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Sorry, but those people suggesting you can get lift without increasing drag are talking perpetual motion type voodoo science. As the old saying goes there aint no such thing as a free lunch - someone has to pay for it. You can't get something for nothing. If it generates lift it will necessarily...

It works the same at ALL drag strips. You first have to "stage" your car. There are two beams across the track close together at the start line. You have to move forward and break one, but not move forward enough to break the other. So you have to be in the right position. The top light on the...

The more power you have the better it is to give the front wheels the job of steering and let the back wheels do the job of getting the power to the ground. When the same set of wheels has to do both jobs it puts a double strain on their ability to do it well. So there isn't any specific...

Some things are fundamental. They are dictated by the laws of physics. If you have a fairly powerful car with a short wheelbase and a significantly different amount of weight on front and rear axles and a rudimentary suspension like the Clio Sport you're going to get the effects you describe...

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Re: Loosing weight, Reducing weight is equivalent to increasing horsepower. But its difficult to take much weight out easily. The rear seat weighs almost nothing. You wouldn't notice any effect if you took it out except that the car would be noisier. The spare wheel and tools are a bit...

1. double clutching is something you (used to have to) do on downshifts with gearboxes that have weak synchromesh - like the JC5 in Clio Sports - or didn't have synchromesh at all - like trucks and race cars. You push the clutch in, move the gear lever to the neutral position half way to the...

BHP doesn't destroy gearboxes, torque does. Improving it while keeping it naturally aspirated doesn't increase torque much, it mostly just moves it up the rev range. But turboing does increase torque substantially.

The gearbox is one of the known problem areas. You can be lucky and never have a problem. Or you can be one of the significant number who do.

Its not the spacers themselves that are the problem. Its when you use them to increase the offset to far more than standard and put extra load on your wheel bearings that spacers are a problem. If you are only using them to correct for wheels that have the wrong offset then the spacers are good.

You can't change the essential character of a car without spending huge amounts of money that you won't get back when you sell it. If you like the mid-range torque that a Focus ST has better than you like the top end grunt of the Clio Sport then the solution is simple: trade in your Clio on an ST.

power-increasing resistors? or penis enlarging pills?

0.2 seconds at the end of a quarter mile is considerably more than half a car length. You cross the finish line doing about 150 km/h, which is about 40 metres/second, so its about 8 metres. That's two Clio lengths.

Time to distance has a fourth power relationship with power to weight. So Ahmet's 62 kg weight reduction would cut just over 0.2 seconds off his quarter mile time.

There are two issues with lights. The amount of light the globe puts out, and where the reflector/lense directs it. I have to agree with everyone in this thread who doesn't like the "projector" type low beams in Clio Sports. They put out lots of light. But they don't illuminate what you need...

Was driving to home the other day, it was a bit moist on the road. went over one roundabout as i came up to the next i was only doing about 25, went to steer and i started to understeer towards the kerb...... And the ESP didn't do a thing to help me. Of course I hadn't jumped on the brakes...

It can seem like a good idea to put high-wattage globes in lights, but if the light is physically small you can get overheating problems that cause distortion, damage or reflector discoloration. It is only a good idea to put high-wattage globes in physically big lights, and even then only if the...

Magazine reports say 15.3 seconds for the quarter mile. And they practice to see how to get the best times before they get that. Anyone who thinks a cup, which has the same engine and just a bit lower weight, would do 14.1 is talking nonsense. The lower weight might be worth 1-2 tenths of a...

Mine comes on when I've got 8.5 litres left in the tank.

I love the fact that the headlights are automatic. It'd be nice if you could set them to go a little earlier (or later) but, its not a big deal. What I hate is that when they are set to automatic I can't flash the lights at oncoming cars. Like to warn them of speed cameras. Or just to say...

Want lower wheel weight? Put a smaller diameter wheel on. A standard Clio Sport 15x7 wheel only weighs 7.5 kgs. You can only beat that in a 16x7 by finding the lightest ones available.

The issue with how much power the Clio engine produces is the same issue engineering-wise as the issue of Clio handling. An engineer can make a simple thing do one job well. It usually takes a more complex solution for it to be able to do all of lots of different things with conflicting...

The fuel function on mine was out by 15%. I'd regularly see siyuations like the trip computer saying I'd used 33 litres, then the "empty" ligh'd come on and it'd take 41-42 litres to fill it up. I asked the dealer to look at it. Now its "only" out by 8%. Accurate is the last word I'd use for...

Don't remove it. It improves low to mid range torque. Renault's engineers wouldn't have added the cost of it to the car if it didn't do anything. What happens is that you get the best power at the top end if air can flow into the airbox with the least restriction. Ie, you want big air intake...

You think you've got too much body roll on a Clio Sport!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's a good one.

Do you want show or go? If you want show they're nice. If you want go they're a waste of money because all the ones I've seen are made for show. If they really saved weight they'd be nice. But they all weight as much or nearly as much as a standard bonnet.

If its got: 15x7 wheels : 48.5 mm 16x7 wheels : 45 mm The tyre fitted to 15" wheel cars is a 195. With 16" wheels a wheel with less offset is used to provide more clearance on the inner side for the 205 section tyre.

Don't know about yours, but my Clio sport has a heat-reflecting metallic coating on the windscreen. That's the problem with GPS units inside the car. The metallic coating blocks the radio signal from the GPS satellites. There's a "window" at the bottom centre of the windscreen that's not coated...

An A/C unit that would do enough work to be useful wouldn't run off a voltage as low as 12V. It'd draw too many amps. More than your alternator supplies. An electric A/C would be about as effective as those electric superchargers. Some things just draw so much power they have to run directly off...

If its a Renault the speedo is almost certainly already out. It appears to be Renault policy to make their speedos give significantly optimistic readings. Ie, they tell you you're going faster than you actually are. All the tyre sizes you mention will merely make it more or less optimistic...