Ok, thought i'd do a little update as the Clio has been on the road a month now and covered about 600 miles, 260 of those were done last weekend on the round trip to Cliosort Saturday at Gaydon. Its given me the chance to bed every new component in and see if anything happens that i need to deal with.
So, the maiden run out in the first week of July which gives me the opportunity to finally take some pics of the Clio NOT on the driveway! I'm really impressed with the final look of the Clio and can't believe it's actually made it off the driveway on it's own steam after sitting there for 4 months.
Now running on Shell V power and finally putting on some miles it feels really responsive with all the ingredients working together. Lightweight, AC delete setup (172 Cup alternator) matched inlets, decat.
Driving to and from work for a week gives me this
The next step to me is to get it on the rolling road to give me a powercurve printout so i book it in at the local RR facility quite literally over the road and a 3 minute drive from home. The BHP and torque curve indicate a flatspot, the next step i feel is a remap
There's also the annoying problem with a sticking throttle, i'm having to blip the pedal to drop the revs down so i'm booking it in to have the TB taken apart to be cleaned, the ICV cleaned and a new throttle cable fitted. The speedo has also started to play up so i've also ordered a new speedo sensor from Renault so i'll have that fitted at the same time.
I also popped into the local breakers to sort some boot badges to finish it off, beats leaving the holes in the tailgate
So time to save for a remap and get it booked in on a trackday to really push it, then hopefully in October i'll be heading over to the Nurburgring.
