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the wing you have sprayed will probably look better than the rest of the car as renaults paint jobs out of the factory are sh*te

I do now and again i live in brownhills

This happened to me when i had my megane coupe i brought a re-con gearbox from reno and it hadnt got the circlip it had a plate over the diff with three 13mm bolts

Nick at hillpower is setting mine up he gets them laser levelled,mine are h&r

Ive got a mongoose exhaust and i used a poly bush at the back because the exhaust was moving about to much and it sat to low with a standard rubber,it now sits just below the bumper

You can get round the restriction i know someone whos got one in a van ,i think the standard ecu senses the higher boost when its turned up and shuts it back down. Im sure the 21 turbos are the same until you chip them

Theyve got really strict laws in france they have to keep engines standard etc

K reg blue nova sri it was bullet proof

Its a shame theyve gone to 5 stud could have had the brakes off it

My mate has a tuning company he modifies rsts.Theres so much you can do 1.8zvh conversion,2.1bottom end hes had pulling 293bhp on the rollers,full 2.0 16v zetec turbo conversion. I wouldnt feel to bad about getting beat by an rst my mate used to have a magenta 4x4 saphy cosworth which wasnt...

You could have a williams lump and still get blew by an rst there highly tuneable

It was probably one of them 5litre alpina bi-turbo engines Well fast

I have got the mongoose twin 3.5 round and mine hung low so i changed the rear exhaust bush for a shorter poly bush,it pulled the tailpipes up to the bottom of the bumber and reduced movement of the exhaust massively

Alot of people have coilovers and never set the camber up,ive just brought a set of h&r coilovers with camber correction bolts and im having them laser alligned when ive fitted them.otherwise there doing more harm than good

what about REDBULL ?

Have you been on ebay i think theres 2 sets turbines and 1 set of williams wheels not going for a lot

You might aswell buy one already done,i think nick at hillpower has got a williams lump knocking about id have it rebuilt first or atleast stripped down checked and new gaskets, water pump,tensioners etc

pgti-which seems to be going a bit maxpower if it gets any worse ill probably jack it in retro cars-quality mag ppc-quality with propper write up

My mate sev has a concours 280bhp 2.1 turbo mk2 fiesta its been in the ford mags,one night he was coming back from stoke when everyone used to meet up there on a sunday night and a scooby m3 bmw came up behind him and a scooby cut in front of him then they tried to slow him to a standstill...

Bet it smells nice inside

This could be the same as someone the other day.I know on the 172s some had this fault when pulling away on full lock the the suspension knocking on the strut tops.When i put my strutbrace on my 172 i took the shocker tops off the strup top had been ground away and when i went to renault they...

That was a fault on some 172s when pulling away on full lock. Renault modify the strut tops its been done to mine.They dont make a very neat job it when i put my strutbrace on i took the shocker tops off and seen that the metal work had been ground away they never even treated the metal it was...

I had an autowatch alarm fitted on my 172 it was really good value for money it was cat 1 it had anti highjaking and sense & tell when it bleeps when someone looks through the window etc it cost £270 The bloke who fitted said you wont get a better alarm than the standard renault one

Hillpower dont use the r sport ecu anymore they have brought all the mapping equipment they modified the ecu on my 172

Renault had the v6 engine built for the clio it produced 255 bhp but when it was fitted to the mk 1 due to handling problems etc the bhp was toned down.so when the mk2 was made they made changes to handling and the restriction was taken off