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Had a private plate saw you on the road outside halfrods. Anyone on here?

Yeah was only cheap comma stuff though. Was just wondering if the castrol stuff would make any difference or would I just be wasting £20?

bugger!! Just dont get why it was fine all day yesterday and on the way home! Does it go on downchanges first then? Smooth as silk on the up atm.

Anyone? I'm thinking of changing the gearbox oil to the castrol epx stuff as its got some comma stuff in it at the moment or am I clutching at straws here??!!

I jacked mine up on the sump. If you use a block of wood it'll distribute the load evenly along the sump

Did my first trackday yesterday so I wasn't particually abusive to the car as I was a total novice. I blipped on down changes and didn't shift too quick on the ups. The car was fine on the 3 hour drive back home but when I nipped out in it today it ever so slightly crunches while downshifting...

I didn't think it was part of the service TBH

I always park in the most remote place of the car park that I can find! Or next to a wall so that I can get the passenger side really close to it which leaves a massive gap on the drivers side for unthoughtful gits too swing there doors into!

Nah its not the same. Just seems a bit souless in comparrison once youve been in both. I just love the metallically sound the striaght 6 makes.

I love those cars. Has to have one of the best engines BMW has ever made. I dont like the new V8 thats replaced it. I'll have one once ive become a cs millionare.....

I would recomend a custom remap from fastchip with those mods. You will release quite a bit more power and torque lower down. It made a noticible difference on mine as the matched inlets were making it run a bit lean before the custom map.

The power bands are pretty good also!

powerbulbs.com but this was almost a year ago now

No there made by osram. They look ok. Ive got them as they were buy one get one free so were half the price of silvervisions!

What do you mean by chip? Its not an ebay special resistor on the air inlet temp sensor is it?

^^ Its not hard just a bit fiddley. I definately didn't enjoy doing it though!!

I wouldn't be trusting a crappy renault temperature gauge as to wheather I can go a bit faster when its cold TBH.

The cars are so close that it will mainly depend on driver skill and how good an engine you have.

I did mine in 3 hours and I had never done one before so I would think a garage that knew what they were doing should do it in at least 2 hours. I'm not sure what the renault book time is though. But allot depends on how fast they work.

^^Sounds like it!! Unless your flush with cash.

Yeah I know but thats what its known as!! Throw on a bit of CF vinal and whos to know!!

Neither did I until this evening mate!

True however surely the CFD they did was not engine specific? As under bonnet conditions and inlet characteristics vary so greatly how can they be sure that the airbox is of an optimal design for so many engines? In which case surely you do have a chance of creating a box thats pretty damn...

Yeah ive got the Espace V6 airbox with the normal filter in it but I just wondered if anyone had tried the actual open type filter that you get the maxogen instead.

Following on from the Espave V6 airbox and itg panel filter idea and bearing in mind the price of a maxogen kit for the 172 has anyone actually tried to replicate the kit just by using an itg maxogen JC60 airfilter as sold on merlin motorsports etc? I may be wrong but those filters look...

What about an espace v6 airbox with an itg filter in it? AKA the homemade maxogen!!

Thats probably why you have a cup and I have a PH1 then. Different Opinions!

I dont think the ph1 interior is that dated. Simple yet fuctional IMO. I dont want 600 buttons and a fussy dash in a small hatchback (I'm not saying the cup does but some cars do these days and I just think its pointless)

Re: The PH1 172 Aprreciation Thread. Have to agree though I do prefere the PH2 rear lights especially on a silver PH1.

My splitter was working as a snowplough this morning!