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Or get rid of your interior and spare wheel.

That is exactly what they will feel like if they are low. Most garages fill pump them up to whatever the book says, or in many cases dont even bother with that, and just pump up every tyre to 28psi regardless of what size it is or car its going on. I have always known if my tyres are low because...

Pump them up to 34 psi and youll have no problems. I always have used Eagles and loved them but if you run them at normal pressures they do feel unsteady at speed. you can run 34-36 psi in them all day and theyll still wear perfectly evenly

Yeah thats fair enough Viceroy, if youve done repeated tests and it consistently comes out that close then youve calibrated your AP22 right and you can be pretty sure about the results. I know a lot of people with these meters do take their figures as gospel though, and I certainly wouldnt trust...

I need someone who can suggest a decent wheel finishers/powder coaters around the Lowestoft/Yarmouth/Norwich area. Ill need them to inspect and powder coat my wheels cos ROCHFORD TYRES ARE CROOKS. To cut a very long story short, they are claiming that all the nicks and chips taken out of my...

Yes I suspected it may be an exhaust vent for the radiator. When I had to decide where to place my louvres in my bonnet, I had a similar problem to the Maxi Clio, a lot of heat to get rid of but a relatively complicated bonnet structure. My bonnet louvres ended up being in a similar position...

Well Ill get some snaps online as soon as I get home. Im on an Essex mission this weekend; got a load of stuff to do round Southend, so Im gonna be rushing around like a blue-arsed fly. Ill take the pictures when I get it on Saturday, otherwise the next day its gonna have some manky loan rims on...

Valvers will not remap for extra octane. Theyre too old and a standard valver is not that close to the ragged edge of ignition advance that it needs more octane, which in laymans terms, means the fuel will burn slower. In a valver the only advantage Optimax will have is that you get free cards...

Yeah thats the quality Maxi vent. Ive never had a detailed engine bay schematic so cant tell whether its an intake or exhaust vent. Anyway the closest thing you will find off the shelf is an RGM Seat Cupra vent. Which I conveniently happen to have sitting in my garage brand new. Never used it...

Yeah I was just going through the list for York and Santa Pod this morning. I know everyone does their own thing to a certain extent where quarter milings concerned, but being as I should really make a bit of an effort to coordinate club days out for all you keen straight-liners out there, Ive...

Cheers for the encouragement fellas. John, yes if you can get over there, by all means get some snaps. i wont be able to get down to Steves until the weekend anyway so you might as well, Ive only seen it in its new colour, but basically it was just the shell and the doors, so seeing it will be a...

I think so Mike, but I might go to one of their new sessions. Theres something almost every month. Im thinking I might graduate from RWYB to Street Rod if I can run the times LOL, target is 12.9 for Sportsman-ET I think.

Latest news: After a long long time my turbo valver is almost ready, the end is in sight. The engine is now working after a nightmare with electrics; wiring knackered, fuses blowing, headlamps and immobiliser gone weird etc. Mods include custom Maxi bumper, side skirts, Willy spoiler...

If there is an adaptor then you DEFINITELY want it. If not its a bit of a Meccano mission, youll need a load of big jubilee clips, some metal mending plate stuff, some whacking great silicone flexi pipe etc. The results are definitely worth it on a valver, but you really do need an adapter for...

sh*t too bad. Still, at least it was only a little bump, not a hospital job...

James only just flagged this thread up for me, but its interesting for sure. Sometihng thats pretty clear to me is that all this talk of 240bhp, 260 bhp...it could be 1000 bloody bhp and youd still only clock a 4.5 second 0-60 in a Clio. It is a front wheel drive car and the bottom line is, it...

Seriously, why DONT you just weld it up? Buy a new roof skin and headliner for a Williams, cut the old one off, weld in the new skin, and voila! Problem solved. I looked at getting this done on my valver, but I was already over budget with the other bodywork. I seem to remember a new roof skin...

Dont know about this losing torque thing. I had a fair bit taken off around the edge of my valver flywheel and I didnt notice ANY negative effects like this supposed trouble getting up hills. It was all good news, noticeably freer revving and you just get used to driving slightly different cos...

Use the standard seat belt mounting points. Unhitch the factory belt and use the two floor mount points for the two front points on the harness. Lift your rear bench, take out two of the rear lap mounting points and use them for your two rear points on your harness. The threads are standard for...

All aluminium pipe is weak. Get a demon Tweeks catalogue (motorsport, not road) and you have every pipe you could ever want there. Best stuff is the silicone/wire flexi pipe they have for low pressure jobs, eg. inlet ducting, brake ducts etc. Just choose what size you want and how long.

Oh sorry I forgot, one last thing. There is a sub-section of the new law that exempts any BMW X5s, Range Rovers or any make of full-size people carrier from this new requirement.

The law has now changed. As before, you can have whatever tints you want on the back windscreen and rear side windows- essentially making your car into a van if they are dark enough. Front side windows were always a grey area as often a light smoke tint was still legal but sometimes on top of a...

Perfectly safe as long as you hook it up right. Youll need a wet kit which contains both fuel and nitrous solenoids and a jet or jets that will handle both.

So what happened up there then?

36mm for Mark 1s for definite. Well, valvers anyway.

Adrian Flux definitely have a mod sheet, that you have to fill in. So seeing as mine are all declared, there shouldnt be a problem. But seriously, how are they gonna check for cams etc?

aha but I must correct you there Ben my old chum...I agree that the time is 7.7 seconds, but thats 0-100kph or 0-62mph in other words. The confusion over apparently identical or at least close times for the valver and Willy is because the valver figures are often quoted as 0-60, whereas the...

Following this thread, Im still a bit unclear about a few things: What *exactly* did you sign to? A 7 day wonder asking you to show your licence, insurance etc at a police station, or a notice asking you to surrender your licence? Or a speeding ticket where by signing you are admitting the...

I thought they were JE. Anyway they are definitely low compression, 7.5:1 with a slight overbore to bring the capacity up to almost 1800 rather than 1764cc. As Ben says, if you want to do the job properly, get the right pistons rather than modding Megane ones. Especially if youre thinking of...

Well from where your spring platform is set I doubt its too low, although it could be. Possibly your wheels are just too big or the offset is too high. Theres a lot of things it could be. If you could put on here your original wheel width, diameter and offset, along with what size tyre you had...