Renault life.

[Brigsy]

Updates

Had a few spare hours this week so done a bit to the kangoo.

The aquablasted cam cover was looking a mess with xcp and muck all over it. Give it some brake cleaner and a rag, and coated with acf50 for now whilst weather is mild.

Not perfect but much better than it was. Hard to keep it clean as its no garage queen.

Whilst there i decided to change the thermostat. The needle mostly sits on 3nd mark on the temp gauge on the 200 clocks and moves a little but around 80deg on the obd so assumed maybe a little bit weak. Anyway i had a new meg 250 83deg gates stat in stock so decided to stick it in. Battery out and removed the current stat noting it was an 89 deg one, i thought it had an 83deg one in but must have been wrong.

Batt tray and associated bullshit removed for acccess.

Stuck the 83deg one in and sent it as the r26 and Trophy run it with no issues. Test run reveals this was not a good idea. The cooling system on this is really good/mega airflow to rad. The coolant temps dropped to 72deg on cruise and oil temps to suit, oem water temp gauge between mark 2/3 on the 200 clocks. Cooler running than last thermostat.

Anyway straight home, ripped out the new stat, refitted old one and back up to 3rd mark and 80deg again. Basically a couple of hours work for fuckall, win some and lose some eh!!

Washed it Friday am as was looking a bit unloved with a roadtrip planned for Sat to Grimsby. 260 mile round trip for car parts obviously.

 

Stopped at Donny services for a piss which was pretty shite.

 

Loads of 6 gear cruising. Spotted a focus mk1 saloon, not seen one for ages.

More 6 gear cruising and 3" exhaust drone.

Parts acquired. 4x rims with no tyres fit perfectly

 

As seen in the news 24 thread i done a bit of car cleaning Friday morning.

Blue dci got some loving. Washed and ceracoated the trims. Not bad for 203k

 

Orange dci had a clean up. This needs a post on its own to be fair. Had it almost ten years and saved from the scrapyard £80 gumtree buy. Ive daily driven it, used it as a van and took it round the Nurburgring. Mega reliable 162k on the clock.

Also another one that has been here a few years 13 i think? The mrs ph1 meg 225. This got me into the meganes, ive trackdayed it on loads of uk circuits. Its been to the nurburgring and had a minor armco interface in it smashing the original front bumper but luckily nothing else.

Its had all the good r26 bits fitted, full leather recaros, r26 lsd gearbox. A few engine mods, 306hp mapped by EfiParts. After nurburgring incident i refurbished all the suspension and got the front end painted, and its had light use since. Its in mega condition for a 2004 car and drives tight as fcuk, 70k on the clock and 2nd owner.

Its hardly moved over last couple of years but recomissioned it in may. New michelin pilotsport 5 tyres, full service etc. Not used it much but took it out yesterday.

Its worthy of its own thread alone but id be here all day.

Thanks for reading!!

[Brigsy]

Done a bit yesterday.

Ceracoated the scuttle panel and wiper arms on the blue dci, missed this the other day as its fiddly and couldnt be arsed. 

Before

After. Night and day difference.

Ceracote trim wipes are really the dogs bollox for faded plastics. Super easy to apply and goes off in an hr.

I done the Kangoo bumpers and my front door on the house a year ago. Its a black composite door that the south facing sun had faded fuck out of after 10 years, an application of ceracote wipe brought it back to as new condition. Both still look fresh as a year later, it really is a permanent solution.

With this win, i finished off the catch tank install on the 182 Trophy. When i built it i only had an alloy protein beaker spare so boshed it on last min. 3 years later and a load of piss ripping off everybody i thought it might be worth sorting.

Protein beaker done the job tbf.

Ive upgraded to a 2ltr Ralloy catch tank. Space is a premium in this engine bay and no decent locations. Ive mounted it in the inner wing where the carbon canister used to live once upon a time and its hidden behind the arch liner. Not ideal location but engine doesnt breathe a drop, and if it fills a 2ltr catch tank we have big problems. I can vac pump it out from inner arch easy enough.

Catch tank now lives behind arch liner.

Ordered a longer length of an10 breather hose to run to it from cam cover to catch tank in one continuous length. Took 2 attempts as i was rushing the first time and cut the hose an inch too short. Measure twice and cut once and all that bullshit i used to preach as a joiner by trade went out the window so it cost me twice 😂Anyway got there eventually.

Done.

 

Next job was to dig the newly purchased wheels out of the Kangoo from Saturdays roadtrip. Sexy megane trophy-r speedline turinis in 19" flavour off a low mileage car so in mint nick. A nice oem replacement for the current 19" diamond cut steeve alloys. I dont hate the current ones but these should look much better.

Trophy-r wheels.

 

 

With the kangoo empty, i proceeded to fill the smallest van in the world full of 4x 18" wheels and 4x 18" tyres. 

On its arse.

The Ar1 semi slick tyres were getting low on the r26 track wheels so got them swapped for fresh ones. They prob had another day in them but cant be arsed chancing my arm and ending up with no tyres left half way through a trackday. Next one booked is Spa Francorchamps so be wise to fit new. 

Cleaned them up when i got back..were in a right state after Anglesey. Loads of rubber pickup and brake dust.

Scrubbed up.

Fresh Ar1.

Bagged up and back on wheel stand until next time.

Ran out of time to do anything else. Next weekend will hopefully get the new wheels fitted on the 250.

Thanks for reading!!

[SunnySouth]

On 10/08/2025 at 09:31, Brigsy said:

Updates

Had a few spare hours this week so done a bit to the kangoo.

The aquablasted cam cover was looking a mess with xcp and muck all over it. Give it some brake cleaner and a rag, and coated with acf50 for now whilst weather is mild.

Not perfect but much better than it was. Hard to keep it clean as its no garage queen.

Whilst there i decided to change the thermostat. The needle mostly sits on 3nd mark on the temp gauge on the 200 clocks and moves a little but around 80deg on the obd so assumed maybe a little bit weak. Anyway i had a new meg 250 83deg gates stat in stock so decided to stick it in. Battery out and removed the current stat noting it was an 89 deg one, i thought it had an 83deg one in but must have been wrong.

Batt tray and associated bullshit removed for acccess.

Stuck the 83deg one in and sent it as the r26 and Trophy run it with no issues. Test run reveals this was not a good idea. The cooling system on this is really good/mega airflow to rad. The coolant temps dropped to 72deg on cruise and oil temps to suit, oem water temp gauge between mark 2/3 on the 200 clocks. Cooler running than last thermostat.

Anyway straight home, ripped out the new stat, refitted old one and back up to 3rd mark and 80deg again. Basically a couple of hours work for fuckall, win some and lose some eh!!

Washed it Friday am as was looking a bit unloved with a roadtrip planned for Sat to Grimsby. 260 mile round trip for car parts obviously.

 

Stopped at Donny services for a piss which was pretty shite.

 

Loads of 6 gear cruising. Spotted a focus mk1 saloon, not seen one for ages.

More 6 gear cruising and 3" exhaust drone.

Parts acquired. 4x rims with no tyres fit perfectly

 

As seen in the news 24 thread i done a bit of car cleaning Friday morning.

Blue dci got some loving. Washed and ceracoated the trims. Not bad for 203k

 

Orange dci had a clean up. This needs a post on its own to be fair. Had it almost ten years and saved from the scrapyard £80 gumtree buy. Ive daily driven it, used it as a van and took it round the Nurburgring. Mega reliable 162k on the clock.

Also another one that has been here a few years 13 i think? The mrs ph1 meg 225. This got me into the meganes, ive trackdayed it on loads of uk circuits. Its been to the nurburgring and had a minor armco interface in it smashing the original front bumper but luckily nothing else.

Its had all the good r26 bits fitted, full leather recaros, r26 lsd gearbox. A few engine mods, 306hp mapped by EfiParts. After nurburgring incident i refurbished all the suspension and got the front end painted, and its had light use since. Its in mega condition for a 2004 car and drives tight as fcuk, 70k on the clock and 2nd owner.

Its hardly moved over last couple of years but recomissioned it in may. New michelin pilotsport 5 tyres, full service etc. Not used it much but took it out yesterday.

Its worthy of its own thread alone but id be here all day.

Thanks for reading!!

Absolutely superb fleet there! 

[Brigsy]

Updates.

Snapped the original dipstick ages ago on the blue dci when i was doing a leakoff test. After buying several aftermarket shite ones listed with correct part number that were either incorrect length, incorrect fitment, crap quality or all 3, i finally found an oem ren one for sale (or thought id found one!?).

Hit buy it now on ebay, first one fails to arrive and seller says no problem ill send another. It turns up and looks like aftermarket to me, looks like seller had dressed it up in an oem bag but mine turned up without a bag conveniently.

Anyway it seems to be better quailty than the plastic aftermarket one i was using that was loose as fcuk/like a floppy c**k, oil level marks are in the correct position and its metal so it will do.

Dipstick saga, why so many different ones

That will do i guess. Should have just tried to order from dealers orignally.

After this i give the orange dci headlamps a polish as they were looking a bit crap.

Usual faded clio2 headlights.

Ive done several headlamp restores on these and i normally wetsand but skipped that stage. This time i just ran a heavy cutting compound with a medium pad and finished with a final polish/finishing pad. Literally ten mins and done. All yellowing gone, headlamps are not perfect but decent improvement

Much better.

I then give the headlamps a go over with a ceracote trim wipe. Also panel wiped all the plastics down and done them too.

Ceracoated trims ftw.

Hours worth of work and its transformed, as faded plastics always make a car look old/s**t.

Ive tried loads of permanent trim restorer ceramics over the years and the ceracote ones win hands down. Honestly wont get a better lasting product as its been tried and tested on my kangoo and no fade, and ideal for using outside as goes off in an hr. Not expensive too, absolutely recommended.
 

[Brigsy]

Megane 250 got some work done this weekend.

On Sat, took it down my mates garage yesterday to get the nearly new ps4s swapped over onto the Trophy R turinis. Straight on with them being oem renault, no hassle.

Look so much better than the original steevs.

Also stuck rstuner on it to do some pre logging before fitting the wagner intercooler.

Was a bit shocked to see its pulling ign 2-3deg, for whatevever reason, i believe high air temps. Dont rate current map on it so itll be getting booked into Efi asap to get this resolved. Its a good job ive not really drove this hard, obvioulsly ecu is doing what it needs to but yeah, not great.

 

Fitted the Wagner intercooler on Sunday. Had this for ages but finally had some motivation and sick of tripping over the box in the garage!

Pre start checks.

Bumper off revealing old forge ic.

Forge stripped off and Wagner ready to fit. Its a thicc boy as the intercooler is L shaped and goes under the rad. Neat way to do it.

Fitted.

Oem air ducts scribed and refitted as were left off with the forge ic.

Wideboy.

Finished. Prefer the discreet black intercooler.

Hers and his.

Test drive logging with Rstuner.

The forge was not totally s**t as it was miles better than oem, but it lingered around 30deg on boost occasionally going up to 40ish degrees so overall not great. The wagner in comparison is in the 30s when driving normally and instantly drops straight down to low 20s when on boost.

Another day another datalog.

 

The info you want to see. 23deg iat on boost and no timing pull.

Note no timing pull whatsoever today. I think it was pulling ign due to the higher charge temps yesterday. Boost pressure seems to be there or there abouts so could prob do some full 4th and 5th pulls it as is, but played safe and will get it booked into Efi for a map asap.

Need to change the oil and filter and its good to go.

 

Thanks for reading!!

[tom13]

Love this thread.

[loserone]

This seems like a good place to post this for Clio 2 lickers: https://www.vinted.co.uk/items/6922263639-renault-flexi-liner-for-protecting-car-interior?referrer=catalog

 

[Brigsy]

19 hours ago, loserone said:

This seems like a good place to post this for Clio 2 lickers: https://www.vinted.co.uk/items/6922263639-renault-flexi-liner-for-protecting-car-interior?referrer=catalog

 

Mint that cheers sir, will purchase. Ive had loads of renault tat off vinted, missed that one!

[loserone]

It's addictive..

[Brigsy]

Updates

Early one today. Take advantage of half decent weather and maximise time off work as other shit to do.

Fancied doing some easy cosmetic stuff, quick wins making nice improvements.

Kangoo headlamps were starting to yellow/uv fade on the top. Not the worst but longer you leave it, the harder it is to get them nice again.

Hard to get a pic but on their way at the top.

No wetsanding required, panel wipe, cutting compound / medium pad on da polisher, followed by final polish using finishing pad.

15 mins, done. 

Used a ceracote trim wipe on them to protect from uv.

Whilst the wipe was still wet i done the scuttle panel, as the wipes go quite far if your fast.

From faded grey to black again.

Small improvements.

With that done, the Megane R26 headlamps got the same treatment. They were starting to look tatty and light output aint great when they are faded. No pics before take my word for it, they werent looking the best.

Polished and protected with ceracote wipe.

I had a quick look at the rear bumper trims which are faded to fcuk on this, with the aim to restore with the ceracote wipe. When looking they look more or less fucked, drivers side one looked like it had started to melt a little. (Could be due to hot lapping Spa last year or the sustained 150mph+ on the autobahns on the way back from the Nurburgring!?

Anyway beyond trim restorer. Note white bit looks melty.

Went on the spray paint shelf and was going to use bedliner paint, but ran out of that so it was vht black or vht wrinkle black. Vht wrinkle black was chosen as its darker.

Scotched the surface and blasted it on. Mid curing, heatgunned it to wrinkle.

Was unsure if the wrinkle finish would look ok but these were getting beyond saving so nothing to lose. 

Fitted. Hard to get a good pic.

Looks ok, does not offend the eyes anymore. Not a bad result for a couple of hours of work.

 

Thanks for reading!!

 

[Brigsy]

Updates

The vinted oem renault boot liner turned up @loserone and looks pretty decent. Low blow offered it too so was basically free.

Only had a quick look as couldnt be arsed refolding it up last night.

Taking the Kangoo to Silverstone for Trax show on Sunday. Needed cleaning so give it a once over before work this morning.

Wheels now white again. Prob piss down for next 2 days now!

[loserone]

That looks class.

[Brigsy]

Updates

Pre mot checked the blue dci on Sat. Quick jack up and all looks good, floorpan etc in really good nick for a 22 year old clio used in all weathers. Not much to note, front tyres need changing sooner rather than later, whilst in the air i greased the brake pipes and selecror bush, front brakes were squeaky so deglazed/chamfered the pads, half hours work. Should be ok for a clean pass come mot time in a week or so.

Tried out the renault oem flexi liner on Monday as doing a tip run. With it being a one fits all, it kind of fits where it touches but not bad overall.

2mins work to chuck it in, stops the back getting coated in s**t.

After tip run there was loads of grass shavings on it, quick dust off and back in the bag and no cleaning needed.

Current mileage, increasing daily.

 

Kangoo had a run out to Silverstone for Trax show last Sunday. One pic of it abandoned next to the club stand as we rocked up mid morning.

 

The mk3 megane 250 cup is also ready for mapping. I changed oil and filter, fitted turbo blanking plate and regapped plugs on Sat. No pics as was working mega fast and nearly took the end of my finger off grabbing the inside of the oil filter when removing. Crap aftermarket oil filter with a bizarre sharp edge, claret everywhere.

Thanks for reading!!
 

[Brigsy]

Updates.

250 cleaned ready for its trip out to Runcorn for mapping at EfiParts tomorrow.

Cant wait to see before and after figures, as dont rate the current map.

Been doing loads of miles in the blue dci this week. Hull/Lincoln Tuesday. Newcastle yesterday. 500+ miles already. 72.5mpg.

A couple of the highlights, apart from this usual crap motorway/slow b road. 

 

Thanks for reading!!

[Brigsy]

Updates.

 

Steady drive down to EfiParts for mapping on Sat. Quick catch up with Chris and the meg was straight on the dyno.

 

Strapped on and ready to go.

As i said in earlier posts, this had been mapped years ago by another tuner. Ive said previously that it did not really feel that good..seemed to go ok ish but was skeptical of the 325hp printout on stock turbo.

Had a couple of runs to see power on the original map. Suprisingly it made 311/361 on 2nd run but not the 325hp it had on the printout, which was ambitious for stock tuned engine with a couple of bolt ons.

As you can see the torque comes in hard and fast for a stock engine, and a bit too much boost pressure with 24psi in the mid range. It was also pulling a couple of degrees ignition timing in the mid range so not great overall. Other issues noted were no boost requested low down for some reason, then all the boost ramping in with throttle closing to try and reign it back in on spool, and 25psi requested all the way until 6000rpm. With it not being possible to make 25psi on a stock 15t turbo at 6000rpm, this made the ecu wind up the duty/pid right up on the closed loop boost control. Ecu does not like this and can cause drivability issues.

With it making 311hp, it was unlikely that it would make any more peak hp, but for engine longivity the torque needed smoothing/reducing as 350ft/lb is about max for stock 250 conrods. Last thing we wanted was a rod to exit the block on this.

Chris got to work and started from fresh with a new basemap. After a load of runs fine tuning it to get everything as good as expected it finished up at 311hp/348ft/lb.

 

Before lines in red, black lines for current map.

All the boost in the mid range originally, now tuned sensibly making the same power without massive boost pressure in the mid range.

One of many dyno pulls.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ff4nsLJChKo?feature=shared

Its now safer, and much better response low down in the rpm range. It felt very hit and miss on the old map depending what rpm you hit the throttle. It feels the same each time you hit the throttle now and the exhaust note sounds totally different low down. Also launch control activated in 1st gear.

As usual great job from Chris. Drives much better overall.

Also whilst in the area popped by a local place for a quick pic. Im sure a few of you oldskoolers will recognise it from an early 2000's sitcom.

 

The Archer.

 

Thanks for reading!!

[Brigsy]

Washed the Kangoo, Megane r26 and 182 Trophy. They werent really that mucky but any excuse to use my new di resin vessel water filter😅

The resin filter/spotless rinse is a game changer. Look even shinier after wash, no streaking or nowt.

In other news, the 182 Trophy has a date booked in very soon to see a man about some more horses. Hopefully the power gods will anlign and we will see a good figure this time🤞

[Brigsy]

Updates

My clio 182 Trophy is in for mapping this week and nothing like a good short deadline to get projects moving. Made a start trying to get a couple of jobs done that ive put off for ages. These are non essential/nice to have so doesnt really matter if completed or not but be nice.

Wheel speed. I need vss to work on driven wheels for boost by gear. Dont want to tap into abs, actually not sure if it works but no light on dash so whatever, leave it be..

Brainstorming last week on how to fit a hall sensor to read off abs ring and dug a spare hub out to mock up. There is 3 random holes on the 182 hubs for whatever reason, maybe they planned on fitting a s**t guard behind disc at one point. These look like holes full of rust but actually m6 threaded when you look closely. Chased the hole out with a tap, one l shaped bracket made and it looks like a goer.
 

 

Cleaned up the setup and transferred to the car.

Bit of wiring.

Ran the car up on axle stands. Did it read? Did it f**k😅 messed about with pullup settings no joy. Id basically bought the wrong sensor and needed to install a magnet to make it work.
 

After a bit of digging id ordered the wrong sensor, this is supposed to be 2wire hall (i think its reluctor anyway) and requires a magnet installed to read off. Prob could make it work if i moved sensor/installed magnets.

Ordered the correct sensor - ZF gear tooth speed sensor which arrived on Tuesday (part no GS100701). This is the same sensor ive seen for £70 -100 on a few tuner places, where in reality its £30 from Rs Components.
 

With weather being good and curious to see if it was a goer, i freed a couple of hours up on Tues afternoon to fit it to the Trophy.

It was a relatively easy fit as straight into my homemade bracket. Small amount of extra wiring as 3 wire. The sensor is rated from 5v to 24v dc. I planned on wiring 12v but without butchering more wiring in fusebox for an ign live, i decided to give it a go on the ecu sensor 5v circuit, using sensor earth on ecu and vss pin.

The spec sheet says give it a 1k pullup at 5v and ecumaster has that selectable on the ecu so no adding external pullup resistors.

I was not really confident this would work on the 182 abs ring, as the spec sheet has minimum specs for tooth height, gap etc and the 182 abs ring is a fair bit smaller than suggested.

With the send it, it will either read or not approach, i fired the car up with front end on axle stands and ran it up in gear. It only reported vss frequency on the logs straight away so was a goer.

Initially it said aomething daft like 180kmh at 20mph, messed about with the frequency divider setting it at 4, and fine tuning with the speed ratio i managed to get it to read about c**k on with oem speedo in kmh of course as metric only.
 

Took it out and with the mrs driving, i set up the gear calculations so the ecu knows what gear we are in. This is done by viewing the gear ratio log, and inputting the average of the numbers logged on each step when in gear as seen below in green.
 

As no gear sensor on the box, gear selection is calculated by rpm & wheel speed (might be wrong but im fairly confident). Anyway it appears to work well, with tunerview actually logging gear selected for first time ever. Prob still needs a little tweak, im sure Chris @ EfiParts will fine tune it on the dyno if needs be.
 

Vss should add a few nice features. Oem stuff like throttle strategies for increased idle when rolling up to junctions out of gear. Possibly throttle blipper but might not work without gear sensor.

The spicey stuff like boost by gear, rolling anti lag, launch etc should work though. With the f4r being piss weak ill prob not use the latter two but boost by gear will be superb.

Yesterday, i knocked up a small loom to add a couple more switches on the ecumaster canbus switchboard yesterday in the sacrificial dash panel. Daft hours work.

Both setup in ecu and working. Not sure what to use them for yet. Poss sport throttle map and linear for street. Maybe rolling anti lag (Danger to manifold?!)

If none of the above ill be boring and hook up cruise on it. We will see.

Fingers crossed that we can see some good power tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!!

[Brigsy]

Updates.

 

Trip down to EfiParts in the clio 182 Trophy on Sat for a pm dyno/mapping slot. Worst weather possible, of course! Non stop torrential rain..i honestly didnt feel like going on the morning as i hate driving this in the rain. Not because im precious/scared of rain as the car is well protected from the elements, its the fact its got semi slicks on, plate diff etc. Basically constant correction of steering so you cannot relax. Just not fun to drive unless dry. s**t slow driving and aquaplaning all over the place when hitting ruts on dual carriageways.

As most people in the uk cant acutually drive, the journey took 4 hours and just stop start traffic. Twin plate clutch and snappy throttle for miles and miles. Painful.

Arrived at Efi just in time for 330pm slot. Lashing down. Orange clio as backup full of tools and other s**t that might be useful. A nice supercharged 197 was being finished off so short wait and strapped on.

Last time it was mapped we had an untuneable area around 6500rpm with lean fuelling which was deemed to be a fuel resonance issue basically it needs 40-50% more injector dutation at 6500 or it will go super lean. I had changed fuel pump for a larger 400lph aem unit and needed more diagnostics in a controlled enviroment. 

The new fuel pump did not cure the issue sadly. We done the below over 4 hours diag on the dyno.

1. Added 1mtr of rubber fuel pipe between fuel rail and fuel pressure regulator to dampen fuel pulses. No change proving not a fuel resonance issue.

2. Changed/took different approaches on the software i.e. injection angle etc. No change. Ecu datalogs not giving us any real area to target.

3. Changed injectors for new 980cc incase something funky going on. No change. Checked current injectors on ansu machine and all OK..

4. Disconnected vvt solenoid for a run to give us an idea if something funky going on with vvt. No change.

5. Added fuel agressively to the ve map at the lean spot. Fuel curve is crap but you can run it to the 7800rpm limiter at that. Didnt give much, if any more data to look at.

6. Tried my spare ecumaster black ecu to check nothing funky going on with injector drivers. Again no change.

To sum it up we tried everything bolt on. Deemed mechanical issue.

Air to fuel ratio shown below with lean spot around 6500rpm.

Massive thanks again to Chris @EfiTuning for his patience with this one. Invaluable diagnostics in a controlled environment.

After discussing the issue, its looking likely that the valve springs are doing something floaty around that rpm. It has dual valve springs in currently, and its either floating or lack of control.

Plan is to pull the head off over winter, change inlet cam as current one is quite wild and prob too much overlap, catcams valve springs in to mirror my Kangoo head and cam setup setup which is verified working OK.

We will get there eventually. Itll defo do the numbers as with a full pull 270hp is easy at 7psi boost which is wastegate pressure.

[Brigsy]

On Sunday i give it a clean up as was pitted. Ready for winter layup.

 

Looks pretty but not there yet. Off with the head over winter!!

[Brigsy]

Updates.

Orange clio has been daily for last 3 weeks. Its running great, done almost 1500 miles in it.

Blue dci mot due this week. Front tyres were low with them on the wear bars on inner/outer and 3mm or so in the inside. I reckoned up and i think ive done around 35'000 on the Michelin Crossclimates which is awesome value for money, whereas a cheap set of yokos lasted 8000 miles (buy cheap, buy twice etc). So on with a fresh pair of Michelin Crossclimates last Sunday, ready for winter use.

 

Both dci's washed on Thursday. Rinsed using the di vessel, great finish with no watermarks. 

Blue dci was passed mot today with no advisories. Mot testers comments - "clean for an old car". Current mileage 204718, not gone up much this month due to using the orange dci.

I have a few work site visits planned so bo doubt mileage will increase quite a bit soon.

Thanks for reading!!

[Matty]

Brilliant thread this.

[Tickman]

7 hours ago, Matty said:

Brilliant thread this.

Very much this.

[DSdriver]

As @Matty says, great reading. A lot of this tuning stuff goes over the top of my head as my motorsport days ended in about 1974 with the birth of my son. In those days a twin choke webber and big bore exhaust was all that was needed to make a car competion ready.

[vtec-e]

14 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

As @Matty says, great reading. A lot of this tuning stuff goes over the top of my head as my motorsport days ended in about 1974 with the birth of my son. In those days a twin choke webber and big bore exhaust was all that was needed to make a car competion ready.

And if we were pushing the boat out, then a change of brake pads and a 'wilder' cam shaft 😃