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No worries, you did all the work, I just directed ;)

Just echoing what's been said really! Good to see everyone again plus meet a few more very decent people. I thought it was brilliant that as well as making progress on the 172 most people also got a few jobs done on their own car be it subwoofers, ARBs, wings etc :) JP's marble cake also...

Good idea, start of with 1500 before moving to 400 grit...

Only if you drop it on the floor first. I hear the detailers love that. The extra grit on the sponge helps to get the most of stubborn of tar spots off.

Ebay, brand new, £175 for the silenced centre section or £65 for the unsilenced version. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=scorpion+494rn&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xscorpion+clio+182+centre.TRS0&_nkw=scorpion+clio+182+centre&_sacat=0 I'm sure scorpion...

I would pay more attention to wear pattern than compound if I were buying second hand. The sort of cars you'd be buying 15" slicks off probably won't have the most advanced suspension design in the world, so will be running three or four degrees of camber up front to compensate. As such the...

Out of curiosity, why are you replacing standard sized discs with standard sized bell & rotors? Looks nice or are we saving the nth degree of inertia/unsprung mass & maximising heat management? Be sure to show us all pics when it's done!

Format is: width, rolling diameter, wheel diameter. Rolling diameter for 195/50/15 would be (25.4*15)+(195*50*2/100) for example. That was (inch in mm*wheel diameter)+(width*sidewall*2/100%). Rolling diameter is pretty vague tbh (e.g. the same size between two brands can easily be 10mm...

Agreed, a lot of time and scrap material in some of these brackets. That I do understand. What I don't understand is when it suddenly became unacceptable in the eyes of CS for anything to be sold at a profit...? No I don't buy stuff from KTEC, but I accept they're a business and need to make a...

Shop by how much care you think they'll take. A good alignment is 10% equipment 90% attention to detail. Kwik fit might have hunter alignment kit but probably couldn't give a monkeys. Meanwhilte lots of professional race teams still get good enough results with string (not as daft as it...

Oh, some proper fitting brackets! :) Improves the questionable amount of thread engagement on the stud/nut too. And are you going to buy another set of springs & take 2 clicks off the damping to compensate for said reduction in unsprung mass? :wink: Or weld some mass back onto your lightened...

Don't know about you but I'd definitely spend £1000 on bells/discs for absolutely no performance/cost gain whatsoever just to avoid a tiny spot on corrosion. That 5mm ring of rust that's 50% hidden by the wheel spokes totally ruins the entire car. Hardly anyone will notice anyway and the rust...

May I suggest we all blame nothing nothing nothing nothing boost + Toyo T1Rs?

It is strange how a thread about a car (modified 1.2 Clio) which screams young driver/first car/etc is full of people thinking a 172 is feasible for the OP to insure...

Just FYI, this thing doubles up as a wheel-doer-upper...

In contrast there have been some terrible adverts in 2015/2016... Fiat 500 Viagra Edition & R8 giving birth to an RS3 spring to mind...

He's a trader on here... http://www.cliosport.net/threads/clio-182-172-brake-lines-ht-leads-back-in-stock.787719/

And by "race cars" we mean one of the most fantastic set of regulations & engineering anywhere in the world in the last quarter of a century, re-shelled into a Clio.

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The outboard spring location makes it much easier for the manufacturer to spec a much stiffer coilover unit. Loads of different spring rates in standard sizes (e.g. from Merlin Motorsport Castle Combe) also give you the chance to change to upgrade/change, whereas that's much harder with inboard...

Does the (second hand?) fan that you've bought actually work?

If anyone's looking for a hotel... I stayed at "The Loco" on a recent trackday. Cheap, clean, well-finished rooms, ample parking, 15 mins from the circuit, decent breakfast. No reason not to use them again.

Fair enough you've mentioned their age and lack of a refurb. However I'm sure you'd never let your MTB forks get in that state and expect them to last... I'm not saying everyone should clean their coilovers every time they wash their car but those do look as if you've done 100,000 miles upto...

Nevermind the foot, I bet those are the offending "joggers" (I assume that's Northern) that you just "popped on to show her to the door" haha

Thinks to think about that haven't been mentioned (you know all this Dan!)... Buying race-ish stuff (DS1.11) is exciting. Buying lesser stuff (1144, DS2500 etc) isn't. But then you have Tinder for "exciting"... Number of additional Tinder dates you could go on with the money saved from buying...

Had these a month or so ago, fit a ph2 absolutely fine...

The £7 ones are s**** and fall apart after 2 months. By all means buy an ebay one to get the casting, then fill it with tiger seal or do the powerflex exh008 mod.

And is the breather the same part as fitted to the F4R...? ;)

In general do all these FI conversions retain the standard "positive crank breather" setup? I haven't particularly looked at the bottom end, but from memory there isn't a one-way valve at the manifold end of the crankshaft breather?

Having set the tyre pressures when hot, don't forget to reinflate them (do it last thing before to leave to ensure they're as cold as possible) before you go home.