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not a fan of the ek9, dont know if my mates is a duff one but its not as quick as my 172, although i suppose it does weigh a wee bit more with around the same power (they 180 odd bhp?)
ive got brembo max and greenstuff pads on my 172, they are brilliant for normal/light fast road use as you get basically no brake dust.
but they fade to quick for my liking after only a few times using them, ill probably go for DS2500 next time, be keeping the brembo max disks tho their fine.
mk2 clios handle pants on just -60mm springs, you need atleat a full kit, i had an apex kit on my old one before i replaced it with FK Coilovers. handled well on that.
you will be fine with just springs if you get eibachs but to many manufacturers out there just look at springs as "shorter +...
ive got a 1.2 16v mk3 to fly about in, its awesome! after 60k miles its loosened up brilliantly, and weird thing is it has much more torque than the 1.2 16v mk2 i drive about in :S 25mph in th gear is no problem in the mk3 but not in the mk2, must be the different ratio gearbox?
non RS MK3's drive much better than non RS MK2's, much better gearbox/linkage, better engine mounts, better ride quality, better steering just feels much better, never driven a 197 so cant compair that.
not far from my house i was going to pop up and watch too!!
pretty tight isnt it! u seem to be a pretty good driver though!
looks standard suspension wise too which shows just how good it is and how there is no need for fancy coilovers!
looking at getting a runabout that i can stick all my miles on. quite fancy a mk3 Dynamique S DCi86 with xenons what sort of price can dealers do these at as the list price is something crazy like £12,500
cheers
nokia charger from your local car phone wearhouse will probably give more gains than any mod you could do to the 1.2 16v which is made of cheese.
i had a cooper S supercharger for mine just never got the time to do it lol
cheers mate will do, i know their was a bit of movement but i just dont remember it being quite like this, its not that its bad just not 100% it did have powerflex lower bushes before though so maby i was just used to that piece of s**t.
dont fit the plug holes as well as the standard leads i also noticed that when fitting some for my mate. they do look pretty but the renault ones are expensive for a reason
changed all 4 engine mounts on my 172 on tuesday with new genuine ones, but there still seems to be a bit of movement when slowing down at junctions or roundabouts as if the engine has chugged a bit or if you give it full throttle at low revs to go for a gap at a roundabout theres movement.
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