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At first its exciting to know that you gotta rev it like a race car to get the power out of it, but trust me it soon gets tiresome when you have cars half as powerful catching you out cos your under 6000rpm!

Not good for a car to sit for to long like that. Get fresh oil, brake fluid and coolant in there asap :P

Alot of complaints from fellow owners about the card key system. But it would be bloody cool to have that starter button :p

Stripping my car out has IMO opinion made it slower... I've lost so much confidence in its grip and stability due to the snacky rear end that i dare not drive it as quick as before, and dropping 2psi didnt change a thing.

£182 for real? Cheeky b******s charged me £300 for it on the options list !

Anyone for melted internals lol?

or turbo'd throttle bodies....?

Throttle bodies, no wait turbo... or throttle bodies? How about a throttle bodied turbo???

A few 197 lumps floating around on ebay lately ;)

Do the good old servo test, Pump pedal hard with engine off til it goes stiff then hold it down, as you start the engine it should sink a couple inches, then switch it off and pump and should go stiff again. If the above dont happen then could be your problem

Something to do with the brake servo, only thing that connects brakes to engine. Maybe a vacuum leak from the servo pipe allowing the engine additional air after the throttle butterfly???

Seeing em next to eachother is new, and the older car still has the advantage

If you'd bought the cup you woulda saved yourself a whole lotta hassle lol :p

Hot hatches are designed to be abused yeah, but to a certain extent. Look at all the R5s and XR4s today? they are ALL on their deathbed. Although its not correct that because its second hand and sporty its abused, i never rag mine and treat it perfectly, even if i was to sell that wouldnt...

Hmm i was told my 197 was group 17 by insurers. I pay £2000 a year fully comp, age 22.

Lol yet another one. Cliosport.net has to be the bitchiest forum i've ever signed onto. Aint we all supposed to be 'enthusiasts' and share common interests? Stop taking digs at one another all the time and act like a bloody club.

At least you've got peace of mind that your cambelt and cam followers are in perfect order, nothing wrong with that

My rear seats alone weighed upto 30kg on the scales! Just be careful under heavy braking and cornering mate, the backend can get abit snakey with so little weight there.

Certainly something about them, they always seem to come up with the goods when you need em to. Only owned one RS but cant see myself buying anything else in the future

They all tap mate, its a renault thing im afraid. My 4000 mile clio sounds like dog poo on tick over, just the way they are.

Top tip for 197 owners. Std set-up is best, most avaliable induction kits actually lose BHP :p

Whats up with the rear wiper blade? is that his take on the DTM single wiper conversions?

Club ban lol?

Those R888s looks the nuts on them wheels though!

That one actually looks quite neat

Good pics, you must be pretty handy with the camera :p +1 for spoiler, not a fan.

You can never have enough carbon IMO

Lol i dont think anyone on here will like this motor, and if they did they wouldnt admit it! ( purely for the wheels of course )

Alot of effort for a hit and miss here. Besides after you've spend all this money, chopped the front of your car to pieces and bought a v.expensive smaller rad, your gonna be abit dissapointed when a turbo'd ktec jobbie flies past you on boost :p

Hi mate, car looks neat. Hope your gonna put the effort into keeping the engine gleaming :p Get yourself to some essex meets and get ya car well known, look forward to seeing it.