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Unfortunately the camera broke, but i managed to borrow one and take a few more snaps!

It was the monthly French Car meet at the ace cafe in London. This happens on the third Monday of every month, come winter, rain or shine you will always be able to see some much loved French cars.

After a chat with mr2haz, on the forums, from whom i was buying a new manifold for the project car we agree to meet up, grab a bite to eat and take a few snaps of the cars, as well as exchange money for the manifold.

Off i went round the North Circular, playing dodgems with the less than average driving skills and maneuvers adopted by London’s drivers!

I arrived there safely and waited for Haz to arrive… The gate staff would at first not let him in. He said to me that they only let it in because it has alloy wheels, they refused to believe it had a 2litre engine in it! For those that don’t know Mr Haz drives the ultimate sleeper wagon, a bog standard Clio, with a Williams engine in it… Caravan sticker and all (we are soon to feature his car on the website, check back soon).

After taking a few snaps of the cars my battery died, so i had to use Haz’s camera phone (which wasn’t to shabby!). Hopefully next month I will take some more pics, and with a bit of luck see you there!

A haggle of people around Haz’s engine bay!

Rare Citroen – Maserati (Citroen SM, V6)

And… Renault Alpine

(I really don’t understand why there are German plates on it, ITS FRENCH!)

I loved the sign! They have them all over the place. Obviously they have had a telling off from the Police. Hope you enjoyed. Let us know what you think over in our deadicated Clio forums.

These techniques would equally apply tho anyone doing a DIY wheel refurb at home, without the advantage of a spray gun and compressor. This is by far the most proffessional job i have seen done on the Clio Williams Wheels. Spot on finnish, and has taken the trouble to get the correct colour! Top job!!

Dont forget to comment, let us know what you think!

1. Paint removal – Chemically stripping all the old paint by submerging the wheels in a chemical stripping tank. The wheels were then bead blasted.

2. Re-cutting the RIM – If like me you don’t want to spend ‘£20′ !! on having the rims re-cut by machine, i thought of an alternative solution that gets good results.
By using an electric sander with 120 grit paper i carefully went around the rim removing all the excess dinks and curbing whilst removing as little of the rim as possible. More will be covered on this later….

3. Etch priming the surface – To ensure good paint adhesion to the metal i used a 1k etch primer as a 1st coat.

4. Priming the surface – After 24 hours room temperature dry time i then primed the wheels with 2K High build primer. This stuff is very good to ensure the surface is smooth covering all the minute imperfections of the alloy.

5. Polishing and cutting the Rim – As i had no machine lathe to cut the rim. I thought of jacking up the car on both sides on my RT.

I then fixed the wheel refurbs to the car and put the car in gear to spin the wheels. I also popped the bonnet and pulled on the throttle cable to spin the wheels faster whilst i placed some 120 grit paper on the Rim. This gave the rims a consistant groove in the rim. */thumbs up*

6. Base coat using speedline gold R9312 – The gold paint I used is the offical Akzol Noble code supplied by Speedline Corsa. This code has been checked with Akzol Noble and the UK conversion is R9312.

When spraying I use a Devilbiss GTi HVLP gun its excellent for tops coats.

I also hang the wheels up when spraying as it avoids the dust.

7. cleaning the rim – After each coat of paint i cleaned the rim with paint thinners and a clean rag. Ready for the ‘Top coat’

8. Top Coat – Ensure the surface is dust free. My advise is top coat one at a time unless you have a professional spray room. Their’s too much dust floating about when spraying 4 wheels on top coat. Confused

I used Lessonal 2pac lacquer with fast hardener. drying time is less than 12 hrs.

Really be liberal with the spraying especially on the rim.

Hope you Enjoy!

It is a very exciting experience driving your car on a race track, with out the fear, or restriction imposed on you by the public roads. You are free to push the limits of your car and experience why Renault Sports cars are so great (even tho they do break down too much!)

Product Managers and Renaultsport experts will be on-hand to listen to your views and questions and share their experience with you. The support team, consisting of the instructors and track marshals will be on hand to give you any advice you may require and to control the safety rules of the day.

I already know a lot of Clio’s will be attending, and it is a great day, with a chance to meet some new faces and get a look at some really good looking cars. There will also be the chance to book additional tuition with an instructor in your own car for just £15, to really show you how to push your car to its limits!

Here are some pics of Cadwell Park 2007:

As well as some pics of what happens when you push things too far!

To see the rest of our pics. Look at our Picasa Album: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/clioforum/TrackCadwellPark07#

And a Video of the day:

Cadwell Park full circuit  will cost £119, which is a really good price. Tickets are subsidised by Renault Sport. You can check there trackday website out HERE

Additional drivers are free.
Spectators are free but limited to one spectator per car.

So bring your friends and family along with you!

What you need to bring?

A full driving licence and a Renaultsport car*. We do advise that you fill up with fuel beforehand but there are petrol stations located nearby should you need some more on the day. Comfortable clothes and footwear suitable for driving are a must, along with a crash helmet, tho these can be rented on the day.

BOOK HERE

Please note that there are no refunds for cancellations. Please read the terms and conditions thoroughly before confirming your booking.

We look forward to seeing you there!

* eligible cars are:

Clio Renaultsport 172, 172 Exclusive, 172 Cup, 182, 182 Cup, 182 Trophy
Clio Renaultsport 197 Cup, 197 and 197 F1 Team R27
Clio Renaultsport V6 230 and 255
Clio 200 and 200 Cup
Mégane Renaultsport 225, 225 Cup, 225 Trophy, 225 F1 Team, 230 F1 Team R26, R26.R
Mégane Renaultsport dCi 175
Renaultsport Spider
Clio Williams
Clio 2.0 16V
R19 16V
Mégane Coupé 2.0 16V
5GT Turbo
5 Turbo
Twingo GT and Renaultsport 133
Alpine – any

Let us know if you will be attending, and make sure if you do attend to take lots of photos so we can put together a report of the day, with all your pics and videos!

The project in its entirety will be done by myself, i may streach to letting someone map it, but thats about it!

I hope you enjoy reading the project and find it as fun as we do building it.

The Spec for the car is going to be something like this:

Engine

• F7R 2.0L Williams engine Rebuilt
• Race CatCams and pullies
• Solid lifters, uprated double valve springs and retainers
• Ipael High Compression Pistons (12:1 compression ratio)
• CatCams forged conrods and bolts
• Ballanced crank and flywheel
• Supersprint wrapped exhaust manifold
• De-cat
• Custom S/S Exhaust
• Megane inlet manifold
• Headwork
• OMEX 600 ECU
• AT-power iTB’s and carbon airbox
• Modifyed fuel rail
• Braided fuel hoses and fittings
• Oil catch tank
• R21T Airfilter
• Group N scuttle airscoop
• Samco hoses
• Mocal oil cooler, thermostatic sandwichplate and S/S hoses
• Low temp thermostat
• Battery relocated to the boot
• New engine mounts
• Renault Cambelt kit
• Renault Header tank
• Renault Waterpump
• Renault Type D coolent
• Renault F7R spark plugs

Gearbox

• JB5 Williams Gearbox
• HELIX uprated clutch friction plate
• HELIX uprated clutch pressure plate
• LSD and rebuild
• Quickshift

Chassis

• Poly bushed Wishbones & ARB
• Willwood 4 pot front brakes
• Williams front hubs
• Williams coilovers
• Williams driveshafts
• Hydro handbrake
• Wheel stud conversion
• Alloy wheel nuts
• Upper and lower Strut brace

Wheels

• White Williams Wheels
• Toyo R888’s

Interior

• Roll cage
• Bucket seats
• Luke Harnesses
• Phase 1 Williams steering wheel
• Plummed in fire exstigisher
• Battery box in boot
• Williams dials
• Kill switches
• Stripped
• Carbon doorcards

Exterior

• Poly carb windows
• Bonnet pins
• Fiberglass bonnet
• Fiberglass boot
• Sunroof Removed
• Williams boot spoiler
• Kill switches

Just to wet your appetite, i ahve a few pics of some of the engine internals before the engine build.

Honed block from the machine shop, ready to accept some lush looking high compression pistons

I thought I would get a bit ‘artey’ with some pics of the conrods and bolts!

And the ballanced crank and flywheel, new bearings…

Some more tarty shows of my good looking clutch!

I bit the bullet and bought a new Renault oil pump…

…and the brains of the new car…

Let us know what you think of the project, and check back soon when we have some details of the engine build!

If you have anything you would like us to feature, or a guide that we could write to help you with your car, let us know!

I hope you enjoy!!

Before we can get cracking and show you the project car, I needed some space for it. This meant cleaning out my lockup garage, so with a little help from the oldies and there tow-bar equipped car, we had an early start one Saturday to collect the trailer and load it up, in order to get to the scrappy before closing at lunch!

We started our trip to a place near St Albans to collect the trailer, and then come all the way back around the M25 to West London where our garage is located.

After a lot of heavy lifting (the front end on the car we had to dispose of had been sold!) and pushing and shunting the car into position we go the shell onto the trailer. We were already behind schedule, but off we went to the local scrap yard. Its located 2miles down a lane next to our local rubbish dump. Just about to make the turn after charging down some back-roads, to make up time. We see the road is closed! We are diverted all the way around a rather large farm, to enter the lane from the other end. At this point we had 10 mins till the scrappy shut. I decided to make the sacrifice and ran down the closed road to try and stop them shutting the yard before my  mum and the car would get there! After she had completed the 30min detour i let her into the yard. The rest went pretty smoothly, drove up onto the weight bridge, then into the yard.

I was greeted by a Polish man who i asked if i could whip the wheels off the car after he had grapped it. He agreed and climbed into his grabber crane. Lifted the shell off the trailor, i pulled the wheels off, under a shower of glass from the rear windows…

I went to say thanks to the lady in the weigh bridge for letting up nip in. She insisted that we should get £50 for the car, i was shocked, but didn’t hang around long for her to retract the offer! Off we went to collect the new project car. It was located locally at one of my friends houses. I bought it off a friend who was only its second owner and i knew all its history.

More pushing and pulling, as the engine had broken in it and i had removed it to sell on, but at least we had 4 wheels and the ability to steer it. So using the winch on the trailor we were on our way in no time, after arriving back at the garage which would be its new home, we took a few pics of the car…

The trailor was a bit on the small side, i think next time i will get a larger one!

The car is a complete Williams rep. Wide track, wheels, engine and interior. The interior is a thing of beauty, as if it had come from a showroom. I cant bear to part with the blue dials, so they are staying, but i have sold on the rear seats, it is going to be a track car after all!

More to come soon, including build specs and some pics of engine components, so stay tuned.

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It is very much a modern icon of Clio modding, hoodrides are something almost exclusively left to the VW fraternity (Dubbers). We let Winston explain how this legend was born and how it died (as all of Winstons cars seem to do… ending up in scrap heaven!) Enjoy.

After the RSi-brid I said to my self i was done with Clios for good… in the time between i had owned a BMW E30 325i, VW Caddy 1.6D & 2x VW Mk1 Golf 1.1’s but they just didn’t have the pace or handling of the Clios and i wanted a car i could take on track.

A cheap Ph1 black 16V came up cheap on Clio16valver.co.uk… it had failed its MOT for being to low (very fitting lol).. So off i went to Scotland to pick the car up (cheers for the lift Gav!)

I then tucked the car away till i could find a good Williams Clio engine for it.

I found out King Stromba was breaking a Williams 2, so i got in touch with him and to cut a long story short I bought the hole car from him ish (minus interior, dash, wheels) and drove it back home… with the agreement to bring him back the brakes, body panels and any other parts from the list… my plan was to use the black valver as donor for any extra parts the Williams needed.. main reason for binning the valver was the sunroof (ive been rained on oh too many times !!)

Both cars at my mates yard…

After taking Strombas parts i was left with this…

I painted some steel wheel i had matt black and fitted my fibreglass bonnet shell from my old black hybrid..

The results… looking very slag!

I removed all the sound deadening tar, as the Williams has alot more than the valvers. A nice little weight saver.

The Williams was starting to look rather ill and ratty… I got my stanley knife blade out and the illiams was born!

The stenciled bonnet and the bees nest as Ali called it…

Refitted the Williams tailgate and illiams’d it!

In order to dave more weight I removed the aux fuel tank.. which ment i could fit my phase 1 filler cap… BONUS!

Hillpower decat ready to fit…

Now its wheel time again!… I needed something ratty, but super light weight, I found these BBS RS on eBay and just had to have them.

They needed the centerd bored out from 57.1 to 60.1, so i sent them away to be done, but they broke the machine lol. Instead i used a flip wheel to do it!

Fitted a Phase 1 manual mirror set, and yes i now it needs lowering!

I took illy to the Clio16valver pod meet to get some times best of the day was 14.6 @ 95mph… was abit unhappy with that.

Photoshoot with the rusty steels, very ill!

At this point it was crying out to be lowered, A photo-shop confirmed the fact.

Lucky for me I got the JR coilvers back from my past projects for the bargain price of £40… At long last lowness!!!

Showing F0xy what low is!

Time for FCS 07. I didnt have to do alot of prep for this, just a few stickers and a quick wash! (I also fitted a side exit exhaust)

At FCS the car was carded by the editor of PFC magazine… get in … so the photoshoot followed at disused sugar factory

Few pics i took at the shoot.

The day after the photoshoot I took the engine and gearbox out as they had already been sold at FCS.. just had to use the car for the shoot first, so I left the engine less illy sitting on my nans drive

Next step for The illiams was to turn into a real track car now… I had had my fun.. Question was what engine do i use….?

First thought was a Ph1 172 engine, so i bought a written off 172 but ended up putting the engine up for sale as everyone else on Cliosport was starting Mk1 172 builds.

Lucky for me i found a 2.0 8V engine out of Formula Renault race car on eBay and he was willing to swap for the 172 engine

I also bagged to of the wheels from the donner race car!!

I trail fitted them (14*8J wheels)

Fitted some bucket seats…

Then it all went a bit stale and everything sat doing nothing, I was busy doing other things to other cars…. Then my ex found out Stromba had a rust free Williams 1 shell, which i ended up swapping for the race engine, then i needed the space to build that car so illy had to go… broke my heart but i had no where to keep the car

I don’t expect everyone or anyone to understand the illiams… call it rat, scrap, sh*t… what ever you like… To me it will just be an ill Williams, it was great fun to own and build

Thanks for reading
Winston

PS (from Andy) I found this pic from FCS with me, with a very bad hair do, Winston, the illiams and i think its Cliolords car.

Let us know what you think, we like to hear your comments!

]]> http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/winstons-illiams/feed/ 0 http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/winstons-illiams/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/clio-forum-blog/~3/n8xCsKVHcLg/ http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/speeds-orange-hybrid-maxi-air-scoop/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:44:33 +0000 Clio Forum http://www.clioforum.net/?p=94 I have been checking out Speeds Hybrid on the forums. Be sure to look in the project section for the latest updates (be sure to pack your sunglasses)!

His latest mod is a group A/N MAXI air scoop, sent over from a French Renault tuning company.

The kit uses the Renault V6/172 airbox and an adaptor to connect it all up the the throttle-body. The setup was featured on the rally cars, and is the most efficient air intake system around taking high pressure COLD air from the scuttle panel just below the windscreen.

I myself am working on the Clio forum project car, and have just been trying to make one of these scoops. They sell for a fortune on French eBay which i couldn’t justify. When i saw Speeds project log I had to get in touch and find out all i could!

I was told that the scoop was bought from France from a company called MC Racing SA. There website can be found here: http://www.mcracingsa.com/

I found it worked with google translator.

Are the items concerned. I had to speak to Speed, as i couldn’t find them on the Clio section of the site. Apparently these items are actually for the Megane 1. There is a carbon (which i will be buying) option and a black polycarbonate version which Speed has fitted to his car.

He said “fitment is very easy, just a few sparks with an angle grinder and a few bolts… job done!”

The first job is to remove the standard air-box and battery to make some space in the engine. With this setup you will need to relocate your battery to the boot to make space for the huge airbox!

Next remove your screen washer bottle and cut a section out of your scuttle panel to fit the scoop. This is done easily with an angle grinder. Make sure you mark before you cut and cover up your engine bay etc you don’t want sparks flying all over it and metal shavings getting anywhere they shouldnt!

I fitted a rubber edge to the cut to stop the metal cutting into the air box. I suggest you do the same.

You will also need to move the header tank over to make space for the airbox, i just drilled out the top rivet of the mount and lent it over.

The adapter needs to be fitted to the airbox, using nuts and bolts.

After connecting up all the pipework and fitting the airbox you should be left with something like this.

I thought you mite like to take a look at Speeds car, but make sure you check it out in the project logs. Let us know what you think!

I hope you have enjoyed this and found it useful. Please don’t forget to comment. Let us know if you will be joining me in ordering one, maybe we can do a group buy and save some of the postage costs from France?

He explains to us why his Valliams, an iTB’d, cammed animal of a hybrid failed back in 2008 on the way to the French Car Show. There is more to come from the lord, with is CUP brid. But thats another story!

“I wascruising along the motorway at 70-80ish in 5th, fast lane.. the oil light comes on and pressure guage drops rapidly, switched vally off, into neutral and coasted to a stop, to be rescued by the AA. Fault to blame was the bevel gear which directs drive from the timing belt, along a shaft and down into the oil pump which sits in the sump. Due to the brutal’e oil pump relief spring setup, it was too much pressure to sustain and the gear gave up causing the same effect as if the oil pump itself just let go.
The strip down at my garage saw metal floating in the sump (from the bevel gear – which hadn’t been sucked into the oil pickup due to it’s major failure anyway) and the crank had started changing colour. The cylinder bore looked to be in good condition still, the piston’s & rings looked good and the mains/big ends hadn’t picked up. I thought sod it….Ordered through some over-siezed Wossner 12.5:1 high comp pistons & catcams con-rods through MR Stanley. Blocks been over-bored, cranks been re-ground & balanced (for future plans) with over-sized bearings.”

We have a huge ammount of picture content of an animal of a car. Enjoy!

“My friends daughter has helped in the build so far…”

“The block looks abit brutal again! ”

“On fitting of oil pump, the first problem appeared. The dowel is missing for the oil pump so I had a fag and drove home LOL will continue work tomorrow ”

A nice Cliolord quote from Clio16Valver:

“MAXIBOY wrote:

be nice to see a few pics..

what else are you doing while its apart..

shot peen and de stress the crank..

stress relief the block…

change all core plugs and chemical with them out..

change oil gallery plugs and clean oil ways…..

i’ll think of a few more too if you want..

Cliolord wrote:

Mate, this isn’t a lady, this is a brutal slut that deserve’s a harsh routine! No core plug replacement (they look good, engines done less than 50K to date).”

“Got cracking on today. Ditched the pattern oil pump for a genuine pump, fettled with the sump, got it all ready for the head. Removed cams from head and inspected…All looks good. Oiled up ready to mate with block again

Oil pump fitted…”

“Head check…”

“Standard T40 rounded, no fear..”

“Exhaust cam number stamped and Minter lobes rock on!”

Some brutal looking solid lifters

“Minor score to cam carriers, nothing worth worrying about”

“Lifters looks used but good”

“Applying oil before reassembly…”

Cue a lord moment…

“Then my mate turned up with my head gasket. So I decided to cam everything….”

“I cammed the block…”

“I cammed a Rangerover headlight…”

“Cammed a Saxo wing mirror…”

“I even cammed my mate’s tea!”

Back to work…

“Dowels looked shot, so replaced them” – Used to line up the head, headgasket and bottom end.

“Not an F7P Head Gasket but a F7R Head Gasket. I’ve always thought they were identical, but obviously not?”

“Block with dowels & head gasket in place…”

“Head bolts copper greased up ready to fit”

“Head on”

“Couldn’t find the crank pulley, then reolised it was in the vally! So gabbed a lad from the Shell petrol station down the way to give us a push…”

“Now I’m starting to remember how fun the car is to drive again!”

“I forgot how good things like the tail gate were on the vally…”

“Back to the engine, checking tension of the the cam belt…”

“Enjoying building the engine back up… Keeping the pics coming!”

“I then left the camera on my toolbox and the manager got abit snap happy, so here are some randoms!…

The man himself, Grant (manager) top bloke! Lets be build up the engine in works time when we have a few minutes ”

“…and back on track.

More engine shots. I may have gone slightly over the top this time. I even polishes every nut and bolt (pretty much)!”

“Some pictures Craig has kindly sent to me of the build… so a bit of back dating for you…”

“Spark plugs, oil filter & crank seal turned up today. The reason I ordered the genuine spark plugs was due to the fact I remember the NKG BKR6EK patterns were longer than the factory spec items. They are infact quite abit longer and the pattern should be binned imo when running a high comp block. The following pictures show this FAIL product….” You can see why in our guides section.. Clio spark plugs guide

A few pics of one of Cliolords friends Mi6 on throttle bodies who came to visit the Valliams!

A couple more of this monstor hybrid!

I thought I would include some old pics from when the vally was getting mapped, before it broke and this saga began!

Wow! We have come to the end of this chapter, no doubt there will be more soon from the master of the spanners Cliolord.

Let us know what you think over on our forum. Click the comment link below!

]]> http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/cliolords-valliams/feed/ 0 http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/cliolords-valliams/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/clio-forum-blog/~3/c4Wtzn6B3YY/ http://www.clioforum.net/clio-mk1/clio-williams-valver-spark-plugs/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:43:22 +0000 Clio Forum http://www.clioforum.net/?p=72 Warning!

Cliolord has let us know that Pattern NKG BKR6EK spark plugs are longer than the genuine Renault sparkplugs available from the dealers.

Please read more… High compression engines beware

I would like to thank Cliolord for letting me know about this, as I had fitted pattern parts to my high compression track car engine, before whipping them out and fitting parts from Renault.

The danger is that with the high comp pistons the crown will touch the spark plug / the spark will be very very close to the piston yielding less than best ignition conditions.

The pictures say it all….

You have been warned. Let us know what you think!