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OK After seeing Steves photoshopped one and considering all the evidence Ive decided the strips are staying but I will definitely colour code them and maybe change them for phase 2 jobs. Cheers everyone!

Theyre always a good crack! You try going on one of the French websites, its a nightmare!

Well thats the price of having wicked rear lights that hardly anyone else has! You could spend half that and just have Lexus. Or spend a couple of quid on a pair of tights and put them over your lights to smoke them!

Yeah but thats the whole point. You only dont notice them on a standard car. Seeing as mine will have just had a respray in Subaru Blue with the locks taken out and a bit of smoothing going on anyway, its gonna look bloody shoddy to leave the standard unpainted strips on there?

Yeah having the filter right down there is too far from the throttle body. So in other words youre better off just having a boxed filter element with a sealed feed down to the foglight hole.

Mine was dropped 35mm at the front, and they 215/35/18 tyres were about 2mm underneath the spring platform. The plastic I had to cut out was about half an inch all round the top part of the wheelarch curve and a small section of the front bumper where it meets the arch. I just knife-edged the...

Prima do the old school ones like Leighs got. But they probably dont make them any more. Quad Conversions do the LED ones which are shown on their website. Ive got some on the way, Ill post a picture once theyre on.

Yeah but cost is not really the issue. Itll be roughly the same whether i get them done or not. Thats a nice idea about getting the phase 2 strips and colour coding them. Will they still match with the strips on the bumpers? Marcus one does look good without the side strips but thats cos hes got...

The BMC worked a treat on mine. Thoroughly recommended.

They can be fragile, thats all Ill say. Best to pick a high miler with loads of receipts for stuff thats broken and been fixed than something with fsh and a clean sheet - look for stuff like the clutch, cambelt, gearbox, engine mounts having been replaced in the last year or two. 72k is the big...

Tints or LOWERING! EVERY CAR NEEDS LOWERING!

Well my old 18s were a 38 offset, 2mm more than standard and they scrubbed ever so slightly on the inner arches even when I cut some metal out. No scrub on the outers at all after I cut some of the plastic away all round the curve of the arch. Id say you dont wanna go any more than 38mm that...

Certainly is mate.

Theyre all over the place right now. Chris at Carnoisseur Southend had some a couple of months ago. Theyre the hot ticket at the moment. I think they look wicked in whatever size, nice and chunky and none of these long thin spokes that make it look too dainty.

Well once you add up the cost of doing the complete roof skin and new liner the roof scoop is only a couple of hundred quid more. But I might not do it cos of the overall expense. Its costing me enough just to get the colour change done at the moment.

Definitely all came with Gold, every single UK Williams, blue paint, gold wheels.

What about a Cossie? - whether its cheap to insure depends on who you are...

Theres going to be a big overhaul of area reps soon, see whos doing their jobs and who isnt. In the meantime, if you cant get an area rep local to you to sort things out, then by all means go ahead and sort it out for yourself. Id rather you did, cos then it gives me candidates to take over the...

LOL yeah a Clio and a 200 SX so sh*t hot theyre in and out of the garage every 5 minutes! Running cars like these costs big money, in comparison to the maintenance/running costs of them, the insurance is sod all! There has to be something good about getting old doesnt there (LOL Im not even 30...

10th (or 11th) July is a day when Cliosport members have been invited to Santa Pod by RTOC for a day of French car quarter miling. I think its the 10th anyway, its the Saturday.

but surely insurance is just a numbers game? I dont know how much an MV AGusta costs but if moneys no object then surely you just charge ten times the value of the vehicle as a years insurance? You cant go wrong! Even if they crash it every month its on the road you can just keep buying new ones...

Thats kind of what Im thinking myself. Was really wondering if anyone had any really good arguments for smoothing them out? Im keeping the roof rails in cos its a lost cause trying to get rid of them without it cracking. The boot lid is gonna be totally smooth but Im keeping the wiper, the locks...

The front and rear bumpers are either gonna have their rubbing strips colour coded or taken off and Im putting on a set of M3 skirts, they dont stick out too much...but the question is do I keep the side rubbing strips and just colour code them? Or take them off and smooth the sides? Theyre the...

LMAO!

To be honest its better to just resign yourself to walking everywhere than start worrying about intercoolers and stuff...in tuning theres no such thing as a free lunch.

sh*t did you say pure carma!

Yeah imagine the amount of tuning specialists there would be out there if the F7P had gone in the Elise....

I wouldnt say they ruin the handling of say a car designed to run 15s. Its just different. Assuming youre running a wider wheel and tyre which almost always is the case when moving up to 17s, you have more outright grip but theres less flex in the rubber, so where before you might be squealing...

Best to buy a complete car.

True to a certain extent, although it depends how its constructed. But more of a worry is the long boost path down to the front and back again.