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Probably be about £25 a set plus postage. I'll put details up once I receive them. They'll need to be welded obviously.

Just for now. EPAS is being prepared for some time next season. The 1.5DCi rack has quite a weak mounting bracket on the LHS so I'm having some reinforcement plates CNC'd up at the moment. I'll also be selling these to anyone who's interested as I had to order 15 sets to make it worth while.

Bottom end came back this week. (finally) So have spent the weekend starting to build it back up. It's nice to start getting some of the newly powdercoated bits out of its wrapping! Firstly, cleared some space at the front of the car. Still a couple more jobs to do here. And these finally...

We've never had a cat on any of our cars racing in the TDT, CSCC Tin Tops or the 750mc Roadsports. Never even been discussed.

A small update as I'm expecting the bottom end back next week. The head is now finished with all valves lapped and all assembled. Also been looking at where to mount the oil cooler. There's not much space with the PM radiator and all its shrouding but I think it will fit just to the left of...

According to Facebook it's 4 years ago today that I picked up the Clio. Looks a bit different now!

Assembled components of one combustion chamber today so I can check compression ratio is on target. I'm aiming for 12.5:1 which in theory is what all the parts I have bought should give me but we need to be sure. Once measured Thurston Engineering who have done all the work on the block can...

That could be tempting Josh. If the car is ready and I've managed to get a test day or 2 under my belt I may consider it, thanks.

Thanks Steven. I'll try and keep people entertained with my woes!

Nearly ready to begin assembly

Thanks. More to reduce detonation than gain power but I think we've decided to run with it as is. The extra cost of stripping and machining just isn't worth it.

Any engine builders on here. How critical is a good squish clearance on the F4R? Currently it's looking like 52 thou which generally is higher than ideal but skimming the deck might raise the comp ratio high than I want. Any help appreciated.

Thanks Josh. Had my eye on the Tricolore Trophy for a while and will definately enter it if I think I'm going to do a season on my own. Isn't Tony Hunter in that with you? His "Burpspeed" antics are what swayed us towards Clios in the first place. I'll still be splitting my racnig between 750MC...

It is a tax write off, but if your ex boss wants to drive with as well you (or he) has to tread carefully as the tax man doesn't look so favourably on it if they think it's for personal gain. We had to make sure the wording on the paperwork wasn't too specific.

The CommsQuest sponsor is a company owned by a guy I know. He did a few corporate trackdays with us (Me and a couple of partners used to run them) and then when we started racing he said he'd like to get involved. So in 2015 they paid £20k to partner me in the car for a season and in return we...

How far from me are you so I can drop trhe car off and then pick it up again so you can say it to me! I'm desparate!

You're probably right! So I'm trying to mount everything so it's easy to pull the engine out quickly in the future. And yes it is tempting to do the EPAS now, but I'm running out of time to try and get a race in this year so I've made a list of the next improvements to be done over the winter...

bracket for fuel pressure regulator New fuel lines started Looking much better already With everything back from the powder coaters I can start some reassembly. The Powerflex Black series bushes are a bugger to install though. Really liking this silver finish. New radiator requires a...

So to bring this thread up to date, since the catastrophic failure at Thuxton I have spent the last 11 months stripping the engine bay, cleaning and painting it, tidying up the engine loom, heat shrinking and labelling all the plugs and wires so it will be easier for the engine to come in and...

To be honest I don't think the car was anywhere near 226. Just very generous rollers! At that stage the engine had a standard bottom end, a small amount of fettling in the head and Jenvey Throttle bodies and running Emerald ECU. It even had standard cams so around 210 I think was more realistic...

Do it if you can John. You won't regret it!

Thanks Jim. The cost to get a track car ready for racing would really depend on how much of the work you can do yourself really. Assuming your track car doesn't have a cage that's going to be the biggest expense, so if you're not fitting it yourself you should allow £1500-£2000 for that at...

Trigger's broom At the end of last season we finally managed to successfully complete a couple of races but if you read my roundup of last season you will also know that number 74 didn't come away unscathed. David's argument with a Lotus Evora left the car with a deceptive amount of damage...

I've been thinking about starting a thread on here for a while but as most of you will know time is never on our side when it comes to these things. But I thought some of you might be interested in my story of how I got into racing and of course as I continue to persevere with one of the most...