T. Turbo is back

[Brigsy]

Mot passed.

12 miles last year, embarassing

Done a few miles on way to mot station to rinse the old fuel. Stuck some fresh fuel in and took the long way back home giving it a couple of decent pulls. I can officially say the high rpm gearchange problem it had is fully resolved and you can bang it up a gear at 7500+rpm no problem.

Absolutely stoked that the gearchange issues have gone and new clutch feels great.

As its been off the road for ages i played sensible and kept it on wastegate pressure 8psi 276hp/240ft/lb. Just feels like a fast linear low boost conversion at that.

Checking out datalogs on return home ive managed to replicate its fuelling pulsation issues and its a bit lean up top so no more sends. Ill look at fitting the fuel damper and possibly the aem 400lph pump i have in stock. Then book into efi for mapping.

Thanks for reading!!

 

[Brigsy]

Sorry, but I’m going to say it. You may already have said it was on the list of jobs earlier on and I can’t remember but I would love you to upgrade that steering wheel. Really need it with this and then that cabin is spot on also.

Bloody love this Clio, your work, and sharing it. Legendary

Cheers mate! I might change the steering wheel at some point in the future as oem is a bit on the large side.

 

[Brigsy]

Updates.

Taxed today as 1st of the month. F me the tax is expensive on these compared to megane!

Weather outstanding today so took it out. First stop was to my mates garage for alignment as was a mile out due to new steering rack.

On geo lift.

Set toe to usual ten mins of toe out overall. Camber still set at -2.5. Steering feels great now with dci rack, no play or nothing. Turn in is mega especially with the gripper lsd.

Steering wheel straight again. Meta view pic.

44 miles done this year. Almost 3x last years mileage.

Overall its running great but as usual bit of snagging to do.

Front tunnel exhaust heat shield is rattling on the exhaust a bit.

Adjust throttle map. The ttv twin plate clutch is snappy, and throttle is super responsive so its hard to pull away without whiplash.

Great to get it back out.

Thanks for reading!!

 

[Brigsy]

Updates.

Spare couple of hours yesterday so made a start on the snag list. Yesterdays job was adjust tunnel heatshield, cutting it down at the front and wrap downpipe to stop resonation on overrun. The long and short of it, is the exhaust is a 3" system (custom made by btm/Yozza back in the day) which runs over the top of the subframe and it runs too close to the oem heatshielding causing rattling when engine is turned off etc. Ive adjusted it several times over the years but it always moves to its happy rattly place. I cant really bin it off as the heatshield protects the gear cables and plastic meg gear selector which are also tightly fitted in the tunnel.

In prep for this i bought some new style 3" heat wrap which is a flexible weaved sleeve that slips over the exhaust, basically a continuous 1mtr length of expandable exhaust wrap. With access being horrendous with 3" exhaust going over the top of the subframe this seemed like a good option, undo vband clamp and slide it on, clip in place and enjoy the finished job.

In reality it was 2 hours of this

Thats 2 hours of my life i wont get back doing that. Pull wrap along pipe 6mm or so, it goes tight, move next bit and so forth. Jubilee clips both ends to keep in place. Itching off heat wrap. Cut 100mm off the engine bay end of the tunnel heatshield and its all good now.

Only got one pic of it. Exhaust looks tiny in this pic for some reason but i assure you its an access nightmare. Access is no go from top, and hard from underneath, really need to drop subframe to get in.

Also cured an exhaust blow from the vband clamp using a trick slip in gasket that goes between the join. Vbands are great for conveinence but can be a pain in the arse to seal. The self locating vbands are fine but this has the old style ones that you have to line up and then get clamp on which is a 3 handed job. Slightly out of line and prob not helped with slight warping from welding initially, you get the putt, putt on idle. It was not bad but could hear it.

75mm stainless vband gasket.

The gaskets are great, slip in and tighten up. Ive fitted them both top and bottom, i suspect both flanges have a slight warp which was making the issue worse. No blowing now and sounds much better.

With that done i took it for another blast out. Not sure if i have just got used to the twin plate clutch or its bedded in a bit but can pull away better without whiplashing me or the mrs. Hill starts are still interesting though!

A few pics from out and about.

Fluid checks after use, all good.

85 miles done this year up to now. Overall its running well and id say its pretty much ready to go back to Efi for a high boost map.

Currently discussing which ecu software update i should install. My Ecumaster Black is on old 2.138 firmware approx 4 year old and its come a long way since then with v3. Its not a straightforward update and go as some tables need recalibrating so ill prob get somebody to remote in to set this up if needs be.

Thanks for reading!!