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take the rail gaurd off and the slam pannel if you can manage it. you can buy a gripper type tool (i dont know their name but i got one for £6 gets it off nicely. make sure you buy a new sump plug washer
the stealth system is based on there other tiger exhausts loud when giving it gas and not so loud when not. you will notice a gain with a detat but its more all over power and you will loose some of the 5k kick only a little bit though.
Ktec exhausts are ok by all means but if you want a sound...
what car is it?
could be a number of things :
>electronic throttle possition sensor
>throttle cable
>mass air meter
>leak in the vac pipe
>or knowing renaults most prob a lambda sensor
they are able to give you up to 40% depending on what it is. i get 40 on almost everything except service parts.
If your going to GSF your normally buying pattern parts which are NO WHERE near as good as gen ren parts plus with gen ren parts you get a 12 month warranty
if your fitting the anti roll bar bushes made by powerflex measure the inner ones before you fit them as some 172's and 182's are fitted with a fatter 28mm front anti roll bar. where as others i have seen are fitted with 25mm and 23mm bars
second and third syncro's wear first as they are the most used gears for most people.
there are loads of weak points in the jc5 box , the 129 version 172 and cup seems to be the most problematic due to the stick most people give them and the circlip holding the diff in.
im on my 3rd box in 16k...
they know about the problem as they have re-designed it and it no longer bolts on where it used to. i had an authentique for a day when my car died so i nicked the one off that it bolts on further down
the IAT senzer iz at da rite hand side ov the manifold below the mostest right inlet runna. my mate fitted one it made iz car da fastest , beat scoobies and a evo
your IAT sensor is in the bin where the resistor belongs. seriously no one on here is going to help you fu(k up your car pal , the 1.2 16v engine has enough faults without you adding another one
never seen any although you will prob be able to use the hub from a laguna as they use the same calipers on the front , the rears will be a different story , why go 5 stud?
you may have the 239mm solid disk on there check if its a solid or vented disk, if its the vented you can buy a 280mm upgrade kit from k-tec that will fill your alloys a bit more
the bush it the bit that looks like turd, there easy to change you need to jack the whole front up remove the old stuff, then clamp then fit the new bush , the hard part is putting the bottom rubber bit on, you need a big bar and jack get a mate to push the wishbone down and put the jack under...
The F4R 7xx series small block engines need the bottom ends bracing after 250bhp start shooting pistons thats why Ren built the 8xx Series (megane, vel satis and new clio) as the bottom end is much stronger , and it can take stonger gearbox's i wouldnt even dream about running a JC5 box with a...