Sprint Hillclimb 197

[av4625]

You won’t be able to tell visually if it’s ok, it could be electronic internals throwing a wobbly. Swap it with a known good one to rule it out. It’s an easy job. One electrical connector, four bolts, 5 minutes.

I would have to buy one :/ no idea what sort of price they are, if they are cheap it would do no harm to have a spare anyway. Will look them up. Wasn’t sure if a visual check was enough or not.

I suppose you dont have another diagnostic to scan for codes?

I only have CLiP. I’m trying to work out how to use it atm lol. I got a bit further playing with it plugged into my Megane this morning. Its a pain that the Clio lives at my parents house atm, so I can’t just go out and check the Clio .

On the day another guy had a generic scanner and it saw nothing other than “multiple misfire”.

 

[RSRowe]

Just to add, I’ve had this and it was the throttle body (as has one of my other trackday friends)
Front Lambda can also cause misfires with no code, but it’s generally 3-4000rpm and upwards when they start to miss.

 

[R20BTG]

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£80-£100 second hand usually

 

[av4625]

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£80-£100 second hand usually

Oh! If the 172/182 is the same, I have a friend with one of those

 

[turkie172]

You changed the fuel line would it be that

 

[av4625]

You changed the fuel line would it be that

Thats what I’m blaming atm as its the only thing I touched. Maybe we didn’t clear it out well enough and dirt maybe got into the fuel line and/or injectors.

Do you know if you can see fuel pressure on clip? I’m struggling to understand how to use clip, I can’t even work out how clear codes. I can see codes but no clear button, I watched some videos online of people using older versions and they have a clear button right. My version is 219.

If the ID of the fuel line was different would that be an issue?

 

[LiamP]

Thats what I’m blaming atm as its the only thing I touched. Maybe we didn’t clear it out well enough and dirt maybe got into the fuel line and/or injectors.

Do you know if you can see fuel pressure on clip? I’m struggling to understand how to use clip, I can’t even work out how clear codes. I can see codes but no clear button, I watched some videos online of people using older versions and they have a clear button right. My version is 219.

If the ID of the fuel line was different would that be an issue?

What are the codes?

 

[av4625]

What are the codes?

Will double check with clip what they are exactly, but a generic scanner just said multiple misfire

 

[av4625]

I did a thing last night

I have now completed the set of RenaultSports lol




Always wanted one of these as a run about, this one came up a while back and I missed it. It came up again and I had to grab it. It was pretty good money and is fairly mint, the only bad thing is there is a little bit of lacquer peel on the tops of the widened rear arches. But for what I paid for it I'm not concerned.

Getting major deja vu from the day I collected the Clio!

 

[EthanMenace]

After seeing one of these with a 200 engine at blyton I really like the look of these

 

[av4625]

After seeing one of these with a 200 engine at blyton I really like the look of these

I’m hoping it’s going to be a slow fun light car that you can throw around. Ever since lightening the Clio so much it has give me a bigger appreciation of light cars

 

[av4625]

Got the misfire sorted. I could see on CLiP that it was trying to richen itself by 50% which sort of double downed on my theory of the injectors being clogged.

Took the fuel rail and injectors off and emptied the petrol out of the rail over my hand and could see little bits of dirt coming out.

Blew out the line and then swapped to the rail and injectors that I bought and it fired up no problem and seems to be running well.

Stupid mistake on my part for not cleaning the new line properly but at least it’s sorted now! Thinking about doing a test day before the next hillclimb to make sure.

Anyone know the knack to removing the metal clips holding the injectors to the rail? Was going to see if I could get my original injectors cleaned and keep them as spares. The clip looks a bit strange, looks like it has to slide off in one direction, but then it curls around the injector not letting it go that way.

 

[R20BTG]

Glad you got it sorted, when I replaced mine, I used couple of flathead screwdrivers just to push off the end of the metal clip. They do come off, but you'll need to use a tool of some sort so you don't ruin your fingers.