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You'll need huge forward speed and a well designed inlet feeding the airbox to achieve any useful amount of positive pressure in the box at WOT, the amount of inducted air at full chat is pretty huge! However feeding the box from the front of car does help to negate losses and aid airbox filling...

In terms of aftermarket airboxes the ITG AB65/AB80 airbox is pretty much at the top of the game. Short of paying a lot of money to have a company design an induction/filtration setup specificaly for the requried application you'll struggle to outdo a well done setup with an AB65/AB80 at the...

Technical Director for BPM, No 1 Mechanic for TW and Technical Engineer for Pectel Engine Control Systems. I keep busy ;) Cheers M

Not that much. Oil change ever 500KM if you aren't using an oil cooler. Every 1000KM if you are (in 24 hour events you accept you'll have a worn box at the end). Rebuild every 5000 - 7500KM. Not bad for a pukka dog engagement sequential. Cheers M

Judging by your writing style you're still at primary school so I'd say you've got a few years to wait yet until you can play with the proper toys junior! Cheers M

They look like they'll be a straight bolt on, upper engine one is anyway! Will keep you informed. Cheers M

I'll dig them out for you. Cheers M

Well unless they can fabricate pneumatically actuated 6 speed sequential four wheel drive gearboxes then a box on its own is going to cost them north of £25,000, then 5 grand a diff, ECU and Transmission control capable of running it all properly is around £8000 + the cost of the engineering...

TVR was the most reliable car I've had and bits were dirt cheap - most general bits could be had from the local Land Rover garage on the trade account! Cheers M

I went from a PPP'd Impreza to a nigh on 100K mile Clio Cup. Good result in my humble opinion! I really rate it and I've come from a back ground of 300bhp+ turbo charged saloons and TVR's! Cheers M

ITG are very good and their AB65 airbox as used in the Maxogen kit is far better designed and 'works' more effectively than the Pipercross viper. The bigger brother of the AB65, the AB80 is used in WTCC, Seat Super Copa and various other 'proper' race cars. I'd recomend you feed any airbox...

If its definately running on three cyls then its not the coil pack. Coil pack only has two coils in it as the 172's run wasted spark. Hence if your coil pack had failed then you'd be two cyls down. Not just one. Check injector plugs/condition and operation (with tell tale), then plugs and...

Get on e-bay. Find an F4R that's got less than 50K miles on it. That'll set you back about 500 quid. Work from there. That bearing, crank and rod is gone, probably the oil pump too, the chances of there being a lot of 'fallout' kicking about in the lump are pretty damn high which could easily...

GT5 is still very much in development as they've been on the phone to us recently wanting to know bits and bobs about dash configuration, colour etc. for a load of old racers we produced for back in the day. Cheers M

Blog updated. http://cliosupercup.blogspot.com/ Cheers M

I've got a full set of Diesel Kangoo Van mounts to go on my Cup project which are a good bit stiffer by all accounts to deal with the torque/weight of the diesel lump. Also fitting a polybushed dog bone, however will be helicoiling the gearbox mounting point and using a couple of grades...

Certainly isn't! Even a 225 Cup will sound like that with the rear parcel shelf out! Mostly due to the exhaust design. Cheers M

Basic Gaz stuff is alright but nothing impressive. The Gaz gold dampers are much, much better but you'll pay nearer a grand for those retail. Cheers M

Lot of work to do it though if you're planning it as a company as opposed to cash in hand. You're also liable if mechanical failure causes an off and you'll need to take ensure appropriate cover for third party damages off the track. Worth looking into but a pain in the arse IMHO for very...

Yep easily less than a day all done. The 5 GTT lump is a proper old school clockwork spark and bog flush fuel so there is almost no wiring to do. I did a GTT into a Clio 1.2 several years ago now. Went very well indeed! Cheers M

How rich is your Dad? Because the box, diffs and control system for that 4x4 WRC setup is deep into 5 figures with a 2 at the front. Could use a Super 1600 XTrac setup but then they aren't really designed for circa 300ftlbs of torque which would tend to go hand in hand with a 2 litre lump...

Interesting, did you have any data logging on the car and how much time do you have on Brands? I may put a proper driver in the car if I can't find a 58.5 out of it but it should certainly be capable of it. Cheers M

Word On The Street A Independant Throttle Body? Nope makes no sense to me! Cheers M

On the 172 its not just a case of matching the port sizes, there are gains to be had by reworking the tight radius bends in the upper manifold section as well. Cheers M

Yep cylinder head flow capacity and valve size is more than enough to make 200bhp, inlet manifold as standard is a bit rubbish but there are some changes that can be made to help the issue (main one being the extremely tight bend/drop off the primary runners out of the plenum, notice how this...

200bhp is entirely possible from an F4R 730 on single throttle body/plenum intake setup. Much over that becomes the issue! Cheers M

The 172 4-1 exhaust manifold is technicaly better for making power. I'm sacrificing a bit to add mid range torque which a 4-2-1 (i,.e. 182) manifold tends to do. The 172 and 182 cylinder head is the same, its just I had a 182 head spare. The engine should make somewhere around 200bhp...

Smurf Poo (engineers blue) is your friend here: Thats the quality of the match on a 197 Cup Race Car inlet manifold. Blue up one side of the manifold and refit to check overlap. Or use calipers to measure the horizontal, verticle and diagnols of the ports. Cheers M

Got one for sale and the customer car and Super Endurance car are being prepped for 2009 entry at the moment. Looking good for a decent 2009 season to be honest :-) Cheers M

Full Renault article on the 24HR is here http://www.renaultsport.co.uk/community/e-newsletter/story.asp?ArticleID=2066&WT In short 22 tyres, 680 litres of fuel, 8000 odd gear changes and 2745KM's of race distance. Cheers M