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Yes you will always have problems and dont fool your self that you wont, but if you get a well looked after one it wont give you much trouble. I had a couple of problems with my 172 but they are just like any car regarding problems.

These Trophy's are common as mook! :-p

Are you kidding me? Looks like someone has hurled all over your engine bay!!

If you can somehow re-enforce those welds, then try to. I replaced all my exhaust mounts and tried giving the system more support just to take abit of stress off the manifold. But its difficult to stop warping and expansion. Some manifolds have a cut on the mating face of the manifold to allow...

Oh thats really sad seeing that black valver on the scrap wagon :-( New project looking good, I love white valvers.

Looking good. From experience you are going to have sooo many problems with the manifold. I garentee those welds will crack after time. Log type manifold is better but even these seem to warp and crack.

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Cool pics, dont like the red stripes on wheels.

LOL @ forced induction, Pwned.

Wow, you have too much time on your hands.

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mine looked awful on my old 182. It had stone chips all over it. I then killed it wen i touched a high curb and smashed it into 3 pieces lol. Dont bother with them.

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread The dude who I bought my valver from (and hand build the turbo conversion) said dont run fully syn and use 10/40W. At a guess your oil was too thin to begin with, then as it reached the high 140's 150's became to thin for the poor old valver engine...

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread 150 is very high for extended periods of time especially for an old valver engine or at least its not recommended. Oil can fail at high temps. Just out of interest what oil were you using? Valver engines are very sensitive when it comes to oil, interms of a...

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread How did Chris not see the oil and coolant temps rise so high??? I always watch my temps/dials like a hawk!

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread OOOh man. Any ideas hows? Oil pressure??

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread So wots wrong with it then?

Trade the horse and 1.2 in and get an RS :-p

Cant be botherd to explain why, but sounds like a bad idea.

Still not a massive fan on the looks of a 197 and the new face lift is still as controversal. Can't comment on how they drive as never driven one. I will say one thing and that is they are QUICKER round a track than ANY 1*2. 197's rape on handling and brakes, and this is from a personal...

OH hell nnnooo!!! Gutted for you! Ph1's are cool but getting on a bit now, but still a cost effective replacement, good luck!

Some nice beading and penetration on those welds...

AAAAAAAAAAAAwwweeesome. This is exactly the spec I wud go for.

Cup'd 182 always looks better, but your is nice in RB! As long as your happy with it.

Is that a Northern Ireland plate?

To be honest even 'in the metal' and up close I didn't like the colour. LY FTW.

Spotted this vee in Clevdon near Bristol, never seen this colour, is it inferno like the 182? Also never seen one on an '06' plate either!

LOL that lady is on crack.

As I recall the biggest restriction on the RS clio air in take is the 90 degree bend and not the airbox/filter. A cup racer setup has a relocated battery and straight as possible intake pipe from the passenger front head light. You can just about see here: Or there is also the Ghetto...

Dont know why everyone bangs on about air filters all the time. The best setup in the world would only see 2-3 bhp gain which is nothing. Just wang a quality panel filter in there and a decent CAF.