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Modified or not, I think the Renault Sport Clio 172/182 of any flavour has such a cult following, and is so highly regarded by all the motoring media. There’s no doubt in my mind that these will all go up in value. More and more get stripped for parts, tracked, raced, crashed etc. The good ones...

Still is 100% road car, daily, all weather driver. 😎👍🏼

There’s numerous threads about it but basically it’s s**t in a road car that you want to be anywhere near being nice to be in. Add a preloaded NMB bearing, fill the shifter tube with lead shot, fill the linkage/gearbox boot with the heaviest grease you can find and buy some earplugs. 😅

Yep, circlip out, bearing out and new one in followed by the circlip. It’s literally like for like. 👍🏼

Yeah they’re about 175Nm. A good quality gun should have them right off, if not go find yourself a scaffold pole or use your jack handle.

Beautiful job Ash. I’m trying to procure the grille stickers, can you let me know where from? There was a guy on FB who had replicated one of them but he’s unavailable and has been for months. PM if you prefer. 👌🏼

Been busy doing other bits today so not had time to measure.

Because the previous owner was a good mate and I know the entire cars history. It’s all original paint, panels and glass.

Yeah. With regards to tolerance stack I’m guessing this is all it can be, just a shame it differs by so much. My top mount holes are fixed and concentric so no ability to move this back to increase the caster here unless I swap to an eccentric version. Just leaves me with the lower arm...

Thanks for the valued input Steven, and agree with what you’re saying. But on basic terms irrespective of what changes I’ve made since, my car still never had and never has had more than 2.4 degrees of caster. Many others with seemingly with no mods that would significantly affect the caster...

As said in my first post, I decreased the take of the car by dropping the rear ride height than what it was when it sat on the Eibachs. So in theory, I should have increased my caster. Although I don’t think it would be of any noticeable amount when measured.

I wondered this Zach. I assumed there wouldn’t be much in the way of movement in it.

Cup dampers and Eibachs

Yes i watched.

Yes it does. Just measures the change in dynamic camber and calculated the static caster. The plates on the wheels have circles on them and the cameras measure the ovality of the circles as the wheels go through their range of motion.

Thanks Zach, as I suspected. But that doesn’t explain the zero change in caster post RCC hubs. It’s always had less caster than desired. So whilst your drawing makes sence in theory. It doesn’t appear to be the issue I may be suffering from. If indeed I have an issue at all 🤷🏽‍♂️

Not seen these. I assume you shun them back and forth or is the rear bush eccentric and allows the ball to be moved forward? I’ll have a butchers. Thanks.

So because they’re lower they effectively make the strut stand more upright? I must admit I’m seriously tempted to re drill a set of lower arms and move the balljoints further forward.

Interesting as to why you lost caster post fitting the roll centre hubs Eddie. Doesn’t make sense to me, but I’m obviously missing something. Lol

Been running one of these for over 10 years on the Imprezas PC680 and never ever have I had a flat battery. Also one in an IP65 housing with the traffic light connector on the Cayman. Great bits of kit.

Not sure really mate. You’re always limited with these places as to how well they know how to use the alignment equipment they have or if they just make it all “green” on screen and give it back to you. I used to have a fantastic alignment place local but not anymore.

Where’s my caster? Okay, so I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. Basically my car has a lot less caster than I expect it should have. I’m lead to believe they should run around 3.10 degrees of static caster from the factory, of which I’ve seen plenty of cars running. My car...

Did you ever run these arms with relocated ball joints and how did your caster angle measure up?

You can see the coil pack is cracked. Good spot. 👍🏼

No need, coolant is cheap and easy to replace and more than effective. If you ever have an issue with the waterless stuff you’re screwed as you can’t top it up in an emergency. I’ve never seen any substantial benefit to using any kind of waterless coolant to justify using it.

It’s actually dropped due to such short journeys at the moment as it’s only really going to Tesco or the pharmacy. It usually does 50 miles a day and sits around 36/37 mpg. I also don’t drive it like a nob, and being an automotive engineer, I tend to drive cars with a higher degree of...

Always surprisingly good on fuel this little thing 😅

Finally the very last piece of my hub swap arrived in the form of 2 new Bosch ABS sensors. I cleaned the holes and sprayed with Dynax before installing as hopefully this should stop them ever welding themselves in again. Also nice to not have my dash lit up like a Christmas tree as it has been...

I’ve just taken off my Genuine cup splitter for a Fabia one before I break it. Don’t waste your money on genuine. It’s really not worth it

I’ve been fortunate enough to drive a few expensive and special things and I have to say a well kept Porsche drives different to almost everything else. They’re funny things that really get under your skin. There aren’t many cars I’ve driven that feel so completely engineered the way they do...