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Cliolord gives us the low down and the build up.

He explains to us why his Valliams, an iTB’d, cammed animal of a hybrid failed back in 2008 on the way to the French Car Show. There is more to come from the lord, with is CUP brid. But thats another story!

“I wascruising along the motorway at 70-80ish in 5th, fast lane.. the oil light comes on and pressure guage drops rapidly, switched vally off, into neutral and coasted to a stop, to be rescued by the AA. Fault to blame was the bevel gear which directs drive from the timing belt, along a shaft and down into the oil pump which sits in the sump. Due to the brutal’e oil pump relief spring setup, it was too much pressure to sustain and the gear gave up causing the same effect as if the oil pump itself just let go.
The strip down at my garage saw metal floating in the sump (from the bevel gear – which hadn’t been sucked into the oil pickup due to it’s major failure anyway) and the crank had started changing colour. The cylinder bore looked to be in good condition still, the piston’s & rings looked good and the mains/big ends hadn’t picked up. I thought sod it….Ordered through some over-siezed Wossner 12.5:1 high comp pistons & catcams con-rods through MR Stanley. Blocks been over-bored, cranks been re-ground & balanced (for future plans) with over-sized bearings.”

We have a huge ammount of picture content of an animal of a car. Enjoy!

“My friends daughter has helped in the build so far…”

“The block looks abit brutal again! ”

“On fitting of oil pump, the first problem appeared. The dowel is missing for the oil pump so I had a fag and drove home LOL will continue work tomorrow ”

A nice Cliolord quote from Clio16Valver:

“MAXIBOY wrote:

be nice to see a few pics..

what else are you doing while its apart..

shot peen and de stress the crank..

stress relief the block…

change all core plugs and chemical with them out..

change oil gallery plugs and clean oil ways…..

i’ll think of a few more too if you want..

Cliolord wrote:

Mate, this isn’t a lady, this is a brutal slut that deserve’s a harsh routine! No core plug replacement (they look good, engines done less than 50K to date).”

“Got cracking on today. Ditched the pattern oil pump for a genuine pump, fettled with the sump, got it all ready for the head. Removed cams from head and inspected…All looks good. Oiled up ready to mate with block again

Oil pump fitted…”

“Head check…”

“Standard T40 rounded, no fear..”

“Exhaust cam number stamped and Minter lobes rock on!”

Some brutal looking solid lifters

“Minor score to cam carriers, nothing worth worrying about”

“Lifters looks used but good”

“Applying oil before reassembly…”

Cue a lord moment…

“Then my mate turned up with my head gasket. So I decided to cam everything….”

“I cammed the block…”

“I cammed a Rangerover headlight…”

“Cammed a Saxo wing mirror…”

“I even cammed my mate’s tea!”

Back to work…

“Dowels looked shot, so replaced them” – Used to line up the head, headgasket and bottom end.

“Not an F7P Head Gasket but a F7R Head Gasket. I’ve always thought they were identical, but obviously not?”

“Block with dowels & head gasket in place…”

“Head bolts copper greased up ready to fit”

“Head on”

“Couldn’t find the crank pulley, then reolised it was in the vally! So gabbed a lad from the Shell petrol station down the way to give us a push…”

“Now I’m starting to remember how fun the car is to drive again!”

“I forgot how good things like the tail gate were on the vally…”

“Back to the engine, checking tension of the the cam belt…”

“Enjoying building the engine back up… Keeping the pics coming!”

“I then left the camera on my toolbox and the manager got abit snap happy, so here are some randoms!…

The man himself, Grant (manager) top bloke! Lets be build up the engine in works time when we have a few minutes ”

“…and back on track.

More engine shots. I may have gone slightly over the top this time. I even polishes every nut and bolt (pretty much)!”

“Some pictures Craig has kindly sent to me of the build… so a bit of back dating for you…”

“Spark plugs, oil filter & crank seal turned up today. The reason I ordered the genuine spark plugs was due to the fact I remember the NKG BKR6EK patterns were longer than the factory spec items. They are infact quite abit longer and the pattern should be binned imo when running a high comp block. The following pictures show this FAIL product….” You can see why in our guides section.. Clio spark plugs guide

A few pics of one of Cliolords friends Mi6 on throttle bodies who came to visit the Valliams!

A couple more of this monstor hybrid!

I thought I would include some old pics from when the vally was getting mapped, before it broke and this saga began!

Wow! We have come to the end of this chapter, no doubt there will be more soon from the master of the spanners Cliolord.

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