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Balancing. Why do you have to go to 3 garages before your wheels are balanced!? Seriously considering buying a balancing machine so I can see what is so ruddy difficult.

Asking the wrong biker. As I said i was rubbish. Bikes are hard to ride fast not that I'm any good in a car on the scale of things mind you. Being able to ride a bike properly is something I can see being highly addictive. TT on board footage is just insane. You just can't think that fast it's...

So many bikers are just rubbish and rely on the straight line speed. I was one of those which is why I don't ride anymore. Had a few near misses trying to be a better rider and got pissed off with the prospect of getting it wrong leading to junked bike or a hospital visit. Just so unforgiving. I...

Clios are about average speed. This requires you to be a good driver to maintain the corner speeds it's capable of. Not ideal on the road but great fun on the track. It never surprises me that people leave Clios for turbo fodder so that they have a sneaky boot when no-ones looking or have...

Surely if you suspect timing belt then take the engine mount/ inspection cover off and have a look.

Had to laugh at how fast a GTR is in anyone's hands when I did a sprint at castle combe and they were recording speeds across the line. A guy had just retired and bought one. He was coming round camp 10mph less than most people but was a good 20mph faster over the line. This was against stripped...

Awesome! Thanks!

I think it was brave and is a good car. It's just not what people wanted. Ford now offer that.

I'm sure there are some roads where the normal 172 was the better car.

Pants. There is something about them though. It's more about casting your mind back when your driving them. I still keep an eye on my XR2 in the XROC forum.

While using the car on track to learn how to drive better and I'm now leaning towards using track time as the B road time you just struggle to find anymore. Smooth and safe but quick is what the standard car is completely capable of. Hitting the limiter in 4th showing almost 120 on the Speedo...

I did the same thing with an XR2 and it was a good car but when I put it back to standard to sell it I actually no longer wanted to sell it! Making the best of standard is my thing now.

Any of them! It's fun to mod but now I'm older and wiser I have a lot more respect for the final product that a company decides to put out and I enjoy driving their work. I can make my clio lower and stiffer but Renault had it's reasons for not doing that and I'm glad they didn't. Just another...

How many in here actually like the original product? I turned up at my last track and had a great day reminding myself how bad a driver I am and the cup not in the least bit bothered by my antics but I was the only standard thing in the pit lane. It's like the XROC where people bought a fiesta...

It is surprisingly effective but it's no magic wand

Interesting. I got no difference in quotes between any of the models. I'm 33.

Looks nice. Book plenty of tuition with your first track day or you'll be forever modding the suspension. Determined to keep my cup bog standard

Break the mould. Take one on track and Improve your driving skills until your using everything the car has to give. Then screw around modding it. You'll have more money for more track days. You could actually heed the advice in the briefing on the day and build up slowly maybe after having some...

Bike carbs work great on old pre cat engines as a cheap alternative to carbs. They are usually variable venturi and seem to be easier to get running well than the faff of emulsion tubes and progression holes on webers. Put some on an otherwise standard 1.6 CVH after running twin 40 dcnf's and it...

It's always dangerous to talk figures on this forum!

Padded out all heat shields to prevent them vibrating to find exhaust rasp. Definitely exhaust. Balls. Will just keep an eye on it for now.

I just pull over and let them pass. Be careful though sometimes this aggravates them more as your insinuating they are a bad driver. My wife got out and called a bloke a stupid Moron when we had my niece in the car because he was being a tool and wouldn't go past even when I pulled in!?

Don't worry about the peak figure. A nice spread of power is far more important. Having a good gain from 5000rpm-6000rpm would certainly be useful when you change into 4th which is when you are really reminded that the car is N/A with standard power. Pulls well but it's when you really start to...

Not located properly? Incorrect spring?

You can get power out of any engine but you have to be prepared to spend. There used to be a 1360cc Peugeot at the sprints I did that ran a 16v head, throttle bodies and ran to 9000rpm with a heavily modded bottom end. You can get another 25bhp from a 1.4. Head work, cams and vastly improve the...

Real world results are all that matter. 5mph more at the end of a straight, knocking a second off your 30-100 and no longer needing to change down for a corner that was lame if you didn't for example. Much better way of seeing if your mods were worth it.

Get the torque app and a Bluetooth dongle and use that as a shift light. Has a beep as well. You can't miss a giant smart phone screen going red. Why not use a tablet? How big do you want to go! SHIFT!!

Rasp from 3-4k. Could be the rear heat shield which is floating in mid air on one corner or the rear box which has a slight rattle when you give it a mild thump. Will secure heat shield corner as that will be free and test. Don't know why I'm bothering as it isn't a day car and it doesn't affect...

The tiny green gear stick. The ultimate shift light!!

Balls. Thanks though.