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cheers mate, yeah do you do accounts ?! ;)

the master cylinder - or around all the hoses / pipes. if the fluid level has gone down a lot it has to have come out somewhere, and you will see a stain where it did

indeed. when i stripped down my first engine i remember getting a wire de-carb brush on it and taking all the carbon out and then "buffing up" (i thought i was doing a lot more at the time) all the areas i had heard needed doing, took away the casting marks and got it a bath and skim and...

sounds like alice in wonderland eat your heart out!

have you checked around there for fluid loss, it has to be coming out somehwere!

if you dont mind me asking ben, how did you learn? is the only way to learn by experimenting (obviously with theory andk nowledge of what youre doing) a nd bench-flowing your efforts to see what youve done?

i doubt the power gains on a 172 - the standard exhaust isnt gonna be hugely restrictive, why would reanaut release a performance car with sh*t exhaust breathing. ppl have said that itsd hard to get good gains on a chipped 172, ask and see what others have got.

yeah but then yourdriveshafts will wear in no time at alll, you wont be able to stop for sh*t (and when you try they will just fade!), and the weight diff between the two engines will redistribute the front-rear balance, to...who knows.

yeah it was the carbd energies that were about 5bhp quicker than the SPI version. zedx - dont you have to change the ECU for an MPI as the mapping would, i imagine, be diff? correct me if im wrong!

http://www.pumaracing.co.uk/head01.htmhttp://www.pumaracing.co.uk/head01.htm a good site if you want in-depth analysis on aspects of tuning, shows up all the bongo mags crap advice. you could read all the DIY guides in the world though, but like is expained on that website every casting is...

but when youre driving at 70mph + and the car feels unsafe that surely is a cause for concern?

now i took a trip on the m-way last night, not been on one for a while, and had a mate drive it on the way back, who said it had incredibly light steering. now i had always thought it did, but didnt think anything of it - now he has mentioned it aswell, i realise it snot standard! what causes this?

I klnow they always get a bad pressbut i cant blame them after going to a local VW parts dept today to get some bits - the woman in front of me at the desk was moaning about needing a new key fob battery for her key had a new badge for her key as the old one is worn (wtf?!). anyway, she then...

what kind of mods are you planning? dont remember reading anything like that, others may do.

lol what is it - a grand if youre feeling flush ?!

i agree with ben about the buying a cheaper car that needs work...hands dirty kind of work ;). in a perverse way sort of makes you wish in that respect that you had treated it like sh*t! but ive recently checked out autotrader, you can get valvers for as little as 1.5k and are advertised up to...

isnt there a feature in this monts PGTI on a clio track day? only scanned through it but there was mention of a LAD 200bhp 172/cup (cant remmebr) car there

its the far outside top bolt, its visible (only just) that there is a missing nut here - about 1/2mm movement if you push the manifold hard with all other nuts torqued up. would you mind explaining again how you do the two nut trick (oh sh*t this really does sound dodgy) - do you tighten them...

oh good. cheers now.

oooh suit you sir. away from penetration, is the stud reverse threaded in the head, or do i turn it anti-clockwise like normal to remove it? just dont really fancy spend half an hour swearing and tightening this thing in more.

check all your joints for play - see the haynes for how tro do this. as i understand it, driveshafts on a FWD car are damaged far less than on RWD cars becuase of the CV joints that take most of the imbalances, reducing the strain on the shafts - check these aswell for play. The shaft itself, if...

just reading it again - whats plus gas? like a blow torch?

thank feck.

the end part of the stud where the nut was sitting has snapped off, taking the nut with it. so i am left with a short length of threaded stud. do they screw out then ben?

Not strictly clio related, but hoping someone can help! am working on a polo to bring up to scratch and sell on. The manifold is cracked and am therefore changing it - however, going to undo one of the manifold-head nuts today, and by just touching (and im not exaggerating here!) the nut, the...

chassis runners is where i usually put them.

as the man said, from renault its 35 quid. not normally done at factors, so there or using another card on ECP is your only bet!

gald u got it sorted mate, tho the balancer place should really have told you if they thought the wheel was dodgy!

i once tried to swerve to avoid a fox on the motorway at 6am, not a good idea, ended up sideways across the 3 lanes!

150g balanced - yeah if i were you id swap that wheel and take it for another drive! good luck mate. just keep telling yourself its all experience!