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Finally got my coilovers set up when the lad doing them had some time to spare. He used to work for a Clio cup team, and recently set up and raced an EP3 CTR in the Britcar 24hour and came 6th overall!!! Anyways, equipped ith 2 fishing poles, fishing wire, 4 axle stands, a jack, and some...

Not needed at all you will be fine with them standard mate. If you need any help with fitting, i'm in Derby and happy to lend a hand.

Thought you had signed up Tom! Marby I've seen your car about a bit when I worked down there.

^ Cheers mate. My mpg seems pretty good, going to work and back is a short journey so never goes above 4krpm, and when i get chance it gets a decent hard drive and i get around 32mpg. Interesting stuff though :)

ooooooooooft! Expensive!

And the fronts, looks like more than 1.6mm of tread on them, good for another year I reckon ;)

I can't believe you made Sam park so far away in the Lupo.....should have been pride of place to be honest, much better looking that the Clio's!

My teeth are weaker than my array of adjustable spanners, think I'll invest in a proper spanner set come payday. I have fitted so many clios with suspension etc from springs to coilovers and only used 2 adjustable spanners haha!

never thought of that rich! Good idea!

lol, is it left or right hand drive though, that would influence my decision ;)

^ Thanks mate. Shame I couldn't get the damn thing out, bit annoying buy just the way it goes I suppose. I can't wait until I'm rich, got plans for a double garage to be build with some ramps etc etc, will make jobs like this so much easier!!

^ Hmm interesting. It's booked in on Friday to have my new brake bits fitted, so I'm getting them to do the decat too, saves me having the hassle again to be honest. I only wanted to do it myself so I knew how to do it in the first place, but now I do I'm happy to sit back and watch someone...

Won't get chance. And to be honest I would rather Birchdown did it, I'm traveeling up there anyways so not a big deal. I'm getting my coilovers set up Tomorrow so I'll reallig the cat then and get it to seal properly, although the noise is quite addictive!!

Given in, std cat back on. Emmisions light is on, but comes on and off as it pleases anyways so thats nothing new! it's blowing slightly now too, sounds like i've got a turbo fitted!!

Just pm'd you Steve.

Theres my persuasion then I guess.....:( Looks like I'll have to wait, although I'll see how much a new lambda is on monday anyways and if it isnt too much then i might just buy another, might work out cheaper than birchdown doing it!

Yep tried heating it, doesnt want to budge, and i don't really wanna be pissing around again fitting it back on then the decat another day... Maybe a job for birchdown when i go up next week then I guess...

How much will the mpg go down? How much is not cheap?! £30? more?

Will this damage the car? Can't get the one out of my standard Cat so thinking of buying a new one at renault on monday, will it cause any damage? How much are new Lambda sensors? Help quick please.

Bump... Going on the first post, would I blank up the hole in my decat, and then just secure the lambda under the car somewhere and it would read clean air?

Thanks for the replies, thought it was worth an ask :)

Just took my cat off to fit my decat but the lambda doesnt want to come out :( Using PlusGas and heating it up but it won't budge, any ideas?

Nope standard setting (well, I havnt changed it and the car was 100% std when I bought it). Thinking it is shite as he is about 28 stone and thinks he is a racing driver/kart racer.....!!

Bloke at work said to me that I should have the brake bias reset due to lowering my car. Something to do with less weight shift due to being stiffer so need more braking going to the rear? Never heard of this so guessing it's s**t?

ah right. easy job to do? did you replace any fitting bits for it?

its easy mate, pretty self explanatary when you do it, but hard to explain! just need a set of torx bits and job done mate. you're right about the MOT too. did you fit the decat? is it on the std system?

about 30kgs mate, ive got my seatbelts out too! nice decat, looks the same as mine!

^ Yep that was the problem. Solved it by just sitting it on top of the original nuts any putting another on top to hold it in place, no contact with anything so perfectly quiet :D Looks cool too.

he's in leciester so not far. I'll get in touch with him tonight and see if he is interested. He recently set up and raced a 220bhp ep3 civic in the britcar 24h race and came 6th overall against supercars! So he knows his stuff. I'll let you know mate.

the lad doing mine might be interested in another foreigner! I'll ask him and let you know. You gonna fit them to your car and norms then, so just after the set up?