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the BB pagid pads are hardly any better than the standard cup/172 pads both for normal road and track use. A lot of people will be mislead by the reference to "Pagid" and think they are getting proper Pagid race pads. When I ordered mine I asked that question exactly, and the contact at BB told...

nope. The pagid pads are just standard oem pads, not to be confused with the real race pads (Pagid blue, yellow, ceramic etc.). The discs I dont know. If you want to do something useful, forget the discs, and buy yourself a set of decent pads. Ferodo 2500, Mintex 1144/55 from demon tweeks. Or...

they are very good. I have a cat back with a mid silencer. Sounds good, very discreet, and keeps me under the 94 dBA noise limit for most circuits. If you go for the same without mid silencer, they are extremely noisy, so you get to choose what you want.

you are probably referring to the crankcase breather system, which is used to evacuate any residual combustion + oil vapour gases from the cranckase and usually feeds those vapours back into the inlet manifold for them to get burned in the combustion chambers and avoid polluting the atmosphere...

throttle bodies are almost always housed in an airbox in order to supply colder air, exactly the same principle as your single throttle body engine, only you need to consider improving airflow volume etc. The exception is when the car design (e.g. caterhams) allows you to feed the throttle body...

havent you heard, theyre recycling all the concorde engines ...

youre looking at about £45 + vat per wheel for a mobile good quality job

Easy mods wont get you to 200bhp. most 172/cups start life around the 166 mark. exhaust/IK/chip may get you an extra 10-12hp, i.e youll end up with about 180 or so if youre lucky. Some people on the forum claim 185 - Maybe on a cool day, a happy rolling road and an engine with 10k+ miles. to get...

eeehhh? sticking throttle cable? sounds weird. Have it checked.

yeah, mines not only pink, its also got the "Chanel" crossed "C"s on the corner. Peeewwwwyyyy aint that so sweeeeeeeeet..

new head about 1.3k, new engine about 2k

its possessed. Sprinkle it with holy water! I guess that doesnt happy when its in neutral?

I am not the least surprised about 14bhp. I know the difference between a cold winter morning at 3 deg and a sweltering day at 35 deg, and you can definitely feel the 14 bhp!

ask frosty

yes, on a cup the pro kit lowers the car by max 5-15mm??

soon

hiya, cups a good choice - with aircon :sick: -

the second start problem is caused by the immobiliser and is well known to renault. take it in and they will fix it in 30 mins.

hence my earlier question. It sounds like hes gone for the eibach sport springs which lower the car 30+mm and that will increase negative camber over the original settings and need readjustment

dont worry, I had the same thing happen to me. I go through windscreens regularly, so next one cant be that far off. If its any help, your "pink" windscreen is heat reflective - whatever that means, sounds good in this heatwave ;)

most 172s even with chip/ik/exhaust struggle to 172bhp. High air temperature will affect the performance considerably. The only relevant measurement is to use the same RR before and after every change you make, and to do that at the same ambient temperature. The absolute bhp number you will get...

kartman are these the eibach sport springs (I assume yes, as you say they lower the car 25-30mm and the pro kit only lower 15-20mm). What camber setting did you use on the front wheels, and have you done anything to the rear wheels? Are you going to keep the standard dampers?

Nice.. are you known in other circles as Dr. Mengele - the angel of death? Bummer about the clusters, hope you find a replacement cheap, and that whoever did this to your car gets sterilised as you suggest!

go to http://www.schrick.dewww.schrick.de, read the introduction and explanation on cams, come back to discuss!

just make sure the bottom of the accelerator pedal sticks out to the left to allow you to "heel and toe" (nothing to do with heels, more like the side of your foot). Then buy the noisiest open airfilter you can get, and blip the throttle at every conceivable downshift - racer style. Itll make...

I must admit a couple of weeks ago when it was sooooper hot, I ended up arriving at meetings feeling a bit sweaty and I wasnt too happy about it, but hey, cant win them all. Im not particularly bothered about the cost side, but if you think that adding aircon may rob at most 5% of your engines...

"Phillip, I think you hit the nail on the head" :oops: Ooooooh its so nice to be appreciated..

I think that cups fall under the "aspirational" car category. By that I mean, that a lot of people read magazine articles about the cup being "hard, a drivers car, a track day car, etc, etc" and fancy themselves as fitting that particular image. Thumbs up to Renault for having achieved that. The...

it is the immobiliser. well known problem by Reno, fixable under warranty

no, call rsport in wimbledon. Only place to get this stuff in the UK. 02085409991