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Fitted the coilovers today, fronts when on fine and are fine at the moment.
However, i have the rears set as low as they will go but they a riding higher than it was on eibach pro's by 10mm. I can't see any other way to change the way i have assembled everything, yet it doesn't look...
1 Dry lap of the ring and they overheat, leaving pad deposits on the discs that then cause a vibration through the brakes and very poor braking at the next bend. The material is too soft for anything heavier than around 800kg on track, fast road they are fine.
Ive been trying this for a while as well. I basically came to the same conclusion as Brian, the pedals are in a really horrible position for it to be done 'naturally'. I will be changing the seat in mine in a month or so and im then going to try again once my driving position is sorted.
They are just self taping screws, get them from any diy place. Probably better getting a larger one so that it has purchase through the bumper if it has pulled out.
Stock calipers and discs will take you so far, cup racers don't use them becasue of regs. look at the Clio racers (VLN, Endurance etc) from any other series and they use them.
I have DS2500, braided hoses, better discs etc. and the brakes aren't much use on track. I would only ever descibe...
Insurance isn't as simple as group 1-20, there is also different banding's within that (a,b,c,d etc). The main effect on insurance is your postcode, once did a comparison with a friend on identical cars/age/driving experiance/ncb/storage, with the only differeance being postcode (100miles apart...