Recent content by Alpine_motorsport

No but I'm fairly sure that wasn't a genuine one either

Keith and Jurgie @ APR really know there stuff!!!

It was a eurocarparts facet one as it died totally on my way into work one day and I needed to get it fixed to get myself home. I ll get a genuine one ordered on Monday.

It already had the correct blue plug on the crank sensor so was just plug and play. Wasn't massively expensive so I'm happy to try another one on there

Already had both of those changed. Should there be a heat shield above the exhaust manifold?

I have a 02 plate 172, if I sit in traffic for 15 - 20 mins on my way to work the engine will sometimes just cut out dead and has done it a few times recently while just driving along. Tachometer drops to nothing even if the cars traveling at speed in gear then It will not re start for 10 - 15...

What tyres do you need paul?? I can get Dunlop 18 x 9.5 slicks really cheap!! its Andy Peck BTW!!

We have an old engine from work up for sale on the bay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170726402196 nice cheap dry sump kit going for somebody!!!!

Developed a massive miss fire so I did a compression test and had lost a cylinder. Will rebuild it eventually with a T3 bolted on for good measure but it was just quicker to fire in a 36000 mile engine in for now. Deffinatly alot quicker with the new lump!!!

Have you thought about your lighting yet? I run 2 Seat Supacopa's in Britcar and other endurance championships and the lightpods with PIAA set up on each car work out about £2.5/£3k alone. When your running for about 3 hours constantly at code 60 in Silverstones pea soup fog at 2am then you have...

That Monaco looks familiar...........I ve got one that looks exactly like that! lol ;) Shes just had a new engine, cambelt, aux belt, front and rear disks :( While doing that though also found broken rear spring and leaking rear shocks so it will be getting new dampers and springs all round...

The propper racing cars from the Renault Sport range come with dry sumps..........single seaters - I am biased!!!! I was refering to the old spec Tatus Formula Renault 2.0 cars. We still got an engine sitting in our storage container with a genuine Renault Sport sump and pump brackets etc...

"how many of you guys that state the clio doesn't suffer from surge actually work for clio cup race teams during the mk2 era? how many of you guys bang a clio pinned through coram in 4th while the car want to exit stage left?" I work with TCR's old clio team manager Lez, does that make me...

Fred is right on this one!! we run our Seat Supacopa race cars with massive differences between platform hights left to right. All varies on the driver and which type of gerbox the car is fitted with. Far easier to explain with a car sitting infront of you on a set of scales though!!!!!

No I havent mate. I figured the valve would be blocking that in a default setting. I will block it tommorrow and see if that cures it untill the replacement cold air pipe arrives