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sweet stan cheers ill look into it see if any pop up, im thinking buying a full ex cup racer might be a better option. did they do RHD ones or are they all left?
arnold clark in stirling have a black one with black front end and it looks awesome, wheels are horrible though! they have theirs up on a ramp thing so you can see under it and the defuser is awesome! dont know if the 197 one was the same but it has cooling vents for the exhaust!
thanks for the advice guys, so basically what sort of kit am i looking at needing the obvious bits....
box
shafts
selector
do the engine mounts need modifyed to sit lower like the cup racer ones do to fit the box in or is that only to lower the centre of gravity?
done the bullets anthracite with yellow lettering, bit marmite not 100% on them yet but growing on me. calipers were yellow their now silver but im re doing them yellow this week at some point!!
be an awesome mod, apparently the cup race cars running relitavely standard engines but only weigh 900kg with a sequential box can do 0-100 in 10.5 seconds i beleive! think they top out about 120mph! lol
Stan, Rednax and DanD - Thanks for your advice/opinions and serious answers. much appreciated.
ollie 1982 - if you dont have anything proper to say then dont say it maby i should have been more specific, im buying another dci clio this week and now the 172 is going to be my weekend track and...
lol looking at one the now, im looking for another 1.5 dci and just wasnt sure about the colour in the pics. ive had black silver and red so need something different this time lol
and what exactly does a 172 having injectors and an ecu have to do with vvti and vvt?
toyotas VVT is continuous varible valve timing where as the 172 has an on off system, so no, they are not the same, do you class vtec and vvt as the same thing?
insurance on conversions is rediculous, you will insure a 1.6 16v clio pretty cheap but try insuring a 1.2 16v with a 1.6 16v conversion!! have you done any quotes for 172's tho? i got insured at 18 on mine with 0 ncb.
imo the only reason for doing a conversion is for cheap insurance ie. not...
its not a toyota it doesnt have vvti
as mentioned before your rev limiter will come in early untill the engine is up to temperature, this can take up to 20 minutes of normal easy driving in my experiance if its a cool day and you shouldnt be going near the limiter if its not up to temperature...