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as said above i got the full lot for my old car for £30, but if they know what its worth you could pay up to £100 for the lot! with a bit of playing about with silicon hosing you can fit a focus TDCi, BMW 320/330d one, the focus ST one looks like it would fit too

at the end of the day i own and drive both, straight line flying thru the revs the 172 is a good bit faster, but not that much faster that it would pull a great deal of distance over the course of a few bends! the dci will still quite happily redline @ 130 where the 172 will run out of puff at...

nice and fair yes, both cars have had compairable ammounts of money spent on modifications. 190lbft and 60mpg yummy yummy

the funnyest thing ive heard all week is your above post considering i own both cars.

im torn between these and vmaxx both £400 delivered inc vat

yeah they are a laugh to drive with all that torque, ive just done uprated disks and pads all round on mine and the stopping power is phenominal, fancy another set of coilovers, ill probably start a thread on dci.net about which ones, i cant decide lol

get it up the revs and it will blow it away, around town tho the dci is a bit quicker unless you drive everywhere in 2nd in the 172 lol

depends what sort of miles you do, i used to do about 1k a month at one point in my last 172 and didnt bother me, then got the dci and doing 1k a month in that costs me about £20, now i cant bare to take the 172 to work and back lol so just keep that for weekends!

bumper can remain on, its easier having it off when doing it on a driveway but dont need to remove it

dont crash then lol

nice car, get yourself over to www.cliodci.net for more info on what intercooler to go with for it!

obviously you would be mad to replace the work of art that is the k9k with one of they rough as a badgers arse F4R's however yes you would get £30 a year road tax and of course extremely cheap insurance because your clever and wouldnt declair it, £1500 dci clio spend £2k converting it thats an...

i had conti sport contacts on my last 172 and they nearly killed me a few times after being used to Eagle F1 GSD3's under steer city! i beleive Joe swapped them for eagle F1s too once he bought it and commented on the improvement it made!

i just used normal bodywork paint for mine (see my thread in images for my first attempt at painting!)

make sure you torque them up PROPERLY, i dont torque anything up but i always make sure i do plugs, too many horror storys of them blowing plugs out the head!

theres why, low mile's isnt good for them! another is people waiting 18k for oil changes, they should be done every 10k imo in the dci especially when doing low miles do that and a yearly fuel filter and they are spot on.

buy a 2k dci and stick all your miles on that @ 65mpg then have the vee for the weekend if you want one, altho if you stay on a main road chances are it will go walkabout!

F4R albeit in a mk2! standard filter, matched inlets, exhaust manifold, decat exhaust system

lol at the mob on a renault forum calling a mazda unreliable

they appear to use the same inlet manifold, engine mounts and from pictures a similar wiring setup and the gearboxes fit iirc

not sure if laguna 1.8 bottom end is similar too lol!!

Re: All Pearl Black's & Black Gold's Look.... my pair...

that front needs to come up about 20mm lol

they have been painted silver at some point by a previous owner this ones a keeper going no where lol

cheers ill keep an eye on this, probably just remove it ive removed it on my previous cars, plus make my aluminium bonnet even lighter ;)

cheers for all the comments guys! it hides away most of the time in the garage, just bring it out on a nice day! needing a few wee bits n bobs before im 100% happy with it, we'll need to get a meet up and get some pics when ive got it the way i want it, i found your car on google street view...

probably pick up a bottom end for £150 swap them over one weekend with new cambelt sorted!! there was a thread that had the size differences, was that guy with the mk1 clio with the K4M in it that knew cant remember his name

both mine snapped i had to wait 3 months for genuine renault ones as none of the patern part ones fitted even tho they listed 2.0 172/182 i paid about £90 supplyed and fitted for both but that was about a year and a half ago

about the going rate for a main dealer i suppose but you could get it at a specialist/private garage for about £350!

yeah quite happy with it, i beleive i need to go heavyer with the lacquer to get a more shiney finish but its all a learning curve, dont think ill be painting cars any time soon lol but for something like this it turned out fine!