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I realise it will be loud, I dont care about that, its expected, I wondered specifically if Spherical joints and coilover dampers were known to rattle from cold at low speeds on rough surfaces. I'm not alien to building cars, nor driving them stripped out, but I've never gone beyond polybushes...

Yeah, much prefered the design with the pins bolted into the carrier and running in bushes in the caliper itself, at least when you got a recon caliper it was sorted.

Yeah its loud, exhaus is loud, stones on the bottom of the car are loud, tyre noise and vibration are loud and the whole car behaves like a drum, but its not the volume, more the noise that concerns me. I've given the bolts a once over but it still does it....

Odd question I know but bear with me! My clio is stripped, caged and has spherical topmounts, PMS spherical rear beam kit and polybushes elsewhere and the noise it makes on rough surfaces would have me pulling over in any normal road car looking for broken bits. Is this normal, or should it be...

Yeah the 172 was silly cheap compared to the competition and substantially quicker than most so sold well to a wide audience. The 197 was a niche product, fair enough good on track, but for a road car, thirsty, hard work and too expensive.

Carbon cannister is gone, although the little valve from the top of it seems noisy! (left that plugged into the cable) Tar is gone Loom I've done before on a previous car, so not worth the effort for 3kg or so. Rear wiper is gone 1 horn is gone along with the larger of the two brackets Yeah I...

Amazed they put a guy on track on 20 year old tyres to be honest, so the cars, that's just plain stupid.

Worth finding that and getting rid! I'm at 1005kg just now with a full cage, but even 20-30kg would be nice between battery, window regulators and stuff like that! Cheers

PAS is still there, EPAS is a consideration for the future Battery is on the list All that has already gone Is that just packing behind the bumper? Haha, mirrors are staying (road use and pulling left after an overtake on UK circuits) I'm avoiding plastic windows as it scratches horribly and...

Aircon pump and belt and so on have gone, so it doesnt work anyway. I want to keep the heater and blower for demist (never seen the point in removing it all and then not being able to see)

Yeah I want to keep that as I live in scotland, do wet trackdays and drive it on the road, but if the aircon unit is massively heavy it might be worth swapping to something simpler.

Whereabouts? rear bumper? Are the crash bars/bumper mounts heavy? Mine still has the dash in it (which is staying) but the aircon heater matrix is still there and Ive no idea what it weighs?

About 75kg and heading towards 70 mate

Does anyone have a list of dates and organisers for events at Knockhill this year?

Hi, I have a clio track car which has had most of the obvious weight removed (stripped, buckets, cage etc). There are a few areas I'm aware of I want to address, such as the electric windows, and others I wish to leave as it's used on the road (central locking for instance), but where does...

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I mean they weren't fitted to base spec lagunas or anything, only 2.0 clios? Which means they are now all at least ten years old, and there aren't millions of them around. Cheers

Hmmm. I assume the carriers are 172/182 specific? Mine on 121k+track use, so likely knackered :(

Hi, My 2002 ph2 172 seems to have a lot of play in the caliper relative to the carrier. Do these cars tend to wear the pins, or the carriers themselves? I found these http://m.ebay.com/itm/261437140249?_mwBanner=1 But no confirmation that they fit a 172. Does anyone know if they're correct...

If you could copy it that would be great. Mines just gone through the MOT under the competition car dispensation (cage, buckets, no airbags etc.) anyway. Cheers!

Interesting you only got an advisory, I understood this to be a no-no nowadays?

Surely the clio has an inertia switch to cut the pump off anyway so by the time you've crashed the rail is no longer supplied.

No ABS as in removed, or disabled?

That's perfect IMHO, only thing Id change is the wheels if it were mine! Always fancied on of these

I'm wondering if there are any pads which work acceptably from cold, survive on track on a standard power 172 and have R90 European approval? EBC Yellowstuff do, I've emailed them to confirm bluestuff and they arent approved. Ferodo aren't type approved Mintex 1144 seem to not be approved but...

Never had the bumper off mine yet to be honest, is it just in slide in rails or something? Cheers

I found this on another thread. @Chambers_RS, how did you fix the sides? Cheers

Hi, Those folk with quick release front bumpers for loading cars onto trailers etc, can you post some pics of what you've used to fasten it and where? Mine touches on the ramps as it is, and in due course I'd like to add a splitter so it will need to come off for loading. Thanks

Who does everyone use? I had a quote from Greenlight a while back which wasnt bad, but who else covers them? Thanks

Plywood is fairly common to be honest, the planks under F1 cars in the 90s were ply! It's a nice, stiff, thin and cheap material. Alucore is also used, as obviously is foam cored carbon.