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The brembo is just big, heavy and has expensive pads. Wilwoods are about 1kg lighter, fit comfortably under 15" wheels and pads are about 1/3 of the price.
They won't do any harm that's for sure!!
Think it's a combination of hard seats, bouncing off the limiter and detergents etc in modern fuel. Not actually sure how good the original valves are regards material used and hardness of the face on them.
It's pretty common, I'd say 75% of the engines I've pulled apart have got them either the same or worse. The 197/200 are the worst ones, stripped an engine with around 50,000 miles on the other month and they were worse than yours!!!
Anything really, I've been meaning to start developing modular systems for few of the Renaults so he's going to be doing that with me and he wants to do some n/a manifolds as well but primarily for the 1.6 clios as there's a potentially big market abroad.
long bolts. get the drivers side mount up as high as it will go on a block of wood and then you only have to drop the subframe down a bit, can be done without dropping it but if you're doing it on the floor forget about it and drop the subframe a bit.
or if you want you can change it just by...
Should still come off easy with a puller, I've had them with loctite on that have pulled fine. Unless it's the bearing stuff it should pull ok. Just use decent socket cap bolts and don't screw them all the way in, wind them in and back them off half a turn, if you can get some with a shoulder...