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TBH any gains from NA tuning are fairly marginal and will never make the car feel anything like a turbo. Best to learn to enjoy it for what it is - a high-revving NA experience.

You could try lowering springs first before investing in coilovers, if only to trace the cause of the oversteer issue. On standard or even lowered shocks/springs you should be mostly understeering. Bilsteins great on road, not so good on track. For track you need a much stiffer rear spring...

A rear ARB will make the back end more mobile, not less. Does sound odd, though and points to a problem, perhaps worn shocks and/or bushes.

£6.360 inc. buyer’s fee.

Could be mistaken...but don’t think Eibach made yellow springs for the Clio. They look like Apex items.

Zone 2 here (northwest). I am part of an active group that organises early-morning Sunday drives all over, including in Surrey and Hants. If that’s of interest feel free to drop me a PM.

We're at a tipping point in the makeup of the owners' community. When people who only bought old Clios because they were cheap, and who consider them inferior to modern metal will move on, fuelled by the easy availability of affordable leases. In their place will come others who are...

23k miles BG 182 on Collecting Cars: https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2004-renaultsport-clio-182-cup Advertised as having Cup suspension, but lacks the Cup rear spoiler.

I too remember when Imprezas were properly cheap! I bought a v1 RA in 2012 for £2,100 and a v5 RA in 2014 for £2,500. IMO the best of the newages are DCCD-equipped blobs. DCCD blobs along with classics came with a 33F/66R torque bias compared with 45F/55R on the (very rare) DCCD bugs, 41F/59R...

Classics are appreciating for sure, but are still relatively cheap for what they are. Evos are far more pricey these days than Imprezas, for example. If you’re used to paying £3-4k for cars then of course £15k seems like a lot, but £15k doesn’t buy that much these days when comes to ‘90s...

Every keen driver should experience Lotus. No-one does steering and brakes, and the feeling of a car being light on its feet and up on tiptoes better than Lotus. And the boys from Hethel have also mastered the art of combining ride comfort and pin-sharp handling. I personally have more fun...

I went from a Lotus Evora S to a Clio 182. I have more fun in the Clio. If you have space then keep the Clio. You’ve put so much work into it and it will cost you next to nothing. Rotate your toys each month so that you only pay tax on one and SORN the other. You will appreciate each car...

By this point it's no longer comparable to a car in any practical sense. It's more like a painting, a sculpture, or a piece of jewellery.

Good info, thanks! I did do my research and there seems to be conflicting views on this...we need a driveshaft “sticky”

Driveshafts as well. Though seems like a lot of effort for not much reward tbh.

Sold! Ordered these in yellow. Seems good value compared to other options.

The underlying plastic is pretty tough. It looks just about ok naked but for best results give it a coat of satin black from a rattlecan.

Good idea or not? Do they keep dirt out, or trap dirt in?

IMO we'll see the jump in closer to 10 years, not 20. In 15 years you won't be able to buy new petrol or diesel cars. And the values of "modern classics" tend to escalate rapidly when they hit 25 years old and most of them are no longer on the road. A mint Trophy will easily be a £20k car in...

It's just a sticky coating on top that can be removed with abrasion.

“Elbow Grease “ is the product most often recommended, but I found washing-up liquid also works. The key is to use a scouring pad.

Thanks a lot, my dudes. Was really hoping to not spend more money for a while, but this thread is got me seriously lusting after an RTC.

OP, I'll qualify my comment after re-reading yours. Clearly you are great with spanners. Working on cars qualifies as "enjoying" a car every bit as much as driving. If you would enjoy restoring a Trophy to tip-top condition and don't place a monetary value on the time invested in doing so -...

Best to heel and toe...the gearboxes on early Imprezas are not renowned for durability

Similar gearing on this Type R....it won’t reach 130 mph. Not a motorway machine by any stretch, but mad fun rowing 3rd to 5th on a B road. The 112 limit is not gearing but an artificially imposed electronic limiter on JDM cars which can be mapped out or overcome using a KMH to MPH dongle...

Because as others have pointed out, you'll get much better returns investing your money elsewhere.

If you are looking purely to make money then there are better ways to do that, but presumably as a member on this forum you are also interested in driving the cars. There is a middle ground between hibernating a car away never to see the light of day, and destroying its value ragging it on a...

That's definitely a v3. Which is the most desirable of all of the Type Rs as it came with higher-spec heads and cams than earlier or later versions. Holy Grail car right there.

Ask for the renewal rate to be the same as your current one. They will offer a rate that’s slightly better than £120 but not nearly as good as your current deal. Be insistent and they will quickly give you a “best offer”. Decline the best offer, cancel your package and they will almost...

Now I’m genuinely confused. If you’d said “it’s old and slow compared with more modern machinery” then I would understand. But you actually like old Japanese cars, you didn’t actually like the Golf R, but you also didn’t like the WR1 you drove and therefore a classic Impreza will be...