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Dave in small engined hathback is a better short trip commuter than a V8 M3 shocker 😂 Sounds like a plan though, and you've got some nice bits to fit!

So instead of changing a set of stem seals on a saturday morning, you're building a new track car? While keeping the old one? Which got used on track 4 or 5 times since you bought and built that? Makes perfect sense 😂

@NorthloopCup have you watched Roadkill mate? 😂 As my old boss used to say, "this reads like the beginning of an accident investigation report..." All credit to all involved and glad the cup is still straight and lives to fight another day!

Did you not get rid of the BMW for being expensive and unreliable? 😂

The crownwheel bolts around the outside of the diff normally, so they are independent, you can install the diff with any number of different final drive ratios. Diff looks like this with the crownwheel attached: This is a rear drive one, but the principal is the same:

A kilo or two a corner Mostly for the benefit of cheaper tyres, but yes, there will be some improvement from the weight too. £250-300 for team dynamics, belive they're a touch over 300 new.

Hi, I have an ABS light I'd like to diagnose and I have a generic bluetooth OBD dongle which I use with Torque. I've tried various apps, but none of them want to talk to the ABS module. Has anyone managed to get anything to work apart from CLIP? Will RSTuner read the ABS? Cheers

Theres too many cyclists, VW busses etc to risk that and its so tight some cars wind up doing three point turns for the odd bend. I dont really get why TG thought it was so good. The other side on the other hand is well sighted mostly second to third gear hoonery

The pass down the other side of the mountain is better IMHO, Stelvio is too tight. Umbrail/Furka/Grimsel are all good.

I need to bleed my ABS pump and check out an ABS fault code if anyone can lend me the kit, or come and have a look for beer money? Cheers!

I fixed mine by looking the other way mate.

I have the same engine and box in a bora with some tuning and they go well!

Better than the xp8?

@sburrell93 it's only recently, so may be due to the pads wearing a little thin, but they just go hard and wooden and dont stop, I nearly rear ended a car at the hairpin last time out. It may well be that some new ones the same would be fine again!

Cheers @MarkX Ive had 4 2hr days and 2 4 hour days and 3000 road miles out of a set of RC5+ which were on the car when I bought it, beggars belief the RC6 is that much worse! Not hugely fussed about the dust, its track only now and the wheels are tatty anyway, just want something which works...

I've had these recommended by a few folk who use them, but no one with a clio. I currently run CL RC5+ and theyre fading so I was going to go for RC6E. Any first hand exerience on a clio? Mine is standard engine and box, coilovers, cage, whiteline roll bar and polybushes/spherical joints. Cheers

I like that VW have got into the quick estate market and theyve got the styling spot on. If you dont mind me asking, what's it costing you?

I have a pioneer 7300BT with a 64gb memory stick and bluetooth handsfree and then two amps, four speakers and a sub in the daily but that was all specced 5 years ago. Nowadays I'd be going for one of the android headunits I reckon.

@dann2707 how long after they were last checked did they fail?

Was that a failure of extended bolts which had been seated correctly and recently torqued?

I run small ones (10mm) due to odd wheel offset, I use longer bolts to match and torque them at the start of the day, each time I check the tyre pressures and thereafter, whenever Im in the pits for a cool down or more fuel or whatever. Never had an issue.

I've never done a mini, but on any other car, I'd be happy to pull the head, replace the stem seals, lap the valves and refit it with a new cambelt in a weekend with decent beer/tea breaks. Perhaps over two weekends if its and MLS gasket and you want to skim it to clean the surface, or have it...

Oh definitely agree on the money thing, but for £15 I've found plates to be the biggest change to a tired car beyond a clean! Generally I buy the cheapest show plates on ebay as I like them plain (legally you need a makers name and address I believe) and the standard UK style (not a fan of...

How budget motoring should be done! Sort the yellowing headlights and fit some new numberplates without the extra writing/bolts and it'll look pretty good fo an old bus!

I've just got a dashcam stuck to the windscreen, but sometimes its nice having the image framed with the dash/pillars. That said, inside the car they seem more susceptible to light balance issues.

Designed? They copy the backplate from the OEM and stick some new compound to it. All credit on the R&D on the compound, but skipping the springs is just lazy. No, they dont 'need' them, because racecar, however they would be infinitely better for having them, reducing the knocking and squealing...

No chance. I had a brand new trailer tyre which split the bead at 40psi before it had ever gone anywhere and got told no :P

If they're like my RC5s the issue is that they dont fit the anti attle springs and worse still, the hump that houses the rivet isnt even on the backplate so you cant fetrofit them either.

Also depends on the car, mine was fairly bad when I got it, so by the time I'd cleaned, detarred and clayed it, touched in various bits of damage with primer, colour and clear and then done 3M fastcut, two grades of menzerna polish, a sealer and a wax on every panel, restored the headlight...