Recent content by Zuban

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    Sprint Hillclimb 197

    looks great did you re-use any of the existing heater wiring or just tap in to the power and ground fresh with a switch?
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    Zubans LY RS200

    The clio is off the road whilst the brake calipers are sent off to be rebuilt, so i'm cracking on with some other jobs, one of which may be of interest to others. I had originally intended to use an arduino to get canbus info and display it on a small display, but when thinking about it...
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    197 Cup Hillclimbing Car

    great build! any issues with the rear bumper flexing or flopping around after removing the support? been looking at that myself
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    Zubans LY RS200

    Thankfully I can now turn my attention away from the family car the Q7, fresh MOT and near 400BHP of twin turbo diesel V8 goodness put to bed for the next while. Focus is back on the Clio. The 16 x 8 inch wheels are now on, ET25, no spacers and fits fine, fronts only, the rears are 16 x 7...
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    Zubans LY RS200

    Was setting up my camera's as something to do in the middle of some upgrades for the Q7, and getting my wife's new workplace ready, and recorded an acceleration vid of the Clio on a nice flat bit of private road I have access to, the camera's built in mic cant handle the noise. I need an...
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    Zubans LY RS200

    Not much going on at the moment as i've been waiting to get through the MOT, put it in on monday and it failed on a corroded brake pipe, the long one that runs across the rear beam. It looked fine apart from where the pipe sat in the clips where the paint had stripped and the pipe had swollen up...
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    KW V3 rear adjuster question, possibly seized?

    Managed to free off the rear adjusters, was a lot of dirt packed in around the knob. So liberal amounts of gt85 and a pick got it out, then a blast of shock spray with some gentle back and forth with grips and I have bump adjustment again. My spine is grateful!
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    Zubans LY RS200

    Been looking back over the graph's and its crazy how bad the AFR get's after 2500rpm until it clears up around 3000-3500rpm, its not a problem on circuit as you are never really in this area, but it does make you look a bit of a fool pulling out a junction sometimes.. but its all good I had a...
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    Zubans LY RS200

    have made some small progress since last update. Weight is down to around 1080kg and working on taking some more out. The alloy seat mount has held up fine to all manner of driving situations and remains completely rigid which is good. Gave the engine and gearbox an oil change with some...
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    KW V3 rear adjuster question, possibly seized?

    Ok cool wishful thinking, they haven’t been adjusted in over 8 years so probably rebuild is the only option then
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    KW V3 rear adjuster question, possibly seized?

    Hi, those of you with KW V3 coilovers i cant adjust the bump on the rear shocks, do you need to take the load off the shocks before adjusting? or are they as i suspect seized up. I've cleaned out all the dirt, and sprayed a lot of GT85 onto them but no luck so far. Rebound adjust on the top is fine.
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    Sprint Hillclimb 197

    I agree, when making my own I didnt slot the rear bolt mount and kept it a fairly snug fit for the bolt with at least 10mm of material in any direction supporting it. because of the loads on that area and I used 5mm 6080 alloy so if mine do fail I don't believe it will be in this area, My...
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    Sprint Hillclimb 197

    what is the thickness of those aluminium mounts and what is the thickness of material between the holes where it collapsed? Wonder what alloy was used. interested as i've made my own seat mounts from aluminium and so far holding up fine
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    Zubans LY RS200

    yeah i was referring to the change in et ending up; being 5mm over my current wheels, bad wording, it hopefully wont quite be 17.7mm as the shoulder of the tyre will come into play, but I wont know until I have tyres on if I have an issue and camber also plays its part
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    Zubans LY RS200

    Et25 which will mean they stick out 5 more than the current 16x7 et40 with a 10mm spacer, but as these are 16x8 I’m expecting to have some issues with the arches, won’t know till I get some tyres on them