What have you done to your car today ???

[Clio_fool]

Back in one piece.

 

[Digsey]

as it cant move at the moment it's been incorporated into the halloween decorations.....

 

[Darren S]

Dropped the engine and box out in a definitely not sketchy at all manner.

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That must be one twitchy Saab owner next door!

 

[TC.]

Pulling a back axle apart for sandblasting, should I have left this abs sensor sleeve in ?

 

[helpimonfire]

Dashboard fell out tonight. And by 'fell' I meant that I swore at it and cried and stubbed my fingers and generally got shitty with it until I managed to pull it out.

Dash bar needs to come out next so I can remove the heater matrix ready for the micro heater and cage to go in. Building a race car is hard work in the dark and on your own 😂

 

[Andy P]

Had my Door bullets, mirror caps, front & back diamonds painted Kawasaki Green & added stickers today.

 

[Clio_fool]

Back to normal state 😂

 

[TC.]

Alternator fecked on my shitbox daily.

Thought it was just the top end gone but after removing the alternator the mount at the bottom was gone which more than likely shook the top end until it snapped.

Currently building another engine for this shell.

So luckily the bottom mount was available as I’m fitting an air con delete kit.

So bought a new alternator for the new engine and

Stole the older one for the shitbox.

 

[EoinS]

After a few weeks of being too busy to look at the Clio, I made some time today and got on with changing the fluids. I want to start with everything done, so engine & gearbox oils plus coolant this morning. I had a free hour at the end of the day, so got the wheels off and went to loosen the bleed nipples so I could start on the brake fluid tomorrow. Both outer front nipples are shagged now and the caliprrs off the car. One sheared off, the other came out complete with most of the aluminium thread from the caliper. Also 2 of the small housings for the locating pins are broken.

 

[EoinS]

 

[E30kev]

Hello I am Harry Parker can anyone tell me what happens here

Any relation to Richard Parker?

 

[Short Norman]

Noticed that one of the rear tyres was low on pressure (it was 16 and should have been 40). I’ve not driven the car much since getting out of storage, so not sure how long it’s been low.

Pumped it up and wanted to take it off to see if I could see a nail.

Taking the wheel off involved a 1.5 hour hunt for the locking wheel nut key. At least the garage is a bit tidier now, after me tuning upside down looking for said key.

 

[Brigsy]

Airbag ecu recalibration on a megane 250 last weekend, customer had removed recaros and fitted normal seats. Pretty easy to sort with Renolink.

 

[agriff]

Trick or JC5

 

[helpimonfire]

Continued stripping the Clio tonight for race prep. Took the half cage out tonight and found some... Well.. Oh...

It'll be fine... To be fair I've looked inside the sill and it all looks clean and tidy, this is just where the arch liner clip goes onto. It'll get plated tomorrow when the cage gets welded in.
Old half cage out and already sold

 

[helpimonfire]

Life choices are currently being questioned 🤣

 

[Matt Cup]

Clean sheet for another 12 months👌

 

[Mr Trailer Man]

Clean sheet for another 12 months👌

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[Matt Cup]

🤫

 

[Clio_fool]

Clean sheet for another 12 months👌

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Mine was a lot more colourful. Surprisingly it sailed through the emissions and just failed on everything else😂.

 

[Matt Cup]

Mine was a lot more colourful. Surprisingly it sailed through the emissions and just failed on everything else😂.

I’ve got the missus car in few weeks, that one may be a bit more challenging.

 

[Yarp]

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Nah, it’s amateur getting a fully clean dodgy MOT. I always ask for at least one made up advisory so it looks like I actually took the car for a test 🤣

 

[Matt Cup]

Big thanks to @Darren S for sorting me out a bench with intact clips. Just spent half an hour swapping them over. One more niggle sorted 👍

 

[Darren S]

Epic @Matt Cup - glad they worked out for you! 👍🏻

 

[Clio_fool]

As both my cars are broke I've had to slum it in the gf's poogoat. Omg the headlamps are s**t, not helped by only one working 🙄. I've a few spare bulbs so went to change it.

Just look at all that space behind the headlamp! Now zoom in to the very left of the headlamp back and you'll see the tiny f**king space to access the dipped beam bulb. Le c***s 😡.
Done and we now have 2 candle power 😆.

I also spent. 38 seconds fitting the new wiper blades she's had in the boot for months.

 

[EoinS]

I'm hoping that's the final job ticked off for a while. All fluids are now done and new front callipers / pads fitted. I took it for a run before Christmas and the water temperature dropped fast on the road. New thermostat fitted today, the old one came out in 3 pieces.

 

[Bankrupt_drunk]

Finally fitted the PH1 airbox:

 

[Colin-S]

@Bankrupt_drunk A lovely engine lifting eye would look nice next to the Ph1 airbox I have a mint black one if interested.

 

[EoinS]

In spite of finishing the 'jobs list' I decided to check the scuttle drains and could clearly see the tide mark on the driver's side. I cleared that and fitted new trim clips to the scuttle cover and then decided to check the plugs. That turned out to be a bigger job than expected. One of the plug wells had clearly been full of water at some point, fully rust stained and with a heavily corroded plug washer. 3 of the 4 plug seats had black deposits under the washers, one of them with added crusty rust. I got the rust by carefully dripping vinegar onto the seat, which worked really well. The black deposits (carbon? hard burnt oil?) Were a bit more stubborn. If not down the bottom of the plug well, a scotchbrite pad would have sorted it in 2 minutes. After a few days working intermittently and using brake clean and a home-made aluminium scraper, I gave up and bought a Laser plug seat cleaner. This is a great tool, and cleaned up the seats really well.

 

[Mr Squashie]

Test day today so I had to put the awful original steering wheel back on, I swear it gets bigger every year. Hopefully they don't care that it isn't on straight

 

[Dawnspinner]

Well set out to replace the front antiroll bar bushes. Cleaned and sprayed the arb, brackets etc. Set to this morning by 3 ive managed to get the drivers side done , thanks to the guide 👍 hope to attack the passenger side tomorrow 😀

 

[Dawnspinner]

Gave in the next day. attacked today but hurrah 😀 5hrs many swear words later but it's done! What would you do without G clamp.

 

[Matt Cup]

You’re a better person than I am. I paid someone to change mine 🤐

 

[MLB]

I remember that job, not a good memory 😂

 

[Rskennedy]

Cleaned the fleet for the first time since October 😬 Mrs has kerbed the Volvo and someone has dinged the RR sport 👍

 

[EoinS]

Front wheel bearings and hubs done now.

 

[Brigsy]

Done a few govy jobs over the last few days.

Sat - Ecumaster black sebimotorsport PnP standalone ecu install on a high powered megane r26.

The car has been recently mapped at 458hp, built engine/large garrett g25 585 turbo on oem ecu, which was pretty crap as boost was too agressive. This needs more flexibility of a modern ecu to control using boost by gear etc and traction strategies.

Up and running in 2 hours on base map with 3krpm limiter. Installed mac valve, edl-1 datalogger, lsu 4.9 wideband sensor, wired in switch for boost blend and a few other wiring repairs i.e. coilpack clips etc. Got it started easy on 875cc injectors and base map, then done a few small tweaks to the fuel ve map so it does not foul the plugs when loading onto trailer for mapping and it idled / revved fine, no warning lights on dash etc. Quick shot round the block to check vehicle speed etc was working for boost by gear. Prepped for dyno tuning and a few other bits done, retrimmed steering wheel fitted etc.

Sunday - Clio 2 airbag. I usually diag these with can clip but in this circumstance it would not connect as ecu vin numbers were incorrect/i.e. uch cloned wrong on replacement and a multitude of attempted fixes done beforehand sadly.

Into the ecu's via the tradesman entrance with renolink.

Resolved. A bit of a pain to fix but got there in the end.

Tuesday - diag on a 65 reg clio in my local garage. Spanner light on, alternator was dying and voltage down on idle. Left to the garage to fix as diag only.

 

[Pep]

Done a few govy jobs over the last few days.

Sat - Ecumaster black sebimotorsport PnP standalone ecu install on a high powered megane r26.View attachment 1778550View attachment 1778551

The car has been recently mapped at 458hp, built engine/large garrett g25 585 turbo on oem ecu, which was pretty crap as boost was too agressive. This needs more flexibility of a modern ecu to control using boost by gear etc and traction strategies.

Up and running in 2 hours on base map with 3krpm limiter. Installed mac valve, edl-1 datalogger, lsu 4.9 wideband sensor, wired in switch for boost blend and a few other wiring repairs i.e. coilpack clips etc. Got it started easy on 875cc injectors and base map, then done a few small tweaks to the fuel ve map so it does not foul the plugs when loading onto trailer for mapping and it idled / revved fine, no warning lights on dash etc. Quick shot round the block to check vehicle speed etc was working for boost by gear. Prepped for dyno tuning and a few other bits done, retrimmed steering wheel fitted etc.

Sunday - Clio 2 airbag. I usually diag these with can clip but in this circumstance it would not connect as ecu vin numbers were incorrect/i.e. uch cloned wrong on replacement and a multitude of attempted fixes done beforehand sadly.

Into the ecu's via the tradesman entrance with renolink.View attachment 1778552View attachment 1778553
Resolved. A bit of a pain to fix but got there in the end.

Tuesday - diag on a 65 reg clio in my local garage. Spanner light on, alternator was dying and voltage down on idle. Left to the garage to fix as diag only.View attachment 1778554

I find it so hard to comprehend how you can literally swap between complex jobs as if you’re putting the cutlery away in the right slots after the dishwasher has finished!