Project Z

Site Subscriber Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 1141

Well then you can afford to offer some charity to a poor poverish student! hehe. Seriously tho mate, there will be one around sooner or later for me im sure - im in no rush as its really a summer project dont have a lot of time atm.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

forgot... found this in the mess in the footwell... i guess these are the plugs the guy bought to try to fix it. Look quite good, probably better than the NGK twin electrode ones i have in mine. Might swap those over tomorrow as well just for the hell of it

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

the 19's use inserts the clio comes as a strut.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

how do you mean inserts?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

where you chop the top end off the strut and replace the workings with a koni bit.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

seems a bit drastic. this isnt how you buy it is it?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

yeah they come as just the insert and then its DIY time. I think most people can work a hacksaw.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

so what bit gets cut off and replaced?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

well iv have never done it myself but from what ive seen, it gets chopped round the top so that end holding the stanchion in comes off. Then the whole internals obviously just fall out and the oil too, leaving just a hollow tube. then the koni bit just slides in and takes over.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

ah right just making use of the mounting really...lazy buggers why dont they just add the necessary flanges?

is that a cheaper way of doin it? are konis costly?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

well, the magnex exhaust is now on my car together with the decat. As expected, it definately pulls harder now, especially at higher revs.

heres some pics of the scorpion twin DTM exhaust that came off:

its far less convoluted than the magnex one. Maybe thats why it was always rattling against the torsion bar or the shell all the time.

can someone please tell me how the hell youre supposed to hang that exhaust properly? I suppose in the picture it might look like those hangers could work. Take it from me...they dont.

quick pic of the car, just because i can Smile

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

oh, as for the sound, cant say theres that much difference, but its a bit less raspy, and therefore less tiresome.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Jonnyboy wrote:

are konis costly?

among the car's history there is a receipt for Â£347 for 'suspension kit'

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

whistles...

lookin good neal...well tidy. is the magnex noisy? i know u say its less but is it still noisy?..does it make every one look when u hammer down the street , deafening them all?

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

i only went out for a quick spin, but i wouldnt say its noisy enough to draw excessive attention. Louder than your average car, but not by much.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

cool...magnex it is then....one day...along within umpteen other things i want

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

lol you don't cut anything muppets. You use a c spanner on the existing nut holding the insert in already. Tropuble is the welded bit breaks off and some struts use a femal thread so you can't use stilsons.

Also no oil should pour out, back in the day on yer dads capris they stuck some oil in before fittign the insert now they tend to be fitted dry.

That exhaust will never hang right Neal, as you can see its missing a bracket. However the C type engines like my red one have an additional bracket as they are also missing the other box.

It bolts in just above the rear axle and the boxes have anothe rmoutn fitted to them so the exhaust is held up straight and doesn't touch the axle.

Anyway gimme it and I'll gie you a standard system in return...

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

well i dont fecking know do i, as i clearly stated, i have never done it, but by looking on the web at the koni instructions of how to fit the inserts to the struts on other cars, it shows the top being cut off the strut (using a chain cutter). Hardly makes me a muppet.

would be happy to swap but id need a standard rear bumper to suit as well...

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Hardly made me a muppet when my old shocks were crimped in and needed to be cut

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yes it does Chet.

Anyway I have to say I think some 19's got clio struts or they changed them.

Some seem to be 1 piece units and some are the right insert ones.

The ones from my old hatch that are on the energy are inserts and the bit where you put the c spanner has seperated fromt he threaded collar so when you drive it rattles a lot.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

well, ive installed all the stereo equipment from WOX into my car.

those are the ones from the doors

those ore from the rear bits either side of the parcel shelf

and thats what was in the boot

In the front on the dash, were these

accompanied by

Was a bit of a pain digging the signal wires out of loom on either side to go into the crossovers, but i got there in the end. Ran some proper speaker cable to the door speakers while i was at it instead of the standard wires. i didnt bother with the amp and sub yet, will do that another time (if i can be bothered). Also, i kept my Sony HU in because it has a 10 CD changer and i have it hooked up to the steering column remote, which i like. Sounds a LOT better now, can have some proper volume without it sounding totally crap.

Still not got round to looking at getting WOX running. Will be more hassle now too because i had to nick the battery for mine. It is a nice pretty new 60Ah Fulmen jobbie, spins the engine over at least 3 times as fast as the crappy death bed 40Ah one i had.

This car was so worth Â£250 Smile