Old Gits LY.....now under conversion

well took the yellow peril for a MOT....and failed!. Which I knew it would but wanted to ascertain to what degree, results where interesting!
1) number plate light.....doh!
2) CAT not fitted. As originally installed. Which I knew it would.
3) CO high at 2500 revs.....mmmm!
4) Drivers seat not being able to move fore and aft as intended!.

Point 4 raised a debate. All be it I have a FIA race seat in and its more secure in this fixed state than a sliding mechanism. The tester was very sympathetic and would review this as the car is modified.

However now in limbo regards the CAT, as to whether :-
a) chop the akro and put a sports cat in.
b) just install the original middle section (cat & silencer) to get it through the test.
c) leave the akro and re-install the original manifold.......yet again having to drop that bloody subframe!

High CO was alarming..... need to check the MAP sensor and O2 sensor. Anybody recommend other than Fish Brothers (quoted £207 for both) supplier. Car as been mapped, showing no faults on the ODB2.
 
krash67 said:
well took the yellow peril for a MOT....and failed!. Which I knew it would but wanted to ascertain to what degree, results where interesting!
1) number plate light.....doh!
2) CAT not fitted. As originally installed. Which I knew it would.
3) CO high at 2500 revs.....mmmm!
4) Drivers seat not being able to move fore and aft as intended!.

Point 4 raised a debate. All be it I have a FIA race seat in and its more secure in this fixed state than a sliding mechanism. The tester was very sympathetic and would review this as the car is modified.

However now in limbo regards the CAT, as to whether :-
a) chop the akro and put a sports cat in.
b) just install the original middle section (cat & silencer) to get it through the test.
c) leave the akro and re-install the original manifold.......yet again having to drop that bloody subframe!

High CO was alarming..... need to check the MAP sensor and O2 sensor.
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Anything but option "C".....ball-ache !
 
I would go B. What problems can it cause if you don't run a cat between mot's?

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krash67 said:
High CO was alarming..... need to check the MAP sensor and O2 sensor. Anybody recommend other than Fish Brothers (quoted £207 for both) supplier. Car as been mapped, showing no faults on the ODB2.
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Fitted my ODB2 reader and monitored the O2 sensors, both reacting quite well, voltage amplitude was from 0.07 to .80 volts and frequency was fast and responsive with changes in rpm. . Unfortunately my reader doesn't translate the raw data into O2 % or average the sensor volts out to ascertain O2 levels. Will have to download a app and get this bluetooth OBD2 unit working. MAP sensor re-acting to throttle changes, so that seems ok.
 
Well with no distractions and a full bank holiday to myself... a little more stripping..in readiness for it going to SW Motorsport for a full weld in cage
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Started chopping out excess metal, a bit of spot welding and tidying to do on the near side rear arch....spot weld drill not big enough to take away all the spot weld and suffered a bit of tearing.

Slimming out on some wiring as well, airbags, pretensioners, speakers, boot light, boot wiring. Going to bypass out the airbags on the ecu, when the Renault clip turns up.

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krash67 said:
Well with no distractions and a full bank holiday to myself... a little more stripping..in readiness for it going to SW Motorsport for a full weld in cage
2016-05-30%2018.22.38_zps5wfeiabt.jpg

Started chopping out excess metal, a bit of spot welding and tidying to do on the near side rear arch....spot weld drill not big enough to take away all the spot weld and suffered a bit of tearing.

Slimming out on some wiring as well, airbags, pretensioners, speakers, boot light, boot wiring. Going to bypass out the airbags on the ecu, when the Renault clip turns up.

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is the dash difficult to take out?
 
choppen said:
is the dash difficult to take out?
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Not really once all the screw locations where found, plus its best to remove the steering wheel. One location took a while and that was near the passenger air bag. Best to remove all the heating controls, radio, steering column covers, clocks (which where easier than I thought ).
Electrical connections wise, I labelled up every connector, as I'm for now still going to use the original loom (whilst I design a new loom). What were the hardest connectors for me was the tweeters on the dash.
 
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Pro-Line Motorsport said:
Nice to meet you today Ian, will be following the build from here on out mate!!
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Yeh likewise, although as turned out even more expensive......heated front screen, lexan windows now on order as well as CF door cards, so the doors are now getting fully stripped out. Plus I got in touch with Mr Kool!
 
krash67 said:
Yeh likewise, although as turned out even more expensive......heated front screen, lexan windows now on order as well as CF door cards, so the doors are now getting fully stripped out. Plus I got in touch with Mr Kool!
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I can recommend Martijn as well, have been in touch with him for 2 years now. Cool guy and very helpful.
Nice thread BTW and be carefull with the wiring I ended up being unable to start the car hehehe :wink:
 
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