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Ben when you see another H reg Clio (apart from the Tubo) get a picture, because I have never ever seen one in my life. I have seen a few later ones like P-reg Willy 3.

Yes all insurance will count any kind of ECU mod as a chip. Some are more twitchy about it than others. Its not unknown for insurance assessors to get their approved garages to run a diagnostic on it and then find out that theres an ECU error - a common effect when you chip a car. If it can be...

What Im wondering about is how you could have an H reg Clio? You sure its not a 5 GT Turbo and your eyes have gone funny?

What Im wondering about is how you could have an H reg Clio? You sure its not a 5 GT Turbo and your eyes have gone funny?

OK mate Ill get on it. So yours is actually up and running right now?

Ive got the same one Brun, sliding doors and pedestrian crossings make it go crazy, but the rest of the time its ok. Invaluable when cruising at !15 on the Queens highway and I wouldnt even think of doing that without one. Yes it is very annoying when it keeps going off and giving you false...

Lockwood are crap. Their dials for the Clio 16v are renowned as completely wrong and you have to customise them yourself by cutting holes in them and reshaping the edges etc. Thats great when youve spent £40 or £50 on them. Only problem is theyre the only people who make replacement dials!

OK mate Ill get on it. So yours is actually up and running right now?

Weird, I was just talking about this kind of thing to my wife the other day. I dont really have a lot of social life outside of seeing my Clio-driving chums, mainly because I havent got the money (all gone on loans, credit cards, bits and pieces for the car, running a household etc) and Im...

What the car was just parked up with the bonnet open and the filter was off? And the engine was switched off? Id be surprised if any water at all went into the manifold. There would be no reason for it to. Unless your throttle body is facing upwards or something, which is a possibility! Water...

well Ive only got one thing to say about nitrous oxide. Even if you dont want to fit it yourself, still have a go. Save some money and learn how it works first hand. Basically if you can wire up an amp in the boot of your car then you can fit nitrous. Going on what my own Clio can take, Id say a...

I dont really know mate. They all claim to have the best filtering in one way or the other. I think that foam is claimed to have multiple layers that trap the dirt and are supposedly better off road; whereas cotton are better for road use because they flow more air and as they get dirtier they...

Good plan Ben I never thought of that! BTW I remember when we were over in France at the track day one of the French valvers there, which was a proper race machine, had a garden hose leading from the outlet on the rocker cover, and across the engine bay into the scuttle panel where there was a...

Weird, I was just talking about this kind of thing to my wife the other day. I dont really have a lot of social life outside of seeing my Clio-driving chums, mainly because I havent got the money (all gone on loans, credit cards, bits and pieces for the car, running a household etc) and Im...

lol Dash youre an expert on OZ now mate! You told anyone about the top secret plans to ditch the Super T entirely?

As long as you only really want the noise then I dont think it really matters what you get; any open induction kit will work. If you want to preserve some of your power, the HP kit is probably the best bet.

Yeah the top secret WIlliams ratios. I dont even know for sure and Ive got a Williams box! Anyway I got the software, maybe Im being stupid, but I cant seem to get any further than entering the name of the car. I cant even get the cursor in any of the other boxes, not with the reurn key, tab...

Hmmm, AFAIK and going on what the Haynes shows and what I remember seeing under the rocker cover, there is *no* oil separator there... the oil vapours really are drawn out of the larger bore pipe (theres a restrictor inside the rocker cover outlet) by the connection to the back of the filter, ie...

lol Dash youre an expert on OZ now mate! You told anyone about the top secret plans to ditch the Super T entirely?

Well yes there are two breathers from the rocker cover - one smaller bore one that goes straight across to the manifold and one larger bore one that goes to the back of the filter. I know that the theory is that the manifold vacuum draws the vapour out but surely it can still do this with only...

Help needed from anyone whos done a stripdown of a valver lump! Im about to hook up a carbon airbox in place of the original, but Im gonna have the two breather pipes just hanging there instead of going into the back of the filter. Now one of them I can see is the big pipe that comes from the...

Falken are known for one thing - narrower profile than normal and rounded shoulders - in other words they will still fit even when youve slammed your motor on 18s, other tyres wont.

oh BTW Aaron, I hear that stretch of 4 lane A1 just between Huntingdon and Peterborough is a nice bit of top speed track when its empty at night.

Yeah wasnt that Edddd at the Ring? Dunno what Ive had really Aaron, one problem is that on 18s and a Williams gearbox my speedo is out anyway, it always reads lower than the actual speed. Ive seen 137 on the clock, add quite a bit for the wheels etc, take off quite a bit for speedo error...

Its everyones right to undertake - if the person driving in the overtaking lane isnt actually overtaking, or isnt likely to get anywhere near to the car theyre supposedly overtaking (thats a quarter of a mile in front in the slow lane). I think sitting in the fast lane, holding up faster cars...

Well its an interesting idea if youre after a super short box from a later Clio. But the 19, 16v and Willy boxes are all interchangeable.

Falken are known for one thing - narrower profile than normal and rounded shoulders - in other words they will still fit even when youve slammed your motor on 18s, other tyres wont.

Strangely enough, the figures for the 172 and 16v arent too wide of the mark! Perhaps slightly optimistic for the majority of drivers, but with a bit of practice most of us could get to within half a second of their 0-60 and 1/4 mile times.

Yeah 16v/Willy/5GTT front brakes are all actually the same caliper. Running a 259x20 ventilated, if I remember right.

The commonly available Proxes T1-S are the ones you want. Ask any tyre place and theyll usually assume thats what you want unless you specifically ask for any of the others. In fact seeing as hardly any Toyos sold in the UK *arent* Proxes T1-S, youll probably get what you want even if you just...