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Really noticed this this weekend, I always drive with it off anyway as the geezer at the garage said it gives you better fuel economy. Anyway the last couple of days there have been a couple of times when Ive been driving reasonably hard and when cornering there seems to be a microsecond where...

I like how the pics disguise the venoms. Cant fool us tho. What a pile of crap. I dont know where hes spen five quid on mods either lol. I rekon there should be a clio crime gallery and that one should be on it :D

Just wondered if anyone else had noticed a lack of power in the hot weather? Mine has been noticibly slower today, I was surpise how much difference a reletively slight increase in air temperature made......gonna have to get me an inductrion kit to make up for it I think ;)

there was an awful rover with an industion cone poking out of the wing parked up at york last weekend. Wont do the filter any good at all being exposed to the elements.

pull ya plugs out and dry them off, should be fine.

that donnt websites crap, doesnt give the date of the show anywhere! when is it?

this is still a problem, Ive had two key remotes pack up and the car is about 5 weeks old!

probably next year as thats when the new clio comes out, I rekon maybe later in 04 well see new cups and probably something to replace the 172 alltogether (200 sport maybe? turbo? yes please!)

132 is pushing it m8 specially when theres other cars about, but well done anyway. Show the poofs with hardressers cars a thing or two about real mens cars hehe

best way to sort this one out is how clarkson does it. With a cool board. Clio 172/williams/16v/cup = Uber cool Saxo vtr/s = uncool [:p]

deffo keep the valver. For me any sort of old turbod ford just gives out the wrong message. To many knobs driving them about with smoke pouring out the back . 5 turbo will give you greif but if you already own a valver ..... ;) What about a BB turbo conversion for the valver??

with MC ralying youll be lucky if they fit! I had some utterley appauling sideskirts off them (not for the clio) mis fitted by almost an inch!!

Quote: Originally posted by Craggy on 27 May 2003 i raced that camper! side by side all the way 2 litre and 100 HP nitrous jets, you did well m8 ;)

that camper was supreme, probably handles like sh*t but on the strip it was amazing!

eh? Sureley wider tyers give you more grip and make you less likey to slide?

yeah much as I love my 172 I wount call it a sports car. Sports cars are genrally stuff like MGs, MR2s not really owt to do with sport but thats what the motoring press rekon. clios and stuff are genrally referred to as hothatches

Quote: Originally posted by BigBoreBri on 27 May 2003 Another fun day and it was nice and sunny for a change tho it looked a little dull at times... Some good runs by a few of you out there, was quite impressed by some of the valvers.<FONT color=#ffff00>Managed to get a 15.4 in me...

craggy is your vts modded?

top marks to the cup driver, clearly made a difference there.

Firstly a bit of clio crime. Sorry iof its anyones on here but I doubt it somehow!! http://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/file.php?image=1053980926__cliocrime1.jpg http://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/file.php?image=1053980951__cliocrime2.jpg Someone who came along with my mate in an s4...

guy was interested in a px for a mini cooper? DOH!

deffo not worth claiming. 2 years NCD is a prescious thing and worth about 35% off your premium. Not worth it fir £400.

Ive hear horror stories about hacksaws. Dont know about you m8 but the word "hack" and my clio do not go together very well.

Who do you rekon would win? Im accompanying my mate down to york on Monday who drives one and am wondering if I should bother trying to race him or not. Top speed is well over the 172 and the 0-60 time is a smidge lower at 6.6 seconds, maybe my willingness to thrash the nads off the car...

Might just be able to make it depending on work, who am I likely to bump into? :)

Quote: Originally posted by chris79 on 24 May 2003 i dont normally do this as im not really a boy racer, but I guess the child in me got the better of me.. Welcome to the wonderful world of the 172. I was aretired boy racer till I got my 172. Im now saving for nitrous.

looks like hes ploughed through a ripspeed shop and some of the bits have stuck.

Theres no way a petrol station would delibrately sell dodgy fuel. Imagine the libility cases! Plus your car does have a filter in the fuel line so even if there was any cack (which is more likely to have come from outside when you open the petrol flap etc) it cannot go through to the engine...

c c c c c c cutting compound! are you mad? what is this stuff?

I looked at all the options available for running in and decided to rag it :) That said I never redlined it, just took it to about 6 grand occasionally and gave it a few good hard accelrative runs. Basically I had fun whilst bearing in mind I dint want to pop my engine. At the end of the...