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Alright Jimbo! Hows things mate. Anyway, you had that Piper brochure page didnt you? I think theres only really 3 options. Piper, Kent or DIY.

the fact that half the filter is warm means that half the air it sucks in is warm as well. Youre losing power, put your airbox back on...

£650 sounds ok, good move cos the SuperT are a quality wheel. Get it lowered as well though, theres nothing worse than a car on big alloys which has been left with factory suspension, it actually looks even higher off the ground than before!

BOth my sh*tguards are still in place. No reason to remove them really.

Youre dead right Ben, Ive been saying a lot of that stuff for ages, but it kind of gives me a headache having to keep explaining it! The basic rules are use a rolling road only to compare mods before and after on the same rolling road under the same conditions; the wheels figures are the...

Glad youre back on again Nick, Ive been thinking of the oil cooler idea for a while now and was wondering if putting a big oil cooler in front of the rad would make a significant difference to the efficiency of the rad and temp of the coolant? The other thing is I like the idea of having a...

Nick - Ive been looking for an underbumper scoop for a while, can you lmk a bit more about it? Where does it fit and what are the dimensions?

You just have to be careful in wet weather. You really have to avoid standing water or its bye bye engine. Apart from that its fine, in heavy rain it actually cools down the lump slightly, homemade water injection!

Might be on dodgy ground here, all my electrical theory has been lost in the mists of time, but the idea of having equal cable lengths is to equalize resistance to each speaker, ie to present an equal load to the amplifier on left and right. If you were using bell wire and one length was 10cm...

Yeah thanks for the email on that, is it the old Clio were talking about though, or the new one? ie the one between 1991 and 1996 or the later one?

yeah once you see all the piepwork on offer youll dream up some mental air ducting scheme like I did. But Robs airbox and computer fans still takes the prize for a real madcap invention.

Bony Scotland? Is everyone skinny up there or something?

ferodo ds2000 are the nuts in terms of braking quality, but chuck out a hell of a lot of dust, more than any other pads Ive used. Still, to my mind, Id rather have brakes that keep on trucking in the most severe conditions rather than clean wheels!

Yeah youre calculations look spot on Simon. The only way to really know is to get the engine out and dyno it.

Yes - if you dont mind a bit of welding, cutting and bashing. No - if you want an easy life.

Did a few calculations and a 205/40/17 comes up around 15mm bigger than the original 185/55/15. If you like to drive your car fast and twisty, youll have trouble lowering it and running 17s. 17s will go on easily if you dont lower it. 16s will go on easy lowered or standard. But the...

nedbeard! Congratulations! Lots of people post lol on their message but your comment about the german look is the first time for about 6 months Ive really done a lol about something posted on here! In fact Im still clutching my sides!

Yeah Im thinking of that, Im looking to raise my suspension by a metre and going for a bigfoot conversion!

Yeah thats a good point, it only every seems to be James who turns up. Hes not ashamed of his 74bhp, why doesnt any other 1.4 Clio come along for these things.

B&Q or homebase. Look in the plumbing section. While youre there a metre of their 4" aluminium tumble dryer hose might take your fancy for £8.

All you can do is get the socket on nice and solid and get a bloody long arm on it. Alternatively, take the rocker cover off and see if you can get a better angle on it then.

Well, Ive still got to decide but you lot have given me plenty to think about. One thing is, that I actually need to blunt the acceleration a bit with bigger wheels, cos Im wasting a lot of power in wheelspinning rather than laying down some rubber. Kev, sorry I couldnt make it today, I was...

Well its definitely getting an overload current of between 30 and 80 amps, not enough to blow the fuse in the main feed, but enough to cane the amp and blow its 30 amp jobs. A serious short to the body would give you more than an 80 amp current and would therefore blow that fuse as well, so at...

Well if were talking about an under-scoop then you want some kind of rainwater hopper that is long and thin. The standard ones are at least 6x4" and thats too chunky to go under the bumper. Id say the best bet it try to make one out of 2mm aluminium sheet, easy to bend to shape and rivet.

Well I dont know about those ones I tried on for size - they were a bit rotten I thought. But Im still well up for getting those black Wolfrace Octanes, the 18" version looked mental in my wheelarch. Ill go for the 7x17s I think, but the other option is to go for 7.5x16 Momo Racers which will go...

The key to more power is to get your engine working more efficiently to get the inlet charge (air and fuel) into the cylinders quicker and in greater quantity; and then to get rid of the exhaust just as quickly and efficiently to make room for the next incoming inlet charge. Thats why the...

So where exactly are the 6 bolt in points? I assume the two rear seatbelt mounts at the bottom but which others? The bottom of the front seatbelts? And where else?

Thats one mental car! The question is, does it actually work? Are there any performance figures for it?

Wongy will give him full respect if he gets 19s on, but its not quite the same as getting 19s on a Clio is it? More like 17s on a Clio really. A few of us went down Carnoisseur this afternoon and I tried some 17s on...a bit of scrub but nothing too major. Then the 18s were calling to me from...

Ive done it with Samco before, looks good and flows air well, but very expensive to make up custom bends and lengths.