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I usually buy mine from the local factors, my current one is a 'Charging bull' one iirc, cost me £38, 3 year warranty and even after not starting the Clio for nearly a month it fired up without even struggling. Had a few of these now and seem to last really well

As long as the belt is a gates belt it should be ok. The dephaser is only available genuine as far as im aware 1000000% get someone with proper experience to do the belt change for you - they need correct locking tools and need to know how to do it or it WILL be wrong - trust me! 100%...

Looking great mate! I know naff all about this type of stuff, but my brother owns an electrician company and I talk to him a lot about the jobs he does - It's amazing where some people pull a couple of hundred thousand quid from to renovate a house!

It does look a fantastic car, colour suits it so well

Yes it is good practice to change the belt - if the whole kit has been changed recently then you can just change the belt rather than the whole kit. It isn't an mot failure - the noise is usually caused by a car missing oil changes or having dirty/cheap oil - the dephaser is oil driven so can...

Would love one for a winter hack, will definately be part of my future garage Yours looks nice mate, need better pics!

They are a right pain, I have had many different types of exhausts over the years and they have all banged and knocked bar one - a Yozza is the only one thats fitted first time and never knocked. Best advise I can offer is try to get the exhaust slid into the sleeves as far as possible

Welcome Amelia :) I tihnk the noise you are hearing is most likely your dephaser pulley Does it sound like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN72UVcx41k If it is the dephaser it will go quiet when revved then noisey again at idle. If this is the case it's a fairly big job, requiring the...

As the bushy haired wonder has said, it will be literally like a new car - the difference is godsmacking and you will really see why they won so many road tests when they were new Obvious troll is trolling ;)

I have this but have only had a little dabble for a practice - not started a season yet - must really get on with it

They all do it, just some worse than others ;) I love Renault's fix for the later Clio's - stick a bit of plastic under it :S

I let an ex of mine learn in my XR3i (Powerful enough for a leaner!) and another Ex I taught to drive in my 2.0 16v Mk1 (That would run in the 13's at Pod) Both cars survived, both were additional drivers in my insurance. Driving accasionally as a leaner (ie someone with them( i'd be happy...

Whats it running BTG at the mo mate? Really like it, looks fantastic!

If it doesn't have an RS in the title I'll personally drive up and slap him

It's not too bad tbh mate, esp is a bit intrusive on wet roads (no suprise) but is still quite tractable

If the ratios are different in the vauxhall boxes then yes it would make the accelleration slightly better but may reduce top speed - depending how different the ratios are it could make normal driving annoying as where as before you were doing 70mph at 3000rpm for example, with the different...

VW Steel Grey (paint code LA7T)

I had yellowstuff in the elise, they did stop it ok but they had NO feel to them whatsoever IMO they only work well in light cars, I had to use greenstuffs in one of my minis once and they worked ok - used them in a mates Sierra once and they lasted half a day lol

looks lovely mate! (wheres my guage for guessing the colour :rasp: )

the difference you would feel wouldn't be worth the effort mate, especially as you can buy a 172 for peanuts these days it would make more sense just to buy a 172

this. x1 million

So did i! I had a white SRi with a Cavalier SRi 130 engine in lol :cool: (I'm taking this was 1998 mind :o ) They are cheap for a reason tbh, tend to be loud and drony from my experience

An interesting read that mate, i bet a lot of testing stations won't aware mind, it would be good to carry that around like you have to do with the cups with regards to the rear brake bias

Gates are oem for Renault so hense why I'd happily use them but oem for servicing 100%

I'd happily buy a gates belt, but after going on a course where we cut open some oem filters and so.e aftermarket ones, I always use oem

As Tony says, it's all pub talk but as a general rule of thumb a standard engine on a good map with itbs should be somewhere between 190-200bhp. Remember the standard engine will be somewhere around 165-170bhp as standard so 25-30 bhp extra is somewhat about right. But figuees don't tell...

Unfortunately once you have had one its stuck for life. I'm on number 16 now ffs

I'm guessing non genuine

Bloody police hey, nothing better to do / catch real criminals etc etc :rasp:

My memories of these were getting rid of the f**king carb cooling fans before they shorted out and set fire to the car