Throttle Bodied Clio

[spudmurphy]

One of a few project cars on the go at the moment the mk1 clio owned by my girlfriend.

The car looks like this;





not too many external changes, its lowered on Spax springs, delocked, tailgate smoothed, spoiler and some forged lightwieght wheels of unknown Japanese origin [8D]

The first round of mods added the 16v front brakes;



Shortly after I ported and polished an early head for the renault energy engine. The earlier one is better than the later one as the ports are a much better design.

Early


Late


And the one I did had the ports polished clean, the chambers tidied up and new inlet valves




while all this was going in I added a colour coded rocker cover




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[spudmurphy]

A couple of months later a busted CV joint and a broke ball joint prompted a rebuild and upgrade of some of the suspension. I added 16v driveshafts and rebuilt all the front end with all new bushes and bolts



cleaned all in the areches and stuff



and polybushes for the wishbones



And thats about it for the car this far.

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[spudmurphy]

Currently the car is off the road fo a compltely one off conversion, Yamaha R6 throttle bodies [8D]

I've a few more goodies to go on at the same time;

Race tech oil pres/temp gauge


and a Forge alloy header tank


The tb's are to be controlled by a Megasquirt which is nearly built. The car originally had single point injection so going to multipoint on the tb's required the standalone management. I also figured whilst I'm at it I'll get rid of the dizzy to and fit a Ford EDIS set up.

A few random tb pics,

head end of the home made stub manifold.


filter end, with the very sexy looking mini filters [:p]


and trial fit a couple of weeks ago, mmmmm [8D]


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[miniboy]

nice!!!!

[G-man]

i knew a girl called cleo once she had a sexy body not a throttle body tho

[edthedrummer]

that looks awesome mate. great job.

[ST182]

cool as [:)]

[Invalid Boy]

"i knew a girl called cleo once she had a sexy body not a throttle body tho"

Cleo Rockos Cover?

[spudmurphy]

<b>G-man</b> You're a funny man, made me chortle did that one!!

Anyway, the eagle eyed amoung you may have spotted only 3 filters fitted in this picture



The reason being that the 3 brake lines running across the bulkhead foul on the filter and so need moving. This prompted a quick call to the ever helpful (if slightly expensive [:0]) people at Demon Tweeks to purchase some copper nickel brake line and some end fittings. I've been trying to get the ends to flare nicely on a couple of practice bits and think I've got it sussed so new brake lines this week [:D]

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[browser]

I'll watch with interest, being the owner of a '94 Renault 19 with the 1.4 energy motor with an, ahem, 'decoked' head on it [:)]

[G-man]

[:D] your local motor factors should hold a stock of copronickel lines and ends for alot less than tweeks sell it for, you might even blag trade prices if you go in oily overalls

[spudmurphy]

One of my big problems since moving to Preston has been finding a good local autofactors. When still living at my parents there were a few places that had everything you needed, best I can manage round here is A. Pages, though I didnt try them for the brakeline and fittings [:(]

The last time I was doing a lot of work on a car and using the autofactors near my parents a LOT I ended up getting a discount. I dont think it was because they thought I was in the trade, I think it was because they felt sorry for me [:D]

[ST182]

never thought mate, we should try leadbetters near me, not totally local to you i know, and i'm not sure if he has updated his stock from bakelite ones yet, but always worth a try [:)]

coming on well sir- is it easy using that flaring kit? I'm yet to try it........

[spudmurphy]

Yarp, never thought of the place near you, oh well its done now ha ha

Is the flaring tool easy to use?...... well I can get the pipes to flare, though whether they are the right shape remains to be seen. I cut all the pipes I need to length last night and deburred and cleaned the ends. I'm going to bend them to shape tonight but I want to do a half decent job of them as they in the engine bay so i'm collecting round things at the moment to use as dies [:)]

[spudmurphy]

Been cracking on with the brakelines, about halfway through the job now. I cut the pipe roughly to length after tracing out the path I wanted them to take using hose pipe. I used hose pipe to try and accurately simulate bend radii, it did scare my girlfriend a bit though when I told her thats what I was replacing the braklines with [:D][:D]

Once cut to length I bent all the lines, didnt fancy buying a pipe bender so decided to bend them by had. Well after using a 1" socket I think most of the bends have gone pretty well [:)]

Lines all bent to shape


The 3 green brake lines running across the bulkhead are the ones I want to replace


Mental note to self, and maybe helpful to others, just because you think you've emptied the brake fluid reservoir by syringeing all the fluid out doesnt actually mean its empty [xx(] the next pic is of the master cylinder with reservoir removed but after cleaning quite a lot of spilt fluid [:(]



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