Renault Sport Clio 197 Racing Red

[simoxmino]

:lol:

Everyone is doing it...so am I.





It took me 1.5h, 2 bucket of water & washing powder & a brush.

And it took another hour for them to dry.

If it was worth it, judge by yourself.

 

[Raptor6767]

Tnx to my friend, I've managed to take a vid of my exhaust system:

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[Raptor6767]

64mm throttle body fitted:

Finalllllllllyyyy!


Can't wait to fit it, on my way home from the postal office.

Fitted....ABSOLUTELY no issues from the first start!


Like I haven't changed the TB. Idle @900rpm from the first start.


First impressions:
-almost no more flat spot @ 2-3000rpm (had it after fitting y-pipe & decat)
- better throttle response (like I've felt when fitted high flow panel filter)

For now, I haven't felt any performance gains for.now but I believe there are some because of the missing flatspot.


A worthy mod.



Will write some more when I get back home.

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[Raptor6767]

Met a friend on the road and we did some 50-200km/h runs and a photoshoot:









Too bad my car/wheels were dirty.



Finally:

Bought Torque too. Can't wait to try it out.

 

[Raptor6767]

Wasn't happy, to say at least, with the carbon wrapped centre console that one company did for me so I've painted my old carbon look vinyl console, dash strips and A/C ring in black. Looks much neater than it did before (vinyl started to unglue).

Took me whole day to remove the centre console, dash strips, paint & reinstall the DVD player (the hole is barely enough to install the DVD so I had to remove the A/C control, glove compartment and battle with excess cables).











Painting process:

 

[Mike]

That looks very good indeed! Love the new centre console colour!

 

[Raptor6767]

It has been 10 days now after fitting 64mm TB and I have to say I absolutely love it. :thumbup1:

The car feels much eager to accelerate - like it was breathing through a straw and now it doesn't any more.

Unfortunately, I haven't got the chance to try out with my friend and his CTR EP3 to see any true gains on the road due to the fact he had installed a performance exhaust system so he's no longer a real reference to me.

Had the car on the dyno before/after like I said I would. The TB was on the car for 3 days before the dyno.





This reading I've found confusing - much more WHP increase, but not that big BHP (probably due to different weather conditions - temperature, air pressure,...):



And the other thing I've noticed - the car is running leaner than before (I can see the exhaust not getting black after pushing the car hard, and before the TB it would be black after 2-3 hard runs) so the next thing is a remap.


My current setup:
V6 Ph2 airbox with K&N panel filter
matched/ported inlets
64mm TB
lightweight flywheel
Y-pipe
Miltek decat
Miltek catback
remap (not suited to the new TB)

 

[Raptor6767]

New thermostat - my old one used to be open most of the time so the coolant temperature would vary often at cold weather:

 

[Rogue]

Is that only 148bhp? Or am I reading that wrong? Because if i'm not, something must be seriously wrong there.

 

[Raptor6767]

Is that only 148bhp? Or am I reading that wrong? Because if i'm not, something must be seriously wrong there.

You are reading it correctly. Those were WHEEL horsepower.

 

[litchy]

Big Torque Figure....201 nm. Thats impressive

 

[Raptor6767]

Should be better/higher but my tuner is very conservative, he thinks that I/we drive hard everyday...

Will have the car remapped to suit the 64mm TB in the next few weeks because the car is now running lean.

 

[litchy]

Views on Y pipe?

 

[Raptor6767]

Views on Y pipe?

I can't recommend it or not recommend.

PRO:
- amazing sound - exhaust keeps popping, raspier sound...just great

CON:
- big (not massive) flatspot 2-3krpm, however, once you get used to it - you learn how to minimize it.


With the 64mm TB I have managed to get rid of 70% of the flatspot.

Performance? Hmmmh...TBH, I really don't know if I got anything with it because I had other mods in the combination with the Y-pipe done at the same time, and still believe I can squeeze more bhp/nm with a remap.

If you ask me if I would put it on my car again - probably YES.

If I manage to get 195-200bhp out of it on this rollers I will be VERY happy because my car is already 40-50m in front of the stock 197 50-200km/h.

 

[Raptor6767]

Just changed the cabin filter:





Can't remember if it was 15 or 20kkm in the car.

 

[N0ddie]

Ooft. That old one is shockin

 

[Raptor6767]

I've expected it to be really dirty given in mind that I haven't changed it in the past 15-20kkm but not this dirty..

 

[Raptor6767]

DELETE...wrong topic

 

[Raptor6767]

Changed the upper engine mount & the lower engine (gearbox) mount.

First I've changed the lower mount and the difference was awsome! The engine had atleast 60% less
movement on throttle release than it had before. TBH, I bought this mount just in case if the OEM one wasn't good and I didn't expect that much of a difference.

Old one:



Notice the cracks...

New, Swag one:



However, I've expected the big difference when I changed the upper one but it was not as nearly as big as when I had the lower one replaced.

Old, OEM one:



New OEM one:



Now it feels as good as new on throttle release.


And yes, I was on a track day @ Grobnik race track. Haven't planned it till the last day (old CSC3 DOT2410 tyres, only 2mm of front TRW brake pads) but I haven't been on the track for 2 years so I went.



I wasn't pleased with the time I made. Was 1.3s slower (1.56.9xx s) than 2 years before. Totally disappointed.

Did only 3 fast laps, and 5 cooldown laps...

Stupid...:thumbdown:

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[Foxspeed]

surprised you didnt go for the k-tec uprated lower mount?