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Yeah a roots would be a good idea, but looking at all the ones Ive seen in between both banks of a big V8 and stuff, how on earth would you find the clearance for it even if you did ditch the existing inlet manifold? You cant get a fag paper between the top of the manifold and the bonnet skin...

Well my turbo valver was kind of BBs customer test car after I blew my engine on nitrous. I was gonna go for a full-on throttle body conversion with a bulletproof bottom end, a proper wild head etc, but I was convinced by the fact that running a turbo Clio didnt really involve much in the way of...

Ive always been happy with my Gaz setup. Long as you get the right spring rate youre in business.

LOL Colin you copied me mate, cos I thought of it the minute I bought my valver in 1999! I just didnt get round to buying it or fitting it LOL Ive still to see yours in the flesh anyway mate, I just keep seeing pictures! When are you going to put it on show?

Quality choice Bubbles. Ive got a Maxi front bumper so its not just Colin that youre copying if thats any consolation LOL

Jesus Christ youre all mental. The one thing that car needs before anything else is some serious lowering. I bet I could crawl right underneath that thing with a bit of a squeeze!

But you cant really ask people to give you their opinion on limited information, and then moan if they dont give you the answer you want...just seems a bit of a sulky post to me - and I dont have any hidden agenda here, Ive never been in any kind of row with you in a thread before so its just a...

Very nice. I loved it when mine was on, it felt a hell of a lot better.

Theyll both go in if youve got the time and the inclination. As standard I shouldnt imagine therell be a great deal in it, as far as speed goes. However, GTT engines are so easy to tune up that it would be crazy not to mess with it before putting it in.

Best you drive a few of each before deciding. Theres lots of things to think about ie: Do you want an old car or a really old car? If you crash do you want anything left of your car afterwards? Are you planning on a lot of tuning or are you generally happy to leave a car standardish? Do...

What do you mean by disintegrated? Thats a new one on me. 80-90% of braking effort is at the front though. Check your brake bias valve under the back of the car, maybe for some reason its been turned so that theres no braking at the rear?

So what are the actual colours you can get at the moment, even if they are extra price options? Admittedly I didnt get to the stage of actually signing my name on the contract but before the test drive, I was offered black gold, racing blue, the other blue that looks like cup blue, and silver...

As someone mentioned above, 250hp in a car weighing 1100 kg is awesome. But the same power in a car weighing 950kg is even better LOL (ie. a valver with a few basic weight saving measures - ditching spare wheel and back seats and running on lightweight rims like OZ Super Ls or Chrono Evos)

Or just a Green cleaning kit which is about a tenner I think. Same stuff as K&N sell , just green instead of red fluid. You get the cleaning stuff and the re-oiling stuff.

Very very tight. The lump barely fits into a Clio so I dont know how it would go into a 5, but as with most engine swaps, given enough time, money and dedication, anything is possible. The question is why youd want a big heavy 1.8 in a GTT engine bay. Better to stick with 1.4 turbo power and...

I think its something more serious than the plugs youre using, sounds more like the alternator, battery or associated wiring is knackered. Or at least thats the first port of call. Idling problems can be caused by so many different things Im not even gonna go into it here. BTW RC7BMC will work...

You kind of cant have one without the other. A car that pulls well through the gears will have a decent top speed anyway. Something that struggles most of the time is not going to have a whacking great top speed. At least not if its a normal car. The sort of compromises that youre talking...

The hose goes down from the underneath of the air box to a bit of tube that goes through the NSF subframe and then another bit of tube attaches on the other side of this, just behind the NSF foglight. The actual intake end of this pipe just sticks up vertically underneath the NSF headlight.

Its nothing to do with a supposed accident with a motorcyclist, which it seems the government are holding up as their excuse to ban front window tints. Since when did ONE accident become the justification for a complete amendment of the law? Thats b****cks. Its because, as ever more speeding...

Plumbing in a front mounted oil cooler rad will bring your water temps down as well, makes them (and the oil temps obviously) much more stable. A bit more hassle than putting in a bottle of red stuff though.

AFAIK most modern 98 RON cars will cope with 95 RON without much trouble, after all there is a wide variation in the octane of petrol from different sources even if they all are nominally the 95 or whatever. All that happens is the ECU will realise that 95 octane is being used and r****d the...

Now come on lads, YR52GNZ (catchy name BTW) has come clean and hes not saying he *always* beats valvers or anything, just that occasionally hes got lucky and maybe hes been racing sh*t drivers/cars etc.Thats fair enough Id say. VTRs are slow but not as slow as theyd seem on paper. However, all...

No difference whatsoever. Some cars are designed to run on 98 super, mainly quick/new cars. 98 can be a necessity on some older turbo motors if theyve been modded to run higher boost and the extra octane will enable them to run this sort of boost without detonation problems. Essentially, any car...

Dunno Ive never really looked properly. It just sits there I thought, from the rear of the gearbox housing to the rear of the subframe?

LOL that would be a cracking idea (speaking as a 30 year old!) apart from one slight problem - imagine the number of young lads on those sh*tty scooters there would be. I dont think I could stand the noise!

Its about time that Shell got done for that. I thought it was dodgy when they first came out with it, and I emailed them about it. They wrote back to me admitting that it was only useful with cars running adaptive ECUs that would advance the ignition if using higher octane fuel, and basically...

Pretty difficult to hit 155mph in a hatch with under 200 bhp. Isnt the 182s top speed something in the high 130s?

you have pulled the plugs and checked that the plug wells are dry havent you? Water down the wells is a very common cause of this sort of problem as the plug boots dont seal very well at the bottom. BTW if youre into testing every single component, itll save you time if you just go to Renault...

Not an expert on the 19 engine bay layout hence cant help with the pipes etc, but I know for a fact the throttle body is different and the inlet manifold comes off at a slightly different angle to the valver one. Maybe the TB is the same and its just the neck of the manifold that makes it looks...

Next announcement! If you havent already, can all of you please PM or email me to LMK exactly what tickets you are wanting eg. driver only, driver + 1 passenger, camping etc.. I cant fill in the booking form without it and the cheques dont come through to me so I need to know in advance of the...