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Dyno Graph... The hunt for the lack of power with the new engine continues. Scanned in some dyno graphs of the old engine vs the new engine to see what difference there is between the engines. Clear to see where the Schrick cams are making more power with the same intake and exhaust set up...

19th August for Snetterton. Cadwell the week before. Looking forward to Snetterton, had such a good time there last summer.

Yeah something to consider in the future but i’m not worried about those numbers and it’s consistent and what i’d expect it to make, it’s on 3% difference in power. I do have one final thing to log and check next time it’s out and it’s the timing map used when the vanos is in fail safe mode. But...

April update - Will be interested to hear any comments on this one... Been holding back on this update for a while as it hasn't really yielded any of the results I'd hoped for. But decided to document it as it has been an interesting process even through no progress has been made at all despite...

Been a couple of months since the last update in January, I've been holding back on post anything but I thought I would do an update on some of the bits I've been working on, nothing too major but hopefully interesting stuff. Starting off was some simple little modifications, there was nothing...

Only just seen this as I don't get on here much anymore. However Shorter final drive is one of the best things I ever did to the Clio with the gripper diff. Best way to see the difference is it in use. 3rd gear is much more useable out of corner and it keeps the engine reving much higher, I...

Productive Sunday on the E46 today resulting in making a good impact on the to do list, I like these type of days were things start to get back together rather than constantly taking things apart. To continue to work through the rearranging of the dash the first thing was to relocate the fuse...

I was running the Federal RSR. I've ran them since day one of doing track days in the Clio and think they are a fantastic tyre in terms of grip vs cost. They last a really long time too. I thought it was a good time to try a more expensive tyre with more outright grip considering the lengths...

Post lock down #2 Oulton Park ECU Adjustments. Idle control Spent a little bit of the lock down learning more about the MS43 standard ECU despite the long term plan is to replace it with standalone. The main reason behind it was since fitting the new engine with bigger cams the way the idle...

For the logger and the screen it was purely the simplicity of the Arduino and they’re much more robust in design and function, especially in an environment which is full of vibration and electrical noise, also has the benefit that it can be powered on and off easily without having to worry about...

Cadwell Park Aug 2020 Another week another update, this time it's another track day in another corner of the country. Interesting how many people read through this thread on a weekly basis then message me privately on social media or private message. Always interested to hear comments and...

Clio is looking great as always mate. I thought i’d seen you doing some racing in the Civic on Instagram this weekend, then I thought i’d imagined it until popping on here for a mooch. Be interested in reading some racing updates too!

Here is a video from the BMW E36 Following me

Another month brings another update, this time with some interesting developments after the Covid restrictions are lifting. Brakes We'll start with a brake update. I mentioned in the last post that I had returned the faulty Tilton valve after a refund after they finally admitted it was a...

It's been a month since the last update with not a lot going on until yesterday so I've been saving the update till today. As usual there is always some 3D printing on the go. This time it's some mounts to hold an air dam under the radiator to close off the large 50 mm gap under there to keep...

Weekend was here again which gave me a few hours each day to get on with the engine build. First job before starting to think about putting the engine in was to get the engine bay cleaned and a few jobs in their tidied up. A good jet wash and degreaser with a scrubbing brush brought off the 17...

This was just a simple 3d printed mount which clipped into the CD slot on the centre console to hold the phone I had at the time. Bit off a one of I designed to hold the phone at the time.

Just because I've taken some decent photographs of the porting on the head here's the comparison. Standard inlet side Ported inlet side Standard exhaust side Ported exhaust side (to match the S50 exhaust i'm running) Engine building continues this weekend, I will be cracking on with...

Engine building continues. I was waiting for the mains bolts to arrive so I was able to start to put the crank in and assemble the bottom end. While doing this I checked the bearing clearances on the mains and the big end bearings. all of these were right in the middle of the factory tolerances...

Looking fantastic. Going to be the best built Mk3 in the UK i’d imagine.