Nafoff
ClioSport Club Member
UPDATE:
So Sunday saw the day when we aimed to fire the car up. I was bricking it to be honest. It has sat for about 8 years as an engine so I didn't know what to think would happen although it has currently held all its fluids and Chris had previously mentioned that compression seemed good.
There were a couple of things to do/check first before we tried to fire it up. First thing was to fit the Yozzasport decat pipe in an attempt to quieten it down just a little bit on starting. With a new Renault fitting kit and some awkward knuckle scraping we got this on.
Next up was to take the battery off the c-tek charger, check the Armteck battery isolator was wired correctly and then wire the battery into the car.
With this all done we set to the starting procedure. First up was to check the electrics:
Pressing 'on' and the dash lit up and the fuel pump kicked in, it was awesome seeing it come into life, by the fact this worked meant the external cut-off button was working (it won't run without it, but we checked it anyways and we then checked the lights...
Indicators all good, 1 rear bulb out I think and the rear numberplate light isn't working - I will look at that in due course. The headlights also worked but we had wired them up slightly wrong so the car looked crosseyed, easy to sort and a switch of pins in the connectors saw them all good.
Headlights
Flash
Next up was some of the other items, mainly the wiper. This wasn't playing ball and shorted, blowing the fuse. I have not had chance to look at this yet but it may be something that gets sorted in the snag list later on.
Whilst myself and James were chatting it was thought that we would not be able to start the car as the fuelling map would not know what to do however whilst sorting the previously mentioned headlights we notice that fuel was indeed being pumped to the fuel rail, this was evident not only by smell but a small leak.
Having made up the fuel lines myself I was convinced it was me error, but it appeared not. My connections were good and it happened to be the fact that the connection was between a soft connector and a steel fuel rail. A lot of mopping up and cleaning the threads on both items before re-tightening seemed to solve the issue.
This pretty much meant everything should be ok to turn the car over, however the battery was not playing ball and as we had bean sorting testing all the other elements it had ran out of juice and we had nothing else to support it with. It may be shot as it has been stood for a long period, again something else that may have to be on the snag list.
After tidying up we did manage to crack it once (without the plugs in) starter was all good and it fired out the tissue bungs in the plug holes, promising.... but no more could be checked. dam....
With that in mind I spoke to Troy at Northampton Motorsport and told him the score so he could decide the best plan of action and whether I still took it to him. He was totally understanding and said bring it up anyways and the issues can be run through along with some of the other items he will need to look at. This re-assured me quite a bit as there are a fair few things different between my set-up now and the previous set-up (what the ECU knows) so the move to the exhaust builder and the mapper are still planned for next week.
With that in mind there are a couple tiny bits to tie up,
Fitting some check straps so the doors don't go walkies.
Fitting the new catch tank I ordered
Fitting the Pure motorsport Cam casing mount that I didn't even know I didn't have.
Fit bonnet
and then making some ramps to help get the car out of the garage.... more nerves to play with.
So Sunday saw the day when we aimed to fire the car up. I was bricking it to be honest. It has sat for about 8 years as an engine so I didn't know what to think would happen although it has currently held all its fluids and Chris had previously mentioned that compression seemed good.
There were a couple of things to do/check first before we tried to fire it up. First thing was to fit the Yozzasport decat pipe in an attempt to quieten it down just a little bit on starting. With a new Renault fitting kit and some awkward knuckle scraping we got this on.
Next up was to take the battery off the c-tek charger, check the Armteck battery isolator was wired correctly and then wire the battery into the car.
With this all done we set to the starting procedure. First up was to check the electrics:
Pressing 'on' and the dash lit up and the fuel pump kicked in, it was awesome seeing it come into life, by the fact this worked meant the external cut-off button was working (it won't run without it, but we checked it anyways and we then checked the lights...
Indicators all good, 1 rear bulb out I think and the rear numberplate light isn't working - I will look at that in due course. The headlights also worked but we had wired them up slightly wrong so the car looked crosseyed, easy to sort and a switch of pins in the connectors saw them all good.
Headlights
Flash
Next up was some of the other items, mainly the wiper. This wasn't playing ball and shorted, blowing the fuse. I have not had chance to look at this yet but it may be something that gets sorted in the snag list later on.
Whilst myself and James were chatting it was thought that we would not be able to start the car as the fuelling map would not know what to do however whilst sorting the previously mentioned headlights we notice that fuel was indeed being pumped to the fuel rail, this was evident not only by smell but a small leak.
Having made up the fuel lines myself I was convinced it was me error, but it appeared not. My connections were good and it happened to be the fact that the connection was between a soft connector and a steel fuel rail. A lot of mopping up and cleaning the threads on both items before re-tightening seemed to solve the issue.
This pretty much meant everything should be ok to turn the car over, however the battery was not playing ball and as we had bean sorting testing all the other elements it had ran out of juice and we had nothing else to support it with. It may be shot as it has been stood for a long period, again something else that may have to be on the snag list.
After tidying up we did manage to crack it once (without the plugs in) starter was all good and it fired out the tissue bungs in the plug holes, promising.... but no more could be checked. dam....
With that in mind I spoke to Troy at Northampton Motorsport and told him the score so he could decide the best plan of action and whether I still took it to him. He was totally understanding and said bring it up anyways and the issues can be run through along with some of the other items he will need to look at. This re-assured me quite a bit as there are a fair few things different between my set-up now and the previous set-up (what the ECU knows) so the move to the exhaust builder and the mapper are still planned for next week.
With that in mind there are a couple tiny bits to tie up,
Fitting some check straps so the doors don't go walkies.
Fitting the new catch tank I ordered
Fitting the Pure motorsport Cam casing mount that I didn't even know I didn't have.
Fit bonnet
and then making some ramps to help get the car out of the garage.... more nerves to play with.
