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Mine’s anywhere between 89-92 dbs at 5,500 rpm. Running PMS racing exhaust decat.

A lap from Croft last week. Had some really good laps as there wasn't much out on circuit so could get a nice rythmn going. According to my Go Pro this was my PB which is good as everytime i go there i seem to improve slightly - just a confidence thing being old and all that - unless it's...

More likely an age thing and unlucky on your part :)

That's not strictly true in my experience. 4 hard years on (21 trackdays) in my clio 182 dedicated track car and i've never had any brake issues - standard floating calipers with DS 1.1's, never broken a drive shaft. Only engine issues i've had is when i had the box rebuilt with a quaife and the...

Welcome. I'm usually at Croft in mine, so hopefully see you out there. Go onto www.tracklimit.co.uk and register, you'll be able to see who's going to events. Much nicer place to be than Facebook and more track focussed. I'm 57 by the way, so well and truly past my mid-life crisis. I always say...

Put the engine back in the 182 daily. Nice and clean again and so far it hasn't sprung a leak 🤞

Good find, the part number on mine is 7700836136 so the number must have been superseded. I’m on it 👍

Yeah I agree. I tried to get a new one but you can’t get them anymore.

The weather was determined to stop me finishing the car today with hail and rain pretty much the theme of the day. I plowed on regardless and got the new radiator and hoses in. You can see the old rad has seen better days. Picked up a Nissen radiator off EBay via Denmark. Took 6 days but for...

Thanks Mark.

Thanks 😊 If I could get the parts brand new, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Up nice and early to start putting the engine back in. Took a couple of hours to get to this stage, then a couple of hours trying to get the auxiliary belt onto the bottom pulley of the alternator. What a flippin carry on. Called it a day after that. Just the hoses, radiator and gear...

Ain't that the truth. Bought my 46" tv from Richer Sounds about 8 years ago now. Only 1080p but everybody who comes to the house thinks it's a 4K. At the time a typical 1080p tv would set you back £599 but i paid them about £900. I still don't understand the technology but something to do with...

Brilliant day at Croft. Not a huge turnout despite weather being near perfect for good laps. Still, more track time for those that showed up. Did a PB as well putting me in the 1:38 club 😊 Car ran faultlessly 🚗💨

A couple of hours spare this morning so tackled the heat shield beneath the exhaust manifold. I knew it was an issue as I’d spotted it a few years ago when doing my ARB bushes, but it’s pretty hard to locate and fix. Held on by one bolt, which was loose, and a cable tie by previous owners. It...

Out with the old. In with the new. Engine all done, ready to go back in. Learned so much from the experience that the next one I do will be in a different league. Now to tackle the engine bay.

Thanks Dave. As you know, b***s deep into engine now. It's funny how i see my own car in terms of its value and yet other people, who know the car and follow it's progress, see something entirely different. I value it based on the things i know it needs, to be near perfect that is, and yet...

If it's not affecting anything then i guess just leave it. The leak on mine was starting to work it's way onto the exhaust. Nothing worse than an oily smelling car after a journey. I think the problem with a lot of garages is they take too much on, so everything is a rush job. On saying that...

Autumn Red. Beautiful!

Last bit of work on the daily before I focus my attention on the track car and Croft on Monday. Got a really good TTV Lightweight Flywheel off a good friend who races in TDT. He fitted it, tested it at Donny and didn’t like it. Karma in action right there. Got it fitted - new bolts of course...

Thanks Andy. 4 years ago I’d never changed a spark plug, let along whip an engine out 😂. But I’ve been screwed over that many times by careless so called “specialists” I thought I can’t really do any worse myself. I don’t do all my work though. Mark Mayfield did my gearboxe and i’d leave...

Slow progress over the last few days but progress non-the-less. Current gearbox looking a bit weepy, which is to be expected at 131,000 miles so it's going off for a rebuild. In the interim i'm going to use my spare gearbox from my Black Gold track car, which i removed at 79,000 miles when i...

WIN! WIN! Definitely worth having a chat to them. Ask if Craig's still there as he was the main man, but everybody there knew their stuff. Good luck and hope you get it sorted fella.

I paid £175 for full suspension set up including corner balancing. He also picked up on a few other things which i'd overloooked and fixed for free. Ran the car for two seasons (around 12 trackdays) and it was gold. Took it to Rob Boston Racing enroute the Cadwell and he charged me £250 for...

I think specialist is an over used term these days. As i said try some body repair centres. Our bodyshop has a guy who's been there 20 years and all he does all day is make them go in a straight line. There was a guy called Craig who did mine at Track Torque racing in York, not sure if he's...

@FPummell Never done Donny in the Clio before but yeah, I’m up for it.

Ended up replacing 3 gaskets as a precaution including sump, thermostat housing and crank oil seal. Sump was easy thanks to an online workshop manual. Thermostat housing not too bad once I tilted the engine back to stop a small flow of oil seeping from the block. And finally the crank oil...

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A few satisfying jobs tonight correcting a few bodges/incompetencies from Renault “specialists”. I dare say there are very few. So when I pulled the engine I immediately noticed a few missing bolts on the timing covers. How I never spotted it before is beyond me, but it is a little tight down...

Never liked my standard wheels on my BG daily but yours look amazing for some bizzare reason :confused: They seem darker than OEM, so maybe that's why.