Snowmans Mk1 valver

[sideways danny]

A Mk1 project I've been working on recently. Andy (Snowman) isn't on here AFAIK, so I thought I'd share

Brought to me like this

And took it's place in the workshop

Having the Canems ECU fitted into the O.E position

And some shiny goodies from Renault,225 Meg injectors

At this point I had a bit of a wait due to the Belgian manufacturer of the inlet manifold taking an absolute age.

I waited

and emailed

and waited

and telephoned

then waited a bit more

then suddenly, parcels arrived!!!

at this point, I had to make the filter fit. Not as easy as you'd think in a mk1. Involves quite a lot of cutting away at the edge of the front panel, then getting the filter as low as physically possible to clear the bonnet

Tight fit, but all in.

 

[sideways danny]

then I had to fit and dial in the cams with a new belt.

Low profile rad, painted with special paint supplied by Andy

And fitted 8) ...

At this point, I had various tooing and froing with bits in and out, finalising fit, and putting the braided fuel hose with black anodised fitting in.....

and had to remake the top alternator bracket as this was what I was presented with...

So....simple but effective

 

[sideways danny]

we're not running an aux water pump anymore, and the long hose under the O.E rad has been removed, so I made some ali blanking plugs for the Samcos.

Nice new SPAL fan which is now fitted also..

Thats about where I'm at right now. Hopefully have some updates this week though

 

[chrispy.clio]

Looks like a great build, more information is needed on this different waterpump system. I have seen electric wasterpumps from merlin Motorsport! Is that what this car will have?

 

[nathanH]

Nah, F7's have an aux water pump aswell as a mechanical one, its for cooling the car when the engines off by circulating coolant. Always loved meg F7R conversions!

 

[sideways danny]

Nah, F7's have an aux water pump aswell as a mechanical one, its for cooling the car when the engines off by circulating coolant.

exactly this, just a removal of an un needed part

 

[Dave..]

Looking good now! Very tidy indeed.

 

[sideways danny]

Update

 

[Russ_16v]

Looks a tidy conversion Danny, what manifold is that? Chadil?

What spec is the engine?

 

[sideways danny]

12.5:1 iapel pistons and forged rods, catcam 213's and pulleys, headwork, ktec tubular manifold, jenvey 45s, and yes a Chadil manifold

 

[Russ_16v]

Nice spec, what are you hoping for - 220bhp ish? That manifold doesnt actually look too badly made, the usual ones from them iv seen are shocking.

 

[pedro.belintani]

thats gonna be good !!
looks great !!

 

[sideways danny]

Nice spec, what are you hoping for - 220bhp ish? That manifold doesnt actually look too badly made, the usual ones from them iv seen are shocking.

it's nothing like jenvey quality, but it's passable. I'd like to see 220 region. I didn't build the engine though, so there's a degree of the unknown

 

[mat-nos]

awesome, looking forward to the finished product... always have and always will have a soft spot for mk1 hybrids <3

 

[The Fatty]

this is looking awsome! Post your video on youtube or the likes as the one above dosnt play in IE9...

 

[sideways danny]

well, I guess I should keep this updated...

The car is now all mapped after a full evening spent on the dyno at ktec,vbut just as we had done a couple of runs to map the full throttle areas, and decided to let the engine cool down for a short while before doing the final power runs, the gearbox started making a horrific noise. FFS. bye bye JB3.

I returned the car to Andy in bristol the next morning

and Gaz jumped in for a drive around the yard

So, to solve the gearbox issue, Laine came up trumps and delivered the box from his ill faited F4R mk1 from cornwall up to Bristol


Bit grubby so Andy let his OCD kick in

Gave the bell housing a good GUNKing too..

And painted

Then made some brackets to hold the spark cover down with as it's a megane rocker cover, but using a 172 coil and leads (dont ask lol)

So now, I'm waiting on the car having it's new box, and having the bodywork finished, then back on the rollers to find out what it's actually finally making

 

[cliokongen]

Hi Danny,

Nice work!....
Snowmans project is great!

I've been playing around with my air filter back plate position and the filter.
Do you have a close up picture showing the back plate position seen from the front - mayby showing how the plate clears the alternator.
I had to trim my back plate a bit.

Do you happen to know which type of radiator Snowman used?
It seems a bit lower than mine.

Michael

 

[sideways danny]

can't give away all my secrets. I sat and went through the catalog to find the best fit, feel free to do the same

 

[Dan519]

Bit of an update

when we first had the car on the dyno for mapping, we got most of the way through and the gearbox gave up. After giving the car back so Andy and Gaz could do their thing and swap over the newly detailed box, the car was put into the bodyshop for what was meant to be "a few weeks"

Well that stretched out to many months, due to the extent and quality of work being done, including a whole new roof skin to do away with the sunroof, and a full resparay in BMW Carbon black

so after all this quite a lot of time had passed and we eventually fitted around each others schedules to get the car back on the rollers today

and well......I'm quite pleased with the end result

 

[Scrooge]

Properly impressive Danny

 

[Daniel]

Ahhhh! So this is the mentally expensive build Gaz was telling me about when I went to view Roni's car.

Looks bloody lovely and that engine bay looks clinical! Well done.

 

[Zmaster2k]

Beautiful car.

Attention to detail is stunning..

Great result! f7r ftw!

 

[Cookson]

Laaaaaarrvly!!!

 

[leeds_182]

Looks great.

 

[mitch1503]

looks perfect now its had all the bodywork done

 

[Dan519]

I took it out first (having never driven it before) to make sure no changes needed to be made (as can sometimes be needed, Rollers and road can behave differently) then Snowman took it out straight after we'd finished and he came back shaking.

 

[Jaff.]

carbon black <3

F7R <3

 

[Gray]

Oh my.

Proper job!

 

[Silent_Scone]

What a cracking build!

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Good stuff this! Do enjoy your work Dan!

 

[Dan519]

deemed not good enough for PFC magazine.......LOL

 

[Zmaster2k]

WHAT?!?!