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Not a lot, its just a passive heatsink. Which would only supply minimal cooling if it was a good tight fit onto the filter. These are really more for looks than performance, although yes if you can get one dirt cheap it will make a slight difference. Really to properly keep the oil temp stable...

So how fast is it then? cant say its the fastest Clio without any test figures lol!

Dont bother calling 1st call, best bet is if youre passing, pop in and see what theyve got. Usually the place is rammed with Clio parts. AFAIK Burnt Mills is still going, they just joined up with the next door scrappies and moved a bit down the road a year or two ago. The only other good...

The venerable Mr Hill is right. The hole next to the foglight, while OK as a brake duct (which AFAIK was their intended use back in the day for Group N etc) is no good as an air intake because of the convoluted route that the piperwork would have to follow to get into the engine bay. As you...

Phil LOL about the only thing that hasnt gone wrong is the gearbox thats just what I said before my gearbox went! About the only original thing on my car, seriously, is the window glass and the body shell.

I woudnt bother with a Scort unless its a Series 1, and in that case anyone in their right mind would go for a mint standard one with no mods except maybe a bit of a drop and some engine work. Valvers will always be rarer and classier than any old Escort. So Id get the valver. but dont expect...

No idea what times as Ive not quarter miled it at all much to my dismay, its been off the road for the last few months for a load of bodywork, ever since I finally got it all working spot on. As soon as its out Ill go quarter miling if the weathers ok, Im expecting 1/4 mile ET mid to low 13s...

A lot of the interior ones are T20-T25. The bigger ones were T40 I think. Get one of those multi sets really.

Might still be worth it if youve got the time and skill to rebuild the head. In fact Id say its almost definitely worth it. No more than £500 though and the car needs to be uncrashed as well.

Take the air box off and look at your two pipes. One is relatively short and goes directly to the idle control valve on the side of the throttle body. The other is a much longer run that goes under the manifold then comes up along that valley in between the two centre inlet runners, then plugs...

Whichever you can get to fit! Im not too up to date on this, but last time I checked about a year ago, both claimed to do a kit for the valver but when it came down to it, they actually didnt do anything of the sort- ie no way of actually fitting the filter to the throttle body. This may have...

A standard Williams clutch always did me very well for quarter miling, fast road use even when using nitrous. It was tough as old boots. Definitely recommended. I did use a Black Diamond uprated clutch before that. Not much cop.

Exactly. Thats the main reason I got it, simple shape, comes out slightly forward of a normal bumper so plenty of room to play around with. Im fed up with skinning my knuckles trying to get stuff to fit in the standard bumper but at the same time dont want a huge snowplough on there. I think the...

Hi Mel, well well see you soon anyway mate, how many days to go now?

G man - I didnt know superchargers made any noise at all apart from the gear whine. My turbo Clio definitely chatters and so does my Nissan 200, they twitter so much youd think there was a bird nesting in the engine bay. The chattering/twittering noise comes when you let off and close the...

BTW anyone interested in this sort of stuff, get a book called Forced Induction Performance Tuning, through Haynes - as long as you know a little about engines and how they work, youll be able to follow the theories and ideas.

LOL yeah a SC might be working all the time, shame it robs power off the crank and then runs out of puff once you hit any decent revs. The nature of a blower is that it works well at lower rpm and becomes inefficient at higher revs. The turbo is the opposite. Hence the reason why with cars like...

Oh BTW those skirts dont have the detailing on them behind the front door. I could be wrong but I dont think you can get those smooth skirts any more, they all have the detailing grooves in which youd have to fill over.

If you just want the wide rear arches, but want something a little plainer, just get Maxi arches. Either way I think you could bodge it and bond the new arches over the top but the proper way is to cut away the originals. Im no expert on that though. It would definitely look weird with a normal...

Yes thats pretty much it. The full story is far too dull for public consumption but I am temporarily retired until everything settles down and I get my Clio back etc. Im hoping to be back by Christmas!

No. Its built by Dimma. Obviously the original car that all Dimma creations are based on, are factory standard cars. Then Dimma take them apart and rebuild them to such an extent that they could really be called proper coachbuilders, in the same way that there are various German tuners that do...

Ouch 350 Euros! I got a 16 row 235mm oil cooler with two downward facing connections so no pipe problems, steel braided hoses and a sandwich plate the same as yours with the oilstat built in, for about £100...around 150 Euros? Well that was direct from Mocal (their distributors Think Automotive...

defeinitely you need valver ones. Theyre about a ton from Renault. unless you can get them off a scrapped one.

Cheers mate!

OK to cut a long story short, most of you know what the front end of an Evo 6 looks like...well that black, diamond pattern mesh is exactly what I need. Its open enough that you can see clearly through it, and I need something just as widely spaced, in a tough black finish the same. Anyone know...

LOL quality! Why not? Itll look more hardcore.

285H is as far as you can go keeping the hydraulic followers. A good choice over standard cams. 270s are definitely not worth bothering with.

Exactly. Keep the fast road cam that youve got, you wont see a lot of difference unless youre thinking about a race cam with 300 degree plus duration. The Supersports 278 cam is as far as you can go on the standard hydraulics btw.

LOL top secret Steve! Well the Maxi kits have always been available from Prima although I dread to think what their delivery times are. However that is the full wide-arch kit which is a serious undertaking. Colin did it on his and it looks totally mental but its a big job. I only wanted the...

Good call Mel. But hang on, surely the growing motoring underclass who run around without tax or insurance, are also the same people who buy cheap cars for cash and dont ever register with the DVLA. There are so many reasons NOT to tell the DVLA who you are and what car you own, not least...