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Rubber coated sealing ones too if you fancy. They’re pennies. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282732204333

No such thing as overkill 😉 https://www.fastenright.com/general-fixings/sealing-rivet-nuts

You know you can buy Riv Nuts with a ring of sealer already on them. 🙂

My inferno when I bought it in 2010. It had just had its first set of belts too. 😅

Carpro Reload on the roof of the Clio doing its thing after an evening of rain last week.

£4k for a 44k mike Cat N here. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283873191116

Sorry, he’s written stolen/recovered.

I think you’d be surprised at the difference with a proper rear setup. Yes the rear is light and yes the weight transfer moves to the front. But I dare say a lot less weight than a standard car due to the increase in spring rates you're undoubtedly running. So the pitch of the car will be...

Listing now says Cat D in 2010 right at the bottom. Nothing else to expand on it either.

Perhaps you should try something with more bite. I’d say you’re missing out in free performance improvement there. I know when I went from having 360mm AP 6 pots on the Impreza on the front only with standard brembo rears to fitting 330mm 4 pot AP rears the difference was significant in terms...

Thanks for the comprehensive reply George. As for noise, I’m not that bothered. Like you I’ve run performance pads in every car so I’m used to it. Having said that I’ve never had RS29s squeal in any of my cars. The Cayman squeals if I brake when reversing oddly lol. Dust, again, I don’t mind...

Latest tinker has been giving the heat shields a jolly up. Nothing fancy, just removed, scrubbed with degreaser, 2 coats of Zinc primer and then 2 coats of VHT silver. I made up some large load spreaders with some spare Nimbus sheet and refitted with new hardware. Far from show standard but a...

70nM front 40nM rear as specified by Josh Cook as this is apparently what he ran on his own road car. I have 12 clicks of adjustment on these and the front is currently set at 7 and the rear at 6. It’s pretty firm for a road car but changes direction and corners lovely. I may go slightly softer...

What’s the idea behind cutting all the grille away? Adding ITBs?

Superb work there dude. 😏👌🏼

Thanks so much Steve. Although I’d say your rebuild is one of the most inspiring and comprehensive threads on here. Great to see so many of these starting to be saved as opposed to cut up.

Massive congratulations on hearing it fire up Steve. Huge achievement hearing that. Well done.

So this week not long after I’ve fixed the ball joint issue, I turn the steering on the drive and hear the weirdest of creeking noises. Only happened on right lock, not on left, wasn’t rotational and didn’t increase frequency with speed. It was just a weird creeking A noise that didn’t really...

Performance Friction 01s were my favourite. More aggressive retardation from a set of those in my Clio than my 356mm 6 pot APs in my Impreza with DS2500. They did eat a set of HCs in 12k road miles though and had to refurb both sets of wheels. 😅 The Pagids are around £270 so the Carbotechs are...

I agree and disagree. Performance comes at a price I agree. However, not all high performance pads have corrosive dust and eat discs. Case in point as I’ve said is the RSL29 from Pagid. Im just seeing what else Clio owners are using and to what effect that offer high performance without eating...

I ran them in the rear of my Impreza many moons ago. I know things don’t stay the same always and products get developed. However my experience of EBC wasn’t a remarkable one. They did the job for what I needed at the time. I guess it’s difficult to comment about a pads true characteristics when...

Thanks for your input Kev, i know what you mean about knowing what you like and agree sometimes a punt is needed. Also funny how owners of different marques of cars seem to lean towards one brand than another. As of yesterday i was leaning towards the Carbotech, today im more and more towards...

Are you running the RS4-2s all round or just up front. Chatting with a few of the Pagid guys I’m thinking RS29 up front and the RS4-2 in the rear.

Anti tamper torx bit

Hope to see more updates on this. Engine overhaul looks superb.

Thanks for all the superb responses guys. Out of interest, what are you running on the rear to go with your front pads of choice? You hear lots of people say there’s no point upgrading the rear as it doesn’t do anything on the Clio. However I’m a big believer in getting proper pads in the rear...

What are they like on discs Olly? A lot of metal removal? Not bothered about squeel so much, it’s more about performance, reasonable durability in terms of life and dust that doesn’t eat the wheels and bodywork.

Sorry my mistake £126 from Kam for the 55s

Cheers for the responses chaps. There’s a bit part of me that just says buy some RS29s as they’re a known entity of something I like, works well lasts ages. It’s difficult as brakes are a very subjective part of a car and what feels good one one persons really doesn’t work for someone else. I...