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Re: 551 bhp renault 5 Full feature on this car in July's Practical Performance Car magazine. Says at time of the feature when it was running a reported 370 bhp and did a 11.2 second quarter 127 mph trap, ''no fancy forged pistons or steel conrods, all standard 172 parts'' :eek: Looking...

LOL ;) Nah im disappointed tbh. Was expecting a loss down the rev range but a gain near the top. Iv now got a loss down the bottom and only just about matching what i had at the top, all in all a slower car. The amount of cash iv spent scraping odd bhp levels is crazy. This is why i...

Your right Russ. I always thought VVT was the ''kick'' similer idea to the Vtec cam switch over thingy :o:o - everydays a school day as they say :)

Thought it kicked in about 5k rpm area :S:o

Dont be too hasty to write them off tho. Like i say, could be a problem with the car? Fingers crossed we'll get a look at it this weekend Lad on here was running Schricks and had a really poor time of it. No 2 cars are the same and some mods work well with one and not with another.. IMO...

Car was rolling roaded on a different set of rollers, location and type wise prior to the final mapping session as per above result on the Piper graph with a difference of 4 lb/ft or so between results (161 - 165 lb/ft) so id say thats pretty accurate in comparison. Prior to final Piper map...

Re-grinds?

Mine where fine. Engine used to rock about a lot, pretty lumpy and not nice to drive town traffic wise but certanly didnt live up to their name of ''River Dance cams'', lol Did over 60k on them. For 300 quid cant complain power wise.

I expected it too but thought the advantage would be the 428's would blown the Pipers into the weeds top end of the rev range when they came on song. Bascially at best they can only match the Pipers after 5k rpm and for a extra 300 quid + premium :dapprove:

Scrap lol Basically Pipers were removed after the top end had a dephaser type noise. On 2 places on the inlet cam theres was cam wear in the journals due to ''possible'' oil starve thanks to a block channel so swapped them for the 428's.

Had my 428's mapped yesterday after replacing the Piper re-grinded cams. Heres the results. The car is running exactly the same mods in both runs and the results have a gap of 11 months. As you can see, peak power and torque is down by only 2 bhp and 5 lb/ft with the 428's over the Pipers...

I'd just leave it with the parts in the box. Best place for it

Might be better taking it in for a diagnostics check? Pin point the exact problem rather than throwing money on random parts as a process of elimination.

The guy was having some food not tit feeding or doing a life saving operation ffs. Like folk can afford to be that casual about selling things with the current markets. He should a been kissing this dudes feet for simply phoning up !!!

So basically its a load of crap?

Blueflame are shocking, er i mean good if you like the rasp

Why does it have to be no more than group 17? ''Expected'' high cost of insurance above this? or is there a spacific reason?

Cams work best in conjunction with other mods. On their own a lot of outlay for not much poke. Better putting the grand odd together and save for a supercharger. All depends what your goal is

Sounds to me like he wants to be looking down the left hand side of the engine not the right !?!? aka pulley area / component(s)

22mm spanner from memory at one end, other end simply plugs in. If you can jack up a car on axle stands you can do this easy

Agree Cant get much better than £9.99 Homebase ducting :cool: - had mine roughly 4 years now and is still as good as the day it was fitted and the car dosent have any wheel arch liners for protecting so its open to stone chips and outright abuse. Best stuff to use imo

I just used cable ties as a back up to the clip as the clip can slip down a notch over time.

^^It ''should'' work? Forget it, jubilee clip end of, they doo work :)

Easy fix: Take the instro panel out, gently unscrew apart and place a bit of insulating tape over the tube the bulb eluminates up through to the instrument panel. This rids the light, the light stays intact, and the tape or light cant be seen when all put back together plus costs nowt!!

Problem solved. Helps if the map sensor's plugged in :o:dead:

Might be better having a re-build. Whats to say the 2nd hand one isnt knackerd or on its way out too and you dont want to go to the trouble of fitting it and then finding out the hard way.

Look at the reported gain(s) lol

Perfectly fine yeah but always make sure by spinning the wheel

Plenum im running now is a ph2 with the hole for the ICV. The whole engine came only had 14k on the clock, 1 owner and was a 02 plate, (roughly only a year old at the time of breaking) so not sure if there was variations :S - strange one

You sure thats not a 182 plenum? Im running a ph1 with a ph2 plenum and it had the hole for the ICV where as looking at the photo's yours dosent :S IIRC number 1 usually goes to inlet pipe, number 2 is your brake vac pipe and number 3 links to your ICV