Yeah the original ecu's were sealed to keep the field even. Which car is it? The register is worldwide!
It's a different box on the trophy to the 182's but the same principle!
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This thread contains all the usual promise of a car having thousands being thrown at it, used for a fortnight, maybe even on a track once. Then sold
I am wondering if the stock Trophy dash shows speed? What is the digital panel for? Thoughts on either a stack or AEM digi dash? Could use that for all manner of things. Alternative would be to use the stock gauge (kph though, so would need conversion) and add a few 2" gauges to monitor temps.
no, it doesn't show speed (theres nothing in the car to measure it either!). the digi dash shows RPM, throttle vale opening, barrel potentiometer voltage, gear engaged, intake pressure, water temp, air temp, battery voltage, oil pressure, O2 probe correction and diagnostic data. Annoyingly its only got 1 button and its on a cycle basis so you have to press it loads of times to get the info needed. very hard to do when your strapped in!
I found it best to leave it on the water temperature to keep an eye on things, but then you never really know what gear your in...fine on the circuit, bit trickier when you get back to the paddock!
You could replace with a stack dash or similar - or you could add a simple 3rd party speedo?
I have seen both done before. If your a member of v6clio.net, check out the trophy register. Trophy cars #79 and #129 have both been converted to road legal use in Japan (they don't need a VIN over there so its a bit easier!). There's loads of photos of both cars in the register, they have both dealt with the speedo/dash differently. One lives with original, ones been totally replaced.
A cup racer Clio would be dangerous on uk roads, it would rattle itself to pieces aswell as your skull, and it would hop and bounce over even the lightest of road imperfections
Same apply to a v6 Trophy I assume? Why would it be dangerous...suspension harsh you mean? My old Radical was dangerous but the Trophy is hardly that, suspension can be adjusted :smile:
Well in regards to the 182 racers, you couldn't just swap the springs and dampers out for any off the shelf 182 coilover kit as they have modified hubs and various other things to accommodate the bilstein setup. They use a concoction of different Renault parts(including iirc Laguna driveshafts), and if you reverted all that back to standard to run a standard suspension setup well..A spring and damper change would sort a Clio Cup car. I believe the phase 1 V6 road cars are supposed to be a bit lively, let alone the race car, but a spring/damper change and some fine tuning would sort that I'm sure.
Well in regards to the 182 racers, you couldn't just swap the springs and dampers out for any off the shelf 182 coilover kit as they have modified hubs and various other things to accommodate the bilstein setup. They use a concoction of different Renault parts(including iirc Laguna driveshafts), and if you reverted all that back to standard to run a standard suspension setup well..
the cup racers suspension and gearbox setup are basically the heart and soul of what makes it a cup racer, it would be like paying the premium for a turbocharged Clio just to convert it back to n/a.
May aswell just build your own Clio and put a sadev in it.
Spending 10k on a cup racer to remove 4k's worth of suspension, to then spend another 1k on some custom built stuff that you have no certainty of how good it's going to be still seems like an ass about face way of doing things to me.No, but you could easily have a set of dampers made to suit. Most suspension companies would be willing to do it. @EVOgone has Reiger on his rally car which are obviously at the top end of the market, but Avo would do a set for about £1k. You can buy the cars for around £10k, so not that much in the context of it.
Spending 10k on a cup racer to remove 4k's worth of suspension, to then spend another 1k on some custom built stuff that you have no certainty of how good it's going to be still seems like an ass about face way of doing things to me.
I still think you'd be much better off just building your own track clio and adding a sadev.
I still think you'd be much better off just building your own track clio and adding a sadev.
It's about £12,000 for a sadev!!
About £3k used i think.
If you're lucky to find one and then they do different torque rayed ones as well.
The one Nick from Pure was selling from his car was about £3k iirc
Was a bit of a bargain but was only the 5 speed. Geared well though.
Loving that but 65k EUR? erm no...Plus, you should absolutely scrap the idea of a v6 trophy and get this instead:
https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/85155/renault-supertouring-e1-2000ccm
The guy basically put everything from an ex Laguna touring car into a 182