Paulr1980

Thanks for the offer John but my car's not ready yet. I'm still saving to strip the engine down and do a top end rebuild and chuck a new clutch in... plus oil cooler, alu rad etc etc. I'd be paranoid about it running into trouble at the moment. I'll be there on the 20th but not in my car (I'll be in a black 205 on twin 40's). Perhaps I could blag a passenger lap?

Try dropping it in quite hot water for a minute or so. unless it's very far gone then you can bring most clay back from the brink.

I've been wondering this for ages. I bought a c to make it into a track car based road car (ie I'm keeping the stereo lol). Everyone seems to buy golf's, 205's etc etc and the poor C gets overlooked. I never see them at track days or at least very rarely. Price wise, you can get a better valver for your modest £1300 than you can a golf... They arguably handle better and look a lot nicer. Any ideas?

ya' see it doesn't do that... It's fine giving it some welly in any gear and doesn't slip at all. Boiled clutch fluid maybe?

Biting point is about 3 inches from the top so it seems like there's some life left in it. It's holding it's bite ok from cold with the handbrake on but goes weak once you're on and off the clutch in heavy traffic.

Argh... middle of saving up for my bike carbs and my clutch starts to judder as soon as I'm in traffic for a few minutes and it gets hot. Pressure plate? Any other ideas? I'm uprating everything that breaks so is there a better one than OE that can be recommended then please say. Also, is there anything particularly troublesome with swapping out a clutch on a c? Thanks guys

I've just fitted new brakes and used pagid FR and am loving them now they've bedded in.. am yet to get them to fade. I'm annoyed that they've ditched them. The problem with greenstuff is that you never know whether you've got old stock on your car until it's too late. I'm sure that their new stuff is ok but I'd be staying away incase I get old stock.

Cheers Dave.. I'll let them know to build one into the manifold.

the guys making my bike carbs manifold need to know whether the inlet mani has a brake servo attachment? help!!?

That would be great, cheers beige. I need to know whether there is brake servo take off on the inlet manifold. I'm being lazy but the people that are building my manifold need to know and I'm at work in a suit.. not good for routing around under the bonnet. Has the ignition caused any problems? Is he running an electric fuel pump or just standard kit with a filter king/similar? Any space issues? Any general advice?

I don't suppose he would mind me picking his brains at all?

It would be but carbs need no ECU so set up costs are far cheaper. My C was always going to be a budget track car so whatever I do will be at the cheaper end of the spectrum.

I've heard of people doing that.. Never looked into though as I figured that it would be better to be able to manually adjust fuel pressure using a regulator.

I was told that if I used a filter king and set it to a low pressure rating then I'll be ok. I'll look into it as I don't want any greif come fitting time. Any suggestions coxy?

I thought I'd start a thread to document my bike carbs conversion. So far I've ordered my carbs and have paid for them.. I've gone for ZX9R carbs from a 51 plate bike that's being broken. Reason being, they have nice big 39mm chokes and are far cheaper than R1 carbs which are more widely used due to Bogg Bros preffering them. In reality the ZX9R carbs are fine and should flow at least as much as a pair of 45DCOE's. The other useful thing is that as they are CV carbs, they are constantly fuelling correctly, kind of like running a live map on an ECU. I initially was going to have the manifold and carbs rebuilt and jetted by Bogg bros, but they charge too much in my opinion for what they do. I was quoted £240 for me to send my carbs to them.. have them rebuilt and a manifold made up. I know that thats still cheap but I was certain I could find an alternative. I'm now using KNN manifolds. They normally do Ford engines and hence have all the right CAD designs for the inlet but after some discussion, have agreed to take mine on. I've got to send an inlet manifold gasket off... they'll do a CAD design of it and run a mild steel template for me to line up against the head. I'll need to make any adjustments to the mild steel template and send it back to them (with my carbs). At this point, they'll redisgn the profile of the inlet side of the manifold and rebuild my carbs using an equally spaced design as opposed to Bogg bros spacing the manifold differently. It doesn't make a dramatic difference but could affect the outer two cylinders running slightly lean. Having an equally spaced manifold means that KNN will make up new fuel lines to suit. They'll then jet the carbs for me to a best guess approach which will be good enough until I get to a dyno. They are confident that it'll be 'near as dammit' though. The whole process will take two months which I'm gonna be itching about but still... at least the jobs being done properly and for sensible money. I'll then need to cobble a throttle bracket up and use a push bike rear brake cable as a throttle cable. Lastly I'm going to buy a filter king FPR and set it to a max of 2psi (bike carbs need very little fuel pressure). The whole thing should cost about £350 and at the moment I've yet to see what gains it'll give on a KR but I'm up for something different. Before anyone says it. I know that K-Jet will be fine up to 200 bhp but I like being different and the sound should be magnificent. :) I'll get pics up of everything as I go along and will also put a dyno graph on at the end of it all.. Not sure if it helps anyone decide what to do but I've been hunting away for weeks looking for fragments of info, so maybe me doing a build review will help. Thanks Paul

Myself and my mates are doing a ring run in July (6th I believe) for four days... Is anyone else interested in coming along...? You will need to sort out your own crossing and accomodation as we've all booked now but you'd be welcome to convoy with us etc.. Ta Paul

The more the merrier! Shall I start a new thread... I think I shall :)

I'm going to the ring in July so if any other rado'ers (ahem) want to come then drop me a PM and tag along... This is the list of cars in our group so far... Lotus Elise Lotus Exige S (series 2) Porsche Cayman MINI Cooper S Works Mitsi EVO FQ340 Porsche 944 Turbo Bike carb'd KR corrado :) There's a couple more that need to confirm aswell... :) the sportier ones haha

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Momo Corse 320mm. Much nicer to drive with than the oe wheel. Got it off ebay for £16 and its mint!!

They are made by Alessio and are pretty bad quality if I remember correctly.

BTJ, All good info there apart from the Mi16 and 205 Gti engines.. I've into pugs for years and know the engines inside out. The 106GTi engine is strange. They used different engine mounts for that engine than most common pug engines.. Transplants are very uncommon anyway due to the power you can get out of them. I've seen an Mi16'd 106 GTi but bang for buck it wasn't worth it. Lots of engine mount fabrication and nightmare engine loom. Had to run tb's IRC. I've never seen and XU1900 (205 Gti) engined 106, it wouldn't be worth putting a poor engine design with a single cam 8v that struggles to make more than 180bhp at full tune including forged pistons and high compression, into a car with an engine that will get that without bottom end work. If you go forced induction that go for a supercharger. I've seen a few that have done very well and seem reliable. I think I've seen a dozen turbo'd 106 GTi's and very few made good power and had some reliabilty.. most were a liability! Great cars though... Would look great with (my wish list) 16" Speedline Turini's in gunmetal and 195/40 continental tyres Skip Brown suspension (Bilstein and SBC springs) Peugeot Sport exhaust and ram air 286 Piper cams Flowed and ported head 4 branch supersprint manifold flowed inlet with bigger TB That would be a quick car!

female blow up doll passenger? Great in a traffic jam