Clio 197
YozzaSport Announces Scalable Brake Upgrades for RenaultSport Megane RS and Clio RS.
YozzaSport announces the release of a three stage brake upgrade package for the RenaultSport Megane RS and Clio RS range. The three stage upgrade consists of firstly, a YozzaSport brake bell with a two piece 312mm AP Racing Disc. The second stage uses the same YozzaSport brake bell but upgrades to a custom 330mm AP Racing Disc, using a YozzaSport caliper conversion bracket. The third stage removes the Brembo 4 pot caliper and replaces it with AP Racing 4 pot caliper ensuring that the 330mm disc’s braking potential is utilised completely.
Megane RS AP Racing 2 piece disc
Megane RS AP Racing 2 piece disc
Eccleshall, Staffordshire, 11th December, 2009
Scalable Brake Upgrades for RenaultSport Megane RS and Clio RS.
With owners of Megane RS , 225, 230, R26.R, Clio RS 197 and 200 experiencing braking issues such as warped and cracked brake discs, brake overheating, pad material deposited on the disc resulting in juddering, pad fade and other issues, YozzaSport have brought forward their new brake packages for two of the most highly acclaimed road and trackday cars of recent years.
For YozzaSport, it is important, that these upgrades are scalable, affordable and are backwards compatible with the 2003+ Megane RS as well as the Clio 197 and 197 Cup variants, and as such we have designed these brake upgrade packages to fit behind the 17” Clio Speedline wheel that many road users have as standard, and that trackday enthusiasts prefer over the 18” standard wheels on the Megane RS.
YozzaSport Stage 1
312mm YozzaSport Brake Bell/AP Racing Disc – £599
YozzaSport Stage 2
330mm AP Racing Disc & YozzaSport Caliper Adapter Bracket – + £669.99
YozzaSport Stage 3
4/6 Piston AP Racing Calipers & YozzaSport Caliper Adapter Bracket – + (from) £629.99
Stage 1 – 312mm YozzaSport Bell/AP Racing Disc – £519.84+VAT
Replacement Discs (Pair) – £399
Megane RS AP Racing 2 piece disc
This kit replaces the standard brake disc with a tangential cooling veined, 8 grooved, AP Racing 312mm disc and a custom YozzaSport brake bell.
The standard 312mm brake discs found on the Megane and Clio RS range are more than adequate for most road users, however, once the car is taken beyond the normal road limits onto the track or race circuit, the standard brake pads and brake discs are not as reliable due to the higher operating temperatures. Pad transfer issues, warped and distorted discs and caliper flex are some of the issues reported to us by customers.
The main purpose of the tangential vane design is to provide a cooling space between the disc braking faces, but if the vane design was a simple straight type or even a pillar design such as the standard OE brake disc, then the disc could become unstable at high temperatures. The tangential curved vane provide superior support to the brake faces over the straight vein and pillar disc design, and lessens the risk of brake disc warping / vibration induced by high brake temperatures.
The 8 grooves in the disc ensure that any brake gases and dust is expelled from the braking surface and also create a clean braking surface on the pad to offer maximum surface contact area with the disc/pad.
Stage 2 – 330mm AP Racing Disc & YozzaSport Caliper Adapter Bracket – £829.99
Replacement Discs (Pair) – £499
Upgrade from Stage 1 – £669.99
Outright Purchase of Stage 2 – £829.99
YozzaSport 330mm AP Racing Disc and Adaption Brackets
This kit upgrades the brake discs to a 330mm x 28mm disc, whilst retaining the YozzaSport Bell from the 312mm kit as well as the OEM Brembo 4 pot caliper. With an increased disc size, there is increased stopping power, as well as reduced operating temperatures due to the design of the curved cooling veins within the brake disc. The AP racing casting is machined to specification for YozzaSport, with the grooves being machined into the disc to offer extremely high quality and high performance discs with the benefit of being a simple upgrade to our 312mm stage 1 conversion.
It is designed to fit behind a 17″ Clio Cup Racer wheel and clears the wheel shoulder with around 7mm to spare – as you can see with the picture here with a wheel weight clearing the caliper.
With YozzaSport machined brake adaption brackets included in the package price, as well as all of the brake fittings that are required to fit both the brackets and discs to the vehicle, the upgrade offers both outstanding value and performance. The brake kit is intended to be the highest level of performance that can be achieved without making the investment in an uprated four or six piston brake caliper for the Clio and Megane RS.
Stage 3 – 4 or 6 Piston AP Racing Calipers & YozzaSport Caliper Adapter Bracket – starting from £629.99
Replacement Discs (Pair) – £499
Upgrade from Stage 1 – from £629.99
Outright Purchase of Stage 3 – from £1980
A P Racing Road and Race Calipers
For the ultimate on track braking performance for the Clio 197 and Megane RS the standard Brembo monoblock caliper, is not as stiff as a conventional 2-piece caliper. There are no bolts to connect the 2 halves of the caliper together; these help to reduce the distortion of a caliper under load. This means that the standard Clio RS and Megane RS caliper distorts more under braking and cornering producing the tapered wear patterns on the brake pad which some race and trackday users are experiencing with the standard brake components.
YozzaSport offer a full brake kit for the Clio 197/200 and the Megane RS 255/230 including the R26.R and F1 variants which utilise a variety of AP Racing road and race 4 and 6 piston calipers which are fully serviceable and offer the option to use a much broader selection of road and race pads over the standard RenaultSport/Brembo caliper.
Clio 172 and 182 AP Racing Brake Conversions
Clio 172 and 182 AP Racing Brake Upgrade
YozzaSport also offer 4 pot brake conversions for the RenaultSport Clio 172, 182 and Clio Williams 16v.
The new brake packages are viewable on the new Megane and Clio pages on the Yozzasport website. Should you require any further advice, we have a wealth of information on our ReadyForTheTrack blog.
YozzaSport is an independent RenaultSport Clio 197 tuning and Megane RS performance parts specialist. We develop and sell uprated parts and components for the RenaultSport range including the Clio 172, Clio 182 and Clio V6. We also maintain cars for customers and companies involved in trackdays and competitive motorsport.
Since founding YozzaSport we have strived to develop the best performance packages for RenaultSport Clio 172, 182 and 197 as well as the Megane RS range – both trackday and race cars. We work with the leading manufacturers from around Europe, prototyping, and developing our own products to meet the most demanding of environments. Build quality and testing is incredibly important to us: we insist on using the highest quality components at every step.
For Further Information Please Contact:
YozzaSport Ltd
www.yozzasport.co.uk
www.readyforthetrack.co.uk
e) team@yozzasport.co.uk
Megane RS and Megane R26 R Brake Discs
RenaultSport Megane RS and Megane R26 R – Two Piece AP Racing Brake Discs (also suitable for the Clio 197 and Clio 200)
Clio 197 / 200 / Megane RS Brake Disc
AP Racing 2 Piece Megane RS Disc and YozzaSport Bell
AP Racing Discs & YozzaSport Bells – £599 New Prices For Autumn 2009
Full Disc and Bell Kit – £599
Replacement Discs – £390
NB. Replacement Discs for the R26.R are £350 so by the time you have cracked a few sets, you would be well worth considering these as a replacement upgrade.
Cracked RenaultSport Megane RS R26R Brake Disc
These are suitable for the following cars:
Clio 197 & Cup
Megane RS & Cup
Megane RS F1 & Variants inc. R26.R
We have just announced our new prices for this kit, and are pleased to say that we can now offer them at the following reduced prices:
Prices:
RRP – £599
Shipping and Delivery:
£25 UK
£90 France (UPS)
£POA Other Countries (UPS)
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
Clio 172/182 Cup Racer Dampers ::For Sale::
Clio 172/182 Cup Racer Bilstein/RenaultSport Dampers For Sale – £750 a pair inc. Delivery
The dampers are the only used part of this kit – everything else is brand new and unused.
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- Complete Clio Cup Racer Rear Coilover Damper
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- Complete Clio Cup Racer Rear Coilover Damper Lower
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- Complete Clio Cup Racer Rear Coilover Damper Upper
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- Complete Clio Cup Racer Rear Coilover Dampers
Following on from my earlier bits for sale thread, I am listing these two pairs of Bilstein Clio Cup Racer Dampers separately.
One set is from the earlier Clio Cup 172′s (Silver) and the second set were used on the later 172 and 182 Cup Racers, however they are identical as far as I am aware apart from the colour. The silver dampers are slightly different lengths due to them being the earlier design – I can’t tell you why this is – but obviously this is not an issue, as the ride height is adjusted using the srping platforms. New the dampers alone are about £170 each, springs £60 each and the ancillarys such as the bearings, and everything else are about £250 per damper – So you are looking at about £1000 for a pair of the dampers new.
They fit the standard car and are fabulous for anything on track orientated – I actually ran them on the road for ages, but I am a little more hardcore than most – they were perfect with the vehicle that I was running, and were well rated and damped.
The Clio Cup Racers run with “Clio Cup” Eibach Springs – but you could quite easily update/uprate these with the Eibach. In this range the Clio Cup C-400 spring is the softest rate that Eibach do, but, this range goes up in increments of 50lbs at about £65 per spring.
I am not really negociable on the price, as everything in terms of parts is brand new. If you would like to pay on Paypal – fine – but you must pay the charges.
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
Clio Tuning
Clio Tuning – An Introduction
Tuning Clio’s be they 172′s, 182′s, 197, Clio 200′s or even the older cars like the Williams or 1.816v is an always will be reasonably expensive. The bottom line is that RenaultSport and the hot hatches have always been well presented from the factory, and as such improving them from this already raised bar will cost money, will take time and will require high quality components.
“Tuning” – To adjust (a vehicle or an individual component for example) for maximum usability or performance.
Clio Tuning – The Basics
One of the most sensible bits of advice I can impart is to try to start as far up the ladder as you can with the original or standard vehicle. Start with the car – the most expensive part – if you can’t afford a new car, then go for the vehicle that best fits your requirements – a cheap car will always be cheap for a reason – that it either has a problem, requires work, or has had a bump. It is rare for “bargains” to come up and to be trouble free. Tuning is always relative, imagine the Clio 172 Ph1; it has a RenaultSport F4R 730 Engine – probably designed in 1997/1998 or even before, and then built over 1998/1999 to be first included in the ph1 172. The tuning of the 172 engine was reliable enough in YozzaSport’s experience to around 212-215BHP – around a 25% increase in BHP, however to retain the standard engine management and to still gain power the limit was reached with normal (OEM) internal components at around 205BHP. Beyond this, the engines had to be significantly modified to deal with the extra performance. If however, you consider that you start with a 197 Clio with the F4R 830, you will be starting with a car that has already gained an extra 25BHP over the original F4R 730. Ten years of development, testing and new technologies will have been implemented, ironing out the smaller issues with the original engine. If we are working on a new engine now, one of our first recommendations for our customers is to start with the F4R 830 top end, as it is such an improvement on the older F4R 730.
Clio Tuning – Power To Weight
You have to consider other factors however. The power to weight ratio of a Clio Williams is almost identical to the New Clio 200 Cup – why? The Williams is so much lighter. With only a 150BHP engine it only needs to be 900KG to punch well above its weight in the power to weight stakes.
Clio Tuning – The Car Shell
If you are going to start by stripping a car down to the bare shell to make a race or track car, then you may as well consider buying something that has been light bump, flooded as this will be nothing in the scheme of things by the time you have seam welded the shell and added a multi-point cage.
A motorsport shell from RenaultSport will cost you in the region of £2000. For that money, you could buy a car with some damage, and either acid dip it or shot blast it and then repair it, and still be quids in.
An approved FIA cage can cost between £500 and £2000. My advice would be to spend as much money as you can afford to on the cage. We can offer Safety Devices cages, Sparco roll cages, OMP safety roll cage as well as completely custom build and designed items. What we don’t and won’t offer are show cages – they give a false sense of security, and will not save you in the event of an accident – in fact it is possible that it might do you more damage than it will save you from. As with many things – shiny things that look well often aren’t up to the job when they are pushed to the limit.
Clio Tuning – The Engine
I would strongly advise against touching the engine if you have a sub £2000 budget. Decent camshafts (Schrick/CatCams) will cost you between £600 and £1000 plus the fitting and mapping with total in the region of £2000. It just isn’t worth thinking about if you haven’t got that kind of money to play with. Spend the money on brakes, suspension and 6 trackdays… it will be far much more fun.
Clio Tuning – The Suspension
I would always recommend forgetting everything else and just going for Coilovers – sports springs are really just for looks – they will improve the ride somewhere, but at the end of the day – they are just a cheap cop out. Coilover cost wise – you should be thinking at starting at the £1000 by the time you have fitted them to the car and set the ride, camber and tracking. I have written a long article about the Clio suspension here: Clio 182 Suspension
Clio Tuning – The Brakes
I have also written a long article about Clio 172 and 182 Brakes here: Clio 172 Brakes
Clio Tuning – The Exhaust System
Articles already exist with advice on: Clio 172 Exhaust Systems and Clio 182 Exhaust Systems
Hope that this offered some insight into “Clio Tuning” it is only intended to be a broad overview.
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z
RenaultSport Clio 197 Videos: YozzaSport Exhaust
RenaultSport Clio 197 YozzaSport Sports Exhaust Videos
Some more videos of the YozzaSport 197 Exhaust system, being driven and revved in a number of different ways.
Just some videos that a customer kindly sent us showing him testing his Clio 197 with a YozzaSport Exhaust system. If you need any more details – just visit our site. There is a link to an article that we wrote about the 197 exhaust at the bottom of this post.
More information about the standard 197 system are in an article that we wrote here: Clio 197 Exhaust
Always a hooligan,
/y0z
ps. there are a few more videos than the ones above on youtube