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I'm looking forward to pushing the rear brakes harder on my race car by controlling the weight transfer better under braking :D The suspension system I'm using will stiffen up the front dampers and soften the rear to keep the car flatter so rear traction should be improved. I'll be testing...

But but....ours are blue...

Be rude not to lower the car at the same time https://www.kamracing.co.uk/car-tuning/renault/renault-clio-mk2/suspension/renault-clio-mk2-grams-cup-suspension-kit-172-renaultsport.html

Ahh just checked stock; RC6 is here, backordered with RC5+ . An alterative may be the rear PBS Pro-Race. Great pads and half the price https://www.kamracing.co.uk/car-tuning/renault/renault-clio-mk2/brakes/renault-clio-mk2-pbs-prorace-brake-pads-renaultsport-rs172-182.html

Never a problem https://www.kamracing.co.uk/car-tuning/renault/renault-clio-mk2/brakes/cl-brakes-brake-pads-renault-clio-mk2-rs-172-182.html As they are sintered metal you dont have to bed them in. Just go out and drive hard.

Good solid engine, loads of tuning parts. Gearboxes are stronger! and maybe more importantly the conversion has been done so problems are ironed out.

I had to totally change my front suspension so I could go racing. Lukily I was able to sell the old stuff to someone else. Sometimes its better to choose the series you want and fit the car to the championship rather than the other way round, especially if you've not started building it. Its...

Its a comment banded around by a lot of people doing trackdays but although smaller advantage than sorting fronts, its worth it when you actually need that advantage. You wont find many top end race drivers running OEM at the back.

If you can keep the weight down and turbo power nice and high then you'd have a chance. Possibly the main issue you will have for that is the tyre choice of smaller wheels. Its a tough class to jump into as the people in it are quite experienced though. Also many of the turbo cars are running...

Green is more expensive but due to the way they make them tends to have a teeny bit better surface area. Whether thats noticable I dont know

If you dont have a problem then you are most likely ok. This new version has just made it about as bombproof as it can be though.

I went this year and the Saturday was rammed. I think next time I'll do the classic just for a more relaxed event

I feel like a party pooper but having gone this route on my car. It will cost around £15k to get designed and fabricated and not massively advantagous if keeping the track width original. Money would be best spent on lightweight wheels, hubs and struts and modern technologies such as digressive...

This. Depending on what your tyre choice is too will determine how best to progress. Theres only one rear spring available for the clio 2 - the 8kg one. The suspension spring rates are very much car specific due to chassis weight, weight distribution, track width and wheel base, wishbone length...

Something like this would sort the roll centre geometry and allow an examination on kingpin and scrub angles

not really fun to drive anywhere but on track! Gearbox would however be a lot of fun

Yes. Its not ideal as you would have to pretty much run the dampers in the softest settings to match the spring rate but its a solution. Could always keep the 8kg springs for trackdays and switch over.

You could run a softer front spring. See if anyone has a 7kg spring they want to swap.

There is only the BR and Ds(Dr) available for the Clio2 You can use the Ds on the road. Arguably its all in the spring and damper choice. If you have a road kit then dont put stiff springs on, then the digressive valving can control the chassis more on the high speed corners, but the springs...

Interesting idea. Some pointers. As mentioned above, dipping will remove the galvanising and you have to drill into all the structural pockets. A light media blast and repair of any rust would be cheaper and less harmful to the shell. You dont want to seam weld a road car. It wont be...

It may be a case that with your car and caliper spec they need a little more bedding in than the standard process. It may be the DS1.11 are more tricky to bed in and thats why they've improved the compound vs the batch you had...

All sorted eventually. New pads going out. What Ferodo have said:

The piston shafts are no doubt too long, designed for a car with a high ride height

Its not on their common sizing guide, but you can scroll down for smaller fitments

15" rims :D I think its 205/50r15 off the top of my head. The other 225 width one we tested but its like a van tyre and needs an 9" rim I'd say

Pirelli Trofeo R. Their sizing is pretty broad but most competitors are using 7" rims. I think we can get a bit more from the tyres though with a bit more width... Pirelli themselves say the 7" is not really ideal but no-one runs wider rims (mainly as you have to go custom)

True. Just the tyre I need to use looks overtyred on a 7" rim so need to go a little bigger to sort

Right. I need to order wider then lol I hate custom parts!

This may be a stupid question but when buying alloys and the manufacturer lists the width as 7j is that the bead seat width or overall width?

I wouldnt use them. The images you sent me have gone to the factory for them to assess. Hopefully we will get some sort of answer shortly.