Spanishflys track toy.

[spanishfly]

Well as some of you know, i've decided to break the nova. This co-incided with me buying a clio on ebay. It was a spur of the moment thing.
This is what it looked like when I picked it up.

When driving it back the brakes were shocking. They were in need of replacement. So I ordered up Brembo HC front discs, renault std rears. Then DS2500 all round.

Old discs... they had half worn pads on lmao

Nicer
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Rear discs, new bearings and abs rings

I also painted the brakes yellow

Then it was time to do the cambelt, I had decided to do a few other things at the same time.

So I matched the inlets

So onto the cambelt... this is needed

Took this stuff off...

Back together

 

[spanishfly]

I fitted a new engine

I also did a cold air filter

I then gave it a clean with water and soap. Then used some gold class wax stuff
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New number plates

I then bought some Eibach springs.
The rear dampers were already new, so I bought some standard fronts. I also did the front topmounts as these were pants!

Old top mounts

I then bought 4 new tyres for the standard 'f1's'. I decided to get Uniroyal Rain experts. These make good wet trackday tyres and good road tyres.

I then had to sort the passenger seat, as it wouldn't really lock into place... Whilst doing it I saw these...

I removed them and it lowered the seat around 20mm. Makes it nicer to drive as I know sit in the car not on the roof.

Me and the missis then had nowhere to go on holiday... so I suggested a road trip to Europe. This meant one thing really...

 

[spanishfly]

So after stripping more bits of the nova (and getting upset)
I decided the clio needed attention. So as I had just taken the roof vent of the nova, it was to my shock the thing fits on the clio well. Looks ace to, now gotta decide if I should let Willay have it or not lmao

Anyway I then got the spanners out and this stuff started happening...

3 inertia reeled seatbelts= alot of weight

Then removed tar and was left with this...

With sound deanening and all removed, I think I lost like 20-30kg in weight. Not bad.

 

[spanishfly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CN2u1Vb09s
Here's a little vid for you all. Dunno why but it didn't record the first bit?
Before any comments, I wasn't going out there to beat anyones times, lap records etc. I was going to have a bit of fun, take Traci out on track (who felt sick) and learn the car abit.
I enjoyed myself and Traci did too.
As you can hear/see I took it quite easy, and gave space to slower cars (unlike some) and let faster cars through. This meant I drove the car home without any crashes

Oh and I need a couple of new engine mounts as the engines moves alot! lmao

This was also done with full interior and spare etc as it is on the road.Video

 

[spanishfly]

The above was all copy and pasted from another forum. So now i'll put a couple of pics up of said Nova..
These wheels will be going on the clio with the yoko A048's

Basically it started life as a 1.0, I then fitted a 2.0 'redtop' and run it on throttle bodies. This made 195bhp, added to that was 150bhp of nitrous. This meant that 0-60 was made in 4.8 secs (bruntingthorpe) and a 1/4 mile of 12.4 sec. I competed in TOTB a couple of times. Unfortunetly whilst testing the last time the car caught alight (2 years ago). So I decided to rebuild the car, and spend alot of money.
The final spec was pretty mean..
2098cc, 12.6:1 compression, 12.5mm lift cams with 300 deg duration, +1mm paul ivey valves, btb/sbd manifold, arrow rods, jenvey itbs, double springs yadda yadda. Should have been between 240-250bhp. This was mated to a fidanza flywheel and helix paddle clutch. Gearbox was a full quiafe SCCR box. The spec of it all was pretty mighty.
Got the car running and it was due for mapping, the day before the engine developed a death rattle. i later found that one of the trumpet bolts had rolled in the inlet Game over for the block and a piston. So I was going to continue the build, however I decided to I wanted to concentrate on buying a house, and in order to rebuild the engine I was looking at around £2000. So I sold my gearbox and bought the above clio.

Don't know if you find it interesting but thought I would add it to this thread Oh and i'm new to the renault world, I always seem to buy vauxhalls!

 

[Laine_16v]

Looks wicked mate keep it up, i killed my last ITB engine in exactly the same way. 2 x m6 bolts rattled loose, down the inlet locked the engine up. mashed the piston and obliterated the bore and shattered the piston ring lol.

 

[Rob]

Nice to see a get stuck in and dirty approach, not so sure on the roof scoop mind... lol! It may be better with the aerial removed.

 

[spanishfly]

Looks wicked mate keep it up, i killed my last ITB engine in exactly the same way. 2 x m6 bolts rattled loose, down the inlet locked the engine up. mashed the piston and obliterated the bore and shattered the piston ring lol.

Yeah I know alot that have gone that way Such a shame as it would have been a fun toy, mind you expensive lol

Nice to see a get stuck in and dirty approach, not so sure on the roof scoop mind... lol! It may be better with the aerial removed.

The roof vent has been sampled to upset my mate. He wants it so I'm pretending that I'm considering keeping it. lmao

 

[-J-]

Spanish You sexy beast of a Man - How goes it, Long time no Speak! Still In contact with Chip? Has he still got his Clio?

 

[spanishfly]

Hello J, hows you mate Yeah must be a few years huh!
Yeah still talk with Chip, he's still got the clio too. lol The nova boys going for renaults now. Although he still has the rear engined nova.

 

[EllD90]

Nice little read! Nova looked a beast. I like your mentality with the Clio, nice and simple - but effective.

 

[D4N13L]

Welcome spanish, you sold me my cambelt kit for my ecotec on MIG. top bloke

 

[spanishfly]

Nice little read! Nova looked a beast. I like your mentality with the Clio, nice and simple - but effective.

Yeah, want to get a cage, 6 point will do. Bits like that basically, safe and enjoyable. Will be going coilovers eventually but for now this will do

Welcome spanish, you sold me my cambelt kit for my ecotec on MIG. top bloke

Cool matey

 

[adam172]

good project you have going on here cant wait to see how it turns out!

 

[Craig.H]

that nova has an awesome spec!

going by it cant wait to see what you do to the clio!!

 

[-J-]

Hello J, hows you mate Yeah must be a few years huh!
Yeah still talk with Chip, he's still got the clio too. lol The nova boys going for renaults now. Although he still has the rear engined nova.

Yeah It must be a few years...Im good Cheers, Sham about the Nova, Think the last time I heard of you was just after the fire The Clio will see you right, Good fun on Track, Get the Foglights out and use them as Brake cooling Ducts.

 

[spanishfly]

So lil update of today,
I fitted the nova steering wheel to the clio. Feels alot better than the one I bought it with, was off a lower spec clio.

Ebay fodder...

 

[spanishfly]

good project you have going on here cant wait to see how it turns out!

Cheers mate, should be fun.

that nova has an awesome spec!

going by it cant wait to see what you do to the clio!!

It HAD an awesome spec. Sounded great when talking about it, but in the end I lost love for it
Just don't send me any links to sequential boxes etc lol

Yeah It must be a few years...Im good Cheers, Sham about the Nova, Think the last time I heard of you was just after the fire The Clio will see you right, Good fun on Track, Get the Foglights out and use them as Brake cooling Ducts.

Yeah I wouldn't use the foglights anyway so I reckon there going. They look heavy too.

 

[spanishfly]

If there's interest in the nova, or the coupe you can see it's timeline here

 

[subarufreak]

nice work so far

 

[spanishfly]

cheers mate.

 

[spanishfly]

So my current dilema. Do I get a new exhaust system or go for the safety approach and get a cage. I'm thinking the latter, as although it will add weight, it also adds strength to the chassis and of course safety when I fit the bucket seats. I've been looking at the OMP 6 point ones or a Yozza race system.

 

[Cunney]

I'd work up from the basics mate imo, so a good solid exhaust first, it's the way I've personally gone.

Look forward to seeing the progress though mate, what did you decide to do with the roof scoop?

 

[spanishfly]

I'd work up from the basics mate imo, so a good solid exhaust first, it's the way I've personally gone.

Look forward to seeing the progress though mate, what did you decide to do with the roof scoop?

Selling it to my mate lol
I've decided to go for the cage, safety first and that

 

[spanishfly]

Clio was cleaned and then given a piercing. Now need to get a yellow tow sticker

I've also started with making the nova wheels fit the clio... go bored though.

 

[spanishfly]

So this turned up. At first I wondered if I had bought something random on ebay!

I opened it half expecting Warren G to pop out. I found this instead.

It's a BTB system in 2.5" Mandrel bent and upto there usual standards! It sounds good too when I make car noises through it.
Some trick bits..

They even make and supply you with a bracket as normally it's a one bracket system, these tend to break causing crap.

Hoping to fit it on thursday along with my braided brake lines and bleeding the brakes with ATE super blue. Next tuesday I got a brands trackday, should hopefully be good

 

[vecbtb]

BTB stealth is a pretty nice bit of kit isn't it. On another topic - Do you see Lee H. often? If so, tell him that Matt Searle says hello.

 

[spanishfly]

So your matt huh! Yeah see him all the time Will say hi

 

[spanishfly]

So fitted a new system to the car, this went pretty easily. Looks great, sounds nice and not too intrusive at all

Offending exhaust bird sh....

I then moved on to fitting these... Rear came off and went on with no problems. Front came off easily too, however when I did the new ones up the flare nut still moved meaning they wouldn't seal. So I took them back off and now got to either change the nut on the vehicle (has about 2mm without thread at the end) or new lines. Think i'll try the later and go from there. I'm considering fitting a 'cup' master cylinder anyhow as this would mean losing the ABS system. Re-bled with ATE blue.

So this done i'm now moving onto getting the last two nova wheels to fit the clio.

 

[vecbtb]

Looking good. As it's a track car I assume you'll be removing the cat as some point?

 

[spanishfly]

So as I got a track day at brands tomorrow and the weather was dry, I used the time to get a bucket seat from the nova into the clio. The standard seat is soooo heavy!

You can see the weight

I also took out the cd changed under the seat

Have made it so I can move it forward or back if I need to. Seems ok as it is, bar having to close the door abit harder due to the seat and doorcard mating!

It also meant more weight saving for now by removing this lil lot.

When I fit the passenger seal I will do the same for that side.

So I then fitted these lil stickers...

I also tried on and drove it with it's track wheels. These are T.D. Pro race 1's and are wearing A048Rs.

Yeah the cat will be going. Trying not to spend too much money on it, as the reason I got it was to save money from the Nova.

 

[-J-]

Blooyd hell Rob, you dont hang around!

Moving along very quickly... The Little Clio is awesome on Track at Brands, did my 1st Track day there in my cup, Paddock hill FTW

 

[spanishfly]

Just finished brands, turned out to be total kit car mag day. The clio held its own

 

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

Loverly project you have going on well done

 

[spanishfly]

Cheers Andy. Think if I get a few minutes, gonna finish off putting the bucket in the passenger.
At brands I had a guy come up to me and say 'they are expensive seats aren't they, is that why you have one' Lol... my simple reply was 'no it's all I could get out the car before the police turned up and I had to run away'. Thought it worked well. He knew I was lying

 

[spanishfly]

Some pics from yesterday!

 

[-J-]

Looking good Rob, Why have you got the white Nova wheels on in some pictures and the F1's in others?

 

[spanishfly]

cause the white nova wheels had a048r's on them, I couldn't get any heat in them in the wet. To the point the fronts only went up 1psi in T.P. after a 35-40min session. The rears were touch cold. So I put the uniroyal rain expert wet tyres on... sods law is that it dryed up a fair bit in the afternoon lol. Still don't think it was dry enough for any heat into the yokos. Alot of people were putting there road tyres on in place of semi slick stuff.

 

[spanishfly]

Cleaned the track day dirt of the clio and cleaned the coupe at the same time

Meguires wheel brightener is great! Got the DS2500 pad remains of the wheels with no need to even scrub (Both cars run these)

 

[spanishfly]

Lil update
Dash removed..

Reveals unwanted guests... say hi to the sound deadning

Brute force later

Then they tried to hide in the dash... WTF! This was gone too

WTF metal and foam stuff on the steering surround? WHY? That too went!

This thing weighs loads...

This is what my brake cooling system will look like!

Need to get some tiger seal to finish them off.