Adeys 1996 PMT Renault Clio mk1 turbo (target 13sec sqm)

Once it was home i started in the bay, it had had been properly lashed into place and though it worked, some parts of it were a little bodge even by my standards.











after a little look over things i came up with a small action plan, including wheels and more power

Ended up cutting more of the bumper than I wanted but did my best to keep it hidden. will tidy it up a little at somepoint. Also fitted a big filter that's cheap as chips new. This one was donated from a mate and has to be better than the eBay special rusty wire filter that was on there. They cost £13 new and fit with the cheap as chips ethos of this car.

I found a fog light blank in the boot so used some tiger seal to hold it in place, hides the pipework some more but need to find a drivers side one to match.

With a little help from Sparkysparks (he has a 172 clio mk1 on here i think) sending me some wiring diagrams I was able to re pin and trace all the correct wiring and add some where needed, still need to work on the temperature side of things but the wiring and dash side of it work fine so I think the sensor might be goosed. Rev counter now works fine so the dash was fully re fitted. I also re fixed some of the dash location fixings, not overly interesting but getting there now. Still some wiring to finish tidying in the bay but the bulk of what I wanted to get sorted is there.

few more pics with the wheels on

Engage full traveller mode and making bits from the scrap pile.

downpipe knocked up as a temp thing down at a mates garage/workshop, works well just needs some final welding to be a perm fixture

Also managed to swap out the little 1.5 inch exhaust for a 2.5 inch side exit that i found cheap needing re welding.

I think we are kinda up to date now. Plans going forward are to get it running 13s on the quarter. Its been relieved of a little weight and the carb re jetted for the bigger flowing turbo. Some might of noticed in the first pics it had a race number in the rear screen, just before i got it the chap who owned it took it to pod. It ran 16.2sec at 83mph. I managed to get it to shakey for a couple of runs before the track was closed. At the same boost but with bigger turbo, exhaust and intercooler it went 15.1 at 94mph. 11mph increase on terminal is a decent jump in power. It will do another half second off that with no changes but bags of wheel spin didnt help and lack of practice really killed it. A car crashed out causing the track to be closed so i didnt get any more runs in.

Nice work! I am restoring a genuine Dimma Clio, slowly getting there. Cracking little cars but they do love to rust!!

Popped the new header tank on even though everything else looks a mess. Marked up the downpipe for welding whilst there, hopefully itll be the last time i need to remove it. I have been donated some second hand exhaust wrap so ill do that too before fitting.