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Did you use one of these £400 colour gamut measuring doo dahs or is there a clever/simple way of setting up a monitor with 70% accuracy for free? I’ve run the built in windows tool for colour calibration and it’s different but I’m not hugely convinced that it’s any better. I’m not doing anything...

Genuine question, why do people need a mouse mat to be nearly one METER wide lol?! Keep the keyboard on it too?

Does it have anything interesting that doesn’t seem to match UK spec phase 1s? Pretty sure our ph1 had AC. On our “genuine” ph2 172 cups it was removed as part of the weight saving, but available as an option.

As said above it’s probably not what we think of as a “172 cup” in Europe as it doesn’t (?) have any of the features that Cups get (lightweight, new wheels, lower & stiffer suspension etc) it’s just a region-specific mix of existing parts plus a plaque. Really common to have different names or...

Gas is resin evaporating, then rising through pad material & potentially solidifying on surface when brakes aren’t being applied as well as the pad pressure argument? I agree with your point about conventional wisdom being that “modern” pads (whatever that means in the context of heavily...

Grooved discs are supposed to allow a channel for hot gases to escape helping to prevent build up of deposits. The edges of the grooves are shockingly sharp (like, instant paper-cut type sharp) on very high end motorsport discs. Sure, higher pad wear but it's a trade off as with most things.

I liked that. Honest, genuine, down to earth. Seems like you being you. For once it’s not someone blatantly going over the top in order to desperately appeal to, or fit in with, a crowd etc. Was a bit waffley but wasn’t too annoying as I was watching with the mindset of a vlog, just listening...

Mine don’t stay on long enough to melt. The clips/spring seem a terrible fit and to compound matters very easily broken?!

Or for those who don't like logic, here's 4 minutes of Clios barrel rolling only after they have hit something

I notice you've mentioned rolling in a few threads. This is an absolute classic "slip or tip" GCSE physics question and fortunately it's really easy and above all incredibly fun :LOL: to prove that it's impossible to roll a car without hitting something. Have a look at this online calculator...

172/182 Cup Racers had bolt in cages. Part of this is probably down to the need to re-shell them every other race. Pretty sure the 197 and later were weld in. Considering you’re not rolling a WRC car down a mountain, and aren’t doing this for shell stiffness, I think I’d be far more inclined to...

I have the first one. Used it on a 54 plate 182 with a standard Renault exhaust, an original resonated Scorpion and the later flexi centre section resonated Scorpion RS192. The cat was fine, it’s everything behind it (heavy centre section without much support, a flexi to let it droop even more...

I bought an aftermarket cat from cats2u.co.uk in 2013. 70k miles & 7 years later it’s comfortably passed emissions every time at a very strict MOT tester. Fitted fine straight out the box. Cost about £100 back then and the price has hardly changed. P.s. buy a new OEM (costs literally a few £...

Not sure what you’re looking at. £3500 on Tesla in 2013 would be £200k today. But you’re right in that it’s one of the more extreme examples. It’s probably easier to pick a car than pick the next Tesla share. Still, I don’t think any car has gained 60 fold. On the flip side I bet if you sold...

Can’t believe no-one’s said this yet. Take your 8k and buy loads of tickets for random modified supercars. It only costs something like 53p a go if you win so you can buy approximately 15,000 and you either win or you don’t so that’s a 50:50 chance x 15,000 tickets so a 15,000 to 1 chance of...

V6 Trophy is the name of the one-make V6 race cars that competed in the early 00’s. Replaced by the mk2 Megane Eurocup Trophy (also a mid-engined V6), then the mk3 Megane V6 Trophy. There’s a 750MC Clio on racecarsdirect for 6k. https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/103013/clio-182-sport...

30mm for the hub but. Fair enough if you’ve lost confidence in them, but a part that you’ve paid a garage several hundred quid to supply & fit has failed only a few days/miles after collecting the car so it seems like a textbook case of not touching anything further and returning the car to...

Question number one: what games do you want to play and at what resolution?

No and yes (if you're young). No and no (if you're old). The maps from RS Tuners/Fastchip raise the idle slightly, raise the limiter to 7800 RPM and smooth out the torque delivery a little. The smoother torque is noticeable around 5k RPM but it doesn't feel any faster. But then you wouldn't...

What size are your 1440 monitors? By the time you filter by 144hz and freesync, it’s seems there’s a handful of 27“ but mainly 30+” with more than half being curved. A 32” screen less than 32” away from your face just sounds counterintuitive?

Can you tell us more. 4 speed transmission? What does the rear look like underneath, is it a live axle?

Low mileage is the one thing that money/patience can't (legitimately) fix though. No more than a few hundred quid on matching tyres, a few interior bits and a wash and it'll be called "one of the best low mileage cups around."

Proper advert on a proper auction site too. Probably not selling to the same clientele that browse FB selling groups.

When individual cars sell for a price that is clearly an outlier I tend to assume that there’s a reason specific to that car. Original owner buying it back? Collector buying a 49k unmodified example? The tyres wouldn’t matter to either of those hypothetical buyers but I don’t think one or two...

What would you do to differentiate it from the existing common arrangements? Truth is an enthusiast forum full of cheap-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things track cars is probably not the ideal target market if you’re looking to rent a proper car for £1000/day including insurance, transport, support &...

Compression ratio is the engine or cylinder's total volume at bottom dead centre (light green) divided by the clearance volume at top dead centre (grey). If the intake was 100% efficient (it's not) and there was no valve overlap (there probably is by design) then each cylinder would draw in...

Interesting. Are the side skirts new/unique, or are they OEM parts mounted further outboard?

Clutch cable

I have a standard engine which, now you mention it, is overdue on belts based on time. If it goes bang I'll just throw another standard engine in for less than the cost of doing belts. However if it had a few £k of valves, cams, rods, high comp pistons etc in it (i.e. stuff that will be...

I really don't think it's valid to use a dyno run from 5 years ago on different rollers to conclude that you've only gained 5bhp. By all means take it to a more optimistic dyno. No-one's saying it'll be more accurate but it might help contextualise the adverts you've seen if you convince...