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Whole kit.

I was saying if I had no history idea change I'd change the whole kit, don't scrimp because it will cost you.

Can you powdercoat them too?

Waterpumps rarely go, check for any play. If the water pump was on the cambelt I'd always change it. The spare pulley is an idler pulley, undo it through the wheel arch. Me personally if there was no history of a recent change I would do it for piece of mind, bent valves an a head rebuild...

You can get both the kits for around 170 I paid about 160 for the tooling from Renault The belt is quite easy really, there's a lot to take out the way first though. I wouldn't recommend it as a first belt, depends how confident you are. It's similar to a Zetec se, non of the pulleys are keyed...

Just buy a full aux kit, don't be tight cause it'll cost you later. Wests Renault and Renault Parts Direct both had aux kits on offer at around the 60 pounds mark iirc If the aux belt does fail it usually causes the timing to slip on the f4r due to the lack of keyed pulleys. Hope this helps.

My cousin brought that car off scoff years ago, scoff an haz at the time built it to what it pretty much looks like there with the 1.7 in it. I always thought it was wrote off not long after me cousin got rid. Good to see it again. Sorry for the hijack

Doubt it will be corroded at that age, if you are going to tap it with something don't use a spanner. If you short the terminals you will know about it! Use a hammer handle but I'd be suprised if you can get at it easily.

Certainly looks starter related mate, bumping is a quick way of telling without getting dirty. Seen quite a few 197 fail recently mate.

Looks good, welcome to the world of trophy ownership (Renault parts bin special haha). I love mine. Where did you pick it up from Gally?

I've heard starter failures aren't unheard of, do you get any sort of clicking from the starter? Have you tried bumping it? I only had my 197 for 10 months so never really encounter an issues.

Awesome chip, I missed it in action last year. Also after chatting to you about various things on here it would be nice to put a name to the face haha

Oh no doubt, you won't have to open the thottle as much as it will flow more air due to the enlargement but they'll be a point when the engine meets its maximum airflow capabilities due to another factor, an that will be before the thottle is at maximum angle, so why make it bigger? Just be...

I was reffering to the thottle bodies

Looking good chip, you guys certainly haven't hung around. Looking forward to seeing some track vids ;) This going to be at FCS?

No worries mate

Yep some kid rubbing his hands after a bit of cnc machining on a saturday morning haha ;)

How they going to test them?

Exactly, the inlet is manifold itself is more restrictive. Accordding to "chip" it hits maximun air flow log before maximun thottle angle is achieved. People just assume bigger is better, an because its 200 quid it works! Renault spend millions developing these cars, if a bigger thottle was...

Yep, the eibach bolts have nothing to do with the top mounts. They are fitted to the hub end of the strut an alter the camber by pivoting the hub.

Just whip the old one out quickly with new one to hand an fit the new one quickly. Then just bleed any air out the system an top up with 50/50 type d coolant, personally for the money I'd change it but I can understand what your saying matey.

N/A tuning on the f4r is very expensive for not a very big gain, boosted converisons are usually more expensive (depending how diy it is) but you get more bhp for the money an alot of scope for future tuning.

Yep, far as I am aware. I fitted a oreaca group N system from ktec that is listed for a ph1 172 to my 2002 ph2 172 without a problem.

Whats wrong with putting your foot down? Have you tried switching the esp off? My old 197 seemed to be more responsive then if I'm honest, maybe just in me head haha. As for enlarging you thottle body from what I've read in a recent thread its a waste of time an money, heres the link...

Cup racers run different management. Also the loom will need altering to have some sort of tps an icv, the fbw thottle takes care of all of this. Swapping is not as straight forward as you imagine.

That will no doubt need aftermarket management, can't see standard ecu supporting it.

The gaiters have always seemed a bit s**t to me. Up until now I've never had a problem an I've owned numerous saxos an clios. I have noticed the amount of threads though.

Lovely looking car mate, I've recently got into detailing myself after a lot of reading an advice.

Yep any Gsf, euro car parts or Ces will stock them

And you think that's safer, do you know how much force will be put on that small strut in an accident? Put the spanners down an leave it to a professional