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Ah, it was listed under 172, not V6. It has twin inlets, do they all have that? I thought the V6 only had one?

Do you have a link? I can't find it :(

You can get the box new? It's only £82?! Can you send me the part number please :)

I never fully got to the bottom of this. My car has had new lower arms, new track rod ends and new track rods, but it still does it. It only does it when you accelerate hard on bumpy roads. It's going in next week to have poly bushes fitted to the steering rack, so I will report back then.

What's the engine spec otherwise Keith? Apart from the bodies?

This must mean that my Clio is forged then, because that uses a bit of oil, especially on track. That's my story anyway!

Bet it feels like a totally different car now!

Those little edging strips to tidy it up, looks good. I put a thread up about one of my Escorts and bought some brakes today, pretty sure that counts as progress.

Yeah my knowledge isn't good enough to help you there. The best bet is probably to buy an accident damaged 172/182 and then you know you have everything you need, but I'm sure you won't struggle for advice to get it up and running :)

Well done Tomo, think this is a good move, should open up a lot of tuning potential for you :)

I've been trying to read up on them as want some parts for my Escort. I've heard a couple of positive reviews on the gear kits, but have heard of people having problems with the final drives. Not heard any reviews of the diffs though.

I'll buy you some bloody oil if it means I get to see what numbers this thing does lol.

When is it being fired up? Just think, while you were doing that, I was drinking!

Perhaps later. Away with work and need to eat and drink some on expenses first!

Ha! Definitely hard to stay motivated. More interested in driving cars than building them these days. Perhaps I will put a thread up about the 'scrote, see if it makes me feel more enthusiastic lol.

You're not wrong there. My own fault really, got in a bit deep with my car so it ended up as almost a shell. Everything is modified so everything requires a lot of fiddling to make it work. Difficult to stay motivated when the appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel! Much easier to go...

Very interesting indeed. Definitely something to consider for the future, especially for a car I'm not supposed to be modifying lol. I need to stop looking at cages and things! I am very much down with the problem of "f**k-it". I seem to suffer from that a lot. Need to make some parts for the...

Yeah I should imagine some of the R3 parts are quite pricey, plus all the work that's gone into it. Interesting option the Gen90 then, good that it's effectively plug and play. Is it very adapatable? So if you bought one to run on a near-standard engine, could you then easily modify it to run a...

Well I'm happy to give you as many £ signs as you like, but I can't promise that there would be numbers after them lol. Would be interested to know what you think the engine is worth though, feel free to drop me a PM if you don't want to go public. Interesting to know on the ECU. Always thought...

This. If you can afford it, and you enjoy it, go for it. Just go into it with your eyes wide open. If you do it, you will lose a lot of the money along the way. But if it's your hobby and you can afford it then who cares.

Also, have you removed the standard ECU entirely? Notice a lot of people run two (presumably due to immobilisers). Much work in that?

If you break it, you can give me the engine. Would doing a little competition in it spice things up? Maybe some sprints or something?

I have been talking to that very same company about bits for my Escort lol.

Yes I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was the shocks. Mine has started knocking quite badly and the ride is utterly awful, but the rear shocks have started leaking, so I suspect that's the cause. But, even so, I still don't think the ride is all that good on Pro Lines. If they hadn't been...

My car is on Eibach Pro's and the ride does my head in most of the time, think I'm definitely getting old...

Perhaps they should smash the guy that did it in and maybe set him on fire, see how he takes it... Can't stand this sort of thing. We seem to be breeding a whole generation of these kind of scum bags sadly.

I think Cit-Ren in Poringland are the only "specialist" in the area. They did my belt/dephaser. Had to take it back because the aux belt was squealing it's tits off. They adjusted it free of charge though. Not sure I would go back, they didn't seem that "specialist" to me. Just deal in breaking...

Thanks Mark. Why is there two numbers for it? Do you know the ratio?

I suspect it isn't, as I would think it would be from a five speed box, assume another type of JC5. Just trying to put together a comparison of the ratio options when you start factoring different final drives and the like!

Yes, can be a minefield. Someone I know (MattJB on here) bought a ph2 172 for a few hundred and it has been very reliable, whereas my £1350 172 Cup has had to have quite a bit spent on it, though I have done a lot more miles in my car. Saying that, parts cost pennies, so it's not the end of the...