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Genuine question as I've never seen one in detail, what makes the mk4 a less mild spec? (I know you know, but) cup racer spec has always been deliberately mild by factory standards to keep the purchase, running & repair costs inline with what's required for a healthy one make unofficial...

Yes. Might be slightly unbalanced depending on what frequencies the new/original tweeter/mid are intended for, but it’ll be better than a broken standard speaker for sure.

Nice to see an original splitter! Imagine how much a specialist would be asking for this once it’s had belts & been cleaned :D:oops:

Because that’s a very basic filter, yes you can just install it & the tweeter using the OEM wiring. The OEM tweeter mount is oval ish shaped though, so you’ll have to make a bracket or use lots of packing material or w/e to mount it. You’ll also have to bodge something to go from the OEM renault...

The fuse in the multimeter. Usually just a few screws on the back for access.

P.s fuses burn relatively slowly, I’ve permanently damaged a multimeter before by drawing more than its rated current, even though it was fused correctly. Voltage & resistance still worked but current no longer read correctly.

Take the fuse out and use the multimeter to measure resistance. Should be a few ohms. Borrow a 5A/13A fuse from any household plug if you have to. Assume you’ve got this covered, but current must be measured in series. Positive terminal stays on battery. Negative terminal disconnected from...

It's nearly 3000 euros delivered so you'd like to think it wouldn't catch fire, or that the battery can actually cope with constant charge/discharge in a hot engine bay etc. The page with dyno graphs is interesting. Basically it doesn't flow over 200bhp. So on the mini cooper, bmw 118, citroen...

Yeah zero toe on the front is an odd choice for these. I tried 2.5 deg once, albeit with 12min toe out, and like yourself I kept toe the same and made no other changes for a fair back-to-back. I found the front end loaded up very suddenly once you achieve X deg of body roll and then find...

Another +1 for Greenlight. Happily used them for a Clio before and will happily use them for another in the future.

Properly designed gaiters on high-end OEM dampers have a small hole at the lowest point to: let water out, let cold air in, let hot air out & stop it acting like an airspring ;) Imagine most aftermarket/motorsport stuff doesn’t give much thought to dirt though.

Mertin’s offered first so I don’t want to steal his thunder, but if you are in a rush I have a set of rears that I can post tonight if you’re wanting them quickly-ish. Think they’re HEL or Matt Lewis Racing maybe. Used but in good working order.

If you don't find someone on the forum, Rentech in Portsmouth are probably your cheapest bet. K-tec are Bournemouth/Poole way. Beaniesport are in Milton Keynes or is it Reading?

Does your damper have a Schraeder valve on the bottom? Or sometimes it’s presta and sometimes it’s a needle valve, similar to a football. The bit on top looks like a wiper seal, not an oil seal, very similar to the Twingo R-whatever-it-is Sachs. If it’s a monotube you need a source of...

Are 12k Ohlins TTX superior to KW V1s, of course they are but you can’t buy them for a Clio 2 and you are missing out on some brilliant value for money at the £6/7/800 price point if you’re assuming that nothing below 3k can improve ride without sacrificing handling or vice versa. Especially if...

Road car driven every day: Bilsteins Trendlines Snappy induction kit for on/off noise if you must Glad coilovers are getting some love. It's not about being stiff it's about high quality damper internals. Cooksports are the worst thing I did to my 182. Cup packed springs/dampers are a...

Not a lot. Large changes in the trailing arm angle make very small differences in RC height because the IC (instantaneous centre, of the arc described by the wheel in bump, ish) is relatively close to the vehicle centreline. On a typical McPherson or double wishbone the IC is somewhere well...

Really interesting question. If you project a 3D spline onto a 2D plane (like the above pictures) then try and go back to 3D, there are an infinite number of solutions. I’m sure there’s probably a clever plugin that can do this but I’d assume you need two 2D images of the same thing from two...

Plenty of frustrating things from the other side of the fence. My two favourites will always be: People who insist on having 2D in a PDF, only to spend their own time (and expect to amortise it into piece price) creating a dwg/dxf. Where do you think the PDF came from?!?! (if there was ever a...

Future classic? 172/182 was very well received, then the Trophy added seats, dampers, paint & was Evo car of the year. The V6 was... well, where do you start? The RS18? Sadly I don’t think some yellow trim and an exhaust will transform the fortunes of what has probably been the least well...

Fishing line is an ideal "string." Tensions very easily with a small weight tied to each end and very cheap.

I’ve been to Northants Motorsport a few times and would go again for the right car. Expensive paying hourly compared to local alignment places but they’ve got it right first time, every time, and never returned it with f***** TRE nuts or a sliiiightly wonky steering wheel or any of the usual...

50psi isn't exactly recommended due to reduced contact patch & increased wear but if it's the only way to get a balance that you're happy pushing on with then fair enough. Maybe a benefit specific to track days (relatively short runs) and cold places is that high pressures promote movement of...

16s can fit bigger brakes / plenty of cheap used slicks or more exotic road-legal tyres. 17s in particular start to give a meaningful increase in tyre width so more grip. A non-obvious one is the locus of the wheel centre over a bump. Bigger wheel has the same change as a small wheel but it...

Missed the point. Lift squares with speed. A given wing profile will generate 4 times as much downforce at 120mph than it does at 60mph. The average and top speed of WRC car on a stage is much closer to that of a track clio on a typical circuit. Hence the aero on a WRC car being optimised for...

On the point of assembling it yourselves, pleaaase don’t bottle it at the last minute and cave in to buying a prebuilt. One you get massively more for your money buying parts as has been shown. Two it’s way easier than everyone thinks, it’s like a car literally everything is designed with...

Go to a shop where you can put your hand on all the mice. You’ll game better & ache-free with something a bit cheaper that feels 100% natural than spending a hundred quid on one where everything is just in the wrong place by half a centimetre IME. But bravo your son. Think I saw the original...

Not really. Think you’ve got the wrong end of the stick. It’s a spec series that needed to be affordable for those coming out of karting and sit below touring cars in terms of laptime. Depending on the era the Clio cup cars also needed to be slower & cheaper than the V6 Trophy and later Megane...

Good topic but I think people massively under estimate how sensitive aero devices are. Diffusers literally have a few degrees within which they work before you get flow separation meaning no downforce at all and a real possibility of increased drag. A splitter is a really fine balance between...

@JP83 was, I think.