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Clio S/C ph1 172 boost bus

So after a trial fit of my charger intake, I found it was still too small a space for the filter location I wanted, loads of searching around and I came up with this

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Much shorter and fits my spal fan very well, it's from a 1.5 dci Clio
Radiator was £26 delivered so absolute bargain and fan was "free" from work

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This allows the filter to sit in very nicely, just in front of the radiator, rather than behind it
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So should get a whole lot of cold stuff right there
Also looks rather rugged from the front

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Now just to plumb it all together and some serious wiring to do
 
So had a bit of spare time this weekend.
Managed to find a donor car for some bits, so got all my lights, wipers,horns and windows to work so 1 less problem come mot time

I also grabbed the radiator surround and got rid of the idle control motor block, hoping to run idle control through omex, boost pipes are also just about finished

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I put the front bumper bar back on as I think it looks far more subtle and will protect the radiator better, I cut the number plate down as a test fit to see what size I needed

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It's offset to allow air into s/c oil cooler when plates on, now just waiting on a few sensors and wires for everything

Parked it in good company for now

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Tidy.

Remember kids , being in the Forces rocks. You get to shoot bang sticks , and fix cars.

Ignore the other bits.
 
Hi Andy I’m still alive, just been taking a little bit of time out .....of country lol

Car has progressed on quite well with the time I had with it



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Managed to wire up my 3 bar map sensor to the omex, finished off the boost pipes, charged the Rotrex with oil

Built a spare kit up for a lad in Australia
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Then cracked on plugging all my injectors and omex in looks like a snakes nest but will tidy it up in time after getting it all running

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I then banged on my base map, took a bit of pissing about as had to buy a USB adapter to get the omex cable to work
But managed to get it on and all sensors calibrated ready for first start

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Good bit of software, quite impressive the stuff you can do with it

sitting in the car, I noticed no fuel pump priming noise, honestly it did not take me an hour to figure the problem, sometimes it’s the little things mainly this big red button
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Clunk, quick turn of key - fuel in the rail -sweet

So now waiting on some waterless coolant turning up, a few filters and some expensive oil, then it’s time to run it in

Exciting times
 
Something like that :cl:

I’m not overly convinced either tbh, but I will see what it can do

Some nervous times cranking it over to get oil pressure tonight, hopefully get it all run in fairly soon, not booking mapping just yet though
 
Exciting times. I am not convinced by waterless coolant yet though !
Waste of money IMO. We don't really have the climate to need "extra" cooling. 99.99% of the time the coolant temp is regulated by the thermostat and for the time it's not we have rad fans. If your system can't supress rising temps enough when on the move you have a cooling system problem or its severely underrated. Pure water is the best coolant/heat transfer medium but we have to use some sort of corrosion inhibitor or it'll rot the engine from inside out and also anti-freeze or it'll freeze the system up in the winter.

It's true that water contains oxygen and pure waterless coolant doesn't, and yes oxygen in the coolant can cause corrosion cooling system components but conventional coolants lose their oxygen in the first few hot-cold-hot cycles and no further corrosion can take place - a good anology I read was like a fizzy drink going flat.

Add to that the cost of the stuff and the ballache of 'drying out' the system before you fill it, and also the fact that if you get a leak out on the road you're stuffed unless you carry a hefty reserve of the stuff, and it makes it a no brainer for me. No service stations will stock this stuff, you can't fill it up from a tap, a stream, you can't buy bottled water from a shop to get you home. I know the intention is to never have that problem but you never know. Why reduce your options for little benefit?

Just my 2p worth.
 
i used mine on a fair few hot track days with nothing other than regular coolant and never came off or had issues due to water temp
 
a good bit of work done tonight. Was struggling with a plan on how I was going to mount the ecu’s as there was not a massive amount of flat space, little bit of moving about and come up with this
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Fairly stable and tidys the bay up quite nicely omex will be Velcro attachable to the ecu
 
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