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Well surely if youre putting in a non-standard intercooler, it doesnt matter which one you get...ie it doesnt have to be Renault. You could get one from a lorry if you want! Most factory cars have the smallest intercooler you can get away with at standard boost. Very rarely do you find one that...

Fair enough Paul...I guess the only way to find out for sure is to get pulled with a couple of 11lb bottles in the boot and see what happens! Thinking logically, the reason why the warning diamonds are there is if youre in a crash or an emergency and its important people know you have compressed...

You wanna read a book called Forced Induction Performance Tuning, its full of stuff about fuel mixtures, octane, detonation, water injection etc.

hehe well the path to modding was never meant to be easy! Thats a quality spoiler though.

Well keep us posted with the pictures Ben.

If you want cheap thrills on a basic relatively small engine, get nitrous. Otherwise get a GTT engine and whack it in there.

hehe quality! Just borrow the money for a maxi kit! How do you think I pay for all my mods?

Yeah thats the one. I dont like the sun on my head but like the airflow that you get in the summer with the sunroof just open a crack. So a roof scoop is ideal, ventilation when I need it, weighs a lot less than a sunroof and all the frame, mechanism, wiring etc, plus its made out of carbon...

GTT a lot less money but like Wongy says its stone age technology. Granted there are a lot of old GTT lumps out there to be had, but running a reliable 200 bhp+ heavily modified GTT 1.4 is not the same as dropping a sh*tty old 15 year old one in straight out of a scrapyard. I might be talking...

yeah I was just thinking where do these youngsters ;)get these brand new motors from! When I was a lad me and my mates all drove around in 1.0 Fiestas and Metros, even the ones whose parents had a few quid tucked away. And back then insurance wasnt that expensive for young drivers either. The...

Did you get a picture mate?

Isnt TimOs the fastest? Dont know about bhp but its not really important if youve got the quickest one?

Well if you can make it to York Ill give you a spin mate.

Well Ive done both so I reckon I know whats what. Turbo expensive but its always there. Nitrous cheap to buy and fit. But expensive to keep running it and tricky to set up right but is a blast when its running smooth. Last time I filled up with gas it was £55 to fill my 11lb bottle and that...

LOL Ben yeah Ill give you a ride in the back when Im out harvesting the crops...but as for the stuff that you reckon goes along with the turbo power, I think youre getting carried away with your boy racer fantasy world mate! AFAIK I dont have any bodykit nor any exhaust beyond whats absolutely...

sh*t! Dont keep turning that engine on then and definitely dont drive it. I had exactly the same problem and limping off to the garage was what totally destroyed the gearbox and driveshaft even though it still drove.

Lots of ideas floating around but none that I know of that have come to anything. THe big problem with turboing a 172 is that its an expensive way of getting that sort of power in a Clio cos you wouldnt really need any more than 250hp out of it in the fwd Clio chassis anyway. Which you could do...

LOL thats why Im going for the straight factory colour and no wild bodykit - even though the paint will be similar, the body will be totally different.

Im with you on this one Mr Rockport. Maxi or nothing.

Youve all lost it! The Maxi kit has no equal.

Well my GPS lags a little behind the actual speed so you need to cruise at each test speed for a few seconds to let the GPS settle down. But mines a definite percentage, about 3%. Ive tested it at every speed up to about 120 but unlike factory standard cars which will read higher than actual...

A lot of people go for the old favourite of a an Ibiza splitter which are about 20 quid from Seat. RGM do a tailored one for the Clio now but IMHO it looks ropey unless you smoothed it in. R&A who do the Saxo ones have always done an almost identical one for the Clio as well, but they dont sell...

LOL yeah but not everyone wants to drive the thing at 9000 revs all the time just to make up for a low-torque gutless performance the rest of the time - ie like a Civic Type R. Sometimes (a lot of the time in fact, in a road car) its nice to not have to make a complete tit of yourself by having...

I thought it was 10.5:1? Definitely 95 octane though

Ill have a look on the weekend. Not sure what the codes are though. The turbo starts to really blow at around 3000 rpm and by 4000 its pushing full boost. In the top half of the revs it only takes half a second to see full boost showing on the clock. Its a T28/T3 hybrid. Has no problem holding...

That is a totally mint colour. In the ICI paint code book its listed as Blue Mica and there are two slightly different shades. Looking at loads of classifieds that classic Subaru Blue is always either listed as (on the newer ones) WR Blue Mica or on the older Scoobs, Blue Mica or Sonic Blue...

Plus maybe Ill let you buy my 200 SX once Ive finished with it.

LOL what you want mate, Ive got all sorts of motors on the go. WHat about my Fiat Tipo. I just spent another couple of hundred on the b*****d to get it through the MOT and its fighting fit. Brand new MOT and tax, all serviced proper, starts on the key every time, £500 to you.,

7.5:1 compression, running 15 pounds of boost. Thats about the limit of the injectors capabilities and also just over the limit of my old fuel pump, needs more flow rate. Does about 10-15 mpg if you rag it everywhere!

IMHO the 2.0 F7R seems to respond MUCH better to mild headwork and a slightly wilder than standard cams. The 1.8 F7P lump does show improvement but its over a very narrow band and its not that great. On the 2.0 it really makes a difference. Depends what you want to do really. If youre...