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Nath's RB track car build
- Thread starter nath&alex
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Even my old ph1 was picked up on the mot for rubbing rear arches and its this high lol
Thought I'd have a bit of a look through my parts box, as after looking at @Stu. Sunflower build I wondered whether there was a few bits I still needed for my engine refresh
Now I'm going to get myself a meg crankshaft sprocket, but I think I need the camshaft seals as I can't seem to find them. I've got the blanks with the cam belt kit. Got a bottom end gasket set but could do with some pointers as to whats what
Now I'm going to get myself a meg crankshaft sprocket, but I think I need the camshaft seals as I can't seem to find them. I've got the blanks with the cam belt kit. Got a bottom end gasket set but could do with some pointers as to whats what
That's not all of them
Well I had a quick hour tonight after getting my parts out.
Thought I'd do a couple of easy wins, one to get the parts out of the box and two its not an issue to have the on the car.
So I set about removing the rear dampers to change them for my new cup ones
Oh yeah and I've fitted the power flex black top bushes on them as well
As always with a car that seen the UK for many years, plenty of easing oil was used to assist removal
New damper fitted on the passenger side, not bothered with my cooksport springs until my spare rear beam is ready and since I haven't bought the PMS strengthening kit yet
I decided I removed the fubar'd rear exhaust mount
All done on passenger side, new damper and mount
I did the same on the drivers side, those with a keen eye may have noticed my inner OCD has come out with the positioning of the damper rods!!
Anyway, thanks for looking
Thought I'd do a couple of easy wins, one to get the parts out of the box and two its not an issue to have the on the car.
So I set about removing the rear dampers to change them for my new cup ones
Oh yeah and I've fitted the power flex black top bushes on them as well
As always with a car that seen the UK for many years, plenty of easing oil was used to assist removal
New damper fitted on the passenger side, not bothered with my cooksport springs until my spare rear beam is ready and since I haven't bought the PMS strengthening kit yet
I decided I removed the fubar'd rear exhaust mount
All done on passenger side, new damper and mount
I did the same on the drivers side, those with a keen eye may have noticed my inner OCD has come out with the positioning of the damper rods!!
Anyway, thanks for looking
Well I've done about an hour tonight, nothing exciting really
Changed the little exhaust mount about half way up the exhaust for one of the new design ones.
Did a little bit of tidying as my garage is a bit of a tip, not helped by Captain Chaos
Then I moved on to doing a bit more to help along the engine removal, so I removed the gearbox oil in preparation for the driveshafts to be removed. Even though it was very manky oil the good news is it did not have any metal filings etc in it @Feirny thinks I should stick a Quaife in it while I have it off but that wasn't really figured out in my budget. I appreciate it'll make a difference, but it does mean I would have to take the JC5 apart which I'm not scared of doing but just don't want to f@@k anything up. Plus I believe from what I've read the crown wheel will need to be machined so the Quaife can fit in it. Does anyone have experience with this? I can get the machining done at work
Anyway off to bed, thanks for looking
Changed the little exhaust mount about half way up the exhaust for one of the new design ones.
Did a little bit of tidying as my garage is a bit of a tip, not helped by Captain Chaos
Then I moved on to doing a bit more to help along the engine removal, so I removed the gearbox oil in preparation for the driveshafts to be removed. Even though it was very manky oil the good news is it did not have any metal filings etc in it
@Feirny thinks I should stick a Quaife in it while I have it off but that wasn't really figured out in my budget. I appreciate it'll make a difference, but it does mean I would have to take the JC5 apart which I'm not scared of doing but just don't want to f@@k anything up. Plus I believe from what I've read the crown wheel will need to be machined so the Quaife can fit in it. Does anyone have experience with this? I can get the machining done at work Anyway off to bed, thanks for looking
Quick search on the internet brought up this
http://rsxracingsolutions.com/downloads/projects/torsen-jb3-jc5-ing.pdf
Anyone actually have one in use?
@NorthloopCup Can you give me some pointers?
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
What areas in particular mate? Quaife or the torsen? I've no experience of the torsen diffs at all, but the quaifes require the crownwheel/diff machining to effectively lock the crownwheel to each other. It's a half and half job, so 50% of the ball bearing is in the crownwheel and the other 50 is in the diff - hard to explain, so I'll take a pic of mine and put it up so you can see mate. If your wanting a Quaife let me know as I can get them for an all in price (diff+machining and fitting of cw+posted back to you) but be aware they're dearer than the torsen.
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
Am interested dependant on price?? Thanks for the info buddy, you got anything on the JC5?
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
Your looking at about £1030 mate all in. Like I say - pricey.
What info you after for the jc5 mate? In stripping down terms they're a bit of a t**t tbh! Splitting the casings to get access to the diff/gears is awkward, oh and they wear the coupling teeth on the gear rather than the synchro itself!
A general arrangement drawing of the box would be good, or a copy of the renault manual. I have read there is one, but not seen any floating about
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
What's your email address buddy? Got the manual.
FRP - Clio 182
Lovely build this, look forward to updates.
Well quick update for tonight, had a couple of hours on it
Again I had issues with age related problems this evening, I was unable to get the driveshaft nuts off even with my big bar so had to remove them with the hub to get them out of the way. So that ate up a lot of time messing about getting everything undone. So the hub/driveshaft is something I will have to address later.
I also had issues with removing the front damper top mount nut when stripping even though I used plenty of easing oil. Not sure whether someone went OTT when they last had them off, but managed to bend my 6mm allen key socket
Having issues with photo stream this evening so no pictures again!!
Well on another note I have purchased pure motorsports gear linkage kit and also the rear beam strengthening kit. So I plan to modify the spare rear beam I have, it came of a cup packed 182 I believe some time ago from @Coops Turbo
Anyway thanks for looking
Again I had issues with age related problems this evening, I was unable to get the driveshaft nuts off even with my big bar so had to remove them with the hub to get them out of the way. So that ate up a lot of time messing about getting everything undone. So the hub/driveshaft is something I will have to address later.
I also had issues with removing the front damper top mount nut when stripping even though I used plenty of easing oil. Not sure whether someone went OTT when they last had them off, but managed to bend my 6mm allen key socket
Having issues with photo stream this evening so no pictures again!!
Well on another note I have purchased pure motorsports gear linkage kit and also the rear beam strengthening kit. So I plan to modify the spare rear beam I have, it came of a cup packed 182 I believe some time ago from @Coops Turbo
Anyway thanks for looking
Great read!
Cheers matey, thanks for looking
Carbonraider
ClioSport Club Member
Raider, 172, the van
With regards to the driveshaft nuts I made the mistake of not removing them when stripping the car as I was in a rush to get it in for its cage. It was only last week I removed them and it was easy really.
Drill the nut in the 4 areas where there is no castellation and drive a punch down the hole to crack the nut. Hey presto spins off with ease
Drill the nut in the 4 areas where there is no castellation and drive a punch down the hole to crack the nut. Hey presto spins off with ease
Well I thought I better update my thread since I haven't really posted since February.
Unfortunately the sunflower hasn't progressed much since February as it has spent most of its time under a cover outside. The reason for this is we have been doing some garage remodelling!!
There is also a change of plan, I knew it was a CAT C/D when I got it but it has always been in the back of my mind. So I will taking a 450 mile round trip to pick up a very nice RB shell on saturday. I will then be finishing removing all the bits of the sunflower that I need, then splitting/scrapping the rest.
I'll try and be a bit more proactive in getting things done and posted on here
Unfortunately the sunflower hasn't progressed much since February as it has spent most of its time under a cover outside. The reason for this is we have been doing some garage remodelling!!
There is also a change of plan, I knew it was a CAT C/D when I got it but it has always been in the back of my mind. So I will taking a 450 mile round trip to pick up a very nice RB shell on saturday. I will then be finishing removing all the bits of the sunflower that I need, then splitting/scrapping the rest.
I'll try and be a bit more proactive in getting things done and posted on here
Well time for a quick update.....
As mentioned before I was going to pick up RB shell a yesterday, it was a just a shell so I had to draw up a list of what bits I would need to take to make it back into a rolling shell so I could stick on a car trailer. Here I have to make a special thank you to @George@RTR_Parts as without his excellent service I would have been short of some crucial parts!!
Here's my car packed up with everything I thought I need including lots of tools
So I got up at 02:45hrs yesterday, a mate from work then came round and we set of on our journey at 03:30hrs with a fantastic lighting show in the sky as there was a massive thunderstorm!! After a number of diversions on our route we finally arrived around 08:00hrs in Ashford, met up with Craig and deal was done. We set about putting stuff back on the car which unfortunately I haven't got pics of.
But we install:
Including loading up it took us 2 hours so by 10:00hrs we were heading back up North, with a stop for some food obviously!!
Now in position on my drive ready to steal some bits from the sunflower to make it whole again!! I am also collating a list of parts I need, first I think I need some window switches so I can close the drivers window!! Good job it didn't rain on the way home
If anyone can give pointers as to what colour wires I need to link together to get the window shut it will be greatly appreciated
Thanks for looking
As mentioned before I was going to pick up RB shell a yesterday, it was a just a shell so I had to draw up a list of what bits I would need to take to make it back into a rolling shell so I could stick on a car trailer. Here I have to make a special thank you to @George@RTR_Parts as without his excellent service I would have been short of some crucial parts!!
Here's my car packed up with everything I thought I need including lots of tools
So I got up at 02:45hrs yesterday, a mate from work then came round and we set of on our journey at 03:30hrs with a fantastic lighting show in the sky as there was a massive thunderstorm!! After a number of diversions on our route we finally arrived around 08:00hrs in Ashford, met up with Craig and deal was done. We set about putting stuff back on the car which unfortunately I haven't got pics of.
But we install:
- Swopped the 182 hubs for my 172 hubs
- Installed cup suspension with cooksport springs
- front discs and rear disc
- Pure motorsport stud kit
- 2118s
Including loading up it took us 2 hours so by 10:00hrs we were heading back up North, with a stop for some food obviously!!
Now in position on my drive ready to steal some bits from the sunflower to make it whole again!! I am also collating a list of parts I need, first I think I need some window switches so I can close the drivers window!! Good job it didn't rain on the way home
If anyone can give pointers as to what colour wires I need to link together to get the window shut it will be greatly appreciated
Thanks for looking
WHAAAA!
No more sunflower? this makes me sad.
What do you reckon will be left once uve taken all the stuff you need from it?
No more sunflower? this makes me sad.
What do you reckon will be left once uve taken all the stuff you need from it?
I shouldnt even be thinking about this lol!
I'll keep my eye in here.... i may be interested haha
I'll keep my eye in here.... i may be interested haha
Well if you're interested, I need rid as I want to get the RB in the garage Where abouts are you? I am Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Well quick update
Went for a walk up Whernside in the dales yesterday so though it would be rude not to pop into @16xe_chris (CM Composites) to pick up one of his fibreglass bonnets as I'm missing a bonnet. I also picked up one of his super light fibreglass Cup spoilers to go with my fibreglass bootlid I got from him earlier. Anyway here's some pics
Went for a walk up Whernside in the dales yesterday so though it would be rude not to pop into @16xe_chris (CM Composites) to pick up one of his fibreglass bonnets as I'm missing a bonnet. I also picked up one of his super light fibreglass Cup spoilers to go with my fibreglass bootlid I got from him earlier. Anyway here's some pics
All sorts
Good bit of weight to be saved in those spoilers
Do we have to make the cut out for the light ourselves?
All sorts
No point in running the high brake light as that's added weight
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
It's a shame you didn't opt to smooth over the area where the 3rd brake light is mate, as without the light there it just looks a bit weird if that makes sense? I like the embossed logo though mate, nice touch! :up:
All sorts
That did cross my mind about cutting it out and smoothing it across but then I thought people might not like that option, decisions decisions ha ha
I'd have bought it like that!!
Blatant plugging your own products!!!
Did the weight test when I got home and yes quite clearly your FG bonnet is lighter than the PH1 alloy bonnet :wink:
Thats what I said :up:
NorthloopCup
ClioSport Moderator
Great minds and all that! LolThats what I said :up:
