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Point - old term! You can if its LHD with a conventional engine package or RHD and a Honda assuming the car has been built/packaged well. Biggest issue is usualy the rears. Worth noting that when adjusting the spring platform on one corner the biggest change will be in the diagonal...

Fairly sure you're not - as you know I stay well away from those things with two few wheels aside from liberating the odd engine from them for a better life but the bike lot I know do seem to use 'rake' quite often. Cheers M

"He didn't bump ya, he didn't nudge ya; he rubbed ya...and rubbing son is racing." :-) Top Film!

If your after track work then with regards to the rear of the car Clios seem to work best with as little travel and compliance as possible on the back! Quite a few of the cheap kits offer this in spades! LOL I seem to remember Fred favours this setup too i.e hard rear, compliant front (reminds...

Top reply Fred! Fred at work, he's the one on the left ;-) Cheers M

So many issues here! Changing wheel weights and therefore changing unsprung mass/unsprung rotation mass has effects on suspension response speed and the required rebound/bump rates. Do you have any sort of adjustability for bump/rebound? Okay the corner weights will still be correct with...

Think you misread, you will never achieve 50/50 F/R weight distribution on a FWD car (well not unless the engine is in the back anyway). What I aim for as a starting point are equal front/rear axle weights not equal front/rear weights. Axle weights being equal side to side weights on that axis...

The real issue here is that I can't think of a circuit off the top of my head which has an equal amount of left hand corners to right hand corners. Hence you can find a reduction in lap time by optimising for the 'common' corners and compromising for the 'rare' corners. Optimsing the diagonol...

I don't like modifying standard flywheels - can get a bit messy if they burst! Cheers M

It's gone down! ;-) What e-mail? We have a mega aggresive spam checker, will make sure its not in there tomorrow. Cheers M

Which is why there was never a RHD Cup Racer ;-) On the X85's I can get the fronts within a few KG's of each other - on a RHD 197 I can't get anywhere near that LOL Craig, when you set your ride heights you really need to do it with either the driver or an equivalent mass in the drivers seat...

My centre box has rattly baffles.............. just turn the stereo up! Cheers M

Good idea to keep the standard ECU IMHO, you maintain OBD2, CAN, DBW Throttle and as a result easy diagnostics for most garages, good cold start etc. etc. Standard ECU is easily capable of running a 200bhp F4R 730. Viper type things aren't worth bothering with. Standard airbox with an ITG or...

I'll stick something together over the next couple of days. Cheers M

Should I write a rolling road guide? It'd save some arguing and think it might be useful as there are figures banded about on here that neither me, Renault or Sodemo could get out of the engines concerned LOL Cheers M

and supplier to BPM Racing who have covered over 8000 Race KM's on oil supplied and spec'd by Opie. Good bunch of chaps who know their stuff. Cheers M

How track focused is the car? Cheers M

The Gaz Golds are pretty good to be honest, they aren't as expensive as some places would have you believe as a couple of the larger companies retailing them stick a massive markup on them. They are full rebuildable and Gaz are happy to produce them with any damping rate you like - they'll also...

Dastek rolling road by any chance? If you stick this car on the same rolling road it'd make 210 - 215bhp. There is no way on earth you are going to get over 200bhp out of a 197 on standard cams and pump fuel. The Oreca built X85 Clio Cups with a much less restrictive induction/filtration...

Gaz aren't crap - they produce various types of damper and make their bread and butter from selling cheaply produced dampers to owners of already fine handling cars who want to 'slam em init'. They also produce a couple of really good damper designs which you will have to pay really good money...

Probably but there's no details on them yet. Standard inlet manifold and plenum is good for 230bhp however, Renault will even sell you all the bits to build a 230bhp F4R 830 engine! It does require going aftermarket management but then so do throttle bodies. Kev's 200.4bhp car would show...

That particular Clio is making over 200bhp. 200.4bhp on Pauls DD Rolling Road. Limiter is at 7650'ish RPM IIRC and its making power right upto that. Cheers M

I wouldn't like to guess - I've never used Kentcams, they aren't known as 'bent'cams for nothing! Cheers M

According to that graph you've lost nearly 50PS i.e. 25% through the drivetrain. I'm sorry but thats just not possible. Based on your wheel figure of circa 152.5PS an approximate fly figure based on a 17% loss is 178.4bhp. If anything I'd say that was low and you really should be seeing 181 -...

50 quid a pair = happy days ;-) Still really interested to see what the reasons for the high wear rate was on the 1*2 cups with 97's though. Been over my data tonight and at one point we did three sets of 97's (okay to my wear limits) on a set of HC's on an X85 based car. Got to be pad load...

I'm with Ben 100% on this - I have a pretty unique background in that I've been on pure race projects where nothing matters but meeting the power and reliability requirements and low volume OEM projects where you need to meet the power and (much longer term) reliability requirements whilst still...

Haha my pleasure mate and I'm not just saying that because I do a fair bit with Cat and happen to sell CatCams - credit must go to the Paul big time though, his calibration skills are what found the north of 200bhp figure. I hope you realise you now have one of, if not the, most powerful 197...

I'm really interested to find out what was going on now - wonder if its a clamping load related issue. Only major difference between the X85 and 1*2 is the caliper. I like stuff like this :-) Cheers M

Ceramic discs? Who made those for you? Cheers M

Mental! Wonder what the difference is then? Okay X85s' have a few MM more disc diameter and therefore thermal mass etc but we've never see wear rates like that and from the brake circuit pressures and disc temps I can see that our drivers are actualy using them! Wonder if the HC disc material...