It's been a while since the last update and a lots happened, good and bad but it's finally there!
Cliofest, awesome weekend and a great turnout.
I had re-wired the clutch switch for the eso I could have a play with the flat shift settings. After the last warning on the Saturday for noise Sunday was going well and was flying then it developed a misfire. Long story short cut fuel not spark on an engine that uses rocker type valvetrain. The unburnt fuel in the exhaust ignites and the pressure in the manifold can and in my case did open an exhaust valve and jumped a rocker!!
Head off new set of valves (again) and a bit of fetling and it's back together again. Spark cut instead of fuel and added mild launch control also which sounds awesome!
With the extra power it's always felt very under geared and having broken so many boxes decided to go for a meg box. Managed to get an amazing deal on a rebuilt box with a Helix paddle clutch / flywheel and a full set of cup racer engine mounts all as new!
Having driven with a plate diff for a while decided to fit another Gripper before fitting the box up. Straight swap really, just had to use some new meg cables shortened slightly and re-threaded to fit a Focus cable adjuster, (a chap I know had already done the same conversion so had a huge head start) Matt from Supreme made me up a new pipe in super quick time to adapt the clio clutch pipe to fit the megane slave cylinder. . .
After a load of dicking around with shaft lengths and one snapped I got them right and had some proper shafts made by an old retired engineer and job done! Cheap as chips and a work of art.