NRY turbo project

[r5 rich]

As some of you may or may not know, I am the person who has actually bought the legendary clio maxi turbo. Between Neil and myself we come to an agreement on the price of the car and then the chase was on to collect it which nearly didn`t happen due to problem with the car we was going to use to collect the car and blowing the engine the night before collection but luckily a kind person off RTOC come to the rescue with his recovery truck.

My main aim is to use the engine block itself but sell many of the parts off due to wanting more power and to also put it into the new naples that I bought to keep it look o.e on the outside for the sleeper look and then sell the maxi as a standard 1.8 16v lump with some extras but so as many as its had which will be removed from the naples which is a 70k engine

the naples after driving her back


the naples and also my other turbo which is my astra coupe bertone (which is for sale!0


The new parts which I will be going for will include (at present, it could all change!):
38mm turbosmart wastegate
t3/t4 garrett rollerbearing turbo with 50 comp wheel and .63 rear housing
custom made manifold for external wastegate
3" custome made downpipe
3" custom made exhaust
siemens deka 570cc injectors (which may be upped)
adaptronic ecu with custom made loom


the spec list of the car when I bought it before stripping!

Engine
F7P 1.8 Litre 16-Valve
De-stressed and chemically cleaned to remove carbon and then acid dipped to remove scaly corrosion deposits from water ways.
Re-bored with main caps fitted to suit piston size.
Minimal surface reface for blueprinting
All Headbolt and Main bolt threads are re-cut and cleaned
Engine block is painted externally with a blue paint to enhance appearance.
Turbo oil drain fitting
Wossener 8.0:1 82.7mm Forged Pistons
Reworked And Balanced Crank
Brand New Megane Oil Pump
Baffled Sump
Modified Main Bearings
Arrow Steel Rods And ARP Bolts
Uprated Main Bolts
Wire Ringed Block
Standard Payne Head Gasket
APD Big Valve Head With Megane Inlets
Piper High Lift Short Duration Turbo Cams
Catcam Adjustable Pulleys
Standard Head Bolts
Green High Flow 803 Injectors
Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator @ 3.5 bar
Garrett GT28RS Dual Roller Bearing Turbo
Uprated 15psi Actuator
Braided Oil Feed Line
Pace Chargecooler System
Mocal 13 row Oil Cooler With Thermostatic Take Off Plate
Forge Atmospheric Dump Valve
Boost gauge
Low Temp Thermostat
Low Temp Fan Switch
Samco Cooling Hoses
Uprated Radiator
Braided Fuel Lines
Uprated Evo Fuel Pump
Fastchips 250bhp @ 15psi chip with 9.5k limiter
Pipercross Induction Kit (located in scuttle)
Heat Wrapped BBPT High Nickle Manifold
BBPT Stainless Downpipe
Stainless-steel Adjustable Decat
Stainless-steel Mongoose Full System
All New Engine Mounts
R19 4th Engine Mount
Carbon Fibre Engine Covers
Chrome Plated Rocker Cover
Chrome Plated Inlet Manifold
Chrome Plated Fuel Rail
Chrome Plated Cam Belt Cover
Carbon Fibre Heatshields

Transmission
JC5 Williams New Gearbox
Gripper L.S.D
Shot Peened And Polished Gearsets
Rebuilt By Bernie At C.P.S With Lots Of Internal Mods
B+M Quickshift Lever
Helix paddle clutch
Uprated Sprung Cover
Uprated Release Bearing
Brand New Drive shafts

Brakes
Hi-Spec 4-pot Alloy Front Calipers
325mm Grooved Vented Discs With Alloy Bells
EBC Greenstuff Pads (awaiting a change)
Braided Brake Hoses Front And Rear
All New Copper/nickel Brake Lines
Brand New Standard Rear Brakes

Suspension
Leda Adjustable Coilovers
Standard Wishbone Bushes
Powerflex ARB bushes
Carbon Front Strut Brace
30mm Eibach Spacers

Wheels & Tyres
Azev A,s 8.5 x 18 Wheels
Eibach 30mm (per side) Pro Spacers
225/35/18 Goodyear Eagle F1

Body
Full Maxi Bodykit(new shell awiating soon)
Carisma Renault 5 Rear Spoiler Cut and Lengthened 150mm
Modified Sills
Removed Rear Wiper
Removed Boot Lock
Removed Door Locks
Audi Door Handles
Removed And Smoothed Roof Rails
Removed And Smoothed Side Mouldings
Fitted Peugoet 306 Lights
Full respray in Triumph Roulette Green
Debadged Bonnet
Debadged and Smoothed Tailgate
Bonnet Modified For 306 Lights(carbon bonnet waiting to go on)
Removed Side-repeaters
Tinted Window Kit
Fixed Rear Windows
Phase Two Rear Lights
Alloy Maxi Style Fuel Filter
Spare Wheel Removed
Custom Dtm Mirrors
Single Wiper Conversion

Interior
Momo Steering Wheel
Rear Stripped(awaiting my Genesis and Focal install not yet fitted)
Cobra Evo Bucket Seat On Custom Made Subframes
Luke 4 Point Harness
Custom Built Roll Cage
Battery Box In Passenger Rear Foot well




I actually purchased the clio on 1st May 2011, and it took me in total a 13 hour round trip to collect the thing!
The car on the recovery truck:

The car in its state the morning after once I woke up:









Due to wanting more power the following parts were sold or are still for sale:
pace charge cooler (will be in the way of my turbo and external wastegate set up)


forge dump valve (never liked the noise myself):

carbon covers (going standard painted):

bucket subframes (williams interior ready to put back in):

manifold, downpipe and de-cat (going external wastegate and bigger downpipe and exhaust)

chipped high boost ecu (going standalone adaptronic ecu)

scuttle induction (will clash with the new turbo and external wastegate set up)

bucket seats (putting a standard williams interior back in with the rear seats)

garrett gt28rs turbo (to small for what I want as going t3/t4 turbo!)

[r5 rich]

first thing for me to do when I got the car was to attack the interior. It was dirty inside and covered in cob webs and smelt funny so there was only one thing to do, throw the carpet and underlay away and start again and once I did this I found the underlay soaking wet so was the best thing.

as it was:





seats removed:




carpet removed and lots of stero wiring still installed:

[Brigsy]

My god that looks horrendous with that bonnet, spoiler and tacky yellow wheels on a green car. I would have been tempted to de-barry the bodywork and paint/sticker it up like a works clio maxi, set of speedlines and you would be away

[r5 rich]

My god that looks horrendous with that bonnet, spoiler and tacky yellow wheels on a green car. I would have been tempted to de-barry the bodywork and paint/sticker it up like a works clio maxi, set of speedlines and you would be away

I would have done the same but:

>bonnet has been modified for the 306 headlights
>spoiler has been properly cut and fitted as it is a r5 carisma spoiler which has been smoothed so would have been a new boot job
> wheels are 8.5j wide and still run 30mm spacers so putting 17's on still would have slowed the car down still would not have filled the arches out as much as I have wanted even with the 18's it didnt work
>roll cage has been welded and I want to keep the interior standard for the o.e sleeper look
>and as you said would have needed a respray. Easier job and less costly buy a o.eish valver

[sieger]

looks like a nice engine!

[BabybluGTT]

Have you still got the seats bud? If so how much are you looking for? Just out of interest

[r5 rich]

Have you still got the seats bud? If so how much are you looking for? Just out of interest

sold and gone for 400 im afraid

[BabybluGTT]

Bugger thats a decent price for those matey! If you make a forsale thread with w/e you have left then let me know as im after a few bits at the mo. Cheers mate

[rs250nut]

Did this belong to a lad known by the name of ''Maxiboy'' on one of the clio forums? I agree with briggs, de barryed it would be bad ass.

[r5 rich]

Did this belong to a lad known by the name of ''Maxiboy'' on one of the clio forums? I agree with briggs, de barryed it would be bad ass.

It did yes. I would do that put putting Williams interior in it, standard engine, suspension and so on and selling it on. Will be up to the new owner to so what they want with it and I am running out of room with 3 cars already!

[BabybluGTT]

Has the turbo gone? lol

[r5 rich]

Has the turbo gone? lol

It has im afraid. The only thing left I have out of them bits is the air filter and pipe work!

[BabybluGTT]

Your a tease mate lol!

[r5 rich]

yesterday me and Markey Mark set out removing the engine out the green machine. We was going to try drop the engine out of the standard naples and swap it into the the green one was in one day but time was getting on and I had a hot date last night which could not be missed! haha.
ready to start attacking:

radiator out after alot of hassle!!

bumper and headlights out after ALOT MORE HASSLE. Neil I must say you worked very hard on making this all fit to perfect!!

skateboard lined up ready to drop which I nicked from work!

engine on the skateboard:

car back onto the axle stands and the engine completely freed up:

engine on the subframe on the floor:

car engine less!

engine on the lovely new stand after alot of pain, these lumps are alot heavier than a c1j!!!


end of day one:

[BabybluGTT]

Haha I love that, double garage, project car in each side! Is it weird that apart from the strange bumper/headlight arrangement I REALLY like the maxi!

[Bass J]

Nicely done richy ....i remember reading maxiboys project thread ..agreed what was said above about it being a bit barry boys stylee ..i wouldve been tempted to turn it back to a maxi shell

The engine itself is mental! nice buy

[r5 rich]

after splitting the gearbox and engine block found out the flywheel is standard that will be sent off to be lightened and balanced and also the clutch is a helix paddle and valeo outter cover so this was removed as going to go for a clutch which will be able to take alot more power. Won`t be able to do the flywheel until the clutch arrives so I can get it machined to take the clutch.

Also after checking out with the injectors the 570cc ones which I was going to go for seem to be too small so will be upping them to 756cc

[James5]

after splitting the gearbox and engine block found out the flywheel is standard that will be sent off to be lightened and balanced and also the clutch is a helix paddle and valeo outter cover so this was removed as going to go for a clutch which will be able to take alot more power. Won`t be able to do the flywheel until the clutch arrives so I can get it machined to take the clutch.

Also after checking out with the injectors the 570cc ones which I was going to go for seem to be too small so will be upping them to 756cc

Looking good Rich, loving the projects going on at the mo seems to be a few

I am suprised with the spec of your engine that it only had that clutch combo with it but then if it was only on the fastchips ECU that is all it would need Take it you will be using the same clutch as markey mark and turbo ted then. Get ole CTM to have a play with your fly wheel and get some slots in it

What sort of power you looking at?

[r5 rich]

Looking good Rich, loving the projects going on at the mo seems to be a few

I am suprised with the spec of your engine that it only had that clutch combo with it but then if it was only on the fastchips ECU that is all it would need Take it you will be using the same clutch as markey mark and turbo ted then. Get ole CTM to have a play with your fly wheel and get some slots in it

What sort of power you looking at?

I am going for as much as I can to be honest, 350ish would be good aslong as I can put it down I don`t think I will be going to the extent as Mark and Robbie as I think my box would break before the clutch. Mark and myself was in talks on Sat about what route to go and he is going to get me some quotes on clutches and go from there

[r5 rich]

As some may have seen already the engine and all the bits are up for sale. I don't have the time to do it and family has to come 1st so if anyone is interested in any engine parts or a rolling shell let me know!