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Its the new name/company for BB Tuning who seemed to disappear isnt it?

The casings can differ slightly dependant on their history - weather it was a service exhange box in the past or manufactured at a different time... The 2008 JB3 (Renault Service Exhange) ive got has got a slightly different casing to the one that came on my valver (1996)... But oddly the 2008...

It looks like the resistor for the standard radiator fan, usually is covered by the plastic of the radiator itself - either the plastics broke off or its something else

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Ah...right so the CV should be 100% fixed, and the only movement/plunge is the driveshaft tripod moving in and out of the diff on the box end - correct? If so the outer CV is defo f*cked :)

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah, going to get a spare shaft sorted anyway - its just proper odd that the noise has completely gone!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Quite possibly, but not heard a noise from it since the tracking was done (over 100 miles). If you grab hold of the shaft there is movement in and out as before, but it makes no noise whatsoever no matter how hard you drive it/turn it.

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Its just under 840kg with a bit of fuel now - yeah I was going to see how 26psi hot went. Its open-pit so should be able to have a play with the pressures along with the adjustable rear dampers its got on now too Cheers :approve:

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project I did - got the 4 perfect - then the last one was a reet f*ckup (drilling where the old large hole was). Tried to make up a backing plate from a piece of wood for the holesaw pilot drill to go through, which I did fine. Spent ages getting it aligned right...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Its not what you know, its who you know ;) Yeah - got a feel for it last year and the tyres I used of varying types went OK. I was going to stick with them for this year, but these came up so cheap I would have been stupid to not grab them and use them for...

Some issues with earths and wiring still, but its started a few times now...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project 9 tyres for less than the price of one 205/50/15 R888, very expensive yeah ;) 205 is the best width for 7J too! What were you in? lol

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project ...as per usual then, lol. Will have to see how it goes with some more miles - got a stockpile of 9 x 205/50/15 GG R888s... ...to keep me entertained throughout the year too :)

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Well this car ceases to amaze me! The driveshaft was clunking and making a metal on metal screeching for quite some time the other day (over 180miles)... But today I spent some time setting up the camber and tracking myself - Its now at -2.45deg on both...

Eezibleed is great - when it works. As already mentioned, the cap on the bottle is a sh*t design, takes ages to get it to seal after you've used it a few times. Also I had a tyre at 15psi and it split the cap to the bottle in half - so its now useless and ready for the bin. I do have to say...

Only by getting someone to check it with the proper tools as above

Cheaper to fit the larger 172 calipers/hubs than that^ Id say Brembo HCs and Ferodo DS2500's if your sticking with standard calipers though. About £100-120 for the pads and under £50 for the discs.

They are 6.5", only the Williams based wheels on Mk1's were 7J... Has it gone slower with the heavyweight wheels Luke? lol Looks better than I thought it would with the color though! :)

Hes using the valver alternator, im using one from an espace diesel with the same brackets (Come on a 480 or a low poverty spec Mk1). The normal 172 alternator does not fit (well my 172 Ph1 didnt line up), but im guessing the cup one might.

Well it came to life for a short while after swapping relays and earths from my wiring onto Adams earlier :)

I wrote a guide to the wiring, PM me your email address if you want it.

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They're anthercite lol

Looking good, black suits it - Just lol at the name of the tyre though!

The weight of them makes baby jesus cry :( You better fit 30 profile tyres to counteract the weight lol.

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Very much so! ..........but towards the end of last year I had a good few months where it was perfect without a problem - was worth everything then! Knows :evil: Not really, I was going to get one to do some Diag but its running now so dont need :(...

Hes booking Rockingham on the 14th June, lol. Engines back in but plenty to do now!

EVERYTHINGs going up in f*cking price, I paid under £90 last year from Fred IIRC lol!

He was still around on here moaning in every Mk1 thread until a few weeks back under a different name, lol.

Sounds like Sofaboy on here