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Haha I recently did it with my civic. What I got for the OEM cat covered the cost of my new 421 manifold and a magnaflow sports cat (which is still sat in the shed as I fell in love with the sound and decided against welding it in lol)

Yeh I wouldn't bother, a 197 can be had for peanuts now. By the time you've got the engine and put it in I bet your not far off the cost of a 197, and then You've got a Clio 3 with a good engine but a non rs chassis, brakes, suspension, and paying the cost of modified car insurance. Seems...

I'm surprised there's a thing left of your oe cat! My phase 2 172 cat collapsed and I replaced it with a 90 quid cats2u cat which worked perfectly fine. I wouldn't bother with a sports cat, even a decat doesn't really gain you much, so a sports cat for the price of them seems a waste of time

A bit of smell is ok, at least you know it's real

There's a fairly basic guide on the PMs website at the bottom of the product page

Sticky slider pins or a sticky piston would cause that. Rebuild kits are only 20 quid from big red and come with new seals and pistons. Well worth doing.

50 quid?

Yeh the rears are a pain In the arse, once you've got the cage off, it's a bit of a pain in the arse but you can just about get an open ended spanner In there at a funny angle

Because if it's anything like on a 182 the AC pulley is ribbed, the deflector pulley isn't, so buy just using a smaller belt you risk the belt coming off. On my 172 I removed the AC and replaced the deflector pulley with a ribbed idler pulley. Made absolutely naff all difference though, I...

Bearing on the steering collumn? Cant see how it could be anything else if it's had a new pump and rack

Not sure on value but I wouldn't pay over the odds unless you've got a mint phase 1 to put them on, I don't think they were ever that desirable anyway were they? And I seem to remember they are quite heavy and bend very easy

I got one last year from GSF for about 60 quid

Why would you raise it so high lol. There was plenty of room when I did mine on the middle hole of axel stands with a jack under the engine and one under the box to lower it down.

Either Renault parts direct or eurocarparts. Euros will be cheaper for an O2 sensor though, I believe Bosch is the one you want. Front and rear are basically the same other than length of wire slightly different No idea on the parts catalogue though, most parts are discontinued these days...

7 minutes out per side

Yep, I ran mine like that for ages. I think these are the parts I used Part no's Pulley is from a Saab 95 possibly INA part no 532014610 SKF part no VKM34501 Belt is from a tdci Mondeo I believe Gates 6pk1640 But belt will have numbers on it, so it's 6 ribs wide and 1640mm long I had to used...

I think the issue with what you have done is that because the air con pump is ribbed and the deflector pulley isn't, the fact you have removed the ribbed section leaves the belt open to falling off. Most people replace the deflector pulley with a ribbed idler pulley and run the belt over it so...

I think the standard block is only good for about 230hp so low boost. Anything more than that will require better internals

I have bought 2 from gsf, choose their premium option and it's always been a valeo. It's a nightmare of a job to be honest, I bet it's a good 8 hours labour even on a ramp, took me a day an half on my driveway on axel stands and I did run into issues with the subframe bolts which added...

Nothing wrong with th valeo kit, it's seen most 172 and 182s from the factory to well over 100k. Fitted one last year to my old 172, no issues

Surely decatting and backbox removal on a diesel will just make it sound even more like a tractor but louder?

If he's disconnected the rods there will be minimal stress on the bushes. I don't think it's that.

Swapped ours for a Kuga, so much better in every way

Can't agree with this more. Sold mine a few months ago, absolute pile of junk. The 1.5dci engine in it was shocking and the boot was smaller than a MK2 Clio

It's for the auto leveling headlights, won't be an MOT fail as long as your headlights are aiming ok

Disconnect the linkage once it goes stiff and that will show you if it's at the box end or the hand end

That spring won't cause the lever to go stiff, I removed it on my last 172 as it broke, all it did was make the shifter not spring back to central as quickly in neutral. The ops video looks clearly seized to me

Meant to say yanoo stiff shift, he's a member on here called yanoo. Pure Motorsport is the best shifter money can buy, it's a bit raw, but well worth it, can be bought from pure Motorsport. It's a full shifter from the gearbox to your hand.

I bet it's the shifter ball in the shifter housing. Disconnect the linkage and check that it's not actually the gearbox selector been stiff, which I highly doubt, but worth checking. Maybe time to upgrade to a taboo stiff shift or a PM's shifter?

I think it's the release bearing tbh.