Regy53's Track supercharged Clio

[Regy53]

So its been a few weeks since the last update. this is a project on the side of my main business so we have looked to find time to get it back.


It got put onto the ramps and striped down in a big way. The coilovers were sent to Gaz for a recondition, although they only do the insides we tidied up the outsides using a bench grinder with a wire type wheel, and then added a light coat of hammerite. I sent the spings of to shotblast and powder coat as they were pretty messy


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great result in the end


The supercharger was leaking oil from the main seal, its a common thing. Also as you saw above it was pretty spent, the metal had eaten into the Aluminum so with the help of Supreme motorsport who told me about somebody who refurbs them I was able to send the charger off, he had a spare oil pump housing, i had all the bearings replaced for low friction ones and seals replaced at the same time. Reading about it some people suggest the bearing can help create up to a pound of boost so that will be interesting. At the same time i went for supreme motorsports charger mounting. Mine was done 7 years ago and was a flat plate of metal that actually used the air conditioning compressor to mount of. It meant the charger was literally in the front bumper and allowed for a very tight fitting air filter and to be honest a lot of weight on the front end. The kit from Supreme takes of the Air conditioning compressor itself which is fine as it was not connected anyway. The result will be a much nicer weight as well as a easier way to find a better air intake solution


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We spent a long time degreasing and cleaning the wheel arches while the liners were out. I also gave the calipers refurb with new seals. The old ones had blown all the paint and were disgusting underneith. These are temporary I just wanted to get the car back to working condition so I stripped the paint of again using the bench grinder steel wheel and a few other tools. Then just painted them with some high temp paint to hopefully match the fronts.

old

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new, i also gave the disk a little once over with a wheel and a light coat of paint which will clean up with some light braking. Fitted then with Ferodo DS2500 pads as the RS29's were spent.

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A lot of nuts and bolts were rusty, so these were all sanded back and given a coat of hammerite.


This weekend i set upon cleaning the front suspension area and scuttle panel, if you look at the history of this car it was so mint i had to get it like this. I forgot to get a full pic but even after a steam clean it was still so mucky so from this

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to

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however i soon realized i needed to do more, i pulled the windscreen trims to find


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Luckily i have a full plant workshop so i have a tool from autosmart which fires cleaning fluid and high pressure air (like a turbo nozle) out via the compressor which helped a lot in this clean. You can imagine as well i pulled the door seal off etc to clean that too


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Seeing what was under that made me thing i should probably remove the rear bumper to see what's there but luckily it wasn't to bad, i previously wanted to do this but the project was getting far to big

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So the front suspension is now on as is the rear and i can finally roll this car back to the wash bay to get in all the tough areas, it will then go back to the ramp to a bit more detailing, and then we will start on the charger mounting.


I also changed all the brake hoses including to the rear calipers with Supreme motorsport's braided version.


So lots going on but everywhere we turn the job gets a bit worse, at the same time we are getting through it and i'm happy with the progress made

 

[Bartleyl]

Hey bud currently in the process of sc my clio where do the supreme motorsport mounts mount the charger now? Have you found a better intake position?

 

[Regy53]

The suspension is all together and brakes back on. Bled up with some rbf600 fluid . New rear pads ( ds2500 ) The fronts are not the best but just want to get it running before going mad again


Cleaned up the rear end and got the bumper refitted loads better too


also got the cam belt replaced last week ... now we can really get traction in the new year getting it back together

 

[Regy53]

Its been some time since i updated and where do i start, very little work took place over the last 6 months, just been to busy, but managed to get the lads onto it this last few weeks and got her running and back on the ground, we was able to move the charger resivior to level to the charger to reduce load on the seals when stood, as well as moving the oil cooler
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We did things like new gearbox oil, new mud guards, cleaned the steering wheel. Went to it today for a MOT tommorow and the bottom ball joint is knocking. So its currently back on the ramp having it all stripped down to send to Supreme Motorsport for their uprated ball joints on both sides, I will also replace the drop links and rotation links at the same time and probably the front wheel bearings
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Frustrating as i had it booked it for a full alightment on the 31st
I also managed to give it a wash and a quick machine polish, amazing how much iron contaminants was on the car too

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[Regy53]

So I booked a MOT for this and noticed a slight knock on the steering.... back into the blooming workshop she went. Another quick message to Supreme and i ordered uprated bushes and arms for the car. My lads were struggling to remove the ball joints so we sent them to supreme who did some amount of decent work, aqua jetting the parts and fitting all the bits. New wheel bearings too


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Annoyingly the knock is still there, somebody has mentioned something to do with the but on the steering rack / column but not looked.

While its been sat on the ramp we have noticed a little coolant leak that just wets the hoses to drips, we couldn't find anything so the lads took the off and put them under a bit of pressure. The KTR coolant hoses have somehow got a few pin pricks in them which is weird, basically they have failed. I had the mot booked in so I didn't want to cancel AGAIN and i couldn't find a hose kit anywhere, i stuck a blob of glue on the pricks and wraped them with some sort of miracle tape from hellfords.

With the car pretty much fresh as they come I took it for a MOT which passed with flying color's, I got around 100 miles on the car and it was faultless, i noticed a drone on the rear which might be the old disks or even the calipers so I am going to get a set of refurbed calipers from Supreme and then change the disks out. I also managed to get a set of black coolant hoses also which are coming next week


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at the end of the day i parked it in my garage, it has been on a ramp for over a year so its a bit weird but under the garage door openers light the colour just pops like mad

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So until next week when it will go for a 4 wheel alignment on monday at northants motorsport then its back to the workshop for a little bit more works (hoses and brakes) then some new seats and im away.... lol

 

[Regy53]

So to keep this up to date.

Went of and had the roof rewrapped the old stuff came of ok given it was kept poorly in that time, also got a new sticker put on

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The 4 wheel alignment was carried out, had my second set of wheel powdercoated and fitted new MRF semi slicks , replaced coolant hoses due to a weep and booked a track day
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Everything went great for about 30 mins on track and I started to lose power and then got a huge whiff of fuel in the cabin, pulled in and couldnt find what it was but the catch tank was full of vapour which was weird. Called it a day and went home.

Upon looking at it we couldnt work out what was up so did a compression test. Found two cylinders low. I found a brand new forged engine for sale by Supreme motorsport who had decided to go a different way for his shop car. Its got forged rods / pistons, head work and lots of brand new nice stuff. Bought that up x mas last year. Car sat there all year untill yesterday where we had time in the workshop to strip the engine out and get this show on the road

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[Scotty_f80]

I’ve just read your whole thread and what an awesome car, it must shock a few people on track too although it seems you’ve had a bit of a hard time with it the second time around it’s a shame it was mistreated as it looked (looks again) a really clean car.

I have a 197 for track and i’m thinking about going down the supercharger route (research brought me to your thread) as I think they’re great on track but I’d like that bit more power.
Im guessing sourcing the parts separately to make the kit could work out quite a bit cheaper especially if a rebuilt supercharger could be found?
Also what have you done or doing with the old engine?

 

[Regy53]

I’ve just read your whole thread and what an awesome car, it must shock a few people on track too although it seems you’ve had a bit of a hard time with it the second time around it’s a shame it was mistreated as it looked (looks again) a really clean car.

I have a 197 for track and i’m thinking about going down the supercharger route (research brought me to your thread) as I think they’re great on track but I’d like that bit more power.
Im guessing sourcing the parts separately to make the kit could work out quite a bit cheaper especially if a rebuilt supercharger could be found?
Also what have you done or doing with the old engine?

Cheers, just seen this sorry

A lot more supercharged clips out there now, this was or is the original from 2012.
I diddnt really feel the need for more power really apart from say the long back straght at Bedford where it lacked passed 120 . I have seen upward of 350 on stock internals but I doubt it’s reliable at all.
The supercharger bracket is the only thing you need to buy really as it’s done and dusted then. Rest you could do as you wish I suppose . Good luck