Alistair
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Good evening!
I thought I'd set up a thread and share the progress I've done this far and what I shall be continuing to be doing.
I've owned a couple of Renaultsports before, an Arctic Blue 182 FF was my first, and then an early R26 #0076 iirc which then went on to have coilovers, new clutch/TTV flywheel and a forged engine. Ill post two pictures of them below. Also between the R26 and this Clio, I owned an S2000 for a few months, would love one again!
I brought the car earlier this year, around March time to be a daily driver / fun car. As it turns out I can stay away from modifying and it happened almost instantly.
Car has been maintained by Alex at AW Motorworks, very highly recommended
First job was to get the gear box rebuilt, the dreaded second to third gear ruined the driving for me for a month while I awaited that to be fixed!
Full gearbox rebuild, with new syncros on 3rd to 6th and new bearings etc along with a BlackLine Differential which made a huge difference along side an OEM clutch kit to finish it off.
In between that I did some general maintenance of the paint work, it wasn't too well looked after so needed some good cleaning as you can see.
Next up on the list was brakes! New fluids, braided lines, Brembo HC discs and DS3000 pads's where my go to combo for this as it worked well on my R26. Safe to say, they stop me very quickly!
Next two jobs where a rusted and worn ABS ring and sensor, and polybushing the engine, gearbox and upper torque mount, made a good difference and now they're bedded in the car doesn't vibrate too much.
Then the part I was looking forward to .. Coilovers! I went for the Yellowspeeds in the 7kg/4kg set up for road, with the want to change the rear springs out for 8kg in the new year for track days. Had them fitted and set up with a good fast road geo.
Had them fitted at AW Motorworks the following week and set up and corner weighted, with out rear seats the car sat at 1210kg, which isnt too bad i guess!
The most recent purchases where a new Inlet manifold I had sent off to MS Custom Engineering to get ported and gasflowed as well as painted, along with buying a new manifold, cat replacement pipe and a solid lower torque mount. All should be fitted and then mapped with in the next two weeks, super excited and an early christmas present to my self.
To this!
Sports cat and dogbone came the other day. car should be a bit more of a vibrator on wheels now! haha.
Looking at getting the black series also for the upper torque mount, along with black series ARB, wishbones and rear beam bushings so it should be a lot more direct.
Had the car mapped and sorted late last week, we did a test between a stock inlet and the Portmatched and gas flowed, to which ill leave my mechanics report just down below, with the dyno graphs!
Nope all good.
Obviously this morning we tested it with manifold already fitted, with the old map testing was pointless, although wasn’t much in it top end.
Loaded our base map, good enough to test. Produced 197hp.
With inlets swapped, no other changes 198hp.
That’s within enough to say the inlets do absolutely sod all top end.
Everything looks healthy & correct. Airbox is restricting it a bit, proved by disconnecting air filter when we made 206hp.
Would have been nice to test it prior to exhaust manifold etc, but the point of today, manifold makes no difference, reduces torque in mid range by 3lbft, otherwise exactly the same.
Overall it’s been okay, 198hp as it sits, 206hp with an open cone type filter. No need for map tweak with cone air filter fitted.
Nice to finally have some proof that inlets are pointless on these!
Next up, new tyres, seat and harness and rear cage .. then its track time!
I thought I'd set up a thread and share the progress I've done this far and what I shall be continuing to be doing.
I've owned a couple of Renaultsports before, an Arctic Blue 182 FF was my first, and then an early R26 #0076 iirc which then went on to have coilovers, new clutch/TTV flywheel and a forged engine. Ill post two pictures of them below. Also between the R26 and this Clio, I owned an S2000 for a few months, would love one again!
I brought the car earlier this year, around March time to be a daily driver / fun car. As it turns out I can stay away from modifying and it happened almost instantly.
Car has been maintained by Alex at AW Motorworks, very highly recommended
First job was to get the gear box rebuilt, the dreaded second to third gear ruined the driving for me for a month while I awaited that to be fixed!
Full gearbox rebuild, with new syncros on 3rd to 6th and new bearings etc along with a BlackLine Differential which made a huge difference along side an OEM clutch kit to finish it off.
In between that I did some general maintenance of the paint work, it wasn't too well looked after so needed some good cleaning as you can see.
Next up on the list was brakes! New fluids, braided lines, Brembo HC discs and DS3000 pads's where my go to combo for this as it worked well on my R26. Safe to say, they stop me very quickly!
Next two jobs where a rusted and worn ABS ring and sensor, and polybushing the engine, gearbox and upper torque mount, made a good difference and now they're bedded in the car doesn't vibrate too much.
Then the part I was looking forward to .. Coilovers! I went for the Yellowspeeds in the 7kg/4kg set up for road, with the want to change the rear springs out for 8kg in the new year for track days. Had them fitted and set up with a good fast road geo.
Had them fitted at AW Motorworks the following week and set up and corner weighted, with out rear seats the car sat at 1210kg, which isnt too bad i guess!
The most recent purchases where a new Inlet manifold I had sent off to MS Custom Engineering to get ported and gasflowed as well as painted, along with buying a new manifold, cat replacement pipe and a solid lower torque mount. All should be fitted and then mapped with in the next two weeks, super excited and an early christmas present to my self.
To this!
Sports cat and dogbone came the other day. car should be a bit more of a vibrator on wheels now! haha.
Looking at getting the black series also for the upper torque mount, along with black series ARB, wishbones and rear beam bushings so it should be a lot more direct.
Had the car mapped and sorted late last week, we did a test between a stock inlet and the Portmatched and gas flowed, to which ill leave my mechanics report just down below, with the dyno graphs!
Nope all good.
Obviously this morning we tested it with manifold already fitted, with the old map testing was pointless, although wasn’t much in it top end.
Loaded our base map, good enough to test. Produced 197hp.
With inlets swapped, no other changes 198hp.
That’s within enough to say the inlets do absolutely sod all top end.
Everything looks healthy & correct. Airbox is restricting it a bit, proved by disconnecting air filter when we made 206hp.
Would have been nice to test it prior to exhaust manifold etc, but the point of today, manifold makes no difference, reduces torque in mid range by 3lbft, otherwise exactly the same.
Overall it’s been okay, 198hp as it sits, 206hp with an open cone type filter. No need for map tweak with cone air filter fitted.
Nice to finally have some proof that inlets are pointless on these!
Next up, new tyres, seat and harness and rear cage .. then its track time!
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