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Near Harlow isnt he? I remember we paid a visit a few years ago to see what was cooking.

If youve ever seen the original Clio 16v brochure then youll know why LOL

AFAIK there are rules about it laid down by Euro law, which have been in operation for some years now. The only thing is I cant remember the detail, but things like the acceleration test now being 0-62mph (i.e. 0-100kph) rather than to 60, are the by-product of Euro legislation. Anyway, all...

LOL I thought you were going to say youd front-ended a pedestrian and they were still trapped under your bonnet! Or that your Clio had separated into two parts and you saw the back end overtake you :p How disappointing to find it was an intermittent electrical problem ;)

i have no idea what your factory offset is on a new Clio but in case youre wondering what is the background to all these numbers, in basic terms: Offset is the distance between the imaginary centre line of the wheel and the hub mounting face. Almost all road cars run negative offset which...

Yes but a bolt in isnt as simple as that. It has welded in mounting plates against the mounting points

No I never get this problem, cos no-one can keep up LOL

No problem. Even if they were all set up and all four of you were doing 120mph, they couldnt do any of you, cos theyd not be able to prove in court that they had a proper reading what with four cars and two lorries all bunched up.

Yes but Ive been looking at my last years spending at Shell, and basically the return from them is less than 1% i.e. for spending almost £3000 in petrol over the year, at Shell, Im gonna get £20 worth of tokens. Great. Im thinking of switching to whatevers cheapest.

ralph - yeah thats what I mean, just cos an R5 runs an old fashioned engine design doesnt mean its sh*t, tuned 5s are still quicker than tuned Clios in general Jon - you almost always get off the line quicker than me, and then I reel you in like a prize carp, sometimes I get over the finish in...

Yeah I heard a few good things about Roll Centre. Mine was from Safety Devices and to be honest it doesnt exactly weigh a great deal - well not as much as youd think...but is seems odd that they dont do one for the Cup. After all arent all later Clios exactly the same in terms of interior...

LOL ALLWOOD no Willys might not be able to keep up with Porsches or TVRs, or even 172s or CTRs as standard. But tuned ones are quick, and theyre light as well. I wouldnt say they have a dated chassis at all. Theres a reason why people still drive 205 GTis and Willys and its because sometimes a...

No, much worse. Traction off the line on a fwd car is all about letting the tyres dig in and go. Low profile tyres with stiff sidewalls are just about the worst possible thing for that - you have to run relatively high pressures to keep the rims from rolling along the ground, there is very...

Another point is that 0-60 runs and front wheel drive are just not suited to each other. 0-60 is all about the launch and there comes a point where it doesnt matter how much power you have, you cannot get to 60 that much quicker. I honestly cant see how any fwd Clio could get into say, the 4s...

Well everyone can have their opinion on it but to be honest I just dont think a Williams will do 0-60 in under 6. You need to be running 200bhp plus to do that in a Clio. If someone does a proper timed run in a Willy like the ones they did this year at Bruntingthorpe for FCS, at Donny South...

Hmmm, well not wanting to take anything away from my drag strip rivals, cos they are bloody great quarter mile times and wicked drivers, but quarters cant be taken as a direct comparison with 0-60s. There is a link, but not a direct one. For example, scooters are sh*t, but theres one that...

Well the DVD with the first two on was wicked. I didnt think much of the newest one, 3 I think it is. Load of b****cks. Nothing like as raw as 1 & 2. With all those stupid stunts I wouldnt be surprised if the police were in on it anyway.

Well including stuff thats been on and off the car, its been through a few different stages of tuning thats for sure. Probably 20-25 grand in the six years Ive owned it.

I used to be a member back in the day, before we started Cliosport. Ive not had a look at it for a while to be honest, and dont really like the layout of the website, but I know a few of the members still and they cater for all Renaults so not specifically Clios. RSC are the last refuge of R19...

Not bad. But you would probably do a lot better by one very simple measure. Stick a valver bonnet on it. It looks like the intake would be right on top of your filter and my testing has shown that there is good high pressure there. If its good enough to keep my turbo cool then its good enough...

Eddd, just watching this thread out of interest, and noticed what you said about DS2500/3000. Now I used to run DS2000 on standard size discs and I was very pleased with them. On my 325mm discs I run Mintex 1155 and I dont like them at all. What do the DS2500 and DS3000 feel like, in comparison...

LOL you country bumpkins No you dont need to leave it running at all. Thats only necessary on turbo cars when youve given them a good caning, the turbo will be running a lot hotter than the engine, so if you simply switch off, the oil flow and water flow to the turbo stops, cooking the...

I think 007 said it right, about the members on here who have bought a brand new Clio and take a huge depreciation hit on that. Its down to what you think is VFM, plus its down to your finances. Assuming were talking about spending your own money and not your employers, buying Williams 002 for...

Got them this morning mate, good work! I know you want to apologise to people cos youre a nice person like that. But I wouldnt! :devilish: Anyone whos got any complaints can swivel as far as Im concerned LOL

Quality motoring all day I reckon; the cross country hack to and from the dragstrip were a good old crack, just like a WRC tarmac stage - except with traffic coming the other way occasionally and a couple of bikes trying to buzz us without much success LOL There are some very quick motors up...

Monkey - well it depends on the tree, but on a 0.4 or 0.5 second tree (time between the orange and the green) one technique is as soon as you see orange, go. It does work pretty well, once you factor in that most normal people who arent the Bionic Man have on average a half second reaction time...

Yeah thats what it is. First they banned timing cos of people crashing or dying by pushing it too far in trying to clock particular lap times. Then when stopwatches were banned, people resorted to using their video footage as a timing method. So therefore, video was banned as well. In...

Yeah I know its only the fancy modern ones. Thats why I put my DTM mirrors on, less drag at 140+mph LOL Youre right about number 6 though. If youre ever in the bookies and you see a dog take a dump before getting in the trap, put a fiver on them.

OK then that throws up some interesting topics...firstly Jon, I am not gonna be tricked by you into going before Im ready just so you can get over the line first LOL For those of you who werent watching at USC, we battled 3 times and the first two he caned me to the line, the third I got in...

SHould be some quality motoring this Sunday then! To be honest 106GTI I think youll struggle to take half a second off your previous best without a great deal more mods, or at least chucking out a load of heavy stuff. But 1/4 miling is all about trying, so best of luck! Run low tyre pressures at...