Recent content by James Clio 16v

It's not the rack that gets welded, it's the UJ at the bottom of the steering column.

The Clio tank is an odd shape.

The fuel pump is fine, only smell the fuel through the vents when the car starts from cold. Don't smell it at any other time. I'm going to prime the pump a few times to increase pressure and check for leaks in the whole system.

I get about 200 max from a full tank in my hybrid, but I only drive on local roads, with speed humps, width restrictions, speed cams and sh*t loads of traffic, so there is a lot of slowing down and speeding up. I do have a minor fuel leak though, which I still can't find, but can sure smell it!!

Poly mounts are the way to go. I've got a full Mongoose system with decat and it was catching on the rear beam until I changed the rubber mounts for the poly ones. Cheap as chips and well worth doing.

Guide is good, pity the pictures don't work!!! Fronts are easy mate, haven't attempted the rears yet, put that off whilst I fitted the Willy lump, won't be too bad though.

I thought mine was bad and it's on 17's. But then I drove my mates Saxo VTR. That is absolutely terrible!

Autoglym engine and machine cleaner.

I attached the spring to the ratchet and fitted onto the bar. I then used fishing braid (very strong, but will cut your finger off, use gloves) to bring the spring down to the clip on the back of the pedal. Very fiddly to do.

Use a genuine Renault one. I used one from GSF and it didn't seem to be great quality and was leaking again within a month.

Handles yes, but switches are mounted in the door pocket.

Should be fine with that mate. My old 5 Turbo was darker than that and the cops never said anything about it and I used to get pulled a lot in that car. Was only 18 mind, LOL!

I did put a feed on the Viper from the standard air intake and it was a lot better, but due to the size of the filter and the route the tubing had to take, the tubing just ended up splitting. It wasn't too bad on the open road, but I was commuting into London a lot when I had it on and...

I've got a Mongoose and I had to replace the mounting rubbers with poly ones from Rally Design before it stopped knocking. Only cost about £15 iirc. Worth doing, it was absolutely awful before. James

Why do you think I sold the Viper to you? The adaptor is the problem, it restricts the airflow into the throttle body.