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That ones not making 191bhp. The rolling road may say it is but trust me its not. The wheel power it recorded is about right though! Your car will make standard power, 5bhp or so more with matched inlets and a calibration optimised for 97octane+ with plenty of spark in it. To genuinely make...

Good condition 172/182 looses between 14 and 18% through the box, drivetrain, engine ancils etc. etc. Your 146bhp (which is a good figure BTW and probably about right, never can tell with a Dastek due to how it measures wheel torque) is somewhere between 166bhp and 172bhp, which isn't bad at...

It's an 1800CC Renault Laguna II spec lump originally (can't remember the engine code) from a Proton Waja running at 2000CC for the S2000 regs. Has MEM spec forged pistons, MEM spec conrods, MEM spec crank, clever steel flywheel, loads of headwork and a few other bits - makes around 280bhp at...

If we took the Cosworth badges off the castings you'd never know! Cheers M

I badly want you to put this on Pectel :-) Cheers M

Where's the MX5 Cosworth? Tell me thats not the best aftermarket supercharger install you've ever seen! :-) P.S. Fred - nice mate! ;-) Cheers M

Ex-BTCC mate ;-) Cheers M

Need to sort some linear pots out for damper travel measurement and some ABS sensors from an ABS equipped Clio for wheel speed...... then make a loom up etc. etc. Expect it to make it onto the car and then log RPM and G only for about a year until I get around to it LOL. I reckon I can...

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D No excuses now for not putting the lap times in though :( Going to be logging all four wheel speeds, damper travel, RPM, Coolant, Oil Pressure, VVT Actuation, Throttle Position, load (i.e. MAP), Gearbox temp, EGT, Lateral and Longitudinal G and probably a few other...

Look for fluid leakage where the damper rod enters the damper body. Worth noting that the rates will change with wear and tear anyway so damper dyno is the only accurate way to check if they are within tolerance. Cheers M

As long as it is making good, equal compression over all four and showing decent oil pressure it should be fine. Pauls supercharged one is on 100K miles and kicking out 296bhp and my 100K mile knacker of an engine with low compression on two cyls is still making 184bhp. It does depend what...

Unsprung paddles are bloody harsh on the rest of the drivetrain though. You tend to need the bit of give a sprung center gives you to smooth the delivery of torque to the box during rapid gear changes. The sprung 4 paddle clutches we developed for the X85 endurance car are pretty impressive...

Unsprung centre paddle clutch............. you were bloody brave! We don't even run those on the race cars! Paddle clutch? Oh yes - unsprung one? Not on your nelly! Cheers M

Carbon look one? Think those are vacuum formed and as such quite unsuitable for being bolted down! Cheers M

CTS are bloody good. Google Gearbox Man. Cheers M

Plastic would cost a lot more than 40 quid! For small volume items like this its much cheaper to fabricate them in ally or similar than pay for the tooling required to injection mould or similar. Cheers M

Make sure everything is absolutely spotless and fit them without any grease on the backs of the pad or anywhere else. They mail squeal but you won't end up with grease splattered all over your wheels and discs! Cheers M

Only ever so slightly modified. DS2500's can suffer a bit of edge wear however it shouldn't be major. It does sound like they are binding in the carriers. Oh and DON'T PUT GREASE ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR BRAKES! Copper grease isn't thermaly stable - it will run and it will find its way onto your...

When it goes "bababababababa" I change gear ;-) Cheers M

?????? Are you thinking Volvo T5 engine? T5 is also a gearbox, as used in quite a few fast Fords and several TVR's. Cheers M

Adaptor plate to an MT75 would probably be the easiest option! Cheers M

That engine will cost an absolute packet. Inlet manifold as a one off would be circa 600 notes with a few CNC'd bits in it. Cheers M

100K mile old F4R 730, Cat 428 Cams with fairly unique cam timing, Matched Inlets, Shite open element filter banged on the end of the throttle body, K-Tec stealth with silenced decat (so loosing 3bhp there). Cheers M

Not been able to do any testing on the Clio yet so I'll let you know once I have. Was planning to do a bit on the rollers but with an open filter element in the bay as the induction point its pointless as you don't have stable intake temps anyway! Cheers M

Problem with modern Hypereutectic high silicone content pistons is that they are very brittle, as such the kind of damage to piston crowns from valve contact which used to be acceptable can now result in failure at a later date. As I said you can get away with some horrific damage but I'd...

Battery and foam cans. That's it! Cheers M

Of course they are ;-) Cheers M

To be honest you can get away with huge amounts of damage and engine will still run. Should you? No not really. Anything more than a mild imprint and I'd change them. Any marks at all if its a performance build and I'd replace with new. Cheers M

Quite a few F4's run Pencil Coils. The 830's in the 197 run them as do the 225 spec F4's. Cheers M

Same spec as it is currently on the fresh engine with a short runner length fabricated inlet manifold setup similar to this one on a Sodemo built F4R Turbo It'll carry the standard sensor pack and DBW throttle body allowing me to retain the standard ECU with all the advantages that gives and...