well...

Blue line was from January, green line from Saturday just gone. Shows a peak gain of about 10 bhp. Charlie (RR man) says he regularly sees about 7bhp coming back from losing power steering, so that would mean I got 3 bhp from my homemade 'Maxogen'.

Not bad, very happy.

185.5 bhp / 904 kgs = 205.2 bhp/ton :approve:

 

[Christopher]

Great result!

 

[Mr Burns]

cool cool

 

[Coby.]

Well Done Fella... Good Gains to be had by Loosing the power Steering

Easily over the 200bhp/ton now then

 

[Tony Hunter]

All adds up Mark

 

[riz]

gulp no power steering? bit heavy ?

 

[Fred@BTM]

^bit gay

 

[riz]

im a Sensible man would rather have comfort than a few extra horses.
Nice to see Homemade maxogen works!

 

[ForceIndia]

^bit gay

Knows it.

 

[Fred@BTM]

but of course the maxogen is still the best induction kit ever made because half of cliosport say so

 

[ForceIndia]

^bit gay

Was wearing a collarless shirt yesterday.

 

[riz]

^bit gay

Was wearing a collarless shirt yesterday.

Atleast my collar can go round my neck!!

 

[cat171]

Mark, the look on your face when the rollers came out less after you'd messed with the filter was priceless !

Sorry mate, it had to be said Trial & error all the way. At least you know that your set up works well

 

[Russ_16v]

fair play mate! over 200 bpt now!

 

[Bigsy]

i would rather have powersteering ^^

 

[Phill1978]

i would rather have powersteering ^^

why ? in a light car its no big shakes

 

[Tighten My Nuts]

Mark, the look on your face when the rollers came out less after you'd messed with the filter was priceless !

Sorry mate, it had to be said Trial & error all the way. At least you know that your set up works well

Aye...my ram-air effect CAF theory has been vindicated :approve:

Watch the rush now as everyone rips out their aircon LOL.

 

[Rhino172]

nice one mark...I think I may have left when you put yours on so didn't see it...my simota aeroform kit made me 1bhp! gains all round!! lol

 

[Turkish]

Lol @ all the gayers thinking you need PAS on a car the size of a clio. Man up FFS, I bet you're all too young to have driven a car with a manual rack. My 5 Turbo was awesome with manual steering, thankfully the RS clio's PAS isn't too heavily assisted but it's still not required IMO.

 

[Gray]

Mark, the look on your face when the rollers came out less after you'd messed with the filter was priceless !

Sorry mate, it had to be said Trial & error all the way. At least you know that your set up works well

Aye...my ram-air effect CAF theory has been vindicated :approve:

Watch the rush now as everyone rips out their aircon LOL.

you running no CAF now?

I am pretty sure running no CAF on my air-box setup makes it run better?!

 

[Tighten My Nuts]

Nope. Did 3 runs with CAF connected, then I took it off and turned the airbox to face behind the NS headlight.

What that did to the top end curve was very strange...and it was I think 3-4 bhp down compared to having it connected.

But then mine does pick up from behind the upper grill so gets a massive blast at speed (or from the f*** off huge fan they use at the RR).

 

[Eckascliovalver]

great result, who needs power steering anyway

 

[RM_bailey]

yeah great run mate, have you got any pics of the homemade filter because im currently doing my own for my cup and would like a few ideas if you did'nt mind mate

 

[Clio1.6Rxe]

Lol @ all the gayers thinking you need PAS on a car the size of a clio. Man up FFS, I bet you're all too young to have driven a car with a manual rack. My 5 Turbo was awesome with manual steering, thankfully the RS clio's PAS isn't too heavily assisted but it's still not required IMO.

i have to drive a land rover 90 at work with no pas and its fine I find if you keep moving its easier 2 turn the wheel lol

 

[Fletcher]

Great results!

 

[Pettsi]

Well done Mark!

 

[Inferno]

Good work, nice to see your work proven on the rolling road.

 

[Marky_]

Finally got over that 200 mark! Nice one.

 

[Tighten My Nuts]

yeah great run mate, have you got any pics of the homemade filter because im currently doing my own for my cup and would like a few ideas if you did'nt mind mate

Take one of these

add one of these

then get hold of some of this

get creative and make some space

then you can do this

and if you take out the plastic blanking plate behind the grill you get this

 

[dave b]

good resullt mark , must be getting a pretty rapid clio now.

Dave

 

[mini-valver]

Awesome fella! Looking forward to trying mine with the "Hole light" and standard light TBH!

 

[Iridium]

That's a great result mate Congrats!

I thought it had some other mods too? A Grp N ECU or something? I could be talking poo though hehe!

Dan

 

[Tighten My Nuts]

Other mods were all on for the previous run...

R-Sport ECU
ITG panel filter in standard airbox
Yozzasport decat
K-tec stealth exhaust

That lot got me to 176bhp which was the last figure (blue line) then off came the steering pump/rack and on went the 'Maxogen' to give the latest figure (green line).

 

[Mike@MJCycles.com]

i saw a figure saying a 182 weighs 1070kg standard, and the williams 3 weighs 1020 kg??? are they inaccurate?

 

[Iridium]

Other mods were all on for the previous run...

R-Sport ECU
ITG panel filter in standard airbox
Yozzasport decat
K-tec stealth exhaust

That lot got me to 176bhp

So according to Renault, each of those were worth 1bhp a pop hehe

Dan

 

[drhowser]

i'm thinking about scrapping the pas on mine mark,
how much of a job is it to do and where did you get the rack from?

 

[Tighten My Nuts]

I've aboslutely no idea at all I'm afraid, Rentech Mike did it all for me.

 

[drhowser]

haha, no worries. i'll give him a bell. cheers

 

[Jay Payne]

Hmm, Im thinking of binning my pas too. The track rods are a little worn anyway so i need to sort something over the winter. Plus one of the pipes is very rusty and looks about to spill its fluid everywhere.

Yours wasnt that bad at slow speeds when i moved it in the pitlane at Bedford.

Any idea how much weight removing the pump and pipe work saves Mark?

 

[Adey.]

was thinking the same thing burp lol