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its a bad thing, at no point should oil piss everywhere out of that area. I still think you should try the oil filter as pressurised oil can spray all over the shop at 6 bar, twist it, see if its even remotely loose......it only takes a little. And oil pressure is extreemly high when cold as...

its either the oil filter or the oil pressure warning switch as they are the only 'open' pressure areas on the front of the block.

yea, that looks like real carbon too.

wont be the oil pump as thats inside the sump. Is it a leak, or was pressurised oil sprayed everywhere?

I love it how air filter and induction systems companies throw around the venturi effect term in the most useless applications. The venturi effect is a phenomenon and you can put one on your kitchen tap, but it wont make it flow any more or faster on the other side. Venturi simple explains...

checked your oil filter, its in that area and under high pressure and it can spin off pissing shed loads everywhere.

are you using the correct serial cable?

Yes, no problem. However the stock crank is good for more rpm than the stock roller path radius followers can sustain without converting to non hydraulic operation.

pics of the actual exhuast would be good....seeing just the trims is useless.

it'll have a hard time coping with the weight of your car. If it does go in it'll cost a fortune in diffs, clutches, gearbox's....not to mention be uber slow below 9000rpm.

is a simple unscrew old, screw in new. Its at the end of the gearbox, you can see itif you remove the nearside front wheel.

wowza, fitting is so easy i'd most times do it for free.

was gonna say, new oilpump time! They are about £150 from ren, and despite being expensive, they are effectively your engines heart......loose oil flow and loose the engine, not worth taking a second hand item eventhough it'll probably be fine. Sump is fine to run a s/h one.

yes, but there are dozens of engines currently running over 800bhp in 4pot 2 litres, its nothing to shout about in the turbo world. Have you seen what scadanavian blokes do with shitty old volvo lumps?

wooop wooooop. I said nothing about fitting one into a clio, but simply the comments that it is a weak engine compared to the vag lump, which at best is average. But your saying you will do the big rubber c**k thing if i simply fit an engine?

So far with the meganes its been a case of controlling boost and not triggering the limp mode, the stock ECU is incredibly complex. Stick a standalone on it and it'll be far easier to hold 300bhp on a stock engine with a larger turbo.

I'll disagree. The VAG lump is by no means nothing special by any means, its a boggo standard 4 pot with a turbocharger, an awful head, pretty bog standard designs for components. Boost is a wonderful thing. the Fr4T is a BEEEEEFY engine, the gearbox is another issue but we'll see how...

Dont like poly, they dont feel right. New OE rubbers are best due to compound arcs that suspension components travel in. Poly bushes bind up and squeek.

gripper

you get the inlet aswell right?

yea, i've had a few pass without any 'oooer hows your father' antics.

you'd be surprised how clean they burn without a cat and can still pass the MOT without it in most cases.

i'd get a traditional LSD rather than an ATB from quiafe.

yup, first batch arrives soon.

the vvt system in the 172/182 range is there simply to allow the renault engineers to run a wilder camshaft without any of the problems you would associate with larger overlap cams on a plenum with a classic speed density system. The vvt system is a simple 1 step phasing operation which...

on their own, i personally wouldnt as other areas have to be optimised first. With the current stock engine having breathing restrictions, increasing the lobe area will not see large gains.

If the car will start and run, but the PC will not connect to the ecu then power etc isnt your problem. I've had simple problems that are similar where no matter how much you play with com ports and baud rate options it just wont 'sense' the ecu. I swapped over to another ECU and it connected...

chavtastic.

NO offence taken, most of my stuff is generally more expensive for the hand crafted detail items, but then again i take more time and put more work into it. I'm sure i can sway your views if you get a manifold made for £400, then you come see one i have made, you will quite quickly reverse...

The short flexi to the rear beam are the only rubber hoses on there, the rest is solid all the way along the trailing arm to the caliper because its fixed distance. Unless your referring to the tiny bit of pipe that is on some cars just before the bend upto the caliper off the trailing arm.