Recent content by djmcfish

Hi all, Looking for rolling roads in Essex or close with printouts and so on to test various 2wd cars. Anyone know a goodn? Cheers

Know what you mean about the pre 80K "re-build." Brought mine for £3,200 (K-reg 1993) about 20 months ago, standard with 68k on it and this took over 2 months to find as most were around £4k, now just over 80k and had new box, clucth, p/s pump, rack, column, engine mounts as well as the normal...

Hi all, Noticing a strange thing happening in the world of Clio .... If you go on autotrader and look at 1.4 RTs, RSI or 1.8 RTs they are the same price as same milage/age Valvers! If anything the RSIs are alittle more! Whats going on?

Performance wise this model is only OK compared to scoobies, Evos etc but ... it manages to have flared everthings, vents and so one without looking tacky like the competition! Proper head turner and does 0.4 or so of a second to 60 really matter in the real world? So far I recon this is the...

Can highly recomend these guys work. Re-built half my valver! All i can say about the 260bhp GT5 is try following it!!

Bump Any ideas

hmmmm The daft thing is the MOT is 2 weeks old so it must work fine! She does have to park up a curb so could be a bag or something stupid. Problem is the cars is now in Liecester an Im in Essex! Doh! Any other ideas?

Hi all, Its on my girlfriends 1.8RT. Theres a white smoke comming from the cat and out from under the car (not throgh the exhuast). Has to be warmed up and doesnt do it when its moving, due to the cooling effect of moving air possibaly? Does the inside of a Cat produce smoke when its...

Cheers guys but .... Its not p/s. The brakes seem fine compared to my valver so I think they must be ok. Can the Cat itself produce smoke if the insides are knackered? Seem to be from the cat not thr car?

Its not using water. It looks like its comming from the cat i.e. being produced at the cat rather than somthing engine related comming out through the cat but, without being able to get under the car its a trickey job to see anything! All the smoke is from the cat not the exhaust? Would it run...

Not in a good valetines way but also not in a fix for free bad tabaco habit!! The problems with the girlfriends 1.8 RT. Im stuck up in Liecester so have no tools, no ramps, not even a trolly jack!! The cat itself is producing white smoke which is comming out from under the car (not through and...

Sure people arnt getting confused by the MrkII V6? If there is a turbo on the way, 226bhp in a 172 weight car will be mental, no doubt but ... Its no breakthough in technology, the 12 yr (ish) old Escort Cossie was a 2.0 turbo and as std that was 227bhp and we all know how much that lump was...

There is a rare 3rd option ..... The first Clio I got, at 18 and just recently brought the misses one .... the 1.8RT. Its basically like any RT but has nicer seats (but not sports) and, as the name implies a 1.8 lump under the bonnet. Its a 95bhp 8v mono-point job, quite pokie and GROUP...

Got me think now, these butter power steering, the electric sunroof, extra dails, a much stiffer "chassis" ... The only share peices of body work are the roof and boot. The valvers even got Fibreglass frount wings to balance up the weight of that staggering lump! Any me a Ben have missed ....

Dont forget a close ratio box, uprated clutch and as std 7,200 rpm! 16vs rock and you can get good one cheap now but, that mainly due to high insurance and maintance costs!! Be carefall of cars around 80k .... will be cheap becasue thay need a new timing belt and most will need a new clucth...