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No problem. On the Cup race cars the rear section of the roll cage bolted to the top of rear damper mounts and carried part of the rear suspension load. Obviously in the road car you don't have this ;-) Worth bearing in mind that rear strut braces on cars with solid beam rear suspension don't...

Worth looking at some form of strengthening around the rear damper mounts as with a Cup racer setup these become the main suspension pickup point and as such carry a fair whack more load. Can't remember how the Mk2 cup dampers mount to the rear beam - they're spherical bearing bottom link IIRC...

There's your problem. Cheers M

It'll only "f**k your car up" if its detting massively or so rich its knackering the oil film on the bores. Credit where its due these chaps do run a decent rally car so I'd expect them to twig either of the above - especialy as both will reduce the amount of power the engine package is...

Yes but your headwork on your engine build vs the company in questions headwork with standard seats on a standard bottom end ............. I'll say no more ;-) Cheers M

Yep PM Me. Full set? I'll have all the ones you've got as R-Sport don't have any for Mk2's anymore. Cheers M

I've just offered the perfect test enviroment with two engines on two calibrated climate controlled engine dynos to remove any chance of an engine specific issue causing a problem. Mr Eclipse Performance Person - you've got a succesful rally team on the go and the potential for a good...

Yep I can find you a pair of 182's to the spec you want. I'll remove the engines, fit them to a pair of identical Superflow engine dynos with full car exhausts and induction/filtration setups on them in climate control cells and give you full access for 24 hours. Both fuel supplies would be 97...

Excellent, I get considerably more discount from gates than I do from Renault ;-) Cheers M

Shall I e-mail them and have some fun? Juvenile but hey - they started it by making things up ;-) Cheers M

Unless you are willing to chuck huge money into the engine to find power because you absolutely have to run the standard inlet manifold setup then you won't find more than 95bhp/litre. Cams, matched inlet, suitable exhaust, remap etc. will get you circa 190bhp on a healthy engine. Who was it...

'Sports' cats - depending on type and design generaly do work at scrubbing the exhaust gasses sufficently to pass an MOT but only if they are hotter than a hot thing. Standard automotive cats flash off at a fairly low temp these days - as millions has been put into them and the strategies...

Just had a look - yes they do. Might pick one up next time and see if its a go'er. Cheers M

Anyone had a look to see if Gates or whoever OEM for Renaults belts is are offering an OEM spec kit for F4R 730? Should be able to acquire kits at a more reasonable price then which are the Renault bits in a different box ;-) Cheers M

Just don't post grabs up from a hooky copy ;-) Some chap on engineering forums got stiched up a treat after doing just that.......... his copy did have "L33T Hax0rs init" or similar in the title bar though! Cheers M

Still want my LES model? ;-) I'd say Stan*'s offer was a bit of a blinding result!!!! It's great having a work Wave licence! Been a few cases recently where Ricardo have spotted images from hooky copies on forums and mailed the poster an invoice! Cheers M

That is a long shot ;-) I have a rough LES model but I think finding an already done Wave model on an external licence (i.e. not licence locked to an OEM's Wave) is going to be akin to finding a sharp thin object in a large expanse of dried grass! Worth noting as well that unless you have...

From looking at whats done so far it'll provide 80-85% of the benefit of ITB's whilst maintaining the DBW throttle body and standard ECU so you still retain traction control, cruise control, good cold start, cold start emissions compliance (assuming standard cam profile), anti-stall strategy...

Depends is the insert seperate or part of the strut? Cheers M

Very true but it does remove the optimisitic flywheel power calculation issue where depending on who's software you're using you can see 25% losses or 10% losses through the drivetrain. Different rolling roads will never read the same figures as you say but removing the biggest 'margin for...

It wasn't a dig!!!!!! Was to point out it had been on yours, hadn't got a headline figure but that didn't matter anyway as the spec had changed. Engine was the same spec on the Superflow ED, DD and Dastek before it ran out of oil ;-) My comments regarding DD roads are that whilst they use a...

Not interested in ownage! The biggest issue I have are losses recorded on most rolling roads do not match the data I have for drivetrain losses nor do they match my experience of what a standard engine will make on an engine dyno. What some people are seeing as a gospel figure from a rolling...

Ah the Brands Hatch Hotel Rockery Incident sticks in my mine rather well where we were sat in the bar with a beer watching two of an opponents team slog it out stood on the rockery ;-) Cheers M

It does, hence lift off oversteer where you move the weight onto the front wheels by reducing or removing accelerative force i.e. throttle amount. Staticaly the weights will be as per set buy dynamicaly they will change as the car accelerates/brakes/corners. If you have linear pots on your...

Now Fred you know I don't trade on that sort of thing! My cars do well yes but I don't need to bring it up. However thanks had forgot that does sound pretty good :-) I'll go get my corner weights. Cheers M

Well done you've made up (and I say made up because on a Clio road car you'll struggle like buggery to get the rears within 10KG's) some numbers that retain the percentage split of 66.15/33.85 to prove that you can maintain constant weight distribution whilst changing corner weights in the same...

Message from a close friend: "Get him down here!! he's just made a Honda engineer smile and that's f**king hard to do at the moment" So thats at least 5 people mildly confused/amused by your post. Cheers M

I fail to see why its a difficult concept to grasp - as its been one of the main fine tuning tools in motorsport since the 1920's. As you've spent the last page and a half banging on about 'rake' what do you think the effect the difference in front/rear ride heigh by adding 'rake' makes? F/R...

Not neccesarily - there is always the option of fabricated ally plenum setup that resolves most of the issues the standard one has without resulting to to ITB's and aftermarket management. Okay it won't get you all the gains you can get from ITB's but it'll get you over 200bhp with some cams...

If you raise total rear ride height and/or reduce total front ride height (or vice versa) you will effect the total amount of mass on each axle. My scales even have a button on them to aid with weight distribution setup.... and one to calculate COG. The trick is maintaining the ideal % of F/R...