R27 WTF progress blog

[Mark_L]

Did a s3 shell for someone a few years back, trouble is values on s3 we have one sitting at work. Manual too! Just restoration cost is what you can buy one for all done.

Ok if your doing yourself.

Doing this at the moment. Started it on the 14th of Feb.

It's out testing on the 22nd of March at Mallory.



It's a bit further on, haven't taken any pics this week!
Put floors, repairs to the rear heel boards lower rear 1/4 panels full front arch, lots of other bits and a full Roll Cage.

 

[R27WTF]

Bit of an update

Well it’s been a hectic week getting that car ready for the spa trip and various things going wrong potentially ending my hopes of going to spa ( Dog chewing my passport being one!)

So got all the car back together after the underside rebuild all new brake lines which is abs delete with tilton bias valve, new clutch line and pretty much every new bush drop link etc.

Took the car for mot and flew through which was a good start!
On the way home from the mot the car started to get a noise from the gearbox sounds like a clutch release bearing as the sound goes when the clutch is pressed. The noise is only when the gearbox is underload ie not When Idling.

I dropped the gearbox oil and no obvious metal in it so still not sure what the noise is.

I then decided to get a new clutch and Slave from rpd, while the gearbox was out I thought I’d put a gripper diff in be rude not to seeing as it’s got to come out for the clutch.

So I booked the car into Beanie sport who managed to get me booked in for tomorrow which is amazing!

I had booked onto pembrey a few weeks ago as it’s local and I thought would be best to test the car before heading to Germany and give me some seat time in the car.

The day went well with no issues and got the asts all set where I was happy and got the car handling where I wanted it and by the end of the day managed to knock off 5 seconds off my lap time!

Any way il here’s some pics and s short clip from pembrey still need to go through the footage and will up date more about the day later!

Got to get up at 3 to head to beanie sport so if anyone’s local feel free to pop down!



Long post I know also forgot to add I had some livery that I’m still not sure about but will see if it stays or goes

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[Sean197]

Not 100% on the livery, but it looks great on that wheel/suspension set-up.

 

[Northloopcup]

Not 100% on the livery, but it looks great on that wheel/suspension set-up.

I echo this! Looks great on the ast's and wheels

 

[jamesgw200]

car looks bang on! really want my coilovers now

 

[Mark_L]

I thought it looked spot on in the pics before the livery.

I'm not sure on it but It's your car!

Hope it all goes to plan.

 

[R27WTF]

Well it’s been awhile since Iv been on here so here’s abit of an update.


When I got back from spa I was pretty deflated as I couldn’t fully enjoy the day due to the car just locking up etc (down to poor driving and slippery conditions) and my clutch giving up and not being able to select any gears.

When I got home I removed the livery as I wasn’t 100% on it after the trip and I’m liking the blacked out look atm. I then set about dropping the gearbox to see what was going on. Turned out the pressure plate bolts had come lose (garage who fitted the new clutch and gripper didn’t use lock tight) while it was off I decided to fit a new slave and clutch just incase.



The car was then working as it should and all seemed good so got around to a few jobs like hard wire the go pro in fit a few USB ports and my carbon footrests etc


Next up was snetterton with some
Of the lads who went to spa.

I finally got a chance to drive the car properly in the dry. I really enjoyed snetterton and would defiantly go back.

The car just worked how I wanted it to few suspension adjustments to get rid of some of the understeer which defiantly helped but found with the heat of the track the tyres would just wash out.

Here’s a few pics with @rupes

After snetterton and going out with James and his beast of a meg i decided I needed more power. I didn’t want to do what everyone else has done and go with a meg engine, I decided I wanted to go with a rotrex supercharger.

I got a friend to 3D Print me one to use for mock up

I’m wanting to be abit different to the other supercharged Clio’s so making my bracket slightly different to the rest. I’m now waiting on my friend to 3D print my bracket to make sure all is good.

Since snetterton Iv had my inlets ported and gas flowed and my throttle body ported and gas flowed.
When I took the inlets off I noticed my top loom was damaged so I replaced the 2 damaged cables and re wrapped the loom




Pretty big update will try to keep it on track going forward.




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[R27WTF]

This brings me up to this week on Tuesday I loaded up and headed down to Anglesey ready for a track day on the Wednesday.
Typical garage photo from Anglesey

First session was the international track and i thought I was doing pretty well with my lines etc but did find the car was understeering a lot and the tyres washing out. So I stiffened the rear suspension and let the fronts down slightly along with upping the pressures in the rear tyres this helped a lot but again the ad08r tyres just weren’t up to the job.

In the afternoon the circuit changed to the coastal layout with the corkscrew (love this section of the track) I also had my tuition and this is when I realised how wrong some of my lines were the instructor was brilliant and really helped and I managed to knock off almost 5 seconds a lap from just being on the correct lines.

Overall Iv got plenty of time to find still and can’t wait to go back in August.

Gutted my go pro didn’t seem to record anything from the day other than 1m of footage.

So here’s a few pics from Rob Baxter


Soon as I got home I ordered 2 sets of slicks to try Dunlop’s and Pirelli’s

Next event is llandow on august the 4th


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[Johnny 99]

Looking forward to seeing you again at Llandow Matt. May have to blag a passenger ride if there's one going?

 

[R27WTF]

Looking forward to seeing you at Llandow Matt. May have to blag a passenger ride if there's one going?

Like wise John anyone is more than welcome


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[Beany]

That’s a good write up Matt, loving how the cars looking and plenty of tyres options
Shame you can’t make snetterton this time around but I’m sure they’ll be chances to see this in the future

 

[R27WTF]

That’s a good write up Matt, loving how the cars looking and plenty of tyres options
Shame you can’t make snetterton this time around but I’m sure they’ll be chances to see this in the future

Cheers mate ye getting a small stock pile of tyres atm just need more rims now.

You should come to Anglesey on August mate


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[Beany]

I would’ve loved too but the date clashes with work

 

[jamesgw200]

Great write up mate.
Car looks mega with the blacked out look. maybe the odd subtle sticker here and there.

 

[Rallye-nick]

Car looks amazing, love the simple blacked out look

 

[R27WTF]

Car looks amazing, love the simple blacked out look

Thanks mate I agree I think the all black looks really good


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[Pav]

when are you going for the supercharger then??

 

[R27WTF]

when are you going for the supercharger then??

It’s all sort of happening atm really. Waiting on pro alloy atm to let me know when they can have my car in to make my intercooler, rad and a few new tanks etc


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[tombate911]

Nice update there Matt. Just spent a while reading through it all and catching up. Look forward to seeing this out on track again with the faults ironed out.

 

[R27WTF]

Managed to get the car onto axel stands and give everything a check all bolts etc

All seems good nothing lose etc

Have got a slight leek from my passenger side cv boot (only changed the drivers side last week) so cleaned that up but will need sorting before llandow on the 4th of August

Gave all the arches a clean and a top up of trim restorer.

Also got another coat of ceramic wax on the wheels and the car it’s self




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