Renault life. Ecumaster Black installed and running, Mapping booked

[ruffgeezer]

On 09/04/2026 at 22:38, 24vdiamond said:

If you do book cadwell let us know, I'm only down the road so I'd love to pop up and watch

As am I!

I didn't know we had many local folk.

[Brigsy]

6 hours ago, vaughant said:

I can't believe that this isn't your main job, the work is unreal 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.

Great to see. 

Remote mapping, stuff of the future surely ❤️❤️❤️

Cheers mate. Absolutely buzzing that its running on new ecu, had this upgrade planned for years.

Id love to do modified stuff like this full time. Have considered setting up on my own a few times, but the fear of a dry spell putting me on my arse cash wise gives me the fear.

Remote mapping is awesome. Id get some on boost stuff done but it gets very sketchy doing long 4th/5th gear pulls on the street. Best leave that for the dyno😁

On another note, ive ordered an ecumaster can switch board and rotary switch for boost control on the Kangoo. Run the same on my clio trophy and it works well giving 8x levels of boost control. Should be a nice easy install splicing into can wiring.

[Brigsy]

On 07/05/2026 at 09:12, ruffgeezer said:

As am I!

I didn't know we had many local folk.

Might book for July. Clio sport festival, will see..

Did you have an ax gt years ago? Recognise the name. 

[Brigsy]

Washing yesterday. All needed doing badly.

[ruffgeezer]

1 minute ago, Brigsy said:

Might book for July. Clio sport festival, will see..

Did you have an ax gt years ago? Recognise the name. 

I had a lot of Axs years ago - I fitted a scorpion exhaust to Chris Jessop's little 1 litre Ax nearly 20 years ago!

I remembered the name but wasn't certain it was the same person.

[Brigsy]

12 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

I had a lot of Axs years ago - I fitted a scorpion exhaust to Chris Jessop's little 1 litre Ax nearly 20 years ago!

I remembered the name but wasn't certain it was the same person.

Small world! Yep met Jessop when i had my1.5d ax 5 door back in the day! Was heavily into my r5gtts at the time. Shared a lockup with him for a bit back in the day. Crazy how fast time has gone

 

[Brigsy]

Kangoo updates.

Took it out Sunday morning for a test run, no issues and confirms stress fracture of the fuse was the cause for no start.

Mapping slot booked for June 13th, prep starts with Oil and filter change. Fresh purflux filter and millers 10/50 nt+.

Ive said it loads of times before but just buy one of these sealey oil fillers if you have a megane. Class bit of kit, no spillage.

Bought an Ecumaster can switchboard and rotary switch for boost control. The switchboard is a nice bit of kit, i run it on my trophy. Simply connect to canbus wiring in car and you can run extra analogue switches and inputs to the ecu via can. The rotary switch will allow for 8 different boost levels blending boost table 1 & 2 together. I think boost table 1 will be set at 12-14 psi and table 2 at whatever the clutch can handle. Might repurpose the cruise buttons on steering wheel for rolling anti lag and launch, just need a modus cruise squib. Ill get the switchboard fitted and configured this week ready.

Also been thinking about fuel system upgrades. I have a couple of spare megane 250 rs stainless fuel rails here and plan on getting one modified, removing the oem regulator and welding the holes/fitting an an6 inlet and return fitting. The reason for modding oem is to retain the injector holding clips, as a lot of aftermarket megane rails do not allow the clips to fit.

Top or side, both will work in theory. Ill think about it.

Thanks for reading!!

[DaveDorson]

This makes me want to do two things.

Keep the 225.

Buy some compomotive wheels.

[Brigsy]

15 hours ago, DaveDorson said:

This makes me want to do two things.

Keep the 225.

Buy some compomotive wheels.

If i win it in the roffle ill stick my spare set of comps on😁

[Brigsy]

Updates.

A few bits have arrived for fuel system upgrades on the Kangoo. Nuke 3ltr surge pot, walbro 420lph fuel pump and aem fuel pressure regulator.

The nuke tank looks proper sexy, really well made. Im hoping the internal pump fitting will keep the noise down. We will see.

Thanks for reading!!

[Tickman]

You make all this look so easy.

[JMotor]

Just binge read the thread.

Just one or two jobs done 😄. Top work.

I feel your pain about the heater matrix. I had to do one on my old 306 Rallye. Offt! not a job I'd wanna do again!