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I had a fiesta that started doing this after a few motorsport events. Eventually the head gasket went spectacularly at an event and when we took the engine apart the clown that built engine had left lumps of old gasket on the block. Wasn't until it was used regularly in anger that it became an...

It isn't broke. Go nuts in the wet and it works just fine. Bogs down Horribly if you get really excited on a standing start. I have a genuine 172 cup brochure and a Megan 225/182/V6 brochure but no scanner sadly.

The downside to being a big bloke. You look a tool in or on everything unless it's a monster truck or a goldwing style cruiser.

I'm 5ft 10ins. Long body and short arms and legs and the clios driving position is fine for me. Driving trucks these days so the Clio never feels high up!

How the hell did Kwikfit miss that!?

Track prepared ZR160's go well. As well as modded Clios from what I've seen on track. Standard is a different story.

Humans are puny. Give it some God like abuse. Bushes can be such an arse.

N/A power doesn't come cheap to a phase 2 Clio F4R. The mk3 Clio sports have a much better base with a better breathing head. Your fighting the heads breathing on the phase 2. Annoying really but that's cost cutting and mass production for you. Probably why Renault themselves only went for an...

I'm playing a gig at the blue lagoon in Bristol so sadly won't make this one.

I'll never work on a VW again. I've yet to see far superior underpinnings unless it's something that cost an alarming amount in the first place.

That's the clincher really. If your even considering a 130i then you should probably avoid a 197. All the N/A Clio sports are just a bearable daily version of cars from days gone by. That's why I went for the cup. It's even less daily than the rest. The MK3's moved the game along a bit...

I paid almost 3k for my Cup. Way too high but I don't regret it.

I thought it was 15mm or 30mm roughly for the two eibach options.

Depends on how thorough you are when you drain it. Renault manual says 4.75 litres without filter change and 5.1 with.

Check out kit car parts suppliers they had some options last time I looked.

Search the forum and you can read thousands of arguements about it.

Pretty sure it's around the 0.5 Mark. Last time I looked to compare with my Cups geometry.

Cams timed for a broad range of power rather than a top end spike?

Aftermarket springs. Mine looked Like that on one side until I put a genuine cup spring on. No paint marks and it's not a Renault spring. One yellow and one white I think is 172 cup.

It's a track day. You can do what you want. I see guys in ancient classics just blowing The cobwebs out fairly regularly. That's how you know a car is really fast as they're the ones that go home with all standard gear intact and still passed everyone.

Slotted nuts. Top job there! I'd start by replacing the clutch cable!

Just jam it in there and it'll be fine.

It is an arse and just seems too big. I squashed mine in using a socket and a trolley Jack and the circlip only just went in. Fiddly little git it is. I'm sure someone on here thought there's was in and the circlip pinged out. I resorted to that after noticing the one that came out had marks in...

News to me. A 205/45/16 is bigger than a 195/45/16 which is what I was under the impression caused the different speeds before the limiter in my Cup and the 182 I had on track. Phase 1 has different gearing.

There's a difference between ragging and abuse. A Clio wouldn't last 5mins if you start side stepping the Clutch, flat shifting or revving it to 8k Continuously with a raised limiter. What strange advice. Your face would last longer if you took a hammer to it. What the hell does a Westfield...

Forgot to add that at the end of the day what any car really needs is a proper wedge of talent behind the wheel. Just look at the top gear reasonably priced car from worst to F1 drivers as an example of how much difference talent makes. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_test_track

No worries. Sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't.

If you can get the front end to grip in 2nd then yes. Following an RS5 at a track day was an eye opener. Not a huge amount of power by RS Audi standards and very heavy but the way they could just nail it and go while I was left scrabbling in my boggo cup. When there was traffic and he had to...

Megane Sport vs Clio Sport vs BMW 745: As soon as your into 4th the Clios 2.0 N/A roots start to show. Anyway that's enough rubbish from me.

Remember most of the book figures published are 0-62mph or 100km/h. As we all use mph in this country I couldn't tell you if they are faster than the book times of 0-100km/h. They are definitely sub 7 second to 60 cars but after 80mph the lack of a turbo starts to show. The 60-100 time of the...